Meeting looks at progress on ice
Advertiser Staff
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In an effort to evaluate the fight against drug use in the community, a town hall meeting will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday at KEY Project, 47-200 Waihe'e Road.
Residents will be asked to judge whether anything has changed from 2 1/2 years ago, when hundreds of people attended meetings in Kahalu'u to try to stem the use of the drug crystal methamphetamine, or ice.
Mike McCartney will host the meeting. It is sponsored by Community Works in 96744, Hina Mauka Recovery Center and the Coalition for a Drug Free Hawai'i.
For details, call Jennifer Bui at 235-7747.
STATEWIDE
809 PHONE SCAM OCCURRING AGAIN
Area code 808 is paradise. Area code 809 could be trouble.
Phone-company officials are advising residents to watch out for a continuing phone scam that involves returning phone calls placed to Hawai'i from the 809 area code — the British Virgin Islands.
In the scam, which has surfaced periodically over the past four years, a caller leaves a message on an answering machine saying that it's urgent to return the call. The problem: The return phone number often is a pay-by-the-minute number, which means even a short call could end up costing hundreds of dollars.
"Our advice is to never return a call if you don't know who it came from," said Ann Nishida, public affairs manager for Hawaiian Telcom.
WHALE COUNCIL SEEKING MEMBERS
The Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary is looking for eight members of the public to fill vacancies on its sanctuary advisory council.
Vacancies are in seats for a Native Hawaiian, and representatives of the Big Island, Honolulu, Kaua'i and Maui, and those with expertise in education, fishing and research. Council meetings are held every two to four months, and members serve without pay.
For information, call Keely Belva at 397-2651, ext. 248.
DOE HOSTING CALL-IN TOMORROW
The public will have a chance to ask questions of top state education administrators during a live call-in TV broadcast from 2 to 3 p.m. tomorrow on cable Channel 56.
"The Hawai'i State Assessment" is the topic of this first "Viewpoints Live" call-in discussion program for the school year, with superintendent Pat Hamamoto heading the team answering questions.
The discussion will center on clarifying the purpose of the state assessment, sharing 2005-06 time lines, discussing support available to schools, and explaining how the assessment data can be used to improve classroom learning.
DOE employees on O'ahu may call in questions to 377-7712 and those on the Neighbor Islands to (800) 243-2067. Answers to questions not answered on the show will be posted at doe.k12.hi.us/view points.
Questions also can be sent to viewpoints@telecast.k12.hi.us.
The Viewpoints program will be replayed at 5 p.m. tomorrow and Friday.
MANOA
PACIFIC POET WILL PERFORM
Tusiata Avia, Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific writer in residence for 2005 at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies, will present "Wild Dogs and Other Dangers" at 7 p.m. Monday in the Center for Korean Studies Auditorium at the UH-Manoa campus.
Avia, a poet, performer and writer, will perform excerpts from her one-woman show, "Wild Dogs Under My Skirt," and read new work.
She also is the author of a critically acclaimed collection of poetry of the same name. Other works include children's books, radio drama and a documentary.
A reception and book-signing will follow the performance, which is sponsored by the UH-Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies and the Department of English.
For more information, reach the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at 956-7700.
KAUA'I
SCIENCE SHOW AT WAR MEMORIAL
A high-tech science show for the general public and students is scheduled at the Kaua'i War Memorial Convention Hall.
The General Atomics Science Show is hosted by scientist Rick Lee, of the San Diego-based high-tech firm General Atomics, and Alex Nagy, an engineer from the Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory. Their demonstrations include exhibitions of different states of matter.
A free public program is scheduled at 7 p.m. tomorrow, and school shows are planned for tomorrow and Thursday for fourth-, sixth- and eighth-grade students. The show is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, General Atomics and Princeton University.
HONOLULU
ACTING PRESIDENT OF UH TO SPEAK
Interim University of Hawai'i president David McClain will be the keynote speaker for the annual dinner of the Japan-America Society Sept. 29 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort and Spa, Coral Ballrooms IV and V. The theme is the "Power of Education" and will highlight the society's continuum of educational programs from kindergarten through Grade 12.
For information and table or seat purchases, call 524-4450 or write to admindir@jashawaii .org. Registration and no-host cocktails are at 5 p.m. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
