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I found something in an apple pie that may be twigs from an apple tree. They look like fish bones except they're so uniform. Whom can I ask to check this? Those things in the pie:
Know what they were?Call the State Department of Health's Food and Drug Branch, 586-4725.
Staff will try to determine what the contaminant is and where it may have come from, said branch chief Maurice Tamura. If it's part of the apple, there may not be much they can do.
"We could contact the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) and tell them there was a complaint," Tamura said. The FDA could follow up by inspecting the product's plant.
"If it's something else, then we'd have to determine where the contaminant may have come in from," he said. If it's a problem with the manufacturer, then the state would order the manufacturer to correct the problem, he said.
Can't they put more police with laser guns on the H-3 freeway to catch speeders? People are going more than 100 mph. I am going 70 mph and they are zooming past me. Isn't the speed limit 65 mph?
The speed limit is 55 mph. But police are ahead of you.
Catching H-3 speeders is the purview of officers in District 3 (Pearl City) and District 4 (Kaneohe), at both ends of the H-3, said Mike Hama, acting major for the Honolulu Police Department's Traffic Division. But his staff has been working with district officers for the past couple of months to curb speeders on the 6-month-old freeway. A number have been clocked going over 85 mph, Hama said.
Officers using laser guns "have been tagging" and giving out many speeding tickets, he said.
His assessment: "People have started to slow down."
Is there any place to recycle metallic balloons? I have a number of them now with the air gone out.
You're probably referring to Mylar balloons, which have no metal, a city recycling official said. Mylar is the trademark for thin sheets of polyester "of great tensile strength."
If you're talking about reusing the deflated Mylar balloons, check with your favorite balloon or floral shop. Ballooney Tunes, for example, says it will refill regular 18-inch balloons for $1.
A company on Maui, Aloha Plastics Recycling, recycles such things as shopping bags, Styrofoam, etc., he said. But Mylar is "such a light plastic" that there's not really a market for it, he said.
Otherwise, tossed in the trash, it can be burned to create energy at the city's HPOWER plant, he said.
On my daily trips to the airport post office, I see people park in the post office parking lot and walk directly to the airport terminal. They do not even attempt to create the impression they are there on post office business. I have never seen any enforcement by postal authorities. -- No name Auwe
(Postal Service spokeswoman Felice Broglio said if you see someone doing this, note the make and license number of the vehicle and "bring it to the attention of a window service supervisor."
Someone can't monitor the lot 24 hours a day, she said. But random checks are made at least twice a week and about one car a month is towed away, she said.
"So people take an awful chance, since it is such a hassle if a car is towed -- both the cost and inconvenience," Broglio said.)
To police Officer J. Hebert. On April 9, my car gave up on Moanalua Road near Red Hill in busy traffic. I was in the shoulder lane with emergency lights flashing, when Officer Hebert greeted me very professionally and kindly, putting me at ease, until a tow truck arrived. -- Walter Yamada Mahalo
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