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ENOCENCIO: My name is Jeno Enocencio. I live over here in Hilo up in Wainaku area. You
<br />can hear me, right?
<br />[Mr. Enocencio was not using the microphone.]
<br />HALL: No, but you have to—we're recording.
<br />IKEDA: She cannot record.
<br />ENOCENCIO: Okay, my name isis it on?
<br />IKEDA: Yes.
<br />ENOCENCIO: My name is Jeno Enocencio. I live herein Wainaku area. Born and raised in
<br />the Amau`ulu section, which is, which is in question right now as far as the Olson Trust is
<br />concerned. I was born and raised here on these Islands, and basically I'm three generations of
<br />sugar planters and—and industry, and in the past 100 years, you know, a lot of my family
<br />members have been involved in the sugar industry. Everywhere from Ka`u to all the way up to
<br />Pahala, Honoka`a area as well as well as Kohala, and so many of us in the three generations that
<br />have occupied this various forms of activities in the sugar industry, we've come to know quite a
<br />bit about the different parts of the land that we're, we lived on. Everywhere from Hakalau,
<br />Pau`auilo, Honoka`a over in Paukaa, Amau`uluespecially Amau`ulu and Kalalau area.
<br />Kalalau, Pi`ihonua, Pu`u`eo—all these areas were basically housed by many Hawaiians as well
<br />as Filipinos, Chinese, Portuguese, and the majority of the haoles that was living over here was
<br />basically in the supervisory capacity.
<br />Now, the thing about it is, is that I recently was ranching and farming opposite of Mr. Olson's
<br />Trust properties in the Kalalau ahupua`a. It's alongside the Pi`ihonua Stream, excuse me, Pau
<br />Po, oh my gosh, I love that stream. I forgot its name. It starts with a "p." Pukihae Stream,
<br />okay? And, all throughout the years, we basically did a lot of our harvesting of `o`opu, `opae,
<br />you know, and also warabi and the different type of bananas and things and such, and we also
<br />did a lot of bartering up and down that area. Now the thing about it is, back in '57 when my dad
<br />passed on—he's a World War II veteran his leg was mangled during the war and stuff, so he
<br />couldn't really work, but he had a taxicab company. And, that taxicab company basically in his
<br />old Oldsmobile travelled from Pi`ihonua, all the back roads and stuff, all the way down to
<br />Honoli`i area, and sometimes he would make it down through Mamalahoa and go into
<br />Papa`ikou, Pepe`ekeo area. Pepe`ekeo was kind of too far, though, but Pu`u`eo Park, and all
<br />those areas there. And, we'd do a lot of bartering. A lot of the bartering was vegetables and as
<br />well as meats, you know, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, hogs, and things of such.
<br />Now, that river area, and that area that Mr. Olson wants to develop into housing and commercial
<br />tenements or whatever, buildings as he wants to put up regarding residential as well as
<br />condominiums and apartments, is areas that have poor, really, really poor drainage. Not only is
<br />it poor drainage, every year whenever we have heavy rains and stuff, that Wainaku Street floods
<br />out to the max right below Clem Akina Park. The drainage over there is really, really poor. This
<br />year was really bad because it went all the down to the apartment areas—Riverside as well as
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