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Youth enrolled in the Pakolea program aren't allowed to participate in sports unless they do their homework and attend school regularly. Director Larry Sweets says sports are used as an incentive to keep kids in school.
At the settlement's learning center, students can get help with their studies and earn awards for doing well.
Angel Hill, 16, is among those who have benefited, saying he has learned good study habits from the program.
The neutral group - which has assisted in Hawaii elections for many years - today said it will monitor the inventory and tabulation of the 85,000 mail-in ballots to ensure a credible, verifiable vote.
The mail-in vote asks registered Hawaiians whether they should elect delegates to discuss sovereignty.
The last wave of ballots was sent last Friday. Registered voters who have not received their ballots by Aug. 1 should call the council at 587-2834. The deadline to return them is Aug. 15.
The union also backed the successful Harris bid for mayor in 1994, the same year it backed Frank Fasi's unsuccessful run for governor.
Harris received the formal endorsement yesterday at Hilton Hawaiian Village, where he addressed the 1996 Biennial Convention of the Hawaii Carpenters Union.
Roman Perez of Bannister Street is being held in lieu of $275,000 bail in the incident, in which he shot his estranged wife and fired at others trying to help her.
His 31-year-old wife, Nova Perez, shot once in the lower back, was in fair condition at Queen's Hospital, police said.
Perez allegedly shot at his wife as she fled from him on South Street toward a gas station. He also allegedly fired at others who were trying to help the woman; police said six shots total were fired. Police also Nova Perez was apparently going to leave her husband of nine years.
District Judge Karen Ahn confirmed bail at $275,000. Perez was barefoot, and wore shorts and a dark blue shirt at his court appearance.
He has several prior convictions, including the 1970 rape of a minor.
There appears to be no connection between the owners of the vehicles, fire investigators said.
Two of the vehicles, a van and a pickup truck, were set on fire at about the same time Friday. Police said the van sustained about $5,000 damage.
While firefighters were trying to put out the van fire on the second floor of the lot at 7:40 p.m., a Puck's Alley employee discovered a fire in the bed of the pickup truck parked on the ground floor and put it out.
On Saturday at 11 p.m., a 1992 Honda Prelude was set on fire from the inside after its rear window was broken. That fire also took place on the second parking level. Damage was estimated at $11,000.
A Jeep Cherokee was burned at the same location earlier this month, fire investigators said.
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