Waikiki Aquarium hosts annual Easter Sea Hunt
The Waikiki Aquarium and Ka Lei Eggs will hold the 7th annual Easter Sea Hunt from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.Gates will open at 8:30 a.m. to Friends of the Waikiki Aquarium members and at 9 a.m. to the general public.
Last year's festivities included an egg hunt, games and pictures with the Easter bunny.
Ewa Beach library offers storytime for young kids
Children ages 3 to 5 are invited to attend free Preschool Storytime programs every Wednesday in March at the Ewa Beach Public & School Library.The half-hour programs begin at 10:30 a.m. Adult supervision is required.
To request a sign-language interpreter, call the library at least a week in advance. For more information, call librarian Cindy Chow at 689-1204.
Annual Foodbank drive looking for volunteers
The Hawaii Foodbank is seeking volunteers for its annual food drive and fund-raiser April 27.The 13th annual Hawaii Foodbank Food Drive will be held at five sites on Oahu: Koko Marina Center, Pearl City Shopping Center, The Town Center of Mililani, Waiokeola Congregational Church in Kahala and Windward City Shopping Center. Volunteers are needed for two shifts, from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and from 2 to 5:30 p.m.
Last year, more than 2,000 volunteers helped to collect 440,000 pounds of food and $305,000, which provided food assistance to an estimated 398,000 Hawaii people.
This year's goals are 500,000 pounds of food and $325,000. People are asked to help by donating food, funds or by volunteering for the food drive.
The first 150 volunteers submitting completed applications per site will receive a free 13th Annual Hawaii Foodbank Food Drive T-shirt. Applications are due March 29. For an application, call 836-3600, extension 239.
The drive is sponsored by First Hawaiian Bank, KGMB-TV and KSSK-FM.
Isle Goodwill fund-raiser hauls in a hefty load
The 11th annual Goodwill Industries of Hawaii Fund-raising Auction, celebrating the agency's centennial anniversary, earned more than $52,000. The auction was held last month at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.For 100 years Goodwill has offered occupational skills training and career development services for people with disabilities, welfare dependency, lack of work experience and other barriers to employment throughout the nation.
Community businesses donated items, which were bid on during a silent auction. A live auction included an aerial tour with Buzz Bennett, a Hard Rock Cafe leather jacket, items from local artists, and valuable items found in Goodwill stores.
In Hawaii, last year Goodwill served more than 2,200 people and reported $10.2 million in revenues. Under Goodwill, 700 people were placed into employment last year. The agency channels more than 90 percent of its revenues into programs and services.
Weinberg Foundation helps Maui family service
WAILUKU >> The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has donated $740,000 to Maui Family Support Services.The Maui group helps more than 4,000 Maui County families annually. Its Healthy Start program provides life skills and early child development knowledge to parents with children from infants to 5 years old.
The group said those receiving assistance through the Healthy Start program have significantly less incidences of family abuse compared to those without counseling.
The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, the 22nd-largest charitable organization in the United States, provides contributions to organizations helping youths, the elderly, homeless, and handicapped.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffNEIGHBOR ISLANDS Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
Honokaa man rescued off cliff side after crash
HILO >> A 35-year-old man was rescued from a cliff-side tree yesterday morning, about 11 hours after driving a pickup truck off the 300- to 400-foot cliff along the Waipio Valley access road, Big Island police said.John Richard Davis of Honokaa landed in the tree about 100 feet above a beach where the truck crashed Friday night, pinning a 44-year-old man in the passenger seat, Sgt. Samuel V. Jelsma said.
The unidentified passenger was pronounced dead early yesterday morning at Hilo Medical Center.
An initial search failed to locate Davis, but rescuers returned at daybreak and heard him yelling and whistling from the tree, Jelsma said.
Rescue personnel rappelled down the side of the cliff, and a helicopter was used to pluck Davis from the tree and fly him to the hospital, he said.
Davis was listed in guarded condition after being treated for a broken leg and bruises.
The pickup was overtaking another vehicle when it climbed an embankment and dropped off the cliff, Jelsma said.
Witnesses told police the pickup was traveling recklessly at a high rate of speed up the road just before the accident, he said.
CENTRAL OAHU
Multiple car crash slows traffic near Aiea cutoff
Traffic crawled along the H-1 freeway east yesterday morning after a three-car accident near the Aiea cutoff.Two people were taken to Kapiolani Medical Center at Pali Momi with minor injuries, an ambulance dispatcher said.
The accident occurred shortly before 9 a.m., causing stop-and-go traffic beyond the Kaonohi Street overpass.
HONOLULU
Police seek male suspect in alleged car demolition
Police were looking for a man suspected of ramming his girlfriend's mother's car off a Kalihi road.The mother was driving home shortly before midnight Thursday when her vehicle was struck by the suspect's car and pushed off the road and onto a grass hill on the shoulder of Hala Drive near Keola Street.
The suspect fled in an unknown vehicle. The woman, who was not injured, recognized him as her daughter's boyfriend.
