Posted on: Sunday, July 3, 2005
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Twilight air show planned over bay
Advertiser Staff
Independence Day events in Kailua will include a half-hour twilight air show over Kailua Bay, the sixth such event in as many years.
Former Air Force officer Hank Bruckner and former Air National Guard pilot Clint Churchill will conduct the show, which begins at 6 p.m. and is best viewed from Kailua Beach Park.
Bruckner will fly a French- built CAP 10C in maneuvers that include an avalanche — a loop with a snap roll on top — and a rolling turn.
Churchill will fly a German-built Extra 300L in a lumcevak — tumbling the plane end over end — and the knife edge spin, in which the plane moves nose over tail with the wings pointing up and down.
Bruckner is president of Kaimana Aviation Inc. and president of the General Aviation Council of Hawaii.
Churchill is president of Aeroflight, Inc. and president of the Pacific Aviation Museum at Pearl Harbor.
An O'ahu woman was in critical condition yesterday after losing control of her SUV on Farrington Highway.
The 25-year-old woman was driving east near Satellite Tracking Road at about 6:15 a.m. when she lost control of her 2002 Dodge Durango.
The SUV rolled.
The woman and two male passengers, 19 and 17, were taken to The Queen's Medical Center by ambulance.
The woman was in critical condition. The passengers sustained minor injuries.
Police said they believe the woman was speeding.
Hawaiian Electric Co. would like to relocate overhead transmission lines near Kokololio Beach Park, also known as Kakela Beach Park. Residents of Hau'ula and La'ie will have an opportunity to express their opinions about HECO's intent at a public hearing to be held before the Public Utilities Commission at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Hau'ula Elementary School cafeteria.
The purpose of the relocation project is to accommodate the State Department of Transportation's plan to widen Kokololio Bridge. The project will cost an estimated $506,581. DOT will contribute $235,284.
Individuals or organizations wishing to testify may do so orally or in writing. Written comments to the PUC and Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Division of Consumer Advocacy also can be submitted at any time following the hearing. Further information is available at www.hawaii.gov/dcca/dca.
Lt. Glenn Cuomo of the Maui Police Department's Criminal Investigation Division said Lee-Ann Lauaki was last seen May 19 in Wailuku. The woman, who also uses the name Lee-Ann Ho'opi'i, has no permanent address and is known to frequent Pi'ihana Terrace and the Kahului Harbor breakwater, Cuomo said.
She is 5 feet 5, weighs 170 pounds and has brown eyes and hair. Call the police nonemergency number at (808) 244-6400.
College students will be able to study weather as it happens as part of a new online course in the science of meteorology to be offered this fall through Windward Community College.
The online course — "Meteorology 101, Introduction to Meteorology" — was developed by the American Meteorological Society with funding from the National Science Foundation and will use the latest weather data, maps, forecasts and satellite and radar imagery over the Internet.
Deadline for enrollment applications to WCC is Aug. 1. Enrolled students may register for classes online at myuhportal.Hawaii.edu or call 235-7413.
About 120 of Hawai'i's newest citizens will be sworn in at 8:45 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. Wednesday at U.S. District Court, part of a nationwide series of naturalization ceremonies around the Independence Day holidays.
Federal Magistrate Leslie Kobayashi will preside as judge over the Honolulu ceremonies, in Courtroom 5.
More than 15,000 new citizens will be sworn in during ceremonies across the country.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) also has produced a video highlighting the privileges and responsibilities associated with taking the Oath of Allegiance. The agency will unveil this video nationwide during the ceremonies.
Each year, USCIS welcomes more than 450,000 citizens during naturalization ceremonies across the United States. Included are more than 10,000 service members who have naturalized through an expedited process since the beginning of the war on terrorism.
Call (800) 375-5283 or visit www.uscis.gov.
Three injured in SUV rollover
HECO seeking to relocate line
Woman, 31, seen last on May 19
WAILUKU, Maui — The family of a missing 31-year-old woman is concerned about her safety and has asked Maui police to help find her.
Lee-Ann Lauaki
Weather studied at Windward CC
New U.S. citizens to be sworn in
