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P.O. Box 1082 _ <br /> Hilo, HI ~ !1 <br /> March 20, 99~ <br /> '97 f~flR 20 P~1 4 Q7 <br /> James Arakaki, Council Chairman <br /> Hawaii County Council COUNT`," CLf_~r< <br /> 25 Aupuni street COUNTY Of~ HAWAII <br /> Hilo, HI 96720 <br /> Dear Mr. Arakaki: <br /> <br /> All of us are cautious before we open the door of our home and <br /> let in a stranger. How can we know if the person will do us good <br /> or harm? Once he has entered, it is too late, as millions of <br /> crime victims can testify - if they are still alive to do so. <br /> Please don't put our island residents at risk of becoming casual- <br /> ties as well by encouraging Isomedix to push its way in here. <br /> <br /> After all, this is not a magnanimous enterprise they're pro- <br /> posing. Their interest is in their own pockets. Their concern <br /> is not our pockets, our economic stability, our quality of life, <br /> our most-likely compromised future. Nor is it the possible <br /> damage to the people consuming the food items in good faith. <br /> How many of the people who demonstrated the widely-touted "excel- <br /> lent consumer acceptance" of the test-marketed products were <br /> informed that they were eating irradiated food? Most people are <br /> unaware of what the deceptively benign logo represents. <br /> If a treatment process is considered so extremely dangerous that <br /> superhuman efforts must be employed to protect people from <br /> getting anywhere near it lest they get cancer, who in their right <br /> mind would believe that wholesome, life-giving food could be the <br /> result? Why isn't more effort being put into finding a safe <br /> alternative treatment, or else consuming the fruit here in Hawaii? <br /> The cost of Isomedix' enterprise is $1.25 million, and they <br /> "generously" intend to cover it themselves. Why should we then be <br /> made fools of b~ handing Mayor Yamashiro $2 million more? Every <br /> day there is new public expression of alarm over Mayor Yamashiro's <br /> obvious corruption. At every turn, he has been open about his <br /> reverence for the buck - the buck for him, not for the struggling <br /> residents of this island, as he tries to make it appear. Please do <br /> not participate in furthering his corruption. <br /> Sincerely, <br /> Yom-,. <br /> Victoria Walsh <br /> cc: All County Council members <br /> ~ »a aia <br /> ra._--~~D1'1~.._. <br /> >~x. ro: C.. <br /> lse~. IYste_ NAR 2 1 1997; <br /> <br />