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HONOLULU
Power goes out in Honolulu
About 2,500 homes and businesses in parts of Kaimuki, Palolo and St. Louis Heights lost electrical power at 7:15 last night, but Hawaiian Electric had service restored to half of them by 8 and the rest by 8:28 p.m., the company said.
The outage may have been caused by a problem with a transformer at the Pukele substation. Power was restored by using an alternate circuit, company spokesman Fred Kobashikawa said.
OHA investiture next week
A public investiture ceremony to install the new board of trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is set for 10 a.m. next Wednesday at Kawaiaha'o Church.
Before the public ceremony, the five newly elected trustees will be sworn in by Chief Justice Ronald Moon. The oath will be taken by Boyd Mossman, the trustee elected from Maui; Dante Keala Carpenter, O'ahu; and incumbent trustees-at-large Rowena Akana, John Waihe'e IV and Oswald Stender.
Trustees are elected to four-year terms. The remaining four whose terms end in 2004 are Haunani Apoliona, at large; Donald Cataluna, Kaua'i and Ni'ihau; Colette Machado, Moloka'i and Lana'i; and Linda Dela Cruz, Hawai'i.
The new board will hold its first meeting at 1 p.m. at the OHA office.
Carpenter is a former OHA administrator, legislator and Hawai'i County mayor.
Mossman is a retired judge from Maui.
Manoa Stream to get cleanup
The community group Malama O Manoa will conduct a cleanup from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday along Manoa Stream between the Woodlawn Drive bridge and the Kahaloa Street bridge near Manoa Gardens at the District Park.
Volunteers are asked to meet at the Woodlawn Drive bridge.
For more information, call George Arizumi at 988-5069 or Eric DeCarlo at 988-5028.
WINDWARD
Humvee riders to collect toys
A Toys for Tots Humvee will collect gifts at the Kane'ohe Christmas Parade beginning at 9 a.m. Dec. 7 from Windward Mall and continuing to Castle High School.
Residents wishing to donate toys can give them to the Humvee volunteers, who will be part of the Windward parade on Kamehameha Highway from Ha'iku Road to Kane'ohe Bay Drive.
This year's theme for the parade is Patriotic Christmas. Onlookers are being encouraged to wave American flags.
EAST HONOLULU
Hawai'i Kai parade Saturday
Hawai'i Kai's Christmas Parade will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday at Kamiloiki Community Park and travel down Lunalilo Home Road, ending at Koko Marina Shopping Center.
The parade, sponsored by the shopping center, Foodland and the Hawai'i Kai Lion's Club, will have 50 groups participating.
There will be four marching bands — from Kaiser, Waipahu and McKinley High schools and the all-girls band from Sacred Hearts Academy.
Girls Scouts, Cub Scouts, hula halau and canoe clubs also will march.
The grand marshal will be Kiyoshi Uyeno, a Hawai'i Kai resident and World War II veteran who served with the 100th Battalion in France and Italy.
Santa will arrive in a trolley and then board a boat.
New, unused toys will be collected for Toys for Tots by the Marine Corps during and after the parade.
