• Bless the nurses • 50th Anniversary Kaua‘i aloha • Unknown party designation not possible Bless the nurses This letter is long overdue and is based in reality on the aloha spirit of one particular nurse on one particular day.
• Bless the nurses
• 50th Anniversary Kaua‘i aloha
• Unknown party designation not possible
Bless the nurses
This letter is long overdue and is based in reality on the aloha spirit of one particular nurse on one particular day. It really shows how the nurses spirit lives in all of us on the island of Kaua‘i. There is a positive breath in the “letters to the editor” section that is frequently missing because we are often more negative in this column during discussions of daily life of Kaua‘i as well as the world.
I was injured in a hit-and-run moped accident off the road on the day after Thanksgiving not long after leaving work. I only know what the front of the car looked like celebrating after University of Hawaii’s big final win but I won’t know what the people who were inside looked like. I do know the spirit of one nurse who also had just gotten off work and came upon my scene.
Dana James and her boyfriend stopped to help me not long after I was hit, convinced me to call for help, stayed with me until the ambulance came and then took the caretaking aloha spirit to the maximum. They stood my moped up, checked it out, gathered up my helmet pieces (yes, pieces for all of you who won’t wear helmets), and took my Honda to my good neighbor, Jan Underhill who is also a nurse, with my house keys and valuables. I really did not even think of the fact that my purse, keys, and ID were just there at the roadside for anyone to take until the following day. Dana visited, Jan brought me some belongings, and many, many of the nurses who I barely know came to see how I was, expressing their songs of care.
But I truly did not need to worry about my house or my life because these caretaking souls took care of me. The nurses on Kaua‘i care for our ‘ohana every day and every night. I was just truly blessed to have been able to receive some of their spirit to get through a rough time. Other nurses brought food, cleaned my house and checked on me for months. I thank, from the bottom of my soul, for all the nurses on our most beautiful island for sharing their spirits with all of us.
For we are truly blessed to live Kaua‘i.
Karen Schade
Puhi
50th Anniversary Kaua‘i aloha
I had just finished doing a 50th renewal wedding for Ed and Joyce Uchtman at Tunnel Beach. An unknown Hawaiian boy about 8 years of age, who had been looking for shells, spontaneously headed toward the couple’s son and gave him a perfectly formed coral heart for the wedding couple.
Aloha is Kaua‘i’s ‘ohana.
Ray Holmes
Kapa‘a
Unknown party designation not possible
I would like to respond to the letter “Voters wanted no party designation,” Letters, April 25.
The letter writer seems to believe that since we have adopted a system whereby the voter does not know which political affiliation each candidate adheres to, the candidate therefore denies any affiliation to his or her chosen political party even though they have been a part of said political party most of their lives.
That party’s values and ethics are what drew them into it in the first place.
Is the writer hopeful or naive?
If he thinks Mayor Bryan Baptiste is non-partisan, it would be the latter of the two.
Also, the letter writer seems to think that none of society’s problems can be blamed on the person who was hired by the people to not only keep things going well, but to hopefully make things even better.
The opposite has happened.
If you did this in your workplace, would you be mindlessly applauded, or fired in disgrace?
The writer mentions that in 1996, we decided to omit party designation in order to bring the parties together and work without influence.
This was two years after lifelong Republican Maryann Kusaka became mayor of Kaua‘i.
And now many voters do not know which party affiliation each political candidate is.
I agree with the letter writer in that we should vote for a person based on their integrity.
But my question to him is, “At which point do you notice that an entire party seems to have little real integrity?”
Dennis Chaquette
Kapa‘a
