HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Driver identified in road suicide
Advertiser Staff
Big Island police have identified a man involved in an attempted murder and suicide in Puna last month as Christopher Cline, 45, of Glenwood.
On May 25, Puna patrol officers arrived at a two-car crash on Volcano Highway near the Lehuanani subdivision in Glenwood and found paramedics treating a 39-year-old woman who was injured in the crash. Officers also found a man lying on the road with a gunshot wound to the head.
Witnesses told police that Cline and the woman had stopped on the shoulder of the Volcano-bound lane of the road, and that the two were involved in a domestic dispute until the woman tried to drive away toward Kea'au.
Cline reportedly rammed his car into the woman's vehicle, got out of his car and shot himself in the head. He was pronounced dead at Hilo Medical Center.
The woman was flown to The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu for treatment, and has since been released from the hospital, police said.
Police said detectives have closed the case with no prosecution.
HONOKAI HALE
UTILITY WORK TO CLOSE LANE
Beginning today, one lane of traffic will be closed near the intersection of Farrington Highway and Ko'io Drive from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Hawaiian Electric Co. will be installing underground utility lines to serve the Ko Olina area. Over the next two weeks, construction will be moving across the highway, but only one lane of traffic will be closed at a time.
There is no weekend or holiday work planned, and construction is scheduled to end June 23.
KALIHI
SUSPECT CHARGED IN EXPOSURE CASE
Police yesterday charged a 22-year-old Kalihi man with three counts of fourth-degree sexual assault for allegedly exposing himself to three girls Tuesday in Kalihi.
Brandon Merry was being held in lieu of $6,000 bail.
Two of the girls are 13 years old and one is 11, police said.
Police said Merry was arrested on May 18 for a similar misdemeanor offense in Salt Lake.
MOLOKA'I
GIRL DEAD, 2 HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT
A 17-year-old girl was killed and two men critically injured in a single-car crash early yesterday on Moloka'i's Maunaloa Highway, east of the intersection with Pu'upe'elua Avenue.
Teri Waimarie Maxwell was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said she was a rear-seat passenger in a car that went off the highway and crashed into utility poles. The crash was reported to police at 12:18 a.m.
The driver of the car, 19, and the front-seat passenger, 20, were taken to Moloka'i General Hospital in critical condition. Both were later medevaced to The Queen's Medical Center.
It was the first fatal traffic accident on Moloka'i this year.
PEARL CITY
ILLUSTRATOR OFFERS READING MONDAY
Pearl City Public Library will feature illustrator and cartoonist Jeff Langcaon in a free 45-minute presentation Monday to kick off its 2006 children's summer reading program. The Kamehameha Day presentation begins at 1:30 p.m.
Langcaon will read aloud from his book, "Grandpa's Magic Banyan Tree." He will also do a drawing demonstration.
The program is suitable for children 3 and older.
Pearl City Public Library is at 1138 Waimano Home Road.
HONOLULU
HANNEMANN GOES ON NATIONAL BOARD
Mayor Mufi Hannemann has been selected to the Advisory Board of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, elected by his peers at the 74th annual meeting of the conference in Las Vegas.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors is a nonpartisan national organization whose members are the mayors of America's 1,183 cities with populations of 30,000 or more.
Hannemann was elected to one of nine seats open on the 30-member advisory board. He is the first mayor from Hawai'i to hold a national leadership position with the U.S. Conference of Mayors since thenHonolulu Mayor Neal Blaisdell served as the organization's president in 1965-66.
Hannemann is also chairman of the conference's newly formed Community Trees Task Force.
STATEWIDE
LUNG ASSOCIATION SEEKS VOLUNTEERS
The American Lung Association of Hawai'i is accepting applications for participants and volunteers for its 2006 Asthma Sports Day Camps across the Islands.
The three-day clinics are for children ages 5-12 who will learn how to manage asthma while taking part in team sports and other recreational activities. A $25 registration covers all activities, lunches, refreshments and gifts.
The Lung Association seeks 250 volunteers statewide to assist with the camps, which will serve 155 children.
Here are camp dates, locations and contact phone numbers.
WAIPAHU
TREE-PLANTING CENTENNIAL EVENT
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the first arrival of Filipinos in Hawai'i, the Filipino Centennial Celebration Commission will plant a Narra tree, the national tree of the Philippines, tomorrow at August Ahrens Elementary School.
The planting, being done in conjunction with the University of the Philippines Alumni Association-Hawai'i and Trees of Hawaii, will take place at 10 a.m. at the school, located at 97-1170 Waipahu St.
For more information, visit www.filipinosinhawaii100.org or call (808) 835-3100.
MANOA
3 AT UH RECEIVE $407,650 GRANT
Dr. Judith Olson, researcher for the Curriculum Research & Development Group at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa, along with Dr. Melfried Olson and Claire Okazaki, has been awarded a $407,650 research grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Education and Human Resources.
Their proposal is "The Role of Gender in Language Used by Children and Parents Working on Mathematical Tasks."
