LIHU‘E — Community activist Richard Diamond (legal name Richard Moll) was seriously injured in a one-car automobile accident late Sunday night in Wailua Homesteads. He was flown to Queen’s Medical Center on O‘ahu early Monday morning. Diamond, 63, is in
LIHU‘E — Community activist Richard Diamond (legal name Richard Moll) was seriously injured in a one-car automobile accident late Sunday night in Wailua Homesteads. He was flown to Queen’s Medical Center on O‘ahu early Monday morning.
Diamond, 63, is in stable condition, according to a county news release.
According to a preliminary report, Diamond was westbound on Olohena Road near mile-marker 2 at around 11:30 p.m. Sunday when he crossed the center line and crashed into a telephone pole, the release states.
He is the author of the daily e-mail blast known as the Kaua‘i Museletter, which reaches about 2,000 computers.
In what he said will be his last dispatch for about a week while he is treated in Honolulu, Diamond said his injuries are serious but not life-threatening.
“It is my hope and prayer that I will be able to continue my work with the Muse Newsletter in one week,” he wrote in his Kaua‘i Museletter on Monday.
“The intention of these communications is to serve the community of Kaua‘i while contributing to our Awakening,” he writes in the Kaua‘i Museletter, subtitled “HeartBeat of Kaua‘i.”
Earlier this year, he was honored along with other Kauaians at a Peacemakers’ Reunion by G.G. Shanley of Wailua and the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a group of registered peace lobbyists in Washington, D.C.
Shanley said Diamond is among a handful of people on Kaua‘i she believes helps demonstrate a peaceful existence on the island.
Diamond was honored for his Kaua‘i Museletter, a free service in which postings such as yard sales, rentals and various happenings around the island are sent out in a daily e-mail blast to over 1,800 people.
“The Museletter is really a bit of a mystery to me,” Diamond said earlier. “It’s also a gift to myself and through that, somehow, in a wonderful way, a gift to the community,” he said.
“It’s become a force,” he added.
“We have so many peacemakers on the island, but we don’t always give them credit for what they’re doing to help the positive development of our community,” Shanley said.
