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WEDNESDAY 21313 B7 Alaska Airlines effort means miles for Make-a-Wish Hawaii Star-Advertiser staff Alaska Airlines, which flies 20 percent of its routes to the islands, is donating 1 million miles to Make-a-Wish Hawaii and has asked the community to help raise 1 million more miles. The gift and new campaign were announced at a dinner Tuesday night hosted by Alaska Airlines' board of directors and senior executives. Nearly 300 of Hawaii's government, tourism, business and community leaders attended the event, held at the Royal Hawaiian. Make-a-Wish Hawaii helps grant the wishes of local children with life-threatening medical conditions. As part of the new partner ship with the nonprofit, the Seattle-based airline also will donate 100 miles to Make-a-Wish for every Hawaii resident who registers for a new Mileage Plan account during 2013, up to 1 million additional miles.

To sign up for the Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan, Hawaii residents can visit www.alaskaair.com and click on the Mileage Plan link in the right corner of the home page. "Alaska Airlines and our employees have been strong supporters of Make-a-Wish for nearly three decades, and we're delighted to extend our involvement here in the islands to support Hawaii keiki facing life-threatening illness with this gift of 1 million miles," said Joe Sprague, the carrier's vice president of marketing. Of the 80 wishes Make-a-Wish Hawaii aims to grant this year, nearly 90 percent are travel-related, making air transportation vital to the organization's mission. Sprague estimates that each 1-million-mile donation could help another 25 Hawaii "wish children" and their families fly to their destination. "Donating airline miles goes a long way to helping us grant children's wishes and giving them and their families a much-deserved reprieve from the medical challenges they face every day," said Siana Austin Hunt, president and CEO of Make-a-Wish Hawaii.

MONEY KUHIO: Vote on permit set for March 19 Cox's 6 isle radio stations to be sold in 6-market deal By Erika Engle erikastaradvertiser.com Continued from B5 developer and condotel unit buyers win and the broader Waikiki community loses. PACREP intends to sell the hotel units to investors at prices averaging more than $654,000. Walt Powers said the Trump International Hotel and Tower Waikiki Beach Walk condotel is an example complying with the building orientation described in the district guidelines. He called 2121 Kuhio a "Waikiki tombstone." Powers and others cautioned that if 2121 Kuhio's design is approved, it would set a precedent and give future developers a green light to orient the long axis of buildings parallel to the mountains and ocean. "We think this makes a complete mockery of the Waikiki Special District guidelines," said Louis Erteschik, president of the Waikiki Residents Association and vice chairman of the Waikiki Neighborhood Board.

Craig Stevens pointed out that a prior owner of the same property proposed a tower and cited the Waikiki design guidelines as a reason for positioning that tower perpendicular to the orientation of 2121 Kuhio. Kusao Kurahashi a local planning firm representing PACREP and the property's prior owner, has previously said that the prior plan failed to consider significant street-view corridors in the Waikiki design guidelines. The only public testimony in favor of the building's proposed orientation Tuesday was from Kika Bukoski, executive director of the Hawaii Building and Construction Trades Council. "The guidelines are just that they are guidelines," he said. "They are not mandates." A decision on the permit sought for 2121 Kuhio is scheduled to be made March 19 by the director of DPP.

If the permit is granted, PACREP anticipates starting construction in June and taking two years to complete the project. NOW HEAR THIS The six Honolulu stations being sold by Cox Media Group of Atlanta to Summit-Media of Birmingham, KRTR-FM 96.3 KCCN-FM 100.3 KPHW-FM 104.3 KINE-FM 105.1 KRTR-AM 650 KKNE-AM 940 president and general manager. "To be purchased by a company comprised of former Cox Media group managers ensures that operations will not be interrupted during the transition and, most importantly, staff will remain in place. It also ushers in a new level of local decision making," she said. Cox Radio Hawaii has 51 employees, "and we are still hiring," Milburn said.

Formats of the stations will remain unchanged for the foreseeable future. Cox entered the Hawaii radio market in 1999 with the $16 million purchase of KRTR-FM 96.3, KXME-FM 104.3 and KGMZ-FM 107.9AM 1460. Cox announced a $17.8 million deal to buy KCCN-AM-FM 100.3AM 1420 and KINE-FM 105.1 in January 2000 and, due to regulatory restrictions, simultaneously announced the sale of KGMZ-FM to another company. Some of the stations' call letters have since changed. Atlanta-based Cox Media Group will sell its six Honolulu radio stations to SummitMedia for an undisclosed price as part of two deals for more than two dozen radio stations in six U.S.

markets. The stations, licensed to CMC unit Cox Radio have been on the block since the July announcement that CMC intended to realign its broadcast holdings. Birmingham, SummitMedia is led by David DuBose, currently Cox's market manager in that area. Eight Birmingham stations also are part of the purchase, as are two stations in Greenville, S.C.; four stations in Louisville, Ky; and four stations in Richmond, Va. The other deal, for stations in southern Connecticut, is between Cox and Connecticut-based Connoisseur Media.

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