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ALAMEDA:Thank you. Thank you, Thomas. Any questions for Thomas? Good job. Good to know you’re back on track. Keep it going. Awesome. Ma’am? TRUMP:Yes, I’m Debbie Trump and my address is P.O. Box 25, Hawi 96719. And thank you for having us here today, giving us the opportunity to speak; and I am representing the Kohala community as a member of the Kohala community. My husband and I have been in Hawai`i since 1979; and we have two teenagers, and they have been involved with Project Venture. I’m also representing the Pregnancy Center. With the Pregnancy Center, I come in contact with at-risk children as young as 13 years old. And I know that the more wholesome opportunities that we provide for young people, the better we are; and I have full confidence that Jenny and Sully and Camp Hawai`i will provide a wholesome opportunity for families and youths. And I’d also like to say that I am familiar with the Alliance group and I know them to be of very high integrity and purpose. Thank you. ALAMEDA:Thank you. Any questions for the testifier? Seeing none, you all may be seated, and thanks for coming today. We have three more testifiers. Everybody is doing really good in terms of keeping it brief and to the point. So let us call up Keoni Sugimoto, Richie Lambeth and Alex Scarpetta. All right, please raise your right hand? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Hawai`i County Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS:I do. ALAMEDA:Thank you. I guess the microphone is on your side so we get to start with you, first. Could you please state your name and address for the record? SCARPETTA:My name is Alex Scarpetta. I live on Union Mill. My mailing address is P.O. Box 796, Kapaau. And I’m one of the families that will be impacted by this decision. The idea sounds nice. But, I lived most of my life on Maui as well. And I’m against any special use permit for agricultural land ‘cause, I’ll start with one, sets precedence for everybody else. You approve this guy, you know, I mean, you can do other permits for non-agricultural use and the whole flavor of the community is changed. And, yeah, so, I’m against this decision so -. ALAMEDA:Okay. Any questions for Alex? Seeing none, thanks for coming and testifying today. Appreciate your testimony. You may be seated. Sir? LAMBETH:My name is Richie Lambeth and my address is Post Office Box 5076, Kailua-Kona. I’ve been here for 40 years. I had five kids that were all made here. I have 10 grand kids, half of which are hapa; and I might be white on the outside but I’m Hawaiian on the inside. I love this place; and I’ve given a lot back to it because of that love for it. I’ve been a pastor, I’ve been a youth worker, I coach T-ball, I coach soccer, I spend a lot of my time here working with young people. I worked for two years with special needs children at Kona Crafts. And one of the main disappointments, one of the main longings of the youths here is that there’s nothing to do. That’s one of their main complaints. And because there’s nothing to do, like those guys said Makalawena, you can go down to Long’s on the weekend at night and the kids are hanging out in the parking lot ‘cause there’s nothing to do. This opportunity will give kids something to do; and with all due respect to the gentleman who said there was umpteen places to camp in Kohala, meditation centers and I don’t remember all of EXHIBIT A 17