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WINDWARD
Marines rescue seven as boat sinks
The Marines rescued seven people from a boat that sank last night off Kane'ohe.
Maj. Cathy Close, spokeswoman for Marine Corps Base Hawai'i at Kane'ohe, said that about 7 p.m. a boater used the emergency channel to report seeing a red flare about a half-mile north of Coconut Island.
The Marines heard the call and launched two boats.
When they found the boaters who had fired the flare, their boat had sunk and all seven were in the water.
The Marines pulled them out and took them to the Marine base, where emergency medical technicians with the base fire department checked them out.
No more details were available last night.
Program aims to quell abuse
A "No Excuse for Abuse" program will take place from noon to 3 p.m. today at the Windward Mall center stage area.
Organized by state Rep. David Pendleton, R-49th District (Maunawili, Enchanted Lake, Kane'ohe), the educational event will bring together representatives from different agencies to inform people about the signs of domestic violence and places to seek help.
The event includes entertainment by Balloon Ministries, Pacific Island Praise and the Windward Adventist Bell Choir.
HONOLULU
Recycling project up for comment
The city administration's proposal for a mandatory curbside recycling program will be discussed at 10 a.m. tomorrow before the City Council Public Works Committee.
The administration and the public will be given a chance to present their positions, ideas and questions on the proposal, said Councilman Mike Gabbard, who chairs the committee.
The proposal includes replacing two garbage pickups a week with alternating green waste and recycling pickups. A second weekly garbage pickup would be available for $8 a month.
Gabbard said the council has questions about cost, feasibility, recycling capability and public health.
The public is invited to attend and present testimony at the meeting, which will be held in the council committee room on the second floor of Honolulu Hale.
Scholar lecturing on humanities
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, the University of Hawai'i-Manoa English Department's Citizens' Chair, will present a free lecture on "The Humanities in the 21st Century" at 2 p.m. today at the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
Spivak represents literary art internationally and is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Her specialties include 19th century literature, Marxism, feminism and post-structuralism. She received her bachelor's degree at the University of Calcutta, and her master's and doctorate from Cornell University.
The chair was created by the state Legislature to promote literary arts, and attracts outstanding scholars and writers to UH.
LEEWARD
Key speakers announced
Hawaiian activist and advocate Pu'uhonua Dennis Keiki "Bumpy" Kanahele and Thomas Kaulukukui Jr., trustee of Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Center, will be keynote speakers at the fourth Annual Convention of the Native Hawaiian Education Association tomorrow and Tuesday at Leeward Community College.
The association is a grassroots organization that supports and encourages educators of Native Hawaiian children. For more information or to download registration material, go to www.nhea.net or call Christine Quentana at 974-7678.
