LOOMING WAR WITH IRAQ
PROMPTS RALLIES
ACROSS THE ISLAND

KEN IGE / KIGE@STARBULLETIN.COM With a war against Iraq seeming more likely by the day, residents weighed in on the issue yesterday in marches and rallies around Oahu. Near Castle Medical Center, left, Drush Fuller, Gina Pinzari and Kalela Costa joined a small protest against the war.

KEN IGE / KIGE@STARBULLETIN.COM At Pohakupu Park, Jacqueline Mace, 3, held a flag with Cobie Lovejoy, 2, Elsa Lovejoy, 3, and Trudy Lovejoy, whose husband, Marine Lt. Col. Owen Lovejoy, is in Bahrain.

A SHOT FOR SMALLPOX SAFETY

RICHARD WALKER RWALKER@STARBULLETIN.COM Public health workers received voluntary smallpox vaccinations yesterday at the state Department of Health as part of the National Smallpox Vaccination Program. Dr. Paul Effler, communicable disease chief, was injected with the vaccine. The workers are members of teams that would investigate and manage suspected cases of smallpox in the event of a bioterrorist attack.

ASHEN COMMEMORATION

DEAN SENSUI / DSENSUI@STARBULLETIN.COM Ash Wednesday yesterday marked the start of Lent, the Christian period for penance that lasts through the day before Easter. Luisa Balmilero, with an ashen cross on her forehead, prayed during services in Parke Chapel at St. Andrew's.