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. **************************** Ballard Family Mortuary 440 Ala Makani St., Kahului **************************** 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. **************************** Ballard Family Mortuary 440 Ala Makani St., Kahului **************************** ■ Obituaries are published by The Maui News as a paid ad. Obituaries must be submitted in writing, usually through a mortuary. Individuals may submit obituaries with proof of death. Fax 242-6389 or write to: Obituaries, The Maui News, 100 Mahalani St., Wailuku 96793. Include a contact name and daytime phone number. For more information, call 242-6333. Wailuku Elementary was one of 13 schools in the county to reach Annual Yearly Progress targets. Continued from Page A1 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 Trial Continued from Page A1 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:[email protected] Funeral Service date July 24, 2010 In Memoriam Notices are a way for families to write their own remembrances of their loved ones and to announce funeral services. For more information, call The Maui News Classified Advertising Department at 242-6333 The Maui News MATTHEW THAYER photo 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. ■ Ilima Loomis can be reached at [email protected]. ■ Lila Fujimoto can be reached at [email protected]. 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 ■ Money Matters / Stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 3.70 to close at 10,366.72 on Wednesday. A 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. ■ Scene / Backstage. Jacqui Sherwood plays character Julia Sullivan in Maui OnStage’s “The Wedding Singer,” in which character Glen Guglia also appears. ■ The Maui News wants to promptly correct errors in fact or make clarifications on information appearing in the newspaper. To report an error or clarification, please call 242-6343 or send e-mail to [email protected].