Posted on: Tuesday, May 17, 2005
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Man apparently stabbed to death
Advertiser Staff
Police homicide investigators late last night were at the scene of an apparent stabbing death in Kahalu'u.
Police said a man was found unresponsive in a parked pickup truck near 47-031 Okana Road shortly before 9:30 p.m. The man, who apparently had been stabbed, was pronounced dead at the scene.
No arrest had been made as of 10:30 p.m.
The bail for a 20-year-old former 'Aiea dance instructor charged with sexually assaulting four teenage students was reduced yesterday from $150,000 to $100,000.
Circuit Judge Virginia Crandall granted the reduction request by the lawyers for Daniel E. Jones, who is accused of sexually assaulting three 13-year-old girls and a 14-year-old girl between August and March.
Jones had been free on $150,000 bond. He will now only need to post a bond of $100,000.
His trial is scheduled for the week of July 6.
Ken Hockridge of American Medical Response was honored recently by the American Ambulance Association as one of its "everyday heroes."
One hundred "everyday heroes" were recognized by the organization earlier this month at the Omni Shoreham in Washington, D.C. Hockridge has been an emergency medical services professional for more than 25 years.
He volunteers time with the Susan B. Komen Foundation, his church and Special Olympics.
Hockridge has also spearheaded efforts to improve clinical expertise in Hawai'i and is working with American Medical Response's education department to create first responder training courses.
A city government ad campaign by the Honolulu Film Office received a second-place award for excellence in marketing in an international competition.
The award from the Association of Film Commissioners International was presented at the organization's trade show in Los Angeles last month. More than 300 government film offices competed, and Honolulu's was recognized in the category for color or black-and-white ad series/campaign.
The entry included ads for "Fifty First Dates," "Tears of the Sun" and "Lost."
Nanakuli High and Intermediate School's performing arts program will present "On the Radio" at 7 p.m. May 28 and 29 in the school's cafeteria. The show features musical numbers from various radio-station formats, including contemporary, oldies, country and adult standards.
The production will also feature a one-act play called "Wake" by David Widdicombe about a widow who meets a strange girl at her husband's wake.
Adult tickets are $5 advance, $6 at the door. Students with ID are $3 and children younger than 12 accompanied by an adult are free. Tickets may be reserved by calling 668-5823, ext. 351.
Two men, ages 31 and 43, were arrested in Nanakuli yesterday after a police raid of an alleged cockfight.
Police received a call about 9 a.m. from a tipster who said a chicken fight was in progress next to a car on Apu'upu'u Road and that one of the participants had a handgun.
Police arrived at the scene, spoke to a group of men standing next to the car and got consent to search the car.
The search turned up a handgun, a shotgun, drugs and drug paraphernalia.
Aaron Mahi, former bandmaster of the city's Royal Hawaiian Band, will give a free lecture at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Waikiki Community Center, 310 Paoakalani Ave.
Mahi will discuss how Hawaiian values expressed in song helped enhance and protect family life.
For reservations, call Jeff Apaka or Bill Hawkins at 923-1802.
Hawai'i State Veterans Cemetery is slated to receive $751,000 from the state to help repair its deteriorating grounds.
State lawmakers appropriated the money this year to help the 14-year-old, 123-acre graveyard, which two years ago was found to be sinking.
Fifty-thousand dollars of the money will be used to find out if drainage from a stream is causing some of the grave sites at the state's only veterans cemetery on O'ahu to sink.
There are 6,300 people buried at the cemetery, which can hold up to 76,000.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has given $200,000 each to Hawai'i County and the state Department of Land and Natural Resources to redevelop properties that have been designated brownfields.
The two Hawai'i sites are among 302 projects nationwide that got $75.9 million from the EPA to help clean up environmentally contaminated properties.
The DLNR grant covers a site investigation and health-risk assessment for a 45-acre former federal property on Sand Island that now belongs to the state. The state plans to develop an industrial park there.
The state Board of Land and Natural Resources has approved a private firm's proposal to develop and manage Malaekahana State Recreation Area near Kahuku.
Malaekahana Partners LLC was the only organization to qualify to bid on the management proposal.
Craig Chapman, of Lanihuli Community Development Corp., which manages the cabin camping operation at Malaekahana, formed the Partners with Hawaii Yurt Adventures Corp. and the John Hoffee Trust to bid on the proposal.
Malaekahana Partners has proposed to provide nine recreational cabins, 20 Polynesian-style hale, 35 campsites, bed-and-breakfast rentals and five open halau for the cabin camping segment of the park.
Bail reduced in sex-assault case
Group honors paramedic
Film ad campaign wins award
School to perform 'On the Radio'
Cockfight tip leads to two arrests
Mahi to give talk on value of music
$751,000 to aid cemetery repairs
Money to help clean up sites
Firm lands state park project
