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KAILUA-KONA — About a
decade ago, the Hawaii Police
Department acquired its first
fleet of marked police vehicles,
costing around $2 million.
Today, 29 of those 35 model
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Most marked police cars are located in the
larger districts of Kona, Hilo and Puna.
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year 2008 sedans and sport utility
vehicles remain operational, with
each averaging 200,000 miles after
being used 24/7 the past 10 years.
“There are some vehicles that
are just hanging on on the outside
outer districts, but in Hilo, Puna
and Kona, the vehicles are down
to nothing, basically,” said HPD
Administrative Bureau Assistant
Chief Marshall Kanehailua.
That’s why the department
is seeking to add
new rides to its fleet.
“We’re at a critical point
where we need to get some of
these vehicles either repaired
or replaced,” Kanehailua said.
Most of the vehicles, 21, are
located in the department’s larger
Hawaii police seeking additional
marked cars to replace aging vehicles
Lifeguard
liability bill
resuscitated
House measure that includes
protections moves to committee
State lawmakers have performed CPR
on a lifeguard liability bill that was all
but sunk in the legislative session.
The bill protecting county lifeguards from
lawsuits is heading to a conference
committee, after the House on
Thursday disagreed with changes
the Senate made to the bill.
The state contracts with counties
to provide lifeguard protection
at the state’s busiest beaches.
But the roughly 350 county
lifeguards lost their liability protection
last June, when a law expired that had
protected them for the past 15 years. Gov.
David Ige earlier vetoed a bill extending their
protections because he was concerned the bill
went too far, putting the state on the hook even
if the lifeguards were negligent in their duties.
The protections are now included in
House Bill 2097, a gut-and-replace amendment
to an appropriations bill giving the
state Department of Land and Natural
Resources money to staff state and county
beaches statewide with lifeguards.
Rep. Nicole Lowen, D-North Kona, was
one of the sponsors of the original bill.
She said Friday she supports the lifeguard
protection as well as funding that could
be used to put lifeguards at Kua Bay.
The Hawaii State Association of Counties
and the Hawaii Council of Mayors both
listed making the protection permanent
one of their highest priorities for the 2018
legislative session. The bills endorsed
by the groups protect the state, county
and the lifeguard from liability.
“HSAC continues to advocate for liability
protections for any person employed by
the county to provide lifeguard services at
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Students bow after doing a hula during a groundbreaking ceremony March 29 for a new multipurpose
building at Malamalama Waldorf School in Keaau.
It’s Go time
KEAAU — Spend
a day as a student at
Malamalama Waldorf
School, and you might
play a diatonic flute or
re-enact fables and legends
during drama class.
To learn science,
you might take a walk
through nature. For
social studies, you might
learn about ancient
Hebrew or Nordic
culture, and physical
education class might
include circus skills.
“The arts are integrated
into the learning,”
said Victoria Gold Sims,
Waldorf’s pedagogical
director. “Children are
not just given a book
and told ‘Read this and
know this tomorrow for
a test.’ That’s not what
we do here. It’s not like
we don’t use books but
that’s not the format
… We are feeding the
two sides of the brain
at the same time.”
KIRSTEN JOHNSON/Tribune-Herald
Funding was kick-started by a donation from couple
Denji and Mitsuko Aihara, who flew to Hawaii from
Japan to attend a soft groundbreaking in March.
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