• Let’s find out for our health • 2491 should not be divisive • How much for the bike lanes? • Aloha, Westside rocks • Where have all the chickens gone? • Beware of building in wrong places Let’s find
• Let’s find out for our health • 2491 should not be divisive • How much for the bike lanes? • Aloha, Westside rocks • Where have all the chickens gone? • Beware of building in wrong places
Let’s find out for our health
I find it ironic that farm hands are paid to fight for the right to continue working in harsh conditions. Organic methods require more labor cause the herbicide and pesticides are safe and need to be applied more frequently.
Big chemical farms pay big bucks to keep us in the dark. If the city council does nothing, they are wasting an opportunity to shed truth on what is and what isn’t. Let us know if our beautiful island is a testing ground, so we can take proper steps to eliminate the poisoning of this place we call paradise. Plenty of chemicals in the past have been deemed safe, then years later labeled unsafe. Why? Because studies are flawed to get the product out there for profit. We the people do not have the money or the influence big chemical companies have, but we have the right to know.
City Council do the right thing. A few hundred jobs they claim are at stake are not worth the health and safety of everyone.
Thomas Trimble
Kalaheo
2491 should not be divisive
Perhaps you should look in the mirror, Ms. Cline (TGI, Aug. 13).
Who is terrorizing who here? I just want the transparency you mentioned at the end of your letter.
Seems pretty simple to me. No one loses a job. If all this deregulated poison is so good for us, what does big ag not want us to know?
I, too, listened to about 10 hours of the heartfelt testimonies from our local physicians and nurses. They are asking for transparency, just like you, so they can treat their patients. They did not get paid to get up and speak. They are concerned care givers.
If Bill 2491 passes, even more jobs can be created, not less. For instance,the record keepers at each company and the recording agency to whom these statistics are sent, just to name a few. Money is well spent on safety and prevention for all concerned.
Bill 2491 should not be divisive. We should all be united in the fact that Kauai is worth taking care of before it is too late. Look at the long-range effects Agent Orange has had on innocent children in Vietnam still to this day. That is eco-terrorism. In 1967 I was tear-gassed at SJSU while protesting Dow Chemical. That is eco-terrorism. I am still fighting for the rights of the unintended consequences.
Council members, let’s do the right thing here. Let’s use some common sense. Support transparency. Support Bill 2491.
Pamela Burrell
Kalihiwai
How much for the bike lanes?
Driving south the other day I finally realized all the construction on the new concrete highway on either side of the Lihue bridge is complete. No more cones, caution tapes, equipment, or workers. All that remains are the state signs, which always seem to collect weeds growing on them before being removed.
All the time and money spent on the project, I would of thought it was the price we pay for less traffic later, but as I was driving on the nice new concrete highway I immediately notice that the only real change is that it has bike lanes north and south and the same one lane in each direction.
I hate to think that we would have to re-do the entire road way just to have a bike lane in each direction for a couple of miles maybe. So how many “stimulus” millions did it cost for the bike lanes?
Steve Martin
Kapaa
Aloha, Westside rocks
Mahalo to all that came together for the event I put together for KVMH hospital and the Kauai Chamber of Commerce. As a new board member I wanted the community to see how great our hospital is. This event has shown me how much the community can give aloha for our great hospital.
Thanks to all for your support, it was a great evening and we will always remember it.
This is what brings our community together.
Jill Faye Papworth
KVMH Charitable
Foundation
Board and event chair
Waimea
Where have all the chickens gone?
This is my fifth visit to Kauai, but this is the first summer that I’ve noticed a serious drop in the chicken population and I am really missing them!
The Walmart parking lot in Lihue, I’ve seen none for the last six weeks, they used to run everywhere! At the Menehune Mart, only one to three chickens, not scads like before and none running around my daughter’s neighborhood in Lawai.
It makes me very sad. I loved to wake up to roosters crowing, and I haven’t heard a single one in six weeks.
While doing research online, I have been unable to find any information on the missing population in chickens, except instances in 2007.
The other night at the Kalaheo golf course, there were some chickens, but only two babies and under the big mango tree there were dead hens and a dying rooster. This scene frightened the kids terribly and the smell was horrible.
Can someone tell me what is going on?
Brenda Diederich
Kansas
Beware of building in wrong places
We would all love to believe our officials, elected and appointed, have the best intentions for us as a whole and no agendas except for what’s best for the people and the land.
Sometimes, the land takes precedence over the people, especially for those who don’t respect the nature. Most people come to Kauai for the nature, so I hope this isn’t a shocking revelation to you.
So, why would anyone allow any building to go on without a septic system in place? Many of those places that are being built in the remote parts of the North Shore should be required to have a self-contained septic system and nothing else, or they can’t build a home.
Leach pits should be outlawed and not allowed under any circumstances. No building permits should ever again be allowed without total consideration to the land.
This isn’t a tough choice. Kauai someday will be ruined, and anything that would hasten this should be outlawed.
David Cooper
Lihue
