A 12-year-old boy has been rewarded $1,000 for his honesty. Boy, 12, is rewarded with
By Rod Ohira, Star-Bulletin
$1,000 he foundMichael Medina, the son of Audrey and Benjamin Medina, found the cash July 23 in the parking lot of the Ewa Beach Community Library.
After checking to see if anyone in the library had lost money, Michael called his mother. The money was turned over to police, who returned it to Michael yesterday when it went unclaimed.
"I feel good about it because I did the right thing," said Michael, a seventh-grader at Ilima Intermediate School.
Michael, who moved to Hawaii from California in 1995, and a friend were on their way to Summer Fun when he spotted the cash on the ground.
"There were nine hundreds and two fifties rolled up and held together with a paper clip," said Michael, the eldest of three children. "I felt excited. I'd never seen that much money before."
Audrey Medina, a homemaker, and her husband, who is a federal employee, have talked to their children about honesty.
"We don't attend church regularly, but to us, honesty is very important," Mrs. Medina said. "We didn't think much about the mon-blrb The money found by Michael Medina was turned over to police, who returned it to him yesterday when it went unclaimed.
ey after we turned it over to police.
"I was shocked when Michael called me and told me what he found. I'm very proud that he did the right thing and happy that he was rewarded for it."
Michael, who enjoys roller-blading and playing street hockey, plans to treat himself to a small gift and use the rest as "family fun money."
"Christmas came early," he said. "The only thing I'm going to buy is a new pair of roller-blades."
In presenting the money to Michael, Chief Lee Donohue praised the boy for his honesty and integrity.
Residents will be able once again to leaf through pages of the Kohala Midget, published in the early 1900s. Historic Kohala papers to be
By Debra Barayuga, Star-Bulletin
preserved thanks to $500 grantThe Friends of the Bond Memorial Public Library has received a $500 matching grant from the Friends of the Library of Hawaii to preserve the Big Island library's historical Kohala and Hawaiiana documents, said state Librarian Virginia Lowell.
The funds will go toward supplies and equipment.
Dawn Shibano, the library's branch manager since February and certified in preservation management, has volunteered to do the bulk of the preservation work using archival-safe methods.
The subscription to the community newspaper includes issues from 1907 to June 1917 and was donated to the library by Caroline S. Bond, daughter of a missionary family.
Also among the documents to be preserved is the original deed signed by Bond giving the state permission to use the land on which the library stands for a library, a leather-bound Bible owned by Bond and donated to the Hawaii Bible Committee in December 1935, and a leather photo album containing historical photos of Greenbanks, once a magnificent estate on the Big Island which was later taken over by the federal government.
Shibano said she welcomes the task ahead and has already begun removing the Kohala Midget from its binding to photocopy on acid-free paper.
"I love to do this kind of work," said Shibano, who is using preservation-management techniques she learned in 1992 from the University of Hawaii School of Library and Information Studies.
"As a public librarian, the main thing is maintaining books for circulation, not preservation."
Shibano said she expects to do the work on weekends when the library is closed, and hopes to complete the project by the time the library celebrates its 70th anniversary in January.
Bond Memorial Library is a quaint two-story wooden building, the second-oldest state library.
Jackie Pflug, among passengers shot by terrorists on a plane hijacked in Egypt in 1985, will speak at the Pacific Conference on Brain Injury in Honolulu on Oct. 1-3. Woman shot by terrorists
will speak herePflug, who was thrown from the plane with a gunshot to the head, will tell her story of survival and rehabilitation. The Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific is sponsoring the conference at the Sheraton Waikiki.
Others speaking on traumatic brain injury treatment, management and prevention will be:
Drs. Rick Waxweiler and Rodney Hammond, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. William D. Singer, Harvard Medical School; Dr. Douglas Katz, Braintree Hospital Rehabilitation Network, and Dr. Jeri Morris, Rehabilitation Medicine at Northwestern University.
Family violence and brain injury prevention will be the main topics the first day.
Discussions the next two days will focus on care issues, including medical and clinical interventions, prevention and policy and community reintegration.
Brain injury survivors, health professionals, policy makers and care givers are invited.
For information, call the Rehab Hospital, 566-3451.
Kuakini Foundation taking orders on wreaths
Mixed holiday wreaths, combining noble fir, silver fir, juniper and incense cedar, may be purchased from the Kuakini Foundation.Order forms are available from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Oct. 30 at the foundation office at Kuakini Health.
The wreaths cost $27, with proceeds benefiting the foundation. Payments must be received by Oct. 30 at the foundation. They are tax deductible.
Wreaths will be available for pickup Dec. 9 at the Stillman Lane Entrance to Hale Pulama Mau at Kuakini. For more information, call 547-9296.
Monk seal now among victims of Tesoro spill
As the cleanup of the Tesoro oil spill continues, there is a report that a Hawaiian monk seal with coin-size oil stains on its coat was spotted near a cove in the Kipu Kai area off the southeastern side of Kauai.The small amount of oil on the seal should come off naturally as the seal molts and should not pose a threat to its health, according to the National Marine Fisheries Service.
The Oil Spill Response Center reports another oiled seabird was found yesterday, bringing the total number of oiled birds found to 31. Of those, 11 are being treated and 20 have died.
Cleanup yesterday continued in the Kipu Kai area, and a portion of Nukolii Beach fronting the Outrigger hotel was reopened.
Up to 117 barrels, or about 5,000 gallons of oil, leaked from a mooring hose at Barbers Point Aug. 24.
Oil and tar balls have been washing up on beaches on Oahu and Kauai since.
There is still no estimate of the cost of the cleanup.
Residents who find oily birds or other animals are asked to call the Hawaii Spill Response Center in Honolulu at 847-8718 or the Coast Guard at 927-0830.
Volunteers on Maui are also needed to help care for oiled birds at the Maui Veterinary Services Office. Those interested should contact Greg Massey at (808) 572-3502.
Navy postpones meeting on carriers' berthing
The Navy's hearing on developing home-port facilities for three nuclear aircraft carriers in San Diego and Washington has been postponed.The hearing was supposed to be held on Sept. 24 at Leeward Community College. It has been rescheduled for mid- to late October.
Plans do not call for berthing any carriers at Pearl Harbor.
Wednesday’s special section on the Primary Election contained this error: CORRECTION
Jonalin K. Lessary, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, has been a Hawaii resident for 42 years, not 10 months.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffAir search for member of boat crew suspended
The Coast Guard yesterday suspended an air search for a 63-year-old man missing in high seas about 1,450 miles east of Oahu.The master of the Hawaii-based, 50-foot sailboat Noon Moon reported crew member Karl L. Meyers missing, the Coast Guard said.
A C-130 airplane was dispatched from Sacramento at 1:30 a.m. yesterday after the Coast Guard received a distress signal from the Noon Moon's emergency positioning-indicating radio beacon.
The Coast Guard searched the area until late afternoon.
The Noon Moon left Hawaii Sept. 3 and is en route to Cape Flattery, Wash.
Robbery suspect, 34, nabbed in drug case
A man police believe was shot while robbing a Waialua family at gunpoint two weeks ago was arrested in connection with a drug case, detectives said.The man, 34, was identified by family members in a lineup, detectives said.
He is being held pending charges, possibly including first-degree robbery, two counts of kidnapping and first-degree burglary.
Police said the suspect appeared to have been shot in the abdomen.
On Sept. 4 a man entered a Waialua home and demanded money from the 40-year-old occupant and his 12-year-old son. A family member pulled out a gun from a backpack.
During a struggle the gun went off and the robber was shot.
The man fled the scene.
Waikiki fire causes woman to inhale smoke
A woman was treated for smoke inhalation at Straub Clinic and Hospital after a fire in her Waikiki apartment, police said.Police and firefighters were called to the third floor of a condominium apartment at 232 Kaiulani Ave. at about 10:15 p.m.
A male also at the scene refused treatment.
The fire apparently started in the bedroom of the unit.
Neither cause of the blaze nor damage estimates had been determined.
Fire destroys home in Big Isle subdivision
HILO -- Fire destroyed a one-story home in the rural Fern Forest subdivision south of Hilo about 6:20 p.m. yesterday, the Fire Department said.The cause of the fire was not immediately known. The value of the house, owned by Laura Walker, was put at $65,000. No one was home at the time.
In other news . . .
The opening yesterday brings the total of Big Island ministations, used by community policing officers, to five. One other is located in Kailua-Kona, and three are located in Hilo.
When he saw a man trying to steal a stereo from a car parked along the Ala Wai Canal, William Sellers advised a security guard to notify police.
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