AV solution: Bill the registered owner
There is a very simple solution for covering the cost of removing abandoned vehicles. Send a bill for disposal to the registered owner. Every vehicle has one. It doesn’t matter if you sold it, it remains your responsibility. There are forms to report sales to the DMV. Even if it was stolen, it’s still your vehicle. This seems to be a no brainer. Bill the registered owner.
Dave Chrisman
Kailua-Kona
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A voice that will never be replicated
I only remember the great things about the late, great Donny Hathaway. His duet with the super awesome Roberta Flack is epic featuring Donny Hathaway.
Donny has an extra super awesome voice that can be covered, but, never replicated perfectly as Hathaway did. What a super awesome thing.
The Rolling Stones called Donny Hathaway a “soul legend.” I can him an extra super awesome soul icon. Girls till this present day ask me who am I listening to and I tell them the great Donny Hathaway. These females all tell me he is good looking too. Long lives the legend of the great, late Donny Hathaway. A voice that will never be replicated!
Dean Nagasako
Waimea
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It’s the least you can do
The Naalehu sewer meeting was well attended. The Community Center and the ballpark parking lot were full. However, the major two-lane access road is still locked off by a makeshift fence.
This barricade was constructed a long time ago by a disgruntled property owner after the county disconnected him from their sewer line. Nobody will tear down that fence.
Several county vehicles were in the parking lot that night, but none of those salaried officials work on emergency access, public access, or public safety. It’s nobody’s job.
At the gang-cesspool meeting the possibility of a wastewater package plant for the plantation subdivision was finally revealed, but nobody said where the discharge water will go. Now they have a bigger can to kick down the road – the package plant.
Emergency vehicles need to get in and out of the Naalehu ballpark, and the treated water needs to come out of the package plant, too. Nobody has these solutions.
Sadly, former Mayor Harry Kim’s 2004 plan for Ka’u has disappeared. Nobody can find his original promise to us homeowners.
All of these nobodies stick together. That, they can do.
Mayor Mitch Roth: Please tear down the makeshift fence at the Naalehu ballpark and clubhouse – open the road. It’s the least you can do.
Jerry Warren
Naalehu
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