NOTICE TO HAWAII MARINE READERS We hope you will enjoy this special readers during the holiday season when This special edition, published each edition of the Windward Sun Press, the Hawaii Marine is not published. year, is in no way connected to the Navy created especially for Hawaii Marine Aiituctaie duce or the U.S. government. Windward Sun ress VOL. XXX NO. 33 2s rents/Voluntary Payment For Home Delivery: One Dollar Per Four Week Period WEEK OF JANUARY 4-10, 1990 BRIEFLY Corps to help Wetlands meeting KANEOHE - Representatives from the fund more study Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate, including state Rep. Henry Peters, will address the sale of the Heeia meadowlands at the next Community Hour sponsored by state Rep. Terrance Tom. on marsh levee The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on Jan. 10 in Room D-6 at Benjamin Parker Elementary By MARK DOYLE School. News Editor "At our last Community Hour, the absence of Bishop Estate in discussions regarding the sale KAILUA - Two full years after of the Heeia meadowlands was of some concern," Kailua was hit hard by the 1987 New Tom said. Year's Eve Flood, the U.S. Army However, their willingness to be present at the Corps of Engineers has said it needs next meeting "demonstrates their sincere desire yet another year to study flood con- to work with our community." Tom said. trol improvements for the levee in "This will be a good step toward building a Kawainui Marsh. more positive relationship between the residents According to corps spokesperson of our community and the people at Kamehameha Elsie Smith, the corps received ver- Schools/Bishop Estate," he added. bal assurances last month from Bishop Estate came under fire at last month's Washington that additional funding Community Hour for negotiating the sale of the would be available for further study W meadowlands to a foreign investor. The estate and project modifications. was also chastised for failing to send a represen- tative to answer questions from the community. "The corps recommends that the city proceed with portions of the plan dealing with marsh management, such as vegetation removal," Smith Kailua Board said Friday. "But the corps is concerned about KAILUA - The Kailua Neighborhood Board Sam Callejo will hold its first meeting of the new year at 7 public safety and therefore does not p.m. tonight at the Kailua Recreation Center. support the proposed design plans as presented for levee modification. public affairs, said the study will Special presentations will be made on a Kailua take one year to complete, a target Beach Park bikeway proposal and a resolution Lowering the levee could result in uncontrolled overtopping and bring date confirmed by Public Works di- regarding leasehold reform for multi-family prop- rector Sam Callejo. erties. Committee reports will be made on pro- floodwaters into the Coconut Grove posed rules and regulations for parking at city area," Smith said. "It'll probably take about a year," parks; a series of city bills including golf course The city Department of Public Callejo said. "That's the real world." development, bed and breakfast and the Develop- Works has come under fire recently But he added that the city will ment Plan Annual Review now before the City for continuing with a $395,000 draft proceed as soon as possible with the Ck until; and Limited County Home Rule. Environmental Impact Statement marsh management part of the flood The board also has announced it has formed despite being told in July that the control plan. a new Legislative Liaison Committee that will corps would object to the levee modi- changed," keep an eye on legislative bills of interest to the The city pro- "The project scope hasn't fications as proposed. said. "We already designed the board and community during the 1990 session. William Ing photo and cap a section of he posed to lower levee, corps was not too happy Joseph Shelton will chair the new committee. PARROT PARENT: Pualani Bruzell speaks gently to a Red-sided Eclectus felt was but the the levee, which the corps with the design. So we told them, as several Sun Conures listen attentively in the background. Burzell and technically unsound. her husband raise the exotic parrots in their aviary in Waimanalo. `Fine, there's more than one way to The corps, however, did not make build the project.' New DLU director a formai objection until December, when it received word from its head- "We're still trying to get the per- WINDWARD - Land use issues facing Kailua quarters that money would be made mits for the test-blasting. We're and Kaneohe residents next year will revolve available for more study. moving forward with finding out what Parrot Lady' runs it'll take to remove that [vegetation] around the policies and decisions of Donald "It was only back in June or July mat." Clegg, the city's new director of the Department that the corps found out the city of Land Utilization (DLU). wanted to modify the levee," Smith Callejo confirmed that blasting to Before he Was sworn in on Tuesday, Clegg had said. "And the corps didn't expect to clear vegetation in the marsh will warned that the city's new policy toward build- Waimanalo refuge see modifications. These things take begin sometime in February, and that . ings that don't meet prevailing zoning and build- time. water leyel sensors will be installed ing codes will be to have the buildings torn down. By MARK DOYLE throughout the world. A Red-sided sometime this spring. He said he expects to enforce existing codes, News Editor Eclectus, Kui has iridescent emerald- "We do expect to receive the funds but the new director stopped short of saying his green feathers, with bright red flanks sometime in January to initiate the Meanwhile, members of the com- WAIMANALO - Kui lives in munity are upset about the agree- get-tough stance will automatically extend to Waimanalo. Even though he can talk, under the wings and small touches of study," she continued. "We will issue land use ordinances regulating bed and break- a news release at that time to advise ment between the city and the corps he normally doesn't have that much blue near his tail. Ruby, also a Red- and another fast operations and ohana zoning. is covered with bril- the public of study initiation, to seek to spend another year to say. And his wife, Ruby, spends sided Eclectus, $400,000 for additional study. "I don't think I'll be looking at either issue most of her time inside their small liant red feathers set off by a deep input and to establish a mailing list with high priority because they've just been home near the base of Mount Olo- turquoise chest. of all interested parties." "It looks like another two years looked at," Clegg said. "The city has already mana.. The corps has entered into a "local before anything will be accom- looked at ohana. There are maps that have Against the thick green country- plished," Kailua Neighborhood Board Kui is usually friendly to guests, side of Waimanalo, the two mates are cooperation agreement" with the city already been studied in that regard." and Ruby can be quite cordial as that provides for the feasibility study chairman Bonnie Heim wrote to nothing short of dazzling, as are Callejo. "We doubt that the people of well. But they are different - very their neighbors in the adjacent cages. to be co-funded 50 percent by the different. city. Corps officials estimate the study Coconut Grove are willing to jeopard- All of the birds appear healthy and ize their lives and property while the Kokokahi hearing Kui and Ruby are parrots. They vibrant, and why not? They are ex- will cost $400,000, and the City live together at a large aviary in Council recently approved an addi- city and the corps continue with this tremely well taken care of by Pualani seemingly endless procrastination." KANEOHE The city Planning Commission Waimanalo next to 300 other exotic tional $250,000 for the city's share. - EXOTIC on A-6 will discuss a request by the City Council to place parrots rescued from tropical forests See Jeanne Maxon, the corp's chief of See MORE on A-6 the Kokokahi YWCA on the Koolaupoko Devel- opment Plan Public Facilities Map as a publicly fAnded park. The hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Wednes- Learning basics of television production day in the Civil Service Conference Room at the City Hall Annex. Last summer, the City Council passed a reso- lution allowing the city to purchase the 11-acre Area teens excel in TV program Kaneohe waterfront landmark if it came up for sale. The bill also requested that the property be i placecl\on the public facilities map and asked By CAROL CHANG that the YWCA notify the city first before mak- Staff Writer ing any commitment to sell the land. WINDWARD - Some kids never Former city chief planning officer Donald Clegg, watch public TV. But starting Sat- however, has recommended that Kokokahi not be urday, at least 14 Oahu youngsters placed in the public facilities map. will switch from cartoons to a four- Clegg said Tuesday that the property is not hour dose of Channel 11. considered a top priority by the city administra- The new 13-week series "Saturday tion because it lacks direct beach access. Clegg A.M." is produced by KHET to offer also said that YWCA officials had told him they a new concept in programming for had no intention of selling the property at the the 10-15 year age group.