Too much speeding in Waikoloa Village
Haena Street in Waikoloa Village has become the local drag strip. I would estimate 75 percent of the local traffic travels at least 45 to 60 mph either mauka or makai.
What is the hurry? We live in paradise and need to slow down and enjoy life! Hopefully none of my neighbors will be injured due to the excessive speed of those who disregard the safe speed limit.
Jay Moore
Waikoloa Village
Foreclosures speak to lack of timeshare need
We have no need for more timeshares in the Kona area. Every few months, West Hawaii Today prints thousands of foreclosures of multiple timeshares in the area. (Read WHT May 19, pages 8B and 9B, and again May 26, pages 7B and 8B). Thousands! Why would anyone approve of the planned timeshare at Kahaluu besides greed?
Alii Drive is getting dangerously overcrowded and parking is almost nonexistent with the folks we already have in this tiny, quaint area. With the recent closing of the beaches due to contamination, it’s obvious there is a breaking point for this area. Common sense isn’t being applied in this situation.
Are you making the current timeshares more appealing by saturating this overcrowded market? Or is this just a way to give the foreclosure attorneys a steady income? Please stop before it’s too late to preserve this beautiful area!
Nita Lopez
Kailua-Kona
Tirade shows how divided we are
Letters to the editor like the one written by Henry Scroggin in the June 2 letters is exactly what has poisoned us politically and turned friends against each other in this volatile political climate that we live in today.
BTW, your candidate, Greg Gianforte, did not win by a landslide, he won by barely 6 percentage points to an unknown candidate. Even Mr. Gianforte admitted that he was wrong in body slamming the reporter and had the decency to apologize to the reporter who was doing his job.
Henry Scroggin’s tirade about the “beautiful body slam” was just way over the top – calling Ben Jacobs a “wimp, wuss, 90-pound liberal, like a fly getting swatted, dishrag pajama boy,” etc. etc. is disgraceful and shows complete disregard for his fellow man who does not think like he does. No wonder our country is so divided when you have people like Henry Scroggin thumbing their noses at his neighbors and others who did not vote for Trump and do not believe in his way to thinking.
We are all trying to come to terms and live with this president and letters like Mr. Scroggin’s do not help us pull together and live in the world of Donald Trump. I agree with Mr. Allan Parfinovics in his My Turn piece when he says, “It is very sad to see the situation we are in. I would like to challenge some letters to be positive. There are way more good things in this world than bad. Let’s see if we can focus on the things we have instead of what we don’t.”
Well said – so the Henry Scroggin’s of West Hawaii please take a back seat with your hate-filled, nose-thumbing tirade and let’s try to put aside our differences and try to get along.
Sally Inkster
Kealakekua