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BANYAN DRIVE past HILO BAY HOTEL and towards the NEW NANILOA HOTEL, the Banyan trees overhead are encroaching and entwining, preventing the SUNLIGHT to "peer" through to the street, making it very opaque and a very dangerous and unsecured commuting by the employees of the business enterprises who ordinarily would have to walk across to the Parking Lot across the Street towards the "Golf Course." The OUTDOOR CIRCLE ORGANIZATION have been very ADAMANT in having the center of the Trees cut, as they have stated, "IT b~'ILL DEFACE THE BEAUTY OF THE DRIVE". No, they are wrong as the Trees would still be there, but the Drive would be "safe to drive through or walk across". 3. PROTECTION OF THE CITY OF HILO BY TSUNAMIS AND TIDAL WAVES IN THE FUTURE. Sometime in the latter part of the 40's and 50's, the U>S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS intraduced "A RECEDING WALL FROM THE OLD LIGHTHOUSE IN DOWNTOWN H€LO WHERE WAIANUENUE EXISTS TO ROUTE 19, THEN ON TO MOOHEAU PARK." Somehow there were no "LISTENERS". A note of interest is that one of the Organizations. who objected to this PROJECT remarked :"IT IS STUPID, AS WE CAN NO LONGER BE ABLE TO SEE THE BAY AND OCEAN". Well, I disagreed with them and stated: While beauty is relative, my main contribution is to HUMAN LIVES. Well, this can be put to realistic approach by having our CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES FROM HAWAII seek FEDERAL GRANTS for this most important Project. 4. ELIMINATION OF POLLUTION IN THE BAY AND HARBOR. There must be a concerned and exerted effort by the COUNTY, STATE AND FEDERAL OFFICIALS in this type of Endeavor. I would suggest after, having a conversation with my son, DR. FRANCIS L. BENEVIDES, with an ELECTRONIC ENGINEER DEGREE,to segmentized the existing BREAKWATER in interval areas to allow the "flow in and flow out" system of waves, and even be `helpful' in minimizing the strength of a TIDAL WAVE and TSUNAMI wave action. 5. BREAKWATER PROTRUDING FROM the "OLD HILO SUGAR MILL". This would allow apassage-way through the channel and also pt•event the "SPLASH of Tidal wave of Tsunami endangering HILO. In the past, experiencing, personally on the onslaught of this destruction was caused by a wave action hitting the coastline of the entrance to the Hilo Bay and City of Hilo by splashing against the sides of this coastline. 6. REDESIGN REEDS BAY FOR A MORE ATTRACTIVE AND YET "GATHERING PLACE" for our commuters. I have redesigned a sketch of a `new Reeds Bay' that allow more Beach area, parking and security. AN ADDED NOTE IN THE PROTECTION OF OUR HARBOR, I AM ALSO INTRODUCING THE ARRIVAL OF MORE OCEANLINERS TO HILO (we did it in the 20's and 30's), we can do it again. With the arrival of Oceanliners, the one `selling point' is the presenting of Flower leis (Not artificial) to the visitors as we did in the past "WHEN WE HAD DIRECT FLIGH`T'S TO HILO" until the year 1981when some of our LEADERS for "INVESTMENT GREED" `crucified Hilo and East Hawaii in its economic growth.' And yet, the Audacity to place a stupid sign "INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT". What International Airport?? Do you see a great number of Aircraft (International) to HILO? SUGGESTION: The sign is a misnomer and should be TAKEN DOWN AND REPLACED WITH A NEW SIGN where visibility or identifying the entrance of the Airport NORTH and SOUTH on KANOELEHUA :'VENUE. Asit is now, there is no sign stating the entrance to the AIRPORT on KANOELEHUA AVENUE facing North. In its place, the name as was always in the past, ~