HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Pedestrian hit by truck, killed
Advertiser Staff
A 69-year-old Hilo man was killed yesterday morning in the state's fourth pedestrian death in a nine-day period.
Dominador Macanas was crossing 'Ainaola Drive at 6:02 a.m. when he was struck by a 1996 Mazda pickup truck, police said. Macanas was not in a crosswalk. The driver of the truck, a 57-year-old Hilo man, was not injured.
It was not immediately determined if speed or alcohol were factors.
BRUSHFIRE BURNS UP TO 600 ACRES
Big Island firefighters and state Forestry Division personnel yesterday battled a brushfire that burned an estimated 500 to 600 acres since Saturday evening.
The blaze began at 4:40 p.m. Saturday about one mile mauka of Highway 190 near the Pu'uwa'awa'a Ranch. Forestry crews began cutting back brush and fire crews did back burns to try to minimize the fire's spread.
Lightning strikes in the area may have caused the fire, officials said.
MO'ILI'ILI
MOTORCYCLIST IN CRASH IDENTIFIED
A motorcyclist who died following a collision on Isenberg Street Tuesday has been identified as Olufunso Olowofoyeku of a Kapi'olani Boulevard address, the city medical examiner's office said yesterday. Olowofoyeku, 36, died Thursday of multiple internal injuries.
Olowofoyeku's motorcycle collided with a car that had turned into the motorcycle's path about 10:25 a.m. Tuesday, police said.
Police said neither alcohol nor speed appeared to be factors.
The motorcyclist, who was wearing a helmet, was the fifth traffic fatality of the year.
STATE
NOMINEES SOUGHT FOR EPA AWARD
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking nominations from Hawai'i for its Environment Awards program.
The program recognizes individuals and groups making significant contributions to improve the environment. Among other criteria, nominees will be judged on promotion of innovative ideas, techniques and technologies; ability of the effort to be replicated or widely shared; and long-term benefits to the environment.
Online nomination forms must be submitted by Feb. 17. An EPA panel will select finalists. Winners will be recognized at an April 18 ceremony in San Francisco. For more information, go to www.epa.gov/re gion09/awards, or call the Environmental Information Center at (866) EPA-WEST.
HONOLULU
QUEEN'S SEEKS CLINICAL INTERNS
Applications for summer internships in clinical research are being accepted by The Queen's Medical Center.
Applicants primarily are undergraduate college students interested in medicine. Interns will have the chance to shadow physicians and clinical researchers, help in clinical research projects and learn other skills for conducting clinical research.
Participants will receive a $1,000 award at the end of the eight-week program. Deadline for applications is Feb. 28.
For information, contact John Firrell, director of clinical research, at 547-4645, or at jfirrell@queens.org.
KAPOLEI
TALK TO FEATURE LOCAL AUTHORS
Kapolei Public Library will host "Meet Writers — From Your Own Backyard," a panel discussion featuring locally published authors, on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. It's free.
The panel will include Morag McKendrick Pippin (author, "Blood Moon Over Berlin"), Michael Little (author, "Queen of the Rodeo"), Sally Sorenson (editor, "Strong Currents") and Lynde Lakes (author, "Lasso That Cowboy!").
Call the library seven to 10 days in advance to request a sign-language interpreter or for other special accommodations.
For more information, call the library at 693-7050.
