• Buffer zone needed • Smoking bill goes too far • Greatest show on Earth? Buffer zone needed Relating to pesticides — SB 3170 establishes a pesticide-free buffer zone around elementary schools and imposes a 72-hour written notice to all
• Buffer zone needed
• Smoking bill goes too far
• Greatest show on Earth?
Buffer zone needed
Relating to pesticides — SB 3170 establishes a pesticide-free buffer zone around elementary schools and imposes a 72-hour written notice to all schools in immediate area of spraying requirement:
Aloha Senators,
Greetings from Kaua‘i. Mahalo for hearing SB 3170. I testify in strong support of this bill, SB 3170 which establishes a pesticide-free buffer zone around elementary schools and imposes a 72-hour written notice to all schools in immediate area of spraying requirement.
My name is James Gerard Trujillo. I am a parent of a 7-year-old first-grader. Her mother and I do all we can to provide a safe and healthy environment. We trust that when she goes to school each day that the school staff also try to provide a safe and healthy environment in the classroom and on the playgrounds.
Please vote in favor of SB3170 and help to protect Hawai‘i’s school children from another industrial accident waiting to happen.
SB3170 will add additional protection for my daughter and her peers to prevent exposure to hazardous chemicals from accidental overspray during agricultural operations.
Modern agricultural operations often involve industrial practices, many of which developing children should not be exposed to, or impacted by, nor suffer from.
Mahalo Sen. Gary Hooser for sponsoring SB3170. I hope that the members of the committees will support SB 3170 and pass this bill on to the House for further consideration.
Mahalo again for your support of Hawai‘i’s schoolchildren and SB3170.
James Trujillo
Kapa‘a
Smoking bill goes too far
Kaua‘i People, your senator is running amuck with senseless, discriminatory legislation. Very shortly, our Web sites will be unveiling our “Sweep ‘em out/Keep ‘em in” columns to inform the 200,000 Hawai‘i smokers as per the lawmakers who support a common sense, business-wise platform, and those lawmakers opposing freedom of choice.
Sen. Gary Hooser is first on our Sweep ‘em out list. Last week he introduced and signed a bill banning smoking in all public housing (inside their own dwellings).
For over a year now our lobbying campaign has consistently provided every lawmaker with volumes of information/stats shooting holes in our opposition’s claim of the “killer dangers” of second-hand smoke.
We have also provided each one with un-skewed and undistorted facts and figures as per the ban damage to businesses, jobs, tourism and the economy.
Now thankfully, close to 40 lawmakers believe the ban went too far and a wrong must be righted with an adjustment, allowing a smoking exemption for the bars requesting one. (The fees for the yearly exemption will go toward a much needed public awareness campaign for organ donation in Hawai‘i).
However, there are still a handful of lawmakers refusing to even consider a slight compromise. Hooser leads the pack, as a totally clueless “lost cause.”
The fact that after all this time and effort on our parts to disseminate the truth on this issue, Hooser would even consider such an insane bill in indifference to a sizable portion of our population is troubling; making it even harder on those living in public housing by banning smoking is tyrannical oppression to the highest degree.
Let it be known, from here on until November, we will support any qualified candidate running against Hooser. Our constituency is 40,000 plus now, and growing by the week.
Some 20 percent of our supporters are non-smokers. Even they agree that this government has gone much too far. We will impact the next election. We welcome your support.
David Crowley,
Hawaii Smoker Alliance, Kane‘ohe, O‘ahu
Greatest show on Earth?
The National Football League would have the TV viewing public believe games are violent as demonstrated by the hard hits and physical exertion of its participants.
Taking into account the dancing in the endzone or look-at-me gyrations after a participant with glass studs in his ear lobes finally accomplishes the task for which he is paid seems more suitable to girls playing hopscotch.
The most active participant in this farce rarely sees six minutes of strenuous exercise in a three-and-a-half hour game. Most are moseying to and from the huddle or peacefully resting on a bench. It is similar to professional wrestling without as much action.
The power of marketing has elevated this kids’ game to a superhero status. My thoughts contradict the marketing ploy in that the players behave as undisciplined children.
When the players are interviewed, academia must cringe as the exploited product of their institution rambles on. Evidence, I suppose, that many athletes are only in the vincinty of educational processes while on campus.
As with professional wrestling, football is entertainment. Just don’t tell us that the game is the greatest show on earth.
Joel Whitley
Lihu‘e
