Honolulu Star - Bulletin back issues from April 2007:
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL - Falcons turn up defense
Apr 01, 2007; ... At Kalani H.S. gym KAHUKU--Taeja Afalalva 7, Brittney Fesolai 5, Kelcy Latu 0, Krystle Manguba-Glover 5, LeNora Nauahi 4, Vaimalama Tito 10, Nicholle Nautu 4, Keisha Moeai 10, Alayna Galeai 6, Kenra Moe 0. KALANI--Chloe Martin 5, Kayla Kimura 0, Brandi Yamaguchi 0, Kim Balsai ...
Killer next door 'was a really nice guy'
Apr 01, 2007; ... It never occurred to Darnell Griffin's neighbors that he was a convicted killer. Griffin lived in an Ewa Beach neighborhood in a two-story home with his wife and three sons. Backyard barbecues were the norm. Every day whenever the Katina family would come home, their next-door ...
Historic hale to be rebuilt the old way
Apr 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Bishop Museumface=-Bold; www.bishopmuseum.org Daniel "Pomaika'i" Kaniaupio-Crozier took apart a grass shack, or hale, at Bishop Museum and is now rebuilding it from scratch. But he must now find or grow the original materials, and then copy the methods of construction used ...
UH Medical School puts family practice in Hilo
Apr 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; HMSA is funding the program to overcome a shortage of doctorsface=-Bold; The John A. Burns School of Medicine has established its first family practice residency in Hilo to help overcome a physician shortage in the area. The Hawaii Medical Service Association ...
Plans could alter Kahuku shoreline
Apr 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Residents are split on a developer's idea for oceanfront homesface=-Bold; For now, 18 luxury oceanfront homes exist only on paper and in the imaginations of those who want to develop the Kahuku shoreline. Wayne Panoke wants to keep it that way. "I always felt ...
BOOKS - Isle Pages
Apr 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; New releases from Hawaii authorsface=-Bold; face=+Bold; "Yesterday's Rainbow"face=-Bold; By John Tanaka (Xlibris, $21.95) John Tanaka lives in Kohala on the Big Island of Hawaii with his wife, Amy. A native of Hawaii, he attended public schools in ...
Scholars in service
Apr 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Hazel Oliveira sees five daughters through college with the desire that they aid othersface=-Bold; Judy Oliveira recalls her eldest sister coming home to Kahului from the University of Hawaii at Manoa unsure whether the family could afford to allow her to continue her ...
WARRIOR FOOTBALL - Kajiyama to fulfill 'dream' with UH
Apr 01, 2007; ... As Hawaii gets ready for the start of spring football practice tomorrow, coach June Jones said one spot is sewn up for the fall. Volunteer assistant Brian Kajiyama will be promoted to graduate assistant. "Brian will be official in the fall," Jones said yesterday. "He'll be a GA ....
CLOSE TO HOME - Lauhala weaving
Apr 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; A Hawaiian traditional art conference will be held on the Big Island in Mayface=-Bold; The 12th Annual Ka Ulu Lauhala O Kona Weaving Conference returns to Kona Village Resort on the Big Island from May 16 through 19. Founded in 1995 by Aunty Elizabeth Maluihi Lee, ...
BOXING - Lawler knocks out Trigg in OT
Apr 01, 2007; ... "Ruthless" Robbie Lawler has the belt once again. Lawler knocked out Frank Trigg at 1:40 of the fourth round with a stunning three-punch combo to become the first two-time world middleweight champion in the main event of last night's "ICON Sport: Epic" show in a fight that lived up to ...
Hawaii gatherings nurture support for Obama
Apr 01, 2007; ... Punahou School classmates of presidential hopeful Barack Obama gathered yesterday at Bernice Bower's Lanikai home at a "community kickoff meeting" in support of the candidate. Bowers, a 1979 Punahou graduate, held the party for the school's class of 1979 after many of her former ...
Dodging disaster; 'We were skin-diving, not paying any attention' to 1957 tsunami ; Tsunami Awareness Month activities
Apr 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Instruments are being tested tomorrow that can better anticipate a quake-caused tsunamiface=-Bold; Emergency agencies will test a new technology in an exercise tomorrow focusing on a potential tsunami-generating Big Island earthquake, says Edward Teixeira, state Civil ...
Teen groups get a taste of legislative procedures
Apr 01, 2007; ... Home-schooled Kailua teen TJ Metcalf wants to see surf racks on buses and got a good idea of how to make it happen yesterday in a mock Legislative session. Metcalf wrote a bill supporting the bus surf racks "so kids can go surfing without their parents taking them to the ...
TELEVISION - Man of the season
Apr 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Handsome triathlete doctor Andy Baldwin seeks out true love -- and finds it! -- on "The Bachelor"face=-Bold; He's almost too perfect. But now the world can try to spot a tiny flaw in the handsome, chiseled, bronzed physician/U.S. Navy diver/triathlete/humanitarian/nice guy ...
Kupuna want program audit
Apr 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Hawaiian studies education is being hurt by mismanaged funds, critics contendface=-Bold; Some educators are demanding an audit of the Department of Education's Hawaiian Studies program, charging that its $2.8 million annual budget is being mismanaged at public ...
Pulled from Koolaus, pilot's body set to RIP
Apr 01, 2007; ... GARY, Ind. » A World War II Navy pilot whose remains were identified last year after being excavated from a mountainside crash site in Hawaii will be buried this summer, ending his family's long wait for his return. Ensign Harry "Bud" Warnke's sister, 87-year-old Myrtle Tice, is waiting ...
DRAWN & QUARTERED - Wonder writer
Apr 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; When Jodi Picoult added a graphic section to a novel, DC Comics calledface=-Bold; It's not often a best-selling author gets an additional bump in publicity for outside projects, but that's the enviable position Jodi Picoult is in right now. Currently on a national ...
Columbia Inn shut owing cash to IRS
Apr 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Furniture and fixtures from the restaurant are sold in an auction face=-Bold; After its closure last month, the booths, appliances and cookware at the Kaimuki Columbia Inn were sold off to live again in other restaurants. The beige booth overlooking the parking lot ...
Curbside recycling on agenda for public
Apr 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; City & County of Honoluluface=-Bold; www.co.honolulu.hi.us Mayor Mufi Hannemann's proposal to establish a comprehensive curbside recycling program is expected to be taken up at seven community meetings scheduled over the next two months. Hannemann proposed in ...
WARRIOR FOOTBALL - Turning Warriors' D inside out
Apr 01, 2007; ... face=+2; Hawaii Spring Football, Unit-by-Unitface=-2; Returning starters in bold. face=+Bold; Offensive Linemenface=-Bold; Keith Ah-Soon (6-1, 294, Jr.), Kavan Bannigan (6-6, 376, Jr.), face=+Bold; John Estes (6-2, 290, So.)face=-Bold; , Brysen Ginlack (6-1, 296, Fr.), ...
WARRIOR FOOTBALL - Reinebold passed over, but ready to be a team player
Apr 01, 2007; ... Jeff Reinebold can't say who will be the defensive coordinator to replace Jerry Glanville at Hawaii. No one can -- officially, anyway. But he can say who it isn't. Reinebold, the Warriors' defensive line coach, was pegged as a possibility to become the DC when Glanville left for ...
Quake triggers large tsunami
Apr 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; A huge temblor in the South Pacific kills at least eight people in the Solomon Islandsface=-Bold; HONIARA, Solomon Islands » A massive undersea earthquake sent a tsunami crashing into the South Pacific nation of Solomon Islands today (yesterday, Hawaii time), wiping away ...
TELEVISION - MTV Divas
Apr 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; A Hawaii-born singer joins her best friend on a reality-TV quest to "make it" in Las Vegasface=-Bold; MTV's newest star, Kaui, hopes that her fair hair doesn't make people think she's just "some blond girl named Kaui." Quite the contrary. Hawaiian blood runs through Kaui's ...
Retired policeman keeps community tsunami-ready
Apr 02, 2007; ... Retired Honolulu policeman Manny Mattos moved in 2000 from Waipahu to Hawaiian Paradise Park on the Big Island and went back to work as a volunteer to create tsunami awareness. Many people in the community had moved from the mainland and had little or no understanding of tsunamis or ...
COMMENTARY - Should he stay or should he go?
Apr 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Sanjaya's leveraging for likability makes America forget that he can't singface=-Bold; To reiterate, class, there are only two rules for "American Idol": Rule 1: It's just a singing contest. Rule 2: It's not just a singing contest. Generally, in the ...
Pets a dilemma in rush to deploy
Apr 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; A placement program helps Hawaii-based troops find temporary homes for loved onesface=-Bold; A month after learning of her deployment, Chief Warrant Officer Myra Jones looks ready for her one-year stint in Iraq this summer. Jones, whose husband is stationed in North ...
COMMENTARY - Should he stay or should he go?
Apr 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Despite his often clumsy performances, the kid has shown potential and charmface=-Bold; That Sanjaya Malakar remains on "American Idol" seems a mystery to many, but the reasons are pretty clear to me. No. 1 is potential. From the time he cracked the Top 24, naysayers have ...
Crash kills motorcyclist and injures driver
Apr 02, 2007; ... Neighbors heard what they thought was a huge explosion, but the noise turned out to be a sedan smashing into a concrete barrier. Three men who live at Haleiwa Road and Keiki Place in Haleiwa came out and saw a car flipped onto the passenger side with flames coming from the engine. They ...
PA'I AWARDS - Straight shooters
Apr 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Star-Bulletin photographers sweep top honors at the Pa'i Awards for journalistic excellence face=-Bold; All three of the award-winning images on this page capture the essence of their subjects, but they also offer a glimpse into the souls of their creators. The approaches in ...
Big Island is No. 1 in perilous state roads
Apr 02, 2007; ... HILO » Ten of the 11 most dangerous state-maintained intersections or stretches of roadways in Hawaii are on the Big Island, according to a state report. A roughly 1-mile stretch of the Pahoa bypass, which has three intersections, has the worst accident rate in the state, according to ...
HAWAII'S SCHOOLS; HAWAII'S SCHOOLS - World of service; Student interests display diversity in senior projects
Apr 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Overseas travel lets students from Island School help othersface=-Bold; Producing AIDS awareness media projects in Kenya. Building orphanages in Swaziland. Saving sea turtles in Costa Rica. These are just a few of the projects Island School students are working on to improve ...
State buys Oahu 'treasure'
Apr 02, 2007; ... Upper Moanalua Valley, "one of Oahu's natural treasures," is state land now, officials announced today. The $5.5 million purchase from the Samuel Mills Damon Estate ensures that 3,716 acres of undeveloped forest land -- at one time considered as a possible route for the H-3 freeway or ...
Hawaiians offer input on improving U.S. parks
Apr 02, 2007; ... KAILUA-KONA » The National Park Service, looking for ideas to mark its centennial, heard from Hawaii residents who asked the agency last month to give native Hawaiians more of a voice and to be sensitive to their culture and burial grounds. Federal officials have been on a national ...
East-West Center aids law seminar in Cambodia
Apr 02, 2007 ... The East-West Center helped to put on a workshop in international criminal law recently in Cambodia to assist defense lawyers in preparing for the trial of Khmer Rouge leaders, according to a news release. The Asian International Justice Initiative, a collaboration between the East-West ...
HALL OF FAME - Tatsuno on top
Apr 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; A former UH pitcher makes it into the College Baseball Hall of Fame and a current one throws a shutoutface=-Bold; Derek Tatsuno was all laughs yesterday -- especially when asked if the kids he coaches on the Punahou junior varsity have any idea about his status as one of ...
RAINBOW BASEBALL - 'Bows' pitching prevents sweep
Apr 02, 2007; ... face=+2; Hawaii 6, San Jose State 0face=-2; DP-- Hawaii 5. LOB--SJSU 1, Hawaii 8. 2B--Sanchez 2. HR--Hernandez. HBP--Hee. SH--DuPree. Umpires--Ray Leible (plate); James Garman (first); Chad McCardell (third). T--2:10. A--1,389. face=+2; WAC standingsface=-2; ...
Prevention efforts planned as con artists target retirees
Apr 02, 2007; ... Seniors with retirement savings and invested assets are prime targets for con artists and phony schemes, which are increasing nationwide, AARP Hawaii and state officials warn. The first wave of 78 million baby boomers nationally have $8.5 trillion in investment assets for retirement, ...
OUR OPINION - Bush should seek Iraq compromise
Apr 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; THE ISSUEface=-Bold; President Bush has vowed to veto a military spending bill that includes a timetable for withdrawal of most U.S. troops from Iraq. PRESIDENT Bush is casting the newly Democratic Congress as a proponent of "withdrawal and defeat" in Iraq, while ...
OUR OPINION - White's tough style needed at prisons
Apr 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; THE ISSUEface=-Bold; The state Senate is scheduled to vote tomorrow on whether to confirm Iwalani White as state prisons director. IWALANI White has been hard-nosed in her leadership role as interim head of the state's prison system and seems to be the ideal person ...
OUR OPINION - Time has come to improve city's sewage treatment system
Apr 02, 2007 ... face=+Bold; THE ISSUEface=-Bold; A federal agency has refused to exempt a city wastewater treatment plant from Clean Water Act standards. MAYOR Mufi Hannemann is understandably disturbed by the federal government's admonition about outdated conditions at a city sewage treatment ...
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL - Late-inning rally spurs Iolani past Saint Louis
Apr 01, 2007; ... At Iolani H.S. field Jayson Fukumoto, Kyle Gonzaga (6), Joshua DeMello (7) and John Haina. JR Bunda, Sheldon Lee (4), Jon Okada (5) and Grant Iwamoto. face=+Bold; W--face=-Bold; Okada. face=+Bold; L--face=-Bold; DeMello. face=+Bold; Leading hitters--StL:face=-Bold; ...
RAINBOW BASEBALL - San Jose silences Hawaii again
Apr 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Next Upface=-Bold; vs. San Jose State, today face=+2; WAC Standingsface=-2; face=+Bold; Yesterdayface=-Bold; San Jose State 2, face=+Bold; Hawaiiface=-Bold; 1 Fresno State 8, Sacramento State 1 Louisiana Tech 3-11, Dallas ...
Moanalua breaks into S-B's baseball Top 10
Apr 03, 2007; ... The boys in blue can't always be happy, not when Kailua and Moanalua head for a showdown. Scott Yamada's Moanalua squad entered the Star-Bulletin Baseball Top 10 for the first time today at No. 10, but Na Menehune are completely focused on tomorrow's game. In fact, Moanalua is ...
Hawaiian ranks No. 1 in airline quality study
Apr 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Hawaiian Airlinesface=-Bold; , already the top overall performing carrier in the nation the last three years according to U.S. Department of Transportation data, has bumped face=+Bold; JetBlueface=-Bold; from the top spot in the 17th annual Airline Quality Rating ...
Hawaiian Telcom narrows loss
Apr 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Hawaiian Telcom Communicationsface=-Bold; yesterday reported progress in reducing its red ink, ending 2006 with a loss of $144.6 million, compared to $175.7 million the year before. Michael Ruley, CEO of Hawaiian Telcom, called the fourth quarter the conclusion of a very ...
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL - Inactivity doesn't hurt ILH in S-B poll
Apr 02, 2007; ... ILH Scoring OIA Red East Scoring OIA Red West OIA White Consolidation is in effect. When the Star-Bulletin Girls Basketball Top 10 was unveiled three weeks ago, 19 teams got at least one point in the voting by coaches and media. Today, that ...
Environmentally sound
Apr 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Jeff Mikulina builds a reputation as a pragmatic and engaging champion of conservationface=-Bold; Jeff Mikulina's bad dream begins benignly. Schoolchildren rush into a McDonald's restaurant and gather at the counter like yapping puppies. They all order Happy ...
2007 ALL-STATE BOYS SOCCER TEAM - Warriors sweep top honors in the state
Apr 01, 2007; ... face=+2; First Teamface=-2; face=+2; Second Teamface=-2; face=+Bold; Forwardsface=-Bold; : Deryck Lim, Punahou, Sr.; Kimo Komomua, Kamehameha, Jr.; Peter Jars, Makua Lani, Sr.; Brock Granger, Iolani, So. face=+Bold; Midfieldersface=-Bold; : Alex Ho, Punahou, Sr.; ...
2007 ALL-STATE GIRLS SOCCER TEAM - Warriors sweep top honors in the state
Apr 01, 2007; ... face=+2; First Teamface=-2; face=+2; Second Teamface=-2; face=+Bold; Forwardsface=-Bold; : Meleana Shim, Kamehameha, So.; Jaqueline Ho, Kamehameha, Jr.; Liana Gualdarama, Kapolei, So.; Jocelyn Enrique, Kapaa, Jr. face=+Bold; Midfieldersface=-Bold; : Nicole Ha, ...
ON EXHIBIT - Makua
Apr 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Fifteen local artists explore the subject of Makua Valley in an exhibit at the Academy Art Centerface=-Bold; "The mo'olelo (oral histories) of Wai'anae claim the entire coastline from Ka'ena to Kawaihapai as a wahi pana (sacred place). It was here that the kanaka maoli were ...
Homeowner tax burden re-examined
Apr 01, 2007; ... The City Council is looking at several initiatives being to bring down residential property tax rates and lessen the shock of soaring property values. But Council Budget Chairman Todd Apo said that first there needs to be a new policy on how much residential property taxpayers pay versus ...
Hawaii real estate sales
Apr 01, 2007 ... For the week of march 5-9 Derived from Hawaii Bureau of Conveyances tax data. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. face=+Bold; City and County of Honoluluface=-Bold; face=+Bold; Ewa, Kapoleiface=-Bold; face=+Bold; Hawaii Kaiface=-Bold;...
Reaching for higher limits
Apr 01, 2007; ... STAR-BULLETIN FILE / JANUARY The newest condos in Kakaako -- the Moana Pacific, far left; the Koolani, center left, and the Hokua at 1288 Ala Moana, center right, -- all stand at 400 feet. face=+Bold; The City Council wants to raise height restrictions downtown to discourage ...
An alert public is best defense
Apr 02, 2007 ... Based on reactions to the October quake, an expert says residents and tourists are not ready for a tsunami Thousands would have been killed if the Oct. 15 Big Island earthquakes had triggered a tsunami, because people in low-lying areas who felt the ground shake did not move to higher ...
Hawaii Stocks and Mutual Funds
Apr 03, 2007 ... face=+Bold; HAWAII STOCKSface=-Bold; ...
Disease quarantines Kahuku farm's shrimp
Apr 03, 2007; ... The state Department of Agriculture has ordered a quarantine at a Kahuku shrimp farm after laboratory testing found a potentially serious shrimp disease in one pond. Discovery of the virus may threaten survival of the only remaining shrimp-raising business in Kahuku, according to an ...
Lingle loses Cabinet fight
Apr 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Dems reject Iwalani White for head of Public Safety based on her "errors"face=-Bold; Senate Democrats have handed Gov. Linda Lingle her first Cabinet nominee defeat and left the Department of Public Safety without a leader. By a 16-to-9 vote yesterday, the Senate ...
Man sentenced for causing son's death
Apr 03, 2007; ... A Makiki man who admitted to placing his 3 1/2-month-old son face down on a comforter and leaving him to cry after covering him with throw pillows and a folded comforter was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for causing the baby's death. Lionel Letoto, 51, was initially charged ...
A LONGER WAIT - Oahu GIs get 45 more days in Mideast
Apr 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Schofield soldiers' families must dig in for an extra 45 daysface=-Bold; More than 1,000 Schofield Barracks soldiers will remain in Iraq 45 days longer than expected, Army officials said yesterday. The soldiers belong to the 25th Infantry Division's headquarters ...
Range rovers: Field trips put dogs back in the pack
Apr 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; The monthly outings include popular hikes and beach rompsface=-Bold; Patty likes spending time with friends. Isabella is outgoing and well-socialized. Libby has really "come out of her shell," thanks to social outings. These descriptions might seem suited to a group ...
Disability may entitle tenant to get pet
Apr 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Question: face=-Bold; Who do fair housing laws protect? face=+Bold; Answer: face=-Bold; According to Cynthia Thomas, Legal Aid's fair housing project manager, Hawaii fair housing laws protect people from being discriminated against for the following reasons: race, color, ...
Perpetrators who pointed lasers at planes sought
Apr 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; 2 isle planes were targeted by green lasers earlier this yearface=-Bold; The Coast Guard is looking for those responsible for pointing a green laser at airplanes landing in Barbers Point in two incidents this year. After the incidents in late February and early ...
Author Bradley diverts from war path
Apr 03, 2007; ... PLANTING a flag atop a hill is hard enough. Doing so with the Imperial Japanese army and navy trying to shoot you ratchets up the difficulty factor. Some of the American warriors who raised the flag on Iwo Jima lived, and some didn't, but all of them -- albeit in anonymity -- survived in a ...
Man charged in woman's death committed similar 1980 murder; Suspect in killing goes to court
Apr 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; According to court documents, Darnell Griffin constantly harassed his victimface=-Bold; In 1980, Darnell Griffin harassed Lynn Marie Gherardi after she said she did not want to go out with him again, according to witnesses. On Oct. 10, 1980, Griffin appeared ...
Tagawa returns after filming Disney sequel
Apr 03, 2007; ... Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa was back in town last month after wrapping filming on the sequel to Disney's "Johnny Tsunami," along with three episodes of "Beyond the Break" in Waianae. A conversation with Tagawa will air on PBS Hawaii's "Island Insights" April 16, about Asians in the ...