Hawai'i briefs
Advertiser Staff
HONOLULU
Golf reservation line to go down
The city's golf tee time telephone reservation system will be shut down from 8 a.m. to noon tomorrow while software is upgraded and the computer server replaced.
The system is usually available 24 hours a day. Call 296-2000.
Leilani Emosi benefit at club
The Wave Waikiki will host a concert fund-raiser tomorrow for Leilani Emosi, 13, who is battling leukemia.
The concert will begin at 9 p.m. at the nightclub. The five bands scheduled to play are Amplified, Last in Line, Suspicious Minds, Communication and Netherworld. KPOI is also sponsoring the event, which includes $5,000 in giveaways and DJs KSM, Gdog, Double D & Blunt. The cost is a minimum $10 donation at the door.
Leilani Emosi will attend but will have to leave early, said her mother, Valeri Emosi.
O'AHU'S NORTH SHORE
Banana thieves took 2,000 lbs.
Police are looking for thieves who stole 2,000 pounds of bananas valued at more than $1,200 from a North Shore farm Feb. 29.
A surveillance camera caught a car, possibly a Dodge Colt, coming and going between 2 and 5 a.m. at the farm at 59-600 Kamehameha Highway.
Police said two to three people were involved in the theft.
Call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME on a cellular phone.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Drowning victim had faulty heart
WAILUKU, Maui — A 41-year-old California visitor who drowned in a remote coastal area of northwest Maui last week had a heart condition that contributed to his death, the medical examiner said yesterday.
A wave knocked Larry Lyle and his 14-year-old daughter into the ocean April 15 in the Kahakuloa area. By the time rescue crews arrived nearly 50 minutes later, Lyle had died while struggling in the ocean, said medical examiner Dr. Anthony Manoukian. The daughter was rescued.
Manoukian said Lyle died from being caught in the rough water, plus his heart problem, which was exacerbated by stress and intense physical exertion.
Services are scheduled tomorrow in Palm Desert, Calif., for Lyle, who was a commercial real estate agent.
ELSEWHERE
Vegas illness reports dwindle
The number of Las Vegas visitors reporting new cases of a gastrointestinal illness associated with the California Hotel and Casino continued to dwindle last week, Nevada officials said Tuesday.
Clark County Health District spokesman Dave Tonelli said the latest statistics showed six new cases last week. That brings the total number of illnesses reported Dec. 3 through last week to 1,634, mostly visitors from Hawai'i.
