Power was restored by 9:30 last night to an estimated 2,235 Hawaiian Electric Co. customers in Mililani, HECO spokesman Darren Pai said.

The outage was reported at 7:41 p.m. Pai said it was not immediately known what caused the outage, which affected residents and businesses in the Mililani Uka neighborhood.

POWER RESTORED ON NORTH SHORE

Power was restored to Hawaiian Electric Co. customers in the area of Sunset Beach to Kuilima Access Road early yesterday after a vehicle struck a utility pole on Kamehameha Highway Sunday night.

The power outage occurred at 9:08 p.m. Sunday, affecting 907 customers. Power was restored to most customers by 4 a.m. yesterday.

A section of highway between Velzyland and Crawford's Convalescent Home was closed temporarily due to live wires on the roadway. No one was critically injured, police said.

DRUG-DOG PROJECT MAY GO STATEWIDE

A five-month pilot project that put a dog in two Maui schools to sniff out drugs has been so successful, proponents want the program expanded to the rest of the state school system.

State education officials are taking up the issue at the end of June. Board of Education Maui member Mary Cochran spearheaded the project.

Lahaina Intermediate School has had seven unannounced visits by 6-year-old golden retriever Custer since February. Principal Marsha Nakamura said that during that time, they found two bags with marijuana or traces of the drug, a partially smoked joint, rolling papers and about 30 liquor bottles.

Lahainaluna High School Principal Michael Nakano said alcohol bottles and marijuana were found on his campus during drug-dog visits.

MARINES RECEIVE QUILT DONATIONS

Local quilters yesterday donated an estimated three dozen Hawaiian quilts to the Wounded Warrior Marines.

The quilts went to the Wounded Warriors of the 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division at the Wounded Warriors' barracks. Fifteen Marines are at the barracks, said officials at Marine Corps Base Hawai'i.

Gayle Goodman, wife of Lt. Gen. John F. Goodman, commanding general of U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific, will assist with the contribution.

"Each Marine who gets one will be able to keep the quilt for life," Gayle Goodman said in a press release.

MAN, 20, FOUND DEAD AT HOME

Police were called after a 20-year-old man was found dead about 7:30 yesterday morning at his home in Punalu'u.

There were no signs of foul play, police said. They classified the incident as an unattended death. An autopsy will be conducted.