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THOROUGHLY MODERN
MILLIE JR.
In New York City in 1922, young Millie Dillmount has just moved to the big city in
search of a new life for herself. It’s a New York full of intrigue and jazz – in a time
when women were entering the workforce and the rules of love and social behavior
were changing forever. Filled with fun flappers, dashing leading men and a dragon-
lady of a villainess audiences will love to hate, Thoroughly Modern Millie JR. is
a perfectly-constructed evening of madcap merriment.
Based on the popular movie, the stage
version includes a full score of new
songs and bright dance numbers.
ALOHA PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY PRESENTS
Two Weekends Only!
Fri, June 12 – Sun, June 21
s &RI 3AT
PM
s 3UN PM
Adults: $15
Seniors/Young Adults: $12
Under 18: $5
Tickets available at
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322-9924
Aloha Theatre,
Kainaliu
Purchase today for
best seat selection
Thoroughly Modern
Millie Jr.
Produced by APAC
Tonight at 7:30pm
$15 Adults | $12 Senior (65+)
$12 Young Adults (18-25) | $10 Child (under 18)
tickets available online or at the door
The purpose of this meeting is to obtain community input regarding service
closures and workforce reductions at Kona Community Hospital.
The public is invited to attend and share feedback at the meetings.
Monday, June 15 at 5:30pm
Administration Building, Conference Rooms 2 & 3
Kona Community Hospital
79-1019 Haukapila Street
(808) 322-6970
Topics
Workforce Reduction
Skilled Nursing Service Closure
This notice is brought to you by the West Hawaii Region of HHSC.
Community Input Meeting
3A
WEST HAWAII TODAY | SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 2015
House Democrats
reject Obama’s pleas
WASHINGTON — Led by
union-backed Democrats,
the House delivered a sting-
ing blow to President Barack
Obama on Friday and left his
ambitious global trade agen-
da in serious doubt.
Republican leaders, who
generally support Obama’s
trade objectives, signaled
they might try to revive the
package as early as next
week. But that could require
the shifting of at least 90
votes within either or both
parties, a heavy lift.
Friday’s setback was deep
andpersonal for Obama,who
made a surprise, last-min-
ute trip to the Capitol to ask
House Democrats to back
him.
Not only did they reject
him by the dozens, they were
led by party leader Nancy
Pelosi of California, who has
often expressed deep admi-
ration for the president. She
joined in a tactic that even
some Democrats called
devious and cynical: voting
against a favorite job-re-
training program in order
to imperil the trade pack-
age’s main component: “fast
track” negotiating authority
for Obama.
Hours earlier, Obama
had
specifically
asked
Democrats not to do that.
But in a crowded House
chamber, Pelosi urged her
colleagues to ignore him.
New York prison
staffer arrested
DANNEMORA, N.Y. — A
worker at an upstate New
York
maximum-security
prison has been arrested on
charges she helped two con-
victed killers escape, state
police said Friday.
Fifty-one-year-old Joyce
Mitchell was arrested and
will be arraigned on the felo-
ny charge of first-degree pro-
moting prison contraband
and misdemeanor count of
fourth-degree criminal facili-
tation, authorities said.
Mitchell is accused of
befriending inmates David
Sweat and Richard Matt
at the Clinton Correctional
Facility in Dannemora and
giving them contraband.
District Attorney Andrew
Wylie said earlier the con-
traband didn’t include power
tools used by the men as
they cut holes in their cell
walls and a steam pipe to
escape through a manhole
last weekend.
Wylie would not elaborate
on the charges Friday as
more than 800 law enforce-
ment officers continued to
search for the escapees,
concentrating in a rural
area around the prison in
the Adirondacks near the
Canadian border. Earlier res-
idents reported seeing two
men jumping a stone wall
outside Dannemora.
Prosecutor of
exonerated Texas
death row inmate
stripped of law license
HOUSTON—AformerTexas
prosecutor has been stripped
of his law license after a panel
of the State Bar of Texas deter-
mined he withheld evidence
and used false testimony to
win a capital murder convic-
tion against a now-exonerated
death row inmate.
A three-member eviden-
tiary panel of the legal agen-
cy ordered Thursday the dis-
barment of Charles Sebesta,
who spent 25 years as dis-
trict attorney in Burleson
and Washington counties,
after finding he committed
professional misconduct in
his prosecution of accused
murderer Anthony Graves.
Graves was convicted and
sent to Texas death row for the
1992 slayings of six people. A
federal appeals court reversed
his conviction in 2006.
He was released from
prison four years later, after
a serving a dozen years on
death row, when a special
prosecutor determined he
should be freed and declared
innocent.
Experts say James’
flash almost impossible
to stop on television
NEW YORK — His team
getting clobbered in the NBA
Finals and his head bloodied
in a collision with a camera
was bad enough for LeBron
James. Now he’s trapped in
the endless online loop of
the moment he got caught
with his pants down on
national television.
James’ wardrobe adjust-
ment — briefly lowering
his compression pants in
the moments before his
Cleveland Cavaliers took on
the Golden State Warriors
Thursday — was another
example of television not
moving fast enough to stop a
moment best left off the air.
The moment flashed by
so quickly, with James’ body
partially obscured by an
onscreen graphic, that many
viewers probably missed it in
real time.
“You needed to have
a really good DVR and a
microscope, I think,” said
Tim Winter, president of the
Parents Television Council.
His watchdog group fre-
quently encourages its
members to file complaints
to the federal government
for violations of indecency
standards but in this case he
advised followers to stand
down, calling it “much ado
about nothing.”
The
Fede ra l
Communications Commission
would not comment Friday on
whether anyone had formal-
ly complained about James’
unexpected exposure.
By wire sources
in brief
CLINTON STEPS TO LEFT
WASHINGTON
— Union members
broke into cheers when
Hillary Rodham Clinton
said she supported
their efforts to create a
$15-an-hour national
minimum wage.
“Thank you for giv-
ing me this chance to
tell you all how much
I support your move-
ment,” she told a con-
ference organized by
the Service Employees
International Union. “I
want to fight with you
every day.”
Clinton’s words last
weekend weren’t quite
the endorsement they
may have seemed. The
next day, her campaign
clarified her remarks,
saying while Clinton
supported the general
push for higher wages,
she wasn’t backing the
more contentious $15
hourly minimum.
In the eight weeks
since she announced her
presidential bid, Clinton
has moved cautiously to
the left. She’s wooing the
liberal wing of her party
with strong stances on
issues like immigration,
where there’s broad
national support for the
Democratic position.
But at the same time,
Clinton is staying silent
or speaking with care on
more controversial top-
ics, as she did on the
minimum wage. The
carefully crafted policy
BY LISA LERER
AND KEN THOMAS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BUT NOT TOO FAR
two-step reflects a stra-
tegic decision by her
campaign to motivate
Democratic
activists
skeptical of her com-
mitment to their cause,
without alienating more
moderate voters open to
her candidacy.
Last week, she pushed
for a radical revamp of
voting laws, including
automatically register-
ing people when they
turned 18, prompting a
backlash from potential
Republican rivals and
cheers from Democratic
advocates. But she took
no stance as Congress
debated and approved
sweeping changes to
the nation’s surveillance
laws enacted after the
Sept. 11 attacks, an issue
where her party and the
public are divided.
That kind of cher-
ry-picking will become
harder for Clinton in the
coming months as she
moves into a new phase
of her presidential cam-
paign, beginning with a
major rally in New York
City on Saturday.
In her address, Clinton
will lay out her vision for
her presidency, arguing
that prosperity cannot
be just for CEOs and
hedge-fund managers
but must include ordi-
nary Americans. “It is
your time,” Clinton will
say, according to aides
who described the
speech.
Her campaign intends
to begin rolling out spe-
cific policy positions in
coming weeks, a pro-
cess that will detail her
views on issues such as
Wall Street regulation,
trade, jobs and college
affordability.
“Thus far, she’s been
cautiously treading this
interesting and narrow
piece of ground that
appeals to the broader
party and the base,” said
Jared Bernstein, a for-
mer economic adviser to
Vice President Joe Biden
and a senior fellow with
the Center on Budget
and Policy Priorities. He
added: “We’ll have to see
what kind of sounds she
makes when she moves
outside that intersection
patch.”
