Don’t lock us out of what’s ours
I’m a walker, have been for 20 years or so.
I like to walk early in the morning, at first light (before dawn) and have met many dear friends over the years who also like the early hours at the Makaeo walking path before the sun rises over Mauna Loa.
I walk at the Old A, as they do.
Recently part of the Old A was repaved, but not the main road with the giant pot holes. Rather, it was a relatively unused area, used almost exclusively by county workers and their vehicles.
I guess that the town fathers decided that their vehicles were more important than the taxpayers and residents who actually use and pay for this park.
Additionally, there’s a ridiculous gate that exists about a third of the way down the old runway (I think it originally denoted the definition between state and county property) that now defies any logical reason for its existence.
It’s still unlocked/locked at the whim of some phantom county employee. But of course, if the gate wasn’t there, that would diminish the job description of the employee charged with the task of opening and closing it.
Seemingly those county employees entrusted with the keys to this ridiculous gate constantly want to play games with the users of the park, who pay their salaries, and open it on their personal whim, apparently under the direction of whoever is in charge of this asylum.
We are there at 6.30 a.m. seven days a week, to walk, feed cats, exercise and socialize and we expect the gates to be open. We pay your salaries. Fix it!
Dave Hurst
Holualoa
Aquarium fishing ban worth it
Mahalo, Department of Land and Natural Resources for choosing our precious reef fish over the interests of a few greedy exploiters.
Thomas Powers
Kailua-Kona