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Aesop's Fables to be presented in song
A storyteller and former librarian will perform a musical version of Aesop's Fables at public libraries beginning Monday as part of a summer reading program.Nyla Ching-Fujii and her husband, Jeffry Stephen Babb, will present "Read It in Books!" at 20 public libraries statewide.
The program, which runs until June 30, also includes a poetry version of "Hen and the Bottle" and a selection from Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories."
Admission is free.
Ching-Fujii, the only Hawaii resident to be an invited "featured teller" at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tenn., recently retired as a public librarian.
Eight public libraries on Oahu will host the duo this month. For a schedule of their appearances, call Library Development Services at 831-6878 or go to the library's Web site at www.librarieshawaii.org/programs/srchildren.htm.
Kapiolani repaving to last for 6 weeks
The city will repave Kapiolani Boulevard, between Kalakaua Avenue and Date Street, beginning Monday and expects to finish in six weeks.Crews will start at Kalakaua Avenue and move in the Diamond Head direction toward Date Street. Then they will work in the Ewa-bound lanes heading back to Kalakaua.
Work will be done from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. Monday through Friday. Crews will close intersections and half of the roadway.
Other repairs include manhole adjustments and installing traffic loop sensors from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Detour signs will be posted, and off-duty police officers will assist motorists in the area.
Maui couple proposes boat storage facility
WAILUKU » A Maui couple is proposing to develop a storage facility for small boats in southern Kihei.Chris and Candy Hayes hope to have a facility for 40 to 60 boats on leased land north of the state's small boat ramp at Keawakapu.
Their proposal is to be discussed at a meeting of the Kihei Community Association at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Kihei Aquatic Center.
Candy Hayes said she and her husband are talking with the state Department of Land and Natural Resources' Boating Division about leasing one to two acres.
Hayes said the boat ramp has no storage facility and that their business would help reduce boat traffic on South Kihei Road.
[ TAKING NOTICE ]
» Andre Bachman, a researcher at the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii's Molecular Carcinogenesis Section of the Cancer Etiology Program, has been elected chairman of the American Chemical Society in Hawaii for 2004. Bonnie Warn Cramer, also a researcher at the center, was voted chair-elect and will advance to chairwoman next year.
Other officers are I-Chia Shih, secretary designate; F. David Horgen, of Hawaii Pacific University's College of Natural Sciences, treasurer; and Blake Vance Jr., councilor.
» The Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Excelsior Lodge No. 1, has presented $1,500 to the Arthritis Foundation to help support local arthritis programs, services and research.
Ernest Baptist, Nobel Grand of the order, gave the check to Dr. Linda Rasmussen at the Arthritis Walk at Windward Mall last month. She was the walk chairwoman.
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which began in 17th-century England, is based on "friendship, love and truth." Members raise funds annually to support the Arthritis Foundation, which serves about 189,000 island residents afflicted with any of the more than 120 types of arthritis.
» David A. Loop has been appointed executive director of the Kahala Nui Life Care senior living community near Kahala Mall, expected to open in February.
Loop has managed several retirement communities in the United States during 20 years of experience in the senior living industry. He was previously president and chief executive officer of Wesleyan Senior Living in Elyria, Ohio, a $70 million construction and renovation project.
Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffNEIGHBOR ISLANDS
KAILUA-KONA » Four people were arrested, and two of them were charged with possessing crystal methamphetamine, after police served a search warrant at a Keopu, North Kona, home Thursday, police said.
4 people are arrested in drug raid in KeopuEdward Shoeppner, 52, of Keopu, was charged with distributing the drug known as "ice," four counts of possessing the drug, possessing various controlled prescription pills, and four counts of drug paraphernalia. He was held in lieu of $35,000 bail.
Sylvia Branco, 44, of Kealakehe, was charged with two counts of possessing "ice" and two counts of drug paraphernalia. She was held in lieu of $4,000 bail.
A man, 45, and a woman, 32, also arrested at the scene, were released without charges pending investigation.
Big Island features 2,070 fewer pot plants
Big Island police uprooted 1,999 marijuana plants this week during an eradication operation in East Hawaii.Officers seized the marijuana, which ranged from seedlings to 5-foot-high plants, Wednesday and Thursday in Puna and South Hilo.
Police also executed a search warrant in a Hawaiian Acres subdivision and seized 71 marijuana plants but made no arrests.
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