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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> WRITTEN STATEMENT <br /> of <br /> HANNAH KIHAIANI SPRINGER <br /> KUKUI'OHIWAI, KA'UPULEHU <br /> November 2, 1998 <br /> before the <br /> County of Hawai'i Planning Commission <br /> on the Application of <br /> KA'UPULEHU DEVELOPMENTS <br /> for an SMA Use Permit and Change of Zone <br /> <br /> Me Ka Ha'aha'a <br /> 1 My name is Hannah Kihalani Springer. <br /> <br /> 2 1 live at Kukui'ohiwai a privately owned parcel in Ka'upulehu. The <br /> mailing address is 72-3403 Mamalahoa Highway * Kailua, Kona, Hawaii <br /> Hl 96740. <br /> <br /> 3 Our family has lived at Kukui'ohiwai since 1919. <br /> <br /> 4 My direct ancestors are buried at Hu'ehu'e, Makalawena. <br /> <br /> 5 1 was born at the Kona Hospital on March 10, 1952. <br /> <br /> 6 Among my early memories is trekking out in the mawae pele of the <br /> Ka'upulehu lava flow to see the olivines in the lava there. The gabro and <br /> dunite inclusions associated with this flow are of interest of geologists today. <br /> <br /> 7 This flow surrounded Hinakapo'ula. Hinakapo'ula is a named wahi <br /> pana (Kumu Pono Associates, May 1998. Pg 31). <br /> <br /> 8 This flow emerges from the cloud and dry forests, the dominion of <br /> Kumokuhali'i. <br /> <br /> 9 Kuka'ohi'alaka is known from Pu'u Honua'ula near to the summit at <br /> Hainoa (Kumu Pono Associates, May 1998. Pg.32). <br /> <br /> 10 The southern margin of the Ka'upulehu flow is V a lava. The lava <br /> crept along, kulipe'e, moving like "an old woman", creating the jumbled flow <br /> front that we cross when coming to Kalaemano from the hema side. <br /> <br /> 11 Pole came from the inlands, hungry for the awa from the ponds at <br />