Posted on: Thursday, April 28, 2005
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Eight rescued after canoe flips over
Advertiser Staff
Firefighters rescued eight women after their canoe flipped over in waters off the Sheraton Waikiki hotel last night.
The women were paddling when a wave hit their canoe and flipped it shortly before 7:30 p.m. Fire spokesman Capt. Emmit Kane said the women were unable to right the canoe and began to yell for help.
A passing boat heard their distress calls and notified the Coast Guard, which then called the Fire Department. A fire rescue crew was able to pull the women out of the water and return them to shore, Kane said.
Firefighters got the canoe right side up and paddled it back to the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor, Kane said. There were no reports on injuries.
A 7-year-old boy was injured after he was hit by a city bus yesterday afternoon in Liliha.
The bus was heading south on Liliha Street near North Kukui Street at a slow speed when it hit the boy, according to Emergency Medical Services personnel. The boy wound up under the bicycle rack at the front of the bus, EMS said.
The boy was picked up and taken to the sidewalk, where EMS personnel began to treat him. The boy complained of pain to the back of his head and right leg, but his injuries were not considered life-threatening.
He was taken to The Queen's Medical Center for treatment.
The Mo'ili'ili Community Center is holding a fund-raiser to celebrate its 60th anniversary at 5:30 p.m. May 7 at the Waialae Country Club. The event is called "Looking Back through the Eyes of the Trustees," and is part of the community center's annual "Applause! Encore!" celebration.
The evening will include dinner and a silent auction. All proceeds will be used to support the center's children, family and senior programs. Tickets are $75 each and are partially tax deductible.
For more information, call 955-1555.
A free seminar marking ALS Awareness Month will be from 9 a.m. to noon May 28 at the Kapi'olani Community College cafeteria. The event will bring together those affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) while educating the public.
Speakers will include neurologist Dr. Ronald Yamaoka; physiatrist Dr. Jayson Takata; speech therapist Kathy Krammer; chaplain Clarence Liu; and Social Security Administration officer Christine Messner.
The event is being sponsored by the Muscular Dystrophy Association's ALS Division.
The Culinary Institute of the Pacific at Kapi'olani Community College will host the Hawai'i State Student Culinary Exposition, the first of its kind in seven years, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the KCC campus.
High school and college students from across the state will present their best culinary creations in a variety of categories. The public can view them from 11 a.m. at the 'Ohi'a cafeteria. The winner of the "hot food" competition will receive an all-expense paid, one-week internship with Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai at one of his restaurants in Japan.
Chef Sakai will give cooking demonstrations at 1:30 p.m. There also will be a lecture/demonstration on truffles by Chef Bob Passarelli, corporate chef for U.S. Foods. He is the only person in the United States with a truffle orchard. Other events will include a blind wine taste test, ice carving competition and food booths sponsored by Roy's, Diamond Head Market and Grill, Duke's, Aloun Farms and the Sheraton Waikiki and Royal Hawaiian Hotels.
Tickets are $10 in advance, which includes $5 in food scrip, or $10 at the door with $3 worth of food scrip. All proceeds will benefit next year's event and will enable Neighbor Island students to participate. For further information call 734-9483.
Registration and reservations are being taken for the Summer 2005 Junior Lifeguard Program conducted by the City's Ocean Safety Division, with support from the Hawaiian Lifeguard Association. Sign up online at www.honolulu.gov/esd. The five-day course will cover basic ocean and beach safety skills including ocean and surf rescue techniques, emergency first aid, CPR, ocean swimming, paddle boarding and lifesaving skills.
The program is open to those between the ages of 13 and 17 as of June 1. Applicants must be strong swimmers. The schedule:
• Session 1, June 6-10
• Session 2, June 13-17 • Session 3, June 20-24
• Session 4, June 27-July 1 • Session 5, July 11-15 • Session 6, July 18-22 • Session 7, July 25-29 Call Ocean Safety Division Junior Lifeguard coordinators Matthew Miller, 589-2251, or James Barros, 922-3888, ext. 27.
The Hawai'i Kai Neighborhood Board on Tuesday night appointed Bob Fowler to represent the area by the high-rise condominiums in Haha'ione.
Fowler, who ran unopposed for the position, has been on the board before and served as committee chairman for planning and zoning and worked on the community's development plan. Fowler replaces Cassandra Stewart, who resigned for health reasons. Fowler will serve out the remaining month of Stewart's term and then start his two-year term in June.
Shriners Hospitals for Children-Honolulu is offering a free screening for children up to age 18 with bone, joint, muscular or burn problems at Kaiser Permanente's Ko'olau Clinic in Kane'ohe from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday.
The purpose of the clinic is to identify children who can benefit from the free, expert orthopedic and burn care provided at Shriners Hospitals, said Iwalani Dayton, Shriners' director of public relations and volunteer services.
More than 23,000 children from Hawai'i and across the Pacific basin have received world-class orthopedic care at no cost at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Honolulu since 1923.
For more information or an appointment, call 941-4466.
The state Senate Higher Education Committee yesterday voted against endorsing a student candidate to the University of Hawai'i Board of Regents, citing overwhelming opposition from students on several campuses.
The full Senate will still vote on the nomination of UH-Hilo sophomore Dylan W.J. Nonaka.
More than 200 letters, many of them form letters, were submitted to the committee citing strong opposition to the governor's nomination of Nonaka. The majority of those letters were from students who said Nonaka's position on tuition increases does not reflect the views of the student body.
Committee chairman Clayton Hee said Nonaka presented himself well at his confirmation hearing, but said the role of the student regent is to represent the views of student body.
Five people spoke in strong support of the nomination, including UH-Hilo associate professor of sociology Alton Okinaka.
A bill that would have required state monitoring of the petroleum industry appears dead at the Legislature, a victim of a dispute over whether the governor should decide when to implement the new gasoline price cap law.
This means that the gas cap will go into effect as scheduled on Sept. 1.
The Senate and House passed differing versions on the monitoring bill, but the differences could not be worked out in conference committee.
Slow-moving bus hits, injures boy
Fund-raiser set at Wai'alae club
ALS Awareness seminar May 28
Iron Chef Sakai at culinary expo
Junior lifeguard signup under way
Board appoints Haha'ione rep
Shriners offers free screening
Panel rejects regents nominee
Gas-related bill dies at Legislature
