Animal treatment not funny
Your April Fools Day piece about the $305 million pet resort would have been funny if it wasn’t for the fact that so many animals on this island are in dire straits. The humane society legally kills thousands every year, individuals have been killing cats and threatening feeders and now there is talk of killing all the cats at the Old Kona Airport Park. So kill all the cats and leave the mongoose and rats. Where is the common sense? Where is the aloha?
Margie Gillman-Wolfe
Kailua-Kona
Tax return status should be quicker
I am wondering if any other taxpayers in this state are frustrated by the fact that one must wait 16 weeks from the date of submission to check the status of a state tax refund online.
It seems to me that you should be able to check the status of your refund within a week of submitting your tax return. To have to wait four months to determine if your tax return has been received seems outrageous to me.
Linda Sterzenback
Kealakekua
A little consideration warranted
Kathy Arroyo is not out of line with her frustration about the noise at predawn hours. It is Dennis Lawson’s insensitive diatribe about the needs of the golf course over the needs of local residents, both full and part time, that is completely unjustifiable except to those who run the golf course.
First, even though golfers start early on occasion, the noise of mowers and blowers at lights from the maintenance vehicles in our bedroom windows at 4:30 a.m. is completely unreasonable. I live next to the 16th green and I have never seen a golfer there before 8:30 a.m.
Second, many days the maintenance is done in daylight hours between golfers. Why can that not be a daily practice?
Third, attacking snow birds is not acceptable. Where would our economy be without them? Where would the golf course find most of its patrons if they chose to stay and golf elsewhere on the island?
Fourth, I do understand how much work it is taking to restore the long neglected ocean course to open and stay open. And I do know that recycled, and sometimes, from the smell, less than adequately treated, water is used for irrigation. And I have no objection to most of that effort. But predawn lights and noise; or daily when groups of workers gathering to talk or work while leaving the engines of their various vehicles running is not acceptable. It is not a good neighbor policy any more than my turning up a boom box on my lanai while a golfer is putting. And I have no plans to do that!
I would love Mr. Lawson’s phone number so I can wake him up when the mowers go by. I wouldn’t want him to miss the best hours of the day!
Deborah Green
Keauhou