Hawai'i briefs
Advertiser Staff
EAST HONOLULU
Lalea rockfall work near done
The rockfall mitigation project at the Lalea condominium project in Hawai'i Kai that involved laying a mesh over a crumbling mountainside should be wrapped up in the next couple of weeks.
Landowner Kamehameha Schools and developer Castle & Cooke plan to let 26 families move back into their homes Nov. 15 after living in temporary housing for nearly a year. A five-ton boulder tumbled off the mountain last Thanksgiving, smashing a car and breaking a window in a Lalea condominium.
HONOLULU
Help sought for watershed work
The O'ahu Na Ala Hele Trails and Access program is seeking volunteers for its "National Make A Difference Day" Saturday.
Na Ala Hele will be working with the Hawaii Nature Center on the Makiki Watershed Awareness Initiative, also known as "Makiki WAI." The purpose is to restore more native Hawaiian forests in Makiki valley and use this as a tool to teach about the watershed and ahupua'a.
Interested people should meet at the Division of Forestry and Wildlife base yard in Makiki at 9 a.m. For directions, call 973-9779 or visit the Na Ala Hele Web site.
CENTRAL O'AHU
Wahiawa ER has new manager
Michele "Micki" Brailo has been appointed manager of the emergency room and intensive care unit at Wahiawa General Hospital. She succeeds Stephanie Price, who has been appointed the hospital's quality assurance coordinator.
Brailo has been an emergency room nurse there for three years. The Wahiawa resident is also president of the Wheeler Elementary School PTA and coaches a youth soccer team.
LEEWARD O'AHU
Workshop on accounting set
Volunteer Legal Services Hawai'i will hold a workshop for nonprofit organizations in Leeward O'ahu on "Basics of Accounting and Internal Controls" on Oct. 31 at the Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Center.
The workshop will run from 8:30 a.m. to noon. Registration is $10. Advance registration is required. For information and to register, call 522-0682 or go to www.vlsh.org/nonprofits.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Two groups to pay EPA fine
Parker Ranch Foundation and Kau Kau Corp. reached an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency to pay $66,300 in fines for asbestos removal violations.
A complaint was filed against the two entities in June for federal Clean Air Act asbestos removal violations at the Parker Ranch Grill in Kamuela on the Big Island. The alleged violations occurred in July 1998 at a restaurant at Parker Ranch Center, which is owned by the foundation.
