Parks and Rec. seeks college student aides
The Department of Parks and Recreation is looking for college students to work as recreation aides in Ewa, Waipahu, Waianae and Waialua.Aides will help with the city's Summer Fun Program by teaching children's classes in arts and crafts, music and dance, creative dramatics, sports and games, Hawaiiana and physical fitness.
Each applicant must have completed at least a year of college by June and intend to continue toward, at minimum, an associate's degree. He or she also must be a legal Hawaii resident and a U.S. citizen or permanent resident alien.
First-time workers will earn $6.50 an hour. Return workers will be paid $7.50 an hour. Contract hours may vary up to 336 hours for eight weeks.
For more information, call the Leeward/Central Oahu office at 671-0561.
Part-time Kona residents donate cameras to police
KAILUA-KONA >> Two part-time Kona residents have donated 105 Polaroid cameras to help police document cases of domestic violence, police announced.The cameras, valued as $1,604, were donated by Mr. and Mrs. Bill True, who live part-time in Kailua-Kona and the rest of the time in Seattle.
The cameras will be distributed to community policing officers and patrol officers in West Hawaii.
Sewage leak found near Wahiawa stream
Warning signs are posted along Poamoho Stream after a leak in a sewage line was detected Friday.The State Health Department detected the leak in Wahiawa at the Poamoho Stream bridge.
A break in a line to an air relief valve is believed to have caused the leak. The line was secured and the leak was stopped.
The U.S. Army Garrison, Hawaii, Directorate of Public Works will test bacteria levels at various sites along the stream for three to four days.
There is no danger to the drinking water.
[WINNERS & LOSERS]
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Clone man: University of Hawaii professor Ryuzo Yanagimachi is elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, only the fourth UH-Manoa scientist picked for the 138-year-old national academy.Longliners: Longline fishers start returning with their first catches since U.S. District Judge David Ezra loosened restrictions on where they could fish.
Top educator: Noelani Elementary School principal Clayton Fujie is chosen as Hawaii's Elementary School Principal of the Year by the state Department of Education.
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Busted: Former isle restaurateur Mitch Dettloff is arrested in Las Vegas in a hit-and-run accident that killed three people, including a mother and her 8-year-old son.Locked up: Wallace "Dido" Rodrigues is convicted of murder for the third time, in this case in the killing of his cousin, Lorenzo Young, in 1988.
Pedestrians: Folks walking around the Hawaii Convention Center find themselves dodging traffic and barricades as the state tries to put its best foot forward for members of the Asian Development Bank.
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By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
Navy investigators arrested a 23-year-old Pearl Harbor sailor in connection with the early Friday morning shooting death of another sailor at Pearl Harbor. Suspect arrested in fatal Navy shooting
Seaman Hawan T. Campbell, 23, is being held in pre-trial confinement at the Pearl Harbor Naval Station brig. He was arrested late Friday night after an investigation into the shooting of 29-year-old Seaman Gregory Ballard.
Ballard was found with multiple gunshot wounds to his head at about 4 a.m. Friday outside his enlisted personnel barracks at Gabrunas Hall, located at the submarine side of the base.
No weapon was found at the scene.
Campbell was assigned as a administrative assistant at Pearl Harbor.
Ballard was assigned to the staff of the Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command at Camp Smith.
No further information was available.
Kauai man fighting fire by himself loses home
HANAPEPE, Kauai >> A homeowner tried to put out a fire at his Hanapepe home with a garden hose and lost the battle, the fire department said."If the owner had called 911 instead of trying to fight the fire with a garden hose, the house might have been saved," said battalion chief Bob Kaden.
A neighbor later called 911, but when firefighters arrived at 5228 Awawa Road on Friday afternoon, the fire had already spread through the roof, Kaden said.
Damage was estimated at $80,000 to the house and its contents.
The homeowner suffered smoke inhalation. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Van passing stopped bus hits North Shore teen
A 14-year-old North Shore girl remained in critical condition at Queen's Medical Center yesterday after she was hit by a van on Kamehameha Highway near Sunset Beach.A 22-year-old man driving a Ford Club Wagon was trying to get around a city bus, which was at a bus stop at 4:20 p.m.
The girl, wearing a red and white striped outfit, had stepped onto Kamehameha Highway in front of the bus and was not in a crosswalk when she was struck, police said.
Car jumps curb, kills man at Foodland in Kalihi
A woman trying to park her car at the Foodland Store in Kalihi hit and killed a man yesterday morning, police said.The 60-year-old driver was pulling into a stall shortly after 8 a.m. yesterday at 414 N. School St. when her sedan jumped the curb and struck the 88-year-old pedestrian, police said.
The man was 3 or 4 feet away from the curb, possibly on the sidewalk or in the parking lot, police said.
Police say the driver may have stepped on the gas instead of the brakes.
The victim was taken to Queen's Medical Center, where he died.
Pepper spray helps down man threatening to shoot
Police used pepper spray to subdue a burglary suspect at a Kaimuki business yesterday morning.Officers responding to a silent alarm at Yamato Enterprises Inc. at 2960 Waialae Avenue cornered the suspect in the back of the business.
The man told them he had a gun and threatened to shoot.
Officers used pepper spray to arrest the man and no gun was found.
The suspect, Christopher Perkins, 36, was charged with second-degree burglary.
Police said Perkins was on parole for a burglary in California. Bail was set at $130,000.
The man had carried out tools, grabbed money from desks and cracked four doors, which have to be replaced, said Harry Lee, general manager of Yamato Enterprises, a tour and transportation company.
Hilo man, 18, arrested in bat-, machete-beating
HILO >> Police acting on a tip arrested and charged an 18-year-old Hilo man Thursday with attempted murder in the beating of a man last February in downtown Hilo.Because the crime occurred when the suspect was a juvenile, police are withholding his name. He was released pending Juvenile Court proceedings.
The victim told police that he had been beaten by a man brandishing a baseball bat and a machete.
As the victim attempted to flee, he said he was also run over by a car driven by another person.
Police said the suspect and two other men were involved in the assault at Keawe and Kalakaua streets.
The victim was taken to Hilo Medical Center, where he was treated and released.
