Good job, WHT
Congratulations to West Hawaii Today for 50 years of reporting the real news of the Big Island. Thanks for a job well done.
The plethora of news sources out there may be mind boggling, but it also points to a healthy state of representative government. Freedom of speech is alive and well in the U.S.
So in a political environment in which the U.S. president attacks mainstream news sources as “fake news” on a daily basis, we should take his statements with great concern.
Marian Hughes
Waimea
Zero insight from letter writer
I read the letter in the West Hawaii Today July 26 edition written by Don Zero.
At first, I laughed at his assertions until he began naming names. I am a water board member and know the facts. They are far from his declarations.
However, when I read his name at the end of the letter, it all made sense. Like his name, his opinion is worth zero.
Leningrad Elarionoff
Waimea
Waikoloa art project
needs new life
This is in answer to Likeke Bumanglag’s letter on July 30:
Waikoloa does not have a high school, Mr./Ms. Bumanglag. The school you are referring to is the Waikoloa Elementary and Middle School, but, what you say about the arts in the school installation at the school is accurate.
I was on the original committee to select and spearhead the project, Hans Ladislaus’s “Labyrinth.” And, as a former art teacher, volunteered, in addition to my duties as school librarian, to set up and run an art project for each fourth-grader to submit and execute a plan for a mosaic centered around the theme of voyaging, as we were the Waikoloa Voyagers.
I contributed many work and volunteer hours to this project but was forced, due to circumstances, to complete my career as an educator at an east side school. I left behind, in the school library, complete documentation of each student’s mosaic and hope someday, with a change in administration, to return as a volunteer to repair and complete the project.
Tools and materials were there when I left in 2006, but, as you inferred, it may take a fundraiser to augment or replace what is there or lost. As one art lover to another, I thank you for your concern and for bringing the neglect of this state public work of art to the forefront.
Paula Kamiya
Waikoloa
