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Police, Fire, Courts

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Thursday, October 26, 2000

Flu shot shortage
until end of year

The shortage of flu vaccine here has become even more acute.

Tripler Army Medical Center's supply of vaccine, which was shipped Friday from Philadelphia, has been recalled because of problems in the way it was shipped.

Capt. Richard Jeffries, Tripler's deputy commander for clinical services, said yesterday the main vaccine manufacturer for the defense department has received FDA approval and will be shipping significant amounts shortly.

A spokeswoman for the state Health Department said the Tripler incident is an isolated one and has not happened in any other situations. Manufacturing problems, as well as problems with growing a strain of virus needed for the vaccine, has led to a shortage until the end of the year.

The Veterans Affairs Medical and Regional Office is offering the vaccine free to veterans. The VA also will dispense free shots to veterans Nov. 2 at Queen Liliuokalani Children's Center in Punaluu and Nov. 15 at the United Methodist Church in Ewa Beach.

Workshops to focus
on transportation

Oahu residents can join planners in their effort to identify the most important transportation projects for the next 25 years at a series of workshops beginning Nov. 8.

The Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization will sponsor the meetings that begin with a 6:30 p.m. workshop at Aiea Elementary School.

The schedule continues with the following sessions, all at 6:30 p.m.:

Nov. 9, Washington Middle School.
Nov. 13, Mililani High School.
Nov. 14, Waipahu High School.
Nov. 15, Castle High School.
Nov. 16, Waianae High School.

Molokai to connect park to county water

Work begins Wednesday on the installation of a 3,000-foot waterline and booster pumps to connect the Pala'au State Park on Molokai to the county water system.

The state Department of Land and Natural Resources has contracted Goodfellow Brothers Inc. to work on the $254,000 project, which should be completed in April.

Pala'au is on the north shore of central Molokai, at the end of Kalae Highway.

Extra parking lined up for UH-San Jose game

Alternative parking for Saturday's 6:05 p.m. University of Hawaii-San Jose State football game will be at Kam Drive-In, Leeward Community College and Radford High School.

But no tailgating will be allowed at those parking sites, said officials of UH and the Stadium Authority.

Shuttle service to Aloha Stadium from Kam Drive-In and Leeward Community College will be provided from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and back from 9 p.m.to 10 p.m. No shuttle service will operate between the stadium and relatively close Radford High School.

Parking for cars carrying four or more people will start at 1 p.m. in the lower Halawa parking lot. Entry will be from lower Salt Lake gate (across from McDonald's on Salt Lake Boulevard) and Halawa gate (on Kahuapaani Street before Salt Lake Boulevard).

All parking gates and turnstile gates for the public will open at 2:30 p.m. There will be no on-street parking before the gates open.

When a "lot full" sign goes up, entry will be only for cars with passes. All others will be directed to alternate parking sites. Traffic advisories will be aired over KCCN-AM 1420 from 2:30 p.m.

All alcoholic beverage sales will stop before the start of the third quarter, possibly sooner.

Tomorrow

Some events of interest

8 p.m. Oct. 27-28, Diamond Head Theatre: "Election Deluxe," Gridiron Show 2000, held annually to benefit journalism students.

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Police, Fire, Courts



By Star-Bulletin staff

Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers

By Ken Ige, Star-Bulletin
Early this morning, a truck apparently reversed into
the entrance of Raku Leather on Kamani Street in
Kakaako before the store was burglarized. Leather
handbags, jackets and boots were stolen. Robert
Davis, vice president of Raku International, Inc.,
is pictured calling employees to tell them about
the burglary and to come in to take inventory.

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Argument over scooter triggers arrest of boy, 8

An argument between two brothers over a Razor scooter yesterday resulted in the arrest of an 8-year-old boy, police said.

The boy asked his older brother, 10, to borrow the scooter at their Kikowaena Street home at 5 p.m., police said. When the older brother refused, the boy grabbed a large kitchen knife and allegedly threatened him.

The parents called the police, who arrested the boy for first-degree terroristic threatening.

Burglar uses truck to smash into store

Police are looking for a suspect who smashed a pickup truck into a Kakaako leather goods store this morning and stole thousands of dollars worth of merchandise.

Raku Vice President Robert Davis estimated the stolen goods to be worth in the "tens of thousands" of dollars. At least two dozen leather jackets were stolen, each valued at $400 to $800.

Davis said it appeared that the burglar reversed the pickup truck into the Raku International Inc. store at 331 Kamani Street at about 5:45 a.m.

The suspect apparently dumped the merchandise into the pickup truck and then drove off.

The truck was later seen on Auahi Street with heavy rear-end damage.