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ALAMEDA:Okay. Any questions for Jovani? I like that name Jovani. Awesome.
<br />Good job.
<br />PERRY:My name is Michael Perry and not “W.” My address is -. I know, my
<br />Mom named me after that guy, I don’t know why. But my address is 74-5085 Kealapua Street,
<br />Kailua-Kona.
<br />ALAMEDA:Okay, right on.
<br />PERRY:And what’s that, 2003, July 4, 2003, I always take my family camping
<br />down Makalawena in the camping area there, which is past the gates. But just beyond the gate,
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<br />every 4 of July weekend, big huge party; and all the youths in Kona and young adults in Kona,
<br />they party every year. You know, every year my frustration just, and I see my kids and they’re
<br />like, “Dad, what’s going on?” So my kids they don’t have a place to go -- that’s all they do, you
<br />know. And the next morning, every morning, you know, when we’re about to leave, we clean up
<br />‘cause there’s glass bottles, everything down there. It’s pretty crazy, you know. So, you know,
<br />every year it just disgusts me, every year, every year. And I just want to echo Jovani’s words on
<br />how the youths in Kona, and it’s just not the youths -. We have to look at these families, this is
<br />where the youths come from; and if we don’t concentrate our focus on the family, the father, the
<br />mother, that’s the two right there. If we don’t get the family a place where they can go -- ‘cause
<br />we do family camping trips, -- you know, if we don’t get the family in a place where, you
<br />know -. This is pono, this is good for us to be together, you know. And if that doesn’t happen,
<br />guess what’s going to happen? The youths are going to do what they want to do, you know; and
<br />they’ll wreck up the aina, like we see Makalawena. But if we have a camp where there is a place
<br />where we can go, you know, as us, the public, have a place where we can take our families, our
<br />kids and youths to go, then that’s a good start. Then from there, it’s going to grow to something
<br />bigger, you know. And it’s just going to be good for the island, it’s good for the people, you
<br />know, and all, so -.
<br />ALAMEDA:Thank you. All right. Any questions for Michael Perry? Thank you,
<br />thank you for your testimony.
<br />ANDERSEN:My name is Thomas Andersen, 74-5103 KealapuaPlace, Kailua-Kona.
<br />ALAMEDA:Okay. All, right. Thomas, go ahead.
<br />ANDERSEN: And I’m for this, all 100 percent, because I came out of the environment
<br />they were talking about and I just sort of -. Like being with them and being out in the public sort
<br />of like it kept me away and out of the trouble, because I have a very large past of trouble. And
<br />these guys basically like saved me from a life of torment with all this stuff. And then I think it
<br />was 2003 I was camping with them that year and then, yeah, that morning we had to clean up
<br />everything after everybody just left after their partied. And just looking at it, it made me sick
<br />because they were just torturing everything. And then maybe if we give them this camp like they
<br />might just keep everything clean and maybe like not like, what is that, party all the time and just
<br />stay out of trouble.
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