Your Views for November 4

‘Let’s do better’

Dawn Goehring is right on with her letter of Nov. 1 (Tribune-Herald, Your Views) regarding the Humane Society in Keaau.

We are fortunate to have this shelter, and they do a great job for our community with little money and less appreciation.

The real problem, as Dawn puts so well, is a community way behind the times in its attitudes toward animals.

It is shameful the way animals in our community are neglected, abused, abandoned, overbred, discarded, not spayed/neutered and generally not given the compassion or respect every living creature deserves.

Our kuleana as humans includes stewardship of the land, the water, the air and all God’s creatures we share it with. Let’s do better.

Laura Buck

Keaau

Airport parking

The parking concession at the Hilo Airport is not being operated well or efficiently.

When the parking lot was reconfigured, the new exit ended up with only one booth. This causes exiting cars to sometimes back up quite a distance at busy times. I fly at least once a week and see the problems frequently.

I would love to use the credit card machine exit lane, but more often than not this equipment is broken down and everyone has to use the booth. Another problem is no canopy on the booth. Did the people who designed this so-called “improvement” know Hilo is the rainiest city in the country?

The appropriate authorities should work to have a canopy built that will extend over the booth and the credit card lanes. This will help protect the equipment, customers and employees.

Hopefully, the equipment would not break down as often with this protection. With a little ingenuity, it probably wouldn’t be too difficult to erect a “temporary” fabric canopy over both exit lanes that could serve until a permanent canopy can be built.

Come on, folks, this isn’t rocket science.

Bob Alder

Hilo