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Box jellyfish invade Sunday and Monday

Lifeguards are warning swimmers that a box jellyfish invasion is expected for Sunday and Monday.

Areas commonly affected include Waikiki and Ala Moana beaches. Those who are allergic to jellyfish stings should stay out of the water, and those who get stung should flush the area with vinegar.

For more information, call the city's Ocean Safety Division at 922-3888, ext. 51, or visit the division's Web site at www.co.honolulu.hi.us/esd/ oceansafety.

Golf course increases reward for lost mural

PUNALUU, Hawaii » A year of free play at Sea Mountain Golf Resort has been added to a previously announced $5,000 reward for information leading to the return of a mural by artist Herb Kane stolen from the resort.

The announcement was made by Roy Pfund, spokesman for property owners SM Investment Partners and tour company Roberts Hawaii.

The 10-foot-high, 20-foot-long mural depicting everyday life at the Punaluu black-sand beach 200 years ago was discovered missing in mid-July.

Kane painted the mural in 1973 on a specially prepared plywood wall in a now unused building at the resort, 56 miles south of Hilo.

Authorities say they believe thieves used an electric circular saw to cut the mural into sections in order to carry it away. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 935-3311.

Voting for Filipino election begins Oct. 1

Absentee voting for citizens of the Philippines starts Oct. 1.

The registration ends on Aug. 31, 2006, and will allow citizens to vote in the 2007 national elections.

All qualified citizens of the Philippines over 18 in Hawaii and American Samoa are eligible to register.

Registration will be held at the Philippine Consulate at 2433 Pali Highway from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays. For more information, call the consulate at 595-6316, ext. 241.

Children with arthritis to camp at the Hilton

About 20 Hawaii children with arthritis will be "camping" this weekend, but they won't be building fires or roasting marshmallows.

The Arthritis Foundation and Shriners Hospital for Children are hosting the children in five condominium rooms at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Co-sponsors are the Shriners Organization and Building Industry Labor Association.

The annual Juvenile Arthritis Camp also will get a new name -- Camp Mana'olana (Camp Hope) -- in a blessing ceremony kicking off the three-day camp at 4 p.m. tomorrow at Shriners Hospital.

Regular juvenile arthritis outdoor camps have been held in the past, but the children will have a unique experience this time, an Arthritis Foundation spokesman said.

Activities will include beach and water exercises, music, and education about arthritis. It will be the first resort experience for some children, the spokesman said.

The Building Industry Labor Association made a three-year pledge in 2002 of $10,000 a year to support children's programs in Hawaii, and it renewed the pledge this year for another three years.

For more information, call 596-2900 (800-462-0743 from the neighbor islands) or see www.arthritis.org.

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» The University of Hawaii's College of Engineering has received $25,000 from the Science Applications International Corp. to support graduate student fellowships.

» Larry Foster, a professor and former dean of the University of Hawaii's law school, was appointed president of the East-West Center Association. He succeeds Daniel Berman, who is on temporary assignment for the East-West Center in India.

» Katelin Yee of McKinley High School has won a $25,000 Get Off the Rock Scholarship to attend the Art Institute of California-San Francisco. Tina Jones of Kaiser High and Michael McGarvey of Kapolei High each won $5,000 scholarships to attend the institute's branch schools in San Diego and Los Angeles, respectively.

» The American Psychological Association has awarded the University of Hawaii's Department of Psychology its 2004 Honorable Mention Award for Innovation in Graduate Education in Psychology. The university was honored for its community and culture graduate program, the only one in the nation that incorporates community and cultural psychology into a single program.

» The University of Hawaii's Center for Chinese Studies has announced the recipients of these awards: The Tung Bui Guangdong Project Student Excellence Award for students who are combining the study of China with information technology went to Jennifer Dunn and Jay Hubert, both Asian-studies graduate students.

The Chung-Fong and Grace Ning Excellence in Chinese Studies Graduate Student Award winners were Yoshihisa Amae, a political science graduate student, and Kuan-hung Chen, a philosophy graduate student.

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Police, Fire, Courts



By Star-Bulletin staff

CENTRAL OAHU
Suspect, 22, arrested in shooting of 2 men

Police arrested a 22-year-old man after he allegedly shot one man and tried to shoot another on Ohai Street in Wahiawa on Tuesday night.

The shooting victim, 40, was in serious condition when he was taken to the Queen's Medical Center. He had also been bitten by a dog, said Emergency Medical Services Supervisor Norman Hahn. The other victim, 22, fled the scene.

Witnesses told police they saw the suspect running and shooting at one of the victims at 7:43 p.m. and then leave the scene in a white sedan.

Police arrested the suspect at 9:40 p.m. near Schofield Barracks' Foote Gate for investigation of second-degree attempted murder. He was arrested later for a second count of second-degree attempted murder when police learned of the victim who left.

HONOLULU
Palolo man allegedly rapes girl for 2 years

Police arrested a 37-year-old Palolo man for allegedly raping a girl, now 14, for almost two years.

The suspect was arrested at 8:07 p.m. Tuesday for investigation of four counts of first-degree sexual assault and one count of third-degree sexual assault. Police said the alleged assaults took place between February 2002 and July 2004.

NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Marijuana sweep pulls up 7,038 plants

East Hawaii vice section detectives and officers completed a three-day marijuana eradication mission yesterday, ripping out a total of 7,038 marijuana plants.

The plants ranged from seedlings to 12 feet tall.

Vice officers also arrested two Fern Forest males in separate incidents.

The eradication mission was carried out Monday through Wednesday in Puna, South Hilo, North Hilo and Hamakua.

On Monday, officers in a helicopter spotted a man in a Fern Forest marijuana patch. Police arrested a 68-year-old man for drug offenses after finding 82 plants on the property. He was released pending further investigation.

On Wednesday, police, acting on a search warrant, arrested a 56-year-old Fern Forest man after finding 181 marijuana plants ranging in height from seedlings to 7 feet tall and 246 grams of dried processed marijuana on the property.

He was later released pending further investigation.

Maui crash kills man and injures woman

WAILUKU » A Maui man died Tuesday night, and a woman was critically injured in a two-car collision along Honoapiilani Highway in Ukumehame.

Richard Griffith, 41, of Wailuku died at the scene.

Maui police Lt. Jeffrey Tanoue said a car driven by the woman, 19, of Haiku, was traveling in the Maalaea direction when it crossed the center line and struck the vehicle driven by Griffith at 11:18 p.m.

Tanoue said alcohol was suspected as a factor in the accident.

Griffith, a hotel security guard, is the eighth traffic fatality this year on Maui, compared with 11 for the same period last year.