More police needed on highway
The highway between Ocean View and Kona has become a death trap, I have lived here for 27 years and the drive to Kona is very dangerous. Bad drivers are the cause of several deaths, the police need to spend more time monitoring the road.
My husband leaves for work at 4:30 a.m. and he is passed by at least 15 cars on his way to work, everyday. I went to South Kona for a blood test yesterday, my life was threatened four times in a one-hour drive. At one point, the person in front of me almost hit a on-coming driver head on.
This is everyday, the police are responsible for the lack of control of the roads. There needs to be police presence on the highway. Many years ago, I got a ticket for speeding, ($85) I remember it every time I drive in. Something must be done.
June Rauch
Ocean View
Is raising alala worth it?
Why in the present day articles on the alala (Hawaiian crow) is there no mention of the cost of each bird released into the wild? Twenty or so years ago when several alala were released, I was told by reliable sources then that each bird had cost $1 million to raise.
At that time when they were set free in the Kona area we were told the ‘Io (Hawaiian hawk) swooped in and kau kau’d dem. So the hawk was captured and relocated to the Volcano area only to surf the air waves back to Kona.
Having now lost three of the five released alala, “some level of mortality is to be expected,” a military man would say how that was unacceptable and move onto plan “umpteen.” I wish the biologists luck and as long as it is not taxpayers’ money that is being spent, go for it.
Hugo von Platen Luder
Holualoa