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LEEWARD
Resort reopens in Makaha
A representative from the Makaha Resort Golf Club will discuss the hotel's reopening, and what it means for the community, during the Makaha Ahupua'a Community Association meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Makaha Neighborhood Park.
The Sheraton Makaha Resort Hotel closed seven years ago and new owners, Towne Realty Inc., held a "soft opening" last week.
The hotel is being renovated in three phases, with 72 rooms already available to guests and improvements made to the golf course.
The second phase will include renovating the pool, snack bar, outdoor cafe, the meeting and banquet rooms, and offices. That phase is expected to be completed early next year.
Work on all 200 rooms at the resort will be done in the final phase, expected to be completed in April.
For more information on the meeting, call Betty Waller at 696-8942.
Panel to make plans for trees
An open discussion on capital improvement projects for parks along the Leeward Coast will be held during the Wai'anae Coast Neighborhood Board's Parks and Recreation Committee meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Wai'anae Neighborhood Community Center.
The committee also will discuss placing standardized trees in community parks and update the Mauna Lahilahi Beach Park shore protection plan and improvements at Pu'u O Hulu Community Park in Lualualei.
Star lanterns to be made
A workshop to make parols, a type of star lantern, will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Hawai'i's Plantation Village in Waipahu.
The finished parols will line Waipahu Street during the Taste of Waipahu event Nov. 1.
The workshop is meant to perpetuate the tradition of parol making and pass it down to younger generations in the Filipino community.
For more information, call 847-6401.
WINDWARD
Garner benefit today at mall
More than 50 of Hawai'i's top local entertainers will perform "For the Love of Loyal" concert from 6:30 to 11 p.m. today at Windward Mall's Center Court.
All proceeds from ticket sales will go to the Loyal Garner Medical Fund to defray mounting medical bills and any future treatments in her bout with cancer.
Included in the lineup are Ho'okena, Leon & Malia, Booga Booga & Noland Conjugacion, Jay Larrin, Nina Kealiiwahamana, Nalani Olds, Cyril Pahinui, Frank Delima, Theresa Bright, Jerry Santos, Iva Kinimaka, Azure McCall, Del Beazley, Sean Naauao, and Sonny Ching Halau.
Tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for students at Cutter car dealers, the Lomi Shop Waikiki and Windward Mall, Tower Records Pearl Kai, Villa Roma and at the door.
Students will have to show an ID at the door.
Planetarium to be dedicated
Windward Community College will dedicate its planetarium at 10 a.m. Friday at the campus, 45-720 Kea'ahala Road.
The facility, called an "Imaginarium," is the only one of its kind in the state. Designed for both campus and community use, the Imaginarium can project computerized images onto its 40-foot dome.
The $4 million facility will be used to create excitement about learning in a wide variety of subjects, from astronomy and Polynesian voyaging to history and biology for people of all ages, said astronomy professor Joseph Ciotti.
The Imaginarium seats 70 and is equipped with interactive controls for audience participation and listening devices for the hearing impaired or for foreign-speaking visitors.
CENTRAL
Schofield gate access widened
Schofield Barracks will expand access to its gates beginning tomorrow in an effort to smooth traffic flow at peak times.
The Army will open McNair Gate to all vehicles for entrance-only traffic.
Foote Gate will be open for two-way traffic from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.
Security measures remain in place, and all other gate access remains the same, the Army said.
Renovation set for Barracks
A $50.7 million contract has been awarded to a Honolulu firm for construction at Schofield Barracks.
Dick Pacific/Shintani, a Honolulu joint venture, will make site improvements and work on four, three-story buildings to be used as enlisted quarters.
