• ‘Dream come true’ • Game over • In support of Bill 2491 • Protect our aina ‘Dream come true’ My wife and I visited your beautiful island of Kauai last month. This was our first time in Hawaii. It
• ‘Dream come true’ • Game over • In support of Bill 2491 • Protect our aina
‘Dream come true’
My wife and I visited your beautiful island of Kauai last month. This was our first time in Hawaii. It was a dream come true. I just had to write to show our appreciation of Hawaii’s citizens — the most friendly, warm and helpful people. We really felt the aloha spirit. The lifeguards were also top notch, very helpful and friendly!
My wife has had two kidney transplants and other health issues, so this was a dream come true for her.
Hopefully, we will be back again soon. Thank you for sharing your beautiful home.
Sheryl and Craig Corson
Corpus Christi, Texas
Game over
So this guy has has amassed 80 arrests and 38 convictions in his adult life. The judge said “the poor performance on probation and the new charges made prison the only option for the court.”
What’s wrong with this picture, 80 arrests, 32 convictions and only now there is serious jail time? Either you have a lot of money and good lawyers or we have had a very weak justice system. I think, in this case, its been the latter. In baseball, it’s three strikes and you’re out. Here, it’s like basketball, where one can just keep slam dunking offenses for years before the referee says game over.
Thomas Mccall
Anahola
In support of Bill 2491
Dear Friends: This is in response to a letter submitted by James Kimo Rosen saying that GMO are essentially great, as they are everywhere. Exactly the point.
They are almost everywhere and we have been kept ignorant to what they do to us. Look around and look at how overweight people are. So many children are overweight and diabetic. One in about 50 children in the U.S. have been diagnosed with autism and women in their 30s are unable to bare children and having painful miscarriages.
Glyphosate, one of the herbicides intimately linked to GMOs, is considered as one of the culprits by several independent studies. Open your minds people. Remember the tobacco industry lying to us? Cigarettes where supposed to be okay, not cancerous, right? The powerful herbicides and terrible poisons used by the GMO industry, where as much as 90 percent of them end up contaminating our water sources, should not be used at all.
In our island, they are testing all sorts of chemical without disclosing them and without our consent. Our most basic rights being violated. That is not okay. Our babies deserve better, we deserve better. It’s not acceptable and it has to change. The way that the Monsanto rider was passed shows us how far the tentacles of corruptions reach.
There are good people though that want to do the right thing like Gary Hooser. Let’s support Bill 2491.
Joanna Wheeler
Kapaa
Protect our aina
The Salt Ponds and Salt Beds are one of the many main attractions in the state of Hawaii for tourism on the Westside of Kauai.
Yet the west end of Kuiloko St., the parking lot, and Kaalani St. leading to the ponds and beds remain unpaved and untrimmed. It’s embarrassing and unspeakable.
The Salt Ponds and Salt Beds area (streets, parking lot, and landscaping) need major improvements. It needs to be improved with several signs(like the walking tour signs in Waimea Town) fronting the beds. A self-guiding tour to view the ponds and beds should be made from a safe distance to prevent harm to the ponds and bed, explaining the history, how the salt beds were formed, and the steps the Hawaiian people take to make and harvest the salt.
A warning signs should protect these signs from vandals. Stating, “Anyone caught destroying the signs or the salt ponds and salt beds will be fined $5,000, prosecuted, and jailed.” It should also state, “people keep out of the ponds and bed areas.”
Like Yellowstone Park there are warnings not to throw items into the gysers or paint pots. It (items) causes harm to the attractions.
Mayor Carvalho, “take steps to make improvements (streets, parking lot, and trimmings around the area) and place signs for everyone (locals and tourists) to view the salt ponds and salt bed from a safe distance.”
Howard Tolbe
Eleele
