HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Helicopter to aid HECO repairs
Advertiser Staff
Hawaiian Electric Co. will use a helicopter over Palolo Valley to perform maintenance work on three days beginning today.
The flights will begin at about 8:30 a.m. from the Honolulu Board of Water Supply tank behind the University of Hawai'i faculty housing on Dole Street. The helicopter will take a crew, tools and materials to work on a structure at the Ko'olau-Pukele No. 1 138-kilovolt circuit.
On Wednesday, a crew will be replacing underground cables on Loke Place in Palolo Valley and a helicopter again will be used to transport workers and materials starting at 8:30 a.m. At 2:30 p.m., the helicopter will take the workers out of the area.
On Thursday, the helicopter will fly from Wiliwili Ridge above Wai'alae Iki Estates from 8:30 a.m. for about an hour and return at about 2:30 p.m.
HECO said the work areas are inaccessible by ground transportation.
Bill would require home disclosure
Sellers of residential property that had been used for the illegal manufacture of crystal methamphetamine would be required to disclose such information to potential buyers, under a bill introduced by City Councilman Donovan Dela Cruz yesterday.
Under Bill 60, a seller would need to disclose the information in writing to any potential buyer of the property prior to the buyer entering into any real-estate purchase contract.
"An illegal laboratory could leave chemicals on walls, the carpets, on the counters that people won't be able to see or smell but could be harmful to them," he said. "People should be presented with any information that may be relevant to their well-being — especially those potential home buyers with young children or pregnant women."
Groups offer child identification card
The Pearl Harbor Masonic Lodge and Masonic Charities in Hawai'i will offer a free child identification program — with digital photograph and fingerprints printed on a card — at several Longs Drug Stores beginning today.
Each child's fingerprints and color photo will be printed on a card that also will contain hints for parents about child safety. The cards are free.
Parents may bring their children, ages 1 through 16, on the following days from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.:
• Today — Longs Hawai'i Kai, Longs Mililani and Longs Kane'ohe.
• Wednesday — Longs Pearl City, Longs Kailua, and Longs Kaimuki.
• Aug. 21 — Longs Kamehameha Shopping Center, Longs Manoa Shopping Center, and Longs 'Ewa Beach.
Military vehicles to use freeways
Military vehicles will be in convoys on the H-1 and H-2 freeways on Monday.
The Army convoys will move from Schofield Barracks to Ford Island via the two freeways from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Army said convoys may cause delays.
Police unplug computer duo
A man and a woman, both 21, were arrested on suspicion of car theft, theft of utility services and promotion of dangerous drugs after a Makiki service-station employee saw the man plug his computer into one of the station's electrical outlets at about 10:30 Thursday night.
Police were called and found the man sitting in the driver's seat of a stolen rental car. Officers reported finding a drug pipe where the man and woman were sitting.
