Posted on: Tuesday, December 19, 2006
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Autopsy today in beach death
Advertiser Staff
HILO — An autopsy is scheduled today on the body of a California man who apparently drowned Sunday at Kehena Beach in Puna. Jonathan Cupp, 45, of Hollywood, was found lifeless in the water at about 2:19 p.m. Sunday.
Rescue personnel from the Fire Department tried to revive Cupp with cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and then took him to Hilo Medical Center.
KAUA'I
MAN WHO DIED IN RESCUE IDENTIFIED
LIHU'E — Police have identified the man who died Sunday while trying to save a 14-year-old Honolulu boy from drowning as Dwayne Trotti, 43, of Killen, Ala.
A retired police officer started CPR on Trotti before emergency crews arrived, but he could not be revived.
O'AHU
TWO TO SPEAK ON IRAQ-WAR STANCE
Army 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, who faces a court-martial for his challenge to the war in Iraq, and Ann Wright, a retired Army colonel who resigned from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2003 to protest the war, will share the stage tonight at the Church of the Crossroads.
Watada will talk about his case and Wright, of Honolulu, will discuss her protest experiences and thoughts on the country's political direction.
Watada's pretrial hearing is set for Jan. 4. The 1996 Kalani High School graduate faces a court-martial early next year on charges of missing a troop movement and conduct unbecoming an officer for comments he made concerning the Bush administration's reasons for going to war in Iraq.
The event begins at 7 p.m.
Information: Ken Akinaka, 221-6204 or worldcantwaithawaii@yahoo.com.
LIBRARIES PRESENT CHRISTMAS SHOW
The Kalihi-Palama and the Salt Lake-Moanalua public libraries will each host a performance of Honolulu Theatre for Youth's "Christmas Talk Story" on Thursday. The performance will be at 10 a.m. at Kalihi-Palama and at 5:30 p.m. at Salt-Lake Moanalua.
The 45-minute performance features original Christmas stories by local writers and live holiday songs.
WAIKIKI
LIFEGUARDS BUSY AIDING SWIMMERS
City lifeguards in Waikiki made plenty of rescues Sunday and yesterday because of unseasonal high winter surf on O'ahu's south shore.
Bryan Cheplic, City Emergency Services spokesman, said lifeguards recorded three rescues and 20 assists Sunday while Ocean Safety Rescue 1 lifeguards on jet-powered watercraft had 50 assists, of which 37 were participants in the annual Hawaiian Christmas Looong Distance Invitational Roughwater Swim event.
Lifeguards made nine rescues yesterday while Ocean Safety Rescue 1 had 10 assists, according to Cheplic.
Correction: Lifeguards assisted 37 participants of the Hawaiian Christmas Looong Distance Invitational Roughwater Swim on Sunday. A previous version of this story named the event incorrectly.
