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was littered with glass, trash, clothes, you know, it was just trash, really, really trash. And today
<br />I want to speak about another place that we go camping that I take a couple of my youth, is
<br />Kiholo, Kiholo Beach Park. There is no camping there no more because people wrecked that
<br />place up. There are teenagers that parties; I mean they are just having a blast, you know what I
<br />mean? I feel that if we get to the heart or get to the source of these teenagers and what they are
<br />struggling with, and if we can use the retreat as a facility to hold things there, we can get them
<br />out, you know what I mean, and get them walk in the right path. Then we would see a lot of
<br />development in our community that’s going to flow through; they are going to see how important
<br />our land is to us, how important people is to us, you know what I mean, is what’s going to boil
<br />down to. So again I’m just supporting these kids ’cause they’re our generation. They’re going
<br />to be probably the ones that are sitting inside your guys seats, you know, if we raise them right; it
<br />takes a whole village to raise one child, not just one person. But that’s all I have to say.
<br />GRAHAM: Thank you, Michael. Do we have any questions from the
<br />Commissioners? Commissioner Domingo?
<br />DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Perry, what kind of a program you
<br />work with the youth?
<br />PERRY: Well, I’m the upcoming youth pastor at Mokuaikaua Church, and
<br />we do a lot of leadership camps where we show them their leadership potentials. Picture it as a -,
<br />since we are right here located right on the main strip here, we have a lot of kids that just come
<br />right off of streets; we don’t even know these kids. But it’s like taking a piece of clay and
<br />molding them to just as beautiful statues that -, it’s like, wow. You know what I mean? And
<br />then they find not just respect in others, they find respect in themselves first. And through these
<br />camps, like what I said, we do leadership things that we find leadership qualities that we can
<br />build on within them. And that’s right there, you know, right when we get that ball rolling, then
<br />they’ll find leadership in themselves, and then after that it’s just a snowball effect. Once the
<br />leader is strong, who knows the possibility that’s going to happen from there; he might just step
<br />up to do more things. And in that time he is going to set example for the next generation. It’s
<br />just a snowball effect. And the one thing is leadership; we really do, really press on, ’cause there
<br />are leaders in these kids, but society really breaks them down, really breaks them down.
<br />DOMINGO: Are you familiar with the intent of the program that they are going
<br />to have at the proposed camp?
<br />PERRY: Yes, I do. I spoke to Jim, the one of the Redwoods’ -, that’s
<br />developing the camp. And that’s just amazing what’s going to happen down there. And I think
<br />it’s going to benefit not just the west coast here, but even Kohala side, too. ’Cause we do have a
<br />lot of – in our church ’cause it’s an old congregational church – we have a lot of sister churches
<br />down there that we do a lot of things with.Even the one church that got destroyed by the
<br />earthquake – I’m not familiar with the -, I forgot the name, can’t think of the name right now –
<br />even with that facility, too, that we work with, so -.
<br />DOMINGO: Thank you.
<br />GRAHAM: Any other questions from the Commissioners? Sir, your name and
<br />address first, please.
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