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Question: My son lost his job on the SS Independence when the company declared bankruptcy. At Maui Airport coming back to Honolulu, they confiscated his nail clippers and nose hair clippers. The combined replacement value is $15. What will the government now do with these items? These are health items. If they confiscate them from all passengers, it adds up to big money for somebody. Can we get them back? How to retrieve nail
clippers after an
airport confiscationAnswer: Although the security checkpoints are run by the airlines, they must conform to state guidelines.
One of those guidelines is that confiscated materials like your son's nail clippers are turned over to the lost-and-found section at whatever state airports is involved, explained airlines security coordinator Joe Guyton.
The items are held for 45 days, during which time people can reclaim them. Since your son's items were confiscated at Maui Airport, he needs to get in touch with the lost-and-found section there, Guyton said.
If items are not reclaimed, the state can either auction them, if they're suitable for auction; donate them to a charitable organization; or earmark them for "out-and-out disposal, for something that has no relative value for resale or auction."
Q: Can anything be done about repairing the showers in the Health, Physical Education and Recreation locker room for students and staff at the University of Hawaii at Manoa? There are probably only two showers which actually have water coming out of the shower head, and even these two showers aren't properly working. Work has been done on the showers before, but the situation has only gotten worse; water just trickles from most of the showers, and some do not even operate. We know that the locker room staff has made numerous requests for repair, however nothing has been done since the repairs are not a priority.
A: A contract was awarded last month to repair those showers, according to Teri Chang, assistant athletic director for facilities.
However, because it normally takes six to eight weeks for ordered parts to arrive, it won't be until early November, possibly the first week, that repairs will be made, she said.
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We saw the very patriotic ad by Koolau Golf Club offering 50 percent off the rates, which is a great deal. But after we showed up and paid for a round, they told us the greens were under repair.We decided to play anyway, but found half the greens roped off and the other half not in good shape. They should have told us ahead of time that that's why they were offering the discount. -- Dennis
(Koolau Golf Club general manager and PGA professional Rob Nelson said he knows the ongoing renovations to the golf course may be an inconvenience, but offering the big discounts is "all about the Stars and Stripes." It is not because of the renovations, he said.
(After the events of Sept. 11, the club decided to offer 50 percent off the usual kamaaina rate of $54 on weekdays and $59 on weekends and holidays (to $27 and $29.50, respectively) and from $125 to $62.50 for non-residents, he said.
(Nelson said the club is using this "down time" period to make improvements to the course. The discounts will be good to the end of the year, he said.)
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