Mobile centers help veterans

Maui Mayor Alan Ara­kawa and the Department of Veterans Affairs Mobile Vet Center have made several appearances around Maui this month distributing information to veterans, service members and their families.

The vans travel to communities to extend the federal agency’s reach.

The mobile veterans center is scheduled for two more Maui visits:

» Saturday: Women Veteran Stand Down at the Army National Guard at 2701 Moku­lele Highway, 10 a.m.-noon

» Sunday: J. Walter Cameron Center Outreach, 95 Maha­lani St., 8 a.m.-noon

Plan maintains Kiholo reserve

KAILUA-KONA » State land officials are proposing to keep Kiholo State Park Reserve largely as is while adding campsites and improving access.

The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported Friday that the nearly 7-square-mile reserve would also add basic sanitation facilities.

The state Board of Land and Natural Resources is considering the master plan.

The plan does not include upgrading access roads that are unpaved. The state’s master plan says it would rather encourage visitors to walk from Queen Kaahumanu Highway as a way of controlling use.

"The preferred alternative involves very limited construction and would have minor impacts on the topography, geology and soils within the park," staff of the Department of Land and Natural Resources wrote to the board.

A new park entrance above Kiholo Bay and a parking area and entrance above Keawa­iki Bay would have small effects, department officials said.