Community members, the city and police are searching for solutions to increase safety on Kaukonahua Road after hitting a dead end with a proposal to turn the two-lane road into a one-way street. What to do about
Kaukonahua Road?In a span of 17 months, the 3.5-mile stretch has seen 116 car crashes, resulting in five deaths along the narrow and winding road leading into Haleiwa.
Some area residents attribute the high number of accidents to carelessness and bad judgment. Others blame a road with too few street lamps to light its treacherous tree-lined curves.
At a public hearing in Haleiwa this month, attended by 75 area residents, City Councilwoman Rene Mansho got the message loud and clear: Kaukonahua is a dangerous road and something needs to be done.
But residents strongly opposed making the road one-way.
Diplazium molokaiense is not a commonly known plant, and perhaps with good reason: Only one specimen of the Hawaiian wood fern is known to exist, putting up a battle against extinction in east Maui. Hawaiian ferns to be
cultivated under U.S. planTo protect and increase its population and that of three other endangered island ferns, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has drafted a recovery plan which, among other actions, calls for the cultivation of spores so the plants can be raised in nurseries and taken into the wild.
The ferns are found only in Hawaii and were listed as endangered in 1992, according to the agency. They are threatened by animal predation and habitat degradation, competition from alien species, fire and, of course, human activity.
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Police/Fire
By Star-Bulletin staffMilitary police opened a homicide investigation when a 2-1/2-year-old girl died last night after being taken to Wahiawa Hospital. Wahiawa child's death
spurs investigation by militaryThe child appeared to have new and old injuries, said Honolulu police, who conducted the preliminary investigation before turning the case over to their military counterparts. The FBI is expected to take over the investigation.
An ambulance was dispatched to the child's Wheeler Army Air Base residence at 6:05 p.m. Her 28-year-old father, who is serving in the Army, accompanied the child to the hospital.
The girl, suffering from internal bleeding, was pronounced dead at 7:35 p.m.
A 20-year-old man wanted for questioning in connection with Friday's stabbing death of 19-year-old Brynner "Bryan" Auelua surrendered to police yesterday. Man, 20, awaits charges
in fatal Waipahu stabbingThe suspect, who has no permanent local address, was booked at the main police station at 3:05 p.m. for murder and an outstanding criminal contempt warrant.
The man is being held at the police cellblock but has not yet been charged.
Auelua was struck in the head with a bat and stabbed in the chest at a Pupupuhi Street apartment complex in Waipahu when he tried to quiet a group that was drinking near his girlfriend's unit at 11:30 p.m.
Other police/fire items:
Wahiawa man to be arraigned in sexual assault of boy, 9
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