• Westside Aloha • Beach trash • Road deaths and Iraq Westside Aloha As fairly recent (less than two years) residents of Kaua‘i, we would like to salute our neighbors and members of the community here for their Spirit of
• Westside Aloha
• Beach trash
• Road deaths and Iraq
Westside Aloha
As fairly recent (less than two years) residents of Kaua‘i, we would like to salute our neighbors and members of the community here for their Spirit of Aloha.
Hardly a day goes by that we don’t receive a gift of fresh fruit or vegetables — a box waiting outside the door, a bag handed to us during the day. People drop in to say hello, wave at one another on the street, and even teenagers say hi when walking by or upon us meeting them fishing on the beach. All this reminds us of a more innocent time when we were growing up.
Sure, we have our social and cultural differences that need to be overcome, but we hope this beautiful place always remains one of openness and caring, that the Spirit of Aloha will always rule.
Carol Baldwin
Efrain Guillen
Kekaha
Beach trash
I hope you had a great day at the beach. The beer cans, bottles and pallets burned on the beach from Second Ditch in Kekaha to Kokole Point indicate that a lot of people enjoyed the sand, surf and fresh air.
Were you too inebriated to pick up your trash? Every time I go to the beach I see more bottles, cans, foam meat trays, pampers and cigarette butts strewn along that beautiful stretch of sand. Take home your trash. Littering is a criminal act done by ignorant, uncaring slobs.
“Slobs,” an obnoxious, crude and slovenly person according to the American Heritage Dictionary.
We love Kaua‘i, keep it clean.
Malama Aina. God gave us a beautiful Garden Island to live on. Take care of it. Caring comes from within. It is a sign of love, respect and concern.
The beach is not the dump. Your trash belongs in the landfill. Recycle cans and bottles.
David C. Maki
Kekaha
Road deaths and Iraq
I am pleasantly surprised at the number of letters that come from schools on Kaua‘i, particularly Waimea High School. And, I’m reflecting on a recent letter expressing the military deaths in Iraq. These young people are the instruments of our potential greatness, and the solutions to our problems for the future.
It’s important that we keep the “price of war” in mind and with the total death toll in Iraq over 800. It, as any other cost of lives, is tragic. However, it must be kept in context. Compare these numbers with deaths due to domestic violence and other crimes like robbery, in any major city in this country over the last year. Our city, of Atlanta, beats that every year, and it’s not a big city by comparison. Where is the outrage on over 40,000 highway deaths each year? Are the deaths in Iraq more senseless than what we experience at home, or are we numb and it’s just not “sensational” or “political” enough?
This holiday weekend will add to that “death toll” , raise some comments, and then we’ll go on, “business as usual.” In fact, we’re getting so good, that we predict how many lives will be “snuffed out.” How would we react if each month there was a “prediction” published on how many military lives will be ended in Iraq?
These “young persons” can change it. We have to provide them with the “tools” to do so.
Iraq will end, this other, goes on and on.
Joe Polacky
Atlanta
