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D. Ethnobotanical Lab Site Perhaps Malamalama school needs some kind of ethnobotanical worksite where the children can get a larger feel for the flora and fauna here. I am aware of two different sites, both up for one-year leases at extremely affordable rates which may serve your immediate desires and needs much more appropriately than the large area being dis- cussed by the committee. one site, on 15th street, has a proposal on the table for a private Reading Library/Afterschool center complete with outdoor lab experience stations (arbor, 2 water ponds, fruit-bearing trees and vines, etc.) The other site, in Orchidland, has a double greenhouse, catchtank, aviary, outdoor shower and concrete house site/cesspool already on it. It also contains more species of exotic plant life than I have ever seen in one place since I've been here, and I've seen a Iot. Macadamia nut, gingers, Green Tea shrubs, all kinds of palms and fruit trees, the place also used to have peacocks cruising on it and they fit right in. Across the street my friend Bird has horses and there is a Retreat camp not far away either. Or, perhaps the thing to do is put in the Ethnobotanical garden in the Commu- nity center immediate site, but, of course, utilizing the area in discussion as the source for many of the plant species. There could even be small vegetable gardens set up to grow free food for our community hungry. This will make the garden installation much more of an immediately accessible social offering, not taking years to create but rather could be started tomorrow with the area of fenceline. Let's plant Ipu along the fenceline to bless the initiation of the process. This will make plant lovers happy. E. Plan aPotluck/Fundraiser Dress as your favorite bird or plant or endangered species. Bring a food dish made from locally grown produce. Play music Like "Gimme Shelter". Make a big deal about being the only subdivision to have its own bird sanctuary and public community center ethnobotanical garden. Parties make everyone happy, too. F. Committee Formation Make me Committee Chair/Project Designer/overseer. This will make me happy and hopefully you, too, and may provide us all with a person who is not going to diddle-fart around, nor have an inclination to find ways to spend more money. Actually, I think the subdivision, as a whole, may end up being able to make some sort of income off the research result information center for ornithologists or a type of re-enactment village, but that is a long-range plan that may take years to obtain. What we need is action today, right now, and I feel I am probably more knowledgable in the area, more respectful of it, (and already more in contact with respectable individuals who are experts in the fields that may have interests in this area), than the other members active on this committee at this point.