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>> Tech Corps Hawaii has awarded five grants totaling $4,102 to five public school teachers who have used creative and innovative methods to integrate technology into hands-on learning experiences for their students. Funds were provided by the Yamada Scott Family Foundation.The grant winners are Allison Kohlhepp, of Kauai High School; Keith Matthews, of Ala Wai Elementary; Will Beaver, of Castle High; Sophie Hu, of McKinley High; and Jim Cox, of Kapaa Middle.
>> The Aloha Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution has awarded scholarships to Cory R. Fraser, a medical student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; Woo Ae Byun, a graduate nursing student at UH-Manoa; and Elizabeth K. Nguyen, a medical student at Northwestern University in Chicago.
>> Keoki's Paradise, a restaurant in Poipu, Kauai, has honored Cynthia Matsuoka, principal of Koloa Elementary School, with its Educator of the Month award for September.
>> Kori Ann Haymore, of Kurtistown on the Big Island, is one of two students in the nation to win the "Student Visions" essay contest sponsored by the Digital Promise Project and the Federation of American Scientists. Haymore is a sophomore at the Franklin Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts. In her essay, the Waiakea High School graduate proposed that animated characters teach math concepts on computers, replacing the need for textbooks and freeing teachers to spend more time with students individually.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffWINDWARD OAHU
Police charge suspect in kidnapping case
Police charged a 44-year-old man yesterday with second-degree robbery and kidnapping in a Nov. 8 incident in Kailua.Police charged Anthony Funn after he was identified in a photo lineup and later found and arrested. Funn is the second suspect arrested in the case, police said.
He is suspected of robbing and kidnapping a 42-year-old woman.
Bail was set at $50,000.
HONOLULU
Kalihi man is arrested on machete allegation
Police arrested a 36-year-old Kalihi man who allegedly threatened a 15-year-old girl with a machete Sunday night on Umi Street in Kalihi.Police said the man got into an argument at about 5:30 p.m. with the teenager about using a car she was moving for her mother, who owns the car.
Police said the suspect got angry and got a machete out of a van. He then ran to the girl with the machete allegedly raised over his head, apparently intent on striking the victim, police said.
The girl became frightened and backed the car away and left to tell her parents.
Police arrested the man for first-degree terroristic threatening. The case is pending investigation.
LEEWARD OAHU
Female hiker missing above Pacific Palisades
A Honolulu Fire Department search and rescue crew were attempting to find a hiker reported missing in the Pacific Palisades area last night.Fire officials said a group of people were hiking along Manana Trail at the end of Komo Mai Drive when one person, a woman in her mid-20s, got separated from the rest of the group.
Hikers told fire officials they last saw the missing hiker near a waterfall. The Fire Department's Air 1 rescue helicopter was also involved in the search.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Driver held blameless in death of pedestrian
LIHUE >> A Kapaa woman died yesterday after she was struck by a car while walking across Kuhio Highway in Wailua.Penelope Hardenburgh, 49, was pronounced dead at Wilcox Memorial Hospital. Police said she was crossing the highway from the ocean side to the mountain side just before 7 a.m. when she was hit by a southbound car. Hardenburgh was not in a crosswalk, and the driver was not cited.
The death is Kauai's first traffic fatality of 2004.
Big Island DUI arrests increase 23% in 2003
Big Island police said they arrested 1,075 motorists for drunken driving last year, a 23 percent increase over the 873 arrests made the year before.However, police said the amount of alcohol-related traffic fatalities dropped 45 percent. There were six fatalities attributed to drunken driving in 2003, compared with 11 in 2002.
Overall, police officials said there were 2,363 major accidents during the year, compared with 2,260 during the previous year, an increase of 5 percent.
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