The whale, about 10 feet long, was in bad shape with scrapes from crossing the reef near the Maalaea condominiums, Ryon said.Ī striped dolphin died Saturday after beaching itself at Maui's Wailea Beach on Friday.ĭavid Nichols, the protected-resource manager with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said tissue samples, taken of both animals in an attempt to determine their cause of death, have been sent to a military laboratory that has a contract to conduct the testing. Volunteers took the stranded whale out to sea about three miles off McGregor Point, but it returned at about 3:30 p.m. Sunday died about 10 1/2 hours later at the Maui Ocean Center in Maalaea, said Bradley Ryon, a federal liaison. WAILUKU > A second marine mammal has died after washing ashore on Maui.Ī pygmy sperm whale that went ashore about 9:30 a.m. Listings also appear online at Please send items to City Desk, Star-Bulletin, 500 Ala Moana, Suite 7-210, Honolulu, HI 96813. "Taking Notice" runs on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
> Chennat Gopalakrishnan, a professor of natural resources and environmental management at the University of Hawaii, is the 2003 recipient of the Ka Pouhana (Mentor) award of the UH College of Tropical Agricultural & Human Resources. The students will work as interns at newspapers this summer. > Kalani Wilhelm, of the University of Hawaii, is one of 75 journalism students chosen as Chips Quinn Scholars by the Freedom Forum. > Jason Inouye Baum, a Maui High School senior, has won the $1,000 national Principal's Leadership Award scholarship. Other scholarship winners, who received $500 each, include Brent Iha, a Kalani High graduate, Tanya Lee and Jodi Uchida, of Castle. The students will participate in a youth exchange program, mostly to foreign countries, for three to four weeks this summer. > The Lions Club of Honolulu has awarded scholarships to Rocky Juan and Rhemei Mentac, of Farrington High School Howard Li, of Kaiser Jennifer Li, Chelsia Toyama and Ryan Lau, of Mililani and Linda Siu, Nick Smith and Kristen Suwa, of Waiakea. > Allen DeLong, president of Saint Louis School, was honored with the Chaminade Founders Day award in West Hills, Calif., for exemplary service to the Catholic Marianist School. She will make a presentation on the topic "Prosaic Justice: Scenes of Crime and Punishment in Chinese and Greek Narrative." > Sandra Schwartz, assistant professor of history and classical studies in the College of Liberal Arts at Hawaii Pacific University, has been selected as one of 15 fellows for the National Endowment for Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers in Berkeley, Calif. The Cameron Center, established in 1973, houses and supports nonprofit agencies that provide assistance in health, social services, culture and arts. Tsuji, now 85, is a retired dentist and longtime friend and employee of Walter Cameron, who was a former general manager of Maui Pineapple, former chairmen of Alexander & Baldwin and a community leader. Fumio Tsuji, chairman of the center's long-range planning committee, who spearheaded the $1.1 million project. It will be located behind the Cameron Center's main office building and fronted by a new street named after Dr. The 4,272-square-foot center, Kahi Kamali'i, will accommodate 40 infants and toddlers, mainly from low-income families. Walter Cameron Center on Mahalani Street in Wailuku, Maui, celebrated its 30th anniversary recently with the blessing of a new child-care center. Police, Fire, Courts By Star-Bulletin Staff
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