Posted on: Saturday, August 21, 2004
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Samoan group marks anniversary
Advertiser Staff
The Samoan Service Providers Association will celebrate its 20th anniversary and present scholarships at an awards dinner today, with festivities set to start at 4 p.m. at Ka Hale O Kameha'ikana Resource Center, Kuhio Park Terrace.
The event also will feature cultural presentations and a keynote address by U.S. Sen. Dan K. Inouye, D-Hawai'i.
Eight scholarships will be presented, using money raised at the July 27 Lavalava Scholarship Golf Tournament, which drew more than 160 participants.
Admission is free, but donations to the association will be accepted to defray costs and support the nonprofit organization's programs. Information: 842-0218 or 841-3994.
On that day, Evin Tam was driving a 1996 light-blue Honda van on Likelike Highway. At about 3 p.m., police said, the van overturned near the Burmeister Overpass and a woman fitting Tam's description was seen running into the forest.
Police and fire crews have searched on the ground and from the air for Tam with no success.
According to police, Tam's family said they were concerned because she was behaving strangely just before her disappearance.
Tam speaks Chinese and limited English, police said. She is 5 feet 1, 106 pounds, with black, neck-length hair, and brown eyes. She was wearing a light-colored T-shirt, jeans and sandals.
Anyone with information should call Investigator Mary Aragones with the missing person's detail at 529-3064, or Crime-Stoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME on a cellular phone.
The driver of a car that crashed Sunday morning near Makiki died yesterday at The Queen's Medical Center.
The accident occurred at 5:55 a.m. Sunday in the westbound lanes of H-1 Freeway near the Alexander Street onramp. Police said a black Acura went onto the shoulder of the freeway while trying to overtake a silver Acura and the two cars collided, slammed into barricades and into the median.
The 20-year-old driver of the black car was taken to Queen's with critical head injuries. Police said he died yesterday at about 9:20 a.m.
A 20-year-old passenger in that car was taken to Queen's with injuries. That person's condition was not available.
A 19-year-old man who was driving the silver Acura was not injured, police said.
Police said a third car, a pinkish-maroon Mitsubishi Lancer, also was racing and either the Lancer or the black Acura struck the back of a trolley.
The traffic death was the 45th this year, compared with 52 during the same period last year.
Anyone with information about the Lancer or the accident is asked to call Sgt. Patty Heely of the police vehicular homicide section at 529-3499.
Big Island police believe speeding and drinking played a part in a two-car collision at about 5:30 p.m. Thursday near Volcano that left two people dead and two others critically injured.
Police said Stanley Keliiholokai was traveling south in a white Mitsubishi sedan on Highway 11 near Nahelenani Street when he attempted to pass several vehicles in a no-passing zone.
They said Keliiholokai could not complete the pass in time and that his car smashed head-on into a Chevrolet sedan being driven by Rogelio Manahan of New York.
Clinton Kaleiwahea, 31, a front-seat passenger in Keliiholokai's car was killed in the crash as was a woman front-seat passenger in Manahan's car whose name has not been released by police.
Keliiholokai and Manahan were in critical condition at Hilo Medical Center, police said.
Search continues for woman, 38
The search will continue today for a 38-year-old woman who was last seen on Sunday running from an overturned van in Kalihi.
Evin Tam
H-1 crash victim dies from injuries
Speed, alcohol factors in crash
