• Offer of condolences • Coach should stay despite swearing • Try it, you’ll like it! • Maybe they could • Take some action • Aloha spirit destined to return Offer of condolences One of the most difficult things to
• Offer of condolences • Coach should
stay despite swearing • Try it, you’ll like it!
• Maybe they could • Take some
action • Aloha spirit destined to
return
Offer of condolences
One of the most difficult things to do as a law enforcement officer during an investigation is to check our emotions at the door.
It is only after the job is done that we can allow ourselves time to decompress and begin to feel the loss and sorrow of the victim’s friends, loved ones, and families.
The Prosecutor’s Office shares a similar fate. We cannot let our emotions dictate the direction of an investigation; the evidence and facts must be our guiding beacon to the truth.
What we do as a police department, so that justice is served, is to conduct as thorough an investigation as possible to uphold the standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. And this is exactly what we’re doing, in this and each and every case.
And while we have to be very sensitive with respect to public announcements so as not to give a perception of lost objectivity, we, however, cannot forsake our overriding humane compassion for those who have lost loved ones through senseless acts of violence.
With that said, I would like to offer my deepest sympathy and condolences to the family of Aureo Arick Moore.
Darryl D. Perry, Kaua‘i Chief of Police
Coach should stay despite swearing
In response to the article on Derek Borerro (“Complaint leads to Kaua‘i football coach not being retained,” The Garden Island, Jan. 9), I think I agree with Coach Borerro and the other coaches because a kid can’t get enough motivation and improvement to achieve their standards without any swearing.
I know it’s wrong to swear, but, they are swearing at the person they are talking to. It’s what they are doing wrong so later they will do it right; they must exceed their standards to become better.
That’s what the scouters look for in the players — their talents. I feel that Coach Borerro should stay because they are very good coaches to learn from.
Jared Tomacder, Lihu‘e
Try it, you’ll like it!
I would like to respond to Mr. Tolbe’s Jan. 9 letter, “No to useless bike path.”
The multi-use trail is the best use of taxpayer payer money I have ever seen.
I use it on a daily basis to run errands and exercise my dog and my old legs.
There are plastic dispensers (oops, plastic, oh no!) so dog owners can pick up their dogs’ feces. I have never seen dog excrement on the pavement of the trail.
Obesity is out of control in our society. Here is a safe place to jog, power walk, ride a bike, walk your dog.
It has created three to four private businesses that rent bikes to visitors.
The trail has not only created jobs, but I have seen new moms power walking with their babies in carriage, young boys with fishing poles, many visitors with big smiles riding rental bikes, and many old-timers getting needed exercise off the unsafe main roads.
I know many people who use it to get to work, maybe not carpenters as you suggest with heavy tool belts, but many grocery store clerks and people concerned with the environment.
Finally, it’s deja vu, the multi-use trail has appropriated federal funds and if not used for the said purpose will be dissolved.
May I suggest you and Mr. Mickens put on the sweat suits, go for a power walk on the trail and discuss your views. My guess is you’ll have a change of heart!
James “Kimo” Rosen, Kapa‘a
Maybe they could
Regarding Glenn Mickens’ Jan. 6 letter “AJA baseball should open its doors to all players” …
Just maybe they could. But give first preference to American Japanese.
However, Mr. Mickens, “what part of no don’t you understand?”
Howard Tolbe, ‘Ele‘ele
Take some action
Thank you, Toni Morath of Princeville, for your support (“Longer contra-flow makes sense,” Letters, Jan. 5).
On Jan. 7 my wife and I decided to head out to Lihu‘e at 1 p.m. and in spite of taking the bypass we were in bumper-to-bumper traffic beginning at least 1/2 mile from town on the bypass up until we passed Wailua bridge.
The reason for taking the bypass was because the traffic through Kapa‘a was bumper to bumper from Otsuka’s — the bypass did not help this time!
Our return trip was just as bad. Returning to Kapa‘a at 4 p.m. the traffic from Wailua bridge right through to Otsuka’s was bumper to bumper. It took us about 45 minutes to go the distance.
I sincerely hope that county officials are reading our comments and may take some action.
Syd Jacobs, Kapa‘a
Aloha spirit destined to return
Simplest terms dictate that the quickly approaching post-industrial economy of scale that is predominately driven by politics, money policy and energy depletion will transit to crash against basic survival instinct.
Kauaians will learn earlier than most to survive closer to the soil for sustenance and, for example, expand barter and develop communal currency.
This may not be my destiny — but barring catastrophe or miraculous intervention it is certainly my children’s. Ultimately, people will shed vast temporary fear.
Once again “aloha” will universally attain great heights in hearts and lexicon.
Rolf Bieber, Kapa‘a
