Letters for Sunday — July 04, 2004

• Bible and women

• Mickens is right

Bible and women

Your paper printed a letter in which a writer claims that others are confused and ill-informed about gay marriage.

The writer should please enlighten us, and please give us the chapter and verse where the writer claims the Bible upholds a woman not being able to vote or own any property. I would really like to know. If someone is going to claim that something is in the Bible, please give the chapter and verse to back it up.

Peter Saker

Lihu‘e

Mickens is right

Mr. Mickens, “Gateway Project” TGI Monday 6-26-04, hit the nail square on the head. It’s obvious these projects on our beautiful island, either built by volunteers or paid for by state/federal funds, cannot be maintained by volunteers. We’re to learn from history not repeat it. This growth allowed by the administration should be and must be maenad by other than volunteers. This maintenance should be funded either to be done by the county or by the private sector. But, by all means volunteer support should be encouraged.

Certainly, some of our bench walkers pick-up trash along their walk. They put this trash in bags, but have nowhere to deposit these bags at dumpsters. Trash cans get overfilled very fast so more trash cans are really no the answer; a help yes. Sometimes these volunteers pick-up so many bags of trash they cannot carry them off the beach. They put this trash in a central location on the beach then call the County for help, pick-up refuses, regardless of the County’s reason/excuse it’s still the County.

It’s time for the administration to show us Kauaians and our visitors that they care! The tourist bureau, using out tax money, advertises Kaua‘i as a showcase of beauty. Some of that tax money needs to go back to this County to help keep Kaua‘i beautiful.

Maintain what we have!! The administration, current an future, needs to heed what Mr. Mickens closing paragraph stated.

Bob Moldovan

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