Letters to the Editor for Tuesday — January 20, 2004

• More pay for chief

• Letters say it all

• Drugs on campus

More pay for chief

I am asking that you give serious consideration to raising the salary of the Chief of Police in order to hire a qualified person. At a recent Christmas Party I met one of the Assistant Police Chiefs and a retired KPD officer. When I inquired of the Assistant Chief if he would accept the Chief’s position I was told “No” since it would mean a considerable salary decrease. The next day I called a few friends to get more information and found that this issue had been proposed but rejected by the County Counicl. Evidently the union gives support to the Police men and women but that help does not extend to the Chief.

Kaua’i needs the most qualified Police Chief. I won’t elaborate on why, as you understand the many reasons. Please do something about this. Mahalo.

Carol O’Donnell

Kapa’a

Letters say it all

Bravo for Juan Wilson’s letter to The Garden Island on Jan. 15th, 2004, and for the one from Edna Summers following that. They say it all. This island certainly doesn’t need another large scale development anywhere on any shore. Remember that there is power in the masses and if enough people voice their concern on this subject it may help save whole coastlines, that sacred and precious space we stand to lose forever in a relatively short period of time.

Make the county do their job. They owe it to us, the taxpayers who pay for those jobs otherwise Kauai will slowly keep losing her rural soul. Let’s see if we can make it last at least one generation more so our grandchildren can know what a real coastline is supposed to look like instead of what’s been done to almost every other shoreline on every other island in this once pristine State.

Quit messing with Mother Nature.

Kim Brown

Koloa Hi,

Drugs on campus

I’m a student at Waimea High School and I think that there are too much drugs and things like that in our school. Too much people in the school are doing drugs. Some people even do that kinds of things during school.

I think a way to stop it is to have more teachers over the campus. There are plenty teachers, but some don’t really care to do that sometimes. Still I think we should have more teachers on campus to watch out for that. Some teachers have to look in the bathrooms also, not only on the grass and in classrooms. I think that would help out the drug problem at our school.

I really don’t like to see anyone smoking at our school cause it’s giving us a bad name, and I don’t want a bad name from where I’ll graduate. That’s what I think will help.

Joshua B, student

Waimea High School