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WATANABE: Ms. Chun -. CHUN: They realized the importance of the ocean and lived that way Î I will Î and two sites are offshore. I just want to say that personally I go there and observe the rising of the makaliÒi at makahiki time and at other times, and IÓm always aware of the spirit of this place. From birth to burials Hawaiians have observed and practiced rites, theyÓve lived lives there, traditions and practices ongoing that we enrich what we call a l living honua. And we all can be, and we all should be, concerne sacred spirit that is Honokhau, Kaloko-Honokhau. Thank you very much. WATANABE: Okay. Do we have any questions of Ms. Chun? Okay, the three of you may be seated. Then I have one last person who signed up to testify Î that would be Isaac Harp. Mr. Harp? May I swear you in, sir? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Planning Commission? HARP: Yes, I do. WATANABE: Thank you. And then name and address, please. HARP: My name is Isaac Harp. IÓm here representing Makani Hou o Kaloko- Honokhau, and the mailing address is Post Office Box 437338, Kamuela, here presenting this testimony on behalf of the president of Makani Hou o Kaloko-Honokhau, Mr. Fred Cachola. And before I do that, I would like to provide some comments from myself. IÓm a lineal descendant of this area. My mom was the last generation to have spent time living in this area. And as a young girl she caught her what they called Ðcandy,Ñ the little fishes in the ÒAiÒpio fish trap. ÒAiÒpio literally translate into food for the children. They built what they call Òahua into the water, which is stone piles; they piled up stones all around in the ÒAiÒpio and surrounded that with their net, after the stones were sitting for quite a while to gather fish and then they broke down the stone piles to catch fish in their net, take it out and dry it and thatÓs what the candy was for the kids down there back in the old days. Unfortunately, the family was evicted from the area shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, were, as a matter of national security, I guess, at that time. So my mom ended up moving to OÒahu. And she returned several decades later, and we went down to the Park and visited the area, and she broke down in tears, seeing the harbor built there. They had a pet turtle, a giant female turtle and by the name of Daisy; and she said thatÓs where Daisy lived, and she just broke down in tears and cried for about an hour before she was able to recover. And I have worked as a cultural monitor for James Greenwell and Lanihau Production, or Lanihau Property; they are developing the area mauka of the highway just to the left of the screen here to continue the light industrial area development from Costco going back south. And I was hired to protect the burial because some of our family burials are located there. TheyÓre primarily tube, lava tube burials. So I sealed all of the burial tubes and created some buffer all the way around. I feel those are generous provisions for buffers, like 50 feet from the burial sites. And I hope that serves as sort of a model for future development where they bring cultural monitors in and protect the burial sites and things. And he also contributed a culturally rich area, a lot of historical sites and things, basically to the families Î a five-acre cultural preservation area EXHIBIT E 12