• Kaua‘i Hospice wants to help • Mahalo from Kaua‘i Democratic Party • Hope for end to wars • Manny cared • Need more, better info on ballots Kaua‘i Hospice wants to help No one likes to think about death
• Kaua‘i Hospice wants to help • Mahalo from Kaua‘i Democratic Party • Hope for end to wars • Manny cared • Need more, better info on ballots
Kaua‘i Hospice wants to help
No one likes to think about death and dying, but it’s something everyone has to face eventually. There’s an incredible resource in our community that provides comfort, dignity and respect to all those living with a serious or life-limiting illness. It’s Kaua‘i Hospice.
November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, a time to reach out to our community to raise awareness about the compassionate care that is hospice and palliative care. One of the most important messages for people to understand is that hospice care and palliative care helps patients and families focus on living.
The Kaua‘i Hospice team provides expert medical care to keep patients comfortable and able to spend time with loved ones. The hospice team answers questions, offers advice and support on what to expect as death nears, and helps families sort through the duties of being a caregiver. The team also provides emotional and spiritual support for the entire family.
Hospice is a benefit covered by Medicare, Medicaid in most states, and by most insurance plans and HMOs. Hospice care is provided in the home, nursing homes, assisted living facilities and long-term care centers.
Hospice care is available to people of all ages, with any progressive life-limiting illness.
Hospice professionals and trained volunteers take the time to ask what’s important and listen to what is said. They make wishes a priority.
If you or a loved one is facing a serious or life-limiting illness, the time to find out more about hospice and palliative care is now. Please contact Kaua‘i Hospice. We are here for you.
Lori J. Miller
Executive director of Kaua‘i Hospice
Lihu‘e
Mahalo from Kaua‘i Democratic Party
Aloha Kaua‘i and Ni‘ihau:
The Democratic Party of Kaua‘i and its candidates thank you for your support and assistance throughout this past campaign season. We are grateful for returning President Obama back to the White House and replacing our beloved Senator Akaka with Congresswoman Mazie Hirono. Your other endorsements of our Congressional 2 seat, OHA trustees, legislative team, prosecutor and council establish a foundation of policy making for this upcoming term. Having depth in our candidates pool fared well for most while allowing contenders future opportunities in service.
Our executive committee — Janice Bond, Loyd Clayton, Kaaina Hull, Scottlyn Kajiwara, Clyde Kodani, Bernie Sakoda, Susan Wilson, Carl Wright, Sandra Wright, Stephen Nishimura; event coordinators Gerald Ako, Aria Castillo, Jean Iida, Betty Matsumura, Beverly Nagano, Roy Nishida, Thomas Oi, Ronald Sakoda and Michelle Swartzman — express our deepest gratitude and hopes of bettering Kaua‘i’s communities.
Mahalo, me ke aloha pumehana.
Kaua‘i Democratic Party
Beverly Gotelli, secretary
Kapa‘a
Hope for end to wars
The citizens of Hawai‘i have a remarkable culture. Many races — Chinese, Japanese, Polynesian, Korean, Caucasians, Portuguese, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans and Samoans — live in harmony with no racial or religious discrimination.
Likewise, numerous wars were fought between the Indians and whites. Nevertheless, Americans have recognized the contributions made by the Native Americans, or Indians. Two-thirds of the agricultural products, such as corn and potatoes, were first cultivated by the Indians. States, rivers, cities and hamlets have been named after the Indians. In 1948, sculptors in South Dakota began building a statue of Crazy Horse, a famed Indian chief. When completed, the huge statue will break the record set by a giant statue in China.
The true stories of the Hawaiian culture and Native Americans gives hope that people worldwide will eventually acquire the insight of respecting other people’s cultures and religions; therefore, there would be fewer wars, like the armed conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Roy Wetherington
Tifton, Georgia
Manny cared
I’ve known Manuel Corregedore Jr. for many years. In all those years, Manny was a tireless advocate for veterans, especially those down on their luck.
As the public defender, Manny often brought his clients to my office for legal assistance. Through PTSD or alcohol, those clients ran afoul of the law. Instead of just referring them or making a phone call, Manny personally brought them to my office. To me this demonstrated his personal understanding of their problems and compassion for them. Without such a personal escort, many would probably not have made it to my office.
In court, both the prosecutors and judges listened and were sympathetic to Manny’s pleas for understanding and leniency for those who put themselves in harm’s way for our country.
Manny also has provided personal assistance to me, as when he arranged for my father-in-law to be buried at the Hanapepe Veterans’ Cemetery. He arranged for the site, a grave marker, the traditional American flag and a letter from the president of the United States expressing gratitude for his service to his country.
As I prepared for retirement 12 years ago, Manny assisted me with my search for documents for my veteran’s benefits. As a result, I was given the maximum number of years credit towards my retirement from State of Hawai‘i employment.
I last saw Manny at the Wilcox Infusion Center several weeks ago. We were both getting treated by those wonderful nurses there. Unfortunately, Manny’s result was not as successful as mine.
Such are the Fortunes of War. War against the enemy abroad. War against the diseases within our bodies.
Manny, we are grateful for all that you have done for us. We’ll miss you. You’ll always be remembered as someone who cared.
Jim Jung
Kapa‘a
Need more, better info on ballots
Yes, another election is over. I had a very hard time to get information that was on the ballot. Also I agree the language used was off the wall. I have a friend who is a lawyer and he had a hard time.
We really need info sent to us about the issues on the ballot. We had info on candidates but not much on OHA and nothing on the two state issues. Info on county issues came in after most people mailed the absentee ballots.
I was lucky to have someone in the county help me with getting a sample ballot and more info on county issues (mahalo Barbara) but it should be easy. We all know sometimes a yes vote may mean no. Is it the cost of mailing? When we vote we want to understand what we are voting for and why.
Also I read about Social Security hours changing. I went to our local office just last week and waited over an hour. I found out they cut the staffing in half. This is not the time to be cutting even more. With the increase of people turning the age to collect, why would we need to be cutting so much?
This makes no sense but has the federal government ever made much sense?
Donna Perlman
Kapa‘a Homesteads
