• Just slow down •Appreciation for Bob Craver • Health care reform flawed •Help us build the next 100 affordable homes •Smells like a stable Just slow down Let’s do the math people. It takes only 40 seconds longer to
• Just slow down
•Appreciation for Bob Craver
• Health care reform flawed
•Help us build the next 100 affordable homes
•Smells like a stable
Just slow down
Let’s do the math people.
It takes only 40 seconds longer to drive three miles (the Wailua stretch) going 40 miles per hour than it does at 50 miles per hour. And only a minute and a half more driving 40 mph than at 60 mph.
Can’t you please spend 90 seconds of your commute (or a whopping three minutes of your day) to slow down and make that stretch safer for all of us?
Margaret Andrade, Anahola
Appreciation for Bob Craver
We are fortunate to have someone with the organizational skills that Bob Craver has.
It is quite an undertaking for Kaua‘i to have a full-scale marathon but Bob knew it could be done.
This is not the first major sport contest that Bob has been involved with. He has previously had lots of practice on Maui and most recently on Kaua‘i with the Grand Slam of Golf held at Po‘ipu Bay. When that organization moved to Bermuda, they wanted Bob to be there for them.
This marathon brings people from all over the world and at a time when visitors are really welcome. Hopefully our local people showed the aloha spirit to all of those participating.
Mahalo nui loa to you, Bob, for taking on this event and the responsibility you have for it’s success!
Phil Sterker, Kalaheo
Health care reform flawed
I am a 70-year-old husband, father and grandfather who has lived on Kaua‘i for over 25 years. I have always voted and I have the greatest respect for the service to this country and the State of Hawai‘i of our elected lawmakers, but I and many of my friends are getting quite tired of our government representatives and senators voting for whatever the White House says will be good for America without even checking with the people that they serve.
I do not feel that the health care reform proposed will be good for me or my family.
I have yet to see how it will strengthen Medicare, unless that means it will cut benefits. I know of no doctors that are doing procedures just to boost business. This is just a fear tactic. I trust my doctors and they are doing a good job for me and my friends. They say reform will save money. I say this is just code for reform will cut services and further bankrupt the country.
I am told that the health care reform bill is a “decent shell” even if “far from perfection” and it should earn my consideration, but the proposed bill runs over 1,000 pages long. It is not a shell. It is a bunker of reinforced steel and concrete from which we may never be able to escape if it becomes law.
Please do not support the Obama health care reform bill now before Congress. I ask that our lawmakers come home and hold open meetings first and then go back to Washington and do the will of the people of Hawai‘i.
The proposed bill will inevitably lead to the end of private health insurance and care for seniors like me who would be deprived of the quality health care that we expect.
I know that the proposed bill is not as important to our lawmakers it is to me and my friends because our lawmakers are exempt and they will not have their health care determined by this bill. How sweet that must be for them.
This is just my most humble opinion. I am sure others will have a different take on this subject.
Larry Wachler, Kalaheo
Help us build the next 100 affordable homes
Kaua‘i Habitat for Humanity thanks the dozens of individuals and businesses who came out in support of affordable housing on Kaua‘i on Aug. 15 for our annual Build-a-thon.
Our crews worked on three houses raising walls, building trusses, shingling a roof, installing siding and trim, painting and priming, and many other tasks. Others supported their work with donations of lunches, water, ice, first aid kits and other supplies for our event. Some businesses gave us generous discounts on materials and services. In all, over 80 people and businesses participated and we thank each and every one of them.
Mahalo to all who participated in this event. We hope their work will inspire others to get involved and help us build the next 100 affordable homes on our island.
Stephen Spears, Kaua‘i Habitat for Humanity Executive Director, Hanapepe
Smells like a stable
As a frequent visitor to Maha‘ulepu, I can see the horse manure problem is getting worse.
These guys, whether they be tour guides or just owners going for a horse ride, need to clean up after their horses. The area especially at the west end of the beach near the sinkhole was disgusting this weekend.
It was hard to avoid stepping in it and the area smelled like the inside of a stable. I hate to consider the sanitary conditions of the stream and tidal pools right there where kids play.
So come on horse owners, show some respect for people that use that beach!
Roger Barques, Koloa
