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The measure is similar to a bill that was sent back to committee last month. That bill, however, drew opposition after it was amended to include restaurants.
At a news conference yesterday, Council members John Henry Felix and Mufi Hannemann said they want to tackle the workplace smoking issue one step at a time.
It's a departure for Hannemann, who had insisted previously on an all-or-nothing approach to workplace smoking.
The two Council members said that when the general workplace measure is approved, they will hold workshops related to restaurant and bar smoking before introducing legislation addressing restaurants and bars only.
The first workshop would focus on the effectiveness of filtration systems whose makers claim can rid toxins from enclosed areas.
Only members Duke Bainum, John DeSoto and Rene Mansho did not sign the bill. Bainum, a physician, is expected to endorse the measure but was out of town yesterday.
The new bill should also pacify Mayor Jeremy Harris, who vowed to veto anti-smoking legislation not favorable to business interests.
The state library system turned over records of nonpaying patrons to Kailua-based MedCAH Inc. during the weekend, but the company won't take action until it completes a test of the computerized record-keeping system, said John Penebacker, assistant to State Librarian Bart Kane.
The library system referred the accounts of patrons who have $10 or more in fines for materials that are more than 90 days overdue. Administrators are also seeking approval from the Legislature to assess an additional $10 late fee.
The state hopes to collect more than $3 million in outstanding fines.
The destroyers Harbin and Zhuhai and oiler Nancang will arrive here at 10 a.m. Sunday for four days of ship visits, sports activities and band concerts. On Tuesday a Chinese contingent will lay a wreath at the USS Arizona Memorial. The vessels will leave Pearl Harbor for San Diego on March 13, arrive there March 21 and leave four days later.
Only one other Chinese vessel has visited American waters since the Communists took over in 1949. That occurred in April 1989 when the Zheng He - a training ship - pulled into Pearl Harbor.
Viliami Aholelei, 33, was charged and is being held on $150,000 bail.He allegedly sought out his partner, 38, at the Waipahu Recreation Center on Feb. 26 and forced him at gunpoint into his car.
He drove to Waipio Point Access Road and ordered his partner to get out because he was going to kill him, police said. The older man managed to wrest the pellet gun away and summon help from a nearby home. The suspect fled before officers arrived.
The couple argued at their Waikalani Place apartment just before 2 a.m. yesterday after he allegedly came home drunk, police said. She called police after he allegedly slapped her around. When officers arrived, she said he also had threatened to kill her.
Bail for Frank Hiroki, 58, charged with assault yesterday, was set at $11,000.
Police said a woman on a bus saw Hiroki hit another passenger with the pipe. When the suspect got off, the witness followed and confronted him at King and Coolidge streets at about 5:05 p.m. She received cuts and bruises when he also struck her with the pipe, police said.
Police arrived and arrested the man when the victim pointed him out nearby.
Police said Ollie L. Myrick, 29, of Hobron Lane, went to District Court yesterday morning for arraignment on charges of burglary and terroristic threatening after failing to post $100,000 bail.
He and another man are accused of breaking into a Kinau Street apartment Sunday. The other man, also a fellow teammate on the 1990 University of Hawaii team, was released with no charges.
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