Weinberg Foundation helps Lutheran center
Trustees of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation presented a check for $202,000 to the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church on July 9.The money will be used for a new cafeteria and lanai at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Preschool and Daycare Center. The building will bear the name Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Activity Center.
The preschool is located in the Liliha-Palama area and serves many low-income and immigrant families.
Library for the Blind marks 70 years of service
The Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped celebrates its 70th anniversary Saturday. The free event at 402 Kapahulu Ave. will inform the public about library services for the blind and visually impaired from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.Entertainment includes Hoku Award-winning group Maunalua. Call 733-8444 for information.
Youth Challenge Academy names Mitsui its director
Wallace Mitsui has been named the new director of the Hawaii National Guard Youth Challenge Academy. Retired Col. Robert Watanabe recently resigned as director after five years.Mitsui has served at the academy since June 1995 as a lead counselor and a program coordinator. He has 33 years of experience with the Department of Education as a teacher, counselor and athletic director.
Mitsui, originally from Kauai, graduated from Western Oregon College of Education with a bachelor's degree in secondary education. He obtained a professional teaching certificate from the state Department of Education.
The Hawaii National Guard Youth Challenge Academy gives at-risk teens a second chance to obtain their high school diplomas and become productive citizens.
Man leaves country after alleged in-flight pinching
WAILUKU >> A passenger arrested after allegedly interfering with a chartered flight operation agreed yesterday to voluntarily depart Hawaii for Belize in Central America.Amir Amirsaleh, 45, who was living in Los Angeles, was suspected of pinching two flight attendants while on a flight from San Francisco to Maui.
An investigation found his work permit had expired, after an unsuccessful marriage with a U.S. citizen.
"It put him in the status where he's got to leave the United States, and he failed to do so," said Donald Radcliffe, district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Honolulu.
Radcliffe said Amirsaleh had dual citizenship in Belize and Iran, and he chose to fly to Belize.
Amirsaleh was among passengers aboard a chartered flight from San Francisco that stopped in Honolulu before arriving at Kahului Airport on Maui around 10 a.m. on Thursday.
The plane was scheduled to leave Kahului for San Francisco at 10:40 a.m. but was delayed for 13 hours, said Tweet Coleman, the Pacific spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
Coleman said because officials did not initially know Amirsaleh's background, they did a complete search of the chartered airline.
Amirsaleh was held overnight at Maui Memorial Medical Center before federal officials took him to Honolulu on Friday.
Free seminar will explain HPU's nursing program
Hawaii Pacific University will present a free seminar on its nursing program at 12:15 p.m. Friday in its building at 1166 Fort St., Room 203-C or 203-D.It will cover the curriculum, admission requirements and course offerings. The program offers five paths to a bachelor of science degree in nursing, with accelerated programs for those who have post-secondary credits in any field.
Expert on schizophrenia is event's key speaker
NAMI Oahu -- "Oahu's voice on mental illness" -- offers a support group and educational program tomorrow at its office, 770 Kapiolani Blvd., Suite 613.The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill meeting will start at 11:30 a.m. with a support group for consumers, family and interested persons.
At 12:30 p.m., Jim Crowe of the World Fellowship for Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders will be the keynote speaker.
Information: 591-1297.
Corrections and clarifications
>> The Tea Utensil Exhibit at the Honolulu Academy of Arts opens to the public tomorrow. An article yesterday included an incorrect date.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staff
Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Fake cash making the rounds on Big Isle
More than 25 counterfeit $50 and $20 bills were passed at a number of retail outlets in Hilo last week, said Big Island police.Police said the bills appeared in Kona in early July but have since been circulated islandwide. Police said the easiest way to determine if a bill is counterfeit is to hold it up to a light with the president side of the bill facing inward. Police said the bills have no magnetic strip running down the left side or a watermark of the engraving on the right. The numbers 50 or 20 on the lower right front also do not turn from green to black as the bill is shifted on its horizontal axis in the light, police said.
Police said the counterfeit bills also have a yellowish tinge and have no red and blue threads embedded in them. The bogus $50 bills do not have the words "The United States of America" on the collar of the portrait of President Ulysses S. Grant, while the counterfeit $20 bills do not have the same words on the lower oval framing of President Andrew Jackson's portrait, police said.
Anyone with information should call police at 935-3311 (Hilo), 326-4646 (Kona), or CrimeStoppers at 961-8300 or 329-8181.
Drowning confirmed in honeymooner's death
LIHUE >> A 50-year-old tourist pulled unconscious Saturday afternoon from the ocean near Poipu drowned, an autopsy conducted yesterday revealed.Howard Jaeger of Novato, Calif., was on his honeymoon and was bodyboarding in front of Kiahuna Plantation Resort when his wife saw he was in trouble, Kauai police said. A surfer and a lifeguard pulled him ashore, but efforts to revive him failed.
Jaeger was Kauai's fourth drowning victim so far this year.
HONOLULU
Man chases mother, daughter after argument
A 27-year-old Palama man was arrested yesterday after he allegedly rammed his vehicle into a car carrying his 4-year-old daughter and the girl's mother.Police said the 23-year-old mother took the couple's daughter to the suspect's home for a visit and left with the daughter after arguing with the child's father. Police said the man followed and rammed the woman's vehicle twice, the man then entered the woman's car, took her purse and told her to follow him back to the house.
Instead the woman drove to the Kalihi Police Station. The suspect was arrested for criminal property damage and unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle.
Kalihi man arrested for allegedly beating son
A 38-year-old Kalihi man was arrested for assault yesterday for allegedly beating his 15-year-old son with a chair, breaking the boy's left forearm.Police said the man beat his son at 6:30 yesterday morning for sneaking out of the home and staying out all night.
Armed intruder flees after mom's timely entry
A 24-year-old man told Honolulu police that he awoke in his Pele Street home yesterday morning to find someone pointing a gun at him.Police said the suspect started making demands of the victim when the victim's mother entered the room and the suspect fled.
The suspect is described as 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet tall, weighing approximately 165 pounds and carrying a dark revolver.
Police said he was last seen wearing a black beanie and sweat pants.
CENTRAL OAHU
Felon held on suspicion of hunting, drug charges
State conservation officers arrested a convicted felon for allegedly hunting without a license Sunday near Kamehameha Highway in Waiawa.Officers said the 39-year-old suspect was approached while officers were investigating possible hunting violations. The suspect also was arrested on drug charges after he allegedly dropped what appeared to be drugs and drug paraphernalia.
LEEWARD OAHU
Victim of fatal head blow in Waianae is identified
The Honolulu medical examiner's office has identified a man killed in Waianae this weekend as 35-year-old William Van Winkle.A Waianae resident taking a walk Saturday morning found Van Winkle's body at Waianae Regional Park.
Autopsy results show Van Winkle was killed by a blow to the head.
