Beautify Hilo
Beautify Hilo
Do you enjoy living in a place that looks bad and unclean, or does not have the attraction to make people want to come here? The way our city is looking now, it is going downhill.
Hilo has an overwhelming amount of old buildings, terrible roads that need to be fixed and overgrown plant life. This needs to change.
When all of these factors are brought together, it does not sound good. When the plants are overgrown, it covers the street signs, and when the street signs are covered, it creates issues. Issues are bad.
When a person driving a car or riding a bike crosses the road, not seeing the sign, they could get seriously injured and/or might even die! Don’t let people die. Save lives — clean and cut the overgrown plants!
The old roads and buildings make Hilo look really out of date. This could cause many terrible things. The state of Hawaii depends heavily on the money from tourists. If everything looks old and moldy, why would people want to come here?
If the tourists do not like it here, they might write bad reviews about their terrible experience. This would be bad on many levels. Because a lot of people do research on a place before they go there, the bad reviews would influence people not to come, and if they don’t come, they will not spend their money here. A lot of the money from tourists goes toward the education of your children.
This could all change if we were to start cleaning our city and home, Hilo. If Hilo looked cleaner and more up to date, tourists would write good reviews, and that would encourage more tourists to come and spend their money, which would go to our schools to better educate our children.
So, if you do not want a rugged and old city, clean up your act and make it better!
Steve Hinders
Hilo
Ban smoking
In the state of Hawaii, smoking is a problem. When you walk on the streets of Hawaii, you’ll see adults and teenagers smoking everywhere.
All these people who smoke are not only affecting themselves, but everyone else around them as well. I think teenagers are smoking because they see adults smoking, or because they think it’s “cool.” It’s like saying, “Monkey see, monkey do.”
However, these adults and teenagers fail to realize the health issues caused by smoking. It can cause things such as lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, rotting teeth and the list continues.
I am personally affected by cigarettes because the people I care about smoke, and they have health problems from smoking and are just adding more to their health issues. They even got bronchitis from smoking, but they got better.
All in all, we should ban the use of any cigarettes or smoking devices.
Rachel Lorenzo
Pahoa