Eatery smoking ban clears hurdle on Maui
WAILUKU >> A bill that would impose a smoking ban in restaurants effective Jan. 1 cleared an initial vote by the Maui County Council yesterday.A final vote on the measure is tentatively scheduled for Aug. 20.
Smoking is currently allowed in designated areas in restaurants on Maui, Lanai and Molokai.
The proposed ordinance would allow smoking in bars. But smoking in an area devoted to serving alcohol in a restaurant would be forbidden.
More changes announced at KITV
KITV weekend sports anchor Dan Meisenzahl and sports reporter Kanoa Leahey will fill new seats beginning Aug. 11.After nearly four years with KITV sports, Meisenzahl will jump to news and serve temporarily as weekend anchor.
Leahey will become weekend sports anchor. He joined the station in 1999 as a sports reporter.
The shuffling follows the promotion of sole weekend anchor Shawn Ching to weekday anchor alongside Paula Akana at 6 and 10 p.m.
Late next month, former KGMB-TV reporter and anchor Mahealani Richardson will assume the weekend anchor position.
City receives $7 million to buy 29 new buses
Honolulu has received a $7 million federal transportation grant to upgrade its bus system.The funds, expected to be released Monday, will be used to purchase 29 40-foot replacement buses for the city bus system.
The new buses will upgrade the fleet and replace some of the older ones.
The grant comes from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration.
More federal money offered to isle farmers
Hawaii will receive an additional $582,700 in federal farmland funds to help farmers and ranchers enhance and protect the state's soil, air and water resources.The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, also known as the 2002 Farm Bill, increases conservation funding this fiscal year, making a total of $1,145,000 for cost-share benefits available to qualified farmers and ranchers. New eligibility requirements will allow ranchers and farmers across the state to participate.
Funds will be made available through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program.
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[Taking Notice]
Isle girl's poster takes second place
Allison Sakakida, 11, won second place and a $500 savings bond recently in a national anti-smoking poster contest sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
The poster was submitted through Alvah Scott Elementary School where she began sixth-grade this month.
Daughter of Lisa and Gareth Sakakida, Allison received a trip to Washington, D.C., as state winner to represent Hawaii in the national contest.
>> Cheryl Terill has been appointed director of career services at Heald College. She was formerly chairman of volunteers for the American Red Cross and a teacher at Richard Milburn High School at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe.>> As she has for the last 19 years, state Sen. Donna Mercado Kim has awarded $1,000 scholarships to six seniors and three middle school students for outstanding scholastic and extracurricular achievements. The recipients were Robyn S.J. Chung and Tyffiny-Elizabeth P. Keliiaa-Fernandez of Aiea High; Arlene R. Ponce and Genna T. Sagaysay, Farrington; Jessica H. Kotomori and Alice Ra, Moanalua High; Rosalie L.A. Inouye, Aiea Intermediate; Theresa M. Tomacder, Dole Middle; and Nikki K. Katsutani, Moanalua Middle.
>> Klaus Keil, director of the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, has received the Microbeam Analysis Society's 2002 Presidential Science Award. This is the highest award the MAS bestows and is given each year to a scientist who has made extraordinary contributions to the field of microanalysis.
>> Joanna Pang of Honolulu, a junior at Oregon State University majoring in industrial engineering, has been awarded a $1,000 James and Nancy Johnson Scholarship and a $1,500 Julia Gertrude Norse Scholarship. Hope Kalei of Kurtistown on the Big Island, a junior in pre-physical therapy, received a $1,500 Julia Gertrude Norse Scholarship.
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>> Rankings of morning radio shows in a story on Page C2 Tuesday reflected audience among adults aged 25 to 54. The demographic was not specified. Corrections and clarifications
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
NORTH SHORE
Firefighters wrap up battling Waialua fire
Honolulu firefighters headed back to Waialua yesterday morning to finish off what remained of a 100-acre brush fire.The fire started in the grassy hillside above Waialua High and Intermediate schools Thursday afternoon, and firefighters extinguished the last of it by 1:30 p.m. yesterday.
The cause of the fire has not been determined.
WINDWARD OAHU
Wanted posters draw concern in Waimanalo
Honolulu police are concerned about wanted posters being put up in Waimanalo that were not authorized by the Police Department.The posters are of a 35-year-old Waimanalo man whom police want to question about a sexual assault case that was reported on July 26. Investigators have asked the family, which posted the posters, to allow police to handle the case.
"People making up their own posters isn't due process," said CrimeStoppers Detective Letha DeCaires. "It may even complicate and ruin cases for prosecution."
Police are asking that the individual wanted for questioning in this case turn himself in as soon as possible.
HONOLULU
Ala Moana Beach drowning victim ID'd
The Honolulu medical examiner has identified the man who drowned at Ala Moana Beach on Wednesday as Andrew Lum, 41, of Kaneohe.Lum drowned in shallow water close to shore after suffering from an apparent stroke.
Grill suspected as Aliamanu fire's cause
An unattended barbecue grill is the suspected cause of a fire Thursday at a military housing complex in Aliamanu, Army officials said.But the exact cause is still under investigation, officials said. The fire caused an estimated $100,000 damage to the structure of two housing units at 1225 Milo Place. There is no estimate of the damage to the contents.
Stolen backhoe-loader found on Waianae road
CrimeStoppers, the Honolulu Police Department and Hickam law enforcement officials announced that a Caterpillar backhoe-loader that had been stolen from Hickam Air Force Base was recovered this week in Waianae.The vehicle had been stolen sometime between May 29 and June 12. When police recovered it Wednesday, they said it was after someone had used it for an estimated 200 hours.
Waianae patrol officers, responding to a complaint about construction equipment blocking the flow of traffic on Plantation Road, located and recovered the 1999 Caterpillar backhoe-loader, Model 416C IT, valued at $54,000.
Anyone with information about the suspect who stole the tractor should call investigator Rodney Lambert through the Hickam law enforcement desk, 449-2645. Anonymous calls are being taken by CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or at *CRIME on a cellular phone.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Hilo police warn of health inspection scam
Hilo police are warning residents to be wary of a scam in which individuals use the pretext of a health inspection to get inside homes.Police received a complaint that a man drove up in a van, identified himself as representing a charitable group and asked the resident if he could enter her house and inspect her carpeting and bedding for allergens.
The complainant said she let him inside, then grew suspicious and asked him to leave.
Police said there is no charitable group seeking entrance into houses to inspect for allergens.
