Kaimuki Christmas parade set for Dec. 5
The 56th annual Kaimuki Christmas Parade, featuring more than 60 entrants, will be held at 6 p.m. Dec. 5.It will start at St. Louis School at 3rd and Waialae avenues and end a mile later at Koko Head Avenue.
The Koko Head-bound lanes of Waialae Avenue will be closed to traffic, while the Ewa-bound lanes will be coned for traffic in both directions.
Political VIPs will include Gov.-elect Linda Lingle, Mayor Jeremy Harris, outgoing City Councilman Duke Bainum, state Reps. Calvin Say and Barbara Marumoto, and others.
Santa Claus will hitch a ride on a firetruck staffed by the Kaimuki Lions, and elves from Central Pacific Bank will be handing out treats to children along the route. The Chinese Physical Cultural Association will present a lion dance.
Marching bands from Kalani and Kaimuki high schools and Sacred Hearts Academy, along with the Royal Hawaiian Band, will provide music.
Motorcycle police officers will be monitoring the parade route, with additional officers at major intersections. TheBus will run its normal routes.
ID applications taken on Molokai on Dec. 7
State personnel will be on Molokai between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Dec. 7 to process state identification applications at the Mitchell Pauole Center.First priority will be given to those with completed applications and required certified documents. These people may make appointments with Pancho Alcon, the governor's liaison officer, at 553-5403.
The fee is $10 for senior citizens 65 years and older, and $15 for all others, payable in cash only.
The identification card will be processed and mailed to the applicant within five to 10 working days.
Information on applicant requirements is available by calling 587-3111 (recorded message) or on the state's Web site at www.state.hi.us/ hcidc.
Holiday parade Friday will traverse Waikiki
Local and mainland high school bands will be featured Friday in the fourth annual Waikiki Holiday Parade down Kalakaua Avenue.Entertainer Jimmy Borges will be the grand marshal of the 7 p.m. parade, which will ring in the holidays and pay tribute to the survivors of Pearl Harbor.
Military bands, floats and Santa Claus will also appear in the event, sponsored by the Doubletree Alana Hotel-Waikiki. For more information, call Jake Peppers, the hotel's president and executive director, at 941-7275.
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[ TAKING NOTICE ]
Army Museum Society gives Paty an award
>> William W. Paty Jr. is this year's recipient of the Hawaii Army Museum Society's IHE Award for outstanding support of the military in Hawaii. Paty is a 20-year member of the society's board of trustees and an Army civilian aid.He was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart in World War II.
He has served as president of the Waialua Sugar Co. and chairman of the state Board of Land & Natural Resources.
>> Dr. James L. Mertz, a Kailua pediatrician, has won the Employee of the Year Award given by the Rotary Club of Windward Oahu.
>> Seventeen youngsters, ages 10 to 14, from Hawaii are among athletes chosen nationwide to participate in a weeklong USA Luge screening camp at Lake Placid, N.Y. The athletes who will attend the camp from Jan. 6 to 13 are Amy Austin, Kristi Belshe, Brett Carter, Cameron Carter, Rachel Kwak, Alec LaClair, Shandra Lee, Ryan Uyehara, Trevor Wold and Evan Woodall of Honolulu; David Chang of Kailua-Kona; Kyley Chong and Robyn Totoki of Aiea; Christian Di Lullo and Michael Richey of Kailua; Trey James George III and Dakota Haines of Wahiawa.
>> The Pacific Century Fellows Program has announced the selection of 29 men and women to participate in its program, designed to identify, encourage and help develop future island leaders. This is the sixth and largest class of fellows:
John Aeto, Cox Radio; David Akina, Paradise Media Group LLC; William Keli'i Akina, Hawaii Youth for Christ; Carl James Alexander, Kamehameha Schools, Maui; Janel Brown, U.S. Pacific Fleet; Ann Hee Sun Chung, Hawaii Technology Trade Center; Chris Dey, Hawaii Sports Network; Bennette Evangelista, Central Pacific Bank; Charles Farnsworth, Bank of Hawaii; Linda Fischer, U.S. Army; Anke Flohr, Pacific Health Ministry; Garrett Grace, Central Pacific Bank; James Robert Hollyer, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Lane Christine Hornfeck, Starn O'Toole Marcus & Fisher; Charles Kaneshiro, Group 70 International Inc.; Cheryl Lehua Kauhane, YWCA of Oahu; Jace Lyndon McQuivey, Hawaii Reserves Inc.; Ronald Nishihara, Graham Murata Russell; Edward Nishioka, Professional Results; Quin Ogawa, Kuakini Medical Center; Sherri Okinaga, Iolani School; Mary JoAnn O'Leary, City and County of Honolulu; Alyssa Park, Pan Pacific Pathologists Inc./Clinical Laboratories of Hawaii; Alison Ueoka Powers, Hawaii Insurers Council; Patricia Kuualoha Richards, Kahua Ranch Ltd.; Kaloa Robinson, Hui Malama Ola Na 'Oiwi; Toby Barry Taniguchi, KTA Super Stores; Terence Young, Terence Q.L. Young, DDS, Inc.
>> The American Academy of Medical Administrators has awarded the 2002 William Newcomer Healthcare Executive of the Year Award to Daniel deGracia, Pacific regional manager of Spectrum Healthcare Resources in Honolulu.
He was honored for his service as a colonel of the U.S. Air Force. He was deputy command surgeon at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas.
>> The Halawa Correctional Facility has announced recent promotions: Wallace Brown to captain; Wanda Craig, Richard Brooks, Carl Aaron and Mark Struba to lieutenant; Spencer Sawa and Shawn Colotario to sergeant; and Meylene Murashige to secretary I.
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>> The downtown Honolulu post office is on Merchant Street; a graphic on Page A1 Saturday incorrectly located it on Queen Street. Corrections and clarifications
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.
Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
HONOLULU
HPD nabs student for alleged burglary
Police arrested a Kaimuki High School student for allegedly trying to break into Jarrett Intermediate School in Palolo early Sunday morning, police said.Witnesses heard pounding coming from the second floor of Building C, police said. When one of the witnesses yelled out, the suspect ran away, police said.
One of the witnesses came forward with the suspect's name after a teacher was unable to get into a classroom yesterday morning because of damage caused by the attempted burglary.
Police said the suspect provided the names of three other suspects when he was arrested.
Suspect arrested in threat at pay phone
Police arrested a 19-year-old man for allegedly threatening another man with a knife at a pay phone late Sunday night.Police said the suspect was sitting on one of two pay phones at 1695 Kapiolani Blvd. when the 50-year-old victim asked him to move so he could use the phone.
The suspect jumped down and threatened the victim with a knife before running away, police said.
Police said the victim saw the suspect about two hours later sitting on the same pay phones and chased him into a nightclub where he was detained for police.
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Judge orders no bail for accused murderer
A state judge ordered yesterday that accused murderer Donald Barry Marks be temporarily held without bail pending a Dec. 4 hearing.Marks, 39, is charged in the Nov. 2 slaying of 38-year-old Yoko Sanders, a prostitute whose body was found in a Waikiki apartment a couple of doors away from the apartment Marks rented. She had been strangled, and her head and arms were found next to her corpse.
Marks was indicted with Sanders' murder Nov. 7, and the court increased bail to $1 million after finding he was a flight risk based on the nature of the charge and the possibility he could post bail as he had in a previous court case. He was convicted in 1994 of raping a 13-year-old girl who had baby-sat his infant son.
Deputy Prosecutor Kevin Takata said yesterday that Marks is dangerous, and wanted to take no chances with Marks being released. No bail can be ordered if an accused defendant has been convicted or indicted of a serious crime within 10 years of an earlier offense.
The court is expected to appoint private counsel for Marks because of a conflict with the Public Defender's Office, which represented him in the rape case.
Orchid importer faces sentencing on March 3
A Honolulu man has pleaded guilty to unlawfully importing an endangered species of wild orchids for sale in the United States.Neil Oyama, 27, admitted Friday in U.S. District Court that he had imported Paphiopedilum orchids from Malaysia knowing they had been collected in the wild and that it was illegal to import them.
The rare orchids, also known as lady-slipper orchids, are protected under CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna. The lady-slipper receives the highest level of protection under CITES -- the same category as endangered pandas, monk seals and orangutans.
Oyama faces a maximum term of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine when sentenced March 3. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Customs investigated this case.
