The Kauai Police Department and Life’s Choices Kauai are teaming up to collect unused or expired prescription medications and other drugs on Drug Take Back Day on July 25 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at police headquarters in Lihue.
Tablets, capsules and other solid dosage forms will be accepted during the event. All other drugs and drug paraphernalia will also be collected, a Kauai County news release said Thursday. Needles and syringes will not be accepted.
Drop-offs are accepted anonymously.
For more information, contact Lt. Karen Kapua with the Kauai Police Department at 241-1701 or Theresa Koki of Life’s Choices Kauai at 241-4925.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Ordnance sweep to take 70 years
KAILUA-KONA » The Army Corps of Engineers is planning to remove explosives from areas of a former defense site on the northwest side of Hawaii island.
The plan comes after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development stopped issuing some communities grants and loan guarantees over unexploded munitions found in the area, West Hawaii Today reported Thursday. Included in the plan are four sites in the Waikoloa Maneuver Area, which was an artillery range and training facility around World War II.
Estimates peg the cost at $723 million with a 70-year timeline for completion.
The public can comment on the plan until Aug. 14.
UH-Hilo springs for 2 flagpoles
HILO » The University of Hawaii at Hilo will soon boast two flagpoles so as to display both the American and Hawaii state flags at equal heights after protesters removed the U.S. flag late last year.
The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported Thursday that Hawaiian sovereignty activists lowered the U.S. flag from the campus’ single pole Dec. 1 and delivered it to administrators. Protesters demanded that the Hawaii flag be shown preference when the flags are raised.
UH-Hilo Director of University Relations Jerry Chang says the flagpole will be replaced with two new flagpoles with lockable, internal halyard systems so that unauthorized people cannot lower or raise flags.
Project manager Lo-Li Chih says the new poles will cost more than $33,300 and should be installed by mid-August.
