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ALAMEDA:Thank you. <br />GRANDONI:Mark Grandoni, P.O. Box 1269, Kapaau. <br />ALAMEDA:Thank you. <br />HEDLUND:Yumiko Hedlund, P.O. Box 1006, Kapaau. <br />ALAMEDA:Okay. <br />RAGAN:Karl Ragan, P.O. Box 1257, Kamuela. <br />ALAMEDA:Okay, Karl, you can old the mike. We can start with you for your <br />testimony. Go ahead. <br />RAGAN:I’ll try to be really short, surf is up. <br />ALAMEDA:Okay. <br />RAGAN:I’m the pastor, the kahu of First Baptist Methodist Church, Waimea, and <br />every year we take quite a few or try to take quite a few young people. Almost all of my church <br />are local and our only camping area right now for us to go to is on Oahu; and we go every year, <br />and it cost us a lot of money to fly them over there for a camping experience. And it’s my hope <br />that we can have a camp like this here so that we can take more young people. It takes us all <br />year for them to raise the money and for the church to raise them. We made a commitment that <br />every child or youth that wants to go will go regardless of the cost and that has become very <br />expensive for us as a church. Simply, make it affordable, and I think this would do it for our <br />local people here. <br />ALAMEDA:All right. Thank you, sir. Any questions for Karl? Seeing none, you may <br />be seated. Thank you very much. Surf’s up. Yumiko? <br />HEDLUND:Yes. <br />ALAMEDA:Go ahead. <br />HEDLUND:I represent my church, Kohala Baptist Church. We live, our church <br />located on coastline, very close to ocean. So we do manage to take our children to camping trip <br />quite often, but the very small number of children, we can’t handle large amount of that. We do <br />want to invite all the children from the community. But so far we aren’t able, there’s not enough <br />facility. The people, power, we don’t have it. But the project like that would allow us to invite <br />the people, the children from outside of church; and we do need to approach very much, you <br />know, the children from community. So affordable and very convenient. And there’s <br />scholarship allowed, so that will give us great opportunity to reach out to children, very <br />wonderful. <br />EXHIBIT A <br />7 <br /> <br />