• Police officer a credit to the force • Support for Mayor Bernard Carvalho • Up to their ears, indeed Police officer a credit to the force I would like to honor an exceptional Kauai Police Department officer. His name is Officer Hamberg. He was dispatched and found
• Police officer a credit to the force • Support for Mayor Bernard Carvalho • Up to their ears, indeed
Police officer a credit to the force
I would like to honor an exceptional Kauai Police Department officer. His name is Officer Hamberg. He was dispatched and found me quite shaken and in emotional distress. He treated me with the utmost respect and truly listened to my pleas for help with my dealings with a social predator in Kapaa. He didn’t judge me, but listened very attentively with empathy, he truly wanted me to be protected and feel protected. He so went the extra mile to help calm me down, and showed me true compassion. During that time in my life I was being terrorized, I was being psychologically tortured and my future looked so hopeless. I was so worn out from being traumatized over and over by this social predator. Officer Hamberg provided me with the needed hope and needed resources to regain control over this trauma which almost wounded me to my own death. Officer Hamberg is an exceptional civil servant , I don’t know what he said to this social predator, but the harassment and stalking has finally stopped.
Dear Officer Hamberg, I feel so unworthy of trying to thank you for working so hard and standing brave to protect the locals in the community of Kauai. You visit violence daily on those who would cause us harm. I appreciate your sacrifice, and I feel a deep sense of gratitude toward you. There isn’t enough that we the local people can ever do to repay you properly for doing what you do. You are changing lives in unimaginable ways.
Kaimiana Kahiau
Kapaa
Support for Mayor Bernard Carvalho
Mayor Bernard Carvalho has vision, experience, courage, and as a Keiki o ka aina he has great aloha for Kauai and its people.
His vision is demonstrated by his Holo Holo Kauai 2020 plan. This plan has 38 projects designed to create an island that is sustainable, values the native culture, improves the economy and develops a responsible user-friendly government.
He has nearly 30 years of experience in county affairs. Bernard has served in various departments involving himself in solving the lifeblood issues of any community: transportation, housing, recreation, sustainable agriculture, the environment and the needs of the elderly. As mayor, he has a record on these issues second to none.
Carvalho has courage. Despite threats, he is willing to make tough decisions and stand tall before his critics and explain his reasons. It is rare that a politician will face a hostile crowd and not surrender.
He is Keiki o ka aina, a child of this land. Born in Kealia, educated at Kapaa School, this part-Hawaiian has a demonstrated love of this island and the people living on it. He shows this every day. Watch him as he moves through a crowd, smiling, listening, expressing aloha to all he meets. He will tell you, “It is never about me. It is always about us working as a team to make a better Kauai.”
For all these reasons I support Bernard Carvalho for mayor.
William J. Fernandez
Kapaa
Up to their ears, indeed
Friday, July Fourth’s Garden Island featured a story titled “Up to their ears,” which described the donation of a truckload of 4,000 pounds of corn to the Kauai Island Independent Food Bank. The donor was Dow Agrosciences. It went on to state, “The big rig wheeling in meant there was a lot of work to do.” I couldn’t agree more. It left a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach as I thought of our fellow Kauaians consuming that toxic corn.
Dow Agrosciences is one of the chemical companies suing the county to avoid disclosure requirements of Bill 2491/960.
They are also one of the chemical companies spending millions to defeat labeling bills around the country which would require telling consumers when they are eating GMO products. Is it reasonable to assume that they would suddenly become transparent about what kind of corn they are delivering to the Food Bank here on Kauai?
Only two days ago, I had a conversation with a local man from Waimea. He is a hunter and regularly hunts for pig and goat on the Westside of Kauai. He shared with me that he and his fellow hunters are concerned because they are finding that the pigs and goats that they are now harvesting are often filled with tumors, both externally on their skin, and internally, and that they have to just leave them where they died as fertilizer.
He was the second Westside hunter that has shared the same information with me. The pigs and goats on the Westside are filled with tumors. They drink the water, breath the air and feed in the test fields. Of course, this is only anecdotal evidence.
The chemical companies continue to dump 1,000 pounds of toxins on Kauai every day, 7,000 pounds per week, and 30,000 pounds per month. The Garden Island article was quite correct. “The big rig wheeling in meant there was a lot of work to do.”
Michael L. Shooltz
Kapaa
