Hawai'i briefs

Advertiser Staff

NEIGHBOR ISLAND

Pahoa man, 82, fell to death

HILO, Hawaii — An 82-year-old Big Island man who apparently fell to death Tuesday has been identified as Alexander Harris Jr. of Pahoa.

Harris apparently fell from a 35-foot-high cliff onto the rocky beach at Wittington Beach Park in Honuapo in Ka'u, police said yesterday. Witnesses said the man was walking on the cliffs with a fishing party when he slipped and fell, the Hawaii County Fire Department said.

Harris was taken to Ka'u Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

HONOLULU

Tyson Foods helps Foodbank

Tyson Foods donated 31,000 pounds of chicken and pork to the Hawai'i Foodbank yesterday, enough to provide 155,000 meals for the hungry this holiday season.

Demand for emergency food is always higher during the holiday season, according to the Foodbank, and portions of the donation will be given immediately to the Institute for Human Services and The Lighthouse Outreach Center Assembly of God in Waipahu.

The rest will be distributed to 260 member agencies in the Foodbank network that feed more than 118,000 people each week.

Kaimuki parking group to meet

The second Kaimuki Business District Parking Solutions Project meeting will be held from 8 to 9 a.m. Saturday in the Lili'uokalani School cafeteria.

Urban Works, the contractor doing the city parking study, will give an update on the project.

The study is financed by $75,000 in city vision money and will look into possibilities for increasing parking, including a parking structure, restriping the municipal lots and creating a valet service.

Parking is in the school's Koko Head lot only (enter from Koko Head near Wai'alae).

For more information, call the Greater East Honolulu Community Alliance at 737-7487.

LEEWARD

Water break jams Farrington

City Board of Water Supply crews repaired a broken 8-inch water main and closed traffic lanes on Farrington Highway in N?n?kuli yesterday, causing some traffic jams.

The break, between Piliokahi and Laumania avenues, was reported at about 5 a.m. yesterday.

About 10 homes were without water.

WINDWARD

Pottery sale at college campus

The Student Ceramic Club at Windward Community College will hold its annual Christmas Pottery Sale tomorrow and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Palanakila Ceramics Studio on campus.

For more information, call 235-7323.