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By Star-Bulletin Staff
Lifeguards kept active despite smaller waves
City lifeguards rescued 10 people and assisted another 100 oceangoers in Waikiki yesterday as wave heights dropped to 3 to 5 feet by the afternoon.The day started with waves of 4 to 8 feet in the morning, which was down from the biggest south swell of the summer season a day earlier. On Wednesday waves up to 14 feet kept lifeguards busy with 350 rescues and 600 assists just in the Ala Moana and Waikiki areas.
The National Weather Service forecasts 3- to 5-foot waves for the South Shore today.
Ala Moana city outlets see service restored
The City Store and satellite city hall at Ala Moana Center reopened yesterday after being closed for 2 1/2 days because of chemical fumes.The city had hoped to reopen the satellite hall Wednesday, but clearing out the fumes took longer than expected.
Center management said the fumes came from the former site of J.C. Penney, where solvent was being used during some demolition work. City workers complained the fumes caused respiratory and eye irritation.
Mauna Kea center gets interim director
HILO >> Chong Gu has been named interim project director of the Mauna Kea Astronomy Education Center, the office of University of Hawaii-Hilo Chancellor Rose Tseng has announced.The center is to be built in the University Park section of the UH-Hilo campus and will be a museum displaying astronomical and cultural aspects of Mauna Kea.
Gu has been a fiscal officer with the education center project since October. He replaces George Jacob.
Astronomer Walter Steiger, who served on the university Board of Regents from 1982 to 1986, will serve as an interim senior advisor to Gu, Tseng's office said.
Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHONOLULU
Members of the Honolulu Police Department's Specialized Services Division arrested fugitive Josey Smith, 23, in Nuuanu yesterday.
Police nab domestic-violence suspectSmith was wanted on outstanding domestic-violence and contempt warrants and was also served with a temporary restraining order upon his arrest. Police also charged a 24-year-old man with hindering prosecution in the second degree in the case.
WINDWARD OAHU
Honolulu police found a 13-year-old boy who had been the subject of an intense search by police and fire crews yesterday afternoon and last night.
Boy missing after swimming lesson foundCurstin "Nahe" Simmons-Sabey, who has Down syndrome, was found at the Middle Street Bus Barn at about 10:10 last night. Police said a bus employee at the Middle Street facility saw Simmons-Sabey sitting down at a bus stop but at first did not recognize who he was. The employee later called 911 after watching a 10 o'clock TV news report about the search for the boy.
Earlier Honolulu police and fire teams searched Kawainui Marsh in Kailua looking for him. Police said Simmons-Sabey was last seen at 2 p.m. when he went to change his clothes after a swimming lesson at the Windward YMCA, 1200 Kailua Road.
Witnesses told police they had seen a child matching Simmons-Sabey's description across the street from the YMCA, later on in Kailua town and as far away as Waimanalo. Later, police said witnesses saw Simmons-Sabey getting off a bus at Ala Moana Shopping Center yesterday evening.
Involved in the search were police detectives, the Honolulu Fire Department's Air One helicopter and Simmons-Sabey's family members.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Maui police rerouted a 13-year-old Washington state runaway last week who charged a trip to the Valley Isle on his mother's credit card.
Boy who caught plane to Hawaii is sent homeThe boy's mother notified Maui police after she learned that her son had charged an airline ticket using her credit card online. Authorities met the boy when he got off the Hawaiian Airlines flight from Seattle. He was placed on a return flight and arrived back home before midnight.
Hawaiian Airlines spokesman Keoni Wagner confirmed that the boy flew on one of Hawaiian's planes.
"He was a ticketed passenger," Wagner said, and had ID, though he was not sure the ID had a photo.
Like most airlines, he said, Hawaiian has an unaccompanied-minor program that caters to kids up to age 12.
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