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RICHARD WALKER / RWALKER@STARBULLETIN.COM
About 15 members of the community attended a workshop on civil disobedience held yesterday at the Friends Meeting House in Manoa. They gathered to learn tactics for protests using nonviolent ways to present their points. Maya Maskarinec, left, acting as a protester, role-played a situation in which she blocked the path of Kyle Kajihiro, trying to get to work.
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St. Patrick's parade gets green light with gifts
Island Irish folks aren't going to let a dark cloud of debt halt the St. Patrick's Day parade tomorrow."We're stepping out at noon, as planned," said parade chairman Kevin Kelly. About 1,000 people will take part in the musical march through Waikiki from Ala Moana Park to Kapiolani Park.
The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, parade sponsors, learned earlier this month that the city has imposed a new fee schedule that put the cost above $5,000, compared to $500 last year.
Donations to cover half the cost have poured in since they publicized their plight. Kelly said an anonymous donor gave $1,000, the Bank of Hawaii gave $100 and many individuals have chipped in. The sponsors will sell St. Patrick's Day buttons in various pubs and restaurants as a fund-raiser.
City spokeswoman Carol Costa said the city had to tell all organizations that because of budget cuts, it can no longer waive the costs of providing signs and barricades along the route and hiring about 30 police officers for traffic-control duty.
Among the marchers will be 285 youths in a Texas high school band, the Allen Escadrille, who have been doing their own fund-raising to make the trip.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
WAIKIKI
SWAT team called out to barricade situation
The Honolulu Police Department SWAT team was called out to the Island Colony Suites on Seaside Avenue in Waikiki last night when a man barricaded himself in an apartment there.The incident was reported at about 5 p.m. and continued into the evening. Police said the man was alone in the room. No information was released on whether the man had any weapons.
WINDWARD OAHU
Man, 21, hit while crossing Kailua street
A 21-year-old Kaneohe man was struck by a car while crossing from one sidewalk to another on Oneawa Street in Kailua at 8:57 p.m. Friday.Police said a 1985 Plymouth, driven by a 45-year-old Kailua man, collided with the pedestrian while going southbound on Oneawa Street. The pedestrian was crossing from an east sidewalk to a west sidewalk on the street.
Alcohol may have been a factor, according to the patrol units.
The pedestrian was taken to Castle Medical Center in good condition. He was treated for a fractured right wrist and abrasions to his chest and released.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Hilo police renew alerts for thefts from cars
Police have renewed a warning to Hilo residents that thieves are breaking into unattended and unlocked vehicles and stealing contents left inside in Hilo.Police said the thieves are targeting vehicles left unlocked and unattended during the late evening and early morning hours.
Car break-ins and thefts were reported in the Keaukaha, Paukaa and University Heights areas and along Banyan Drive and Kalanianaole Avenue.
On March 4, police issued a similar advisory to residents living in the area surrounding lower Haihai Street.
HONOLULU
Police suspect suicide in death on Pali trail
Honolulu firefighters helped recover the body of a 35-year-old man who was discovered by a hiker at about 11:15 a.m. yesterday on a trail overlooking Nuuanu Pali.Detective Phil Camaro said police were searching for a man Friday who wasn't reported missing but whose rental vehicle was found in the 4000 block of Tantalus Drive directly across the Puu Ohi Trail.
Police suspect the man, who was from the mainland, may have committed suicide.
