Posted on: Monday, September 27, 2004
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Kalihi families dine free tonight
Advertiser Staff
Kalihi Valley Family Night will be celebrated from 6 to 8 tonight at Dole Middle School.
Kalihi families will receive a free dinner.
Family Day is a national effort to promote parental engagement as a means to raise healthy children and reduce drug abuse by youth.
Lt. Gov. Duke Aiona, U.S. Attorney Ed Kubo and Rep. Dennis Arakaki will speak at the event.
Research has shown that teens who eat dinner with their families are more likely to do well in school, be emotionally content, have positive peer relations and healthier eating habits, be less likely to have suicidal thoughts, have lower levels of stress and be bored less often.
The Coalition for a Drug-Free Hawai'i spearheads the event with partners Kokua Kalihi Valley, Weed & Seed, Dole Middle School and the Kalihi YMCA.
A grand entry at 10 a.m. Saturday will mark the start of the 30th Annual Intertribal Pow Wow, a two-day event hosted by the American Indian Pow Wow Association at Thomas Square.
The hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
The head staff includes Head Man Shane Ridley Stevens, Te-Moake Band of the Western Shoshoni; Head Woman Rose Olney-Sampson, Yakama; emcee John Dawson, San Carlos Apache; arena directorTom Rowland, Oglala Lakota.
Host Drum will be Red Thunder, who will be joined by guest drum groups: Red Mountain Intertribal Singers from Hawai'i; Eagle Bear Clan, an all-women's group from Elco, Nev.; and Wild Horse from San Diego.
Native Hawaiians are planning sign-waving rallies this week to promote a strong voter turnout at the general election. The "I am Hawaiian and I Vote" rallies, set for Wednesday and Friday, are coordinated by Hawaiian community associations and the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement. The organizations will provide the signs to participants.
The schedule:
• 4-7 p.m. Wednesday in front of Waimanalo Quarry, across from the city beach park. • 4-6 p.m. Friday in front of Honolulu Hale. For information, call Tony Sang, Waimanalo Hawaiian Homes Association, 386-4045; Puni Kekauoha, Papakolea Community Association, 520-8998; or Rhonda Funn, Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, 521-5011.
Gallery 'Iolani at Windward Community College is hosting an exhibit called "Earth," the first of a series of five exhibitions that will explore cosmic elements. The exhibit opened Friday.
The exhibition features mixed-media work by island artists Yoko Haar, Keiko Hatano, Tsugumi Iwasaki-Higbee, Violet Murakami, Diane Nushida-Tokuno, Ohtani and Noe Tanigawa, who are members of the Coalition of Japanese Women in Art.
The exhibit runs until Oct. 24. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Friday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information, contact the gallery at 236-9155.
Police arrested a 22-year-old man early Saturday after a car chase through Wai'anae.
At about midnight Saturday police were pursuing a car on Farrington Highway that was reportedly speeding, driving recklessly and refusing to stop. The driver drove directly at a police car, then traveled west on Farrington Highway, pulled into a driveway and tried to run.
Three officers gave chase, but when they caught him the man put one officer in a sleeper hold, almost knocking him out, police said.
The officers overpowered the man and he was arrested on suspicion of two counts of attempted murder, assault on a law enforcement officer and other possible charges.
LIHU'E, Kaua'i — Gloria Duarte, who operated a tax preparation business called "The Original Tax Lady," was found dead near her wrecked vehicle off Waimea Canyon Drive Friday night.
Duarte, of Koke'e, had been reported missing early Friday morning, but her car was not located until nearly 10 p.m., near mile marker 3.
County officials said she had been thrown from the car, which appeared to have left Waimea Canyon Drive, flipped over a guardrail and tumbled about 200 feet down a steep hillside.
The Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawai'i will be taking applications for low-interest loans on Oct. 8 to assist in the development of affordable rental projects.
Private or public developers may apply, provided at least 10 percent of their proposed unit mix is affordable to persons making 30 percent or less of the area median income and at least 50 percent of their proposed unit mix is affordable to persons making 60 percent or less of the area median income. The balance of units must be affordable to persons making 100 percent or less of the area median income.
The loans, called Project Awards, come from the Rental Housing Trust Fund. They are for the development, construction, acquisition, preservation and substantial rehabilitation of rental housing units. For more information call 587-0880.
Tonight's live political debate on 'Olelo Community Television, the 15th in a series of 40 debates being presented weeknights at 6:30 p.m. on 'Olelo Channel 54, features the candidates to represent House District 18, Republican incumbent Bertha Leong and Democratic challenger Lyla Berg.
District 18 covers Kahala, 'Aina Haina and Kuli'ou'ou. Leong has represented the district since 1998 and also is a Realtor with Prudential Locations. Berg, a first-time candidate, runs her own educational consulting firm .
For a complete listing of the debate series, visit www.olelo.org/programming/ProgramGuidebyTitle.htm and scroll down to "Candidates Debate" and "Candidates in Focus" listings.
30th Pow Wow starts Saturday
Hawaiians hold rallies for voters
Show explores cosmic elements
Wai'anae chase ends in arrest
'Tax Lady' dies in Waimea crash
Low-interest loans available
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