TRAINING DAY
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A plume of black smoke rising from the area of the Reef Runway at Honolulu Airport yesterday was visible from downtown Honolulu, alarming some people. The smoke was from an Airport Crash Rescue team training at the facility near the reef runway.
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Coast Guard safety office changes chief
The commanding officer of the U.S. Coast Guard's Marine Safety Office is stepping aside in a change of command ceremony scheduled for today.Capt. Gilbert Kanazawa, the office's commander since 1999, is retiring after 26 years of service, the Coast Guard said in a news release.
Kanazawa oversaw the relocation and recovery of the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru and the rescue operation of a dog from a disabled Indonesian tanker.
After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he also oversaw the Coast Guard's maritime homeland security in Hawaii.
He is being succeeded by Capt. Timothy Skuby, a 23-year Coast Guard veteran who has served as the chief of the Budget and Resources Division of the Assistant Commandant for Marine Safety, Security and Environmental Protection.
Also today, the Coast Guard has planned a change of command ceremony for the cutter Rush.
Capt. Paul F. Zukunft, who is transferring to the 14th Coast Guard District in Honolulu to be the chief of operations, is being succeeded by Capt. Patrick H. Stadt.
Stadt has served aboard the cutters Midgett, Sherman and Gallatin.
The Rush is a 378-foot high-endurance cutter based in Honolulu.
Meeting features talk on homeland security
WAILUKU >> Lt. Gen. Ed Smith of the U.S. Army Pacific Command is scheduled to talk about homeland security tomorrow at a Hawaii State Association of Counties bi-annual conference on Maui.The speech takes place at 9 a.m. at the Aulani Ballroom at the Outrigger Wailea Resort.
The price of attending the conference on Wednesday through Friday is $175, including two receptions and a continental breakfast.
The association includes members of elected councils of various counties in Hawaii and mayors as ex-officio members.
For more information, the public may call the Maui County Council, 808-270-7838.
Man pleads no contest in Big Island assault
HILO >> A Big Island man who attacked a woman on the face and head with a hammer and a machete has pleaded no contest to attempted murder in the second degree, the Hawaii County prosecutor's office said.The defendant, Allen Aku, 50, of Puna, will be sentenced at a hearing on Aug. 14.
The plea assures that he will be sentenced to life with possible parole, the prosecution statement said.
Aku attacked the victim, Kelleen Norton, 41, on Post Office Road in Pahoa about 5:25 p.m. March 16, 2001, authorities said.
She was flown to Honolulu for treatment at Queen's Medical Center of a depressed skull fracture and severe lacerations to her head and face, they said.
The prosecutor's office said the case was domestic violence.
Forum to talk about Kalanianaole fixes
A meeting about Kalanianaole Highway improvements will be held at 7 p.m. today at the Waimanalo Elementary School Library conference room.The meeting will discuss improvements on the highway from Olomana Golf Course to Waimanalo Beach Park.
The meeting is open to the public.
Navy awards contract to develop Ford Island
Fluor Hawaii LLC has been awarded a contract for the planning and development of the 450-acre Ford Island in the middle of Pearl Harbor.The Navy wants to develop 75 acres of the island into a medium-density private development allowing some commercial businesses, tourist attractions and family and bachelor quarters to be built on the island.
The plan calls for a labor force of 2,800 workers and about 6,700 visitors each year.
The Navy is hoping that a private developer will build and improve Navy housing and construct new military facilities on most of Ford Island for a lease of 75 acres for private development.
ORIGAMI CRANES WILL
SOAR AT WORLD CUP FINALE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Japanese schoolchildren tossed 10,000 origami cranes yesterday during a ceremony at the Japan Organizing Committee for the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan. They are among 2,714,670 paper cranes collected from 2,939 schools to be showered on fans at the finale of the World Cup on Sunday in Yokohama. Looking on is Hawaii-born former sumo wrestler Konishiki.
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[Taking Notice]
Grants
>>Twelve Lions Clubs on Oahu and Kauai have worked with the Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation to donate $60,000 to the community this year, making it a total of $340,000 since 1992. The clubs provide the labor to do repairs or improvements and the foundation gives them $10,000 for each completed project.The foundation also contributed $10,000 toward the efforts of the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunrise on behalf of the Hawaii Children's Cancer Foundation. The Rotarians painted and repaired the Old Stadium park facilities.
>>The Agenda for Building Communities Fund has awarded a third-year grant for $82,400 to the Waipahu Community Association. Funding partners are the Aloha United Way, American Savings Bank, Atherton Family Foundation, Bank of Hawaii, H.K.L. Castle Foundation, HMSA Foundation, Hawaii Community Foundation and McInerny Foundation.
>>The Mamoru and Aiko Takitani Foundation has awarded $103,000 in scholarships to 58 schools in Hawaii. The foundation gave $1,000 to each outstanding senior at 58 schools, as well as $2,000 to the top 10 students. Two $10,000 and one $5,000 scholarships were also awarded. The Takitanis founded the Hawaiian Host chocolate company in 1960 and have since awarded more than $800,000 in scholarships.
>>The Hawaii Council for the Humanities has awarded $4,000 in grants for public educational projects in the humanities to the F.L.I.C.K. Foundation and Adria Imada.
>>The Hawaii Electric Light Company, through the Hawaiian Electric Industries Charitable Foundation, has granted $10,000 to the Kawaihae Transitional Shelter of Catholic Charities Community & Immigrant Services on the Big Island. The funds will be used for lighting and building two more duplex units.
>>The Victoria S. and Bradley L. Geist Foundation has awarded Read Aloud America $30,000 to support its reading program for families.
>>KCAA Pre-Schools of Hawaii has received a $5,000 grant from the Hawaii Hotel Association to upgrade the children's bathrooms at its Mother Rice Pre-school.
>>The Augustine Educational Foundation has been awarded $100,000 from First Hawaiian Foundation, the charitable arm of First Hawaiian Bank, to give tuition assistance to students attending Hawaii Catholic schools.
>>The McKinley High School Robotics Team's first trip to the nationals this spring was funded by donations from Hawaiian Electric Company, the Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc., RHT Enterprises, Hi-Tech Development Technologies, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, 3M Hawaii, Victoria Ward Limited, T. Iida Contracting, Ltd., American Carpet One, Industrial Electronics, Inc., Min Plastics & Supply, Inc., Simply Ono, FedEX, SUMMA Technology, Inc., Meadow Gold Dairies, KTM Services, Inc., Engineering Concepts, Inc., Corrosion X of Hawaii, Safety Systems Hawaii, Inc., McKinley High School Foundation and Alumni Association, and several other sponsors.
|Taking Notice runs on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Please send items for Taking Notice to City Desk, Star-Bulletin, 500 Ala Moana, Suite 7-210, Honolulu, HI 96813.
>> Kalani Irvine coaches for Lanikai. He was incorrectly identified as a coach for Kailua Canoe Club on Page B6 on Monday. Corrections and clarifications
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
LEEWARD OAHU
3 Ewa residents held in alleged robbery
A shoplifting at the Kapolei Safeway Store turned into a robbery yesterday after a man used an electric stun gun to threaten the store security officers.Police said two women put stolen goods into a black bag and left the store about 3:45 p.m., and when security officers stopped them outside the store, a car pulled up. A man carrying a stun gun got out of the car and thrust the stun gun toward the officers.
The two women and the man then fled in the car but were arrested later in Waipahu, police said. The suspects, all of Ewa Beach, were arrested for first-degree robbery.
Man, 19, charged after cop is almost run over
A 19-year-old man, accused of trying to run over an officer earlier this month, was arrested and charged with attempted assault. Bail for Lopaka Selby-Oglesby was set at $15,000.Police said an officer was sent to a Helelua Street address in Nanakuli June 15 for a domestic argument. The officer said Selby-Oglesby was trying to drive away in a vehicle when he arrived.
The officer ordered Selby-Oglesby out of the vehicle after a 19-year-old woman reported Selby-Oglesby had just assaulted her.
Police said Selby-Oglesby drove his vehicle at the officer, forcing him to jump behind his own vehicle for safety. The officer was not injured.
Police located and arrested Selby-Oglesby in Wahiawa Saturday.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Big Island woman, 47, missing since June 16
Big Island police were looking for a 47-year-old Kau woman, who was last seen June 16 at her South Point residence in Kau.Police said Marjorie Kalua'u was described as 5 feet 6, about 140 pounds, with medium build, fair complexion, blonde hair and hazel eyes.
Police said Kalua'u may be driving her car, a light blue 1986 Honda Civic two-door sedan with the license plate FDP 155.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Kau patrol at 939-2520, the police nonemergency number at 935-3311, or CrimeStoppers at 961-8300 in Hilo or 329-8181 in Kona.
Maui officials probe several dumpster fires
Maui fire officials were investigating a series of fires set to dumpsters and recycling bins in Kahului and Wailuku early this morning.Assistant Fire Chief Alan Cordeiro said officials received an alarm for a fire at a recycling bin at Kahului School at 2:23 a.m., then another fire at Waiehu Terrace at 2:26 a.m. Two other alarms followed, a dumpster fire at Kahului Shopping Center at 3:06 a.m., and a rubbish bin fire at Hanakai Street in Kahului at 3:20 a.m.
Cordeiro said there were no suspects and the methods used to set the fires were not yet determined.
HONOLULU
FL MORRIS / FMORRIS@STARBULLETIN.COM
Investigators say yesterday's fire at 710 Umi St. in Kalihi was intentionally set.
Kalihi building fire said to be intentional
The fire that damaged an abandoned two-story building in Kalihi yesterday was intentionally set, fire investigators said. Damage was estimated at $105,000.The 9 a.m. fire was started in several locations on the second floor of the building at 710 Umi St., said Capt. Richard Soo, Honolulu Fire Department spokesman.
The building was used to store fireworks, he said. Police discovered a stolen car in the building's parking lot after the fire.
8 women arrested for prostitution at club
Police arrested eight women on prostitution charges Saturday at Dancers nightclub after they performed lap dances for money.The arrests at 205 Sand Island Access Road were the culmination of a two-week investigation, said Capt. Kevin Lima of the police Narcotics/Vice Division. Under Hawaii law, lap dancing constitutes sexual contact.
The women ranged in age from 24 to 57. Police said they were seeking two more women in the investigation.
