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Water main bursts in Wilhelmina Rise

A 6-inch water main ruptured yesterday in Wilhelmina Rise, affecting 25 homes.

A supervisor at the Board of Water Supply said the rupture occurred about 10:40 a.m. at the 3700 block of Sierra Drive between Wilhelmina Rise and Iwi Way.

A water wagon was placed at 3789 Sierra Drive while crew members repaired the main. Repairs were expected to be completed by last night.

Big Isle man awarded in fight for literacy

HILO » Big Island literacy advocate Peter Pauole has received a national award for helping to promote adult literacy, the Computer-Assisted Literacy Center announced.

Pauole, 55, received the award from ProLiteracy America in Oklahoma City last month. The award included travel money for him and $1,000 for books for the literacy center, a private group which operates at the Hilo Public Library.

Pauole had been illiterate all his life due to undiagnosed dyslexia until six years ago, when he began studying reading at the center. He now serves as a project advisor for the center.

Program head Kit Holz said there are an estimated 20,000 people in East Hawaii alone who cannot read a street name on a sign, the amount on a check or instructions on a medicine bottle.

Some are immigrants who have never learned English. Others, like Pauole, suffer from dyslexia, in which their brain jumbles the order of letters in words.

The literacy center once had as many as 60 students per year and a small paid staff, but funding cuts have reduced it to 20 students and an all-volunteer staff, Holz said.

The group is now looking for donations up to $4,000 to match an equal amount promised by program benefactor C.P. Mead of East Hawaii when matching funds are found, Holz said.

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Police, Fire, Courts



By Star-Bulletin staff

CENTRAL OAHU
Suspect arrested in fatal attack with kitchen knife

A 39-year-old man was arrested Saturday in connection with a stabbing in Wahiawa last week.

The suspect, Kerry Sanders, and a 32-year-old man identified as Jonathan Nunes were involved in an argument on a sidewalk fronting 560 California Ave. sometime before 7 p.m. Thursday. Police said Nunes was stabbed with a 10-inch kitchen knife during the argument with the suspect.

Nunes was taken to Wahiawa General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police located Sanders Saturday on Kamehameha Highway and Kilani Avenue in Wahiawa.

Sanders was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder.

LEEWARD OAHU
Farm worker charged in deadly stabbing

A 25-year-old man was charged yesterday after he allegedly stabbed a 42-year-old man to death Friday at Aloun Farms in Kapolei.

Police identified the man as Bailey George Valentine.

Police said Valentine stabbed the victim during an argument at Aloun Farms, where they are both employed. The victim was taken to St. Francis Medical Center-West, where he was pronounced dead. His identity has not been released.

Valentine was charged with second-degree murder. He is being held in lieu of $100,000.

HONOLULU
Woman dies after car hits wall at cannery

A 78-year-old woman died yesterday after she crashed her car into a wall at Dole Cannery.

Police said the woman was driving up a ramp in a green 1990 Subaru Forester sport utility vehicle with an 82-year-old female passenger about 9:20 a.m. The woman failed to make a left turn on the third level and crashed into a wall.

Police said she was taken in critical condition to the Queen's Medical Center, where she later died from a possible medical condition. Her passenger was also taken to the same hospital in guarded condition with possible neck injuries.

Police said witnesses saw the 78-year-old woman slumped over the wheel before she struck the wall.

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