Posted on: Monday, January 24, 2005
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
High surf forecast for all islands
Advertiser Staff
The National Weather Service issued a high-surf warning for all islands last night in anticipation of a large west-northwest swell that will begin arriving this afternoon and move down the island chain through Wednesday.
Surf along O'ahu's north shore was forecast for 6 to 10 feet today, increasing to 12 to 18 feet tonight and peaking at 20 to 25 feet tomorrow.
The Leeward Coast is expected to get waves of 4 to 6 feet today, increasing to 8 to 12 feet tonight and reaching 12 to 18 feet tomorrow.
Lead forecaster Hans Rosendal said the storm front also will bring showers and light winds over O'ahu tomorrow and Wednesday.
A woman was seriously injured last night when the sport utility vehicle she was driving hit a tree and a concrete wall off Makakilo Drive. A male passenger was not seriously hurt.
Police said a Chevy Blazer was traveling downhill at about 9:30 p.m. when it veered right, glanced off a large tree and crashed into a concrete-block wall near the intersection of Nohohale Street.
Rescue personnel used the Jaws of Life to free the woman. Police said the male passenger was able to go home with family members.
The city medical examiner's office said it is investigating the deaths of two Honolulu men as possible drug overdoses, after they were found unconscious in a Nu'uanu home early yesterday.
At 12:10 a.m. yesterday, police and paramedics responded to a call at a Namu'u Street residence from a man who said he found his two cousins unconscious in the home after a night of partying, police said.
The caller, a 50-year-old Honolulu man, told police that his cousins, ages 55 and 51, had each drank a lot of beer and consumed a combination of illicit drugs, police said.
Both men were taken to The Queen's Medical Center, where they died.
Police arrested a 48-year-old Kailua apartment manager Saturday after a tenant complained that she was choked and threatened with a shotgun, police said.
The tenant, 44, told police that she got into an argument with her apartment building's manager at 11 p.m. Saturday. She said the argument escalated and that the manager choked her, police said.
The woman said she ran to her apartment and that the manager followed with a shotgun, entered the apartment and threatened the woman and her boyfriend, police said.
Kailua patrol officers arrested the man for investigation of first-degree terroristic threatening and third-degree assault.
Dr. Reid Ikeda will talk about how to keep one's asthma under control in a community health lecture Wednesday at The Queen's Medical Center.
The talk begins at 6 p.m. at the Queen's Conference Center auditorium.
Ikeda will talk about what happens to a person's lungs when asthma flares up, and discuss treatment guidelines, medication and self-monitoring to keep the condition under control.
Reservations are required. Call 537-7177.
The Coast Guard Foundation is hosting its third annual Tribute to the Coast Guard in Hawai'i dinner.
The event, March 18 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, benefits the women and men of the Coast Guard.
Projects paid for by the foundation include: exercise and recreational equipment for 19 Hawai'i-based cutters and bases; upgrades to the Coast Guard's Honolulu ball field; educational grants to cover textbooks and fees for enlisted personnel continuing their education; four-year scholarships for college students with an enlisted parent based in Hawai'i; and phone cards for more than 30,000 enlisted people.
The 7:30 p.m. dinner in the Tapa Ballroom will be preceded by a 6 p.m. reception and silent auction.
Tables may be sponsored for $2,000, $5,000, $10,000 and $15,000. The keynote speaker will be former Coast Guard commandant and outgoing deputy secretary of homeland security Adm. James M. Loy.
For more information on the dinner, call 589-2407.
AARP leader Marie Smith was back home on Maui over the weekend, speaking out against a proposed overhaul of Social Security.
Smith left the Valley Island in 2003 to serve as president of the organization formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons.
She and other AARP officials spoke at a community forum Saturday, opposing the privatization of Social Security.
"The promise of Social Security has endured for 70 years, and I don't believe we should put an expiration date on it now," Smith said.
President Bush's proposal to substantially overhaul Social Security by creating private investment accounts has run into opposition from Smith's group, Democrats and even some Republicans.
Smith dismissed the notion that Social Security is in immediate danger of going broke. Without any changes to the system, Social Security will be able to pay 100 percent of benefits well into 2040, she said.
The last commander of the USS Missouri and crewmen who served aboard the battleship in World War II, the Korean War and Operation Desert Storm will be among the subjects of a new documentary about the Mighty Mo.
"The Three Wars of the Battleship Missouri" premieres Friday at 3 p.m. Hawai'i time on The History Channel.
Produced by Lou Reda, the hourlong documentary features sailors who witnessed Japan's surrender aboard the ship, and an interview with Capt. Albert Lee Kaiss, who served as the ship's last commander.
The Missouri was the last U.S. battleship built, and was launched on Jan. 29, 1944. The ship served through the spring of 1992, and is on display in Pearl Harbor, supported by the USS Missouri Memorial Association.
For more information about the Battleship Missouri Memorial, visit www.ussmissouri.org or call 423-2263.
Woman hurt insingle-car crash
Drugs suspected in two deaths
Man held after alleged threats
Lecture covers asthma control
Dinner tribute to Coast Guard
AARP chief talks on Social Security
USS Missouri film airs Friday
