• Different songs on Super Bowl • Too many red flags on ‘Kahili Well’ plan • Be sure to vote in KIUC election • Dairy farms are good Different songs on Super Bowl As a frequent visitor to your great island,
• Different songs on Super Bowl • Too many red flags on ‘Kahili Well’ plan • Be sure to vote in KIUC election • Dairy farms are good
Different songs on Super Bowl
As a frequent visitor to your great island, I would like to share this fun, timely letter I’ve written.
Football and music can cross interesting paths at times.
With the Super Bowl coming up today, two songs immediately come to mind.
First of all, Merle Haggard’s country classic, “Okie From Muskogee,” where he boasts “football’s still the roughest thing on campus,” giving the sport a lot of praise.
And coming from a whole different point of view, the late iconic folk singer, Pete Seeger (who just recently passed away), brought up the sport in his anti-war protest tune, “Last Train to Nuremberg,” in the following lyrics:
If five hundred thousand mothers went to Washington and said, “Bring all of our boys home without delay, would the man they came to see say he was too busy? Would he say, “He had to watch a football game?”
Two songs, both referring to football, but coming from a different mindset.
Gary Saylin
Davis, Calif.
Too many red flags on ‘Kahili Well’ plan
No Well. No Way. The Department of Water’s “Kahili Well” project is seriously flawed, in my opinion. By flawed, I mean using what I think is common sense. It doesn’t add up to me. The project was spearheaded by former manager David Craddick. I worked at DOW at the time, 2011, and was put on the panel to select the contractor. First question I asked him was, “How much will this cost?” His response, “We have about $12 million and we can drill the well with that.”
Long story short, after the two contractors flew to Kauai from the Mainland and made their presentations for us and answered our questions, the low bid was something like $34-36 million and the other bid was over $40 million. Big red flag for me. Another red flag for me was that when asked how the well would affect current stream and river levels, the contractors response was, we don’t really know. A stream bed could dry up, we could create a blowout through the side of the mountain and have a waterfall where there was none before. Yet another problem for me is the name, Kahili. It is a tactic to stay away from the name Waialeale. David Craddick insisted “We are not drilling Waialeale.”
Look at the maps they provided, mind you the ones that were altered after the King Kaumualii School meeting and the consultant was publicly blamed in The Garden Island newspaper for providing incorrect information … and on and on.
Jay Perreira
Lihue
Be sure to vote in KIUC election
If you did not attend the KIUC candidates’ session at Kapaa library recently, you missed a valuable opportunity to experience a full observation and hear the very words from the candidates’ mouths as they offered themselves up for the future of becoming a member of the KIUC board of directors.
Truly all 11 candidates have a special drive to serve as a board member. However, there are three that stand above all others. Adam Asquith, Jonathan Jay and Jimmy Trujillo. I urge and encourage all ratepayers of KIUC to join me by placing your vote for these candidates. Only then can we rest assured that this KIUC cooperative belongs to the people of Kauai. Good luck and safe passage in the coming months as your personal campaign starts to heat up.
God Bless.
Jimmy Torio
Anahola
Dairy farms are good
Regarding the letter, “Dairy farm will impact paradise,” by Sandy Scanlan published in The Garden Island on Jan. 30:
I, too, lived in Idaho, in Bingham County, near towns such as Pingree, Moreland and Blackfoot. These towns were filled with dairy farms owned by individual families. I did not see any impact on the land or scenery. It was beautiful to see acres and acres of farm land spread out, the area with cows and green meadows.
These dairy farmers brought a cheese factory to the area that hired workers. Jobs ranged from hauling the milk (independently), to making, processing and packaging the cheese.
Some of these dairy farmers pasteurize their own milk and sold it for very cheap. Some had homemade ice cream for sale.
I don’t know the reason Ms. Scanlan doesn’t like dairy farms, maybe it was the chores that were involved in dairy farming or maybe she doesn’t like cows or undeveloped lands.
Dairy farms, like agricultural farms, will help conserve the lands from being developed into big resorts here on Kauai.
Go farming!
Howard Tolbe
Eleele
