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WEST HAWAII TODAY
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HILO — A cousin of Jolene
Kapua-Allison described the
54-year-old woman who was
shot to death Sunday in what
police described as a murder
suicide as “Miss Aloha.”
“Her friends, family and
co-workers knew her as ‘Miss
Aloha,’ because that’s what
she was. She always had a
flower in her hair; she had
long hair. She was so sweet,”
Jodene Aquino Hiu said
Monday afternoon. “We grew
up together. Her and I were
flower girls in our aunt’s and
uncle’s wedding. She was the
small, tiny gentle ‘Miss Aloha.’
… That was her persona.”
The bodies of Jolene
Kapua-Allison and her
estranged husband, Hawaii
Police Department Officer
Christopher Kapua-Allison,
were found by police Sunday
afternoon at the Kini Street
home in Mountain View
they once shared. County tax
records lists “Christopher
Robert Allison” as the home’s
sole owner.
According to Jolene Kapua-
Allison’s Facebook page, she
worked at Roberts Hawaii
and J. Hara Store and lived in
Hilo. The woman’s Facebook
page also contains a long
list of condolences, as well
as expressions of shock and
anger over her death.
Aquino Hiu said her cousin,
who had two children from a
relationship prior to her marriage
to Kapua-Allison, used
to work at the downtown Hilo
Longs Drugs.
“She worked for Longs for
HILO — Commercial
aquarium fish collecting
could be returning to Hawaii
shores, following a fivemonth
pause.
A draft environmental
assessment released Sunday
by the state Department of
Land and Natural Resources
anticipates no significant
environmental impact from
the resumption of the practice
around Oahu and Hawaii
Island.
The public has until May 8
to comment on the two documents,
which can be found
at http://oeqc2.doh.hawaii.
gov/The_Environmental_
Notice/2018-04-08-TEN.pdf
Aquarium fishermen were
barred from plying their
trade in Hawaii waters after
the state Supreme Court
sided with a coalition of environmental
groups who said
the impact of the aquarium
trade has not been properly
documented. The state 1st
Circuit Court, sitting as the
Environmental Court, on
Oct. 27 deemed all commercial
aquarium fish permits
invalid.
At the time, there were 233
valid commercial aquarium
permits.
The draft environmental
assessment, applied for
by the Pet Industry Joint
Advisory Council, representing
the aquarium trade,
and prepared by international
consultant Stantec
Consulting Services, included
data from 256 survey
points around Hawaii Island
and 228 around Oahu.
SEE FISH PAGE 6A
COUSIN SAYS WOMAN LEFT HER ESTRANGED HUSBAND, AN HPD OFFICER, SEVERAL MONTHS EARLIER
BY JOHN BURNETT
HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD
This Facebook photo shows
Christopher and Jolene Kapua-
SEE MURDER PAGE 7A Allison in a happier time. COURTESY PHOTO
HILO — As Hawaii waits to
see if the Thirty Meter Telescope
has a future here, a last-minute
bill crafted in the state
Legislature has many worried
that lawmakers could end up
forcing the next-generation
observatory out of the state.
The legislation would prohibit
construction on Maunakea
until the University of Hawaii
receives a new master lease for
the Maunakea Science Reserve,
completes administrative rules,
and conducts financial and performance
audits. Critics say that
would set TMT back by years,
even if the state Supreme Court,
which is overseeing two cases on
the $1.4 billion project, rules in
its favor.
The bill caught people off
guard because it was introduced
without notice through an often
criticized process known as “gut
and replace,” where the contents
of one bill are replaced by
another. While audit requirements
were part of a bill that
already failed this session, the
proposed building moratorium
had not been seen before.
TMT supporters worry that
would be the final nail in the
coffin for a project already looking
to go elsewhere after years
of delays due to protests and
legal challenges. But they are
also troubled by the process.
BY TOM CALLIS
HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD
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FEMALE MONK SEAL PUP WEANED
COMMUNITY SUPPORT NEEDED TO ENSURE SEAL’S SURVIVAL
Dr. Stacie Robinson,
above left, from
NOAA Fisheries’
Hawaiian Monk Seal
Research Program
affixes Manu’iwa’s,
right, satellite tag.
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KAILUA-KONA —
Monk seal pup Manu‘iwa
is on her own.
Now more than ever
it is imperative Hawaii
Island residents and visitors
alike work to keep
this young, very curious
seal wild as Manu’iwa is
the only pup on Hawaii
Island and has just four
other seals with whom to
interact, officials stressed
Monday.
Like a child with limited
options to keep her
busy, it’s likely the “weaner,”
as 1- to 12-month-old
monk seals are known,
will be interested in other
things in her environment
BY CHELSEA JENSEN
WEST HAWAII TODAY
cjensen@westhawaiitoday.com
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