• Cooking laws • Beach cleaning Cooking laws Statewide laws that might make sense to government leaders sitting in an air conditioned office in downtown Honolulu, sometimes appear not to thought out in the real world when they are applied
• Cooking laws
• Beach cleaning
Cooking laws
Statewide laws that might make sense to government leaders sitting in an air conditioned office in downtown Honolulu, sometimes appear not to thought out in the real world when they are applied to rural islands like Kaua‘i.
The County Council is currently working on bringing county ordinances up to snuff with state fire regulations. Some changes might force huli huli fundraisers to call up the fire station before they light up the charcoal fires that cook the rows of chickens. Even roasting a pig might get you in trouble, if you don’t first check in with the fire department.
It’s easy to see how these kinds of cooking could be a problem if you were living in a tightly packed neighborhood in Honolulu – but in Waimea or Hanalei they are almost laughable.
That the council is talking about this bill is another sign that our cherished rural lifestyle might be taking another hit as more “civilized” rules overshadow practices that go back to the open fires used by the first Polynesians to settle Kaua‘i.
Common sense should rule in this case. Let’s keep Kaua‘i, Kaua‘i.
Beach cleaning
About 200 eighth graders from Kapa‘a Middle School did many good deeds this week when they picked up rubbish off the white sand beach between the beach fronting the Radission Kauai and the one adjacent to the Kamalani Bridge site.
The idea was to do a good deed that would help someone else to improve not just one person’s life, but the entire community.
Congratulations to the teachers who came up with this idea and put the effort into getting dozens of students to the beach, and to the students who put the labor into the effort.
It’s good news to hear about students doing something positive, rather than hearing about adolescent drug use and other serious problems that beset our high schools.
The teamwork involved in working together is another positive aspect. With the world of TV and videogames, unfortunately the camaraderie of the past – with neighborhood games of hide and seek, sandlot baseball and other sports bringing together neighborhood kids – isn’t so common anymore. Having a day together doing something out of the ordinary for the good of all brings back some of this lost spirit.
