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Fishery Council invites all to emergency meet
The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council is holding an emergency meeting to discuss the litigation against the National Marine Fisheries Service.Expected at the meeting are representatives from Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Members of Hawaii's fishing industry and the public are invited to share their views on the subject. The meeting will be 1 to 6 p.m. Thursday in the Dole Cannery's Iwilei Grand Ballroom at 650 Iwilei Road.
Those wishing to provide testimony are asked to sign a card giving their name.
For more information, call Paul Dalzell at 522-8220.
Public hearing tomorrow for planned eco-camp on North Shore
Plans for a scaled-down "eco-camp" facility near Haleiwa Beach Park has won favor with the Planning Department and will be up for public hearing before the City Council tomorrow.Proposed by Campers Villages LLC at Kawailoa, what was formerly known as Puaena Camp, are a recreational camp featuring 72 tents of about 260 square feet that will be able to accommodate up to three adults. The developers are seeking a special use permit for the 114.5-acre site in order to put up the project.
The plans are scaled back from the 252 units originally proposed some two years ago.
Also planned are a 4,000-square-foot multipurpose building, a cafeteria, administrative building, maintenance building-sewage treatment plant, caretakers' residence and interpretive facilities.
Opposition has centered on the appropriateness of what detractors feel is a resort use for an agricultural area.
The Planning Department, after months of delays, earlier this year issued a report recommending the Council approve the plan provided it put in place a community use and access plan.
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Makiki Cemetery will honor early pioneers
Pioneer Japanese immigrants will be remembered at the 14th Annual Imin Yosebaka memorial obon service 10 a.m. Thursday at Makiki Cemetery.The remains of 289 pioneer Japanese settlers who died without known descendants are buried at a memorial grave tower. Their original graves had deteriorated from neglect.
In tribute to them, the Oahu Kanyaku Imin Centennial Committee authorized the building of the 12-foot tower in 1985.
Two other groups of early Japanese with monuments at the cemetery also will be honored at the obon service. They include the first 150 Meiji immigrants who arrived in 1868, and 16 Japanese Navy sailors who died in the 19th century.
Traditional Buddhist rites will be conducted at the foot of the tower. Bishop Jiho Machida of Soto Mission of Hawaii will officiate. The event, sponsored by the United Japanese Society of Hawaii, is open to the public.
Clergy representing 33 Oahu Buddhist temples and sects and four Shinto shrines have been invited.
Makiki Cemetery is on Pensacola Street between Prospect Street and Wilder Avenue.
Johnston Atoll cleanup reviewed tomorrow
A final soil cleanup of Johnston Atoll will be the topic of a 7 p.m. public meeting tomorrow at Farrington High School.The Defense Threat Reduction Agency says radiological material fell on the atoll in 1962 from two aborted missile launches during high-altitude nuclear weapons tests.
The agency on Feb. 2 relayed the level of trace elements of plutonium remaining after its final soil cleanup to other federal bodies, including the Environmental Protection Agency.
Hawaii residents may see the report on the final soil cleanup at the Library of Hawaii and at Hamilton Library of the University of Hawaii.
Safe drinking water meetings scheduled
To ensure safe drinking water, federal law requires states to assess all drinking water sources by May 2003, and the state Department of Health is scheduling information meetings on assessment procedures.Kauai meetings are set for Tuesday at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the District Health Office Conference Room, 3040 Umi St., Lihue; Hilo meetings Thursday at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the Environmental Health Facility Conference Room, 1582 Kamehameha Ave.; and on Molokai July 18 at 10 a.m. at the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Maunaloa Highway, Kalamaula-Kulana Oiwi Conference Room and 5 p.m. at the Queen Liliuokalani Conference Room.
Lanai meetings will be July 19 at 10 a.m. at Hale Mahaolu Community Hall and 5 p.m. at Lanai Library meeting room, Fraser Avenue, Lanai City.
Maui meetings will be July 20 at 10 a.m. at the State Office Building, 3rd floor Conference Room B, 54 High St., Wailuku, and 5 p.m. at the Hawaii Government Employees Association Conference Room, 2145 Kaohu St., Room 206, Wailuku.
Oahu meetings take place at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. July 25 at 919 Ala Moana, Room 100, 1st floor, Honolulu.
And Kona meetings will be at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. July 27 at Kona International Airport Conference Room, Airport Administration Building (before Aloha Airlines terminal).
For more information, call the Safe Drinking Water Branch at (808) 586-4258.
Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
Manoa robbery suspect booked
A Keolu Hills man has been arrested in the case of Saturday's gunpoint robbery in Manoa Valley as a result of information from police officers in the East Honolulu Crime Reduction Unit.The suspect, 20, was arrested without incident at a Lekeona Street residence at 6 p.m. yesterday.
He was booked for first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary and two counts of kidnapping.
The robber Saturday morning had tied up two women, ages 53 and 24, and taken jewelry.
The man reportedly was identified by three people, including the victims.
He is also a suspect in another burglary that occurred Thursday on Hillside Avenue, near the scene of Saturday's break-in, in which a gun was also used.
No gun was recovered last night, police said.
Parking-lot robber carried knife
An 18-year-old woman was robbed last night in Waimalu by a man armed with a knife. He confronted her in a parking lot at 98-020 Kamehameha Highway.The robbery was reported at 9:15 p.m. No injuries were reported.
The woman told police the man got out of a car and threatened her with a knife. He fled with her shopping bag.
