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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Sunday, July 13, 2003

Hawai'i briefs

Advertiser Staff

HONOLULU

Teen critically hurt in crash

A 17-year-old boy was in critical condition at The Queen's Medical Center and another was facing possible criminal charges after a single-car wreck on Likelike Highway early yesterday.

Police said that at about 12:55 a.m. a 1993 maroon Honda, driven by a 17-year-old Waipahu boy, was speeding southbound on Likelike.

North of Gulick Avenue, the car hit a guard rail on the right side of the road, spun around and struck the curb on the left side of the road, swung back to the right side and hit a metal utility pole.

A 17-year-old front-seat passenger was injured and was taken to Queen's in critical condition.

The driver and two back-seat passengers — a 23-year-old man and a 17-year-old — also were treated at the hospital, but their injuries appeared to be minor, police said.

Police were investigating to determine if alcohol or drugs were factors.



Arts training awards offered

The state Foundation on Culture and the Arts is accepting applications for its Folk Arts Apprenticeship Awards. Application deadline is Aug. 8.

The awards provide opportunities for one-on-one instruction between a master artist and an experienced apprentice. Masters and apprentices must apply as teams.

Application forms can be downloaded from www.hawaii.gov/sfca. Call John Keoni Fujitani at 586-0306.



Hawai'i awarded $90,000 grant

The U.S. Department of Labor awarded Hawai'i a $90,000 grant to enhance state systems to prevent, detect and collect erroneous payments of unemployment insurance benefits. The money will be used to improve the new-hire cross-match system.



Small brushfires hit leeward side

Firefighters stayed busy this weekend fighting small brushfires on the leeward side of the island.

The calls started coming in about 8:45 a.m. when an open field in Makaha caught fire, and continued sporadically through the afternoon, said HFD Capt. Scott Lawton.

At about 2 p.m., as a former cane field off Renton Road in 'Ewa burned, an abandoned pump shack caught fire. The shack was the only structure endangered by the blazes.

Lawton said the causes of the fires have not yet been determined.



CENTRAL

Five Navy ships arriving today

The military presence on O'ahu is expected to expand by about 8,000 this morning when five Navy ships pull into Pearl Harbor.

In a statement released yesterday, Lt. Cmdr. Jane Campbell said the ships carry 3,000 sailors and 5,000 Marines and were deployed Jan. 17 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

The ships include the USS Boxer, the USS Bonhomme Richard, the USS Cleveland, the USS Dubuque and the USS Pearl Harbor.

All are homeported in San Diego.