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<br /> Firom MICRH 8 GWEN PHGtJE No. 808 968 6208 May. 84 1997 11:46RM P02 <br /> Mlcah Miller <br /> P.O. Box 1842 <br /> Wilo, HI 96721 <br /> • f RECfiVt~ ~ <br /> May 4,1997 <br /> John 5antan elo Dare-----Sls_l~.~_..______.___._ <br /> 9 County Council <br /> Hawaii County Council <br /> Esteemed Councilman, <br /> You have accomplished a groat deal with your business in 20 years, <br /> which has depended in part on tourism and health conscious customers. <br /> What if people stop visiting us bocause we industrialize with an <br /> irradiation facility and maybe a wood pulp mill? Or boycott our irradiated <br /> food products? You can't be sure it won't happen. I urge you to vote <br /> against Bill N62 and Resolution 71-97. <br /> One can obtain opinions pro and con about the potential harm caused to <br /> foods by irradiation, maybe we won't know the truth until such foods have <br /> been used for several years. If it would prove harmful you wouldn't want <br /> the infamous legacy of having approved such a facility. The possibility of <br /> an accident occuriny is more likely, on the world's most active volcano, <br /> with hazards of earthquakes and human error. <br /> I encourage you to develop plans which show off our island as a place <br /> visitors will seek out as an American place unlike any other, without the <br /> resemblance every town on the mainland has to one anon-ter with similar <br /> looking malls and fast rood shops al every entrance and exit. What you <br /> have accomplished with your business is a good example, as well open air <br /> markets, Hawaiian and Pacific Island cultural cei7ters, plantation town <br /> museums, Camping facilities, improved old Hawaiian trail systems, sports <br /> centers, biological gardens, bike camps and trails, recreational parks <br /> (water parks, mtnature golf), botanical mazes (a Cycad maze...) cane roadc <br /> as scenic tours, solar carts delivering the over age 70 visitors on a jungle <br /> cruise, ecological education centers and B 'n B's serving locally grown <br /> produce as other possibilities. <br /> Please, let's retain the natural jewel we found when we arrived in Ka'u <br /> those years back. Everyone receives solace from Nature, let them coma <br /> here to find it. <br /> Comm. No. 212. 27l <br /> P11e No.~,~, <br /> rrQaeoted <br /> Ref. 1b: aNMt <br /> ~ MAY 0 7 1991 <br /> leer. Date.-.w y,..~. <br /> <br />