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By Star-Bulletin Staff
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J. Walter Cameron
Center adds child-care
center to its offeringsThe J. Walter Cameron Center on Mahalani Street in Wailuku, Maui, celebrated its 30th anniversary recently with the blessing of a new child-care center.
The 4,272-square-foot center, Kahi Kamali'i, will accommodate 40 infants and toddlers, mainly from low-income families.
It will be located behind the Cameron Center's main office building and fronted by a new street named after Dr. Fumio Tsuji, chairman of the center's long-range planning committee, who spearheaded the $1.1 million project.
Tsuji, now 85, is a retired dentist and longtime friend and employee of Walter Cameron, who was a former general manager of Maui Pineapple, former chairmen of Alexander & Baldwin and a community leader.
The Cameron Center, established in 1973, houses and supports nonprofit agencies that provide assistance in health, social services, culture and arts.
>> Sandra Schwartz, assistant professor of history and classical studies in the College of Liberal Arts at Hawaii Pacific University, has been selected as one of 15 fellows for the National Endowment for Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers in Berkeley, Calif. She will make a presentation on the topic "Prosaic Justice: Scenes of Crime and Punishment in Chinese and Greek Narrative."
>> Allen DeLong, president of Saint Louis School, was honored with the Chaminade Founders Day award in West Hills, Calif., for exemplary service to the Catholic Marianist School.
>> The Lions Club of Honolulu has awarded scholarships to Rocky Juan and Rhemei Mentac, of Farrington High School; Howard Li, of Kaiser; Jennifer Li, Chelsia Toyama and Ryan Lau, of Mililani; and Linda Siu, Nick Smith and Kristen Suwa, of Waiakea. The students will participate in a youth exchange program, mostly to foreign countries, for three to four weeks this summer. Other scholarship winners, who received $500 each, include Brent Iha, a Kalani High graduate, Tanya Lee and Jodi Uchida, of Castle.
>> Jason Inouye Baum, a Maui High School senior, has won the $1,000 national Principal's Leadership Award scholarship.
>> Kalani Wilhelm, of the University of Hawaii, is one of 75 journalism students chosen as Chips Quinn Scholars by the Freedom Forum. The students will work as interns at newspapers this summer.
>> Chennat Gopalakrishnan, a professor of natural resources and environmental management at the University of Hawaii, is the 2003 recipient of the Ka Pouhana (Mentor) award of the UH College of Tropical Agricultural & Human Resources.
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Whale washes ashore and dies on Maui
WAILUKU >> A second marine mammal has died after washing ashore on Maui.A pygmy sperm whale that went ashore about 9:30 a.m. Sunday died about 10 1/2 hours later at the Maui Ocean Center in Maalaea, said Bradley Ryon, a federal liaison.
Volunteers took the stranded whale out to sea about three miles off McGregor Point, but it returned at about 3:30 p.m. The whale, about 10 feet long, was in bad shape with scrapes from crossing the reef near the Maalaea condominiums, Ryon said.
A striped dolphin died Saturday after beaching itself at Maui's Wailea Beach on Friday.
David Nichols, the protected-resource manager with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said tissue samples, taken of both animals in an attempt to determine their cause of death, have been sent to a military laboratory that has a contract to conduct the testing.
Lingle attends Maui homestead ceremony
WAILUKU >> More than 200 people including Gov. Linda Lingle were at a groundbreaking ceremony yesterday to mark the start of the development of 115 single-family homes at Waiehu Kou 3 on Hawaiian homestead land in Central Maui.Some 77 single-family homes, built by Dowling Co., including three- and four-bedroom units, will be built, while 38 vacant lots will be developed by owner-builders.
The average lot size is 8,000 square feet, with homes ranging in cost from $99,850 to $169,850.
Gomes, Lum appointed to interim parole posts
Gov. Linda Lingle appointed two interim board members to the Hawaii Paroling Authority, her office announced yesterday.Former Republican state lawmaker Joe Gomes and businessman Kenneth Lum will serve until permanent members are appointed by Lingle.
Parole hearings came to a two-week halt in April after a second member of the three-member panel resigned.
Lani Rae Garcia resigned April 2 after being charged with misdemeanor abuse. Chairman Alfred Beaver resigned March 11 after an investigation into whether he misused his post. Their departures left only acting Chairwoman Mary Tiwanak, whose term expires June 30.
With only one member, the board could not meet to make decisions until April 15 when Albert Tufuno and Lacene Terri were named to temporary part-time positions on the board.
Gomes served on the state House from 2000-2002. He now works as a private attorney. Lum is the former owner of several restaurants in Hawaii.
Residue of drug was found at prison
State prison officials discovered residue of methamphetamine in a glass pipe seized during a two-day shakedown of Halawa Medium Security Correctional Facility last month.A 32-year-old inmate was arrested May 20, the first day of the shakedown, for promoting a dangerous drug, prison contraband and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Prison guards saw the inmate throw the pipe in a rubbish can, said Warden Clayton Frank. The inmate was booked at the Honolulu District Court cellblock and returned to the prison.
Two other inmates were turned over to investigators from the state Department of the Attorney General during the shakedown.
One had a steel shank hidden in his cane, officials said. He still faces prosecution.
But officials said a bag found during the shakedown containing a substance resembling marijuana tested negative for any narcotic.
The inmate from whom the bag was seized is not facing charges.
Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staff'ICE' APARTMENT RAIDED IN KALIHI
CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARBULLETIN.COM
Honolulu police officer Spencer Anderson carried a 4-year-old girl out of a Kalihi apartment that was raided by police this morning. The mother of the girl and the mother's boyfriend were arrested after a five-month undercover drug operation. Police said they seized two pounds of "ice" or crystal methamphetamine, cash in a safe, and numerous weapons in the apartment at 940 Hikina Lane. Police said an aunt will take care of the girl.
NORTH SHORE
Termite-damaged pole forces highway closure
Police closed Kamehameha Highway on the Waimea Bay side of Haleiwa for more than three hours yesterday because a utility pole damaged by termites was leaning over the roadway.Power lines attached to the pole sagged close to the ground, but there was no power outage.
The pole is on the ocean side of the highway at the Papailoa Road intersection. Hawaiian Electric Co. crews propped up the pole as a temporary fix until officials decide when the pole can be replaced with minimum disruption, said spokesman Fred Kobashikawa.
Police began receiving reports of the sagging power lines about 11:20 a.m. and closed the highway about noon. They reopened the highway by 3:20 p.m.
HONOLULU
Water main break cuts service to 3 businesses
A water main break cut off service to three Mapunapuna businesses and closed an intersection to traffic this morning.A break to a 12-inch line was reported about 5 a.m. at the intersection of Ahua and Pukoloa streets. The Honolulu Board of Water Supply said repairs are expected to take the rest of the day.
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