Posted on: Sunday, September 12, 2004
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Water advisory on Big Island
Advertiser Staff and News Services
HILO, Hawai'i — Residents and businesses in Hamakua, North Hilo, and South and North Kohala are being asked to reduce their water use by 10 percent.
The Hawai'i County Department of Water Supply said repairs to the Laupahoehoe Well are contributing to concerns stemming from high use of water during dry weather.
People are being asked to stop watering their lawns and washing their cars and boats, to wash clothes and dishes only when there's a full load, to avoid unnecessary toilet flushing, and to serve drinking water only when requested. Agricultural users should irrigate from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. only, to reduce water loss due to evaporation.
For more information, call Dennis Lee at the department at (808) 961-8790.
The Maui and Kaua'i county police departments will receive federal grants for anti-gang training and education programs, U.S. Attorney Edward Kubo Jr. said Friday.
Maui will receive $34,000 and Kaua'i will get $42,499 from the Department of Justice. The grants are intended to train officers in a school-based curriculum in which they work with children to deter gang activity.
Full recovery is expected for a green sea turtle that underwent surgery to amputate its right front flipper.
The 40-pound turtle was found Friday on the beach at Keawa'ula (Yokohama Bay) on the Wai'anae Coast with the flipper nearly severed by a fishing line. Lifeguards sheltered the turtle with wet towels until it could be taken to Kailua veterinarian Robert Morris.
Morris said the flipper was too far gone to be reattached. He said the turtle will require further surgery tomorrow to remove the base of its flipper.
After surgery, the turtle will be held for observation for about two weeks, then tagged and released, Morris said.
Turtles can "do quite well with one front flipper," Morris said, because "they compensate with the back flipper."
Volunteers installed electric fans in several classrooms at Makaha Elementary School yesterday.
The work was organized by parent Paula Kamakani after she heard about a "fan drive" for Wai'anae schools and brought in two fans for her son's classroom in Makaha. She saw students in other classrooms suffering in the heat and decided she had to do more.
"My heart went out to the other children," Kamakani said.
Kamakani wrote a letter asking other parents to help. More than $15,000 in pledges came in and dozens of people offered their time as volunteers.
Clifford Laughton of Hawai'i Holdings donated $10,000; Jas. W. Glover Co. gave $2,500.
City Mill has authorized discounts on all fans purchased for schools along the Wai'anae Coast .
The city will present final plans Tuesday for a parking lot on Aloha Drive that will replace some of the parking spaces lost as part of the Ala Wai Boulevard construction project.
The briefing will take place during the Waikiki Neighborhood Board meeting at 9 p.m. at the Waikiki Community Center, 310 Paoakalani Ave.
The 33,000-square-foot property at Seaside Avenue and Aloha Drive is one block mauka of Kuhio Avenue. The city contractor working on the Kuhio improvements is now using the lot for its office trailers and construction storage.
The board will also have presentations on the private Ala Wai Gateway and Royal Kahili tower projects and an update on the International Market Place development.
State schools chief Patricia Hamamoto, Board of Education chairman Breene Harimoto and 'Aiea High School principal Michael Tokioka will be the featured speakers at a "Future of Education in Hawai'i" forum Wednesday at the Pearl Ridge Elementary School cafeteria.
The 90-minute forum, which begins at 7 p.m., will focus on how the Department of Education is implementing Act 51, the Reinvesting Education Act of 2004, with emphasis on school-based budgeting and decision-making.
The forum is sponsored by legislators representing 'Aiea and Pearl City: Sens. David Ige, Cal Kawamoto, Donna Mercado Kim and Norman Sakamoto, and Reps. Blake Oshiro, K. Mark Takai and Roy Takumi.
A Filipino Fiesta, a self-guided tour of the historic mill camp, a mini-museum exhibit and a farm visit are in the offing from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 25 at the historic Waialua Sugar Mill.
Produce grown by members of the Waialua Farmers Cooperative will be for sale also. The co-op works to develop agricultural tourism and wants to create a brand of produce emphasizing the preservation of the plantation heritage.
For more information, call event organizer Edith Ramiscal at 637-8589.
Anti-gang help for Maui, Kaua'i
Injured turtle's flipper amputated
Fans installed at Makaha school
Tuesday briefing on extra parking
Education forum set Wednesday
Filipino Fiesta at Waialua Mill
