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CENTRAL
Group promotes safe driving
The Wahiawa Rainbow Seniors Club will wave signs in Wahiawa tomorrow afternoon to encourage drivers to slow down.
The group will work with Wahiawa police officers outside St. Stephen's Episcopal Church along California Avenue in Wahiawa Heights from 3 to 5 p.m. A speed display monitor will be set up to show drivers how fast they are traveling.
Club member Ellen Hyer said speeding was involved in several serious accidents along the downslope portion of California Avenue.
Last month the seniors helped police to remind drivers to slow down along Kaukonahua Road and plan to do the same along Kunia Road later this year.
NORTH SHORE
Flood concerns to be addressed
The North Shore Neighborhood Board will have a special public meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday to address concerns raised by area residents who were adversely affected by the recent floods.
State Sen. Robert Bunda, D-22nd (Wahiawa, Waialua, Sunset Beach), and Rep. Michael Magaoay, D-45th (Waialua, Kahuku), have asked various state agencies familiar with North Shore flooding to attend.
The board, which represents residents from Ka'ena Point to Sunset Beach, will have the meeting at the Hale'iwa Ali'i Beach Park's John Kalili Surf Center.
Fishing rules may be changed
The state Department of Land and Natural Resources will have a meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Sunset Beach Elementary School to consider a proposed amendment to new fishing rules at Pupukea Marine Life Conservation District.
In late March the department imposed rules that banned virtually all fishing throughout the newly expanded 170-acre conservation district, which runs from Waimea Bay to Shark's Cove. The exception was that pole fishing from the shore continued to be allowed at the Waimea Bay end. The proposed amendment would allow net fishing at the Waimea Bay side as well.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Environmental director named
HILO, Hawai'i — Former county clerk and one-time Green Party leader Barbara Bell has been named director of the new Hawai'i County Department of Environmental Management.
Bell will succeed interim director Galen Kuba, who will return to a civil service engineering position in the Public Works Department.
Bell will begin her duties Aug. 1 in the job that pays $75,516 a year.
The environmental agency was created after voters adopted a charter amendment establishing it and an environmental commission. The department is responsible for the county's solid waste and sewer programs.
Bell served as county clerk under former County Council chairwoman Keiko Bonk during 1995-96. She also has served as executive director of Recycle Hawai'i.
