Delay too difficult to grasp
Are you serious! This has to be a typo. In your article “Police await DNA results in assault case,” Feb. 9, it states that a violent suspect is released to his parents’ custody awaiting DNA lab results that will take from six to 24 months.
Really, up to two years? In the meantime this suspect walks our Kona community freely for up to two years? What can possibly take six months to two years? For crying out loud, the widening of Queen Kaahumanu Highway project could be completed before law enforcement get the DNA lab results (maybe).
Only in Hawaii.
Dave Chrisman
Kailua-Kona
Tech boon for real estate
I have read, with interest, the response of Richard Gillette to the proposal from Richard Apothaker to bring high tech (TMT, University of Hawaii, and others) into our community.
Mr. Gillette cites unnamed real estate “professionals” as stating that the existing golf course adds about $45,000 to the price of a Waikoloa Village Association property. There is no doubt that having a community golf course adds value to a property. What these real estate “professionals” have apparently not disclosed to Mr.Gillette is what happens to property values in a community once high tech emplacements arrive on scene.
One only has to look at the many communities surrounding Silicon Valley to see the impact. Very ordinary (mundane even) 3 bedroom bungalows have seen their prices soar to well north of $1.5 million each. Same sort of thing has happened in Sophia-Antipolis, another tech center in the south of France.
Let’s see, a $45,000 dollar increase in property values or a 500 percent increase in property values, 1 million or more over time.
One can only wonder if these real estate professionals are some of the same sitting on the board of the WVA and only telling Mr. Gillette what they want him to hear?
Roger Hansen
Waikoloa
Commercial composting facility needed
We produce a lot of trash, but not enough to justify a large commercial grade incineration facility, otherwise we’d be forced to generate an enormous amount of trash just to justify its existence.
As more and more compostable materials such as takeout food containers, drink boxes and plastic ware are becoming more common, we should capitalize on this and begin to seriously consider a commercial composting facility. It would have a positive impact on the mounds of solid waste that we are trying to keep from burying us alive, while the facility produces a usable product.
For places that sell food in compostable materials, they could have an extra trash can marked for compostables, which will either state compostable and or have the recycle symbol with the number zero inside of the symbol. For those who separate their own trash, it would give them an even bigger warm fuzzy.
Dave Kisor
Pahoa