State court system taps Ozawa as new director
Former city parks Director Walter Ozawa has been named new administrative director of the state court system, Chief Justice Ronald Moon announced yesterday.Ozawa has been director of the state Office of Veterans Services.
He fills the vacancy left by Michael Broderick, who is leaving the Judiciary to join the Hawaii Justice Foundation.
The appointment takes effect Oct. 15.
Two reapportionment hearings rescheduled
The 2001 Reapportionment Commission has rescheduled two Maui hearings that were canceled this week due to the terrorist attacks on the East Coast, which shut down all commercial air travel.Office of Elections officials say they have set two hearings on Maui on the proposed legislative redistricting plan. The first will be Oct. 2 at Lahaina Civic Center. The other will be Oct. 3 at Maui Waena School cafeteria in Kahului. Both meetings are at 7 p.m.
The commission is expected to resume its schedule with a hearing Monday in Kaunakakai. Remaining meetings on Oahu, Lanai, Kauai and the Big Island remain as scheduled.
For more information, call 587-3902 or visit the commission's Web site, www.hawaiiredistricting.org.
QUEST to start dental fee-for-service program
The state's QUEST participants starting Oct. 1 will receive dental services under a fee-for-service program.QUEST now provides dental services to 50,000 adults and 80,000 children under managed-care dental plans.
The change to a fee-for-service program will not affect dental services, says the state Department of Human Services.
Participants will be enrolled automatically in the program and will receive new identification cards during the last week of this month.
Recipients who need help with the new dental plan should call 524-3370 on Oahu or 800-316-8005 toll-free from the neighbor islands.
Participants can continue to see their present dentists if they are providers in the fee-for-service program. If a dentist chooses not to be in the new program, the participant will have to select a new dentist from the fee-for-services dentists. The list will be mailed to QUEST recipients this month.
Dentists who would like to join the fee-for-service program should call the Med-QUEST Division at 692-8099 for an application.
The Department of Human Services is selecting a Care Coordination Organization to assist QUEST members in finding a dentist, making dental appointments and arranging for translation and transportation services.
For more information, call 692-8098.
DLNR offers 2 sessions for hunter education
The state Department of Land and Natural Resources plans to offer two hunter education classes this month.The sessions will cover firearms and archery safety, survival and first aid, and wildlife identification, agency officials said. Attendance is required to obtain certification.
Sessions are scheduled for 5:45 to 10:15 p.m. Sept. 28 and again from 7:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sept. 29. Both sessions are scheduled at the Nimitz Business Center, 1130 N. Nimitz Hwy., No. A-151. For more information or to pre-register, call 808-587-0200.
Family of 2 killed in Molokai crash files suit alleging pilot negligence
The family of two men killed in a May 10, 2000, Molokai airplane crash filed a lawsuit yesterday against the plane's two deceased pilots and the plane company, Executive Aircraft Corp.The suit alleges the crash was a direct result of the pilots' negligence.
Macy J. Price Sr. and his son, Macy J. Price Jr., were passengers on a Rockwell NA-265-65 Sabreliner corporate jet when it crashed, according to the suit.
The plane was traveling from Maui to the airport at Hoolehua when it crashed two miles south of the airport in Kaana near the top of a slope at 8:35 p.m. under clear conditions, killing all six on board, according to news reports.
Although Price Sr. was a Colorado resident, he owned a substantial amount of property on the island and was on his way with his business partner son to his Molokai home where he regularly spent time, according to the family's attorney.
Hickam team to help ID Pentagon victims
A team of four Army anthropologists will be sent to the mainland to help with the identification of the 126 military victims of Tuesday's bombing of the Pentagon.The team will leave the U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory at Hickam Air Force Base as soon as it can get commercial tickets to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where the remains are being stored.
In all, 190 people are unaccounted for, including 64 passengers aboard the hijacked airliner that crashed into the Pentagon.
The Army lists 84 of its soldiers and civilians as missing; the Navy cannot account for 42.
The Army laboratory, the military's premier forensic facility, has been involved heavily in identifying the remains of soldiers killed in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
Akaka asserts America will rebound from attack
U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Akaka said America's enemies have learned "that where we had been broken, we healed and became stronger."During a statement in the U.S. Senate chamber the day following Tuesday's terrorist attacks, Akaka said: "Those who think Americans are soft and fearful will be astonished by our strength and determination.
"I was a young man when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Then we knew our enemy, and he thought our will could be shattered by one frightful day of disaster."
Akaka also said: "There will be no place that our enemies can hide, no sanctuary for them to cower in. We will seek them out and justice will be done."
>> Rowena Acierto, Tammy Doan and Karen Ng have been awarded 2001 Kathleen M. Bauske Scholarship Awards. Acierto is employed at Kalihi Kai Elementary School. Doan is a teacher at Waialae Elementary. Ng teaches at Kalihi Uka Elementary. The Bauske Awards are given to women who teach full time at any public or private school and are interested in increasing their knowledge of space themes and activities. Each teacher received a $500 award to participate in Future Flight Hawaii programs. [TAKING NOTICE]
>> The Waipahu Community Foundation has awarded grants to the following organizations: Friends of the Waipahu Public Library, quarterly award of $500; Boy Scout Troop 32, quarterly award of $4,250; Waipahu Intermediate School, quarterly award of $4,100; Waipahu High School, annual award of $27,500; Village Park Athletic Association, annual award of $5,500; Leeward YMCA, annual award of $5,500; and the Waipahu Jackrabbits, annual award of $5,500.
>> The Hawaii State Office of Mothers Against Drunk Driving has received a grant in the amount of $3,500 from West Hawaii and the Harwell and Rebecca Carter Fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation. MADD-Hawaii will use the grant to support its Youth Alcohol Impact Program. HCF gives away nearly $10 million in grants each year.
>> The Atherton Family Foundation has awarded the Maui AIDS Foundation a $3,000 grant. The MAF plans to use the money to purchase office equipment for the organization.
>> Irmgard Farden Aluli, Gladys Ainoa Brandt, David Merritt Peters and Myron B. "Pinky" Thompson were honorees at the Prince Kuhio Hawaii Civic Club's 2001 Scholarship Fund-raising Luncheon, held Aug. 12 at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. The four were honored for their significant civic contributions to the club and the general community.
>> The University of Hawaii at Manoa recently awarded Regents Scholarships to the following students: Justin Akagi, Kailua High School; Riley Ceria, Waiakea High School; Eric Chow, Kaiser High School; Kapalai'ula de Silve, Kamehameha Schools; Liana Garcia, Kealakehe High School; Tracy Lyn Higa, Pearl City High School; Lianne Ho, Iolani School; Cheri Kishimoto, Kaimuki High School; Scott Lee, Kalani High School; Gavin McCall, Kau High School; Blaine Murakami, Mililani High School; Iris Nagamine, McKinley High School; Harmony Nakamura, Leilehua High School; Derick Okihara, Kalani High School; Jason Pang, St. Louis School; Bradlee Sako, Leilehua High School; Derika Tamura, Kamehameha; Lisa Tanikawa, McKinley; Carleton Wong, UH Lab School; and Sophia Wong, Roosevelt High School. Regents Scholars receive a four-year tuition waiver to UH, plus $4,000 a year and a one-time travel grant of $2,000.
In addition, the following students were awarded Presidential Scholarships: Daniel Akiyama, Amber Caracol, Reuben Chong, Dariann Choy, Michelle Fong, Grace Liu, Kamila Ma'i'i, Nicola Nicolaisen and Amy Platt. Vincent Lee was also awarded the President Albert Simone Scholarship Award in addition to a Presidential Scholarship for being the top-ranking student of all Presidential Scholars. Presidential Scholars receive a two-year tuition waiver to UH, plus $4,000 a year and a one-time travel grant of $2,000. All of the students were recognized during an awards dinner held July 19 at UH-Manoa.
>> Jadee Bowen, Keilani Yang and Brooke Jones, Kahuku High School students, placed fourth at National History Day, held in June at the University of Maryland. Kahuku High student Bethany Smith took sixth, and Waianae students Julia Shimizu, Lonona Brown and Betsy Brown placed seventh. Kahuku High students Justin Keys, Kevin Grigsby and Andrew Pontti were awarded the Outstanding State Award from Hawaii for the senior division (grades 9-12). Kahuku Intermediate student Noelle Spring received the award for the junior division (grades 6-8). In all, 22 entries represented Hawaii at National History Day.
Corrections and clarifications
>> Licensed in 1888, Almeda Hitchcock was the first woman lawyer in Hawaii. A Sept. 9 obituary for Clinton Ashford misidentified Hawaii's first woman lawyer as Ashford's aunt Marguerite Ashford.>> The Honolulu Police Department's Kalihi Crime Reduction Unit arrested 11 people Tuesday for "crack" cocaine trafficking. A story in some editions yesterday incorrectly reported that the FBI made the arrests.
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin strives to make its news report fair and accurate. If you have a question or comment about news coverage, call Publisher and Editor in Chief John Flanagan at 529-4748 or email him at jflanagan@starbulletin.com. Corrections and clarifications
Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Big Isle police search for missing Puna girl, 14
Big Island police are looking for a 14-year-old girl who has been missing from her Puna residence since Wednesday, Sept. 5.The girl was identified as Joycelyn S. Medeiros. She is described as being a Caucasian female, being 5-foot-3 in height, weighing about 110 pounds with a slim build and having black hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call Officer Peter Kualii of the Hilo Juvenile Aid Section at 961-2373 or the police nonemergency telephone number at 935-3311.
Those who wish to remain anonymous may call CrimeStoppers at 961-8300 in Hilo or 329-8181 in Kona.
LEEWARD OAHU
Chemical mix sends 3 HPD officers to hospital
Emergency Medical Services crews took three Honolulu police officers to St. Francis-West Medical Center yesterday after a woman doused officers with what emergency workers call a "chemical slurry."Fire officials said the 56-year-old Renton Road resident drank a mix of household cleansers, medication and other chemicals in a suicide attempt and then threw it on responding officers.
Fire crews responding to a separate emergency call in the same area saw an officer run out of the woman's home and throw up. All three officers and the woman were decontaminated by HFD and taken to St. Francis.
Two emergency services personnel working on the victim were also overcome by fumes from her body and had to be admitted into the emergency room. A firefighter helping to drive the ambulance was also admitted. Hospital officials said the woman remains in guarded condition; police, fire and ambulance personnel are in fair condition.
