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Remedios retiring

A smooth transition into 2000 wasn't the only thing city and state officials celebrated this weekend when the nonalcoholic bubbly broke out at Oahu Civil Defense headquarters in the basement of the Honolulu Municipal Building.

Jimmy Remedios, director of the city Information Services Department, is retiring after taking the lead on the city's Y2K bug fix.

'Butch' moves up: He's a lawyer, a soldier, a former labor appeals board chairman and a Democratic Party member, and if you are in the Hawaii national guard, you better call him "Sir."

But the governor calls him Butch.

Brig. Gen. Edward L. Correa Jr., who had been serving as commander of the Hawaii Army National Guard, was promoted to state Adjutant General last week.

Correa is well known in state political circles and has been a long-time member of both the Democratic Party and the state administration.

But, while soldiers call him "general," to people in the state administration, he has always been "Butch."

So when Cayetano called Correa up to accept his new position, the governor momentarily forgot the general's first name.

"Hey, Butch, what is your first name, anyway?" Cayetano joked.

"It's Edward, sir," the general answered.

Census 2000: There is an estimated 275 million people to count in the United States this year, and Hawaii will be part of the project starting Friday.

The federally sponsored Census 2000 opens its Honolulu office Friday at 220 S. King St., Room 410. Robert Asato is the local census office manager.

Starting this month, the census office is expected to hire hundreds of local residents for a six- to eight-week period. They will serve as census takers, outreach workers and enumerators.

The census has been taken every 10 years without interruption since 1790, with figures used now to reapportion the U.S. House of Representatives.