• Mahalo for cleaning up Lydgate • Take down Primary election signs • Get out and vote Mahalo for cleaning up Lydgate On behalf of the Friends of Lydgate and Kamalani, I would like to send a huge mahalo to
• Mahalo for cleaning up Lydgate • Take down Primary election signs • Get out and vote
Mahalo for cleaning up Lydgate
On behalf of the Friends of Lydgate and Kamalani, I would like to send a huge mahalo to the members of the Key Clubs of Kapa‘a and Kaua‘i High Schools. There is no way we could have gotten so much sunken wood out of the main pond at Lydgate without you. That pick-up, piled high with waterlogged wood, was a testament to your hard work and enthusiasm.
And a big mahalo to Tom Noyes for his creative use of a weighted tennis net to dig the wood out. Also, mahalo to the guys who acted as human weights to help the net dig deeper. You kept our clean-up crew on the beach very busy.
When I snorkeled later, I could see a big difference in the amount of wood on the bottom. Human ingenuity and hard work can certainly make a difference. And I’m also happy to say that our efforts didn’t seem to stir up silt and mulch and make the water more turbid.
Mahalo to everyone. It was a great morning!
Christine Queen, Kapa’a
Take down Primary election signs
Coming down the hill in Kapa‘a with my European visitor friend and approaching the roundabout he remarked: “Look at all these signs the mufties and the stufties — which one will you vote for?” I explained, that the election is long over but the removal of the signs seems to be a problem on this island — we like to let the wind take care of that, I said. Lesson learned: Put it up, take it down. I know he is telling that story at the Oktoberfest in Munich Germany right now.
Fred Deckwitz, Kapaa
Get out and vote
I don’t consider “succeeding on a grand scale” to be dismantling American companies and outsourcing American jobs. It shows a lack of character. It also shows a lack of character to keep huge sums of one’s money offshore, which allows wealthy American taxpayers to avoid paying their fair share of American taxes. Further, privatizing public services is yet another nefarious practice, in full swing, to marginalize the middle class and garner more profit for the pigs on Animal Farm.
Frankly, what’s insane is to ignore the poor decisions made prior to the Obama administration. It is patently ludicrous to disregard nearly four years of Congressional obfuscation. Unacceptable to most Americans is an endorsement of increased inequality. Robbing Medicare and Social Security, the social safety net eligibility programs that we have paid into all our working lives? That’s an incredibly insane tact. Means-tests would be far more equitable.
Further aiding and abetting the omnipresent and corrupt financial industry and the military/industrial/war complex, at the expense of our citizenry’s health, educational, occupational and infrastructure survival? There, in a nutshell, is the insane Republican agenda. It is a patriarchal, dim-witted perpetuation of a dysfunctional status quo.
In the big picture, voters are well aware that the disintegrating Republican Party is fighting down and dirty to continue making decisions inimical to the interests of the bulk of Americans. That’s the insanity we emphatically do not want to repeat, either locally, statewide and nationally.
Get out the vote!
Catherine Easter, Kapa‘a
