Neighbor Island briefs
Advertiser Staff
Hana roadwork to start Monday
HANA, Maui — The road to Hana will become even more of a challenge starting Monday, when a $2.5 million highway repair project begins.
The work will be done at mileposts 10, 11.4, 12.8, 14.3 and 19.8 from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays. Traffic will be reduced to one lane during this period, with the road completely closed to vehicles between 6 and 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
The project includes road maintenance, shoulder stabilization and installation of guard rails, concrete gutters, signs, pavement markings and drainage improvements.
Kiewit Pacific is the contractor.
The state Department of Transportation did not provide an indication of how long the project would last.
Care for the dying workshop planned
HILO, Hawai'i — Frank Ostaseski of San Francisco, an advocate of compassionate care for the dying, will appear at a "Living with the Dying" workshop Nov. 1-Dec. 1 at the Sanga Hall of the Honpa Hongwanji Hilo Betsuin.
Tomorrow is the deadline to register for the workshop, which will run from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. both days. The $85 fee includes lunch. To register, call co-sponsor Hilo Hospice at (808) 969-1733.
Ostaseski is the founding director of the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco. He previously participated in workshops in the United States, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, and has emerged as a national spokesman on issues surrounding death.
"Dying is not primarily a medical event," he said. "It's much more an issue of relations. (While) medication can relieve pain, suffering is relieved through the compassion of others."
Novelist to give reading at UH
HILO, Hawai'i — Novelist Ian MacMillan, whose September appearance at the University of Hawai'i-Hilo was postponed following the terrorist attacks, will read from his works at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Room 301 of the Campus Center.
The free event is open to the public. It is being sponsored by four different writing groups and the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.
A longtime Hawai'i resident and teacher of fiction writing at UH-Manoa, MacMillan is the author of five novels and three short-story collections.
His novels include "The Red Wing," about four generations of a local family, and "Village of a Million Spirits, a Novel of the Treblinka Uprising," the final installment in a World War II trilogy.
MacMillan won the 1992 Hawai'i Award for Literature and other honors and has been published in numerous literary journals and magazines.
