• Landfill on Robinson property? • Stop teacher furloughs • Loss of quiet neighborhoods • Be part of the solution • Blend in • Heading toward extinction Landfill on Robinson property? Ever since we came to Kaua‘i 40 years ago,
• Landfill on Robinson property?
• Stop teacher furloughs
• Loss of quiet neighborhoods
• Be part of the solution
• Blend in
• Heading toward extinction
Landfill on Robinson property?
Ever since we came to Kaua‘i 40 years ago, we heard that the Robinsons were land rich and cash poor.
Now that the last of the sugarcane has gone from their land, has the county considered buying a piece of Robinson land for the new landfill?
Peter Sterne, Koloa
Stop teacher furloughs
I am against teacher furloughs. Are you wondering why? There are many reasons.
With teacher furloughs students lose their education time and we also lose special activities at school.
Hawai‘i’s school year is now only 163 days, fewer than any other school in the nation after losing 17 this year and another 17 next year under the current furlough plan.
We lose out on a lot of activities; a lot of them would happen on Fridays. Furloughs could cause us to receive lower HSA scores and that’s not something a school can make up for.
Another reason I don’t agree with teacher furloughs is that teachers lose money. Furlough days are all unpaid and with 2 to 3 days a month unpaid, teachers lose 8 percent of their paycheck. This affects our teachers a lot. I know a lot of teachers take money from their own paycheck to pay for some supplies they need for their classroom already. This is disturbing.
Some students don’t eat real meals at home and depend on the school cafeteria to get a healthy and filling breakfast and lunch. I read in a newspaper article that some students don’t get much of a dinner when they go home, but get free or reduced meals from school.
These are some reasons why I am against furloughs. The furloughs make school less enjoyable. They are bad for teachers, students and parents. I know most agree with me, so let’s stop these teacher furloughs.
Sharay Glasgow-Reyes, Grade 5, Mrs. Miyazaki’s reading class
Loss of quiet neighborhoods
Have you seen Kalaheo lately? What’s next, a show on how to flip ag land?
What used to be a macadamia farm is now being subdivided/developed. It used to be so quiet here, now the street is littered with construction, diesel fumes, dirt everywhere and nine times the traffic.
I am on the front line seeing the level of greed and disrespect for the land. Remember Puu and Ihu Road well, because it won’t look like this in about a year or so. There is too much carte blanche approval going on! Oh and don’t forget the drive-through permits while you wait.
It gets better. Realtors are now luring traffic to our quiet agricultural lands via YouTube and pinpoint markers directing the world to your doorstep.
Yesterday my car was struck (hit and run) by a lost tourist looking for this slice of heaven that was advertised on YouTube. This lost tourist couldn’t find the sign because the Realtor didn’t bother to even put a sign up.
I see the level of complete disrespect. It’s not their agenda to worry about the people who live on this street; they don’t care.
Google vacation rentals in your neighborhood — you will be amazed! Realtors, respect others and show your property by appointment and stop luring mass traffic to quiet neighborhoods.
Michelle Hinds, Kalaheo
Be part of the solution
In response to the writer of the Nov. 15 “graffiti is art” and a way to express one’s self and all that bull …
While I was painting over graffiti in the pavilion in the Wailua Homesteads Park, a mother came up echoing the same statement saying, “We should let the graffiti stand because the kids don’t have an outlet for their “art.”
She was lucky I did not paint over her too with park beige paint. What they paint on the Berlin wall was art. Painting the “F” word all over the building, all the tiles, the sinks, toilet bowls, and tile floors, that’s not art — that is vandalism.
These people are sick. The Nov. 15 writer needs to zip up and not be part of the problem. Get a brush and get on the side of a solution of the graffit problem and be part of the 99 percent of the population who are not vandals.
Hans Hellriegel, Kapa’a
Blend in
Why is it people visiting all want to rent shiny new convertibles and Jeeps and wear matching aloha shirts and mumus to fit in and look local?
This is like displaying a sign that says, “Take all my money.”
I have never seen a local person driving a shiny new convertible or a fancy newly painted four-wheel drive Jeep, or a local couple wearing a bright aloha shirt with a matching mumu.
My advice to anyone planning a trip to the Hawaiian Islands is to wear a nice faded T-shirt with cut-off shorts and slippahs, and either take the bus or rent an island beater to get around.
You may not look local but at least nobody is going to make you their prime target to rip off.
James “Kimo” Rosen, Kapa‘a
Heading toward extinction
It is crucial to our world today that we protect wildlife and the environment.
We are all connected and every action we take affects the world around us.
It is important to protect animals because if we keep heading the direction we’re heading with so many species nearing extinction, in the end we will be extinct.
Kachina Woolger, Anahola
