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DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES
State Sen. Kai Kahele, left, and family members on Wednesday unveiled the new sign for the Gilbert
Kahele Recreation Area, named for Kai Kahele’s father, also a state senator, who died in 2016.
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The Mauna Kea Recreation Area on Saddle Road was renamed Wednesday in honor of the late state Sen. Gilbert Kahele during a private ceremony with Kahele’s family and government officials. New signs bearing the name Gilbert Kahele Recreation Area were unveiled during the ceremony. An official blessing is planned for a later date.
“My father worked just down the road from the recreation area for 34 years as director of the Public Works Division at Pohakuloa Training Area,” Kahele’s son, state Sen. Kai Kahele said. “When he was in the Legislature he was instrumental in achieving park improvements by way of the transfer of management to Hawaii County. He would be deeply honored that a place he dearly loved now bears his name.”
Gilbert Kahele served as a Democrat in the state Senate from 2011 until his death in 2016.
KAUAI
Woman found dead in parked car ID’d
Police on Wednesday identified the woman found dead in a parked car in Anahola as 45-year-old Wubnesh Hylton of no known address.
She was found Monday morning in a vehicle parked at the end of Poha Street. Police said a passersby found her unresponsive at around 6:30 a.m. and called 911. First responders arrived and administered CPR but she could not be revived and was presumed dead at the scene. She was taken to Wilcox Medical Center where a doctor formally pronounced her dead.
Results of an autopsy conducted on Tuesday are pending, but based on preliminary findings authorities do not suspect foul play, according to the Kauai Police Department.