HANAMA‘ULU — A blessing was held Friday afternoon in Hanama‘ulu to mark the opening of a new comfort station at Peter Rayno Park and to celebrate the completion of other projects in the area, a county news release states. “We
HANAMA‘ULU — A blessing was held Friday afternoon in Hanama‘ulu to mark the opening of a new comfort station at Peter Rayno Park and to celebrate the completion of other projects in the area, a county news release states.
“We had a celebration for all the great things that have happened in Hanama‘ulu recently. Besides the comfort station, a lighting retrofit was completed at Peter Rayno Park and the dugouts and fencing in the park were re-painted by the Hanama‘ulu Hillsiders, a senior softball team,” said Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr.
“Additionally, a major cleanup of Hanama‘ulu Beach Park was recently done by a number of volunteer groups.”
Kaua‘i County Council Chair Jay Furfaro, Council Vice Chair JoAnn Yukimura and Councilman Dickie Chang joined in the celebration, along with representatives of Site Engineering and Paul’s Electrical Contracting, the contractors that built the comfort station and retrofitted the lights, respectively.
The comfort station was destroyed by a fire in September 2007. Site Engineering was awarded a $124,859 contract to rebuild the facility, the release states.
The cost of retrofitting the lights at Peter Rayno Park was $160,000. The project was one phase of a multi-park lighting retrofit that was awarded to Paul’s Electrical Contracting to minimize the impact of light sources on endangered and threatened seabirds and also as an energy efficiency measure.
