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What would be .the value of . Kailua today had we followed .the dictates of the <br /> Constitution? <br /> Would it be a natural source - of wealth -for all the people of Kona and the County of . <br /> Hawai' i? - <br /> <br /> - Or - <br /> Are we better off without the beach so we can,have a sea wall and hotels and, restaurants <br /> and tee -shirt shops and a place where launches can disgorge cruise ship passengers? <br /> In Kanzehameha°s time Kona had another great source of wealth, the fishponds that ran <br /> for mils~s along what is now Keahole. These. ponds- could .store enough, ppoteir; to `provide - <br /> a stead~,~ supply for Kameharneha's-warriors. A1tliough these ponds -were destroyed by <br /> - -nature ;Wore than two hundred. -years .aga; tli~s area now includes. ~ a National I?arlc arid- <br /> fishponds (where perhaps the .great King is buried), and NELHA where we are <br /> investigating natural onergy, a~uaculture and biointensive agriculture -key clements• in <br /> ~Hawa.i'i's eeanomic future:. 13et~veun the -Parr and NELHA is~ :a c~3~ious lifitl:€; place <br /> known inastly to locals; whsr~ many of those acMvities that. used to occur iii Kailua aceur <br /> today. It is iwt a National, State or County :Park, it is just a place selected by the <br /> cdmmur~ity and cared for b~° the Dhana where customs- and practices once coniinon <br /> throughout the- islands. still occur today in what seems to be a "normal"' or "everyday" <br /> manner. Tha$ place is: <br /> K®hana ik~ ~ . <br /> • A barren. spit of a a, blasted by wind and sun, almost treeless, forbidding . <br /> A .place d%sturbing and "unsafe" to malahnis ~vho want to plant--grass-and ornamental - ~ . <br /> .:Cress and shrubs acid ``clean up"' the local riff riff who seem to hang out. there <br /> 41 remote, place <br /> . Difficult to :access <br /> But a gathering place rrorrethe?ess <br /> Perhaps a gathering. place with a special. meaning <br /> bb~e ala eh~ aka kena ~ - <br /> A mist. pathway that" <br /> f ukui & Elbert <br /> What is in a Hams? Haivaiiari. has more words with multiple .meanings than. any ®ther <br /> language. It is "unsafe" for a Paauilo .haole ~to presume knowledge of the nuances of a <br /> 1-lawaiian word,,-but. with the. assistance of Mary Kawena.I'ukui and Samuel III. I?Ibert, <br /> • one might speculate. - <br /> Kohana ~1 'b4t.,itt~e naked place" <br /> A place ~`vithout trees ~ . <br /> A place without protection <br /> A place.; <br /> or little. naked children, to play - . <br /> A place ~vherc kupuna-watch the children of the ®hana - <br /> • -3 <br /> <br />