• Don’t touch the Wienermobile • Prudent people cut back • Make one big public park •Going nuts Don’t touch the Wienermobile Regarding the article about the Outdoor Circle’s complaint about the Wienermobile (“Group cites ad law in beef with
• Don’t touch the Wienermobile
• Prudent people cut back
• Make one big public park
•Going nuts
Don’t touch the Wienermobile
Regarding the article about the Outdoor Circle’s complaint about the Wienermobile (“Group cites ad law in beef with Wienermobile, Morning Briefing, July 24), I commend the Outdoor Circle for all their efforts in keeping billboards, signage, etc., out of Hawai‘i. However, they have over-stepped their bounds in dealing with the Wienermobile.
The Hawai‘i law states that it is unlawful to operate or park “… any vehicle or trailer carrying a vehicular advertising device for consideration or any other economic benefit if the vehicle or trailer is used primarily to display a vehicular advertising device.”
The Outdoor Circle sent a letter to Kraft Foods and asked that the Wienermobile never return to Hawai‘i.
Right after reading this article, I sat at a stoplight and saw a 40-foot container with Matson in giant letters; the next in line was a truck from Hopaco with a giant ad for Office Depot; and the next in line was a truck from Eskimo Candy with a giant ad on the side of the truck. That’s OK?
My recommendation to Kraft Foods would be to please return the Wienermobile to Hawai‘i and deliver one package of wieners to whatever store you’’re going to visit that day in order to satisfy the law.
This is the Wienermobile! Don’t mess with it!
Kris Van Dahm, Wailua
Prudent people cut back
Oh, if only that penny we pick up would cure our economic woes!
Seems that state employees feel they are entitled to maintain their standard of income despite the recession. They are calling for all state residents and visitors to pitch in more of their “pennies” to the general excise tax.
How will your proposed tax increase help construction workers, real estate agents, retirees living on diminished savings investments, car salesmen, and restaurant and tourist industry workers maintain their standards of income?
Taxes take away dollars that could have gone to local businesses. Prudent people cut back when faced with lean times.
It seems a selfish suggestion that we should be asked to pay close to 20 percent more in GET taxes to allow the state employees to continue their pre-recession living standard.
Luane McGowan, Princeville
Make one big public park
Black Pot is named after Tai Hook’s black frying pan that he used to fry fish which he shared with everyone.
Aloha, be happy, go to the beach and immerse yourselves in God’s most merciful ocean.
May all our sins be washed away and we emerge, spirits renewed, to carry on with a life full of aloha.
Henry Tai Hook gave us a ride from the airport to Hanalei in 1968 in the county rubbish truck. Henry has a lot of aloha. Spirits live forever, especially those spirits who radiate God’s loving light. If the owner of the Hanalei lot next to Black Pot has any aloha he would donate the land for a public park to be enjoyed by everyone.
We have played poor country cousins to Lingle and state government for way too long. Tax all the tourists and everyone making money to the max, keep the money on Kaua‘i and make all land from the ocean to the highway public domain to be enjoyed by everyone.
Big government, big bucks is not my kuleana. Whenever we put money before aloha we lose peace of mind. I feel like a beach — the tide comes in, the tide goes out and I am grateful for the gifts the ocean gives.
My point is all land from the ocean to the highway should be public park like Kapiolani park and Waikiki where we grew up. It’s a great environment for all to enjoy.
In 1968 after a beautiful morning surf session at Hanalei, my friend Jos said, “Enjoy it now Kawika because one of these days this place will be just like Newport Beach.” And so it is, prophesized by Pueo himself.
Kawika Moke, Kekaha
Going nuts
Some scientists say 150 people a year worldwide are killed by falling coconuts, making the coconut one of the most dangerous fruits in the world. It is recommended not to sunbathe under a coconut tree.
On the bright side, the palm provides enough nourishment to live off of and the tree provides natural cures for many ailments, shelter, entertainment and clothes. A recent study reported 360 contemporary uses for the tree of which half were food.
If stranded on a deserted island, the coconut palm would provide all one’s needs for survival.
The more popular uses include coconut water, coconut meat, coconut milk and coconut oil and is used as a major ingredient in many recipes.
We make baskets, sandals and hats; we paint the coconut; we can use the coconut shell as soup and salad bowls; use the shavings from machetes cleaning coconuts as spoons, ash trays, women’s bras, tiki huts; and the bark provides fine parchment paper for those special love letters.
The coconut tree provides jobs for local tree trimmers and state employees, and it also supports the tourism industry by selling painted coconut heads and coconut water at most major tourist events.
Although not native to Hawai‘i, as many of us believe, the coconut palm is a transplant brought here some 1,500 years ago by Polynesian settlers.
There is a Philippine proverb I heard through the “coconut wireless” that says it all about the coco palm: “He who plants a coconut tree, plants vessels and clothing, food and drink, a habitation for himself, and a heritage for his children.”
The next time you eat coconut cream pie, remember the coconut palm. Take a look — we have it made in the shade of the coconut tree.
James “Kimo” Rosen, Kapa‘a
