• Remembering Roy • Traditional values • Ethanol bill • Visitor’s complaint Remembering Roy I was an employee of Roy Takatsuki between 1993-1996. I have been a proud friend ever after. His friendships were meaningful and made prevailing differences in
• Remembering Roy
• Traditional values
• Ethanol bill
• Visitor’s complaint
Remembering Roy
I was an employee of Roy Takatsuki between 1993-1996. I have been a proud friend ever after. His friendships were meaningful and made prevailing differences in many lives. To say he was *generous to a fault* is far too easy a description.
As an employer, Roy commanded integrity and heartfelt servitude. Yet, at the same time he promoted safety training, provided ongoing professional education, updated tools and equiptment and all the while made sure our families were well cared for. He instilled a sense of professionalism that I carry to this day.
The honor of working for Roy Takatsuki was that he could not be be intimidated and thus met every challenge confronting him with dignity. So I am comforted by the knowledge that he would not submit to pity when he met his ultimate challenge.
Bill Hartsell
Kekaha
Traditional values
I keep thinking about a letter written not too long ago by a Fred Wells of Kapa‘a. In it he warns against a movement that he says is underway in the nation’s capitol to “add to the American Constitution a law which…represents ‘traditional marriage?”
Mr. Wells also points out that “Marriage did not become an institution in the Christian church until the ninth century.?” By my reckoning that was about twelve centuries ago.
That means the widely accepted rite of marriage between a woman and man has been observed for at least 1,200 years.
Please tell the people of Kaua‘i, Mr. Wells, how many more centuries you estimate it will take before the marriage between a lovely bride and handsome groom can be considered a tradition.
C.M. Ashman
Kennewick, WA
Ethanol bill
Governor Lingle, displaying true Republican form, has taken a swipe at Kaua‘i’s jobs, economy, businesses and environment by vetoing the Ethanol Bill.
Gay & Robinson Sugar Company in Kaumakani was depending upon the passage of the Ethanol Bill for its future survivability, and along with it, the jobs of hundreds of workers. Without that bill, much is in doubt.
Further, ethanol would have provided some relief at the gas pumps for all of Kaua‘i.
The veto of the Ethanol Bill further underscores Lingle’s subservience to big oil.
And then she has the audicity to show up on our island to ask for campaign money.
Martin Rice
Kapa‘a
Visitor’s complaint
People, like Dr. Wood, who obviously came here thinking these islands are dependent on their dollars, an attitude which developed in their minds in this regard, arrive here with that idea and high expectations of being treated like royalty making slaves of our people, using words such as economy, struggling, life’s blood, and alluding overall need to kowtow to this type of maggot tourist, and then, they are incensed when put in their place with responses so appropriately relayed by an airport guard whom, I suspect, sees this sort of visitor more as the norm these days. I can only wonder about “the issue over which the conflict arose is irrelevant” as the source which stimulated the happening to begin with. I think mother nature needs to step in like ‘Iwa and ‘Iniki did releasing more roosters to the wild and putting everyone on the same page.
D. Kekaualua
Wailua Homesteads
