Cattle company gets $300K for expansion needs ADVERTISING Cattle company gets $300K for expansion needs LIHUE, Kauai (AP) — An effort to promote more local beef production and reduce the state’s reliance on imported meats has received a six-figure investment
Cattle company gets $300K for expansion needs
LIHUE, Kauai (AP) — An effort to promote more local beef production and reduce the state’s reliance on imported meats has received a six-figure investment from a Hawaii-based venture capital fund.
EEx Fund One LLC, which supports Energy Excelerator programs, has invested $300,000 in Kunoa Cattle Company.
The cattle company recently purchased and upgraded Oahu’s only slaughterhouse with the goal of expanding Hawaii’s market for locally produced beef.
At the state-owned facility, the company has provided enhanced processing of its own livestock and livestock from other producers throughout the state who are selling under their own individual local meat brands.
About 10,000 animals a year can be processed at the slaughterhouse, said Kunoa partner Jack Beuttell.
EEx Fund One LLC invests in companies that have participated in Energy Excelerator programs. Kunoa Cattle Company was selected in 2015 to participate in a program that provided seed funding and introductions to customers, investors and other strategic partners.
California couple among victims
of rat lungworm
MAUI (AP) — Two newlyweds from California are among the latest victims of rat lungworm disease.
Ben Manilla, 64, and his wife, Eliza Lape, 57, think they contracted the disease during their two-week honeymoon in the Hana area of Maui earlier this year
The disease is a condition in which parasitic worm larvae infect people’s brains. The disease is passed to humans through unwashed produce or contaminated animals. It can be life threatening.
Lape said she started experiencing symptoms after the couple returned home to San Francisco.
Manilla’s symptoms manifested soon after. Manilla spent a month in ICU and remains in the hospital undergoing intensive rehabilitation. He’s already had several operations, two pneumonias, a blood clot and kidney complications, he said.
The state Department of Health confirmed six cases of rat lungworm disease tied to Maui this year. There are three other cases on the Big Island and DOH officials are investigating four possible cases.
The numbers are based on information gathered from emergency rooms and other hospital visits and experts fear the problem might be underreported.
Police: Man admits killing his mother
HONOLULU (AP) — A man was arrested after human remains were discovered in his apartment in Waikiki.
Police say early indications were that the body was that of the suspect’s mother, who has been dead a year.
Authorities say the man called dispatchers saying he was suicidal and that he killed his mother.
The 26-year-old was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder.
Hawaii asks full court to hear travel ban appeal
HONOLULU (AP) — Attorneys representing Hawaii in the state’s challenge to President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban are asking that the full panel of a federal appeals court hear the case.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear the case May 15.
Hawaii’s request filed Tuesday notes that the full 15-judge panel of another federal appeals court will hear a similar case challenging the travel ban.
Appeals typically are heard first by a three-judge panel before they are possibly examined by the full panel. Hawaii argues the case involves a “question of exceptional importance.”
The Trump administration is appealing a Hawaii federal judge’s ruling blocking the government from suspending new visas for people from six Muslim-majority countries and halting the U.S. refugee program.
