Interactive class is offered on managing diabetes
The Hawaii Association for Diabetes Educators will hold a "Managing Diabetes -- Local Style" class from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 25 at Windward Community College.Ko'olauloa Consulting Inc. is organizing the interactive class. Registration may be done online at www.koolauloaconsulting.com or by mailing a $60 check to P.O. Box 1621, Kailua, HI 96734.
For more information, call Jarmaine Yamashiro, diabetes clinician, at 221-2722, or e-mail jarmaine@koolauloaconsulting.com.
Foodbank receives $200,000 donation
The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has awarded $200,000 to the Hawaii Foodbank, an emergency donation in time for the bank's increased holiday food distribution.Gailene Wong, grant director for the foundation, said she hopes the money will help meet the bank's growing demand for food. The Hawaii Foodbank's monthly food distribution grew by 40 percent from July 2001 to July 2002.
From 2001 to 2002, the food bank distributed 8.5 million pounds of food to the needy.
The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization that has contributed more than $140 million to nonprofit organizations over the last 10 years.
Life jackets on boats required for children
Children under 13 are now required to wear life jackets aboard recreational boats. Boat operators who violate the rule can be fined up to $1,110.The Coast Guard rule went into effect yesterday and applies to all states with no current regulation on life jackets for children, which includes Hawaii.
Children under 13 must wear life jackets except when they are below deck or in an enclosed cabin, according to the Coast Guard.
Between 1995 and 2001, 121 children nationwide drowned while boating, according to the Coast Guard. For more information on the rule, go to the Coast Guard's Web site at www.uscgboating.org.
Officer named Top Cop for second year in row
Officer Patrick Sterling has been selected as the Honolulu Police Department's Top Cop, the second straight year that the 10-year veteran has earned the distinction.Sterling, assigned to the Specialized Services Division, has the highest overall score in physical fitness, control and arrest tactics, and firearms of the 58 male and five female officers in contention for the title.
Overall second-place honors went to Officers Nathan Baysa and Ron Taira, a tie; and third place to Lt. Frank Pugliese and Officer Albert Somera, also tied.
The overall team winner was "SSD Open," whose members are Sterling, Baysa, Taira, Brad Beck, Eric Lalau and Brian Valdez.
Disabled-parking permit office hours cut
The hours to receive or renew a disabled-parking permit will be shortened beginning early next year.Beginning Jan. 13, satellite city halls will no longer distribute or renew the disabled-parking permits after 3 p.m. to allow for staff to take the state-operated database offline for routine work.
Applicants may drop off their applications after 3 p.m. and pick up their permits the next day or request the permit be mailed to them.
For more information about the new hours, call the Disability and Communication Access Board at 586-8121, or visit their Web site at www.hawaii.gov/health/dcab.
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U.S. Sens. Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka are helping 45 native Hawaiian families build their own homes in Kapolei as honorary co-chairmen for "Malu'ohai Phase 3." Akaka and Inouye back
Kapolei housing projectStar-Bulletin staff
A blessing and groundbreaking ceremony for the first 12 homes was held Dec. 21 in the Malu'ohai subdivision, across the street from Kapolei High School. Inouye was unable to attend.
The senators are participating in the Houses the Senate Built program, a partnership between Senate members and Habitat for Humanity International to build affordable homes in every state, according to Jose Villa, Habitat's executive director.
The program started June 9, 2000, with a Senate resolution calling on all senators to build at least one house in their home state. Inouye and Akaka felt Hawaii needed more, however, so they committed to helping the Malu'ohai subdivision, Villa said.
In its 14th year, the Honolulu branch of Habitat for Humanity has built 43 homes for low-income families on Oahu. Previously it averaged three houses a year, but next year, it plans to build 50 homes, Villa said.
>> Keli'i Akina, a full-time Ph.D. student in East-West philosophy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, was selected to be a member of the Pacific Century Fellows Program's Class of 2003. He is the executive director of Hawaii Youth for Christ, which sponsors mentoring for teenagers.>> Claire Haranda, a senior at La Pietra-Hawaii School for Girls, won first place in the Multimedia/Internet Division of the 2002 HiTech Quest. She won a $1,000 scholarship, and the school received software donated by Macromedia. Haranda will be the first La Pietra student to graduate with the new "Emphasis in Technology" diploma this spring. The HiTech Quest is sponsored by Bank of Hawaii, Oceanic Time Warner Cable of Hawaii and Microsoft.
>> Remy Minami, of Punahou, is the state's female recipient of the 2002 College Board AP State Scholar Award. She also is a finalist in the 2002 National Merit Scholarship program and is being inducted into the 2001-2002 National Honor Roll.
>> Bernadette Milbury, a nurse manager at the Queen's Medical Center, has received an Oncology Nursing Society Foundation Master's Scholarship, worth $3,000. She is a graduate student at Hawaii Pacific University, a camp counselor for teens with cancer for the American Cancer Society and teen fellowship coordinator for the Newman Center at the University of Hawaii.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
HONOLULU
Felon, 25, sought for contempt warrant
Police want help finding a 25-year-old felon who is wanted for a $170,000 contempt-of-court warrant.Shaun Pagilawan appeared in Circuit Court yesterday morning for sentencing, but then ran away before he could be taken into custody, police said.
Pagilawan has been convicted of burglary, theft, drugs and auto theft, police said.
Pagilawan, also known as Brandon Ferreira and Shaun Gerald Paglinawan, is described as 5 feet 6, 135 pounds, with a medium build, black hair, brown eyes and a clown tattoo on his left leg.
Anyone with information is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME on a cellular phone.
LEEWARD OAHU
Man allegedly steals lingerie from Macy's
Police arrested a 45-year-old Waianae man Sunday who allegedly stole more than $400 worth of lingerie from a Pearlridge Center department store.Police said a Macy's loss-prevention officer spotted the suspect stealing the lingerie. The man was arrested outside the store without incident.
