With prom season approaching, students on the Leeward Coast are invited to pick up free dresses at an event in Nanakuli on Saturday.
State Rep. Andria Tupola (R, Kalaeloa-Ko Olina-Maili) is hosting the Young Women’s Prom Event from 5 to 8 p.m. at Ka Waihona o Ka Na‘auao Public Charter School, Room 317. The annual event, in its third year, has helped as many as 300 girls at past events.
The program will include a fashion show and guest speakers on the topics of self-respect and the dangers of dating violence and domestic violence. Event partners include the Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence and The Bella Project.
Organizers are still accepting donations. Donors can arrange to have dresses picked up by calling Tupola’s office at 586-8465.
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Man allegedly bites guard
WAILUKU >> A Maui security guard says she was shielding her face from blows when a homeless man, who had refused to leave a fast-food restaurant, bit off her fingertip.
Allied Universal Security Guard Janine Carroll testified Monday at a preliminary hearing that she was working at Maui Mall on Feb. 20 before the attack occurred, the Maui News reported.
“He bit right through the bone,” she said. “And they weren’t able to reattach it.”
After Carroll’s testimony, Judge Blaine Kobayashi ruled there was sufficient evidence to charge Alex Hand with assault.
He is being held in lieu of $20,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday.
Carroll said she asked Hand to leave the Wendy’s in Kahului multiple times before the altercation that ended with her losing the top portion of her left ring finger. Wendy’s workers had called security because Hand had his cellphone plugged into an outlet and was refusing to leave. Workers said he was intoxicated at the time of the incident.
Carroll said Hand was agitated when she asked him to leave. She attempted to push him out the door but Hand resisted, pulling her hair and hitting her. She said she put her hands up and that Hand bit her finger. He ultimately ran away.
Carroll was taken to Maui Memorial Medical Center, where two staples were put in her finger. She identified the defendant to police after he was cited for trespassing at Queen Kaahumanu Center two days after the initial incident.
