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By Star-Bulletin Staff
INVASIVE PLANTS GO UP IN SMOKE
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The Army hopes to complete a controlled burn of 1,500 acres of land in the training areas of McCarthy Flats at Schofield Barracks today to rid the area of invasive plants. Nearly 80 percent of the burn was completed yesterday. The recent unseasonable rainy weather in Central Oahu hampered the Army's operations, which were supposed to have been done last weekend.
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Team heads for Asia to find MIA remains
A group of 85 mostly Hawaii-based military experts were to leave today for Southeast Asia to search for the remains of more than eight missing American servicemen who were lost during the Vietnam War.Teams from the Joint Task Force-Full Accounting and the U.S. Army's Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii will travel to five provinces in Vietnam to recover the remains, officials said.
Since 1973 the remains of 761 American servicemen, formerly listed as missing or unaccounted for in Southeast Asia, have been found. About 1,900 servicemen are still missing or unaccounted for from the Vietnam War.
ZipLane maintenance to close lanes on H-1
Some H-1 freeway lanes will be closed from 10 p.m. today to 10 a.m. tomorrow for ZipLane maintenance.Two Ewa-bound left lanes of the freeway will be closed between the airport viaduct and the Waipahu offramp. Motorists are advised to use caution while work is being done and to allow for extra travel time.
Students can learn how to do well on SAT
College Connections Hawaii is offering summer courses at seven Oahu high schools to help students prepare for the Scholastic Assessment Test, or SAT. The deadline to register is Thursday.The classes are designed to help students raise their scores by learning and practicing successful test-taking strategies. Students in the program last year improved their scores by an average of 100 points, according to Stuart Coleman, director of test preparation.
The six-week course costs $195. Low-income students at Campbell, McKinley and Nanakuli high schools may qualify for a special rate of $95.
The course is also being offered at Maryknoll School, Sacred Hearts Academy, and Mililani and Kaiser high schools. For more information, call College Connections at 540-0434 or visit www.collegeconnections.org.
Wahiawa library event postponed until July 1
The Wahiawa Public Library has postponed next week's Tuesday Night Live! program, "The Green Monster of Lake Wilson," until 6 p.m. July 1.Salvinia molesta, the noxious weed that blanketed Lake Wilson, is the subject of the program.
Officials from the state Department of Land & Natural Resources and the Oahu Invasive Species Committee will discuss the plant and eradication efforts begun in February. A question-and-answer session will follow.
The free monthly family program will be held in the library's meeting room.
To request a sign language interpreter, call the library five to seven days before the program.
For information, call Martha Hanson, president of the Friends of the Wahiawa Public Library, at 622-3877.
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[Taking Notice]
>> McDonald's Restaurants of Hawaii has awarded $1,000 scholarships to 10 of its employees. The winners are Robyn Alello, of Sacred Hearts Academy, a Waikele branch employee; Carly Arakawa, of Kaimuki High, Palolo; Kristi Lynn DeMello, King Kekaulike, Pukalani; Constance Dewberry, Campbell, Kapolei; Norberth Garma, Baldwin, Wailuku Town; Matthew Gawlik, Mililani, Mililani; Edward Johns, Waiakea, Wal-Mart of Hilo; Adrianne Ola Olione, Waipahu, Pearl Harbor; Letisha Pancho, Waimea, Eleele; and Faith Yoshimoto, Christian Academy, Salt Lake.>> Mary Sheridan, professor of social work at Hawaii Pacific University, has been given the school's 2003 Trustees' Award for Teaching Excellence. She was nominated by her students. Sheridan has taught at HPU since 1987 and was instrumental in establishing the Bachelor of Social Work degree program that began in 1997. This year she was named Social Worker of the Year in Professional Education and Training by the National Association of Social Work, Hawaii Chapter.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffLEEWARD OAHU
Fender-bender pursuit nets car theft suspect
A man who drove a car into the back of a van yesterday at the intersection of Kamehameha Highway and Honomanu Street in Aiea was arrested for investigation of car theft, police said.The van driver gave chase, stopped the car on Koauka Loop and held the suspect, 19, for police.
A 17-year-old boy who was a passenger in the stolen car was not arrested.
HONOLULU
Fire at Kamehameha damages classroom
Honolulu firefighters said Kamehameha Schools personnel put out an electrical fire in one of the elementary school classrooms yesterday.The fire started in a wall-mounted portable fan in Classroom 8.
School personnel who discovered the fire put it out with an extinguisher, officials said.
Fire officials said no one was injured. The fire caused an estimated $1,000 in damage.
Police ask public's help in 2 hit-and-run cases
Honolulu traffic investigators are looking for information about two different hit-and-run pedestrian accidents last month.The first incident took place on May 19. Police said a 72-year-old man was makai-bound in a marked crosswalk on North School Street near the Houghtailing Street intersection at 9:20 p.m. when he was hit by a blue-green, two-door compact sedan, possibly a Honda Civic, which fled the scene. The victim sustained a broken collarbone and leg bruises.
The second incident took place on May 27. A 20-year-old woman was in a crosswalk on Queen Street near Richards Street about 1 p.m. when a light-blue van struck her left side, bruising her leg. Police said the male driver waved at the victim as if to apologize but continued driving onto Queen Street.
Calls are being taken by the Traffic Accident Investigation Section at 529-3527 or CrimeStoppers at 955-8300, *CRIME on a cellular phone.
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