• County priorities are mixed up • Teach your children well County priorities are mixed up Here we go again. I can’t help but shake my head as our county officials, state and federal representatives shake hands and proudly extol receiving the
• County priorities are mixed up • Teach your children well
County priorities are mixed up
Here we go again.
I can’t help but shake my head as our county officials, state and federal representatives shake hands and proudly extol receiving the “Tiger” grant of $13.5 million for yet another absurd attempt to “revitalize” the Rice Street area of Lihue. Let’s face it. Lihue is place most of us avoid if we can. We go to shop mostly and, when necessary, to deal with the county bureaucracy. To spend this amount of money on that area is ridiculous when so much of the island is in desperate need of maintenance and upgrading. Remember the Rice Street widening project of 2002? That disrupted traffic and business for over a year and accomplished nothing. Now they want bike lanes and cute landscaping that you and I will have to pay for to be taken care of.
Meanwhile, the buffalo grass encroaches on all our roads, the pavement gets more potholes every month, the traffic gets worse by the day and people in Anahola, as well as many other places, still sit in the rain or blazing sun to take the bus.
If our representatives focused on the real problems instead of trying to have no term limits, arguing about barking dogs and wasting time on projects like “revitalizing” a place that doesn’t need anything but cleaning, we would actually have some improvements in our day to day lives on this island.
John Humphrey, Hanalei
Teach your children well
Once traumatized, always traumatized. Yeah, it can go into remission. I do not believe it truly disappears on sheer will. I’m totally confused and do not understand such a lack of appreciation of all living creatures. I’m completely heart-broken, so many inflicted with pain, for what? I want to cry, I am angry, I feel useless, suffering and extremely scared from mostly confusion. If I said I understand, that would be a giant lie. I think that’s where my anger is seeded. I am blessed, I can’t even comprehend. Fear overcomes me.
Kauai, this island is suffering from a huge epidemic. It’s not exactly homelessness or addiction. That just adds more fuel to a fire. First, address the issue head on. The true core, I believe, is lack of knowledge and true understanding. Understanding the true meaning takes desire and a total sense of self worth.
Every generation should be wiser than the last. Life is a gift, just like this place is a blessing. This problem I’m addressing is growing larger regardless how it’s dressed up. Please allow your fear to fade into faith, your false pride to passion, by showing love to one another and mostly the aina. For without its riches, we could not be. It saved my life 30 or so years ago. God said it and created it just for us. We are blessed. I feel a huge debt is owed on my behalf.
Stop the violence, stop the suffering, sharing is caring. Love conquers all. Remember the true meaning of aloha, friend.
Edie Barsch, Lihue
