Leong remembered
Thank you for publishing such a great article (by Bart Wright) on Kelly Leong (Tribune-Herald, April 14).
You were spot on, Bart, with your comments. Kelly was truly one of Hilo’s gemstones, who shined wherever he went. He will truly be missed by all who knew him.
We met when I joined a tai chi class he had been in for a while. As there was not much in class instruction, he took me aside to help me progress.
When the class had a summer break, Kelly arranged to have an assistant instructor host a special class for a few of us in intensive training at vacant University of Hawaii at Hilo classrooms and the UH-Hilo gym for several weeks — all for free! We all bonded as we continued regular class. This simple act kept me returning to tai chi and wanting to improve.
Kelly was missing from our class for the past couple seasons, but rejoined only a week before his death. This gave us a chance to be with him one last time.
His kindness and gentle spirit lives with each of us who knew him.
Again, thank you, Bart, for your special article. You really captured what Kelly was all about. I feel blessed and proud to have known him.
Glenn Hansen
Hilo
New post office?
I am writing to ask if you would share a link to a petition that requests a new post office be built in Mountain View.
That post office is so dangerous. We have had so many accidents there.
People actually park across the highway and run across it to get to the post office. This danger was magnified March 12, when Jerry Decker was killed there.
Plus, the post office was built 51 years ago, is inadequate for the growing community it serves and it has no parking or safe place to pull in from the highway.
Many people from other communities also use that facility. Please help the community before someone else dies there.
The petition can be found at https://thejusticecouncilhawaii.webs.com/petitions.
Grace Miles
Mountain View