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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Wednesday, December 17, 2003

O'ahu briefs

Advertiser Staff

WINDWARD

Waimanalo gets center financing

Gov. Linda Lingle has released $600,000 for the second phase of the Waimanalo Homestead Community Center, which will be available to homesteaders and the general public. This phase, the second of three, includes a building that will have space for offices, conference rooms and a computer room. Waimanalo Homestead Community Association is developing the project and no construction date has been set.

Eventually the center will also have a commercial kitchen and house a high-technology business that is expected to provide training, employment and income for the center. The first phase included infrastructure and restroom facility. The center is part of a larger complex that provides native Hawaiian services through Kamehameha Schools preschool, Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Center and Alu Like Kupuna Program.


HONOLULU

Hospital exit unauthorized

Police yesterday issued an all-points bulletin for a woman who sneaked out of Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children with her baby just hours after giving birth.

Detective Letha DeCaires said police opened an "endangering the welfare of a minor" case. The woman left the hospital about noon without going through discharge procedures.

Hospital spokeswoman Pat Oda said the 23-year-old woman left against medical advice that she remain in the hospital. Police said the woman was carrying the baby in a pink blanket.

The case is not considered kidnapping because the baby is with its mother.

"At this point it's a wait-and-see kind of thing because the hospital doesn't believe the baby is in danger," DeCaires said. "Someone has to say that the baby is in imminent danger."


Man arrested in moped accident

A 63-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after his car struck a moped Monday night on Young Street.

The moped driver, a 68-year-old man, was taken to The Queen's Medical Center with critical head injuries, police said.

The collision at 1334 Young St. was reported to police at 9:04 p.m. Investigators said the arrested man was driving a sedan that struck the moped while leaving a driveway.


Hospital master seeks extension

The court master appointed to oversee the Hawai'i State Hospital said in a court filing that progress has been made in correcting problems and recommended a six-month extension for compliance with the improvement plan.

The master, U.S. Magistrate Kevin Chang, identified a need for better treatment planning among lingering weaknesses at the hospital.

In 1991, the federal court appointed Chang to oversee the state hospital, which had been criticized for crowding, a rash of escapes and for keeping people at the hospital longer than necessary.