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GRAHAM:Does that mean the letters that we€ve received, you don€t have <br />copies of those letters? <br />MATHISON:We€ve never received any. <br />GRAHAM:No? Maybe the Planning Department staff could just be sure to <br />pass those along to you, also. Thank you. <br />SPRINGER:Other Commissioners, any questions either of the Applicant or the <br />staff at this time? Commissioner McCall? <br />MCCALL:The church services are currently being held where at this point in <br />time? <br />MATHISON:The church at the present time? <br />MCCALL:Yes. <br />MATHISON:It€s on Kilinoe Street. This is a temporary thing that we ended <br />doing.Whenwefirstwentthere,wewentwiththeintentofbuildingachurchin <br />Volcano, because up to that time we never had been, and there still isn€t a church <br />building in the Volcano area proper. We first went to the school department because they <br />do have a public school up there that on special occasions they use it, and found out that <br />the principal at that school was in Mt. View. We went to Mt. View, we talked to the <br />principal, and he was very pleased that we wanted to use the building because they have <br />problems with vandalism and what have you because it€s empty so much of the time. But <br />we needed one more approval; and when they got into Hilo, it was shirring down. When <br />I asked why, they said, well, we just got through painting, we just put in new carpeting, <br />we don€t want, you know, anybody in it. My response to that was that we had a good <br />track record. <br />Glad Tidings Church probably most, but if you heard, if you heard of Henry Kahalehili, <br />I€ve pastored that church for six years prior to Henry coming. And the building was built <br />during World War II with old lumber, termites had it; and we had to, it had to come <br />down. So we used the Hilo Intermediate School with no problem. We had a good track <br />record, everything went smoothly. And I thought because of that it might help us secure <br />this school up there, but he wouldn€t budge on it. <br />So the next thing we did was we went to the Volcano House. It was then run by one of <br />the hotel chains, Sheraton. And a fellow by the name of Wahl was the manager, and he <br />gave us permission to use, to have a service on Sunday afternoons in the dining room of <br />the employees, which we were there for some time, and until the change. And Sheraton <br />no longer had the contract and it went to a private individual. At that time we were not <br />allowed to continue; and the Japanese School was not available to us. There€s not too <br />many buildings up here available. So we started having meeting at homes from time-to- <br />6 <br /> <br />