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Starship show moves to Zanzabar Nightclub
The Jefferson Starship Volunteers concert slated tonight at the Waikiki Shell has been moved indoors to Zanzabar Nightclub. Tickets already purchased for the Shell event will be honored at the club.Doors will open at 6 p.m. for the Starship's 35th-anniversary show, featuring Paul Kantner, Marty Balin and friends playing acoustic instruments. Opening for the band will be Morrison Underground.
Zanzabar is in the Waikiki Trade Center at 2255 Kuhio Ave. Call 924-3939 for more information.
Buddha's birthday will be commemorated next Saturday with a parade in downtown Honolulu. Parade downtown to
commemorate Buddha's birthdayThe 10 a.m. march will begin at the Iolani Palace grounds and proceed on Hotel, River and King streets to Kekaulike Mall, where the celebration will continue until 4 p.m.
Lion and dragon dancers, the Royal Hawaiian Band, Vietnamese Buddhist Youth and other groups will participate in the parade.
During the prayer service, participants will pour water over a statue of Buddha, recalling the tradition that he was anointed by heavenly rain on his birth. The Indian prince who founded the Buddhist philosophy and meditative path to enlightenment was born more than 2,500 years ago.
Organists guild offers musical scholarships
The Hawaii Chapter of the American Guild of Organists is offering a scholarship for music lessons to educate future church musicians.The scholarship will pay half of the cost of organ lessons for one year. May 10 is the deadline for applications. Forms are available from most island church music ministers. Information is available from Ruth Urben, 623-5140.
An applicant is not required to have previous keyboard experience nor music reading ability.
Local 5 election won by Gill to be recounted
Tony Rutledge says he will get the recount he called for in the recent election for Local 5 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union.Rutledge was replaced as financial secretary-treasurer by Eric Gill in the April 7 election.
The League of Women Voters count found Gill beat Rutledge by 39 votes, receiving 2,093 votes to Rutledge's 2,054. An additional 820 votes went to Estran Reynon, who also ran for financial secretary-treasurer.
Rutledge said the recount will include votes for Local 5 president. In that contest, Orlando Soriano retained the presidency by 36 votes.
"The counting had gone on over a long period of time, so people were tired and could have made mistakes," he said. "There were instances where people had their heads down while they were counting 12 races at one time."
The recount will take place Monday at the Japanese Chamber of Commerce.
The U.S. Department of Labor is looking into whether Gill and Reynon got help from their employers in the election campaign, Rutledge said. He also sought to "clear the air" about severance pay he and others received when they left office.
The practice of receiving severance pay was established before he took office, Rutledge said.
State may move part of Waimea temporary road
The state wants to move a portion of the temporary road at Waimea Bay -- which went in after the March 6 rockslide -- to avoid traffic delays during construction of the new stretch of Kamehameha Highway.A permit request has gone to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to adjust the north end of the temporary road.
"By moving about 80 feet of the existing Menehune Connector further makai and having it connect to the old Kamehameha Highway about 200 feet further down the road near the church, we can avoid alternating traffic flow and traffic delays," said Kazu Hayashida, state transportation director.
The new permanent stretch of Kamehameha Highway is expected to be completed and opened to traffic by the end of June.
Jet fuel discharged into Kaneohe Bay
An estimated 300 to 500 gallons of jet fuel discharged into Kaneohe Bay from Marine Corps Base Hawaii when the fuel overflowed a containment area into a storm sewer.The spill occurred at about 5:10 a.m. yesterday, and response crews eventually contained it, the Marine Corps said.
Fuel booms and other equipment were being used in a cleanup, and the Coast Guard and other agencies were notified, the Marine Corps said.
Sports discrimination bill heads for final vote
A bill that seeks to prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender in public school athletics is headed for a final vote by the Legislature next week."I'm overjoyed," gender equity advocate June Nunokawa said. "It means doing away with the existing status quo."
House and Senate conferees passed a new version of a bill that passed last year.
The governor vetoed the bill, but Nunokawa said that the governor has indicated that he will sign this year's bill into law.
Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
Stepbrother, 17, charged in Sand Island shooting
Bhima Guru Das has been charged with Sunday's shooting of his stepbrother on Sand Island Access Road.Das was arrested Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at an Ala Moana apartment by police acting on a CrimeStoppers tip. A search warrant was executed on the apartment but police investigators would not say what was seized.
There was uncertainty about Das' age because he reportedly had several different identification cards. Police say Das is 17 years old.
Das' 25-year-old stepbrother, who was shot in the stomach, is in critical condition at Queen's Hospital, police said.
Motorist, 30, booked in Waikiki road-rage case
Police arrested a motorist yesterday in Waikiki for allegedly punching another driver in a case of road rage.The two men were involved in a traffic incident and started arguing on Kalakaua Avenue fronting the International Marketplace at 6:05 p.m., police said.
The suspect, 30, got out of his car, reached in the other driver's car and reportedly punched the man, 48, in the face, police said.
He was booked for unlawful entry into a motor vehicle and second-degree terroristic threatening.
