• Heartfelt thanks • Appreciate wise letter • Advice for Kollar, Kagawa • On faith, hope and karma Heartfelt thanks On Oct. 27, a tsunami warning was issued alerting all residents in low-lying areas to prepare for evacuation. The residents
• Heartfelt thanks • Appreciate wise letter • Advice for Kollar, Kagawa • On faith, hope and karma
Heartfelt thanks
On Oct. 27, a tsunami warning was issued alerting all residents in low-lying areas to prepare for evacuation. The residents of Kaua‘i Care Center were successfully moved out of harm’s way with the generous assistance of many kind and helpful individuals from the Waimea community as well as visitors from the nearby Plantation Cottages, who came forward out of the darkness of the night saying “We are here to help. What can we do?”
These individuals literally pushed residents, entrusted to our care, in wheelchairs and Geri chairs along the street from the Care Center to the Waimea High School cafeteria, plus seven other residents, to nearby West Kaua‘i Memorial Hospital (KVMH) in partial darkness – all the while keeping their passengers safe from harm. When the “all clear” was given, these same individuals came forward to return the residents to their home at the Care Center.
We would like to extend our sincere appreciation to our medical director, Dr. Mariano Torres, who has been with us for the last three tsunami warnings (also assisting in transporting our beloved residents), and to Nani Hookano, from Waimea High School, for opening the doors of the cafeteria or calling us to say that the “cafeteria doors are open.”
We would also like to express our appreciation to the West Kaua‘i Memorial Hospital for providing accommodations for our more fragile residents.
We would also like to acknowledge the following individuals with a heartfelt “thank you” for their extraordinary kindness:
Jane Seto and friend, Jill Muirhead; Milton Yamase and friend; Ailene Farias along with her husband Bill; Edward Costales and friend, Lei Nawai; Mr. Nawai; James Fu; Gary Higgins; Roger Fontanilla; Bobby Lampitoc; and visitors from Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Ali and Kian.
And last but not least, the employees at Kaua‘i Care Center are to be commended for their hard work and love for the residents and their commitment to the facility: Tonya Agan; Cliff Van Dyk; Shelly Higgins; Fernando Ramos; Marisa Sacro; Alexa Samio; Marlene Toma; Jenni Victorino; Gloria Cezar, Clarissa Bagaoisan; Myrna Tumbaga; Kevin Daligcon; Jeremiah Baltazar; Evelyn Pascual; Janice Undan; Maricel Tungpalan; Jeslyn Laysa; Lani Valenciano; Rudeelyn Aguiao; Sharon Ballesteros; Agnes Sarmiento; and Jocelyn Yanos.
Mahalo nui loa!
Liza Cabal Trinidad, RN, LNHA, administrator,
Kaua‘i Care Center
Appreciate wise letter
I am so impressed with Marcia Favaloro’s thoughtful letter of Nov. 9 (“Supporting the right to choose.”) Her letter is wise and compassionate and made more so in the light of her personal ordeal of conceiving a child from a brutal rape.
Though she kept this child and is glad of it, she remains nonjudgmental and accepting of what another woman might need to do.
It takes a person of depth and emotional development to keep the bigger picture in mind, and not just their own experience.
It is possible to understand the emotional position taken by the Mainland writer, who met a person who had been conceived from rape, but that position is essentially one-dimensional.
It fails to take into consideration the numerous issues that a woman faces when she becomes pregnant.
I stand with Marcia — only the woman has the right to make decisions about her pregnancy. To insist otherwise is to judge in ignorance.
Thank you, Marcia, for an important, intelligent letter.
Miriam Pearson
Kalaheo
Advice for Kollar, Kagawa
Justin Kollar can bring back the letter of the law and the vow that most attorneys hold in high esteem, that of honesty and fairness.
My, my how karma works. The council should be able to spend more time on issues of public concern, not pay raises, rice cookers and the string of lawsuits that have cost the county plenty of man hours and wasted energy.
To the newcomer, Mr. Ross Kagawa, please do not become a bootlicker and fall to the petty games of pointing fingers at other county offices and personal attacks at the county attorneys. Remember the sign wavers and people that voted you in; collectively, they believe you could make a difference.
Public service is vital to good government not personal gain and fame. Remember your baseball days: If you want to win, be a team player.
Ronald Horoshko
Kalaheo
On faith, hope and karma
Faith, as in religion, is believing that something or someone that is higher than you or separate from you, can save you, and if you believe that way you will go to heaven. Hope is an idea based on fear that something will happen in your or someone else’s future.
Both of these ideas negate the law of karma: i.e., causes and conditions which have a future effect. This means literally that that what you think, say and do, has a future effect, not what you believe or hope for.
Humans have to be very careful that what they think, say or do is positive, helpful, and is of benefit to other beings and our environment, otherwise their future doesn’t look good.
What do you think?
Lama Tashi Dundrup
Kaua‘i Dharma Healing Center
Kapa‘a
