Posted on: Monday, April 18, 2005
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Woman's body found in Ha'iku
Advertiser Staff
HA'IKU, Maui — The body of a woman was recovered yesterday at the bottom of a cliff near Manawai Place.
The body was reported to police at 8:22 a.m. by area residents. The woman appears to be middle-aged and had a metal rod from a medical procedure in her right leg. The woman was believed to have been dead for several hours, police said.
She was wearing denim shorts.
Anyone with information is asked to call Maui police at (808) 244-6400.
A 58-year-old Colorado woman rescued yesterday from Ko Olina Resort & Marina's Lagoon 2 was taken to St. Francis Medical Center-West in critical condition.
The woman was spotted floating in the water about 20 feet from shore at about 3 p.m. Her husband and a bystander brought the unconscious woman to shore, police said. CPR was administered before Emergency Medical Services and firefighters arrived.
A hospital nursing supervisor last night declined to provide an update on the woman's condition.
Work to restore the Waikalua Loko Fishpond will continue with a community stewardship day from 7:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Saturday.
Trucks are needed to haul green waste. Volunteers are asked to bring power tools and machetes. Breakfast and a pau hana lunch will be provided. Volunteers are needed to set up.
Wednesday is the deadline for middle and high school students to register; Thursday, for colleges, churches, businesses, clubs and other groups; Friday, for individuals and families. For more information, email info@waa-hawaii.org or call 247-6366.
Police were looking for two men who allegedly broke into a Mililani home Friday night, bound and gagged a 60-year-old woman and robbed her.
The break-in happened at 10 p.m. Friday, police said. One of the men allegedly pulled a gun on the woman, while the other took her car keys.
The men are suspected of stealing the woman's car and abandoning it at a nearby park, police said.
Goodwill Industries of Hawai'i is conducting a work-place-themed photo contest called "Visions of Work" to celebrate employment in Hawai'i.
The contest is open to amateur photographers and will end at midnight on April 29. Entrants must register and submit their digital or scanned photos at Goodwill's Web site, www.higoodwill.org. Photos may be entered in three categories:
• Best Office Party
• Best Community Service • Best Incorporation of Work Theme Finalists will be published in The Advertiser early in May. Public online voting to determine the top winners will run May 7 to 11 on the Goodwill Industries of Hawai'i Web site. Official contest rules and more information are available at www.higoodwill.org.
Special discounts will be available tonight at a "members' night pre-sale" to Sunday's Friends of Pearl City Library book sale at the library, at 1138 Waimano Home Road. The advance sale for Friends of Pearl City Library members is from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Sunday's book sale is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Book prices start at 25 cents for pocketbooks and children's books, and $1 for hardcovers and videotapes.
For information, call 453-6566 during business hours.
The state Department of Taxation once again will offer curbside service on O'ahu for last-minute filers 5 p.m. to midnight Wednesday, the deadline to file state income tax returns.
The U.S. Postal Service does not have extended hours to accommodate the state's April 20 filing deadline, but tax department volunteers will be in front of the Princess Ruth Ke'elikolani Building at 830 Punchbowl St. to collect returns, extension requests and other tax forms.
Taxpayers may drive up to either the Halekauwila or Punchbowl Street sides of the building, roll down their windows and hand their tax forms to a volunteer. Forms do not need to be in envelopes, but all pages and attachments should be securely stapled.
Last year, about 3,900 Hawai'i tax forms were collected curbside from taxpayers who walked, drove, caught the bus, took a cab or biked to meet the deadline.
ARTLUNCH, a free art appreciation lecture series, is presented at noon on the last Tuesday of each month in the first-floor multipurpose room of the Hawai'i State Art Museum, in the historic No. 1 Capitol District Building at 250 S. Hotel St. Those attending are encouraged to bring their lunches.
The series is sponsored by the Art in Public Places Program of the Hawai'i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Call 586-9958 for further information.
The Hawaii State Bar Association will sponsor its Law Week Hawaii observance, a series of free law clinics, May 7 around O'ahu.
The kickoff event — featuring miniature golf and other games, and emceed by entertainer Rodney Villanueva — is set for 10 a.m. to noon May 4 at Tamarind Park.
The law clinics will be conducted between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. May 7 at Pearlridge Center Downtown, Center Court; Windward Mall, mall level, Sears wing; Daiei Kaheka Street; and Daiei Waipahu.
The clinics will offer free legal information and referrals from volunteer attorneys.
In addition, the association's Legal Line Telephone Hotline will offer evening hours — 6 to 7 p.m. May 4 and 5 — during which volunteer attorneys will give free legal information and referrals. Calls are taken at 537-1868, or toll free at (888) 609-5463.
The association is a nonprofit trade organization of about 6,000 attorneys in Hawai'i.
Woman rescued from lagoon
Fishpond work to continue
Police seek 2 men in home break-in
Contest rewards visions of work
Library offers book pre-sale
Curbside tax pickup offered
Free art series at state museum
Law Week clinics in May
