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HONOLULU
State ag offices to be moved
The Hawai'i Department of Agriculture's Plant Quarantine Branch and the Quality Assurance Division move to new facilities this month.
The Plant Quarantine Branch will close its Kaka'ako office Monday and reopen in Kalihi at 1849 Auiki St. on Aug. 15. While the branch is closed, all plant inspections for export or for interisland shipping can be done at the Plant Quarantine office at Honolulu International Airport.
The Quality Assurance Division will move tomorrow to 1851 Auiki St. The division's Routine Device and Package and Labeling inspections will resume Aug. 19 at the Auiki office. Taxi licensing operations have been suspended until Sept. 30.
Candidates to speak tonight
The St. Louis-Kapahulu-Diamond Head Neighborhood Board will have a "meet the candidates night," open to the public, at 7:30p.m. today at the Ala Wai Golf Course clubhouse.
The board has invited all neighborhood candidates running for state House, Senate and City Council. Each candidate will be allowed to speak on various topics and the audience will vote for the three best speakers.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Hawaiian groups meet on Kaua'i
LIHU'E, Kaua'i — Native Hawaiians will meet this weekend in an attempt to move toward unity among Hawaiian organizations seeking self-determination for the Hawaiian people.
The Native Hawaiian Leaders Symposium, scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the Veterans Center on Kapule Highway, is sponsored by the Koani Foundation, which was formed by the late John "Butch" Kekahu III.
Participants from several islands and the Mainland are expected to include Hawaiian activists, spiritual leaders and elders. The conference organizers hope to reach consensus on a series of issues and to produce a document, to be signed by the conference attendees, that outlines the issues on which they agree.
"Butch firmly believed that, as a unified people, we will be able to speak with one voice that is critical to successfully achieving the self-determination that has eluded our nation for too long," said Koani president Mahelani Sylva.
For more information, call 245-7133.
WINDWARD O'AHU
Sewing classes offered for free
The Huki Like Ohana, a Kahalu'u partnership, will sponsor free sewing classes from 9 a.m. to noon every Tuesday until Oct. 1 at KEY Project, 47-200 Waihee Road.
Supplies will be provided to learn to make handbags, baby blankets and patchwork quilts that participants can keep or sell at a country fair Oct. 19 at KEY Project.
To register or for more information, call the Honolulu Community Action Program at 239-5754 or KEY at 239-5777.
