Laaloa meridian in
need of beautification ADVERTISING Laaloa meridian in
need of beautification I’ve written to the Department of Public Works and like my unanswered letters to Sen. Josh Green and District 5 Rep. Richard Creagan I’m turning to our
Laaloa meridian in
need of beautification
Laaloa meridian in
need of beautification
I’ve written to the Department of Public Works and like my unanswered letters to Sen. Josh Green and District 5 Rep. Richard Creagan I’m turning to our newspaper for help from the readers to spread the word and to try to keep Kona beautiful.
Drive down our beautiful new street from the top down to Alii Drive on Laaloa Avenue and you will see a meridian filled with rocks, trash, weeds — what were they thinking?
I asked the Public Works Department in my unanswered letter: Wasn’t the contractor suppose to possibly plant some beautiful trees or bushes or something attractive in the gazillion dollar meridian. What is going on with our powers that be?
Maybe some changes need to be made in who’s running the show.
J. Duncan
Kona
Pesticides and more destroying island
I have lived in my place for about nine years on Hualalai Road. In all these years, I have not seen one honey bee, despite all the flowers we have here. This is a very alarming sign. Remember that honeybees fertilize all of our plants and vegetables. Is everybody spraying too much Roundup and other poisons? Be aware, be careful and be observant.
Bees are our lifeline. Let us not destroy nature. Our soil, waters and the coral of our coastline are already being compromised and/or destroyed by runoff from cesspools, fertilizers from gardening and golf courses. If personally you don’t care, think about the future of your grandchildren or your friends’ grandchildren. Think about what you are leaving for them.
Christa Wagner
Kona
OHA trustees ‘cop-out’ on TMT
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustees recently withdrew their endorsement for the TMT project and declared themselves to be neutral without explaining their rationale for their decision. They may have become sympathetic to the protesters’ claim that the project would be a desecration of their sacred mountain. The question is whether the sacredness of the mountain is truly religious or a respect for the aina.
As a non-native Hawaiian and a longlife resident of this island, I would appreciate some clarifications if Mauna Kea is considered to be sacred in the religious sense. Which god had declared it to be sacred? Was it Wakea, Ku, Kane or some other god?
In 1819, after the death of Kamehameha I, Liholiho (Kamehameha II), Kaahumanu and Keopuolani ate together at the feast of “free eating” (Ai Noa) at Kailua-Kona, breaking the ancient kapu, or law, which prohibited men and women from eating together and also the kapu that prohibited women from eating pork, coconuts, bananas, certain kinds of fish, etc. Liholiho then ordered the heiaus to be destroyed and the idols to be burned.
Although many accepted the ending of the kapu, there were others who refused to give up their old ways. Liholiho’s cousin, Chief Kekuaokalani, kahuna (priests) and many commoners rebelled and banded together to fight against the king. A battle between Kekuaokalani’s group and the kings’s army took place at Kuamoo between Kaawaloa and Keauhou. The king’s army prevailed as Kekuaokalani was killed. A few months later Christian missionaries arrived from New England.
It has been almost 200 years since the ancient religion was abandoned and it’s doubtful that anyone adheres to it today. The OHA trustees should take a stand “for” or “against” the TMT — or resign.
Burton Y. Ito
Kealakekua
