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HUGS FOR HPD HEROES

DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARBULLETIN.COM Police Chief Lee Donohue, above left, was hugged yesterday by Lt. Robert Steiner Jr., who was presented with the Warrior Gold Medal of Valor. Steiner lost a left finger from a shotgun blast during an April 2001 Waipio incident in which he, Lt. Curtiss Loui and Sgt. Aaron Bernal apprehended suspects in a stolen van.

DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARBULLETIN.COM Warrior Gold Medals of Valor were awarded yesterday to Loui, left, Bernal and Steiner.

DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARBULLETIN.COM Bernal hugged his son Jett, 2 1/2, after receiving his medal.

CELEBRATING LEI DAY

DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARBULLETIN.COM Deborah Santos, right, and her aunt Annie Davis showed off Santos' lei before she entered it in today's lei contest at Kapiolani Park. Santos said she picked the ohia flowers last night in her garden and stayed up all night making it. This is the first time she has entered the contest.

DINKY'S ONE OF THE FAMILY

RICHARD WALKER / RWALKER@STARBULLETIN.COM Tommy Motohashi held his pet Chihuahua, Dinky, at Ward Warehouse yesterday while he and his wife, Yonako, ate lunch. They said Dinky is their baby as they do not have any children.

HEXAGONAL HAVEN

RICHARD WALKER / RWALKER@STARBULLETIN.COM Framed in cinder-block solitude, Gerald Badoyen relaxed yesterday with a book inside the Hawaii State Library.