• Speak up for Wailua Beach Wednesday • Ready to move forward • We will heed your words • Please don’t remove the trees from Hofgaard Park Speak up for Wailua Beach Wednesday Save Wailua Beach! Please attend the County
• Speak up for Wailua Beach Wednesday • Ready to move forward • We will heed your words • Please don’t remove the trees from Hofgaard Park
Speak up for Wailua Beach Wednesday
Save Wailua Beach! Please attend the County Council meeting Wednesday morning.
The multi-use/bike path is a nice addition to Kaua‘i’s recreational options. However, there are appropriate places for the path to be built and on a beach is not one of them.
The highway along Wailua Beach was built on a sand dune. That means everything makai of the highway is beach — an integral part of Wailua Beach.
The county is planning to build a concrete bike path extending makai of the paved highway onto the upper portion of Wailua Beach. The 8-feet-wide, 18-inch-deep concrete path would run along the entire length of the beach rim.
Coastal sand dunes are fragile and interfering with natural processes through the use of beach hardening devices, such as a concrete path, leads to even greater erosion and irreversible beach loss.
Building anything on a beach is an environmentally unsound idea but building a bike path on an eroding beach defies logic. The concrete path, in some places, would be as few as 12 feet away from the ledge which is eroding from increasingly higher wave action.
The alignment for the first bike path planned up until 2 years ago for Wailua Beach is now in the ocean. How soon would it take for the currently planned alignment to be affected by rising ocean levels?
If concerned, please email the County Council, via councilmembers@kauai.gov, or attend the 9 a.m. meeting Wednesday at the historic county building to comment in person.
Judy Dalton
Lihu‘e
Ready to move forward
I am getting a little confused. Obama has won re-election, the war on women has been won (by women) and some of the craziest Tea Party members have been deposed and yet the atmosphere seems almost unchanged. There is so much pearl clutching and hand-wringing going on regarding this “fiscal cliff” that I’m surprised no one mentioned it during the campaigns.
I am not going to pretend to be an expert or some kind of economist, but I would like to know what is so wrong with letting all of the Bush tax cuts expire? Once that happens our representatives could write new legislation to fix the problems, give them a catchy name like maybe the Obama tax cuts and move as the recent campaign message said: Forward.
On a personal note, I wouldn’t mind paying more taxes because that would mean I had a job.
Allan White
Hanapepe
We will heed your words
Sunday at Salt Pond Park I joined a group of native Hawaiians who were discussing the closing quotation used by John Hoff in his letter published in the Sunday edition of TGI. The quotation, which came from the Founding Fathers and has been attributed to Thomas Jefferson, says “When injustice becomes the law, resistance becomes a duty.”
After discussing the implications of the message we have analyzed the current situation, and its relevance to Hawai‘i.
It should not be surprising that we found a perfect match. In 1893 the United States illegally occupied the Hawaiian Islands and it is still occupying them. This illegal act of occupation has been enacted by various U.S. laws without signing any annexation treaty.
Hundred years later, in 1993 the United States Public Law 103-150 (also known as the Apology Bill) enacted by the 103rd Congress acknowledged the illegality and injustice of the occupation and U.S. President Bill Clinton signed it into law.
Based on these facts the Hawaiians have concluded that since the injustice is given, it also became a law, therefore their remaining duty is resistance. Their message is: “Thank you Thomas Jefferson for your foresight, thank you John Hoff for the encouragement. We promise that we will heed your words.”
János Keoni Samu
Kalaheo
Please don’t remove the trees from Hofgaard Park
I don’t know if it’s a done deal. Through the coconut wireless, I heard that the county may remove all of the coconut trees in Hofgaard Park in the heart of Waimea town due to the fact that the county doesn’t want to pay for the maintenance of keeping the tree trimmed. They (the county) is willing to pay an existing company to uproot the trees and sell them.
Hello, these trees have been there forever. It’s part of the history of the park. They stand tall there to provide shade for those who visit the park. Some use the park for a place to have lunch/dinner. Many people there walaau with friends and visitors under the shade of these trees.
With Arbor Day close by there was a picture of a child planting a tree on the front page of a TGI a while ago.
With that vision in the TGI newspaper, it just doesn’t make any sense that the county will remove these historic coconut trees in the historic park.
Keep the coconut trees there in the park where they stand. To remove it (the coconut trees) is a huge mistake.
Howard Tolbe
‘Ele‘ele
