HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Bridge work means detours
Advertiser Staff
A new detour will open today as the state begins work to replace the Kokololio Bridge in Hau'ula.
The Kahuku-bound lane along Kamehameha Highway will be closed at 8:30 a.m. to complete the installation of safety devices for the traffic rerouting, according to the state Department of Transportation.
The $5.5 million yearlong project includes widening the bridge, 8-foot shoulders and a multiuse protected path. The original bridge was built in 1932. The construction area includes the site of two fatal crashes that killed four teenagers on the same day last month.
MAN ARRESTED IN ALLEGED ASSAULT
A 27-year-old Hau'ula man was arrested yesterday for allegedly trying to drown a man who was bodysurfing at a beach in Hau'ula on Sunday.
The bodysurfer, 19, told police the other man approached and assaulted him while both of them were still in the water and then tried to hold him under water. The man who filed the report said he managed to break free and escaped further injury. Police were called but the alleged assailant left before they arrived.
Police found the man at his home yesterday and arrested him on suspicion of attempted second-degree murder.
BIG ISLAND
TRUCK ACCIDENT VICTIM IDENTIFIED
Police yesterday identified the 68-year-old man who died Sunday from injuries suffered in a pickup truck crash as Martin Knowlton of Hawaiian Ocean View Estates.
Knowlton was a passenger in the 1979 Chevrolet pickup that ran off the right side of the road, struck a culvert and overturned on the Hawai'i Belt Road (Route 11) near the 54-mile marker in Ka'u at 11:25 a.m. on Saturday. Knowlton, who was ejected from the truck, died Sunday at 3:46 a.m. at Ka'u Hospital.
The truck's driver, a 64-year-old man, was treated for injuries at Ka'u Hospital and released.
The death is the Big Island's 27th traffic fatality this year, compared with 28 on the same date last year.
WAIMALU
MEETING TONIGHT ON SEWER PROJECT
The city's Department of Design and Construction and its consultant, Hawaii Pacific Engineers Inc., will hold an informational meeting tonight about the planned Waimalu sewer rehabilitation and reconstruction project.
The meeting at Waimalu Elementary School starts at 7 p.m. The project involves installing about 7,000 feet of 8-inch to 16-inch diameter replacement sewer lines, ranging from 4 feet to 13 feet in depth, and other sewer repair work to prevent sewage spills and reduce maintenance requirements.
AROUND THE STATE
MENOR 9TH IN FUNDRAISING
State Sen. Ron Menor, one of a dozen 2nd Congressional District candidates, raised $30,640 since the beginning of July according to his pre-primary campaign finance report.
Attorney Joe Zuiker reported that he raised $1,680 during the same period.
Menor, the last of the prominent candidates to file his report with the Federal Election Commission, ranks ninth in fundraising for the period among those seeking to fill U.S. Rep. Ed Case's seat.
Zuiker came in last, with businessman Hanalei Aipoa-lani's report still unfiled as of yesterday afternoon.
KAUA'I
SCIENCE SHOW OPEN TO PUBLIC
LIHU'E — A presentation of the General Atomics Science Show, "Motion and Planetary Science," which will be presented to some 2,300 Kaua'i fourth-, sixth- and eighth-graders today and tomorrow, will be open free to the public at 7 tonight at the Kaua'i War Memorial Convention Hall.
Officials with General Atomics and the Princeton University Plasma Physics Lab will host the event. The program is co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, and local arrangements are by the Kaua'i Science and Technology Education Partnership.
