HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Money released for cleanup study
Advertiser Staff
Gov. Linda Lingle has released $90,000 to help pay for studies and recommend cleanup solutions for oil contamination in Iwilei near Honolulu Harbor.
The contamination of the area, in the region bounded by Nu'uanu Stream and Kapalama Stream, is being addressed under the Department of Health's direction by area landowners and oil companies under the Iwilei District Participating Parties LLC. The other parties in the organization are also participating in the cost of the work.
WORK CLOSES PORTION OF H-1
Work is under way between the H-1 Freeway Halawa and Pearl City interchanges for the H-1 widening project. The H-1 will be closed in that area in the westbound direction from 9:30 p.m. today to 4 a.m. tomorrow.
The right westbound lane will be closed from the H-1/Moanalua Freeway merge to the Pearl City off-ramp on the following dates:
State Department of Transportation workers will be installing expansion joints and new freeway signs. Drivers are asked to use alternate routes such as Kamehameha Highway or Moanalua Road through 'Aiea and Pearl City.
The work had been scheduled for last week but was delayed because of rain.
For more information, contact the DOT hot line at 587-6316 or visit www.h1widening.com.
POLICE SEARCH FOR AILING BOY, 16
Police are looking for a missing 16-year-old boy who is taking medication for seizures.
Kamuela Martin was last seen Feb. 1 at 11:45 p.m. at the Honolulu International Airport, police said. He was scheduled to leave for Utah but did not get on the flight, police said.
Martin takes medication for seizures but police did not disclose the medical condition that causes the seizures. Martin may be driving a 2002 Saturn four-door station wagon, license JWW-409, police said. He is known to frequent the Honolulu, Ala Moana, Waikiki and Kailua areas, police said.
He is 6 feet tall and 154 pounds, with blue eyes and blond hair. He was last seen wearing a black T-shirt, dark pants and a black baseball cap.
Anyone with information about this person is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300, or *CRIME on a cellular phone. Free cellular calls are provided by Cingular, Nextel Hawaii, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless Hawaii.
KAUA'I
TWO DROWNING VICTIMS NAMED
LIHU'E — Authorities have identified two men who drowned in the ocean off 'Anini on Sunday while trying to save a woman who was being swept out to sea.
The men were identified as the woman's husband, Glenn Manning, of Wichita, Kan., and Ronald Rowlett, of Vacaville, Calif.
The woman was pulled out at the mouth of 'Anini Stream about 2 p.m. Her husband and a bystander jumped in to help but were carried out to the surf breaking on the reef.
A county Ocean Safety Bureau Jet Ski with a crew of two was dispatched from Hanalei and was able to bring the woman to shore uninjured. Both men were pronounced dead on shore after their bodies were recovered.
No autopsy was requested.
BIG ISLAND
DRIVER SUCCUMBS TO CRASH INJURIES
HILO — A 30-year-old Hilo man died yesterday from injuries he suffered when the car he was driving ran off Akaka Falls Road on Sunday night and overturned in a pasture.
Police said the driver and two passengers in the vehicle, a 32-year-old man and 22-year-old woman, were all ejected from the vehicle.
The driver was pronounced dead at 12:15 a.m. yesterday at Hilo Medical Center, but police were withholding his name until his next of kin could be notified. The two passengers in the vehicle were listed in satisfactory condition.
Police said the 30-year-old man was driving a 2000 Toyo-ta 4Runner east on Akaka Falls Road about a half-mile west of Honomu Road when the vehicle ran off the right side of the road and overturned shortly before 9:39 p.m. Sunday.
Police said speed and alcohol were factors, and none of the three wore a seat belt.
STATEWIDE
STATE TO HONOR CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER
State flags at state and county buildings are to be flown at half-staff from sunup to sundown today in honor of civil rights leader Coretta Scott King on the day of her interment.
President George W. Bush yesterday ordered that the U..S. flag be flown at half-staff today in memory of King, the wife of the slain leader Martin Luther King Jr.
King, 78, died Jan. 30 at an alternative medicine clinic in Mexico, where doctors said she was battling advanced ovarian cancer. She also had been recovering from a stroke and heart attack.
$10,000 AWARDS AWAIT STUDENTS
The Mercedes-Benz USA Scholarship Program will grant $1.5 million in scholarships to students who are the first in their families to go to college.
The scholarship program, now in its third year, will grant $10,000 awards ($2,500 per school year) to 100 high school seniors across the nation who demonstrate leadership ability, academic achievement, community service and need.
For more information or to request application materials, visit www.mbusa.com/drivefuture. Applications are due Friday.
MOLOKA'I
STATE WILL TAKE ID APPLICATIONS
KAUNAKAKAI — State workers will be on Moloka'i on March 4 to process applications for Hawai'i identification cards.
Applications may be filed at the Mitchell Pauole Center from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The fee is $10 for residents 65 and older and $15 for others.
New applicants must provide an original Social Security card and a certified copy of their birth certificate or resident alien card. Certified legal documents are needed for anyone seeking a name change due to marriage, divorce or other circumstances.
No documentation is needed for renewals without a name change.
For recorded information on applicant requirements, call (808) 587-3111, or visit www.stateid.hawaii.gov.
