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Question: Is there a number we can call to report an incident of "road rage"? Call 911 to
report ‘road rage’Answer: There is no "road rage" hot line to call. Instead, call 911 if you observe a driver threatening life or property by driving recklessly, said Honolulu Police Department spokeswoman Michelle Yu.
Provide as much information as possible, including license number, location, description of the driver and vehicle, and description of the driver's behavior.
You can remain anonymous, or you can meet with an officer to discuss the situation, Yu said.
If you are calling after the fact -- i.e., you did not have access to a phone at the time -- you can write a letter to HPD's Traffic Division, 801 S. Beretania St., Honolulu, HI 96813. Again, provide as much information as possible, and a letter will be sent to the registered owner, Yu said.
Police cannot cite drivers for anything they have not witnessed, but can warn them that their actions were noted by others.
Q: Can you give me information on the Hawaiian motif murals at the old Stadium Bowl-O-Drome? Will they be for sale or be given away?
A: No decision has been made about what will happen to the old bowling alley, nor to its contents, including equipment and murals.
The bowling alley, which shut down Dec. 31 after 45 years, sits on land leased by the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. The building and everything else on the 4-acre property now belong to the department.
Although the bowling alley is closed, the department was considering a temporary revocable lease to the operator of the Eleventh Frame Cocktail Lounge, if the bar could be brought up to standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act, said Hawaiian Homes spokesman Francis Apoliona.
Apoliona worked at the alley as a youngster, setting up pins, cleaning machines and drinking "the best" vanilla cokes. He remembers the murals well.
So does Ed Kinzie, whose mother, Adelaide Stagbar, opened the bowling alley in the mid-1950s.
Kinzie said his mother hired a woman -- he thinks her last name was Anderson -- to paint the murals. He did not have any information on the artist. If any reader has a lead, let us know.
Although most of the artwork was painted directly on the walls, some are on large canvases attached to walls in the front portion of the alley, Kinzie said. They can be salvaged -- "You just have to take the nails out," he chuckled.
Apoliona said the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands doesn't want to destroy the murals, but a lot depends on what happens after an inventory is taken.
If the building can't be salvaged for use by the department, such as for an elderly housing project, then the property probably will be offered for general use, he said. In that case, "the building probably will be destroyed, because you have to bring it up to ADA compliance. The building is really old, and that probably wouldn't be cost-effective."
Another possibility is a land swap with the city to expand the adjacent Stadium Park.
Before any decision is made and before anything is destroyed or removed, the public will be notified of the department's plans, Apoliona said.
As for the murals, "Before we demolish anything, we want to see if there's anybody that can salvage that," he said.
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