O'ahu briefs
Advertiser Staff
HONOLULU
Young artists' work on display
Winners of the Hawai'i Convention Center's annual student art exhibit will be unveiled during a ceremony at 1 p.m. today in Room 323 at the center. The exhibit, titled Malama Hawai'i, is open to the public and will feature the work of 96 students from kindergarten through the sixth grade in public and private schools. The art will be on display for a year in the center's Pa Kamali'i Courtyard, on the third floor.
Walk raises $810,000
The Hawai'i Hotel Association's Visitor Industry Charity Walk yesterday raised $810,000, with more than 10,950 participants on O'ahu, Maui, Kaua'i and the Big Island, said Stan Brown, event chairman and Marriott International's vice president for the Pacific Islands. On O'ahu, participants began the walk at 6 a.m. from Ala Moana Beach Park's McCoy Pavilion and continued on a 7-mile trek through Waikiki, Kapi'olani Park, along the Ala Wai and back to the beach park.
La Pietra grant adds computers
La Pietra-Hawai'i School for Girls will open a "multisensory" computer lab thanks to a $50,000 matching grant from the Edward E. Ford Foundation. The grant will finance high-end Macintosh computers for graphic design and animation, expanding the school's computer science curriculum. The school will now be able to resume its GENES (Girls Education in Networking Engineering and Systems) program, which provided summer courses for girls on O'ahu seeking to improve their technology skills.
LEEWARD
Traffic fatality identified
A 57-year-old man who died after injures suffered in a one-car crash May 10 on Kamokila Boulevard has been identified as Theodore Pacheco.
He died Thursday at The Queen's Medical Center. Pacheco was driving a 1987 Nissan near Kapolei Parkway at 8:30 p.m. May 10. The car veered to the right and crashed into a utility pole. Police said alcohol appears to be a factor.
WINDWARD
Body found on Coconut Island
Police have opened a homicide investigation after the body of a man in his 20s washed up yesterday on the shore of Coconut Island in Kane'ohe Bay.
A security guard discovered the body at about 8:50 a.m. The man was wearing a gray T-shirt, beige shorts and black sandals, and "appeared to have some bullet wounds to his upper torso," Lt. Bill Kato said. The body, which Kato said was in the water for at least 24 hours, doesn't match the description of anyone who has been reported missing. Police have no suspects.
