Honolulu Star - Bulletin back issues from June 2006:
H-1 West closed tomorrow night
Jun 01, 2006; ... State transportation officials plan to close the westbound lanes of the H-1 freeway from the Moanalua Freeway merge to the Pearl City offramp tomorrow night as part of the final stage of a two-year widening project. "We're at the home stretch of the project," said state Department of ...
Golf tour backer convicted of fraud
Jun 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; A Maui man is guilty of wiring $5,000 in fundsface=-Bold; A federal jury has convicted a Maui man for defrauding the 2001 Pro Tour Hawaii, resulting in the demise of the golf series shortly after it began. Gregg Wood, the tour's financial backer, was found guilty ...
The Wormy Way
Jun 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Hilo charter school students learn how to get rid of lunch leftovers with some wormy friendsface=-Bold; HILO » Connections charter school sixth-grader Shane Paredes doesn't like worms. "They're slimy and gross. They get all over you once they get on you," he ...
RAINBOW BASEBALL - 'Bows arrive in Oregon reborn
Jun 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Hawaii is upbeat heading into its first NCAA baseball regional in 13 yearsface=-Bold; CORVALLIS, Ore. » The Hawaii Rainbows arrived here yesterday at midday, looking relaxed and rejuvenated after five grueling games at the Western Athletic Conference baseball ...
AVCA GRANT BURGER MEDIA AWARD - Star-Bulletin reporter wins national award
Jun 01, 2006 ... face=+Bold; Coaches name Cindy Luis best in print at covering volleyballface=-Bold; The Star-Bulletin's Cindy Luis yesterday was named the national winner in the print category of the American Volleyball Coaches Association Grant Burger Media Award. She was also one of four finalists ...
Donki redesigning Daiei Kaheka store
Jun 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Tokyo-based retailer Don Quijote has been slow to make changes at the local Daiei stores it boughtface=-Bold; Tokyo-basedface=+Bold; Don Quijote Co. Ltd.face=-Bold; , a discount store chain that rolled into the United States for the first time in February with the purchase ...
Cyanotech gains more time to boost stock price to $1
Jun 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Cyanotech Corp.face=-Bold; , which produces human and animal nutritional supplements from microalgae, has received a 180-day reprieve to boost its stock price or face delisting from the Nasdaq SmallCap Market. The notice, dated yesterday, follows a similar warning that the ...
Fashion at your Fingertips
Jun 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; A longtime clothing retailer converts to the 'Net and brings the world closerface=-Bold; WISE AND not-so-wise men go through life in different ways, but both would probably agree with the adage, "Look before you leap." After 24 years in traditional retailing, an ...
The best in Hawaiian music honored
Jun 01, 2006 ... face=+Bold; 2006 Na Hoku Hanohano Award Winnersface=-Bold; Here are the winners as named during the 29th Annual Na Hoku Hanohano Awards ceremony that took place last night at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. For story, see the A section. face=+Bold; FEMALE ...
2 Police Commission members resign posts
Jun 01, 2006; ... Two Honolulu Police Commission members have resigned, citing personal reasons -- and warning that more commissioners might leave soon. Co-chairwoman Cha Thompson and commission member Jimmy Borges resigned last week effective in the first week of June. Thompson was serving her third ...
Business property tax hike advances
Jun 01, 2006; ... A City Council proposal to increase tax rates for commercial, industrial and hotel property owners would drive up the cost of everything, critics say. "Think about the economics," Lowell Kalapa, president of the Tax Foundation of Hawaii, told the Council Budget Committee yesterday. "I'd ...
Feds cut Hawaii's terror funds
Jun 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; A state military official says Hawaii is "one of the more safer states"face=-Bold; Hawaii will receive about $9 million less in counterterrorism funding from the Homeland Security Department this year because it is considered a low-risk area, the head of Hawaii's Department ...
Shark bites spear diver
Jun 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Lifeguards close some North Shore beaches after a snorkeler suffers an arm gashface=-Bold; A SHARK, described as at least 9 feet long, apparently bit a 29-year-old man who was spearfishing yesterday near "Leftovers," a surf spot on the North Shore. It is the second ...
Air Force adds quake to Pacific missions
Jun 01, 2006 ... face=+Bold; The Hickam center sends two C-130s to ferry disaster reliefface=-Bold; The Air Force has sent two C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft and 85 airmen from the 374th Airlift Wing at Yokota Air Base in Japan to provide disaster relief to victims of the 6.2-magnitude earthquake near ...
Runoff will cost Hokulia $200,000
Jun 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; The reef seems OK, but lava tube sea life took a heavy blowface=-Bold; KAILUA-KONA » The state Department of Health has proposed a $200,000 settlement for a violation stemming from storm water runoff from the Hokulia land development in Kona that polluted the ocean with silt ...
Centenarian put off U.S. citizenship for 79 years
Jun 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; The Mexican living in Manoa wants to vote before she diesface=-Bold; Dressed in a brightly colored muumuu and sunflower hat, 100-year-old Maria Soledad Sarabia Lagareta held her cane in her left hand and raised her right hand as she took an oath to become a U.S. citizen in ...
Close calls at Hoku awards
Jun 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Ties in two categories make this year's music awards uniqueface=-Bold; HISTORY was made in the Hilton Hawaiian Village Coral Ballroom last night as the Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts announced ties in two categories of the 2006 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards. Holunape ...
Ka Loko investigator might be an outsider
Jun 01, 2006; ... The appointed special deputy state attorney general to investigate the Ka Loko Dam breach could come from outside Hawaii, said members of a special selection committee. Committee members said many of the state's top lawyers do not qualify for the post due to conflicts of ...
UH medical students help treat homeless
Jun 01, 2006 ... Homeless people staying at the state-run Kakaako shelter received free health-care services last night as part of a student-run project from the nearby University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine. Hawaii Homeless Outreach and Medical Education Project will host weekly clinics ...
OUR OPINION - More at stake than tenants' homes in Kahuku land sale
Jun 01, 2006 ... face=+Bold; THE ISSUEface=-Bold; Mayor Hannemann is advocating a company's plan that would allow Kahuku village residents to buy their homes. THE sale of Campbell Estate land in Kahuku has precipitated a difficult situation for people who rent homes there, city officials, ...
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL - Damien names Lee AD
Jun 02, 2006; ... face=+Bold; He played for the last Saint Louis team to lose to the Monarchsface=-Bold; Pohai Lee knows Damien can beat Saint Louis in football. He experienced it first-hand 24 years ago. The difference now is it is Lee's job to help make it happen again. Lee, Damien's ...
Hawaiian Air most on-time carrier for 30 months in row
Jun 02, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Aloha Airlines ranks No. 17 in the reportface=-Bold; face=+Bold; Hawaiian Airlinesface=-Bold; led 20 U.S. carriers surveyed for on-time performance for the 30th straight month in April, according to a U.S. Department of Transportation report released yesterday. The ...
OUT OF POWER
Jun 02, 2006; ... face=+Bold; >> 37,000 customers lose electricity for four hours partly because of the hot weather >> Everyone from dentists to big-box stores is affected in areas of south Oahuface=-Bold; A massive power failure that hit scattered communities from Waimanalo to Ewa Beach ...
Maui budget pays for water rights
Jun 02, 2006; ... face=+Bold; The county allocates $7 million to buy watershed landsface=-Bold; WAILUKU » Maui County Mayor Alan Arakawa is moving forward to obtain water rights for an expanding Valley Isle population and restore flows to some streams. Arakawa signed into law yesterday a $476.8 ...
Shark bite victim could lose agility in left hand
Jun 02, 2006; ... The 29-year-old man attacked by a shark this week is "stable" but could lose movement and sensation in his left hand because of severe damage to 21 tendons and two key nerves in his forearm, his doctor said yesterday. Ronald Deguilmo, who underwent 6 1/2 hours of surgery Wednesday night, ...
AWARDS - Outdoor Circle announces awards
Jun 02, 2006 ... The Outdoor Circle's 2006 Beautification Awards recently honored businesses, individuals and organizations that have created landscape projects to help enhance the environment. The awards, limited in previous years to entries from Oahu, were open this year to nominations ...
CULTURE - Beyond the bells and the shimmies
Jun 02, 2006; ... Dazzling costumes, camels, snake charmers, sword dancers and an Egyptian caravan are all to be expected at this weekend's belly dance performance at Paliku Theatre. But the students of the Amara Kismet Near & Middle East Dance Ensemble have learned a lot more than how to ...
Red Cross offers free summer swim classes
Jun 02, 2006 ... face=+Bold; Children and adults are welcome to participate in the beach sessionsface=-Bold; The Hawaii State Chapter of the American Red Cross is offering free summer swim classes for children and adults at Ala Moana Beach Park starting tomorrow. Registration is required by ...
Ex-coaches get separate trials
Jun 02, 2006; ... face=+Bold; The former coaches from Lanai City face charges of providing alcohol to underage girlsface=-Bold; A former Lanai High School girls basketball coach and his former assistant have requested separate trials on charges they provided alcohol to members of the team while on Oahu ...
NIGHTLIFE - Nightcrawlers
Jun 02, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Your weekend guide to nightlife and clubbing on Oahuface=-Bold; face=+Bold; Arnold's Waikikiface=-Bold; face=+Italic; 339 Saratoga Rd. / 924-6887face=-Italic; FRI 2 Natural T, 9 p.m. SAT 3 Natural T, 10 p.m. SUN 4 ...
MUSIC - Rockers with a higher calling
Jun 02, 2006; ... In just three years the Christian group Casting Crowns has rocked the music scene, picking up 10 Dove awards, an American Music Award nomination and a 2006 Grammy. face=+Bold; Casting Crownsface=-Bold; With the All Hawaii Inter-Church Choir: » face=+Bold; ...
Superferry could face rough ride on Maui
Jun 02, 2006; ... face=+Bold; The pier where boats will dock is crowded and lacks proper facilitiesface=-Bold; KAHULUI » The Kahului harbormaster says traffic woes and few facilities at the Maui pier will make for a rocky start for the Hawaii Superferry. "People will ride it first for fun ....
STAGE - 'Yohen' focuses on couple's marriage
Jun 02, 2006; ... Although the experiences of Japanese war brides have been addressed as theater in perfect style by Velina Hasu Houston in "Tea," Kumu Kahua offers a fresh perspective with its "Dark Night" production of "Yohen." face=+Bold; 'Yohen'face=-Bold; » face=+Bold; Place:face=-Bold; ...
FEMA decisions can be appealed
Jun 02, 2006 ... face=+Bold; Applicants must have registered by July 1 to challenge any rulingsface=-Bold; People who have been denied disaster assistance may appeal by filing letters with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Common reasons for denial include inadequate insurance coverage, ...
CINEMA - Energy crisis
Jun 02, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Korean film is mostly style without emotionface=-Bold; Typhoon" has all the elements of an action film -- lots of blood and violence, chase scenes, explosions, exotic locales, mystery, a climactic knife duel, the rugged bad boy (complete with scars on his face and tattoos on ...
UH BASEBALL: A LOOK BACK TO 1993 - 'Bows back in business
Jun 02, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Apana, Ishigo and others recall their experiences playing for UH's last NCAA regional baseball qualifierface=-Bold; When the Hawaii baseball team was awarded a berth in the NCAA regionals back in 1993, the announcement came as a jolt to several Rainbows. Even more ...
Another Honolulu bank opens
Jun 02, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Ohana Pacific Bank joins Pacific Rim Bank in starting up in Hawaiiface=-Bold; face=+Bold; Ohana Pacific Bank face=-Bold; officially became part of the Korean community and Hawaii's fifth state-chartered bank yesterday when it opened its doors following a Hawaiian ...
GOLF - Leadbetter likes Wie's chances for U.S. Open
Jun 02, 2006; ... face=+Bold; The noted instructor watched as the Hawaii phenom practiced at the course where she will try to qualifyface=-Bold; SUMMIT, N.J. » Michelle Wie has a good chance of becoming the first woman to qualify for the U.S. Open if she can work out the kinks in her swing tempo over the ...
Hilo site will house services for veterans
Jun 02, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Construction on the complex and housing is set for next yearface=-Bold; HILO » A nonprofit organization of Big Island veterans plans to start construction next year on a complex of veterans services and housing on 7.5 acres next to the University of Hawaii at Hilo, said ...
Stalking case allowed at molestation trial
Jun 02, 2006; ... face=+Bold; A Kauai doctor was convicted in Florida nearly a decade agoface=-Bold; LIHUE » A Kauai osteopathic doctor charged in 2004 with molesting a 13-year-old male patient had been convicted nearly a decade ago of stalking another boy in Florida. Michael Green, lawyer for ...
Scholarship recipient to study engineering
Jun 02, 2006 ... face=+Bold; The immigrant from Vietnam has a 4.0 GPA at Farringtonface=-Bold; Nikki Luong has been named the 2006 recipient of the Wallace Rider Farrington Memorial Scholarship. The 18-year-old valedictorian at Farrington High School, with a 4.0 grade-point average, was honored during ...
TELEVISION - How Howie Got Hot
Jun 02, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Comic Howie Mandel marvels at his fortune after nearly rejecting TV's white-hot "Deal"face=-Bold; Sometimes it's good to be wrong. If Howie Mandel had followed his first instinct, he would have walked away from the "Deal or No Deal" TV project offered to him last ...
PET OHANA - Cats enjoy longer, healthier lives indoors
Jun 02, 2006; ... June is Love-a-Cat month, a good time to teach an outdoor cat to live indoors. Cats are inquisitive and enjoy exploring, but that doesn't mean they are only happy outdoors. Keeping cats inside is best. Domestic cats might find as much satisfaction prowling through your closet as they ...
TELEVISION - Raven-Symone: Showing who she is
Jun 02, 2006; ... MOST keiki think her last name is Baxter, after seeing her in 100 episodes of "That's So Raven" on the Disney Channel. Older siblings, parents and even some grandparents might remember her as precocious Olivia Kendall from "The Cosby Show." When Raven-Symone Pearman performs this weekend ...
CINEMA - At the Movies
Jun 02, 2006 ... face=+2; Openingface=-2; face=+Bold; The Break-Upface=-Bold;Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn play a Chicago couple who call it quits but refuse to move out of their jointly owned condo. Review on Page 21. (PG-13) face=+Bold; Typhoonface=-Bold; ...
Hot line will help track liquor sales to minors
Jun 02, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Liquor Commission investigators and police will team up to follow up on callsface=-Bold; TRYING to curb underage drinking, especially during graduation season, the Honolulu Liquor Commission announced yesterday that it has agreed to share information it receives on its ...
STAGE - Unconventional romance probes depths of betrayal
Jun 02, 2006; ... The Actors Group production of "The Goat" is excellent theater, although it would have been more topical if it had reached Hawaii while the same-sex marriage issue was still high in the public consciousness. face=+Bold; 'The Goat, Or, Who is Sylvia?'face=-Bold; Presented by The ...
Akaka is endorsed by national arms control group
Jun 02, 2006; ... U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka picked up another endorsement for his re-election yesterday, while U.S. Rep. Ed Case hasn't yet received public backing from any group. A national arms control group, the Council for a Livable World, recommended Akaka over Case because of his stand against the war ...
FIRST FRIDAY - Non-artists' art show
Jun 02, 2006 ... The Louis Pohl Gallery will show the works of those whose day jobs take them outside the world of art, in "Art: The Language Everyone Understands," on display Friday through June 30. A free reception will be held 5 to 9 p.m. during First Friday festivities in the Downtown/Chinatown district ....
OBON - Waipahu event opens obon season
Jun 02, 2006 ... The annual season of honoring ancestral spirits returns with the first obon celebration being held Saturday at Hawaii's Plantation Village. The Rev. Toyokazu Hagio of Waipahu Hongwanji will provide the blessing at 6 p.m. with dancing to follow until 10 p.m. The dance groups participating ...
Dell venture takes over Hualalai resort
Jun 02, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Michael Dell's MSD Capital and Rockpoint Group have bought the luxury Four Seasons propertyface=-Bold; A joint venture including computer mogul Michael Dell has acquired the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai on the Big Island, setting the stage for a potential expansion of one of ...
RAINBOW BASEBALL - 'Bows know what they'll do this summer
Jun 02, 2006; ... CORVALLIS, Ore. » The Hawaii Rainbows once again will be spread from coast to coast playing and developing in summer baseball leagues. It also is possible some of the juniors could have their summer plans changed after the Major League Baseball First-Year-Player draft on June ...
OUR OPINION - Federal security cuts don't ensure safety
Jun 02, 2006 ... face=+Bold; THE ISSUEface=-Bold; Hawaii's federal funding for antiterrorism is being cut this year to $13 million from last year's nearly $22 million. PUZZLEMENT and anger greeted the announcement of antiterrorism grants by the Department of Homeland Security to cities and ...
Influx of shark sightings could be deceiving
Jun 02, 2006 ... By Diana Leone dleone@starbulletin.com Immediately after a shark bites a person in Hawaii waters, people tend to be more vigilant about spotting sharks, experts say. "It always happens that when sharks make the news, people start paying more attention," said Randy ...
PADDLING - Healani maintains OHCRA tradition
Jun 03, 2006; ... face=+Bold; The club hosts the 60th Clement D. Paiaina regatta tomorrow to start the summer seasonface=-Bold; Like many other clubs on Oahu affected by the heavy rains and resulting water pollution in the spring, the Healani Canoe Club could have easily raised the white flag before the ...
IHOP hits Waikiki starting June 13
Jun 03, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Another IHOP planned for Windward Mall faces delaysface=-Bold; Oahu residents craving IHOP pancakes will soon be indulged with the opening of the first IHOP in Waikiki. The restaurant is scheduled to open June 13 in the Ohana Waikiki Malia Hotel on Kuhio Avenue. "I'm ...
Farmers complain about impact of Young Bros. plan
Jun 03, 2006; ... face=+Bold; The interisland shipper wants to end its "less than container load" service to and from Mauiface=-Bold; The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation is asking the state Public Utilities Commission for permission to intervene in face=+Bold; Young Brothers Ltd.face=-Bold; 's plans to ...
JAL celebrates 10 years of its Big Island route
Jun 03, 2006; ... In a climate where carriers are cutting routes to accommodate rising fuel cuts,face=+Bold; Japan Airlines face=-Bold; yesterday celebrated its 10th anniversary of service between Tokyo and Kona and pledged continued support for this critical route -- the only direct flight between Asia and the ...
New law removes piers from HCDA territory
Jun 03, 2006; ... Gov. Linda Lingle signed a law yesterday that transfers jurisdiction of Honolulu Harbor's piers 1 and 2 to the state Harbors Division, reserving them for maritime use. Honolulu Harbor, the major shipment point for most container traffic in and out of the state, has been at the center of ...
Fishermen allege abandonment
Jun 03, 2006; ... face=+Bold; The Micronesians say boat captains left them on Oahu without passportsface=-Bold; About a dozen Micronesian fishermen alleged yesterday that they have been exploited by at least three Honolulu fishing companies. The fishermen, natives of Pohnpei and other islands of ...
HECO: More blackouts a certainty
Jun 03, 2006; ... face=+Bold; As demand for power increases, there are not enough resources to meet ideal reservesface=-Bold; It's not a question of if, but when another power failure like the one on Thursday happens again, a spokesman for Hawaiian Electric Co. said yesterday. face=+Bold; HECO ...
Suspect held in $2M heist
Jun 03, 2006 ... face=+Bold; A police chase ends at Leeward Bowl with an arrest in the Waipahu jewelry robberyface=-Bold; A 25-year-old Ewa man arrested Thursday is suspected of the armed robbery of $2 million in jewelry from a man in the parking lot of the Waipahu Shopping Plaza, police said ...
Facilities on Big Isle to tap sea for energy
Jun 03, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Two proposed plants will use ocean heat to generate electricityface=-Bold; HILO » Because of the high cost of oil, creation of energy from ocean heat is making a comeback on the Big Island after being dormant since the 1990s. Ocean Engineering & Energy Systems, a ...
Up on the roof!
Jun 03, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Kahala students get a special reward for beating their reading goalface=-Bold; Kahala Elementary School students -- and their principal -- have taken reading to a higher level. The 497 students read more than 2,500 books above the goal set by Principal Steven ...
OUR OPINION - Speed law fits crime with proper penalties
Jun 02, 2006 ... face=+Bold; THE ISSUEface=-Bold;A new law increases fines and adds license suspensions and possible jail time as penalties for speeding. HEAVY-FOOTED drivers who shrug off fines as the price of their need for speed should know that come Jan. 1, they will pay a lot more -- and ...