The cost to connect homes in the Lono Kona Subdvision to a county sewer line project is estimated to be just under $10,000 per single family equivalent unit.

Thats according to an estimate Hawaii Countys Department of Environmental Management has provided to the public prior to a hearing, set for 6 p.m. Tuesday at the West Hawaii Civic Centers council chambers.

Funding for the project is split between a $4 million grant and a $2.4 million loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Subdivision residents in homes and condos on parts of Kalani, Ala Onaona, Alahou, Lamaokeola and Alakai streets will pick up the cost of repaying the loan. Environmental management officials estimated the cost per single-family equivalent to be $9,868. DEM Director Bobby Jean Leithead Todd said the amount may vary a bit per home and condo, with a studio unit paying less than a multibedroom, multibathroom home.

She said she doesnt anticipate significant resistance to the project.

It was a project that was supported by the community, she added.

For many of the property owners in the area, particularly those with condo complexes or homes with ohana units, there is no land available to easily install septic systems to replace the large capacity cesspools currently being used. The Environmental Protection Agency ruled in 1999 that all large capacity cesspools essentially any cesspool serving more than one housing unit be closed by April 2005.

County officials reached a consent agreement with the EPA in November 2005 to close county owned cesspools by 2010. Cesspools were more common in Hawaii than any other state.

Operating under that mandate, Hawaii County took on two major large capacity cesspool closure projects in the last few years, including one in the private Queen Liliuokalani subdivision in which nearly 20 such cesspools were closed in 2010. The county owned those cesspools.

In 2010, South Kona Councilwoman Brenda Ford proposed extending sewer lines mauka of Alii Drive. She sent that project, and about two dozen more, to federal agencies to see if any funding existed for them. At the time, no agencies were interested, she said.

That same year, the EPA began a disciplinary proceeding against one condo complex owner, Jose Jazmin, for failing to replace his cesspool. Jazmin told West Hawaii Today in 2011 that he had attempted to get the county to extend sewer lines to the subdivision, without success. He also questioned why his buildings were being cited for cesspool violations, but his neighbors were not.

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PanARMENIAN.Net - Once an Armenian church, a historical construction in the eastern province of Van had been converted into a hayloft after serving as a school for some time, Hurriyet Daily News reports.

Nevertheless, the residents of Korlu village (30 kilometers from Van), who fill the facility with hay, grass, cowpat and wood, have personally appealed to authorities to renovate it.

Considering the villagers request, Van Culture and Tourism Provincial Director Muzaffer Aktu said the renovation could be started soon.

The historical church had served as a primary school for five years when there was no school in the area 30 years ago. Thirty-five students were taught at the school, before it was abandoned and converted into a hayloft by villagers.

Villagers have attached a wooden door to the church, some parts of which are about to collapse, and tried to restore to prevent it from collapsing.

Tourists had come to the village to look at the church, but it was mostly neglected.

For us, the church has a particular value because we graduated from here when we did not have a school. Now it is used as a hayloft. We want officials to restore the church and use it for tourism, said villager Selim Gurban.

Aktu said he would give instructions to the Van Museum Directorate to learn about the churchs situation and whether it was suitable for restoration.

Work will start according to the report after it is made by museum officials. We will discuss the report with the Van Monuments Directorate and we will renovate it if that is ultimately decided [by the directorate], Aktu said.

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From 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. tonight and every Wednesday through April, the Estero United Methodist Church is offering a novel service to Southwest Florida residents: Drive-through prayer.

The idea behind drive-through prayer is to offer spiritual support to folks not attached to our church community, said the Rev. John Halley, 30, a recent transplant from Los Angeles whos been in his post for 10 weeks. Were on a visible part of U.S. 41, and this is one way to put ourselves out there and to give folks the opportunity to come by and receive the blessing of prayer.

Church member and lay leader Pam Sebby said no one is quite sure how the idea originated, but that it may have come from the Internet.

From what I understand, other churches have done it, so it may have filtered through the pipeline, she said. We did it a few years ago, but there was so much construction on U.S. 41 that we didnt feel safe. We started it back up in the first part of February, and well do it through April every year.

Halley said the drive-through prayer is simply a service, not an enticement to join the church that boasts about 1,100 members during season.

Its not a church-growth strategy for us; its really just an outreach to share Gods love with our community, he said.

Both Sebby and Halley said the success of the service varies from week to week.

Our group has been out there five weeks now and in terms of people stopping (to pray), we might get five or six one week, three another week; a couple weeks we didnt get anyone, Halley said.

Sebby said the most people she can remember stopping to pray is about eight, but that number doesnt cover the actual number of prayers offered.

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(03-12) 09:52 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Hundreds of Mission Bay apartment dwellers chased from their homes by a huge fire at a building under construction are fortunate to have homes to return to, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said Wednesday as firefighters put out hot spots and sought to determine whether welders caused the blaze.

"We're very lucky" that firefighters were able to contain the five-alarm blaze to the building that burned at Fourth and China Basin streets Tuesday, Lee said as firefighters sprayed water on the remains of the six-story, 80-foot-tall structure.

The fire broke out about 5 p.m. and quickly consumed the building, an apartment complex being built by Suffolk Construction Co. that was supposed to open late this year. Smoke that billowed thousands of feet into the air was visible around the Bay Area.

The cause of the fire is not known, though Lee, speaking at a news conference Wednesday morning after touring the site, said construction workers had been welding in the area where the fire is thought to have started.

"It appears that the fire started above ground," Lee said. "They were doing some welding. We don't know what occurred there. I'll be very patient to wait until the investigation is concluded by our Fire Department and by the contractors themselves."

Most of the workers had left for the day before the blaze began, and investigators suspect that the fire could have smoldered for some time before erupting, said Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White.

The chief said the fire had presented "unique challenges," because the building's sprinklers and other fire-suppression systems had not yet been installed. Half of the Fire Department's on-duty firefighters battled the blaze, she said.

"Our objective last night was to contain the fire to the building of origin," Hayes-White said. "Crews did a phenomenal job."

Lee added, "People will say the city responded well, and our Fire Department deserves some kudos on this."

Blowing embers did briefly ignite a small fire on the roof of a UCSF building about a block away. That fire was quickly put out by building maintenance workers.

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San Francisco --

A fast-moving fire that consumed a large apartment building under construction in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood burned into the night Tuesday, but firefighters were able to keep the blaze from spreading to nearby structures.

The five-alarm fire engulfed the building on Fourth Street near China Basin Street just before 5 p.m., sending black smoke thousands of feet into the sky. Scaffolding melted as chunks of the six-story, 80-foot-tall building fell away. Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White called it the city's largest blaze in several years.

Fire officials said the structure was likely to collapse.

"The open construction of the building allowed for rapid fire spread," said fire Capt. Matthew McNaughton, adding that investigators have not determined what started the blaze.

Nearby buildings were evacuated as more than 150 firefighters battled the flames, using about 90 fire trucks and other apparatuses. The roof of UCSF's Mission Bay research building, a block away, briefly caught fire, but it was quickly put out, McNaughton said.

One firefighter suffered minor burns, he said, but there were no other injuries.

The smoke "was like a huge mushroom cloud. It was as high as a plane," said Gary "Slim" Forte, 38, who was among a large crowd of locals watching the fire. "It looked like somebody blew a nuclear weapon."

Several dozen residents were evacuated from the Strata apartment building across Fourth Street from the construction site, and about 25 were gathered late Tuesday at an American Red Cross evacuation center at Pier 54.

Firefighters still had not contained the blaze by 10:15 p.m. McNaughton said he expected crews to remain on scene until the morning. "We have a center core that looks like a volcano," he said.

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