Fire truck rides and free photos with Santa highlight "Santa Saturday" fun at Kapolei Shopping Center, Dec.13

Sleigh bells won't be ringing, but fire truck bells will be clanging as Kapolei Shopping Center rings in holiday fun at its 16th annual SANTA SATURDAY on December 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

FREE rides on an antique fire truck are just part of the fun that day.  Keiki will enjoy FREE holiday crafts and activities along "Candy Cane "Lane" and can greet Santa's favorite reindeer, Rudolph. There will be FREE photos with Santa at Bank of Hawaii, and First Hawaiian Bank gives those 18 years or older a chance to snatch some extra Christmas cash in its popular Money Grabber. There also will be prize drawings for two Kapolei Shopping Center gift baskets, each filled with $500 worth of gift certificates and goodies from the center's merchants and restaurants (must be 18 or older to enter).  Merchants will offer sidewalk sale bargains for holiday shoppers, too.

In the spirit of giving, Kapolei High School's Leo Club volunteers will gladly accept cash and canned foods donations for Hawaii Foodbank during the event, with free poinsettia plants for the first 200 Foodbank donors. It's Kapolei Shopping Center's way to thank you for helping feed Hawaii's hungry this holiday season!

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In August the City Council passed Resolution 08-166 for a public vote on transit in November.  The wording is quite specific but may leave the public uncertain as to precisely what its ramifications will be, whether passed or failed.  The ballot question reads "Shall the powers, duties, and functions of the city, through its director of transportation services, include establishment of a steel wheel on steel rail transit system."  Under the resolution's provisions, the question will only be placed on the ballot if the petition by the group known as "Stop Rail Now" (SRN) does not receive a favorable court ruling and its question does not make the November ballot.  If enough petition signatures are validated, the petition takes precedence for its question, which reads "Honolulu mass transit shall not include trains or rail."  The wording of both questions needs to be carefully interpreted if the reader is to make an informed vote.

KALAELOA ROAD IMPROVEMENTS STARTING SOON

(Kapolei, Hawaii, June 27, 2008) -- Construction to improve Kalaeloa Boulevard from H-1 to Malakole Street at Campbell Industrial Park is expected to begin during the week of July 7.  The Kalaeloa Road Improvement project will improve access to the major job center and is expected to be completed in 2010.  The improvements include rebuilding and widening Kalaeloa from four to six lanes.

Phase 1

The first phase will involve the intersection of Kalaeloa and Kapolei Parkway, and Kalaeloa Boulevard between the H-1 Palailai Interchange and the railroad tracks going both directions (see red-colored sections in the attached map).  This first phase is expected to be completed by Spring 2009.

For the second year in a row, The American Youth Soccer Organization's Leeward Region 269 and The City and County of Honolulu will be co-coordinating the Sunset in the Park Event in Kapolei. The event, the 2008 Kapolei Summer Sunset Festival, will be held Saturday and Sunday, September 6th and 7th, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., at Kapolei Regional Park across from the Kapolei Library. Since the scope of this year's event will be even larger than last year's, help and support is being enlisted from various community groups and businesses, as well as, many returning committee members from last year's successful Kapolei Sunset event.