>> The Hawaii Intergenerational Network has been awarded $4,000 by the G.N. Wilcox Trust to develop a corps of senior volunteers to start a fellows program in the schools. The network has also received $10,000 from the Atherton Family Foundation and $4,000 from the Cooke Foundation Ltd. to continue the Senior Kupuna in Preschools Project to help mentor children needing special attention. [ TAKING NOTICE ]
>> The Honolulu law partnership of McCorriston Miller Mukai MacKinnon has donated $100,000 to the University of Hawaii's William S. Richardson School of Law to establish an endowed scholarship in the partnership's name. The gift includes a five-year commitment of $5,000 per year to the law school's annual fund.
>> The Alexander and Baldwin Foundation has awarded $35,000 to the Hawaii Foodbank to provide emergency food assistance for Oahu residents affected by the slow economy. In the fiscal year 2001-2002, the food bank distributed 8.5 million pounds of food, a 1 million-pound increase over last year, according to president Dick Grimm.
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>> Michael Glenn is Jonathan Adler's attorney in two marijuana cases on the Big Island. An article Tuesday on Page A3 incorrectly identified Adler's attorney as being Michael Green. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin strives to make its news report fair and accurate. If you have a question or comment about news coverage, call Managing Editor Frank Bridgewater at 529-4791 or email him at fbridgewater@starbulletin.com. Corrections and clarifications
Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
WINDWARD OAHU
1-car accident leaves Kailua man badly hurt
A 52-year-old Kailua man was injured critically after failing to negotiate a curve and crashing his car on Kailua Road early today.The victim, whose name was not released, was listed in critical condition at Queen's Medical Center this morning.
Police said the car crossed the grassy median near Hamakua Drive, struck a guardrail and flipped over at 4:23 a.m.
Police said the cause of the accident is under investigation, but it appeared the victim may have fallen asleep behind the wheel.
HONOLULU
Shark at Kewalo Basin bites end off surfboard
A shark apparently bit off the tail end of a surfer's surfboard Wednesday at Kewalo Basin channel, but state officials have no plans to post shark warning signs at the popular surfing spot today.Randy Honebrink, Aquatic Education Coordinator, state Department of Land and Natural Resources, said he has yet to interview the 16-year-old boy who got a cut on his left foot. Honebrink said shark sightings at the channel are not unusual.
Kaimuki bank robbery suspect sought
Police want help identifying a man who robbed the American Savings Bank in Kaimuki at about 1:30 p.m. yesterday.
The man used a note to demand money and fled through the parking lot, police said. He was driving a stolen rental car, a silver Daewoo with Hawaii license number "JGS 448."
The suspect is 30 to 40 years old, 5 feet 7, 150-160 pounds, with a medium build. He has neck-length straight black hair and a mustache. He was wearing a dark baseball cap and dark long-sleeve T-shirt.
Anyone with information can call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300.
Police look for man in sex assault of girl
Honolulu police want help identifying a man who sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl Monday at Honolulu Stadium State Recreation Area.
Police said the girl was playing at the park at about 6:30 p.m. when the man approached and asked her to go bowling with him.
The man then grabbed and fondled the girl before she was able to break free, police said. He fled mauka on Isenberg Street toward the First Hawaiian Bank-University branch, police said.
The man is known as "Jonathan" and has been seen in the park before, police said. He is in his 30s, 6 feet 2, 220 pounds, with curly black hair and a mustache, police said.
He wears five loop earrings on his left ear, a mood ring and loop earring on his right ear and a tattoo of a nude female with a snake on his left calf.
He was wearing brown and black metal-frame prescription glasses, a dark-blue floppy hat, a dark blue T-shirt with a yellow and red sun logo design on the front and white writing on the back, jeans and dark blue sneakers.
He also was carrying a dark-blue backpack.
Anyone with information is asked to call Honolulu police or CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME by cellular telephone.
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Water park sued over lifeguard's drowning
The family of an 18-year-old lifeguard, who drowned two years ago at the Hawaiian Adventures Water Park, is suing the park's designers, management and maintenance company, and investors.Harry "Rusty" Hoots III, who worked at the park, was found unconscious at the bottom of a tube slide in the splash pool on Sept. 27, 2000.
Attorney L. Richard Fried Jr., who represents Hoots' estate and parents Harry Hoots Jr. and Peggy Hoots, said Hoots was sucked into or pinned on the intake pipe of the water circulation system in the catch pool of the Big Kahuna attraction and died Sept. 28, 2000.
The suit alleges Hoots' death was due to negligence and a defective product.
The suit names Aquatic Design Group Inc. and Western Water Features Inc., designers of the park; Horizon Amusement Group Inc., which managed and maintained the park at the time of the accident; investor Harrington Investments LLC; and Kauahikaua and Chun, the park's local architects.
Man pleads guilty in foreign sex crimes
DALLAS >> A businessman with addresses in Texas and Hawaii pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal charge accusing him of foreign travel to engage in illegal sexual conduct with a minor.Nicholas Bredimus faces up to 15 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. He will be ordered to pay restitution, the U.S. attorney's office said.
Bredimus, who has a home in Coppell, Texas, and in Kailua, was arrested in February in Hawaii.
He was originally named in a six-count indictment. In the plea yesterday, he admitted that he traveled to Thailand in October for business and intended to make videotapes and digital images of Thai children engaged in sexually explicit conduct. He admitted that he videotaped himself with a 13-year-old Thai boy and took photos of the boy.
Sentencing is set for Nov. 18.
