•Thanks, Lydgate Park clean-up volunteers •What is the problem? •Coming out of the closet •Lessons learned •In remembrance Thanks, Lydgate Park clean-up volunteers Many thanks to all the wonderful men, women and children — locals, kama‘aina and visitors — who
•Thanks, Lydgate Park clean-up volunteers
•What is the problem?
•Coming out of the closet
•Lessons learned
•In remembrance
Thanks, Lydgate Park clean-up volunteers
Many thanks to all the wonderful men, women and children — locals, kama‘aina and visitors — who helped clean the beach at the Lydgate ponds Saturday morning.
The number of people who came and their enthusiasm and hard work were amazing. The brother and sister team who worked in the pond bringing sticks out before they reached shore and the crew working out on the rocks saved us a lot of work in the future. Also, thank you to the chainsaw crew who cut the large logs into manageable size.
Once we’d filled the dumpster with wood (and it was a big dumpster), Tom Noyes organized the pick-up brigade to take tarps full of wood to the green waste area. Using tarps is a very efficient way to move large quantities of wood with minimum handling. Thanks, Tom! And thanks to all of you who let us use your pick-ups, which made the job go much faster.
I also want to thank John Lydgate, The Garden Island and Dennis Fujimoto for the front page article showing the condition of the beach and asking for the community’s help. We have you to thank for all the new faces we saw on Saturday morning.
Again, I want to thank everyone who worked so hard and so cheerfully to move an awful lot of wood and make the beach as beautiful as it deserves to be. Many visitors thanked me as I was working and I want to pass those thanks along to all of you, too.
Finally, please come and join our crew any Saturday morning you can spare. You were all such great people that I would very much enjoy getting to know you better.
Christine Queen, Kapa’a
What is the problem?
To Director Renae Hamilton and members of the Board of Directors of the Kauai YWCA, a big thank you for giving your voice against stigma of all kinds, including same-sex civil unions (“YWCA supports civil rights,” Forum, March 20).
Your thoughts are those many of us share but have not expressed.
Yes, I too ask, “what is the problem?” What are we so worried about?
Maria Snyder, Kapa‘a
Coming out of the closet
In response to the Friday article “God-less ‘congregation’ planned,” on the Religion page of The Garden Island, if there are others who are interested in forming a god-less ‘congregation’, I would be happy to be a part.
To those who may be interested, I suggest you find and read “The Philosophy of Humanism” by Corliss Lamont. Maybe pick up a copy of the Humanist magazine. I have copies I will be happy to share.
This wonderful group of non-believers are coming out of the closet. In hordes, I hope. The problem, I think, has always been we have had no way to meet and talk with each other. Now, perhaps, that will change. Peace and love.
Bettejo Dux, Kalaheo
Lessons learned
The Superferry issue has evolved to the next crucial level.
As a transportation system, the opportunity now arises to consider how effective measures can be attained to meet the concerns on environmental impacts, carrying capacities of each island, and the extent to which each island is prepared, ready, and willing to establish the coping mechanisms that come with increased traffic, vehicles, and demands for services and amenities.
To merely open the floodgates to increasing numbers of importations (visitors, vehicles and an infinite variety of products) should not merely happen if we are unprepared to manage and accommodate more facilities, more cars on our roads and more trash in our dump.
Alternative choices to the ways in which we wish to travel are wonderful to have. In the process of establishing those choices, however, we have learned these lessons: we must be fair, prudent and mindful of the consequences of our actions.
Jose Bulatao Jr., Kekaha
In remembrance
Three years have passed since eight precious souls were lost due to the Ka Loko Dam breaching. Their memories are still fresh to those of us who knew and loved them.
We would like to thank the person or persons who placed the prayer flags on Kuhio Highway at Wailapa Stream in remembrance of this tragic event and loss of family and friends. Those of us directly affected are reminded daily of our losses and I hope that the good citizens and officials of the county and state have not allowed time to distract them from the lessons learned.
Our prayers go out to the families that lost loved ones and we hope that their loss will not be in vain.
Robert and Michelle Wolaver, Kilauea
