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<br />J. MENTNECH: You can see it in the picture, picture speaks louder than words. <br />NOMURA: I can hardly hear -. <br />WOODWARD: You need a microphone. <br />M. MENTNECH: IÓll hold it and you -. <br />J. MENTNECH: I donÓt know if you can hear it from there. <br />M. MENTNECH: Okay, this is the import stuff which -. <br />ARAI: Microphone, please. <br />J. MENTNECH: IÓll hold and you -. <br />M. MENTNECH: Okay. These are some of the import items that we <br />carvings. Ninety percent is from either Bali or Indonesia, a little bit of Thailand. The last <br />container we brought in this spring, the customs had gotten so tight and then the dollar -. The <br />prices have gone so high that when we sell this out, weÓll be done. We had some Asian food; <br />and then as I told you before I was growing hydroponic lettuce. I have a ten-acre farm in <br />PanaÒewa that has citrus, a life-time collection of tropical fruits because I was College of Ag, and <br />I like that sort of stuff. So I had everything under Î lychees, rambutans, just a lot of everything. <br />Whatever was in season we tried to sell. I donÓt know what else you got there. We had papayas <br />from friends. The neighbor immediately behind us grows taro, heÓs a small one, and we sell his <br />extra taro for him. Bananas, people bring when they have. There are three ladies in Paradise <br />Park that were bringing home-grown eggs. We were selling those. So this was kind of a work in <br />progress. People kept saying, oh, IÓve got, you name it, greens or, and can you sell this for me? <br />And weÓd buy it and sell it for them. So we had a lot of different stuff. And I, it just was going <br />on and getting bigger and better. But then when we got the notice we just kind of let the <br />hydrophonic lettuce go and -. We got a lot of tomatoes now in anticipation of getting approved. <br /> <br />J. MENTNECH: Can I speak? <br /> <br />WOODWARD: Yeah, let me swear you in first. If you can have him hold the thing so you can <br />raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth today before the Windward <br />Planning Commission? <br /> <br />J. MENTNECH: Yes. <br /> <br />WOODWARD: Okay, if youÓll give us your name and address. <br /> <br />J. MENTNECH: My name is Joy. IÓm the wife of Mike. We own the business. <br /> <br />WOODWARD: Okay. Same address? <br />7 <br /> EXHIBIT A <br /> <br /> <br />