• For cooperative learning • No room for driver games • Disappointed with Costa pick • Yukimura owes Nakamura apology • Health-club patrons carpool For cooperative learning Just Live. The day before Thanksgiving, a group of 10th-grade students from Kaua‘i
• For cooperative learning • No room
for driver games • Disappointed with Costa pick
• Yukimura owes Nakamura apology •
Health-club patrons carpool
For cooperative learning
Just Live.
The day before Thanksgiving, a group of 10th-grade students from Kaua‘i High School’s AVID College Preparatory Program took an excursion to the Just Live Ropes Course located in Puhi, to engage in a leadership-training course. When the instructors (Juli and Angus) asked the students why they were there, the students responded with various suggestions of “to have fun” and “to get out of class.” That was what I figured, but I also counted on the incidental learning that this leadership training would inherently provide. The students first completed an ice-breaker to create cohesiveness as a group. The next “challenge” was what was called a low-element activity that involved two tight rope cables that fanned out to a V shape, approximately three feet off the ground. The object was for two students to stand parallel to one another as a pair and to move their way down the cable.
This activity made the students trust each other in that as they moved further apart, the spotters in the middle wouldn’t let them face-plant into the dirt. The following activities involved problem-solving, communication and planning. The students who may be reluctant to participate in a classroom setting were fully collaborative in this environment. The final activities involved a climbing wall and a 60-foot swing — both were personal challenges that the students worked through individually to push themselves. The Just Live leadership course was not only dynamic and fun but a great opportunity for cooperative learning.
Taharaa Stein, Kapa‘a
No room for driver games
With much, much more vehicles on the highways in the morning, noon, and pau hana rush hours there is no room for drivers to play games. Also, for safer flow of traffic follow all speed limits.
This morning while traveling west on Kaumuali‘i Highway in west Hanapepe a pickup truck pulled out of Hanapepe Road onto Kaumuali‘i in front of me. The person drove 35 mph all the way to entering Kaumakani. Than just before we reached Kaumakani the driver slammed on his brakes hard. Than as we traveled through Kaumakani on Kaumuali‘i passed under the school bridge heading to Kaumakani Avenue. The driver slammed on his brakes again and than slammed on his brakes to a stop (for about 5 seconds). It almost caused me to rear-end him. I finally had some time to pass him before the old haul-cane truck bridge. Then at 50 mph I looked back through my rear view driver mirror lo and behold the same vehicle was on my tail. I can only conclude that this person couldn’t stand people overtaking and being in front of him. To the driver, “If this may be the reason that was mentioned in the previous sentence, stay home in your driveway and pretend to be driving on the road alone.”
Howard Tolbe, ‘Ele‘ele
Disappointed with Costa pick
Editor’s note: A copy of this letter to Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr. was also submitted to The Garden Island.
Dear Mayor Bernard,
I am so, so disappointed in your appointment of Ian Costa to deputy director of Parks and Recreation — what kind of message are you sending to citizens? That violating county ethics is OK? That we don’t care what kind of ethics and integrity county employees have? And what does this say about your values and ethics? I feel this is a very serious error on your part and I’m asking that you make every effort to correct it by removing Costa from county employment without lifetime benefits. You have a relationship with the citizens of this county that demands that your actions abide and uphold ethics and integrity. You compromise yourself when you elevate your old-time relationship with Ian Costa above that of your obligation and responsibility to Kaua‘i citizens.
Judie Lundborg Hoeppner, Kapa‘a
Yukimura owes Nakamura apology
Shame on you JoAnn Yukimura for trying to mislead us regarding the circumstances of the county clerk’s pay raise. And, thank you, Mr. Horace Stoessel, for setting the record straight. It seems that when JoAnn did not get her way in having the county hire a search firm (which appears to be just an attempt to get rid of Peter Nakamura), she then made a misleading public statement to justify her actions. She owes Mr. Nakamura an apology.
Tracy Bukoski, Lihu‘e
Health-club patrons carpool
I just want to update interested North Shore residents about the fledgling car pool to the Kaua‘i Athletic Club in Lihu‘e.
With the close of the Princeville spa, KAC offers transfer memberships to former Princeville members without an initiation fee, and extends seniors the low membership price of $39 per month. My husband and I have found the many benefits of Kaua‘i Athletic Club to be worth the drive to Lihu‘e, but having a carpool makes it even better. So…there is a small group of KAC members from the North Shore who are willing to take/ride with others to KAC. If you would like to try out the Kaua‘i Athletic Club, but are hesitant because of the drive to Lihu‘e, our informal group might work for you. Just e-mail me at: coneytoni@yahoo.com and I’ll put you in our communications loop.
Toni Morath, Princeville
