Federal grant to help isle kids learn to read
The state Department of Education will receive more than $2.7 million in the first year of a federal "Reading First" grant to improve reading achievement in low-income, low-performing schools.The money is the first chunk of $17.7 million the state will receive over the next six years for the program.
"The Reading First program, as part of the No Child Left Behind Act, helps schools employ effective and proven reading techniques to ensure that students will read at or above grade level by grade 3," said state Schools Superintendent Patricia Hamamoto.
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige said, "Reading First is helping transform reading instruction from the fads of the past into the most focused early-reading initiative ever undertaken in this nation."
Hawaii will use about $2.1 million of the grant to make subgrant awards to about 25 eligible schools.
The state will use the grant to support 25 Title I schools -- schools where at least 40 percent of the children are on the federal reduced or free lunch program -- during the first two years, another 25 schools in the third and fourth years and another 25 schools in the final two years.
Other states that received awards are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Massa-chusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Utah.
Lane closed for work on Kalanianaole
The state Transportation Department is closing a town-bound lane of Kalanianaole Highway between West Hind Drive in Aina Haina and the H-1 freeway through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. for surveying, pavement striping and guardrail installation.Motorists should anticipate delays, allow for extra travel time and use caution through the work area.
Windward Mall to host free adoption event
The Hawaii Adoption and Permanency Alliance is hosting the Adoption Awareness Celebration 2002 at Windward Mall on Nov. 2 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.Agencies and organizations within the adoption community will be sitting at informational tables and running activities and games for keikis.
Na Hoku Hanohano Award winner Jon Yamasato is the honorary chairman for the free event, which features live entertainment.
November is National Adoption Month, which recognizes adoptive parents, birth parents and adoptees; promotes awareness of adoption issues; and serves as a time of recruitment of adoptive families.
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AWARDS
>> Eaton O'Neill, a recent Iolani School graduate, has won a four-year renewable Heritage Scholarship at Denison University in Ohio.>> Yoshio Goto and Ryan Lau of Iolani School and Nyssa Thompson of Punahou School have been awarded scholarships from the Mathematical Association of America, sponsored by the Akamai Foundation, for high performance on the American Invitation Mathematics Exam.
GRANTS
>> The Alliance for Drama Education has received $184,000 from the Black Fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation to support the ADE programs at five Kalihi schools. The funds will also be used to help a student-written spring production at Farrington High School called "Kalihi: Where Friendship Works.">> The Marriott Links to Literacy, a benefit for the Hawaii Library Foundation golf tournament at Ko Olina Golf Club, raised more than $80,000 for reading programs at public libraries.
>> The Mental Health Association in Hawaii has received grants from the Hawaii Community Foundation, $25,000; Eli Lilly and Co., $1,500; Janssen Pharmaceutica, $1,500; Bank of Hawaii, $1,000; and the Lawrence Newbold Brown Memorial Foundation, $500.
>> The Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded its Native Hawaiian Library Services Grant of $420,000 to Alu Like Inc. The money will be used to support the Native Hawaiian Library, 567 S. King St., Suite 400, and to make its database available via the Internet.
The institute also gave a $1,775 grant to the Laupahoehoe Train Museum.
>> Pearlridge Center, which hosts free chess play and classes from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. every Tuesday, has donated nearly $1,000 to the Hawaii Chess Federation through Helping Hands Hawaii. The funds were used to provide tournament-grade chess sets and help students begin chess clubs at 25 schools.
PROMOTIONS
>> The USS Missouri Memorial Association has hired Jacqueline Kemp, a former teacher, as its education manager. Her responsibilities include the development of a program focusing on school-age children and training tour guides in the history of the battleship Missouri.The association also announced the following promotions:
Les Lancaster, a retired Navy command master chief, has been promoted to director of ship operations. He will oversee the planning and implementation of maintenance, preservation and restoration activities of the Engineering Department.
Sean Fierst has been promoted to tour programs manager. He was formerly the tour supervisor at the memorial and editorial director and graphic designer for the association's Broadside Magazine.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
HONOLULU
Police investigating injuries to infant boy
Police are investigating first-degree assault charges against the father of an 1-month-old Salt Lake boy who is suffering serious multiple injuries.Police opened the investigation after the infant's parents took him to Kapiolani Medical Center's emergency room about 5:30 a.m. yesterday. Doctors discovered the boy has multiple rib fractures, a fractured skull and internal abdominal bleeding, police said.
Rush-hour Pali traffic snarled by fallen tree
Town-bound morning traffic on the Pali Highway was slowed to a crawl this morning after a motorist ran into a tree and knocked it down near Waokanaka Street.Police said the accident occurred about 4:15 a.m. and the driver was not seriously injured. But the fallen tree lay in one-lane on the highway during morning rush traffic, awaiting a state crew to remove the cut-up tree chunks. Vehicles backed up into the Pali tunnels.
HPD issues description of Bankoh robber
Police want help finding the man they say robbed the Kamehameha Shopping Center branch of Bank of Hawaii over the weekend.Police said the robber walked into the bank inside Star Market and demanded money. Police believe this is the same person who robbed the American Savings Bank inside Market City Foodland in Kapahulu on Sept. 28. The robber is in his early 20s, 6 feet tall, 200 pounds, with muscular build, blond hair, blue eyes, fair complexion and a goatee, police said. Anyone with information may call Detective Derrick Kiyokoki at 529-3392 or CrimeStoppers at 955-8300.
Man faces U.S. charges in 4 bank robberies
Federal officials charged a Honolulu man yesterday with robbing four banks in two months.Police said Leslie Doi, 41, turned himself in on Thursday. Doi is accused of holding up the Liliha branch of American Savings Bank on Aug. 22, the Kaimuki branch of American Savings Bank on Aug. 29, the Kapalama branch of American Savings Bank on Sept. 17 and the Kaimuki branch of First Hawaiian Bank on Oct. 4.
WINDWARD OAHU
Police seek 2 men in surf shop burglary
Honolulu police are looking for two men whose burglary of Island Snow Kailua was recorded by the store's surveillance camera.
Police said one man used a baseball bat to shatter the front door to the store at 130 Kailua Road on Sept. 19 and 12:45 a.m.
Then both men went inside and grabbed clothing before fleeing. It was the second burglary at the store in three months.
Both men are in their late teens. One is 5-feet-9, with medium build; and the other is 5-feet-10, with slim build.
Anyone with information may call Detective John McCarthy at 261-6106 or CrimeStoppers at 955-8300.
