• Own daughter gets Dear Abby letter • To read drainage plan, go to library • Fishing, ocean interests plot strategy Own daughter gets Dear Abby letter There’s more to Dear Abby than meets the eye. In a column that will
• Own daughter gets Dear Abby letter • To read drainage plan, go to library • Fishing, ocean interests plot strategy
Own daughter gets Dear Abby letter
There’s more to Dear Abby than meets the eye.
In a column that will appear this week in The Garden Island and other newspapers nationwide that publish the venerable advice columnist, Pauline Phillips (aka Abigail Van Buren) will publicly acknowledge her longtime partnership with her daughter, Jeanne Phillips.
Since she was 14, Jeanne Phillips has worked with her mother in producing the column. The executive editor since 1980, she has also helped co-write the column.
The revelation of her daughter’s role is not an indication that she plans to stop writing the column, according to Phillips (Van Buren).
“I will continue to work on this column until my Maker calls me home,” she writes in the column announcing her daughter’s participation.
To read drainage plan, go to library
Copies of Kaua’i County’s stormwater and drainage management plan can be reviewed at public libraries and the county Public Works Department office.
The plan, which is being updated for the first time in nearly 30 years, sets methods of monitoring and managing water draining from residential, commercial and industrial property into streams, rivers and coastal regions.
Copies of the document are available to the public at the Waimea, Hanapepe, Koloa, Lihu’e, Kapa’a and Princeville branches of Hawai’i State Public Libraries, and at the Public Works office at 4444 Rice St. in Lihu’e.
Public comments on the plan can be made during a meeting Thursday at 7 p.m. at Kaua’i War Memorial Convention Hall.
Fishing, ocean interests plot strategy
Fishing interests will gear up for the next legislative session when they meet next month in Honolulu.
The second annual Hawai’i Fisheries/Ocean Users Forum, slated for the Ala Moana Hotel, is the time fishermen, recreational ocean users, lifeguards, tour boat operators, Native Hawaiians and environmentalists plot strategy for presenting marine issues to the Legislature.
“We are trying to reach a political, as well as biological consensus on how our near-shore ocean should be managed,” said Mike Markrich, chairman of Malama Na’la, a co-sponsor of the forum.
The state’s near-shore fish stocks that have dropped 85 percent in the past 100 years, and reefs damaged from over-use are among the conservation and management issues, Markrich said.
