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HONOLULU
Kalihi-Palama to get update
Townscape Inc. will present an update on a master plan for the Kalihi-Palama area at the Kalihi-Palama Neighborhood Board meeting at 7 p.m. today in the Kapalama Elementary School cafeteria, 1601 N. School St.
The master plan is a Vision Team project that will be used to identify improvement projects in the community.
Four candidates at conference
Four Honolulu mayoral candidates will take part in a panel discussion titled "Building a Great City" during a Historic Hawai'i Foundation conference May 20 at the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
Deputy Director Gary Gill of the state Health Department will moderate the panel, which will comprise Councilman Duke Bainum, former Councilman Mufi Hannemann, Lt. Gov. Mazie Hirono and Keith Kaneshiro, former state director of public safety.
Also at the conference, Greg Marshall will give a presentation at 2:30 p.m. on the effort to preserve Argonauta, the Maui home of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. There will be a Malama o Manoa workshop at 4:30 p.m. on "Historic Districts: Revisiting Manoa" led by Joe Ferraro.
The fee is $60 for members, $85 for nonmembers. Call 523-2900 or go online to www.historichawaii.org.
Memorial event honors officers
Gov. Ben Cayetano has ordered the state flag to be lowered to half-staff today to commemorate Peace Officers Memorial Day.
All American flags also will be lowered today to remember federal, state and municipal law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty.
WINDWARD
Students' imu to raise money
Kailua High School students will build an imu as part of their cultural and environmental education, and the public is invited to purchase space in the underground oven to cook food.
The fund-raiser for the Marine Science, Boating and Polynesian Voyaging programs will charge $10 to cook food brought in a 13-by-21-inch aluminum pan. Food should be wrapped in foil.
Drop-off is from 3 to 5 p.m. May 24, and pickup will be from 8 to 9 a.m. May 25.
The deadline to reserve space is Friday. Checks made to Kailua High School should be mailed to Kailua H.S. Polynesian Voyaging Program, Attn: Todd Hendricks, 451 Ulumanu Drive, Kailua, HI 96734.
EAST HONOLULU
Waldorf pupils set pentathlon
Honolulu Waldorf School fifth-graders will hold a pentathlon as part of their studies of ancient Greece.
Students in tunics representing the city-states of Athens, Sparta and Thebes will offer a prayer in Greek to Zeus and make poetic offerings. The pentathlon will be from 8:30 a.m. until 12 p.m. Friday at the school at 350 Ulua St. in Niu Valley.
Students will then participate in athletic activities.
Correction: Due to an editor's error, a previous version of this article named Keith Kaneshiro as the state director of pubilc safety. He is a former state director of public safety.
