Posted on: Sunday, June 19, 2005
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
School's sewage system upgraded
Advertiser Staff
Kahalu'u Elementary School will get a new sewage disposal system to replace the existing cesspools, which overflowed in March and created a public health hazard.
The school had to close for a few days while work crews cleaned the spillover and sanitized the area.
The $292,000 project is expected to be completed early in 2007.
Ten world-class children's choruses will perform at the fifth annual Pacific Rim Children's Chorus Festival from July 12 to 20, giving families in Hawai'i the opportunity to learn more about the cultures and music of Pacific Rim countries.
Children will participate in music, dances, instrument-making, language and storytelling at the Brigham Young University-Hawai'i campus and the Polynesian Cultural Center.
The participants include the Pacific Rim Youth Chorus, Keiki Halau Hula Olana, Kenny Endo's Taiko Center of the Pacific Youth Group, Filipino Tinikling Dancers, Korean folk dancing and the Langley Uku-lele Ensemble from British Columbia.
The festival will culminate in two free concerts open to the public.
The first will be July 16 at the Cannon Activities Center at BYUH at 7 p.m.
The second will be at the Blaisdell Concert Hall at 4 p.m. Tickets are available through the box office at 591-2211.
Kai Malu Wailea LLC has offered to donate more than $100,000 for repairs at Kihei Elementary School.
The developer of the Kai Malu Wailea community will work with Hawaii 3R's to install deadbolt locks on doors in the main classroom building, purchase and install new air-conditioners in all the portable classrooms, and paint the exteriors of as many school buildings as possible.
Hawai'i 3R's received a grant for $66,000 to contribute to the repairs.
The public is invited to reminisce and talk story at the Kaimuki Public Library's 40th birthday celebration from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. next Sunday at the library, 1041 Koko Head Ave.
The free event will feature entertainment from Frank DeLima and Jerry Santos as well as door prizes from Kaimuki merchants.
For information, call Berry Andelin or Daniel Roffman at 733-8422 or 733-8424.
Wilma Mankiller, former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, will speak at Native Winds Gift Gallery and Craft Supply from 1 to 3 p.m. next Sunday.
Mankiller will discuss her new book, "Every day is a good day: Reflections by contemporary indigenous women."
Members of the local American Indian community will honor Mankiller with a Hawaiian chant and American Indian hand drum songs.
The public is invited. Call Native Winds at 734-8018 for information.
Representatives of Native Hawaiian organizations traveled to New York to participate with other Pacific island delegates at the fourth annual Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
The Koani Foundation, a Kaua'i-based organization, was among the groups involved in discussing human rights, and environmental, economic and social issues at the international forum, which adjourned Friday.
The theme of this year's forum was the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, and universal primary education for indigenous peoples.
Hawai'i, Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Rapa Nui (Easter Island) delegates represented Polynesia; other Pacific region participants came from Australia, Fiji, Papua, Melanesia and Micronesia.
The forum was established in 2000 at the recommendation of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
For information, contact the Koani Foundation at (808) 822-7643 or freehawaii@earthlink.net.
Big Island police are asking for the public's assistance in capturing a thief or thieves after a large painting was stolen from an art gallery in Kailua-Kona.
The painting was stolen between 9:30 p.m.Wednesday and 9 a.m. Thursday from a display area outside Collectors Fine Art of Hawaii on Ali'i Drive.
Titled "Night After II," the 42-inch-by-42-inch painting is valued at $2,850. It shows a woman in a red dress putting on a red shoe. A man is asleep on a bed in the background. The painting has a black backdrop and a pewter frame.
Anyone with information about the theft or the identity of the thieves is asked to call Officer Edwin Buyten of the Kona Patrol at (808) 326-4646 or the police non-emergency number at (808) 935-3311.
Those who wish to remain anonymous may call Crime- Stoppers in Hilo at (808) 961-8300 or in Kona at (808) 329-8181. All CrimeStoppers information is kept strictly confidential.
Chorus festival in July at BYUH
Kihei elementary repairs sponsored
Talk story at Kaimuki library
Cherokee leader to discuss book
Forum addresses indigenous issues
Painting stolen from art gallery
