Mayor’s redemptive pathway
If Mayor Billy Kenoi would like to embark on a redemptive strategy I have a suggestion: During this graduation season, make yourself available as a commencement speaker.
Use the narrative of a kolohe boy from Kalapana who took several misguided steps on a pathway many of us could take if given the right set of circumstances and temptations.
Give an accounting of how — when on your way down — innocent people came with you, including your family and loved ones. Warn the gradates that pleasures that last for a brief time often have a lifetime of negative consequences.
That could be your lesson for this year’s graduates.
It is not too late for you to make some good out of your misdeeds.
Richard Dinges
Hilo
For our keiki?
Parents have the right and responsibility to raise their children to respect our culture and heritage.
Our community has the right and the responsibility to ensure that there are opportunities for the community, and for our keiki, to grow and flourish in the coming years.
There will be many luxury hotels and condominiums built on Hawaii Island over the next 20 years, and many Walmarts, Targets and McDonalds. Because of community resistance, the Thirty Meter Telescope will probably be the last world class astronomical observatory to ask permission to build on this island, or anywhere in Hawaii.
The hotels are actively supporting education of our keiki for service industry jobs; TMT has committed to substantial local funding for science and technology education. The hotels will need qualified workers over the next decades, but TMT may be forced to go elsewhere.
Our community has the power to influence the result. Where will your children be working 20 years from now?
Joel Aycock
Keaau
Trade space to accommodate TMT
I personally embrace the new technologies of today. I believe most of us do. That said … we do not need more of man’s out-of-control clutter everywhere we look.
I am not looking forward to a Mauna Kea — sacred space or not — dotted with observatories or antenna, etc.
I’d like to suggest that the old technology observatories trade their existing space to the Thirty Meter Telescope for time on the new technology.
We can have our sacred mountain and TMT only of more intelligent commitment is brought to the table.
I see benefits for all.
Rickie Buher
Waikoloa