Kokua Line
By June Watanabe
Friday, November 27, 1998
Kokua Line
I want to make a designation to a specific charity -- Planned Parenthood of Hawaii -- for Aloha United Way. But I don't know what it changed its name to since it is not a part of Planned Parenthood anymore. What is its new name? Planned Parenthood
changes name, locationIt's now the Family Planning Centers of Hawaii. The Oahu clinic is based at 1350 S. King St., Room 310, (phone 589-1149) near Keeaumoku Street.
The local group was "disaffiliated" by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in February in a dispute over management and finances.
Barry Raff, who became executive director two months ago, said the new name is the only thing that has changed.
"Clinically, everything is absolutely identical," he said, including the physicians and nurse practitioners.
The center's three clinics -- on the Big Island, Maui and Oahu -- offer family planning services and counseling, as well as abortions.
Under Planned Parenthood, the organization consolidated its Ala Moana clinic with Kaneohe two years ago. The move back to the town area is to offset a significant drop in patient visits, Raff said.
About three-quarters of the organization's funding comes from patient or insurance payments, he said. The rest comes from donations, foundation grants and some state money. Family Planning Centers is a member of the Maui AUW and the combined Federal Campaign, but not of the Big Island and Oahu AUW campaigns, Raff said.
Can I report someone if they flip the finger at you while driving, like reporting someone who litters? I was driving along when someone cut in front of me, then kept flipping the finger at me.
Not really, unless there was more to it than just an obscene gesture. A spokeswoman for the Honolulu Police Department indicated that if the person was not breaking any law, police don't monitor crude behavior.
Even if you felt threatened by the behavior, the Hawaii Penal Code defines terroristic threatening as happening when a "person threatens, by word or conduct, to cause bodily injury to another person or serious damage to property of another or to comment a felony."
Why is the flag of Australia (although it might be New Zealand; it is never unfurled enough for me to count the stars on it) waving atop the building on the mauka/Ewa corner of King and Bishop streets?
The Australian flag is there because 1000 Bishop St. houses both the office of the Australian Consulate General and the Australian American Chamber of Commerce.
To drivers who go into the lane of oncoming traffic when making sharp turns. Wake up! There are other vehicles on the road. Please be more careful. -- The other driver Auwe
To the person who found my lost checkbook at the Ala Moana Center parking lot on Oct. 7 and who was most thoughtful and gracious by mailing it to me the very next day. -- H.H. Mahalo
About 11:30 a.m. Oct. 20, I was planning to cross Kalanianaole Highway at Nenue Street. A four-door blue subcompact sedan, eastbound in the right lane of Kalanianaole, was several car lengths away from the crosswalk. The traffic light was already red, but this vehicle did not stop. The driver's disregard for the red light was appalling. -- No name Auwe
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