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YATES: Well, I’ll try the best I can on that one as far as -. We’ve got a lot more <br />positives obviously, especially being from the islands and seeing it developed. I remember <br />specifically when I left the islands to go to college thinking what a world there is out there when <br />I finally got there.I said, wow, you can actually buy milk for $3 a gallon or whatever it was <br />back then instead of what the price was when I was growing up. So actually I have a lot more <br />benefits. I can tell you that if we didn’t have that I believe grocery prices would not be what <br />they should be today on the island, which, you know, the savings to each household, including to <br />myself with a household of five, is something that I would look forward to personally. <br />GRAHAM: Thank you. Mr. Crowley, do you have any comment on that, too? <br />CROWLEY: I can’t give you any specifics as far as risks that are involved; but as we’ve <br />talked about before, we live in this community and our families grew up in this community. And <br />as I stated my wife was born and raised here, our families are here. So if there are risks that are <br />involved, we are going to address any of the risks, we’ll try to address them as best we can and <br />try and fix whatever is brought to our attention. <br />GRAHAM: My understanding of Commissioner Ogata’s question for you was just to <br />give you an opportunity to speak to the issues that other people have testified that are problems <br />for them, that’s all. <br />YATES: Well, I’d like to make one comment on something that was just brought <br />up. One, again, I am the general store manager again so I’m born and raised as local as you can <br />get. So as far as opportunities for locals, it’s unlimited. I also want to make mention that I have <br />13 upper managers where 9 of them are local. So the majority of my staff is from the island here <br />locally and they have a great opportunity to advance as far as they’d like to. <br />GRAHAM: Thank you, sir. <br />CROWLEY: And I would say the same thing. I have 13 and 9 of my 13 are locals from <br />Hawaii, graduated from Hawaii schools. <br />GRAHAM: Thank you. Any follow-up, Commissioner Ogata? No? <br />OGATA: No. <br />GRAHAM: Thank you both. <br />IWASHITA: Mr. Chair? <br />GRAHAM: Yes, Commissioner Iwashita. <br />IWASHITA: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just for the record, I’m a Hilo High School <br />graduate. My recollection, we used to bust up Kona a lot at football. <br />YATES: Oh, that’s not true. <br /> EXHIBIT D 12 <br /> <br /> <br />