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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Monday, September 22, 2003

Hawai'i briefs

Advertiser Staff

LEEWARD O'AHU

Nanakuli fire spares homes

Honolulu fire officials battled a brushfire in Nanakuli for more than two hours yesterday afternoon. No homes were damaged.

Officials said six companies fought a fire along Kaukama Road that began about 4 p.m. The fire briefly threatened some homes along Apuupuu Road but none was damaged. The last firefighters wrapped up at the scene about 6:30 p.m. The cause of the fire was not determined.


Home-building project aided

A self-help housing project in Nanakuli has received a $541,820 grant to help families build their homes in Nanaikeola Village, according to U.S. Rep. Ed Case. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development issued the grant to the Hawaii Intergenerational Community Development Association to build 32 houses. The money may be used to pay salaries, rent and office expenses for the association, which received $2.5 million in 2001 to purchase and develop 80 lots.


HONOLULU

Shangri La presentation set

Deborah Pope, executive director of Shangri La, Doris Duke's estate near Black Point, will give a free slide and video presentation at 11 a.m. Sept. 29 at the Waikiki Community Center, 310 Paoakalani Ave. Pope will talk about how Duke became interested in Islamic art and built her home, gardens and art collection. The event is part of a series of special events and speakers celebrating the community center's 25th anniversary year. For more information, call Jeff Apaka at 923-1802.


Weed & Seed group to meet

A meeting to discuss how the expansion of the Weed & Seed law enforcement program into the Sheridan-Kaheka-McCully area will affect the community will be held at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 30 at Makiki Christian Church, 829 Pensacola St. in the second-floor social hall.

Last month the U.S. Department of Justice approved expanding the Weed & Seed program from the Kalihi-Palama/Chinatown site west into Kalihi Valley and east into the Ala Moana area.

For more information, call 586-6890 or 586-6180.


NEIGHBOR ISLANDS

Operation seizes 3,285 pot plants

LIHU'E, Kauai — A three-day marijuana eradication effort by the Kaua'i Police Department resulted in the seizure of 3,285 pot plants, officials said Friday.

Project "Green Harvest" ended Thursday and focused on uninhabited areas of the island, police said. No arrests were made during the operation.

In the midst of statewide efforts focusing on crystal methamphetamine, or ice, people should be vigilant against marijuana, which is the most popular drug among youths and one of the gateway drugs to ice, Kaua'i police said.