• Mahalo to all • Save Coco Palms Resort • Kaua‘i skies being sprayed without consent Mahalo to all The front page of Wednesday’s paper showed a home engulfed in flames, it was my son’s house that was rented to
• Mahalo to all • Save Coco Palms Resort • Kaua‘i skies
being sprayed without consent
Mahalo to all
The front page of Wednesday’s paper showed a home engulfed in flames, it was my son’s house that was rented to a young couple, Shannon and Enzo Amitrano, who were on their honeymoon at the time of the fire.
First I want to thank all the neighbors who raced out with their water hoses to both fight the fire and wet down the other dwelling on the property, which the fire inspector said would have probably caught fire if not for them.
Then the Fire Department, who were awesome, the Red Cross, who showed up immediately to offer assistance, and Shannon and Enzo’s friends who helped salvage what they could, and take care of the now homeless couple, mahalo, mahalo, mahalo to all.
I know what it feels like to lose practically everything, as my home in Kailua burnt down when I was 14 years old, so my heart goes out to them.
Right now the only way I know of to get donations to them is to send it to their P.O. Box 1051 Lawa‘i, 96765 (I got their permission to post this).
Again, mahalo to all who have helped, I know they so appreciate it!
Margaret Prescott, Koloa
Save Coco Palms Resort
My husband and I have been coming to Kaua‘i for the past 17 years and are now here for two months every year.
After our attendance at the recent talk about the history on Kaua‘i by John Lydgate at the Ship Store Gallery now located in Kapa‘a — and by the way, it is a fantastic tour through time using Massey’s art work — we felt led to write about our concern and sadness to continually see the Coco Palms still in ruins.
My parents stayed there when they were alive, and it has shocked us to continually see such a legendary site uncared for. Larry Rivera continues to try and keep the grounds up with little help.
Why is there no leadership and direction with alternative options?
Long term residents and visitors would support and encourage creating at least a park maintaining the beautiful coconut trees which have engraved names of famous people who contributed to the planting of each tree.
What a great tour walk through the trees that would be, and a money maker to put toward a type of Polynesian cultural center and/or some simple little Hawaiian cottages along the river (what a beautiful site to rent) which would all bring in money for the Eastside and for maintaining and improving the large property.
It seems people should be able to compromise and come to an agreeable solution without disturbing sacred grounds, bones, etc.. You could also work around these issues by labeling areas with educational explanations making people aware of the importance and sacredness of these grounds.
Surely these ancestors would be turning over in their graves if they saw their beautiful land rat-infested, defaced and not maintained.
Every year we come we feel so sorry for Larry Rivera, whose life was there and who loved that land as well as many others who have such an important attachment to such important land.
Whoever owns this property, and possibly holding onto it for personal gains or goodness sakes who knows what, shame on you. No one understands this. Why would anyone want this to happen on this beautiful Garden Island?
Here’s to better days ahead we pray.
Les and Shann Anderson, Lawa‘i Beach Resort condo owners
Kaua‘i skies being sprayed without consent
FAA, NASA, NOAA and the UN officially recognize “persistent contrails” in terminology rejecting the pop-culture-conspiratorial-blogosphere “chemtrail” moniker.
To those aficionados of geo-engineering I beg your pardon.
Others who haven’t the foggiest idea what I mean and haven’t noticed the perversion of our upper atmosphere lately need prepare to see the light.
Once, not long ago a phenomenon of persistent contrails on Kaua‘i was highly controversial. Now it is commonplace. Traditional contrails disappear within seconds to a minute — but now something else is at work.
Persistent contrail events inundate our Kaua‘i sky and air almost daily. Puffy, white elongated aerosol streams are sprayed in the sky from directly behind large jet aircraft flying high altitude routes. Some of these events are performed before dawn, some off the coast over the Pacific.
Trails linger high above for hours moving with the airstream spreading across massive vistas in multitudes of characteristics including blotting the sunshine and turning deep blue skies pale. A wide variety of persistent contrails have shown to perform various function under numerous conditions.
Thousands of videos, photographs and news stories have been written about persistent contrails over the U.S. and other Western countries in the last several years alone. I personally have hundreds of photographs of persistent contrails detailing Kaua‘i skies since September 2010.
On seven separate occasions I’ve seen large military-type jet aircraft leave long aerosol-laden stripes over us in broad daylight. During one contrail event, I witnessed a jet leave a medium length plume behind it, turn it “off” for a few seconds, and turn it “on” again only to see the craft swing around to lay out a similar pattern next to the former in the same “on/off” pattern.
What does it mean?
It means military and its contractors are experimenting with our atmosphere. No one else has the resources.
The debate as to whether this is an intentional mass effort to aerosol our sky is over. There is no debate. Islandwide, Kaua‘i is being sprayed without the people’s consent. Kaua‘i County and Hawaii state representatives have little interest in my appeals to them concerning this.
If you are asking yourself how this could happen, or you are thinking our government wouldn’t allow it, let me offer this: Executive Order 12891.
Rolf Bieber, Kapa‘a
