Kauai

A school supplies drive for students at Koloa Elementary School has been launched by the Kauai Retired and Senior Volunteer Program as part of its Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.

Specific items being collected by the organization, sponsored by the Agency on Elderly Affairs, include 1- and 2-inch binders, crayons, No. 2 pencils, colored markers and composition tablets.

Supplies can be dropped off weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Agency on Elderly Affairs, located at the Lihue Civic Center, Piikoi Building, Suite 330, through Jan. 20. Donations can also be dropped off at Times Supermarket, Kukui Grove Center, on Saturdays Jan. 14 and Jan. 21 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

For more information, call Grace Domingo-Delos Reyes at 241-4479 or email rsvp@kauai.org.

Cars kill 8 nene along highway

The state Department of Land and Natural Resources said Wednesday that eight endangered nene have been killed by vehicles along a 2-mile stretch of Kaumualii Highway in Kekaha in recent weeks.

There are only about 1,200 nene, or Hawaiian geese, remaining on Kauai, and state officials said 50 have been struck and killed by cars in the last two years.

The incidents have prompted the state Department of Transportation to post nene-crossing signs on Kaumualii Highway in Kekaha and Kuhio Highway in Hanalei, where birds frequently cross roadways.

Contact DLNR’s Division of Forestry and Wildlife at 808-274-3433 to report an injured or dead bird on Kauai.