• Hospital experience unforgettable • Adding 2 cents to letters • Youth symphony delighted • Kaua‘i’s not the only place with issues • Who are your trusting with your life? Hospital experience unforgettable I would like to echo Jane Winters’
• Hospital experience unforgettable
• Adding 2 cents to letters
• Youth symphony delighted
• Kaua‘i’s not the only place with issues
• Who are your trusting with your life?
Hospital experience unforgettable
I would like to echo Jane Winters’ letter praising the Wilcox Memorial Hospital staff as I feel exactly the same. I went in for surgery last week, and was treated by the finest nurses, doctors and anesthesiologists I have ever encountered. On Feb. 15, same day surgery, I want to personally thank Dr. Littler, my nurses, especially Carol, and my nurse who dealt with my morphine reaction, and my anesthesiologist, and nurse, Ralph(?). Please forgive me if I have the names fuzzy, I wasn’t as clear as usual. Their professional demeanor, clear communications, kindness and prayers made my experience an unforgettable one, in the most positive way. We have practitioners on Kaua‘i that we can be very confident and proud of.
Elen Verzosa
Kapa‘a
Adding 2 cents to letters
Regarding the letter “Stow Mainland attitude” by Royden Orsatelli, I say Amen to dat!
Mainlanders, you might not appreciate multi-color marriage. But this what we do in Hawai‘i. So wipe off the disgusting look off your faces when you are here and observed an multi-color couple walk by. And when you see us locals in areas where you are heavily populated, stop giving us the look of we (the locals) don’t belong. We are born and raised here, and we, as well as yourselves, belong.
Now to the letter “Give 3 KPD officers a second chance” by Bob Clemmons. What part of “they were trained and told to uphold the law” don’t you understand? They stole from you, me and the county. Friends like that we don’t need.
Howard Tolbe
‘Ele‘ele
Youth symphony delighted
This is to say “mahalo” to the Honolulu Youth Symphony and their conductor, Henry Miyamura, who presented a free concert at the Kaua‘i War Memorial Convention Hall on Monday, Feb. 18.
What a gift it was to be able to hear and see these 88 extremely talented young people perform some very difficult music so beautifully.
To Donny Albrecht, the only representative from Kaua‘i who is a part of this elite group, I want you to know that we are so proud of you. These young people — all high school age — must audition each year for their spot in the orchestra. The competition is fierce.
You make us proud.
Dolores Dugan
Lihu‘e
Kaua‘i’s not the only place with issues
Regarding upset locals complaining about the Californication of Kaua‘i …
First off, we have a lovely coastal path here in Santa Cruz where dogs are very welcome. I know of other paths in Half Moon Bay and San Jose where dog walking seems to be the main activity. Banning dogs from walking paths seems to be the exclusive domain of Kaua‘i and appears highly irregular to me and perhaps without precedent.
Secondly, locals complaining about Mainlanders coming to Kaua‘i and trying to change Kaua‘i do have a point, which is why I would advise potential newcomers to seriously consider a place like Princeville, where farm animals and barking dogs are simply not tolerated. Maybe angry locals could yell “go to Princeville!” instead of “go back to the Mainland!”
This sort of thing happens on the Mainland as well — it’s called gentrification. Ghetto dwellers are pushed out to make way for urban renewal.
I myself have experienced legions of hispanic illegal aliens have invading my home town, state and country.
So you see, people telling me I don’t belong somewhere is really nothing new to me.
T.L. Cameron
Boulder Creek, Calif.
Who are your trusting with your life?
I read about go! pilots falling asleep on their way to Hilo at 9:30 in the morning and say, “Oh no, there must be some medical explanation.”
Then I remember last May, when I was going to my friend’s retirement party in Phoenix, Ariz. I found this great US Air flight late Friday night that would get me there for the Saturday banquet and back on Sunday. But after waiting in Lihu‘e for a really long time, an airline official showed up to say that the flight would not go because the cabin crew was missing in a snorkeling (he said scuba) accident.
It turns out that the crew had been snorkeling at Ke‘e Beach, unguarded at the north end of the island, and the pilot managed to come ashore two miles west and hiked himself out on the Kalalau Trail. The first officer’s body washed up five miles west the next day.
At first I felt terrible about the loss of life. And then I started thinking: These guys were snorkeling in a remote off-limits place and then were going to fly me overnight across the Pacific? Who am I entrusting my life to anyway?
Katherine Jensen
Ele’ele.
