Posted on: Friday, October 1, 2004
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Sandy Beach site of cable project
Advertiser Staff
The Sandwich Isles Communications Co. Inc. is seeking a shoreline setback variance to install fiber-optic cable near Sandy Beach. A public hearing will be held at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 18 at the city Department of Human Resources Conference Room, City Hall Annex, Room 550.
For more information, call 523-4648.
Pearl City Hongwanji Mission will dedicate its new adult-care center Sunday at 9:30 a.m.
The mission, located at 858 2nd Street, recently completed a $700,000 renovation of its social hall for use as a care center for about 40 people, said Pearl City Hongwanji board member Richard Tokuoka. Wai'anae Coast Comprehensive Health Center will operate the center, which is expected to open for business in mid-October.
The state Board of Education will hold a community meeting to talk about public education and the state libraries from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 19 at Kalani High School cafeteria.
The state will present a new program called Reinventing Education Act of 2004.
Master artist Harry Tsuchidana will teach a hands-on class, "Abstraction for Beginners," from 1 to 4 p.m. tomorrow at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i.
The class fee is $25, plus cost of supplies.
Cultural center members also are admitted to an exclusive tour with Tsuchidana of his exhibit at the center's Community Gallery. The walk-through will begin at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
The exhibit, titled "Harry Tsuchidana: Gemini, Monkey, Kumamoto Ken," displays recent paintings that represent the artist's life experiences. The exhibit is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, through Oct. 22. Gallery admission is free.
For more information on the class, or to join the Japanese Culture Center of Hawaii, call 945-7633.
Plants grown by women at the correctional center in Kailua will go on sale from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Oct. 9 at Kailua Elementary School. The sale will benefit inmates' vocational program.
Prices will be below wholesale. Plants include area palm, manila palms, bougainvillea, red hibiscus, yellow allamanda, red ginger, ixora, false eranthemum, crotons and dwarf mondo grass.
The plants were cultivated by students in the Environmental Sciences Vocational Training program at the Women's Community Correction Center, under the direction of Juan Arcena, former head gardner of the Sheraton Hotels in Waikiki.
The sale is sponsored by the Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle.
The Honolulu Fire Department is hoping to increase public awareness of home fire detectors during Fire Prevention Week, which begins Sunday.
Safety tips for detectors include monthly testing of detectors, changing batteries regularly and never removing batteries from detectors, which are beeping for no apparent reason. "When that happens," HFD community relations Capt. Anthony Sung said, "it generally means the battery is low and it's time to replace it."
Sung suggests residents should connect a date, like a birthday or anniversary, to changing detector batteries annually.
HFD will be giving out its "Firefighters Safety and Health Guide" to school-age children throughout October to bring home and have appearances planned this month at the following locations to promote fire safety:
• Monday: Ala Moana Center, center stage, 6 to 7 p.m. Music by "FireHouse." • Thursday: Kahuku Elementary School, 12:30 to 2 p.m. • Oct. 9: Windward Mall, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. • Oct. 15: Noelani Elementary School (Manoa), 9 to 10 a.m. • Oct. 17: The Marketplace at Kapolei, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. • Oct. 27: Mililani-Ike Elementary School, 9 to 11 a.m.
The state Health Department is increasing the handling fee charged to Hawai'i beverage distributors of metal, glass and plastic containers of 64 fluid ounces or less from a half-cent to a penny per container beginning today.
The timetable for the increase is set by the Hawai'i Deposit Beverage Container Program, which became law in June 2002. The fees are designated for program start-up costs, which include administration, outreach/education, and redemption of containers. Officials plan to start a public education campaign in November.
The intent of the program is to recycle the estimated 800 million beverage containers sold annually in Hawai'i. The program eventually will place a five-cent redeemable deposit on containers to encourage recycling by the public.
HILO, Hawai'i — The state Department of Land and Natural Resources will hold a public meeting tomorrow to discuss the proposed replacement of the boat ramp and loading dock at Pohoiki Bay in Puna. The meeting will be from 10 a.m. to noon at the Pahoa Neighborhood Facility, 15-2710 Kauhale Road.
Pohoiki ramp is adjacent to the county's Isaac Hale Beach Park and includes a single-lane, 18-foot-wide ramp, a breakwater and loading dock.
The ramp was built in 1961, with a loading dock added in 1979. The facilities need to be relocated, replaced or rehabilitated, according to the DLNR. For more information, contact district boating manager Nancy Murphy at (808) 329-4997, or Joann Kapeliela in Honolulu at 587-3256.
Secretary of State Colin Powell has appointed a former U.S. senator and an executive of an international biopharmaceutical company to three-year terms on the East-West Center Board of Governors. Powell named Nancy Kassebaum Baker, a three-term Kansas senator and wife of U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker, and John E. Osborn, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at Cephalon, Inc., based in suburban Philadelphia.
The East-West Center Board of Governors also elected two new Asia-Pacific members to three-year terms during its recent meeting in Tokyo. They are Edgar W.K. Cheng, chair of the World-Wide Investment Company, Ltd., and Tadashi Yamamoto, founder and president of the Japan Center for International Exchange.
The EWC Board of Governors is made up of 18 members, including five appointed by the governor of Hawai'i, five appointed by the U.S. secretary of state, five members from Asia and the Pacific islands who are elected by the full board, and three ex-officio members who include the governor of Hawai'i, the assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs, and the president of the University of Hawai'i. Roland Lagareta serves as the chair of the EWC Board of Governors.
"A Day at Queen Emma Summer Palace," a fund-raiser for The Daughters of Hawai'i, is set for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow and will feature Hawaiian entertainment, food, arts and crafts and guided tours of the residence, 2913 Pali Highway.
The Daughters of Hawai'i is an organization that works to preserve the queen's Nu'uanu residence and Hulihe'e Palace in Kona.
Entertainers will include Ka Pa Hula Hawai'i, Halau Hula Olana, Ka'anohiwaianuenue Hula Studio, Kapomakolekapuakane, Punahou Alumni Glee Club, Royal Hawaiian Band, Gordon Oliveira, Diamond 'Ohana, Olomana and Pa'ahana.
Admission is $5 for adults, $1 for children. Free parking is available at the park on Pu'iwa Road
Information: 595-6291.
Friends of Pearl City Library will have a benefit book sale Oct. 17 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the library, 1138 Waimano Home Road.
The inventory includes more than 2,000 books as well as CDs and DVDs.
The Pearl City Library has two free on-going programs open to the public. "Preschool Storytime" is being held on Wednesdays through Dec. 1 at 10 a.m. and "Puzzletime" on Thursdays at 10 a.m. until Dec. 2, except for Thanksgiving Day.
For information, call 453-6566.
Traffic into and out of Waimalu Gardens is being detoured onto Ponohale Street for five months, beginning this week, because of construction work related to the H-1 Freeway widening project, according to state Department of Transportation officials.
The detour route, which will be in effect 24 hours a day for safety reasons, is a paved two-lane road with sidewalks for pedestrians. The intersection of Pono and Ponohale streets will be realigned to make room for the widened freeway.
Nu'uanu reservoir No. 4 will reopen for weekend channel catfish fishing starting Nov. 13, according to the state Department of Land and Natural Resources.
Fishers who want to catch the stocked catfish must obtain a valid state freshwater game fishing license and entry fishing card. Applications for the cards will be available beginning today with the deadline to submit a card Oct. 22. Fishing will continue on Saturdays and Sundays until all anglers with assigned fishing times have been accommodated.
For more information, call 587-0100.
KIHEI, Maui — The nonprofit Malulani Health Systems has scheduled additional community meetings on its planned 100-bed hospital in South Maui.
The meetings, all to start at 6:30 p.m., will be on Tuesday at the Wailuku Community Center, Thursday at Maui Waena Intermediate School in Kahului, and Oct. 12 at Princess Nahi'ena'ena Elementary School in Lahaina.
The group hopes to build the $200 million hospital on 40 acres adjacent to the Maui Research & Technology Park in Kihei. It must first apply for a certificate of need from the State Health Planning and Development Agency, a process that involves public hearings.
'Olelo debate over Senate seat
Tonight's one-hour live debate on 'Olelo Community Television's Channel 54 at 6:30 p.m. features the two candidates, Democrat Clayton Hee and Republican James Henshaw, seeking the Senate District 23 seat lost by Melodie Aduja in the primary election.
Adultcare center to be dedicated
BOE to discuss education act
Artists classes at Japanese center
Inmates' plants on sale Oct. 9
Fire department pushes detectors
Beverage fees rise to a penny
Boat ramp, dock on DLNR agenda
East-West board members named
Fund-raiser at summer palace
Book sale to aid Pearl City Library
Waimalu detour for freeway work
Reservoir open to catfish anglers
Public hearings on hospital plans
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