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Verizon still faces 4,100 without service
Verizon Hawaii phone crews restored service to 700 lines Saturday, bringing the number of phone customers without service after a series of heavy rainstorms earlier this month to 4,100 statewide.About 3,650 customers on Oahu, 300 on Maui and 100 each on the Big Island and Kauai were without phone service yesterday, Verizon spokesman Bill Kula said. Verizon crews are expected to continue working mandatory overtime shifts throughout the week to deal with the service problems.
Kula said that over the past five days, crews restored service to more than 10,000 Hawaii phone customers.
State to replace confusing airport signs
The state Department of Transportation will replace 25 signs at Honolulu International Airport, including two main signs that travelers had complained were confusing.The airport signs coming off the H-1 freeway will be changed from "Ticketing" and "Bag Claim" to "Departures" and "Arrivals." Subsequent destinations signs on the airport's second and ground levels will read "Check In" and "Bag Claim."
Work on the signs will begin today and run 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. through Friday.
Transportation Department officials have advised motorists to proceed through the construction area with caution.
Geologist from Hilo to lead observatory
HILO >> A Hilo-born geologist has been named head of the U.S. Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Wash., the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory announced.Elliot Endo assumes his new duties next week, the Big Island observatory said.
After graduating from Hilo High in 1961, Endo began his career in volcanology with a 180-day appointment as a field assistant at the Volcano observatory, helping with studies of cooling lava lakes at Alae and Makaopuhi craters.
He obtained a bachelor's degree in geology in 1966 from the University of San Jose, followed by a master's degree in 1971. He earned a doctorate from the University of Washington in 1985.
He was credited with being the first person to recognize the beginning of volcanic tremor at Mount St. Helens that led to the mountain's catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980.
Endo's early work included initiating routine computer processing of data from the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory while working at the USGS National Center for Earthquake Research at Menlo Park, Calif.
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By Star-Bulletin staffTROUBLE IN TROOP 1
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Boy Scout leader Nathan Pang was airlifted from the Koowalu Trail in Manoa yesterday after he was injured during a hike. Fire Capt. Emmit Kane said Pang, in his 50s, was hiking the trail with a group of Scouts from Troop 1 before 11 a.m. when he fell and injured his left ankle. Pang was airflifted to Manoa Elementary School and taken to Kuakini Medical Center by ambulance. A spokesman for Emergency Medical Services said Pang may have broken his ankle.
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