Canine characters pitch crime prevention
Crime Prevention Month kicked off Thursday with the help of mascot McGruff's nephew, Scruff. They joined Gov. Ben Cayetano as he signed a proclamation marking October as a month dedicated to recognizing successful programs and initiatives to fight crime.Scruff is being introduced this year to Hawaii as a sometimes impulsive 9-year-old "kid" under the tutelage of his uncle, McGruff the Crime Dog, who was introduced in 1986 in the "Take a Bite Out of Crime" campaign, according to the state Attorney General's Office.
They will be making appearances Sunday at "HECO in the Community" at Bishop Museum from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Oct. 26 at the Family Health Fair at Kapiolani Medical Center at Pali Momi from 9 a.m. to noon.
Programs and initiatives include neighborhood watches, sexual-assault information, anti-drug education and identity fraud prevention. The Attorney General's Office has formed partnerships with private and nonprofit community and government agencies, which will celebrate Crime Prevention Month.
For more information, call Valerie Mariano, chief of Community and Crime Prevention, at 586-1444.
Pro-democracy author will lead workshop
Author Peter Block will lead a Hawaii Pro-Democracy Workshop on choosing the future and taking action Friday at the Hale Koa Hotel's Waikiki Ballroom.The workshop is being sponsored by the Hawaii Pro-Democracy Initiative and League of Women Voters of Honolulu Education Fund. It will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and includes lunch for $10.
RSVP by e-mail at HPDInitiative@hotmail.com, phone 528-6888 or fax 599-5669.
The workshop will include discussion on the Hawaii Pro-Democracy Initiative, a citizen-led project to solicit candidate support for citizen empowerment issues in the 2002 Good Government Agenda and Legislative Access Agenda.
Candidate positions on these issues will be published, and a monitoring program will hold election winners accountable for their promises, event organizers said.
Block is the nationally renowned author of "Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest" and "The Answer to How Is Yes."
For more information on the Pro-Democracy Initiative, go to www.newhawaii.org.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
HONOLULU
Man hospitalized after being stabbed, robbed
A 46-year-old man was taken to Queen's Medical Center in serious but stable condition last night after he was stabbed in Iwilei last night.The victim suffering from a stab wound to the stomach walked into Salvation Army, 322 Sumner St., about 7:40 p.m., police said.
He told police a man stabbed and robbed him, and then fled in a vehicle.
Homeless man held in attack on bus driver
Police arrested a 54-year-old homeless man Saturday night for allegedly striking a 39-year-old driver in the head with a large rock.The driver suffered facial injuries and was taken to Queen's Medical Center where he was treated and released.
Latest Kalihi brush fire may have been set
Fire officials suspect that someone set fire again to the brush area above Kalihi Elementary School, the scene of several fires that kept firefighters busy since Sept. 28.Fire broke out at about 6 a.m. today near Kula Kolea Drive, Capt. Richard Soo said. It was not threatening homes or Kalihi Elementary School. Firefighters put out a brush fire in the same area yesterday afternoon.
The fires have burned more than 50 acres.
EAST OAHU
Shot fired as 3 men rob Hawaii Kai teens
Police are searching for three men who robbed two teenagers on Hahaione Street in Hawaii Kai late Friday.The men, in a white Honda Del Sol with a black hood and white rims, pulled up to four teenagers who were standing by their parked car, police said. The man in the front passenger seat took out a small handgun and demanded personal belongings of two of the teenagers.
After the teenagers gave him a small black bag, the gunman fired a shot in the air, police said. He was described as in his late teens or early 20s, about 150 pounds, with dark complexion and medium build.
Anyone with information may call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME on a cellular phone.
Drowning victim was Michigan visitor, 69
The city medical examiner's office has Michael Anthony Sherman, 69, of Michigan, as the man who was found lifeless at Hanaula Bay.Lifeguards found Sherman floating at 12:08 p.m. Saturday. His death has been classified as an apparent drowning.
WINDWARD OAHU
Makapuu drowning victim was Makiki man
The city medical examiner's office has identified the 48-year-old man who drowned Saturday near Makapuu Beach as Tak Wing Wong of Makiki.Police said Wong was laying a fishing cage between the Makapuu Lighthouse and the Makapuu lookout when he fell into the water.
LEEWARD OAHU
Pagano Pizza fire does $42,000 damage
An attic fire left about $42,000 damage to Pagano's Pizza in Aiea last night.Fire Capt. Richard Soo said the fire began about11:20 p.m. and was extinguished at 1:10 a.m.
The cause was under investigation.
NEIGHBOR ISLAND
UH-Hilo bookstore fire damage put at $90,000
HILO >> An afternoon fire yesterday in a workroom at the University of Hawaii-Hilo Bookstore caused $90,000 damage, fire officials said.The fire in the upstairs room that mainly houses computers and other equipment burned itself out before firefighters arrived at the scene, Capt. Gerald Kosaki said.
Some of the computer equipment was severely damaged.
