‘Lost a reader’
I am outraged at the fact you printed “The cost of menstruation” by Kathleen Balagot in your Commentary section (Tribune-Herald, Jan. 4).
Regardless of how factual Ms. Balagot’s letter is, I have to ask: “Is there NOTHING off limits anymore?” What will I see next? A letter from a man complaining how much his Viagara costs?
This doesn’t contribute to the advance of civilized society. Menstruation is a woman’s private topic (among people who have any class), and yet we’re telling our children it’s OK for it to be in the Commentary section of the paper.
Your readers were not considered in printing this. Ms. Balagot has other outlets to vent her frustration.
Thank you for saving me money. You lost a reader today.
Suzanne Kaliko
Honaunau
Big Island boars
There are solutions. I am not talking about water, oil or the social lubricant that comes as a solution measured in percentage by volume.
I am talking about a solution for the issue of feral pigs that cause damage to both commercial and private farms, orchards and gardens. They cause wallows that hold water which breeds mosquitoes that infect us and the bird population.
The way you reduce the population is put a price on their heads, their haunches, their bellies, their ribs. By creating a processing plant where local hunters can bring their feral pig kills (or even domestic pigs), we do three things: reduce the feral pig count, create jobs, provide food.
We all know pigs can carry disease, and we should know that cooking the meat will eliminate that danger. Otherwise, hunters wouldn’t eat their kills.
I have been in restaurants that offer wild boar sausage, and it was a pricey choice. Wild boar from Big Island would be attractive to high-end restaurants the world over.
The state Department of Health is supposed to protect us and should be working with modern technology to ensure that feral pig meat can be PROCESSED APPROPRIATELY for human consumption.
We can put spacecraft on Mars. We should be able to put wild pork on the table.
Michael Marlin
Pahoa
Two years
and counting
When will the county ever reopen Kolekole Beach Park and Hakalau Beach Park — does anybody else care to know?
All the fun and excitement we all used to have camping, surfing, parties (one year, birthdays, graduation, community meetings, surf competition for the kids, etc.) fishing, diving and the list goes on and on. Just a lot of fun for everyone.
I guess the ‘io is still nesting in Hakalau, but there’s no excuse why Kolekole Beach Park can’t be cleaned up already in these two years. The county keeps buying all these open spaces; how about fixing the ones you have closed so the public can have some fun and exercise again.
By the way, the new bridge on the highway
north of Hakalau Gulch was found to have lead contamination under the bridge, and they cleaned that up very quickly.
Nobody swims under there! Clean up where the public goes, so we can all get back to our fun, exercising, partying and plain excitement in whatever we do.
You people just got your very large raises. Now you’re increasing almost every tax you possibly can. How about fixing our two beach areas so the public and residents can again enjoy their beautiful area here again.
We miss our beaches. Please find the resources to help open our beaches.
Thomas Lee Gehweiler
Hakalau
