Let halau stay
Let halau stay
Merrie Monarch groups (halau) no longer can use gyms to sleep because the gyms do not meet fire sprinkler and alarm codes (and, of course, you aren’t supposed to eat in gyms).
I don’t know how the four halau that stayed in gyms were chosen this year, but I have never heard of any problems through the years and I suspect the halau left the gyms in the same condition they found them.
Why can’t the county make gyms available to halau by establishing guidelines and requiring a “hold harmless” agreement be signed by everyone using a gym? If things are a mess, levy a fine on the halau, per agreement.
Hilo has limited accommodations and halau have limited resources. Sure, safety is a concern, but why can’t the county compromise and meet the halau somewhere in the middle? (Sounds to me like lawyers are involved.)
It’s easy to come up with reasons why you can’t do something. Try help more, not less — especially when it doesn’t cost the taxpayer much of anything.
Fred Fogel
Volcano
Evil on both sides
In response to David Legge’s comment regarding the cartoon of Aug. 18 (Tribune-Herald, Commentary): My first-grade teacher taught us that two wrongs don’t make a right.
The Ku Klux Klan hating people because of their skin color is wrong! I just can’t advocate Antifas fire-bombing state buildings in Berkeley because they disagreed with certain speakers and wanted them to not be allowed to speak.
These are not the actions of “objecting to their un-Americanism.” Evil exists on both sides of the political spectrum. It’s time to stop cheering for one side or the other like our favorite sports teams because until we can collectively learn to compromise, this nation is doomed!
James Googins
Keaau
‘No shame’
It’s just like the intellectually lazy, editorially lazy David Bock to allow the publication of a cartoon on Aug. 18 (Tribune-Herald, Commentary) that equates anti-fascists with real fascists.
I hope the newspaper loses enough advertisers to put it out of business.
You should be ashamed of yourself, but people like you know no shame.
Art Roberts
Hakalau