Guide details non-smoking options in eateries
WAILUKU >> Nearly all of the restaurants on Lanai are smoke-free, but none of Molokai's few restaurants are, according to a new guide published by the state and the Coalition for a Tobacco Free Hawaii.The 2002 issue of "Hawaii's Guide to Smoke-Free Dining" lists 81 smoke-free restaurants on Kauai and 32 on Maui, which has probably three times as many eateries as the Garden Isle.
The guide also lists the voluntarily smoke-free restaurants in Honolulu, but as of tomorrow, all Oahu restaurants will be smoke-free, by a new city ordinance.
Although Casanova Italian Restaurant and Deli in Makawao is not listed in the guide, owner Steve Burgelin said the dining room is nonsmoking until 9:30 p.m.
Burgelin tried to offer a smoke-free night club night once a week several years ago, but it failed.
"I felt we were breaking ground," he says now, "but we had to admit defeat. It cost us a lot of money and a lot of business."
Troy Taylor, manager of one of Maui's handful of smoke-free restaurants, Kula Lodge & Restaurant, said sometimes it is ironic, because the dining room has an open fireplace that "puts out a lot of smoke."
But many of the customers come from the mainland, where restaurant smoking bans are common, so when they find the same at Kula Lodge, "It's not a big shock."
Book sale to help isle Friends of Library
The 55th Annual Book Sale, sponsored by the Friends of the Library of Hawaii, will be held July 6 through 13 at McKinley High School cafeteria.Hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day except July 13, when the sale is on from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Special discounts will be offered on certain days. (See schedule below.)
More than 150,000 items are available for sale, mostly hardcover books, but many are paperbacks and magazines. Sheet music, records, audio and video cassette tapes, encyclopedia and other sets, puzzles, maps and pamphlets round out the 70-ton assortment.
Proceeds from the sale will go to help the Hawaii State Public Library System purchase books and equipment, fund programs, and provide continuing education grants for librarians. Books are received from a variety of sources, including bequests from estates, donations from individuals and businesses, and discards from the public library.
A core of 30 volunteers process the books throughout the year, but at sale time, more than 300 will be needed. Anyone interested in helping should call the Friends at 536-4174.
According to Friends executive director Caroline Dvojacki, "Our annual used book sale is the largest of its kind in the United States."
Schedule of sale days:
>> July 6 and 7: regular sales;
>> July 8: selected hardcover fiction and all records, half price.
>> July 9: seniors 60 and over receive 25 percent discount.
>> July 10: members receive 50 percent discount on all purchases.
>> July 11: show your library card and get 25 percent discount.
>> July 12: all remaining books and other items, half price.
>> July 13: all remaining items, 50 cents; paperbacks, two for 50 cents.Hawaii teams leave to find WWII remains
The Army will send two Hawaii-based teams to Europe to look for the remains of four U.S. pilots shot down in 1944 during World War II.Each team from the U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii is composed of 20 personnel with specialized skills in forensic anthropology, logistics, photography, explosive and ordnance disposal, medicine and mortuary affairs. The teams are scheduled to deploy tomorrow, military officials said.
One team will travel to Oberhof, Germany, in an attempt to locate a pilot whose P-51 was shot down when his 55th Fighter Group encountered Luftwaffe defensive fighters.
The team will later go to Grulska Padina, Bulgaria, where a P-38 crashed while returning from a mission over Romania.
The second team will operate in Luxembourg, looking for two P-47D pilots. One was shot down near Kehlen, while the other went down near Niederwampach.
There are more than 78,000 American service members unaccounted for from World War II, laboratory officials said.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
HONOLULU
Stabbing victim stable as HPD seeks suspects
Police were looking for three men who allegedly stabbed a Liliha man Friday morning near Vineyard Boulevard and Liliha Street.The victim, 28, remained hospitalized yesterday in fair condition at the Queen's Medical Center with stab wounds in his back and head.
Police said the man was walking home on N. King Street around 3 a.m. Friday when three men at a bus stop in the Mayor Wright Homes area approached and one man asked him for money. The victim gave them $1.75, which he was going to use to buy a hamburger.
The man fled north on Liliha Street until he was cornered by the suspects at Vineyard Boulevard and Liliha Street. Police said he was stabbed several times and punched in the face.
The three suspects in the second-degree attempted murder investigation are thought to be 18 to 19 years old. One is described as wearing a red shirt, black long pants and possibly white shoes. He was about 5-feet-4-inches tall and 150 pounds.
Police arrest criminal featured in MidWeek
Honolulu Police arrested Galu Vala Jr., 25, yesterday morning on a parole revocation warrant for a prior murder conviction.Honolulu CrimeStoppers said Vala was the sixth person arrested since MidWeek recently featured a number of locally-wanted criminals on its front cover.
Pearl City uniformed patrol officers and Department of Public Safety sheriff's personnel in Waipahu made the arrest, based on CrimeStoppers information.
Makiki man's heroics averts fire damage
The quick thinking of a 39-year-old Makiki man helped avert major damage and injury last night after a fire broke out in a neighbor's fourth-floor apartment, said Honolulu Fire Capt. Richard Soo.Soo said the neighbor, a 60-year-old woman, had fled the apartment after unattended candles ignited furniture in the living room around 5:15 p.m. The man then entered her apartment and smothered the fire by overturning the sofa and dousing it with pots of water. By the time fire crews got there four minutes after the alarm, the fire was under control.
Soo said the building at 730 Captain Cook Ave. has 12 stories and 10 units per floor.
"It really could have been quite tragic if it wasn't for his quick efforts," Soo said.
He said the woman was suffering from anxiety and taken to a hospital for treatment. The man, he said, was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation and released.
The fire caused an estimated $1,000 damage to the furniture and rug.
Soo said Makiki station's acting captain will be recommending the man for a commendation.
WINDWARD OAHU
Homes safe as fire in Hauula is contained
A brush fire that blazed through three acres in Hauula may have been caused by a farmer performing an unauthorized agricultural burn, said Honolulu Fire Capt. Richard Soo.The fire at 53-624 Kamehameha Highway was reported yesterday around 11:15 a.m. It was under control about two hours later. It was about a quarter-mile off the highway and no homes were threatened, Soo said.
The fire appears to have started on an agricultural lot and gotten out of hand. A man who rents the lot told firefighters he wasn't aware that he needed a permit to perform an agricultural burn.
Soo said the state issues burn permits, but the fire department decides when to allow a burn depending on wind conditions.
LEEWARD OAHU
Diver's body found off Yokohama Bay
A Portland, Ore., man who was in the islands for naval reserve training apparently drowned while night diving at Yokohama Bay, the fire department said.The man was reported missing just after 11 p.m. Friday. His body was spotted at about 2:30 a.m. about one-quarter mile offshore and recovered, said Honolulu Fire Department spokesman Capt. Richard Soo.
The man had been diving with two other men, but left the group to return to shore alone because of difficulties with his buoyancy gear, Soo said. Three divers searched for the man, but it was too dark and rough for the rescue boat to enter the bay. Soo said rescuers also set up stationary lights and did a land search from Yokohama Bay to Kaena Point.
The medical examiner was to conduct an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
Man reported drowned after swim at Ko Olina
A 40-year-old man apparently drowned yesterday morning outside the lagoon area at Ko Olina Resort & Marina.Honolulu Fire Capt. Richard Soo said fire personnel responded at 8:23 a.m. to a report of a swimmer in distress. When they arrived the man was not breathing.
The man, who is described as having a local address, was brought ashore by off-duty soldiers from Schofield Barracks who started CPR, he said.
The man was taken to St. Francis Medical Center-West, where he was pronounced dead.
