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TORIGOE:I just want to also remind anybody who uses PowerPoint, it would be good if we had a hard copy of the program to keep in the record. GIFFIN:Maile? DAIVD:How many copies? How many hard copies, the regular 15 and all parties? TORIGOE:Yeah, I think itÓd probably be the best. DAVID:Okay. GIFFIN:Thank you. Is there anyone else besides Ron Cawthorn who is here this morning to give public testimony on this agenda item? No one? Okay, Ron, will you please come forward and correct me in the pr CAWTHON:ItÓs Cawthon. Everybody wants to add Ðr.Ñ GIFFIN:Oh. Ron, will you please raise your right hand? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Hawaii County Planning Commission? CAWTHON:Yes, I do. GIFFIN:Thank you. Will you please state your full name and your for the record? CAWTHON:My name is Ron Cawthon. My resident address is 78-6988 Mamalahoa Highway, Keauhou Mauka. GIFFIN:Thank you. You may begin your testimony. CAWTHON:Mahalo. I brought my glasses this time. Aloha, good morning to each of you. Mahalo for your work and I look forward to you not allowing the further desecration of HawaiiÓs few remaining links to the true Hawaiian Culture. Imag that has been there for more than 22 generations, and no one has run a bulldozer through it. One of the first things that I was told when I came home to HawaiÒi was man bite aina, aina bite man. One of the many current interest holders in this aina, Wayne Blasman has been told by na kupuna and our community a ole, please do not hurt our aina, extraordinary means. Mr. Blasman was given the opportunity to get out with what it cost him, as with many haole people, people that only seek profit and promise of making money and those trying to help him profit for themselves, the engineers, the archaeologists, the lawyers, just to make a living right? Not for our community, nor for the Hawaiia 10