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KILAUEA ERUPTION
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Index
Big Isle History B4
Classified B6
Comics B5
Commentary A4
Lawsuit
filed in
child’s
death
Hilo girl’s parents,
grandmother, state
named as defendants
Issue No. 164
16 Pages in
2 Sections
Today’s
weather
Page A2
Community A6
Crossword B4
Cryptoquote B4
Dear Abby B4
Horoscope B4
Nation A5
Notices B6
Obituaries A2
Sports B1
State A3
Stocks A2
Surf Report A2
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
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Sticky situation
Cousins Serenity Oda, 9, and Halo Miranda, 7, learn about measuring increments and mixing while making
slime with saline, glue, shaving cream and baking soda Tuesday during the first session of Summer Art Camp
at Circle of Life Hilo Art Studio in downtown Hilo.
By MICHAEL BRESTOVANSKY
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
With scores of businesses
around the island impacted by
the Kilauea eruption, county,
state and federal agencies
are investigating ways to
help struggling employers
and employees alike.
Last week, the Hawaii
County Department of
Research and Development
collected reports from
businesses
affected by the
eruption in any
way, from a
lack of business
or a loss of
wares or property.
While the
data from the reports still
need to be analyzed, the
effects are wide-ranging.
Bill Walter, president of
the Hawaii
Island Chamber
of Commerce,
said some of the
most common
reports he has
heard are from
businesses in
heavily tourist-reliant areas
such as Volcano, which he
said have been “tremendously
hammered” by a sharp decline
in visitors following the
monthlong closure of Hawaii
Volcanoes National Park.
Pahoa businesses also
have been hit hard, Walter
said, with far fewer people
visiting the Puna District.
Many farms and agriculture
lots have been disrupted
or destroyed outright. While
LEY WALTER
See BUSINESSES Page A8
By JOHN BURNETT
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
The maternal aunt of a 9-yearold
Hilo girl allegedly starved
to death almost two years ago
by her parents and
maternal grandmother
has filed
a wrongful death
lawsuit against the
state, the girl’s parents
and her maternal
grandmother.
Honolulu
attorney Randall
Rosenberg and Hilo
attorney Robert
Marx filed the civil
suit Tuesday in
Honolulu Circuit
Court on behalf of
Tina Marie Kasten,
personal representative
of the
estate of Shaelynn
Alohalani Haleaka
Lehano-Stone, who
died June 28, 2016,
after being found
unconscious and
apparently malnourished
LEHANO
HENRIETTA
STONE
TIFFANY
STONE
in her grandmother’s
apartment on Kinoole Street.
Kasten also is filing as guardian
See LAWSUIT Page A8
No ethics violations found in IT contract
By NANCY COOK LAUER
West Hawaii Today
The Board of Ethics on
Tuesday cleared a retired
county employee to hold
a county contract overseeing
a project replacing
the county’s problematic
online building permit
application system.
Sheila Cadaos retired
from her position in the
county Department
of Information
Technology shortly
before being
granted a one-year
employment contract
for $6,073 monthly,
working 30 hours a
week, while keeping her
county benefits. The contract
names Cadaos project
manager for the
Energov system, a
$2.3 million countywide
planning and
permitting system.
The current system
has had several
hiccups, including being
down for more than a week
in April, delaying all county
building permit applications
until it could be fixed.
The complaint was filed
by Layne Novak, a network
administrator in the IT
Department. Novak questioned
how Cadaos could
get a sole-source contract
See CONTRACT Page A8
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