Noisy neighbor
Noisy neighbor
I live in Pepeekeo, where I find it’s a pretty peaceful place, and if there are any commotions they are within families and not neighbors intimidating neighbors.
Sad to say, I have a neighbor … and family who turns on their radio very loud, before 8 a.m. They’ll do it loyally each morning until after 8 p.m. It seems as though the radio sits on the windowsill facing my house.
It’s not that I don’t like the music, and truthfully I don’t have anything against them. But the loud music does not go well with a person suffering severely with fibromyalgia.
What is this man teaching his family? I see no respect for others. Will the children continue in this legacy of his? To make matters worse, what of the foster children they have in their home? What are they teaching these children who might already be suffering some sort of trauma in their lives?
Shouldn’t we all be considerate of others? There’s enough animosity going on in this world; there’s no need to add any suffering to this plague of pain.
Evelyn Ontiveros
Pepeekeo
Don’t submit
It is appropriate the University of Hawaii closed the Mauna Kea Visitor Information Station and the summit road.
If the protesters’ stated goal is achieved — removal of all telescopes — this will be the result: No more stargazing by the keiki at the visitor center, no telescope time for Hilo kamaaina who are studying astronomy, and, I dare say, no more science education at the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center.
We should listen to the protesters in their advocacy of mitigation of environmental impacts of development on the mountain. However, there is a philosophical thread that emerged akin to the old Puritanism, pronouncing it inappropriate for keiki to play in the snow and demanding the cessation of astronomy on Mauna Kea because the mountain is sacred.
To this, we need not submit.
Kathleen Friday
Hilo
‘Hate and bigotry’
How wonderful it was to drive by Lincoln Park and be greeted by signs of peace and love instead of the homophobic, Islamaphobic and Obamaphobic trash that has been assaulting my senses seemingly forever.
So, to the good people who organized “Take Back Lincoln Park”: Thank you for finally doing what countless others, myself included, only wished would happen.
If there is a bright side, it has to be that in the hundreds of times I’ve driven by, “the Reverend” (James) Borden rarely has had more than one or two in his “congregation.”
That pretty well sums up the way his four-year diatribe of hate and bigotry has resonated with the Big Island residents.
Lucky we live Hawaii!
Dale Crabtree
Volcano