O'ahu briefs
Advertiser Staff
HONOLULU
Imposter poses as governor
No, that wasn't Gov. Linda Lingle dropping in on an Advertiser chat room the other day.
Gov. Linda Lingle
The Governor's Office yesterday said an imposter had recently posted a number of fraudulent messages and responded to other participants using the governor's name during in an online discussion bulletin board.
After learning of the deception, the Advertiser's webmaster immediately suspended the impersonator's account and removed all discussion "threads" from the online chat room. The newspaper "was very cooperative in ensuring the impersonator and my name were removed," Lingle said yesterday.
CENTRAL O'AHU
Central O'ahu ballfields open
City officials opened four softball and two baseball fields yesterday as part of the continued expansion of Central O'ahu Regional Park.
Work on the $12.6 million phase of the project, which included the ball fields, a two-story announcer's booth and parking for almost 350 cars, had been under way almost two years. The fields mark the latest development in the creation of the 269-acre park in the Waiola and Waipi'o Gentry area.
Federal support for housing
Hawai'i will receive $13.6 million in federal support to develop homes for Native Hawaiians, according to a visiting federal official. Michael Liu, assistant secretary for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, said the money would come from the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant program.
Liu yesterday met with families in Kapolei, where the first money from the program is being used to build 33 homes for Native Hawaiians. Liu said the new money will be used to meet the housing needs of low-income Native Hawaiians living on Hawaiian Home Lands and to develop the infrastructure for 115-single-family homes at Waiehu Kou on Maui.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Indiana man missing in park
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| Timothy Lynch |
Park rangers yesterday conducted a search for Lynch, 44, in the area. Kona police said they were notified Thursday by family members that Lynch had been expected to return home last week. Lynch was described as having a muscular build, thin brown hair, brown eyes and a dark complexion. He also may have a goatee.
Call Big Island police at (808) 935-3311.
