Posted on: Thursday, October 14, 2004
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Ships due today at Pearl Harbor
Advertiser Staff
Three ships with the San Diego-based USS Belleau Wood Expeditionary Strike Group — minus the 2,200 Marines they left with — are expected back in Hawai'i today for a several-day port call before heading home.
The 820-foot amphibious assault ship Belleau Wood, amphibious ship Denver and dock landing ship Comstock left Hawai'i in June for Iraq.
Marines with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit battled insurgents in Najaf, Iraq, in August.
The Pearl Harbor-based destroyer Hopper and submarine Charlotte deployed as part of the strike group, but left later in June.
In his proclamation, the mayor notes that "during weeks of intense competition, Camile Velasco's Maui ways of humility, family values, passionate artistry, and her immense talent came through so resoundingly that she captured the hearts and minds of 'American Idol' viewers everywhere, propelling her into the top nine finalists in this grueling competition."
The former pancake waitress finished up the three-month American Idol 3 tour earlier this month.
The Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement is holding a series of free public policy workshops that will continue at 6 tonight at the Blanche Pope Elementary School cafeteria in Waimanalo.
The workshops, titled "Government 101: National Policies for Native Needs," provide information tailored to Native Hawaiians on the federal government as well as the roles of Congress and the judicial branch.
More than 160 federal statutes specifically affect Native Hawaiians, in areas such as healthcare, education, cultural preservation and affordable housing. Programs covered in the workshops include the Native Hawaiian Healthcare Act, the Native Hawaiian Education Act and the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act.
The series is presented by the native council in cooperation with the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, the State Council of Hawaiian Homestead Associations and Hui Kako'o 'Aina Ho'opulapula.
Here are other workshops, set for 6 to 8 p.m.:
• Oct. 27, Kaua'i High School. • Nov. 3, Hilo High School. • Nov. 4, Kuhio Hale, Waimea, Hawai'i. • Nov. 10, Wailuku Community Center. • Nov. 11, Lahainaluna High School. • Nov. 19, Lana'i High School.
For more information, call 521-5011 (toll-free at 808 709-2642), or visit www.hawaiiacouncil.org.
HILO, Hawai'i — An 87-year-old man who had been missing from his Kona home for a week was found Tuesday afternoon alive and conscious.
Family members found Anthony T. Miyose, of Kailua, at about 5:30 p.m. lying on rocks under a mango tree on property next to his residence on upper Hualalai Road.
Miyose apparently wandered away from his home on Oct. 6.
Miyose, who suffers from dementia, was taken to the Kona Community Hospital for evaluation and was reported to be stable. He was admitted for observation.
LIHU'E, Kaua'i — A 16-bed residential drug treatment center for adolescents will be built at a Hanapepe site formerly occupied by the Kaua'i Humane Society. Gov. Linda Lingle released $560,000 in general obligation bond money toward design and construction of the $1.11 million project. The county is raising some of the money from private donations and has commitments for $50,000, Mayor Bryan Baptiste said. Without a local treatment center, Kaua'i youths have to seek help off-island.
The facility will be near the Salt Pond Beach Park. Correction: An item in a previous version of these briefs misstated the size of the residential drug treatment program planned for Hanapepe on Kaua'i and how much money had been committed outside of state funding.
Camile Velasco gets Maui 'day'
Camile Velasco
Meetings cover Hawaiian issues
Kona man, 87, found safe
Hanapepe center to house teens
