Pay to throw
Pay to throw
Hey, Councilwoman Margaret Wille, wait a minute!
For years now, we have been separating our trash/garbage and recyclables. Provision is already in effect for separation at our Glenwood and Keaau transfer stations for trash/garbage/recyclables. Prior to going to them, we put those items in separate containers and dumped them in the appropriate containers as provided by the county.
Now, you propose we pay for those who don’t! I already can envision the increase in garbage/trash along our roads and highways thrown there by people who don’t know or don’t care about the meaning of malama ‘aina.
Ron Baptista
Mountain View
For Mauna Kea
The afternoon light sparkling around Mauna Kea a week ago was so bright, as if the mountain was shining. It was amazing. Mauna Kea inspires, and we are very blessed to be living here, being called to be guardians of this land.
Give them back their clear streams, unpolluted waters.
Take back the arsenic, atrazine, heptachlor, Roundup.
Give them back the years of not being able to do hula, speak their language, put hands into the soil, grow their food, their nation.
Give them back the forests, the multitude of fish in the reef, the stream, the ocean.
Give them back the soil, the beaches, the mountains.
At least the mountain.
Give them back the years of not voting, oppression, submission.
Return to us the palila, the petrel, the ‘amakihi, ‘akialoa.
Give us back the clean oceans, the corals, time for prayer, time for planting.
Gone are the lineages, the pristine shoreline, the untainted soil, the freedoms.
Give us a reason to not stand fast, here on the mountain.
Do not tell us to not draw this line in the sand.
It is drawn.
Return to us all of this, before you ask to take the mountain.
Jackie Prell
Hilo
New road at dump?
Mayor (Billy) Kenoi: Before your term ends, could you please work on this road project that will save driving time for many motorists when entering and leaving the Hilo dump?
Where the current compost mound is, just beyond the public trash bins, please build a road that will lead directly to Railroad Avenue.
This will greatly reduce the amount of traffic in the Leilani Street and Railroad Avenue intersection, especially for many motorists who have to double back to this intersection to go westward on Railroad Avenue.
Mahalo, Mayor Kenoi.
Rick LaMontagne
Hilo