Hawai'i briefs
Advertiser Staff
WINDWARD
Some lanes on Likelike to close
Work on Likelike Highway next week will require lane closures during the day and complete closure to town-bound traffic at night. Both lanes of Honolulu-bound traffic from Kahekili Highway to Valley View Drive will be closed from 9 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. Monday through Friday. The night closure could continue for a second week, said the state Department of Transportation.
Motorists will be able to use the highway during the day next week, but from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., drivers can expect one lane in each direction to be closed at different locations on the Honolulu side of the highway. The state is installing lights, guard rails, reconstructing the road and paving it.
Group plans tourist projects
The Windward Ahupua'a Alliance will hold an informational briefing tomorrow for potential partners in its Service and Learning Tours, in which tourists work on community projects during their visits to O'ahu. Partners will arrange a project and plan activities for visitors.
The briefing takes place at 3:30 p.m. at the Windward YMCA meeting room, 1200 Kailua Road. For more information, call 263-6001.
HONOLULU
Road work set on Dillingham
The city will resurface the makai lanes of Dillingham Boulevard between Mokauea Street and Waiakamilo Road from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow. Eastbound traffic will be diverted onto contraflow lanes on the mauka side of the road.
Access to businesses and other properties on the makai side of Dillingham will be permitted.
Kids to clean up Tantalus area
The Tantalus Community Association and the Ala Wai Watershed Project will hold a kids cleanup and planting project from 10 a.m. to noon tomorrow along Tantalus Drive. Children ages 5 to 12 will plant native and indigenous plants along trails to prevent runoff and erosion. For more information, call Allana Coffee at 258-2287.
EAST HONOLULU
Hanauma open for night event
Hanauma Bay will be open from 6 to 9 p.m. tomorrow for a Marine Conservation Evening sponsored by the city, University of Hawai'i Sea Grant's Hanauma Bay Education Program and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hawaiian Island Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary.
There will be family educational activities that include information on how to protect marine resources and species, informational talks about the Hawaiian monk seal, spinner dolphins and whales at the visitor's center.
The public is invited to attend the free event.
Parking will be free and the beach will remain open until 9:30 p.m. and the visitors' center will be open until 10 p.m.
