• Appreciated help with flat tire • Too many laws the real threat • County wrong to go after Pasion Appreciated help with flat tire My husband and I were driving our rental car north from Lihue on the Kuhio Highway New
• Appreciated help with flat tire • Too many laws the real threat • County wrong to go after Pasion
Appreciated help with flat tire
My husband and I were driving our rental car north from Lihue on the Kuhio Highway New Year’s Eve, hoping to view the surf at Kee Beach. We had a flat tire close to Papaa Road. The rental company had not attached their phone number to their paperwork and the numbers we called for help didn’t answer or had voicemail. After about a half hour, I flagged down a young man in a truck (maybe a senior in high school) coming down Papaa Road who kindly gave us a hand with the tire and used his device to find the correct phone number. He left, refusing any type of reward for his time. The car made bizarre noises, so we thought we needed to re-install the tire and were doing that just as another truck, going south on the Kuhio Highway, stopped. That driver said he’d seen us as he went north earlier and felt we must still be having problems. He gave us a hand in completing the re-installation of the spare tire. We returned to the Lihue Airport and swapped out the car.
This is why we have returned to Kauai several times and plan to come back again in the spring. People here have been very kind and outgoing. There is a uniqueness about this island that residents should be proud of.
And on New Year’s Day we made it to Kee Beach … no more flat tires!
Mary Strazdas, Placentia, Calif.
Too many laws the real threat
DLNR threatens kanaka every minute of every day. Too many laws that cannot be attended to, like over spraying GMO, people who talk on cell phones while driving, gated canefields and roadside vending of fish and other local favorites is virtually nonexistent and is highly controversial to what was, before DLNR/DHHL/OHA, etc. were slipped in under the guise of kanaka rehab.
Section 106 on ACHP record indicates to me that DLNR jurisdiction, laws or rules do not apply to kanaka. Kanaka are, in fact, preserving, promoting and at the same time educating our visitors/community about everything that USA has forced upon the kanaka. Section 106 coordinates and provides a means for kanaka to circumvent the ridiculous practices that have come to pass over the last five decades, when Kauai never had a mayor and island people were “allowed” greater freedom to tap resources gathering and fishing rights.
Now, kanaka are locked out of everything, and new laws or rules are causing a claustrophic scenario. The government wants akaka tribe status and government has instead of “rehab” protocol, policy and procedures, nicely placed kanaka in segregated, mini-mindset, racially heated cow pastures, where only the elitist or richest or politically motivated people like you, who call this place home, then want to quiet barking dogs or rid the lovely chickens and are now removing vendors.
When the USA closes its finanacial doors for good, very soon, we can expect martial law because God forbid these same cow pens rise up and reclaim!
Debra Kekaualua, Kapaa
County wrong to go after Pasion
Thank you, TGI for your headline story, “Auditor Sues County” 12/10/13.
The public, including this writer, are grateful that our paper has told its citizens what is happening with our county auditor, Ernie Pasion.
This is an honest, dedicated man who has “excelled” at the job, according to a peer review of independent, outside auditors of the Association of Local Government Auditors, he was hired to do four years ago by the unanimous vote of seven council members, after a competitive professional search and one of the three finalists interviewed for the job was even a CPA that worked with the Security Exchange Commission. It is tragic to now watch him and his family suffer mental distress and financial problems because an audit he did, uncovered some serious wrongdoings which showed “A county official’s use of a credit card assigned to a county transportation agency’s vehicle to put fuel to a privately owned vehicle in 2009 and 2010.” What would a good auditor do but not to sweep the wrongdoing under the rug but objectively report the wrongdoing to the public.
Those of us who have followed this inexcusable plot to fire Mr. Pasion will not forget those elected officials, under the leadership of the council chair, who perpetrated this act and make sure by our vote that they will never be in a position to do it.
Joe Rosa, Lihue
