Hawai'i briefs
Advertiser Staff
HONOLULU
Waikiki project to be discussed
Planning for the Waikiki Livable Community Project will be discussed at the Waikiki Neighborhood Board meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Waikiki Community Center, 310 Paoakalani Ave.
The federally financed project focuses on a range of transportation details including shuttle bus operations, bicycle and pedestrian uses, access for the disabled, tour buses, delivery trucks, loading zones and refuse collection.
Brian Suzuki with the city Department of Transportation Services and Earl Matsukawa of the consultant corporation Wilson Okamoto & Associates will attend the meeting to discuss the project.
CENTRAL O'AHU
Spring concert to be May 15
The Mililani High School music department will host its 28th annual Spring Concert from 5 to 10 p.m. May 15 at the Pearl City Cultural Center.
The concert will feature more than 200 students from the school's chorus, orchestra, concert band, symphonic band and symphonic wind ensemble.
Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for students and seniors.
Call 627-7358.
WINDWARD O'AHU
50 spaces open in Kailua imu
Kailua High School students will build an imu as part of their cultural and environmental education program and the public is invited to have their food cooked there.
Food drop-off will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. May 16 across from the ROTC building on campus. Pick-up is from 8 to 9 a.m. May 17.
The cost is $10 for a 13-inch-by-21-inch aluminum pan. Food should be thawed, seasoned and wrapped well in foil.
The mail-in deadline for the 50 spaces is May 12. No tickets will be issued.
Make checks payable to Kailua High School and send them to the school, attention Todd Hendricks, 451 Ulumanu Drive, Kailua, HI 96734. Include a telephone contact.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Officer allegedly hit daughter
HILO, Hawai'i — A Hawai'i County police officer who allegedly slapped his 15-year-old daughter in the face has been suspended.
Assistant Police Chief Charles Chai confirmed an officer was under investigation for child abuse but would not identify him.
The situation was reported to police at 2:30 p.m. Thursday from Hilo High School, where police say the teenage girl was taken into protective custody.
Chai said it's standard for a child to be taken into protective custody in a case of possible abuse by a parent. "They will be separated, put into a foster home, until the investigation determines that it is safe to return home," he said.
The officer has been suspended without pay for 30 days, though the suspension could be extended, Chai said.
Peace breakfast set for Saturday
LIHU'E, Kaua'i — The League of Women Voters of Kaua'i and the East Kaua'i Y's Men will sponsor a "Breakfast for Peace, Unity and Understanding" at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Aloha Kaua'i Beach Hotel.
The gathering will support America's troops in the Mideast and the people of the region, and will also support peace in the area and the world.
"We may differ on the means to get there, but we all share the same end — a peaceful world in which all live together in harmony and aloha," said organizer Jennie Yukimura.
All religious denominations are invited. Breakfast is $13. Families with relatives serving in the armed forces in Iraq will be given two free breakfast tickets in advance. Anyone wishing to sponsor military families can send checks to LWV-Kaua'i, P.O. Box 1181, Lihu'e, Kaua'i 96766.
For more information, call Yukimura at 245-2957 or Carol Bain at 246-2111.
