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Harris farewell speech to tout achievements

Mayor Jeremy Harris will give his farewell address tomorrow night highlighting the accomplishments of his administration during his 10 years in office.

The half-hour speech starts at 6:30 p.m. in the Mission Memorial Auditorium next to Honolulu Hale. The public is invited and is asked to be seated by 6 p.m., when pre-speech entertainment will begin.

Free parking is available at the Civic Center Parking Structure. Enter at Alapai and South Beretania streets.

The address will also be broadcast live on KHON-TV. The city is paying about $3,000 to $4,000 to air the speech on television.

9 from isle Air Guard get orders to Iraq

The Hawaii Air National Guard is deploying nine air traffic controllers to Iraq next week in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Guard officials said all nine are members of the 297th Air Traffic Control Squadron, whose mission is to provide air traffic control and radar approach for U.S. military aviation. The airmen will be providing air traffic control at an undisclosed airbase in Iraq. The deployment is expected to last for four months.

Aid for storm-ravaged Philippines sought

A Philippine official appealed to Filipino Americans yesterday to donate money and goods to assist tens of thousands left homeless because of storms that ravaged the island nation.

"Your ethnic brothers need a little help," said Philippine Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz, who also serves as chairman of disaster management.

Cruz, in Honolulu to meet with U.S. military officials, said an estimated 30,000 homes, 1,000 schools and miles of farmland were destroyed by back-to-back storms that unleashed landslides and flooding that left nearly 900 dead and hundreds missing.

"We still need donations as far as cash or relief goods because it's going to be a long, drawn-out affair," he said.

Hawaii's active Filipino community has already coordinated an aid campaign for the Philippines. In addition to relief efforts, Cruz and U.S. military leaders discussed security-related issues, including combating terrorism, and defense reform.

The United States is providing counterterrorism training to the Philippines' military and leadership. The two nations are also sharing intelligence.

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Police, Fire, Courts



By Star-Bulletin staff

HONOLULU

Mentally ill man, 54, missing since Nov. 15

Police are asking for the public's assistance in locating a 54-year-old Oahu man who suffers from mental illness.

Lester Tong Chang was last seen at his Kilauea Avenue home on Nov. 15, police said last night.

Chang is described as Chinese, 5 feet 7 inches, 160 pounds, with brown shoulder-length hair, brown eyes, a mustache, glasses and a tattoo on his right forearm. He wears a baseball cap and carries a black and blue backpack.

Calls can be made to Investigator James Vasconcellos at 529-3064, or anonymously to CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME on a cell phone.

NEIGHBOR ISLANDS

Homeless man held in tire-puncturing spree

Big Island police have arrested a 35-year-old homeless man suspected of puncturing more than a dozen vehicles' tires in the Kailua town area this week.

Adonis Oandasan was arrested Monday for suspicion of several counts of criminal property damage involving 16 separate reports of tires being punctured in the Lanihau and Kona Coast shopping centers that day.

Police received additional reports that tires were damaged on vehicles parked on Alii Drive near Huggo's restaurant, in the area of Hanama Place near the county offices, and on Henry Street near the Crossroads Professional Center.

Acting on information from witnesses, officers arrested Oandasan about 3:30 p.m.

Police are asking anyone who witnessed a tire puncturing or saw someone tampering with vehicles on Monday to call Officer Calvin Delaries of the Kona Patrol at 326-4646 or the police nonemergency number at 935-3311.