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By Star-Bulletin Staff

Isle meeting to highlight better child care

A symposium designed to spread awareness of an international movement to raise warmhearted children and further the cross-cultural understanding of child-care science will be held at the East-West Center from next Monday to June 26.

Ensuring good health and protection from violent and nonviolent injuries will be emphasized in addition to responsible parenthood, quality child-care choices and mobilizing communities in support of early childhood.

It will feature a keynote address by Jim Greenman, a child-care expert and author of the book "What Happened to the World?" This is the second annual Childcare Symposium sponsored by the University of Hawaii and Aprica Childcare Institute.

Registration is $50 per day or $125 for three days of lectures, plenary sessions and culture fairs focusing on medicine and health, families and education, and community and society.

For more information, visit programs.kcc.hawaii.edu/ ~uhaprica or call 845-9122.

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Police, Fire, Courts



By Star-Bulletin staff

Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers

HONOLULU

Man shot in leg near Ala Wai Playground

A 31-year-old man was shot in the left leg last night near the Ala Wai Playground after an argument between two groups of men.

The victim was taken to Kapiolani Medical Center where he was treated and released. Police were searching for two men as suspects.

Police said the victim was at the playground with two friends when they became involved in a confrontation.

The gunman was described as 5-feet tall, 180 pounds with short dark hair. The other suspect was described as in his late 30s, 5-feet-6 and 140 pounds. He was wearing a maroon shirt and blue jeans.

Quick action prevents fire from spreading

A woman received second-degree burns last night while she fought a kitchen fire in her 16th-floor apartment at the Chinatown Gateway Plaza, 1031 Nuuanu Ave., said fire department spokesman Capt. Richard Soo.

The woman used a portable fire extinguisher and kept flames from spreading, Soo said. Firefighters responding to the 5:49 p.m. alarm extinguished the fire within minutes.

The fire left $25,000 damage to the apartment. The woman, in her 30s and lives alone, refused treatment for her burns.

A smoke detector caused the building fire alarm to sound, and some residents evacuated the building, Soo said.

CENTRAL OAHU

Wahiawa man held after threatening kin

Police arrested a Wahiawa man after he threatened his mother and sister with machetes, a .22-caliber rifle and a pellet gun last night.

Officers broke into the man's bedroom and wrestled away a .22-caliber rifle before taking him into custody.

Police said the 42-year-old man is accused of pointing the rifle at his mother and sister and threatening to kill them. He also used two machetes to threaten them.

The man locked himself in his bedroom and refused to open the door, police said. When officers broke in, he also pointed the rifle at an officer.

The man was arrested on three counts of terroristic threatening and possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia. Police said they found two glass pipes containing residue resembling crystal methamphetamine.

NORTH SHORE

\Waialua car crash puts biker in hospital

A 22-year-old Waialua man was in critical condition at Queen's Medical Center after his motorcycle was struck by a car at about 11:18 p.m. Saturday, police said.

The man had been riding his Kawasaki dirt-bike motorcycle west on Waialua Beach Road when he was struck by a Chevrolet Nova that was traveling east on Waialua Beach Road and turning left onto Haleiwa Road. The 26-year-old Waialua man driving the car was not injured. The motorcyclist was flown by helicopter to the hospital.

The motorcycle was an off-road vehicle that did not have any lights, police said.

NEIGHBOR ISLANDS

Big Island officials check blaze for arson

HILO, Hawaii -- Big Island authorities were investigating whether a fire at a restaurant and adjacent apartment building was set intentionally.

The fire caused about $2,000 damage to Rosie's Diner and the apartment building on Keawe Street in Hilo, the Hawaii County Fire Department said in a news release. No injuries were reported.

The fire was reported just before 11 p.m. last night and was mostly out by the time fire crews arrived on the scene.