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knows what to do with the wheat berries and the seeds and whatever. I don’t. I need her in my
<br />community and I need their business, and I think there are many other people. And it says please
<br />stop, so thank you very much.
<br />KERN: If you’d like to summarize really quickly -.
<br />SANORIA: I do?
<br />KERN: Well, if you want to, you’re right in the middle of our cutting off -.
<br />SANORIA: Okay. If any of you, I’m looking at all of you, have grandmas, aunties, whatever,
<br />that have baked in the morning and you smell that bread and you get to have bread out there in
<br />nature where the birds are singing and just everything right there grown – I mean, you can’t beat
<br />that. To me it’s common sense. And that’s what we need to stick to, is what is common sense,
<br />what is good for us as individuals and the community.
<br />KERN: Thank you very much. Now we’re going to lunch (laughter).
<br />SANORIA: I think we should have them make the sandwiches (laughter). Sorry, I got carried
<br />away.
<br />KERN: Connie Haskell.
<br />HASKELL: Yeah, I’m Connie Haskell. I’m the one who emailed that letter.
<br />KERN: Name and address, please.
<br />HASKELL: Oh, sorry. Connie Haskell. My address is 18-4115 Komo Street. So I live within
<br />three minutes, well, driving minutes of where the proposed bakery is. And talking about the
<br />Puna development, I am Puna. As well as my son who is a police officer there, and my daughter
<br />works for 911, and ten grandchildren all live in Puna. And, pretty much, I want to thank you for
<br />your openness and your frankness about being caught in between kind of a rock and a hard place
<br />in regards to how the plan has been written out and your making decisions in regards to that plan.
<br />And I know that every plan, changes have to have, changes have to happen, they have to be
<br />enhanced, especially with the exponential growth that’s happening out in Puna. We all know
<br />that. It’s going to come out. We’re going to see it real soon. And Hawai‘i in itself has
<br />superseded the nation as far as growth is concerned, and especially in the Puna area.
<br />So with that said, I think my biggest concern after listening to what all I’ve been hearing today is
<br />the determination of where the centers are in Puna. Because I live on Oshiro Road, I’ve, I mean
<br />off of Oshiro Road. In the past four years, we had over 72 homes that were built there in that
<br />small little tiny Oshiro Road, not to mention all the other growth that has happened all the way
<br />up that 8-mile stretch between Mt. View and Hirano Store. So, honestly, if either, with no, not
<br />putting down Hirano Store or Mt. View Store, but if either of those are considered the center, I
<br />think we’re way under served. There’s no, I have to, if anybody wanted to come together, the
<br />community, and stay at either one of those places, you’d have cars lined up and down the
<br />highway. So my thing is that we have no center. And if you have no center, you have no heart.
<br />So with all the planning and, you know, of course we know the old saying the devil is in the
<br />details, we all know it’s important. But at the same time, you know, the heart of the community,
<br />that’s where you have crime. It happens all the time. My son, as I said my son is a police officer
<br />in Puna, and our district is getting more and more calls. My road alone, my daughter’s 911 gets
<br />probably, I mean it’s amazing how many calls. The calls have increased.
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