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Water board urges checking for leaks
The Board of Water Supply is encouraging Oahu residents to take a few minutes to check for leaks in their plumbing during the 11th annual "Detect a Leak Week," which starts Monday.Manager and chief engineer Clifford Jamile said: "Some of our customers spend hundreds of dollars on their water and sewer bills before they realize they have a property leak.
"Leak detection is a sensible way to reduce unnecessary household and business costs," Jamile said.
"More importantly, it helps to preserve our precious drinking water supply."
Thousands of flyers and toilet leak detection dye tablets have been distributed to city and state employees.
Free dye tablets will be available to the public beginning Monday.
From Monday to Friday, single-family homeowners will be able to request a free leak check.
Those interested can call 527-6124 from 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Consumers who would like to conduct their own leak inspection can also call 527-6124 for free publications on water conservation and how to check for leaks.
Jet squadrons to pass through Kaneohe base
Windward residents will see an increase in air activity this weekend and next.Jet aircraft squadrons will make a transit through Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, on their way across the Pacific.
One squadron arrives this afternoon and leaves Monday morning.
Another will set down Friday afternoon and leave the morning of March 11.
Native Alaskan to speak about sovereignty, land
Alaska native Patrick M. Anderson will speak on Alaska natives, land claims settlement and sovereignty Wednesday at the University of Hawaii Center for Hawaiian Studies.Anderson is a member of the Tlingit tribe, descended from the Aleut people of Prince William Sound. He serves on the board of directors of Sealaska Corp., the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Corporation for Southeast Alaska, and is an attorney who has served as a lobbyist for the municipality of Anchorage and as a faculty member at the University of Alaska Southeast.
He will speak at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the center's Papa and Wakea rooms.
For more information call 973-0978.
Expect lane closures in several areas
A 24-hour right-lane closure on Halona Street in Kalihi-Palama from Monday to Sunday will not affect access to H-1, as the entrance to its westbound lanes will remain open.The state advises that H-1 work from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Monday to Thursday will bring lane closures at the Kapiolani interchange and H-1 lane and shoulder closures for drain cleaning work at various locations.
H-1 work from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday will close one lane of Kalanianaole Highway between Ainakoa Avenue and Wailupe Circle for gas line work, and seismic retrofitting will necessitate lane closures in both directions of Harding Avenue from Kapahulu Avenue to 1st Avenue. Motorists will be detoured.
Sidewalk, lane, ramp and shoulder closings between the Pali overpass and Kapiolani interchange are necessary for guardrail work, Americans with Disabilities Act and traffic signal improvements. Also, shoulder and lane closings on H-1 eastbound between Punchbowl and Piikoi streets tomorrow will allow for guardrail work.
The University offramp eastbound will be closed Monday for guardrail work.
There will be lane closures and traffic detours on Lunalilo Street for paving work, and the Lunalilo offramp westbound will be closed for paving work.
Lane closures also will take place on Ward Avenue and Kinau Street for waterline work, which also will mean lane closures on Metcalf Street.
Motorists should anticipate delays or take alternate routes.
Women's group seeks scholarship applicants
The Japanese Women's Society of Honolulu is still soliciting applications for its Year 2001 Academic Scholarship Program. This year, the JWS will be awarding two scholarships, one for $2,500 and one for $1,500, to two graduate students in each of the fields of health care, social work, arts and sciences, with emphasis in gerontology.Criteria for consideration are as follows:
Foreign citizens may apply; however, preference will be given to U.S. citizens.Enrollment in a graduate program at an accredited institution of higher learning in one of the following fields: medicine, nursing, public health, social work or arts and sciences.
Scholarship forms are available at the UH School of Public Health, Office of Financial Aid and Graduate Division; Hawaii Pacific University, Department of Graduate Studies and Office of Financial Aid; Chaminade University, Office of Financial Aid; and the University of Phoenix.
Submit completed applications to: Japanese Women's Society of Honolulu, Scholarship Committee, c/o Shirley M. Miyamoto, 98-1822 Nahele St., Aiea, HI 96701.
Applications must be postmarked no later than March 31. Applicants will be notified in late May. For further information, please contact Shirley M. Miyamoto at 488-2240 or smmiya@aol.com.
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Some events of interest
Police, Fire
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
FBI arrests woman, 54, in crystal meth bust
A 54-year-old woman faces federal charges of possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.The FBI arrested Tuyet Nga Thi Nguyen at 756 University Ave. at 3:55 p.m. Wednesday. The Honolulu Police clandestine drug lab team assisted.
Undercover police had made six purchases of crystal methamphetamine, a total of 24 grams, from the woman, according to an affidavit filed in federal court.
The affidavit also says 30 grams of methamphetamine and $5,700 in cash were seized from the home Wednesday.
The affidavit does not say if the home was used to manufacture drugs, and the FBI would not comment on the case yesterday.
Man, 46, found dead in Waipahu house had suffered heart attack
The medical examiner's office identified the decomposed body of a man found Feb. 21 at a Waipahu house as 46-year-old Roger Takabayashi.Takabayashi suffered a heart attack, according to the medical examiner.
Police found his body after neighbors complained of an odor coming from the house and reported they had not seen him for two weeks.
The following day, Feb. 22, an intentionally set fire gutted the unoccupied house at 94-1240 Kahuaina St.
Teen strikes 30-year-old relative in chest with fishing spear
A 17-year-old boy struck a 30-year-old man in the chest with a three-pronged fishing spear yesterday afternoon in Kalihi, police said.The two relatives, who live in different units at the same address, have an ongoing feud, police said.
The man had called the boy out to fight, and summoned police after receiving minor injuries from the spear.
The 17-year-old was arrested for second-degree assault, but the man refused to prosecute.
Marine accused of peeping into University Ave. bedroom
Police arrested a 22-year-old Kaneohe Marine who was looking into the bedroom window of a 21-year-old woman near University Avenue early this morning.The woman was lying on her bed talking to her boyfriend on the phone when she heard the louvers being opened, police said.
The louvers shattered, and she saw the man looking in.
The woman screamed and her roommate called police.
Police found the man hiding behind brush in the back yard of the Kahuna Lane home.
The woman identified the suspect. Police arrested him at 1:30 a.m. for attempted burglary.
Police later released the man pending further investigation.
McKinley student arrested in shakedown for drugs, cash
A McKinley High School student was arrested yesterday on two counts of kidnapping after he held a fellow student and searched him for drugs and money, police said.The suspect detained his victim for between five and 20 minutes Thursday and yesterday at the school, police said.
The suspect did not injure the other student or steal anything.
Police identify motorcyclist killed in Big Island accident
KAILUA-KONA -- Police have identified a motorcyclist killed yesterday in a three-vehicle accident on Kuakini Highway as Joseph I. Kaipo, 36, of Kailua-Kona.Kaipo was not wearing a helmet, and speed is considered a factor in the accident, police said. Tests to determine whether Kaipo was using alcohol or drugs are pending, they said.
Kaipo's death was the first traffic fatality of the year on the Big Island compared with six at the same time last year.
