Posted on: Monday, September 13, 2004
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Team searching for hiker, son
Advertiser Staff
Fire rescue crews were searching Kahana Valley State Park last night for a father and son from Kane'ohe who did not return from a hike.
The 41-year-old man and his son, described as a preteen, set off for Kahana Valley at 2:30 p.m. They were reported overdue by the man's wife at 7:54 p.m., police said.
Honolulu fire officials dispatched the department's helicopter and a rescue team into the valley last night.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Kawaihae homes evacuated by fire
Residents were evacuated from the Kawaihae Village area of the Big Island yesterday as Big Island firefighters fought an 800-acre brushfire.
No homes were threatened, but officials ordered a mandatory evacuation after the fire began at 10:56 a.m. As of last night, they had not determined a cause for the fire.
Marine ecologist in talk at school
LIHU'E, Kaua'i — Marine ecologist Rod Fujita of Environmental Defense will talk on ways to protect the marine environment from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Kula High and Intermediate School in Kilauea.
Fujita, co-founder of the Florida Keys Water Quality Joint Action Group, is the author of "Heal the Ocean."
The session is free to the public. For more information, visit www.oceansalive.org or call Paul at 651-3452. HONOLULU
Students offered study in Japan
American graduate students at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa who are pursuing a subject area leading to better understanding between Japan and the United States are eligible to apply to the Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship Foundation for a scholarship covering one or two years of study in Japan.
The scholarship is for $15,000 plus a tuition supplement of up to $5,000 and cost-of-living allowance of 600,000 yen annually.
Applications for the 2005-06 academic year are available at various campus locations or by writing to the Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship Foundation, P.O. Box 1412, Honolulu, HI 96806-1412. For more information, call 524-4450 or e-mail myokomichi@jashahawaii.org. Application deadline is Nov. 12. Applicants must appear before a screening committee for an interview Nov. 23. Finalists will be interviewed by the foundation's board of trustees on Dec. 11.
Filmmaker to discuss work
Award-winning New Zealand filmmaker and storyteller Sima Urale will show clips from her films and videos in a free presentation, "Bringing Stories to Life on the Screen: Sima Urale Talks About Her Work," at 7 p.m. Sept. 28 in Hawai'i Geophysics Institute (HIG) 110 on the University of Hawai'i-Manoa campus.
Additionally, at noon Sept. 24, Urale's films "O Tamaiti: The Children," "Still Life" and "Velvet Dreams" will be shown in the East-West Center's Burns Hall 3121/3125.
For more information, call the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at 956-7700.
$500 cash prize in poetry contest
Hawai'i Pacific University is seeking entries for the James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry, which carries a $500 cash prize and will recognize a Hawai'i writer for an outstanding poem or group of poems. The winner's work will be published in the HPU annual literary magazine.
To enter, send three poems with a 100-line limit each, with your name, address, phone number, e-mail and poem titles on a cover page (no name on other pages) and a five-line autobiography to the James Vaughan Award for Poetry, 1060 Bishop St., Suite 402, Honolulu, HI 96813.
Entrants must be residents of Hawai'i and poems cannot have been published previously. The postmark deadline is Dec. 1.
STATEWIDE
Nene subject of school contest
Student entries will be accepted through Sept. 24 for an art and essay contest honoring the state bird of Hawai'i, the nene.
The categories for the "Goose That Laid a Golden Egg" contest are: a coloring contest for kindergarten and Grade 1; art contest for Grades 2 through 5; a logo contest for middle schoolers; and an essay contest for high school students.
Essays are limited to 300 words on the question: "What would you do to protect and preserve the nene Hawaiian goose for future generations to enjoy?"
For more information, call Gresford Lewishall or L.A.
Keith Crosby at 893-0358; on the Neighbor Islands, call (800) 816-1890; or e-mail booback@gte.net. Fishery closure extended six years
The National Marine Fisheries Service has extended the moratorium on harvesting seamount groundfish from the Hancock Seamount in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands for six years, until Aug. 31, 2010.
The fishery has been closed since 1986 to conserve pelagic armorhead fish, an overfished stock. The perchlike fish are easy to catch and were nearly wiped out by Japanese and Russian trawlers in the 1970s and '80s.
Hancock Seamount is 1,400 nautical miles northwest of Honolulu.
For a copy of the regulatory impact review for this extension, write to William L. Robinson, Regional Administrator, NOAA Fisheries Pacific Islands Regional Office, 1601 Kapi'olani Blvd., Suite 1110, Honolulu, HI 96814.
For information, call Lewis Van Fossen at 973-2937.
