Youth sports
I’m loving your high school sports coverage. So glad you are back in the local sports game. And back you all came, in a big way!
Connor Whitt’s coverage in Sunday’s paper of the Waiakea/Kohala varsity baseball game was active, exciting and had the energy of a press box play-by play.
Kelsey Walling’s great photo of Kohala’s third baseman Kailani Valenzuela’s long lean-in for the catch was a gem.
How great to see our island’s best resource, our youth, front page and center, knocking it out of the park.
Thanks for showcasing the hard work and spirit of our high school athletes.
Barbara Feliciano Pinkerton
Waimea
Blame the grass
So glad they are paving a new parking lot on the corner of Ponahawai and Keawe streets.
I was so sick of seeing the homeless congeal all hours of the day and night on the muddy, yucky, evil grass, leaving needles, rubbish … and worse.
Now, they can hold court in a brand new parking lot and leave their rubbish and needles there! Problem solved. Mahalo, geniuses!
So glad I moved here years ago. You know … to get away from mainland corruption, cronyism and bad development and bad civic ideas and ideals.
Who would have thought the problem was the grass and not the very able-bodied homeless folks we have here.
Allen Russell
Hilo
Save the birds
Hawaii has been blessed with dozens of beautiful bird species found nowhere else in the world, such as the scarlet ‘i‘iwi, the playful ‘elepaio, and the rare, woodpecker-like ‘akiapola‘au.
Sadly, more than half of our endemic birds have gone extinct, mainly because of diseases carried by non-native mosquitoes.
Today, we have a natural, nontoxic tool to combat alien mosquitoes. Releasing incompatible male mosquitoes (which don’t bite) to mate with local female mosquitoes will cause the females to lay sterile eggs and make their populations crash.
This control method is non-GMO and does not involve toxic chemicals. If we don’t do anything, we will lose the rest of our native forest birds, some within the next couple of years.
In years to come, will we have to tell our children that we had a way to save the birds but we didn’t do it? ‘A‘ole mosquitoes! Save the birds!
J. B. Friday
Hilo