Married at Christmas It’s been seven years pass since my second marriage. I’m now married to Annamarie C. We first saw each other at the traffic light on Kaumualii Highway and Moi Street. We saw each other a couple of
Married at Christmas
It’s been seven years pass since my second marriage. I’m now married to Annamarie C. We first saw each other at the traffic light on Kaumualii Highway and Moi Street. We saw each other a couple of times at that intersection and just looked at each other and passed with smiles. A little while later, we finally saw each other at Ele‘ele Shoppng Center.
We dated for a year and two months before we decided to tie the knot. The date we chose was Christmas Day in 2004. We flew to Las Vegas and were married.
Six years have passed and Dec. 25, 2011, will be our seventh anniversary.
Thank you, Annamarie, for the seven wonderful years we’ve been married and many more! I saved the best for last and finally found the love of a lifetime.
Happy anniversary, my love, and have a happy, jolly Christmas!
Howard Tolbe, Ele‘ele
Rice cooker politics
It’s appalling that our prosecutor is targeting Tim Bynum for a rice cooker in his spare room. With all that’s happening on our island, why would she target Tim for something that hundreds (if not thousands) of others on this island do every day when hosting friends or family?
Bynum and the prosecutor are old political foes from council days, so its hard to view this as something other than payback. Sadly, payback isn’t what our elected officials are being paid to do. The prosecutor may be trying to settle some old grudges as next year’s political cycle approaches, but none of that keeps our community safer.
We deserve better. Our community is facing real threats. Everyone needs to respect the law, and council members especially, but in the grand scheme of things, a rice cooker in the extra room is pretty far down my priorities list. In a time of limited resources, let’s focus on what’s important: violent crime, correctly handled domestic violence cases and the increasing murder rate.
Farah Benton, Kapa‘a
Fixing Kuhio Highway
The points and counterpoints have been made about the “right idea, wrong fund” fiasco regarding the need to address the Death Alley problem which has plagued Kuhio Highway over the years.
Please, please! It’s now time to get beyond the rhetoric of bureaucratic complexities to justify what can be done and why the funding has not yet been released. We accept the technical reasons for the delay, but it’s time to move forward!
Thank you, thank you, to all who have been involved in focusing on what can and must be done to alleviate the congestion of vehicles and to minimize the risks being taken by providing the wherewithal to do more than pointing fingers at the problem.
We applaud everyone who has played a major role in this matter for being insightful!
But now, let the process begin! Let’s not wait a moment to allow another avoidable tragedy to uselessly occur.
Jose Bulatao Jr., Kekaha
The ‘Shadow’ knows
Mahalo to the Garden Island for continuing their column, “The Shadow’s Corner”. And an even bigger mahalo to Jerome Freitas for his tireless work in making this information available to the Garden Island so it can be passed along to the public.
It is a fact that Jerome’s sole purpose in compiling all this data,traveling all over Kauai and taking pictures of problems at his own expense, is for the public’s safety. And since the people don’t have a real consumer complaint department, nor someone who will do all this gratis work, it is a real tribute to this concerned citizen.
An example of “Shadow’s” concerns and the county’s response:
The Shadow: The pedestrian bridge between Safeway and Foodland. Who is responsible for maintaining it and the area around it?
County: “The answer on who is responsible for maintaining hte area is pending further investigation from Public Works.”
Hopefully, in future articles the county’s “responses” to Jerome’s findings will be more detailed, like giving approximate dates the problems will be corrected.
We do have some hard working, dedicated people in our Public Works Department from our new engineer Larry Dill to many of my friends in the trenches. But if we do need more workers to take the place of retirees, as I have been told, then let’s use some of that unappropriated surplus to hire them.
And lastly, a fond farewell to our editor, Nate Eagle, who is heading to South America. He has done a great job of overseeing our paper and printing not only articles of praise but articles demanding that better action and accountability be taken in our government. We will truly miss you, Nate, and wish you nothing but the best in whatever you do or wherever you go. You left a high marker for the next editor to follow.
Glenn Mickens, Kapa‘a
