There are still good people who do the right thing out there
Here’s a big mahalo to the unknown person who found my beautiful jade ring Friday and turned it in the Customer service desk at KTA Super Stores in Waimea.
I had an appointment to have my nails done at a nail salon located next to KTA. Before I entered the salon, I removed my bracelet, and two rings. I put them all in the side pocket of my purse.
After my appointment, as I was leaving, I looked in my purse to retrieve my rings and bracelet. The bracelet and one ring were there — but not the jade ring. I was heartbroken!
The ring was my mother’s ring. She had it made by a jeweler on Oahu in the 1950s. It was beautiful and treasured. Since she passed in 2004, I’ve worn that ring every day. It was like I had her with me all the time.
As my heart was sinking, I went to the Customer Service desk and asked if anyone had turned in a jade ring. I described the ring and was asked some questions. The clerk showed me the ring that someone turned in. Wow! I was so relieved. I asked if she know who turned it in. She asked the security guard and some cashiers, but no one knew. It must have been a customer. It’s not clear where it was found, but probably fell from my hand as I was putting it in my purse outside of KTA.
There are still good people who do the right thing! Their actions are truly appreciated.
If you are reading this, and you are the good person who turned the ring in, please contact the customer service desk at KTA in Waimea.
Dianne Higgins
Paauilo
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The Big Island needs to make some decisions
I have serious concerns after reading Ms. Judith Perino’s Sunday My Turn column. Yes, some of the ideas she is taking from the Maui County playbook could be implemented here. However, I have serious issues with placing a moratorium on short-term rental developments and hotel units. Who would decide when this moratorium would be lifted? This seems to be a back door Trojan Horse to stop all development. Construction and real estate, like it or not, are key parts of the state’s economy. If you place a moratorium on such developments, you’ll be facing a lot of unemployed workers with no alternative jobs in place.
The Maui County plan, as far as I understand, is to develop more affordable housing in lieu of more high end developments. There is cost, regulatory, and environmental issues that have held up such developments. If there was money to be made constructing affordable housing, then you’d see developers jumping hand over foot to build said housing. That isn’t happening.
The key parts of the Big Island’s economy is astronomy, military, tourism, and construction/real estate. All of these industries are under attack in some fashion by certain groups. We need to get real and decide what kind of jobs and industries we want here.
Aaron Stene
Kailua-Kona
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