Gore to lecture in April on climate change
Former Vice President Al Gore will visit Oahu in April to give a free public lecture on climate change, energy and water, University of Hawaii officials and U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz’s office announced.
Gore, a longtime advocate for more robust environmental protections, will speak as part of a UH series of seminars on sustainability. It will take place 7 p.m. April 15 at UH-Manoa’s Stan Sheriff Center, which can accommodate about 10,000 people.
"I am continually impressed by Hawaii’s innovative thinking, from clean energy to water to transit," Gore said in a statement released by the UH Sea Grant College Program. That program organizes the Stephen and Marylyn Pauley Seminar in Sustainability series, which draws speakers such as Gore on academic, social and cultural issues.
For more information on the event, visit seagrant.soest. hawaii.edu.
Equipment failures cut power in Kalihi
About 730 Hawaiian Electric customers lost power in Kalihi on Sunday because of two incidents along Dillingham Boulevard, a utility spokesman said.
A downed power line caused by an equipment failure near Waiakamilo Street and Dillingham Boulevard left 450 customers without power for much of Sunday afternoon, HECO spokesman Peter Rosegg said.
Power was restored to about 150 customers fairly quickly after the incident was reported around noon, while the remaining customers were left without power until around 3:40 p.m.
The cause of that the downed line was under investigation.
Police closed lanes of Dillingham Boulevard because of the downed line.
A separate outage in the area, near Kohou Street and Dillingham Boulevard, briefly left about 280 customers without power, Rosegg said.
Rosegg said the outage was also caused by an equipment failure, but no lines were reported down. He said power was restored to those customers fairly quickly after the outage started around noon.
Lane patterns shift around H-1 night work
Lane closures for the H-1 Freeway Rehabilitation Project shifted Sunday night.
At 8 p.m. crews began working in the median and right shoulders of various sections of the freeway between Likelike Highway and Ward Avenue.
The work will resume at 8 tonight and continue until 4:30 a.m. Tuesday. This will go on from Sunday night to Friday morning for several months, the state Department of Transportation says.
During that time two lanes will be closed in each direction using traffic cones in a snaking pattern around the work areas. That leaves one eastbound and one westbound lane open.
The shifted lane patterns will be modified as the work areas change. The DOT urges motorists to drive carefully through the shifted lanes.
For more information on the project, visit h1rehab.com or call the project hotline at 735-7465.
Hanauma Bay reopens after jellyfish leave
Hanauma Bay reopened Sunday after an influx of box jellyfish prompted the city to close the park early Saturday.
Lifeguards deemed the beach to be safe after scanning the shoreline and water and counting only a few box jellyfish, said Ocean Safety spokeswoman Shayne Enright.
The bay was closed Saturday after lifeguards counted more than 50 box jellyfish onshore. More than 30 people were stung.
