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A4 — Friday, July 16, 2010 — THE MAUI NEWS
OBITUARIES Schools
Blaine Francis
Manley, 81
Blaine Francis Manley,
81, of Wailuku, Maui, died
July 10, 2010, at Maui Memorial Medical Center. Private Services will be held.
Ballard Family Mortuary is assisting with the
arrangements.
Blaine was born August
26, 1928 in Honolulu,
Hawaii. He is survived by his
Companion, Mi Tae Cha
Manley; Brother, David (Jen)
Manley; and 1 Grandchild.
He was a retired hotel
Maintenance Man.
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Ballard Family Mortuary
440 Ala Makani St., Kahului
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Andrew Brian
Peck, 20
Andrew Brian Peck, 20 of
Kihei, Maui, died July 11,
2010 at his residence.
A Celebration of life will
be held from 2:00 p.m. on
Saturday, July 17, 2010, at
Big Beach in Makena; Scattering of ashes will follow.
Ballard Family Mortuary
is assisting with the arrangements.
Andrew was born on December 27, 1989 in Grand
Junction, Colorado. He is
survived by his Parents, Darrell R. and Sheila Peck; Sisters, Elise (Logan) Nielson,
Alix Peck; Grandparents,
Terry & Janey Eoff; Grandfather, Douglas Peck; Grandmother, Julie Palmer; Great
Grandmother, Anna Peterson;
and Great Grandmother, Velma Thomas.
He worked as a Landscaper.
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Ballard Family Mortuary
440 Ala Makani St., Kahului
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Wailuku
Elementary
was one of
13 schools in
the county to
reach Annual
Yearly
Progress
targets.
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ent Bruce Anderson.
“That was very encouraging,” he said. “They all worked
hard.”
Anderson said he was especially proud of Maui schools,
faculty and students for exceeding last year’s performance in spite of having reduced
class time due to furloughs.
“Our teachers and principals, all of our people, worked
really hard,” he said. “They
knew we were in a bad situation, but they didn’t just give
up on the kids. They tried extra
hard for the kids — at every
school, not just the ones that
made AYP.”
Under the federal No Child
Left Behind Act, public
schools across the country are
given annual assessments to
determine how they measure
up on reading and math proficiency, graduation rates and
other criteria. Each year, the
schools must meet a higher
standard to show that they are
making progress toward the
goal of having 100 percent
proficiency in reading and
math by 2014.
This year, schools had to
show that 58 percent of their
student body was proficient at
reading, and 46 percent were
proficient at math, in order to
meet the standards for “adequate yearly progress,” or
AYP.
Principals have until July 28
to appeal the results released
Thursday by the Department of
Education.
Schools that fail to meet the
standards for several years in a
row can face sanctions and ultimately be listed for restructuring, or severe interventions that
include hiring consultants to
help turn the school around.
Three schools in Maui
County saw their ratings go
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from this. JR will never have
the chance to grow up and be
the father his father should
have been.”
After hearing testimony for
six weeks, 2nd Circuit Joel August said he would deliberate
and review exhibits before issuing a verdict.
“I don’t know how long that
process is going to take, like a
jury doesn’t know,” August
said Thursday afternoon, following the conclusion of closing arguments.
Edward Leroy Obrero, Sr.
January 25, 1942 – July 6, 2010
Edward Leroy Obrero, Sr. of Lana’i City,
Lana’i died July 6, 2010, at Queen’s Hospital
on Oahu.
Celebration of life will begin at 12:00pm at
the Trilogy Pavilion, Manele Boat Harbor on
Saturday, July 24, 2010.
Eddie was born on January 25, 1942, in
Lihue Kauai. He retired as a heavy equipment
operator with Hawaiian Dredging.
He is survived by his best friend, Lynette
Ka’opuiki of Lana’i City; 2 sisters, Lorraine
Borrero of Kauai and Mildred “Peachy”
Kealoha of Oahu; 1 brother, the late Sandy
Obrero; 5 children, Eddie Jr. of Kauai; Jeffrey
of Maui; Dustin Ka’opuiki; Annie Zablan and
Wendy Ka’opuiki of Lana’i; 9 grandchildren,
Tiffany, Isiah, Shayna, Tia, Kayli, Brent, Alan,
Kayci Lyn, and Brian; 3 great grandchildren,
Tayliana, Xander and Kaya.
Eddie was an outstanding fast pitch softball
athlete. He coached the Lana’i High School
softball team for 13 years.
Contact: Lynette Ka’opuiki 808-565-7592
e-mail mailto:manuku@aloha.net
Funeral Service date July 24, 2010
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MATTHEW
THAYER
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down for the 2009-10 school
year.
Kula Elementary did not
meet progress benchmarks and
had its good standing shifted to
a “pending” status, after making AYP for the past three
years. Kula fell short in one
category, enough to downgrade it in the all-or-nothing
No Child Left Behind ratings.
“They missed it by a little
bit,” Anderson said.
Kaunakakai Elementary and
Kilohana Elementary on
Molokai also did not make
AYP, after meeting last year’s
benchmarks.
Kaunakakai, which also
missed one category, was already in restructuring, while
Kilohana’s good standing was
given “pending” status.
“We did take a dip,” said
Kilohana Principal Richard
Stevens. “In a way, I find the
scores encouraging, as crazy as
it sounds. I was afraid we
would take an enormous hit as
a result of furloughs, and I’m
not seeing that kind of huge
difference.”
Stevens said Kilohana’s
reading scores were not as
good as 2009’s test but were
still better than every previous
year’s. He said the school still
needed to work on bringing up
its math scores.
Stevens noted that Kilohana
had only 109 students last
year.
“When you look at the numbers, at such a small school,
one-and-a-half kids would
have had us meet proficiency
at math,” he said. “When you
look at reading, it would have
taken two kids.”
Other principals also said
they went student by student in
their efforts to bring up test
scores and meet the benchmarks.
Kualapuu Elementary Charter School Principal Lydia
Trinidad, also on Molokai, said
her faculty identified “bubble
kids” and focused on giving
them short-term intensive help
to bring them up to speed with
their peers.
“It’s kids who are on the
edge and might need additional
support,” she said.
Kualapuu was among the
schools that saw ratings go up
this year, meeting AYP and receiving an unconditional good
standing status.
“We were just very persistent,” Trinidad said. “We did
some curriculum changes, and
we did some adjustments to
our math approach. It was basically just being very rigorous
with teachers, expectations and
monitoring.”
Offering incentives like pizza to the students may have
helped too, Trinidad said with
a laugh.
Other schools meeting AYP
this year after missing it in
Antonio, 47, who is also
known as Jose Antonio Sr., has
pleaded not guilty to charges of
second-degree murder and using a firearm in the commission of a felony.
The shooting occurred at
10:40 p.m. Dec. 16, 2008, at
the family’s two-bedroom residence on South Kamehameha
Avenue in Kahului. Jose “JR”
Antonio Jr. was found on the
ground just outside a door to
the home with five gunshot
wounds in his body. Police recovered seven bullet casings
and the father’s .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol.
After the shooting, Antonio
drove away in his truck before
turning himself in at the Wailuku Police Station within an
hour.
In the hours before the
shooting, there were arguments
and confrontations in the
home, according to witnesses.
That afternoon, Joe Antonio
and his wife argued when she
confronted him about his plans
to go to the Philippines with a
woman who was allegedly his
girlfriend.
Later in the evening, Antonio repeatedly asked his son to
remove a video game cord that
he had left on the floor, running
from a computer in the living
room to the son’s bedroom.
Father and son also had a
confrontation over $1,400 the
father had borrowed from the
son, in part to pay gambling
debts. When the father tried to
repay some of the money, the
son threw the money at his father. The father slapped his son
on the cheek and threw the
money back.
The son lifted one end of a
couch and punched a hole in a
closet door as he walked to his
bedroom. “There was no indication that anyone had seen
that kind of anger from JR in
his entire life,” Lowenthal said.
But Mendes said some of the
arguments were part of an ongoing dispute.
“He was having a battle of
wills with his son, an adult
teenager,” she said. “What we
do know is about that time, the
son had had enough with what
the father’s been doing. The father wasn’t happy with the son
because the son was outing
him about his misconduct.”
Twice that night, the son rejected his father’s apology. After the second time, Joe Antonio testified he went into his
bedroom with his teenage
daughter and said he wanted to
kill himself.
The father twice pulled out
the video game cord that night.
The second time, the cord
broke and Antonio testified he
could hear his son swearing in
his room and was afraid.
That was when he went into
the bedroom to get his pistol
and went outside.
“He goes outside, contemplating his own suicide,”
Lowenthal said. “He’s an emotional wreck.”
Antonio testified that his son
kicked open the screen door,
FOREVER
FOREVER IN
IN OUR
OUR HEARTS
HEARTS
Jennifer “Jenn” Rongduen Villanueva
January 26, 1976 - July 16, 2009
It’s been a year since
you left us. Missed
you so much. You
will be in our hearts.
Your loving husband
Mike, your son
Jacob, your daughter
Mikayla, Dad Roger,
Mom Elizabeth, your
sister Ruby & the
Villanueva-Rongduen
Ohana!
2009 included Wailuku and
Kahului Elementary, which remain in restructuring; Kamalii,
Kihei and Maunaloa Elementary, which were given unconditional good standing; Lokelani Intermediate, which remains in the status of “planning
for restructuring”; and Kihei
Charter School, which remains
in “school improvement” status.
“We lost our cool for a
minute, we were so excited,”
said Kahului Principal Fern
Markgraf. “Our children have
worked really hard, and so
have the teachers — so this
was an awesome reaffirmation
for them.”
She was most excited to see
that her students moved up
seven points in reading and
five points in math, and that
measures for both economically disadvantaged groups and
English language learners
showed improvement.
During restructuring, the
school looked at reorganizing
its operations and overhauling
its curriculum, Markgraf said.
She and her vice principal also
pledged to students that they
would dye their hair blue and
red — the school colors — if
the school made AYP.
“Now we’ll be keeping that
promise,” she said.
Joe Yamamoto of Maunaloa
Elementary said his school
tried to focus on following solid instructional practices, tracking students throughout the
year and getting good support
in place for children who were
struggling.
“We tried to stay the
course,” he said. “Sometimes
it’s too easy just to jump on a
bunch of initiatives.”
Everyone pitched in, even
noninstructional staff who
worked to create a positive environment that made students
want to be in school, he said.
“We’re a small school, so all
the adults are there for the kids,
and the kids know it,” he said.
“I think that makes a difference.”
Kihei Elementary Principal
Alvin Shima said his school
gave up its waiver days and got
permission to keep students in
school later on Wednesdays instead of holding meetings, in
order to increase instructional
time.
Teachers also put in extra
time with students that had
been identified as needing “an
extra boost.”
“We’ve always been in good
standing, but kind of in the
‘pending’ category,” he said.
“We certainly did well this
year, and it was a pleasant surprise, even with the furloughs.”
Lokelani Principal Donna
Whitford said she was planning a “big celebration” for the
school.
Teachers felt a lot of pressure to squeeze all the content
that needed to be covered into a
year with less instructional
time, she said.
“It was hardworking, dedicated teachers, really, who are
not afraid to do what it takes to
make it happen for the kids,”
she said. “And I give a lot of
credit to our students. They
took it seriously.”
Even as some principals expressed relief to see the results
of the testing Thursday, they
were still looking ahead to
2011, when their schools will
face higher benchmarks. Next
year schools will have to show
72 percent reading proficiency
and 64 percent math proficiency in order to get the AYP rating.
“We’re just very aware that
next year is a raise in the standards,” Markgraf said. “But
what this has done is let us
know we’re in reach of that.”
was swearing and pushing and
had his hand on the father’s
neck before Antonio pulled out
the pistol and fired, aiming
above the youth’s head and
emptying the weapon.
As conflicts had escalated
that night, Antonio’s stress level reached the point of extreme
mental or emotional disturbance for which there was a
reasonable explanation, Lowenthal said. He said Antonio’s judgment was impaired
and he couldn’t see alternative
courses of action.
“There are arguments, there
are threats, there’s a slap,
there’s a punching of the wall,
there’s crying, there’s money
being thrown around,” he said.
“And it just keeps getting
worse and worse and worse.”
He said police focused on
the video game cord as the reason for the shooting and didn’t
further explore Antonio’s
statement that the son had
kicked open the screen door.
The door was kicked open so
hard that it remained open
when the shots were fired,
Lowenthal said, and a police
photo showed a piece of metal
from the door on the ground.
Although police photos
showed marks on Antonio’s
neck that could be bruises,
Lowenthal said no DNA or
other testing was done. And
while gunshot residue testing
was done on Antonio’s hands,
no results were presented at trial to indicate whether Antonio
fired with two hands, as someone aiming would, or with one
hand, as Antonio testified,
Lowenthal said.
“These are important questions in determining whether or
not this could be self-defense,”
he said.
He asked the judge to find
Antonio not guilty, or guilty of
the lesser charge of manslaughter.
Mendes argued that Antonio
was guilty as charged, saying
he took deliberate steps.
“He chooses the battlefield,
he chooses the weapon,” she
said.
She said Antonio either
stood on the side of his son or
his son had turned away when
the first shot was fired, with the
first bullet entering the left side
of his neck, severing his spinal
column and spinal cord, and
causing him to collapse. As the
son was falling to the ground,
the next two shots went into the
wooden and screen door, both
downward toward the son’s
body, Mendes said. She said he
then fired two shots to his son’s
legs and moved to fire a shot
that went across the son’s
chest. One shot ricocheted into
the son’s jaw, she said.
“Seven shots — they were
all focused toward JR,”
Mendes said. “He wanted him
dead.”
She said Antonio couldn’t
claim extreme mental or emotional disturbance if he was the
cause of it. “This turmoil in the
family is on him,” she said.
“It’s something he created and
caused.
“Under the law, what the defendant did did not amount to
justification,” Mendes said.
“What he did was murder, pure
and simple.”
Since his arrest, Antonio has
been held at the Maui Community Correctional Center.
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Trash will be picked up today
WAILUKU — County telephones have been ringing with
questions about opala and Furlough Fridays — with the first
county Furlough Friday today.
The answers are: Except for
Hana and Molokai, trash col-
lection routes are unchanged
and Friday routes will be
picked up today; and landfill
hours do not change. Trash collection schedules for Hana and
Molokai have been adjusted to
avoid Furlough Fridays.
CORRECTIONS
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wrong figure for the amount it
rose was published on Page B5
on Thursday.
Sherwood was misidentified
and Guglia’s name was misspelled in the Backstage review that appeared on Page 5
in Thursday’s Maui Scene.
The Maui News apologizes
for the errors.
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Sherwood plays character Julia
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