Hawai'i briefs
Advertiser Staff
HONOLULU
Grant to help Hawaiian keiki
The Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture has received almost $1 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Education to aid efforts aimed at better preparing Native Hawaiian children for school. The federal money was received from the Native Hawaiian Education Program. The $978,292 will be disbursed over a three-year period.
INPEACE will expand its Keiki Steps program on O'ahu and create an additional site on the east side of the Big Island. Keiki Steps seeks to improve the school readiness of Native Hawaiian Children through a parent-child early childhood program for children up to age 5.
Keiki Steps partners with the Wai'anae Complex Schools 21st Century Community Learning Center, Project Hi'ikule'a, Nanakuli Elementary, Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Center, and the Hawaiian Homestead Associations on the Big Island.
WINDWARD O'AHU
Crash closes Hau'ula roadway
A collision between a stolen car and garbage truck yesterday forced the closure of Kamehameha Highway in Hau'ula in both directions. The accident fronting 52-200 Kamehameha Highway occurred at 10:40 a.m.
Police said there were no serious injuries and the highway was reopened at about noon.
Police said the garbage truck's drive shaft and axle were damaged and the vehicle could not be easily moved from the roadway.
EAST HONOLULU
School plans slowdown event
Students and parents of Kamiloiki Elementary School and police officers will carry signs and banners from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. Friday to warn drivers to slow down near the school in Hawai'i Kai.
Coordinated with the AIG Hawaii Hot Spots program, about 100 students, teachers and parents will participate in the event. Police will issue warnings to speeders in the school zone. The school was recently identified as a "hot spot" for speeding.
CENTRAL O'AHU
Driver stricken before accident
An autopsy has determined a 47-year-old Kane'ohe man involved in a Nov. 5 single-car crash on the H-1 Freeway at the Kunia Road exit died of heart failure rather than of accident injuries. Police investigators said Mark K. Valdez collapsed at the wheel of his 1984 Ford Bronco before the vehicle drifted from the center lane and struck a concrete median.
Valdez died at St. Francis Medical Center-West.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Police warn Kaua'i drivers
LIHU'E, Kaua'i — Kaua'i police are warning drinkers that they'll be setting up sobriety checkpoints randomly around the island from November to January.
