HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Save old tsunami evacuation maps
Advertiser Staff
Four tsunami evacuation maps for south and west Maui were omitted from the new Verizon phone books, and Maui County officials urged residents to save the maps from their old directories.
Missing are Tsunami Evacuation Maps 3, 4, 5 and 6, covering Kealia to Napili, the county said.
Maui County Civil Defense notified state Civil Defense of the omission.
DOWNTOWN
Board to discuss '06 sewer project
The city's $739,500 sewer rehabilitation project along Fort Street Mall and Hotel Street will be discussed at the Downtown Neighborhood Board meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Pauahi Community Center, 171 N. Pauahi St.
Jason Lau, with the Limtiaco Consulting Group, will give the presentation.
The city is planning to do six months of night sewer-repair work on the mall and Hotel Street in 2006.
The board will also discuss a request for the city to provide moped parking downtown.
CENTRAL
Lions to collect snacks for troops
The Wahiawa Lions will be collecting Spam and local snack foods for Hawai'i Army National Guard soldiers assigned to the 29th Separate Infantry Brigade. The soldiers are headed to the Middle East.
The Lions will be at Wahiawa Shopping Center near Longs Drugs and also at Tamura's Market on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and plan to have additional food drives there on subsequent Saturdays.
"We hope that our drive will also provide an easy way for other members of our community to send their aloha to our troops," said Douglas Wheeler, Wahiawa Lions president.
Monetary donations are also being accepted.
For information, call Wheeler at 622-0181 or Jack Kampfer at 621-5109, Ext. 226.
EAST HONOLULU
Help needed at Hanauma Bay
The Friends of Hanauma Bay will be organizing a cleanup of the beach, the park and Kalaniana'ole Highway from Keahole Street to the Blow Hole, from 8:30 to 11 a.m. Jan. 16.
Volunteers should meet in the Hanauma Bay upper picnic area next to the visitor's center. Residents need to bring a photo ID to avoid paying the beach access fee. Groups seeking additional information about the cleanup can call 395-1217.
Community plan being evaluated
Residents interested in hearing the city's evaluation of the East Honolulu Sustainable Communities plan, the blueprint for building, can attend a workshop at 8:30 a.m. Jan. 15 at the 'Aina Haina Public Library meeting room.
Every five years the city re-evaluates the plan, which determines where development can occur in the community. For more information call the city's Department of Planning and Permitting at 527-6094.
District vote set for Jan. 26
The 17th and 18th representative district will meet from 6 to 9 p.m. Jan. 26 at Koko Head Elementary School to elect new district officers and delegates and alternates to the state Republican Convention. The convention is in May on Kaua'i. For more information call 395-3765.
Help sought finding canoe
Hui Nalu Canoe Club is asking mariners to be on the lookout for a swamped six-seat racing canoe, abandoned off Hawai'i Kai on Friday.
Canoe club president Bruce Blankenfeld said the Maunalua is a Hawaiian Class Racer with a black hull, yellow topsides and a yellow ama. He said it might be drifting toward Kaua'i.
Anyone with information can call Blankenfeld at 373-4461.
MANOA
Board chairman resigning today
Tom Heinrich, chairman of the Manoa Neighborhood Board, will resign at the board's monthly meeting at 7 p.m. today in the Noelani Elementary School cafeteria.
Heinrich said he was appointed by the City Council to the Neighborhood Commission, which oversees the boards; he said it would be a conflict of interest to remain on the board and be a commission member.
Heinrich was first elected to the board in 1993 and, in that period, has been chairman for eight years.
KAUA'I
Box jellyfish on southern shores
PO'IPU, Kaua'i — Stinging box jellyfish started washing ashore on South Kaua'i beaches yesterday, particularly at the Po'ipu Beach area.
The animals can cause painful welts, and some people may have allergic reactions to the stings. Lifeguards are posting signs warning of the threat, according to county Ocean Safety Bureau supervisor Kaleo Hookano.
