5A WEST HAWAII TODAY | FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2016 ‘We just keep telling her to be strong’ Creating the book on invasives Kailua Village Business Improvement District March 2016 Historic Kailua Village is the Place To Be this Sunday Everyone’s invited and it’s all free! Kailua Kanikapila Community Picnic Stroll Relax. Kick back. Bring your beach chair or mat. Celebrate why we love to live in Hawaii from 1 pm to sunset at the free Kailua Kanikapila Community Picnic on the seaside lawn at Hale Halawai on Alii Drive. Pack a picnic and bring the whole family for an afternoon filled with Hawaiian music. At 5 pm, Na Hoku Hanohano Slack Key Album of the Year artist Kawika Kahiapo takes center stage for a truly magical end to a beautiful day in Historic Kailua Village. New Village Marketplace Debuts Check out the new Historic Kailua Village Marketplace held outdoors on the grounds of Hale Halawai adjacent to the popular and always sold out Kokua Kailua. Local products—those grown or produced here on Hawaii Island will be featured exclusively from 1:00 to 6:00 pm. The Marketplace will run in conjunction with Kailua Kanikapila Community Picnic for an extra helping of afternoon fun. Kokua Kailua Stroll Historic Kailua Village and enjoy musicians, artists, merchants and restaurants from 1 to 6 pm this Sunday, March 20 at Kokua Kailua. Alii Drive is closed to traffic and becomes a pedestrians only mall (leashed dogs welcomed too). Shop. Dine. Buy Local. KAILUA VILLAGE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT Creating a model sustainable community that is a better place to invest, work, live and play. HistoricKailuaVillage.com Emily Quinajon is 12 years old, but she has already faced more challenges than many people will in their entire life. It’s been nearly two years since Emily, a Waiakea Intermediate sixth-grader, was first diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer that most commonly affects teens and children. She had noticed pain in her left leg, which parents Ricky and Evelyn Quinajon initially thought was growing pains; they didn’t see any redness or trauma. But when Emily started limping, they went to their pediatrician, who found a tumor in initial X-rays. The family made its first trip to Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu. In July 2014, Emily had a 14-hour surgery to remove her femur bone and its tumor, and replace it with a donor bone, a procedure called limb salvage. Since then, Emily and her parents have traveled back and forth from Hilo to Kapiolani. There were rounds of chemotherapy, and followup appointments for the cancer treatment (there also were visits from Tucker, the hospital’s golden retriever and Chief Canine Officer). “Ever since, (Emily’s) been on crutches,” Quinajon said Saturday while at Kapiolani once more, this time with the whole family, including twins Eric and Raelyn, who are Waiakea fourth-graders. “They don’t want her to put any pressure on it.” The bone is finally beginning to fuse together. But one of the risks of chemotherapy is that it can damage other organs, like the heart, liver or kidneys. After the followup to Emily’s last chemo treatment in January 2015, doctors found damage to her heart. Intensive care unit specialists stabilized the heart so Emily could go home. In some pediatric cases, that is enough to lay the foundation for recovery and strengthening the heart. The stabilization held for about a year, but recently Emily began having liver problems as well. Doctors weren’t sure if the liver damage was because of medications or a byproduct of the heart damage, but Quinajon said they leaned toward the latter. On Sunday morning, Emily and her father took a medical transport flight to Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University, where the next step is an evaluation for a heart transplant. An evaluation is not a guarantee of a transplant, though. “We just keep telling her to be strong,” Quinajon said. Emily keeps fighting, he said. Emily prefers reading to TV, and loves arts and crafts. “Ben Franklin is her favorite place, so we always go there,” Quinajon said. Neighbor Suzanne Nozaki, a retired teacher, said she and Emily worked on lei-making projects, and crafts for Valentine’s Day and Christmas. Nozaki and another Quinajon neighbor, Pat Breault, worked with the family to set up a GoFundMe page to help raise money for medical and transportation expenses. The page already has raised more than $4,000, with many contributions coming in $20 or $50 amounts. The power of technology is amazing, Nozaki said. “It’s just one way we can help,” she said. “It’s hard to know what to do other than help them in this way.” Emily Quinajon’s GoFundMe page is https://www.gofundme. BY IVY ASHE HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD Quinajon Input sought on mongoose, rodent control HILO — State and federal wildlife agencies are creating an “encyclopedia” of sorts they hope will guide future efforts to control invasive mongoose and rodents in Hawaii and better protect native species. But first, they want input from the public. A talk story session held Monday at the University of Hawaii’s Komohana Research and Extension Center in Hilo aimed to do just that. Dozens trickled in to the two-hour, open house-style event, which was one of 10 sessions held around the state in recent weeks by the state Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Forestry and Wildlife and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The sessions aren’t planned with any specific control projects in mind. Instead, officials plan to use public input to create an environmental impact statement — a lengthy technical document that will identify the most effective eradication and control methods and serve as “toolbox” primarily for future state and federal projects in conservation areas. “The (impact statement) will be an encyclopedia of rodent and mongoose control methods that have been used around the world for conservation,” said Christy Martin, spokeswoman for the Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species. “This encyclopedia is also supposed to include sort of a guidebook on how to plan a project. If you’ve got native species and you need to protect them from, say, rat damage, how do you plan the best project? Well, you’ll be able to go to this document and design a controlled project that is best for the area.” Mongoose and rodent populations are large and well-established around the state, including on Hawaii Island. Rodents have negatively impacted 135 endangered or threatened native plant species in Hawaii, according to information presented Monday, and rats are believed to have caused BY KIRSTEN JOHNSON HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD A mongoose forages through Liliuokalani Botanical Garden Tuesday afternoon in Hilo. HOLLYN JOHNSON/TRIBUNE-HERALD CRIME BLAST The following crime stats are from burglary, stolen vehicle and unlawful entry into a motor vehicle reports in Kona police district for a given week. The following reports are from March 8-14. Burglary Someone entered a couple’s rented apartment on the 75-6000 Alii Drive on March 8. The suspect took a wallet and purse from the apartment. “(The victim) related that numerous charges were made at target with their credit card and will relate more information when received from the credit card company,” the report read. In a similar case, someone entered a rented condo on the same date and block. The suspect opened the unlocked sliding screen and sliding door, taking a black Samsung flip phone, a white iPhone 6S with blue case and an iPad Air with black case. Total estimated value is $1,670. Stolen vehicle A man saw his company’s maintenance truck being pushed backward on the 75-5600 block of Alii Drive on March 8. The man had both sets of keys for the truck, a 1993 blue Toyota pickup with plate HHR721. A time is not listed in the report. Two people stole a man’s read 1997 Chevrolet Astro van after using it to take him to the hospital on March 9. The man was out at Old Airport Park with a man and woman having a barbecue when he began to feel ill. He asked the other man to take him to the airport. While he was waiting at the hospital he went to see if the man was still there. He wasn’t. At 12:40 p.m. he got a call from a friend who said he saw the woman driving his van. Shortly thereafter a woman ran into a building, causing about $2,500 in damage. A man in the hospital reported that his car was stolen from the Kona Community Hospital parking lot at March 11. His friend was helping take care of him that day and had last seen the car in the lot between 1 and 1:30 p.m. She had taken out some items, she told police, but had locked and secured it before she left. When she returned at about 7:45 p.m. the vehicle was gone. Uemv (unlawful entry into motor vehicle) Someone cut open the driver’s side rear plastic panel of a rental vehicle and entered it between 8:40 p.m. March 8 and 11:15 a.m. March 9 while it was parked on 75-0100 Sarona Road. Although the vehicle was “rummaged through,” nothing was taken. Items were stolen from a red Ford Explorer with license plate ZEB562 between 8 p.m. March 9 and 8 a.m. March 10. Someone jimmied the front passenger door to get inside, taking items from the front and back seats. A theft to a Hawaii Telecomm vehicle was reported on March 10. The driver said someone entered the vehicle, plate T17965 , took out a red tool box and blue bag of tools from the cab and tried to hide them behind the vehicle in vegetation. The man reported he saw the driver’s side door open and found the items behind the truck. After checking the vehicle he found a company gas card valued at $10 was gone from the driver’s side door pocket. A laptop was stolen from a car shortly after midnight March 11 at Henry Street and Kuakini Highway. The suspect broke through the rear passenger window and took a black and red bag that contained an ASUS gaming laptop with red trip. extinction and decline of the state’s native forest birds, seabirds and kahuli tree snails. The state says mongooses cause about $50 million in damage each year in Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The environmental impact statement should be completed in May 2017, officials said. Agencies encourage the public to voice concerns and submit comments. They’re accepting written comments through April 7. To submit, visit removeratsrestorehawaii. org. Community rallies around 12-year-old girl fighting cancer, facing possible heart transplant
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