• What’s news anymore? • KHS funding • No patience with the Wailua bike path • Hanalei Beach Knuckles • Share the road What’s news anymore? You may call me old school since I don’t understand why an NBA player
• What’s news anymore? • KHS funding • No patience with the Wailua bike path • Hanalei Beach Knuckles • Share the road
What’s news anymore?
You may call me old school since I don’t understand why an NBA player coming out of the closest claiming he is gay makes the front cover of Sports Illustrated.
If Jason Collins had broken a record, scored 50 points or done something remarkable in his basketball profession he deserves to be the cover story of Sports Illustrated.
Just because you are gay is not reason enough to make the cover of Sports Illustrated.
On the other hand, if Tom Brady just led his team to a Superbowl victory, gay or straight, that’s a cover story.
Now if a player is not gay, or doesn’t have an imaginary girlfriend, what can they do to make sports history?
I quit.
James “Kimo” Rosen
Kapa‘a
KHS funding
Even in a budget crunch, the cost of caring for our animals goes up.
The council members said they “were uncomfortable” increasing the funding to the Humane Society. Are they comfortable having animals euthanized? Are they comfortable having animals on the street to be killed by cars?
Hooser stated “Every other department that has come in is getting less money, and we are asking everyone to cut their services and trim costs…”
The Humane Society is not like other departments. Animals will be killed if there is not enough funding. When the Humane Society does more euthanasia, people will be afraid to take their animals there. It will be like 20 years ago when people left animals in the cane fields or by the side of the roads.
The most important part of “animal control” is the spay/neuter program. The county would save money by increasing its funding. People (and maybe the council) need to be educated about how many animals are produced by just one dog or cat
According to statistics: One female dog and her offspring can produce 67,000 dogs in 6 years time. One female cat and her offspring can produce 20,736 in 4 years time.
Please everyone, HAVE YOUR PET SPAYED/NEUTERED
It is each individual’s responsibility. It is also the responsibility of our society (and remember: The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” — Gandhi
Susan Liddle
Kapa‘a
No patience with the Wailua bike path
The Wailua path is going to be three months behind schedule.
How do I get a job working in the path industry or politics? I work in the private sector and if I did my job with that competence, I wouldn’t have one.
Who’s responsible for not recognizing the utility problems? It’s not like they didn’t have the plans. Why is nobody accountable? I simply don’t understand how so many people can’t do the job they were hired to perform. I think it’s ludicrous how far from the mark our government has gone. I’m sure our Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves. They were all volunteer politicians trying to make this country better. Now all we have are career politicians milking the gravy train. Do any have a job at all other than working half the year and accomplishing little to nothing.
Joseph Lavery
Kapa‘a
Hanalei Beach Knuckles
For every Knuckles there is a Sampson. Which is why we have ordinances against allowing dogs to run unleashed and unsupervised.
In the case of Knuckles I am sure that there were many who loved seeing him roaming freely on the Hanalei beach. But I bet there were just as many who thought he was a nuisance. Peeing and pooping in their yards, digging and tearing up their landscaping, chasing after other animals, frightening children. I have known dog owners who feel this way about their pets — that it is a travesty to have to keep them confined to their own property. That not allowing them to roam somehow prevents them from being a “dog.”
Susan Dierkers admits that Knuckles got into trouble on occasion but she shrugs it off by rationalizing that it was all worth it. “No fences, no ropes, could hold him. It wouldn’t be right.”
I wonder what she would have said had Knuckles been killed by a car. Would it have been worth it all to have lost your beloved pet?
Steven McMacken
Lihu‘e
Share the road
In the old days when I used to cycle on the highway. I always used to ride on the far right (shoulder) of the highway.
These days the shoulder is narrow and overgrown with weeds. Most of all the shoulder has a lot of hazardous debris such as blown truck tires, wood, mud, glass, etc. All of these mention make it impossible to stay on the shoulder.
My point is, if there is any frustration of cyclist riding on the vehicle lane, take it up with our county officials, our mayor, and or, the DOT. Cyclist pay road tax, too! (Through bicycle tax or their vehicle registration tax)
On another note, if we had more routes to travel here on Kaua‘i we wouldn’t be facing as much of these (crowded highway) situations sharing the highway with walkers/jiggers, cyclists, and mopeds, today.
Howard Tolbe
Ele‘ele
