[ TAKING NOTICE ]
Winners at Work Inc. has launched a redesigned Web site (www.winnersatwork.org) that provides easy access to information, community resources and other types of help for disabled people. Web site info helps disabled people
Winners has partnered with AssistGuide, a Web development service specializing in designing for senior, long-term care and disability business marketplaces.
Wendy M. Watson, program manager of Winners, said: "We see computer technology as one of the many tools (to increase opportunities for people with disabilities). In the future we are planning to provide online services such as downloadable curriculum and live training to reach individuals in rural areas."
For more information, call 808-532-2100.
>> Child and Family Service has received the following grants from: the Atherton Family Foundation, $15,000, for Head Start playground equipment on Kauai; Frear Eleemonsynary Trust, $5,000, and McInerny Foundation, $25,000, to assist families impacted by Sept. 11; Ellen Koenig Memorial Fund, $30,200, for domestic abuse shelters; and Friends of Hawaii Charities-Sony Open, $20,000, to increase skills in addressing autism.
>> The Estate of James Campbell and the James and Abigail Campbell Foundation have awarded $40,000 to the new Kapolei Public Library to purchase books and other materials, shortening the time it will take to open the new facility, scheduled for December 2003. The foundation also awarded a $15,000 grant to the Ewa Beach Public and School Library to purchase microfilm printers and readers.
>> The Hilo Medical Center Foundation has received a donation through the xe'lan Permanent Endowment Program from an anonymous donor for more than $6 million during the next five generations.
>> The Agenda for Building Communities Fund has awarded the Waipahu Community Association a third year grant for $82,400 to offset operational costs of the group and assist in special celebrations and projects.
The fund consists of contributions from 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.
>>New Hope Christian Fellowship Oahu awarded its first annual scholarships to Lester Manding and Narceliza Domingo, recent graduates of Farrington High School. They each received $2,500 awards to further their religious studies.
>>Aarin Yu, a recent Roosevelt High School graduate, has received a $6,000 Dean's Honorary Scholarship to study engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
HONOLULU
Cop's alleged attacker is arrested in Palolo
Honolulu police arrested Ronald Lewis Medeiros yesterday after searching for him since Aug. 5 for allegedly stealing an officer's sports utility vehicle and injured the officer with the vehicle.A CrimeStoppers tip led police to Medeiros, 35, who was arrested at a Palolo Avenue apartment about 10 a.m.
On Aug. 5, an officer pulled Medeiros over in Whitmore Village on suspicion he was driving a stolen car, police said. The officer tried to arrest him but Medeiros got into the officer's sports utility vehicle and drove away. The vehicle struck the officer in the leg as it sped off, police said.
Halsey Terrace home burns while empty
An afternoon fire yesterday destroyed a Navy home in Halsey Terrace near Pearl Harbor.No one was home when federal and Honolulu city and county firefighters responded to the blaze at 3:43 p.m. at 3169 Arizona Road. The single-story structure was occupied by a sailor assigned to a Pearl Harbor warship and his family of three. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
WINDWARD OAHU
Waimanalo man charged with rape
Honolulu police charged a 35-year-old Waimanalo man yesterday for allegedly raping a juvenile girl last month.Albert K. Kalima III was charged with two counts of first-degree sexual assault and two counts of second-degree sexual assault in connection with a July 24 case.
Police had been searching for Kalima since the girl's family put up wanted posters -- with Kalima's pictures -- throughout Waimanalo. Police asked him to turn himself in for his own safety.
Kalima was being held in lieu of $100,000 bail.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
5 rescued after stream rises too high on Maui
WAILUKU >> Five visitors from San Diego were rescued yesterday when a stream rose in Waihee Valley on Maui.Assistant Fire Chief Alan Cordeiro said the hikers were trapped on the Kahakuloa side of the stream. Cordeiro said a fire rescue crew set up a rope pulley system across the stream to allow the visitors -- two men, two women and a 16-year-old boy -- to traverse the rising stream safely.
No one was injured in the daylight rescue, which took more than three hours and ended shortly after 4:10 p.m.
4-year-old girl drowns at Kauai birthday party
WAIMEA, Kauai >> A 4-year-old girl attending a friend's birthday party drowned Saturday afternoon in the swimming pool at Waimea Plantation Cottages, Kauai police said yesterday.Officers said another youngster found Darci Isoshima in the shallow end of the hotel's pool and pulled her out. Fire rescue personnel were unable to revive her, police said.
Downpour strands kayakers on Kauai
LIHUE >> About 16 kayakers were stranded on the Wailua River yesterday when a flash flood caused by heavy overnight rainfall caused the river to rise about 3 feet within minutes.Kauai Fire Department officials said the group was hiking up a hill to look at a waterfall when the river flooded. A woman in the group fell and broke her leg.
A fire rescue crew borrowed a boat to carry her to a waiting ambulance. The other kayakers waited about three hours until the river receded before making their return.
Big Isle cops seek info on stolen Honda ATVs
HILO>> Big Island police are seeking information about the theft of two all-terrain vehicles earlier this month in Keaau.Puna officers said a thief or thieves stole the red 1986 Honda ATVs sometime between 4:30 p.m. Aug. 4 and 6:20 a.m. the following day. The vehicles were parked at the construction site on the Kamehameha Schools campus.
Anyone with information is asked to call Officer Sherwin Taka at 966-5385 or CrimeStoppers at 961-8300 in Hilo or 329-8181 in Kona.
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[ THE COURTS ] Woman pleads innocent to federal tax charges
One of five people charged with conspiring to defraud the U.S. government through various tax schemes pleaded not guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court.Ursula Supnet, also known as Ursula Sounet, 44, was indicted July 11 along with Royal Lamarr Hardy, executive director of the Cornerstones of Freedom Research Foundation, and three others. The foundation held anti-tax seminars and sold allegedly fraudulent schemes representing that U.S. citizens are not required to file income tax returns or pay income taxes.
Supnet was the executive administrator of the foundation. She was released after posting a $10,000 bond.
Hardy and two others pleaded not guilty earlier. Another defendant, Terry Leroy Cassidy, remains at large.
Trial in this case is set for Feb. 4.
Care home death brings negligence conviction
A Hilo care home operator was found guilty of negligence last week in the death of an elderly man.Francilla Malaka, 58, was convicted of endangering the welfare of an incompetent person after failing to obtain timely medical assistance for 86-year-old Torao Nishimoto on Jan. 19, 2001.
State investigators said Nishimoto lost consciousness at Malaka's home and was rushed via ambulance to Hilo Medical Center, where he died in the emergency room.
Prosecutors said Malaka failed to get medical attention for Nishimoto after he suffered a fractured hip while in Malaka's care. Evidence later showed that Nishimoto had extensive bruising in his groin area, small bedsores on his lower back and that he had contracted pneumonia as a consequence of the hip fracture, which was determined to be one to three days old.
Malaka faces up to one year in jail and a $2,000 fine when sentenced Oct. 1.
State Attorney General Earl Anzai encourages those with information about elder abuse or neglect to contact the Medicaid Investigations Division at 586-1058.
