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MAUI

Deputy fire chief named on Maui

WAILUKU, Maui — Assistant Fire Chief Richard Fernandez has been named deputy chief of the Maui Department of Fire Control.

Fernandez will replace Deputy Fire Chief Frank Fernandez, who retired Sunday after 25 years. The two are not related.

The new deputy chief has been with the fire department for 29 years and is a resident of Pukalani.

KAUA'I

Hunter fatally shot self accidentally

A 59-year-old Kilauea man found dead Sunday on Kaua'i died in a hunting accident, an autopsy revealed Tuesday.

Leonardo S. Pascua, 59, suffered an accidental gunshot wound to his left leg and bled to death in a heavily wooded area in Moloa'a, police said. Pascua was trying to step over a log when he accidentally shot himself, police said.

BIG ISLAND

Sculpture to be unveiled in Hilo

HILO, Hawai'i — Puna sculptor Henry Bianchini's latest work will be unveiled at 9 a.m. tomorrow on the campus of E.B. de Silva Elementary School.

Bianchini was artist-in-residence last year at the school. His new concrete sculpture will be dedicated in a ceremony sponsored by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

The artist previously created the statue of King Kalakaua in the park named for the late monarch across from the Hilo Federal Building.

Anthropologist to present lecture

KAINALIU, Hawai'i — Cultural anthropologist Grace Miller will discuss "Who Owns the Past?" in a free lecture from 7 to 8:30 tonight at Aloha Theatre in Kainaliu.

Miller is a teacher in Hawai'i Community College's visiting professor series.