Hilo mall debacle
It is past due for the General Manager Daniel Kea and Brookfield’s spokesperson to face the hollow apologies. Expertly trained management would have immediately have located a “safer” area for the entertainers to perform instead of rudely and abruptly ending the very popular entertainment.
They need to stop “dancing” around about the pop-up performance by Ms. Melveen Leed, a world-recognized entertainer, and kumu hula Iwalani Walsh Tseu, a well-recognized teacher and performer of hula, and give honest apologies to these ladies.
Also, the apologies should go out to everyone that was enjoying the performance before being abruptly shut down
You need to put your money where your mouth is and set a date soon for an “authorized event” inside the Prince Kuhio Plaza fully paid for by Daniel Kea and Brookfield.
Bring these ladies back “in style” to right your wrongs. The event will allow personal and public apologies.
Mike Hoskins
Keaau
The rights of pets
As a returned kamaaina of Hawaiian Paradise Park, it is enlivening to see the abundance of pets among many families. This incorporation of pets, with the highly visual status as “companions,” is unique as contrasted to the smaller per capita of pets, particularly in urban states.
An empirical analysis of this phenomenon could be intriguing for social science. However, the physical and barking presence, even in vehicles and truck beds, clearly speaks for itself! Truly a resounding reality of pets’ esteemed value.
My family’s pet inventory includes an expanding chicken coop, a rooster that never stops crowing, a tapestry of geckos that own the house, and a host of coquis that rival Pavarotti.
It is touching to see the extensive efforts families make to recover lost pets. Some of us have assisted in these search efforts.
In concerning contrast, however, is observing residences where a pet is basically staked outside to a structure which is often in a dilapidated condition. Usually, no one is present. These pets appear forlorn and depressed.
Their habitation structures deepen the metaphor of their pathos.
An observed oversight is that pet homes tend to be just set on the ground. To minimize wear and tear — and the pets’ health — it is important to have the structure slightly elevated off ground.
This begs the larger searching question and purpose of this communication: Is it justifiable for pets chained on properties to merely exist for convenient security systems, or do individuals and animal adoption agencies have an ethical responsibility to educate and screen potential owners?
We all have the right to a life of proper care and nurturing. Shouldn’t those creatures that love us more than themselves share the same rights?
Jim Barker
Keaau
Too ugly to rape?
According to the former president, “good-looking” women are fair game to rape.
MAGA sycophants everywhere, evidently y’all can rest easy as your candidate will never be a victim of such a violent crime because he’s “too ugly to rape.”
Don’t y’all feel better now?
Mary Lee Knapstad
Volcano
