Kehena Beach
Great performance
Last Thursday evening I attended the program that was presented at the Performing Arts Center at UH-Hilo.
I was amazed and heartened by the level of professionalism shown by the dancers and the accompanying musicians from the Honolulu Symphony. It was a spectacular performance.
My only regret is that I am no longer the music director of Hawaii Public Radio, as I would do my best to broadcast the performance statewide so that folks on the other islands could become aware that we have a lot of fine talent here on the Big Island.
Gerald DeOreo
Hilo
A liar triumphs
Temporary restraining orders need to be looked at more carefully before the judge grants it to the person who filed it. A person filing an order can put down anything they want to say as long as it sounds life-threatening — even if it’s a lie.
An elderly woman accused me of beating her up and pulling a knife on her. She went to the emergency room and the police were called. There was no proof of injuries, so she filed a restraining order against me, stating that I caused her to almost have a heart attack and that I came after her with grass shears.
All I ever told this woman was not to walk in front of my apartment because she’s known to make up lies, and I didn’t want any trouble. The judge granted her the order based on lies, and her two witnesses also lied on the stand.
After granting the order, the judge asked me if I had any questions. I told him that I did have a question. He asked me what was my question. I told him that if he believes what she wrote on the forms and what she testified in court was true … why was I standing right there in front of him and I’m not in jail, and why I never was charged by the police? He just told me to step down and see the bailiff.
Basically you can lie and the judge will believe what you write down as long as it sounds life threatening.
Gail Gali
Pahala
Garbage in, garbage out
The Tribune-Herald’s Sunday article on the massive waste in the garbage situation for years shows the true incompetence of the county government through the years: Millions wasted, plans changed, nothing concrete adopted, nobody wants to solve the problem, the fighting over their share of the golden garbage goose.
The mayor’s solution: Pad the county payroll with more union workers.
The County Council’s solution: tipping fees (if they hadn’t wasted all that money by sitting and doing nothing for years, they wouldn’t need tipping fees).
The recyclers’ solution: Rewrite the contract to suit themselves. (How can a small company compete to do this big of a job? They can’t. Let somebody big enough to be cost-efficient do it.) We have companies that want to pay the county to do the job, and the county won’t consider it.
Just get rid of the garbage. How hard can that be? Or, maybe we should get rid of the people (elected or not) who have garbage between their ears.
William Wade
Kehena Beach