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Makiki tree limb hits moving, parked cars
A large tree branch fell onto at least one parked car and struck a moving vehicle today on Wilder Avenue near the Makiki Fire Station.No serious injuries were reported in the 9:20 a.m. incident.
Traffic was restricted to one lane in each direction until the branch could be removed from the roadway.
Rehabilitation group to hold Kauai meeting
The 6th Western Regional Clubhouse Conference will be hosted by the Hawaii Clubhouse Coalition Thursday through Sunday at the Radisson Kauai Beach Resort.The clubhouse is a psychosocial rehabilitation program for adults with mental illness.
There are more than 300 in 28 countries. Hawaii has seven statewide.
The programs are designed to help stable mentally ill people learn work skills and obtain jobs so they can have productive and socially satisfying lives.
They do clerical, cooking and maintenance chores with the clubhouse staff, and they participate in vocational and work activities.
Joel Corcoran, director of the International Center for Clubhouse Development, and members and staff from 30 clubhouses in the western United States, Canada and Hong Kong are expected to attend.
Workshops will be held on work incentives, housing and advocacy to help clubhouse members learn vocational and social independence.
Mental health consumers, family members, employers and others interested in mental health are invited to attend the conference.
Registration information may be obtained by calling Friendship House, 808-821-4480.
Straub to hold women's health fair Oct. 20
Straub Clinic & Hospital will hold a health fair for women with free screenings, displays and educational information 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 20.A limited number of bone density screenings will be offered, as well as breast cancer risk assessments and body fat analysis. Glucose screenings will be done 9 a.m.-noon and healthy cooking demonstrations held 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Information will be presented on bladder control and continence training, "Derm-a-peel" skin treatment demonstrations and plastic surgery.
A physician, occupational therapist, exercise physiologist and dietitian will be available. go to http://www.straubhealth.com or call Call 522-4395.
Youth 6 to 18 qualify for free immunizations
Children and teens ages 6 to 18 will continue to qualify for free vaccines under the Hawaii Immunization Program's TEEN VAX Project through Dec. 31, 2002, according to state health director Bruce Anderson.Vaccines for hepatitis B, MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), chicken pox and TD (tetanus and diphtheria) will be provided free to physicians, hospitals and clinics.
These immunizations are recommended for all children by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics, Anderson said.
Children who begin a vaccination series during this period will be allowed to complete the series according to the schedule recommended.
Many of the vaccines are required to enter Hawaii schools.
For TEEN VAX information, call 586-8332 or, from the neighbor islands, 1-800-933-4832.
Hana kids, teens get health-care assistance
Health-care initiatives in Hana, Maui, gained $370,945 in assistance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Sen. Daniel Inouye has announced.The supplemental funds went to the state Department of Health, which administers the federally supported Emergency Medical Services for Children Partnership.
The funds will be used to create a plan for delivery of expanded health and related services to children and teen-agers in Hana.
Childhood learning group gets $58,784
An organization known as Good Beginnings Alliance that promotes early childhood learning has received $58,784 from the Hawaii attorney general's office as a result of a settlement of a multistate anti-trust lawsuit.The settlement agreement calls for Good Beginnings to use the funds to benefit young children by buying and distributing toys and educational materials to licensed family home care providers and child care center-based teachers.
Good Beginnings Alliance describes itself as a statewide, nonprofit community organization committed to a sustainable, collaborative and integrated early childhood system.
Tomorrow
Some events of interestNoon, Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu Room: Rotary Club of Honolulu meeting featuring Joseph F. Blanco, executive assistant to the governor.
Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
Fire engines, tanker fight North Shore fire
Two Honolulu Fire Department engine companies and a tanker were fighting a brush fire today near the scene of a recent Kawailoa fire that has raged for 14 days.The units responded today at about 8:53 a.m. and were not requesting any additional assistance.
The fire department said it did not appear the two fires were related.
HPD officer arrested in fatal Pali collision
An off-duty Honolulu police officer was arrested for driving under the influence and negligent homicide following a fatal traffic collision late Saturday night on Pali Highway near the School Street intersection.The officer, 48, was released yesterday pending further investigation.
Traffic vehicular homicide investigators are handling the case since the officer was off-duty, but Internal Affairs criminal section is monitoring the probe, police said.
A woman, 19, was pronounced dead at Queen's Medical Center about 30 minutes after the 11:50 p.m. collision was reported. The officer refused treatment.
The woman was driving a 2000 Honda Civic west on Iolani Avenue, which becomes School Street after crossing Pali Highway, while the officer was headed north on Pali toward Nuuanu in a 1993 Ford Thunderbird.
The woman's car was broadsided at the intersection. The impact caused both vehicles to strike street signs. A traffic signal pole was sheered off, and the Honda eventually crashed into a concrete pillar.
Firefighters had to cut the woman out of her car, police said.
Anyone who witnessed the collision is asked to call traffic investigators at 529-3499.
Girl thrown from car, killed in H-2 accident
A 12-year-old girl was killed last night after being ejected from an out-of-control car that went up a steep embankment, struck a light pole and overturned onto the opposite side of the H-2 freeway near the Ka Uka Boulevard overpass.A man, 36, and woman, 37, were transported to Tripler Army Medical Center. The hospital declined to release condition reports on the two patients.
The 6:37 p.m. crash involved only one car, a 2000 Toyota Camry sedan.
The death was Oahu's fourth traffic fatality in four days .
Investigators say speed and possible drug use could be contributing factors.
The car was southbound on the H-2 near the Waianae off-ramp when the driver appeared to lose control while changing lanes. The girl, who was a rear-seat passenger, was not wearing a seat belt.
Man, 30, charged with threatening ex-wife, kids
Police charged a 30-year-old man who has allegedly made repeated threats to harm his ex-wife and children since March.James Olson is being held in lieu of $50,000. He is charged with first-degree terroristic threatening and kidnapping.
Man charged in knife threat at night club
A man who allegedly threatened a security guard with a knife Saturday night at the teen nightclub Pyramids on Ahua Street has been charged with first-degree terroristic threatening.Knighten Burge, 34, is being held in lieu of $11,000 bail.
