Fix highway
The travel lanes between Puu Nani Drive and Lakeland won’t be resurfaced as a part of the current Mamalahoa Highway widening project. There is apparently no political will by the current administration to execute a change order adding this work. The Department of Public Works wants to simply complete this project as soon as possible — even if the project won’t be finished 100%.
As it stands now, this segment of highway is badly deteriorating. The next administration will have to wait until late 2021 or early 2022 to resurface the pavement in this area if this work is not added to this current project.
This will leave a black eye on the current administration for being penny wise and a pound foolish. Funding this change order shouldn’t be an issue. The county has been assessing the residents of this island general excise tax surcharge for transportation related projects.
I hope Mayor Kim’s administration will reconsider resurfacing this segment of Mamalahoa Highway.
Aaron Stene
Kailua-Kona
Good Samaritan
A miracle happened Friday that I wish to report. I left my purse in the Safeway parking lot in the shopping basket. When I realized it was gone, I actually prayed to the Great Spirit that an honest person would find it.
When I got to Safeway, it was there, intact with the money I had withdrawn to make a payment still in it.
Whomever you are, you did not leave your name. You acted from pure honesty, from a realization that we all need to help one another, and you took that time to make sure that happened.
I am grateful to you beyond bounds for being the person you are. If you want to break the anonymity of your action, please do call me or leave your name with Safeway so that I can meet you and give you a proper thanks.
You answered a prayer to God, and I at least wanted you to know that. I hope you read the newspaper. You are probably too decent to even have told anyone else what you did, so another reader would not know to tell you about this letter. If everyone who reads this letter tells people about it, I am certain the right person will hear about it as we all are so connected.
I hope that the news of this honesty reaches more people and especially the one who lives it. I do think such news needs to be told and allowed to lift the amount of goodness of the whole society by its testament and expression.
Jeri Rose
Papaikou
