Federal grant supports post-prison transition
The U.S. Department of Justice recently awarded Hawaii $2 million to support initiatives that help convicts successfully re-enter society and become productive members of their communities.The grants, awarded by the Justice Department's Office of Justice Programs, part of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative, are intended to reduce victimization.
"By educating and treating offenders, we are not only helping them improve their lives, we are reducing the chance they will return to crime and drug abuse," Attorney General John Ashcroft said in a news release.
Hawaii's award was among 68 grants totaling $100 million to help protect the public, the department said.
The Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative will build reentry programs in states for juveniles and adults. The initiative will start while offenders are held in correctional facilities and continue through their transition into the community.
The program will also assist ex-offenders with employment training, substance abuse and mental health treatment.
The state Department of Public Safety will receive the grant slated for 225 adult offenders between ages 18 and 35 who were released from the Maui Community Correctional Center.
DARE volunteers plan donation day Sept. 21
The first annual DARE to Care Day, Sept. 21, will be used to collect donations for the Hawaii Drug Abuse Resistance Education Officers Association program.Volunteers will be out in force between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. fronting Pearl Highlands Center, McCully Shopping Center and Windward City Shopping Center to collect donations.
The association was created in 1985 with the Honolulu Police Department and the state Department of Education as partners to reduce the use of drugs and alcohol among students.
Police officers conduct a 17-week program in fifth-grade classrooms, following a structured curriculum on drug use and misuse, resisting peer pressure, building self-esteem, managing stress without drugs, gangs and support systems.
5 Oahu parks to switch to winter schedule
Five Oahu parks will switch to a winter schedule beginning the day after Labor Day, Sept. 3.The parks will close an hour earlier at 6:45 p.m. daily due to shorter daylight hours.
Park gates will continue to open at 7 a.m.
The following parks will be affected:
>> Keaiwa Heiau State Recreation Area, AieaThe summer schedule will resume April 1, 2003.>> Malaekahana State Recreation Area, Kahuku
>> Puu Ualkaa State Wayside, Makiki
>> Sand Island State Recreation Area, Honolulu
>> Wahiawa Freshwater State Recreation Area, Wahiawa
For more information, call 587-0300.
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Rotary donates $1,500 to Ready to Learn effort
The Rotary Club of Honolulu has donated new school supplies and more than $1,500 to U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye's office for the Ready to Learn Program.Inouye and his wife, Maggie, a former school teacher, are honorary chairpersons of the program. Ready to Learn is a partnership between the Inouyes and Helping Hands Hawaii, which will distribute supplies to students on all islands before school begins.
About 25,000 children will benefit from the donations.
The Rotary Club, which collected more than $1,000 worth of supplies, presented the donations Aug. 13.
The Ready to Learn Committee consists of Gail Breakey of Hawaii Family Support Center, Pauline Worsham of Pauline M. Worsham Consultants, Judy Adamson, Dr. Judy Myers, and Janet Bender of the Alzheimer's Association-Aloha Chapter.
Academic awards
>> Hula Grill awarded Anna Sprinkle, a second-grade teacher at King Kamehameha III School, its Outstanding Educator Recognition Award in celebration of the 25th anniversary of its owner, TS Restaurants. Leilani's on the Beach selected Robert Siorot, a technology coordinator and computer teacher at Lahaina Intermediate School.The teachers each received gifts including trips for two to California and $500 cash.
>> The 2002 MetLife/National Association of Secondary School Principals awards for Hawaii went to Annette Nishikawa of Kapolei Middle School and James Schlosser of Kalaheo High.
>> The National Association of Elementary School Principals selected Karen Liu of King Kaumualii Elementary on Kauai as Hawaii's 2002 Elementary School Principal of the Year. She will be honored in October in Washington, D.C., along with other awardees.
>> The Honolulu Chapter of Executive Women International awarded $10,000 in scholarships to six high school students: Jennifer Light, Moanalua High School, $3,500; Laura Quek, Hawaii Baptist Academy, $2,000; Oscar Loui, McKinley High, $1,500; Jaclyn Cadaoas, Aiea High, $1,000; Nana Hasegawa, La Pietra-Hawaii School for Girls, $1,000; Joanna Ignacio, Maryknoll School, $1,000. Katie Omura of St. Andrew's Priory received the $500 Lynette Tamaye Notebook Award.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
National Guard joins search for fisherman
Army National Guard members have joined the Coast Guard in a search for a 30-year-old fellow guardsman who failed to return from a fishing trip Wednesday night.Friends and members of his unit organized a volunteer search party to comb the shoreline for 2nd Lt. Jason Henderson, said Major Chuck Anthony, Hawaii National Guard spokesman.
Henderson is a part-time guardsman with the 2nd Battalion 299th Infantry on the Big Island.
Henderson's mother-in-law called the fire department when he failed to return from a daylong fishing trip. Local fisherman last saw him at about 6 p.m. Wednesday in a 12-foot Zodiac a half-mile off Mahukona.
The Army National Guard also assisted the search yesterday with a helicopter based on the Big Island.
The Coast Guard continued its search in seven different areas from 45 to 80 miles due west off the Kona coastline yesterday using its two C-130 airplanes and a helicopter, along with a Navy P3 aircraft.
CENTRAL OAHU
Car crashes and burns near Waianae offramp
A 20-year-old man from the Kaneohe Marine Corps Base and a 14-year-old girl from Ewa Beach were hospitalized after their 1994 Honda Accord hit an embankment and burned Friday night.The man was reported in critical condition in the intensive care unit of The Queen's Medical Center yesterday. The girl was treated and released, a hospital spokesperson said.
Police said the Accord was southbound in the middle lane of the H-2 Freeway, about four-tenths of a mile north of the Waianae offramp, at about 11:59 p.m. when the driver lost control and veered southwest onto a dirt embankment.
The car climbed the embankment, struck a highway sign and fell back onto the shoulder lane where it caught fire and burned.
The driver suffered head trauma and abrasions and the girl had pain in her hip and abrasions, according to the police report.
Police said speed was a factor in the accident. Both were wearing seat belts.
WINDWARD OAHU
Police cite speed in H-3 cycle crash
A 55-year-old man was in critical condition in Queen's Medical Center's intensive care unit yesterday after the motorcycle he was riding collided into a car on the H-3 Freeway Friday night.Police said speed may be a contributing factor.
The motorcyclist was heading toward Honolulu at about 7:30 p.m. when he lost control on the Kaneohe side of the entrance to the John A. Burns tunnel, and collided into the right rear bumper of a four-door sedan.
Police said the Honda Shadow motorcycle was traveling above the speed limit.
All Honolulu-bound lanes of the H-3 Freeway were closed as police investigated the crash.
HONOLULU
Bar brawl in Kapalama involves gunshots
Police are investigating a bar fight involving guns, knives and a baseball bat in Kapalama yesterday morning.Two men were shot, two were stabbed and another man hit over the head with a baseball bat at about 2:15 a.m. outside a bar on Kohou Street.
Police arrested a 21-year-old man, who allegedly hit the club manager over the head with a baseball bat. One man was shot in the left hand, another in the right calf.
Two other men were stabbed in their "back areas," police said.
The injured men were taken to an area hospital, police said, but would give no further information.
Police continue to search for other suspects.
McCully residents report armed robbery
Police are searching for a man in his late 30s who allegedly robbed a McCully home yesterday morning.The suspect entered the second-floor apartment on Lime Street at about 7 a.m. yesterday through an unlocked sliding glass lanai door and threatened to kill a woman resident unless she gave him money, police said.
The woman screamed and woke her husband, who told police he saw the handle of a handgun in the suspect's waistband.
The woman gave him $100 from her wallet and the man fled through the front door in an unknown direction, police said.
Woman arrested for alleged mail theft
A 21-year-old woman is in custody on suspicion of mail theft, police said.A caller to police on Friday reported a suspicious woman walking through neighborhoods and opening mailboxes.
Officers found the woman in a vehicle with mail from different addresses.
Police also recovered credit cards.
The woman, who has no local address, was arrested for first-degree burglary, detaining stolen items and drug offenses.
