Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni has been recognized for its excellent food and lodging facilities, the base announced.

The Crossroads Mall, Club Iwakuni and the Temporary Lodging Facility will receive a Marine Corps Food and Hospitality Excellence Award for fiscal year 2007 from Marine Corps Community Services.

The award recognizes "non-appropriated facilities that have achieved the highest level of excellence" during the year and will be presented Sept. 9 at Camp Pendleton, Calif., base officials said. The dining establishment Club Iwakuni has won the award five times.

U.S. destroyer arrives in Tonga for port visitThe guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain arrived in Nuku‘alofa, Tonga, Wednesday for a port visit to participate in activities celebrating the coronation of King George Tupou V.

Events were to include royal ceremonies, military parades and formal social events with royalty, the Tongan Defense Service, and Australian and French visiting navies, according to a news release.

Iwakuni civilian held in alleged hit-and-run incidentA Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni civilian was arrested Thursday on suspicion of driving into a pedestrian and leaving the scene, Iwakuni police said Friday.

Benjamin E. Kendall, 29, hit a 63-year-old man from behind around 5:45 a.m. in Kusunoki-cho, near Kendall’s off-base residence, a police spokesman said.

Kendall denied the allegation, according to police, and remained in police custody Friday.

Police said Kendall drove from the scene of the accident and neglected his responsibility to help the man, who received bruises on his back and left elbow, police said.

Police said the man remembered the car license plate number, and officers arrested Kendall after finding his car parked near his off-base residence.

Civilian in South Korea sentenced for briberyA former Far East District employee convicted of accepting more than $70,000 in bribes has been sentenced to 10 months in prison, but his sentence was suspended for two years, Pyeongtaek chief prosecutor Lee Sang-yong said Friday.

Yang Hwa-seok was accused in February of accepting the bribes from a South Korean construction company last year in connection with the expansion of Camp Humphreys.

Lee said Friday that the prosecutor’s office decided to release the information this week at Stripes’ request because it was in the public interest.

The office had previously declined to comment on Yang’s sentence.

Yang did not appeal the sentence, Lee said.

Yongsan bowling lanes resurfacedYONGSAN GARRISON, South Korea — The Yongsan Lanes bowling center will be closed through Saturday for a lane resurfacing project.

For more information, call DSN 723-7830.

Memorial for Yongsan music directorYONGSAN GARRISON, South Korea — A memorial service for Yongsan Garrison’s former music and theater program director will be held at 4 p.m. Monday at the Memorial Chapel.

John M. Wood III, a longtime garrison employee who recently directed "Kiss Me Kate" at Yongsan, died July 23.

For more information, call DSN 738-3009.

Yongsan athletes can take physicalsYONGSAN GARRISON, South Korea — Student athletes still have time to complete their sports physicals.

Students can sign up for a physical at the Brian Allgood Community Hospital at Yongsan Garrison on Aug. 14, 21 and 28.

Athletes should coordinate with their high school sports teams to receive physicals on those dates.