A call for help
A call for help
Could you help me? I am trying to contact a family which was our neighbor in Paauilo-mauka, known as Pohakea in the Hamakua District. First, I am Edgar Akio Hamasu, 85 years old and a Korean War veteran. I served as planning director in the Helene Hale administration.
The Elizares family was our neighbor, and Albert, their son, and I were very close. We grew up together, walking barefooted in our preteen years in the ’40s when the world was at war. Albert’s family included his parents and his siblings, elder sisters Eleanor and Alice, younger sister Isabella, and a younger brother we called “Junior.”
Those were the most carefree years of my life and Albert and I were inseparable. We were adventuresome and traveled far mauka in the forest lands, and all over the makai farmland and sugar cane land. We picked mountain apples, loquats and guavas along the banks of gulches. We searched for honeybee hives to get honey and chased and tried to catch mountain pigs, hoping to make kalua pig. No luck!
At 85, I get nostalgic for those years. Hence, I’d be very happy if anyone in the Elizares family could contact me.
My email address is edgarahamasu@gmail.com, and my phone number is 808-734-2446. My address is 1518 Kalaepohaku St., Honolulu, HI 96816.
Edgar A. Hamasu
Honolulu
Regarding Mayor Kenoi
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
A charming thief is still a thief and possibly a liar.
We voters either keep all the officials entrusted with our well-being accountable for their behavior, or we do nothing and live with the choices we ourselves have made, without the right to complain!
Misused funds cheat all of us. Who will stop it? Who will repay the missing funds? When? How?
How often will we let similar financial events continue? Or other abuses of power?
Become informed. Find out how and where to make the most meaningful statements for change. Make the comments short, clear and specific.
Find out how to get abusive officials replaced by people of intellectual integrity and aloha values. Make an effective choice. Act on it!
I don’t want to pay taxes twice, once for the theft and again for the original purpose. Who does?
Jeanne Owen
Papaikou