Posted on: Tuesday, March 22, 2005
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Man's body found in park
Advertiser Staff
Police opened a second-degree murder investigation after the body of a man was found in a park in Waikele early yesterday.
The man, in his 50s and apparently homeless, was discovered in a restroom at a park on Lumiaina Street at about 7 a.m.
Park employees told police they found the body as they arrived for work.
Police said the man had head injuries, but said an autopsy will be done to determine the cause of death.
The name of the man, who police said occasionally sleeps in the park, was not released last night.
The Hawai'i Community Development Authority will conduct a community workshop on the draft Kalaeloa strategic plan from 7 to 9 p.m. April 6 at the Kapolei Middle School cafeteria, 91-5335 Kapolei Parkway.
HCDA is the state agency responsible for planning and developing Kalaeloa's 3,687 acres.
The public is invited to share ideas for the long-range vision for Kalaeloa at the workshop.
For a copy of the strategic plan or for more information on the workshop, call HCDA at 587-2870 or visit www.hcdaweb.org.
The Waipahu Community Association's fourth annual Easter Eggstravaganza will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at August Ahrens Elementary School, at Waipahu and Mahoe streets.
Activities include an egg hunt, costume contest and photos of keiki with the Easter Bunny. The free event is organized by the Waipahu Community Association, Leeward YMCA, New Hope Leeward, Weed & Seed, Honolulu police, McDonald's and 'Olelo. Call 677-6939.
The birthday of Prince Kuhio will be commemorated with a program of free entertainment starting at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Radisson Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel.
The program will begin in the hotel lobby alcove with a ho'okupu (offering) ceremony by kumu hula Blaine Ki'a.
Music by the Prince Kuhio Hawaiian Civic Club Choir is set for 12:30 p.m. and 1:20 p.m. on the lobby level.
Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana'ole was born in 1871 on Kaua'i and was adopted by Queen Kapi'olani and King Kalakaua. After the overthrow of the monarchy and a brief jail term as a traitor to the newly-declared Republic of Hawai'i, Prince Kuhio went into self-imposed exile.
He returned to Hawai'i to accept the Republican Party's nomination for a congressional post when he was 29, serving as territorial delegate to Congress from 1903 to 1921.
Hawai'i is the second stop on polio survivor Bob Mutchler's quest to ride a motorcycle through 50 U.S. state capitals and 10 Canadian provinces by June 14 to raise awareness for Rotary International's PolioPlus program.
Mutchler, a California resident who owns a piano-tuning and restoration business, will do a 115-mile "poker run" Saturday starting at Harley-Davidson's Cycle City, 600 Pu'uloa Road, at 10 a.m. A "poker run" is a biker's game in which a playing card is handed out at the start and finish lines of the run and at three other designated stops. Prizes will be awarded for best and worst hands.
The charity ride is open to all forms of transportation. A $10 donation is welcome.
Mutchler's 18,000-mile odyssey began in Sacramento, Calif. He did rides earlier on the Big Island, Maui and Kaua'i.
Mutchler was diagnosed with polio when he was 9 months old and spent three years in an iron lung.
A 24-year-old Kalihi man was arrested Sunday night after he tried to flee from officers while driving a stolen car, police said.
At 10:31 p.m., patrol officers responded to a call of loud noise coming from the rear of Wilson Elementary School.
Officers arrived to find a 24-year-old man sitting in a car with a woman. A check of the vehicle revealed that it was stolen, police said.
As the officers told the man to get out of the car, he instead reversed out of the parking lot, hitting one of the officers' arms in the process, police said.
The man then hit a parked car on King Street and crashed into a concrete wall.
The man jumped out of the car and tried to run, but the officers caught him and arrested him on suspicion of car theft, failing to render aid and fleeing the scene of an accident.
LIHU'E, Kaua'i — Police in an investigation with the U.S. Postal Service arrested the managing director of Kaua'i's public-access cable TV agency on a charge of commercial promotion of marijuana.
J Robertson, 53, has headed Ho'ike for four years. He was arrested March 15.
An investigator said postal authorities intercepted a 10-pound shipment of marijuana coming through the mail. They said Robertson, who lives in 'Oma'o, was not the addressee of the package, but that he was identified as a suspect during the investigation.
Two other subjects were also arrested and charged. Kaua'i police vice squad officers would not identify them. Robertson, who is free on bail, could not be reached for comment.
Draft Kalaeloa plan at workshop
Keiki invited to Eggstravaganza
Prince Kuhio birthday plans
'Poker run' motors into town
Car-theft suspect fails in escape bid
Ho'ike head held on drug charge
