Donors give $300,000 more to cultural center
In a little more than a week, the Japanese Cultural Center has received an additional $300,000 in donations and pledges to help stave off foreclosure.A total of $1.8 million has been raised to pay off a $9 million debt the center owes four banks.
Colbert Matsumoto, chairman of the Committee to Save the Center said, "We are highly gratified by the response to our appeal for donations."
The center has until Dec. 31 to raise the $9 million.
Two informational meetings will be held to answer questions about the fund-raising campaign and to listen to suggestions from the public on how improvements can be made at the center.
Both meetings will be held in the Manoa Grand Ballroom of the center at 2454 S. Beretania St., 9 a.m. to noon Saturday and 6 to 9 p.m. Monday.
Missile intercept test is planned off Kauai
The military plans to fire a dummy missile from Kauai today and attempt to intercept it with a missile fired from a ship miles away at sea, the first in a series testing the Pentagon's plans to shield America from short- and medium-range missiles.The dummy missile is scheduled to be launched from the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands. The interceptor missile will launch from the USS Lake Erie and attempt to strike the dummy missile, Chris Taylor, spokesman for the military's Missile Defense Agency, said yesterday.
"We're going to try and catch it in the ascent phase," Taylor said. "We've got to identify it sooner and shoot the missile sooner."
Panel backs off plans to take over 2 aquifers
WAILUKU >> A state commission decided yesterday against taking over the management of two major water sources on Maui.But in imposing a number of conditions upon Maui County officials, the state Commission on Water Resource Management did maintain the threat of a management takeover of the Iao and Waihee aquifers.
The conditions include the development of a water model as a management tool within 60 days and maintaining an annual pumping average of less than 18 million gallons of water a day at Iao.
Maui Meadows homeowners had asked the state to take over management of the aquifers and charged that county water officials were overpumping the water sources and increasing the salinity.
George Tengan, the county deputy director of water, said the pumping was up to 20 million gallons of water a day at Iao in the mid-1990s but has been lowered to 17 million gallons a day, following the development of new wells at Waihee.
Council reorganization makes Asing chairman
LIHUE >> Kaipo Asing, the senior member of the Kauai County Council, was unanimously elected Council chairman at an organization meeting of new members.Former Mayor JoAnn Yukimura, who had been expected to seek the top post, instead strongly endorsed Asing. In return she will become chairwoman of the Council Planning Committee, which will have a major voice in the development of the island. As mayor from 1988 to 1994, Yukimura earned a reputation as an opponent of developers.
Asing has served 20 of the last 22 years on the County Council, but has never before sought the chairmanship. Both the Council and the new Mayor, Bryan Baptiste, will be sworn in on Dec. 2.
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Linda Beechinor, Hawaii Pacific University faculty member and owner of a nurse recruiting and consulting company, has been appointed to the American Nurses Association board of directors. [Taking Notice]
She is past president of the Hawaii Nurses Association and has completed a four-year term as an elected member to the ANA Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics.
>> Kamakura Corp. Inc., an international high-tech company, has been named the 2002 Governor's Exporter of the Year. Other companies honored for outstanding achievements in exporting state products and services include Aquatic Farms Ltd., Big Island Abalone Corp., Hawaii Tropical Fruit Cooperative Inc., Hawaii Agriculture Research Center and Hong Kong Business Association of Hawaii.
>> Network Enterprises Inc. in Mapunapuna has been selected by the U.S. Department of Labor to receive an exemplary service provider award in recognition of its outstanding work in the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program. NEI is a nonprofit community rehabilitation program that assists disadvantaged people by training and placing them in jobs.
>> The Bond Memorial Public Library on the Big Island has been awarded a matching grant of $1,050 from the Libri Foundation, a national nonprofit organization that donates children's books to small, rural public libraries. The foundation matches funds raised by local groups at a 2-1 ratio to help library buy books.
The foundation also gave $700 to the Kohala High School, which raised $350 on its own.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
LEEWARD OAHU
Police helicopter helps locate fleeing suspect
The police helicopter helped track down at least one of two suspects who fled from the Goodyear Auto Service Center in Waianae on Tuesday without paying for a set of custom rims and tires, police said.The suspects went to the service center in Waianae Mall about 2:45 p.m., police said. The rims and tires are valued at $3,500. The helicopter was in the area at the time and was able to guide officers on the ground to where the suspects had fled.
Police arrested a 25-year-old Makaha man on Lualualei Homestead Road, but the second suspect was able to flee into some brush. Police have a tentative identification of him, however.
HONOLULU
Man allegedly uses ax to break into house
Police arrested a 31-year-old man yesterday who allegedly used an ax to break into a woman's Moiliili house about 7:30 a.m.The 44-year-old woman had secretly moved to her new home to avoid the man, who has no local address, police said. Police arrested the man on several charges.
WINDWARD OAHU
Nude man found lying in back of pickup truck
A Kaneohe woman found a nude man lying in the bed of her truck yesterday, police said.The woman heard dogs barking and checked around her home and discovered the man sleeping in her pickup truck, police said.
The man fled the scene.
Police are classifying the case as a fourth-degree sexual assault case.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Teen dies of injuries from motorcycle crash
WAILUKU >> A 15-year-old Maui boy died yesterday morning at Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu from injuries he sustained after the motorcycle he was driving crashed into a pickup truck in Makawao about 9:15 Tuesday morning.Police said Greyson Kaehuaea was not wearing a helmet and did not have a motorcycle driver's license.
