Posted on: Wednesday, September 15, 2004
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Kaua'i council gets pay raise
Advertiser Staff
LIHU'E, Kaua'i — The Kaua'i Salary Commission has given the County Council a 22 percent pay raise over the next 15 months, the council's first pay increase in six years.
Council members are paid $28,744, and will see a boost to $33,400 this December and $35,100 in December 2005. The council chairman's pay goes up 24 percent, from $31,938 to $37,600, and then $39,500.
The Salary Commission's decisions on council pay are final. Other county executive pay proposals are recommendations, which are voted on by the council.
LIHU'E, Kaua'i — A 54-year-old visitor died Monday while snorkeling off Ka'aka'aniu Beach on Kaua'i's northeast side.
Leslie Maltby of Sonoma, Calif., was reported missing at 4:20 p.m. by his girlfriend. Firefighters in a search helicopter located his body shortly before 6 p.m. about 1,000 yards north of the end of the Larsen's Beach trail.
County public information officer Cyndi Ozaki said his death was the ninth apparent drowning this year on Kaua'i. An autopsy is planned.
PA'IA, Maui — The Surfrider Foundation will hold a beach cleanup at Ho'okipa Beach Park from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday as part of national "Get the Drift & Bag It" activities to clean coastal areas of debris. Lunch will be provided.
The group is seeking organizers to hold events at other beach parks. Call Jan Roberson at (808) 575-2716 or visit the Web site www.surfrider.org/maui. For other "Get the Drift & Bag It" events on Maui, call Community Work Day at (808) 877-2524.
KAHULUI, Maui — International Peace Day will be celebrated today with public events on the Maui Community College campus. The observance is sponsored by the MCC Peace Club and Maui Peace Action.
E.K. Duru, a civil rights and immigration attorney originally from Cameroon, will speak on the topic of "Progress in World Peace" at noon in Science Lecture Hall 11A. Evening events in the student lounge start at 6 p.m. with pupu prepared by MCC's Culinary Arts Academy, followed at 6:30 by a slide presentation by Akari Ueoka, MCC Peace Club president, who did volunteer work over the summer with children affected by the war in Croatia.
Ann Wright, a retired Army colonel and former Foreign Service diplomat, will speak on U.S. foreign policy issues at 7:30 p.m.
For more information, call 573-3255 or visit www.mauipeace.org.
The Mililani Town Association will sponsor a "Literacy Day" and book fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 25 at Recreation Center 3, 95-303 Kaloapau St.
The free event is for children in kindergarten to sixth grade. Eight cases of children's books will be available for sale.
This will be the third "Literacy Day" and book fair event sponsored by the association.
Call Chris Guillermo at 440-2631 for more information.
Applications for the city's property tax relief program for homeowners 55 and older are available at Room 115 of Honolulu Hale and at all satellite city halls through Oct. 30.
The deadline for filing a claim for the 2003-04 tax year is Oct. 30.
Property owners 55 and older may be eligible for a partial refund on their real property taxes paid during the 2003-2004 tax year if they: have a multiple home exemption on their property during the 2003-04 tax year; the total household income does not exceed $20,000 for the calendar year 2003; and the amount of the 2003-04 real property tax exceeds 5 percent of the total household property income.
For more information, call 523-4856.
Community School for Adults in partnership with VSA Arts of Hawaii-Pacific is offering a first-time workforce literacy skills development curriculum for people with developmental and severe disabilities.
The modified three-month course, from Oct. 4-Dec. 10, will be offered at the Hawaii Artsplace, Hale C at 2201 Waimano Home Road in Pearl City.
The course offers an opportunity to learn arts and crafts skills, possibly as a means of self-expression and earning income or starting a small business or micro-enterprise, said project director Susan Miller of the University of Hawai'i College of Education's Center on Disability Studies.
Enrollment is limited and open to all persons 18 years or older, regardless of disability, on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration will be held tomorrow through Oct. 4 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Artsplace and at Waipahu Community School for Adults, 94-1211 Farrington Hwy., from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
There is no tuition.
For course offerings or more information, call Susan Miller at 455-6002.
Lynn Maunakea, executive director of the Institute of Human Services, will discuss homelessness on O'ahu during the Kalihi-Palama Neighborhood Board meeting at 7 p.m. today at Kapalama Elementary School, 1601 N. School St.
IHS is the only emergency shelter on O'ahu and is filled above capacity every night. Maunakea will discuss the past, present and future of homelessness.
The board also will discuss removing cars left in the parking lot of Kamehameha Field Park after hours and hear a discussion about clean elections in Hawai'i.
Snorkeler dies off Kaua'i beach
Ho'okipa Beach cleanup planned
Peace Day observation set
Mililani to hold kids' book sale
Tax relief forms now available
Disabled offered arts workshop
IHS director at board meeting
