• Share the road • Respecting our veterans • We thank you KCC Share the road Mahalo Mr Hoy for your letter about sharing the road with bicyclists (TGI, Sun, April 28). I ride a bicycle a lot and
• Share the road • Respecting our veterans • We thank you KCC
Share the road
Mahalo Mr Hoy for your letter about sharing the road with bicyclists (TGI, Sun, April 28).
I ride a bicycle a lot and I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been called names, run off and almost run off the road, chided and otherwise had my rights violated by careless and ignorant drivers. I reiterate that a properly licensed bike has a RIGHT to ride on any roadway on Kaua‘i and, per the law, must stay “as far to the right as is practicable.”
What that means is that a bicyclist shall stay as far to the right as is safe: Roadside debris, lack of a shoulder and other hazards mean that sometimes a rider will be in the lane of traffic. I encourage all riders to wear brightly colored tops or vests: a dark- clothed bicyclist simply blends into the background!
All riders are subject to the rules of the road and also enjoy the privileges of using Kaua‘i’s streets and highways. Mahalo to those drivers who exercise courtesy and the Aloha Spirit!
Ann Leighton
Kapa‘a
Respecting our veterans
Janos Samu shows his colors when he levels his gratuitous slur of “mercenaries” at our military.
Rest assured Janos, no one is getting rich in the military. In fact, enlisted personnel have been forced to apply for food-stamps in recent times and may still today.
Back when Bill Clinton and Joe Biden were holed up in one dormitory after another, better men than they were coming home, missing limbs, eyes and more, only to be spat upon. So they weren’t doing it for the glory.
Since you purport to be something of an expert, how many veterans do you know, or have been killed in the line of duty? Of the latter, not one, among the twenty I knew, was a “mercenary.”
They served out of a sense of duty, so even people like you could have the freedom to smear their ultimate sacrifice for our country.
John Burns
Princeville
We thank you KCC
The spiritual health and the physical health of Kaua‘i’s religious communities are by no means necessarily separate.
Malama Pono celebrates the welcome accorded Kaua‘i Community College nursing students this past Sunday at New Hope Church in Kapa‘a and Aloha Church in Lihue.
Thanks to pastors Matt Higa and Vill Galiza and their congregations for helping the students learn to bring their skills out into their community in all its manifestations.
Thanks for helping the students and the rest of us to realize that nursing doesn’t happen just in hospitals. The students’ job was to bring education about hepatitis B which afflicts about 950 people on Kaua‘i and is a major cause of liver cancer and liver failure, especially for people born in endemic areas such as southest Asia and the Pacific Islands. Malama Pono deeply values its partnerships with KCC School of Nursing and the Univeristy of Hawaii Nursing School as we seek to eliminate hepatitis B as a transmisible disease from Kaua‘i.
The nursing schools are obvious partners in disease elimination. Not so obvious is the role that faith based agencies can play.
The youth pastor at New Hope commented saying, “it takes a village to raise a child.” Meaning we all have a responsibility making that child a healthy member of our community. Amen to that! And so too does it take all parts of our community to partner on relieving the damage and suffering done by hepatitis B.
D.Q. Jackson RN
Executive Director
Malama Pono Health Services
Lihu‘e
