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Mr. Vincent? If not, thank you, Mr. Vincent. Is M. Staszkow present and Doreen Keomalu? Please raise your right hands. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Hawaii County Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS:Yes. GALDONES:Please state your name, your residence address, and you may begin your testimony. STASZKOW:My name is Captain Retired Michael Ernest Anthony Paahano Staszkow. I live at 28-1683 Akaka Falls Road in Honomu. I teach at Honokaa School, and I took personal leave today to talk to you. Pardon me for being late but it was 10:30 in the paper so when I walked in I was kind of shocked. Here we I certainly do understand the frustrations of my fellow Hawaiians living down in KingÓs Landing. And although, you know, IÓm not a Native Hawaiian, IÓm part Hawaiian. IÓve used the imu rocks at Hakalau for my students at every school that IÓve been because I learned how to kalua one ton at a time from Uncle Papa Awai. Th this. And IÓve only returned to the Department of Education, I would say $150,000 over the time that IÓve been working there. So my purpose here is to share my disgust with LLB and Doc Buyers, to say that they havenÓt treated the County and others of you here with any kind of respect. They havenÓt built in good faith. ThereÓs no such thing as fair faith and credit amongst them. If they were, they would be here. Their only God is money, and thatÓs what they worship; and when theyÓre done worshipping that, then the next God is power. Why are the kids doing ice? ItÓs only a symptom, yeah? I was w Pahoa, six years at Laupahoehoe and now at Honokaa. Part of the problem is access. You know, you get high wind, you catch a good wave. Tonight IÓm going to referee Farrington at Hilo and I wish Hilo all the luck in the world, till I put on a black-and-white uniform. I also wish HPA luck tomorrow in Maui. Those kids get there and represent their schools. You know, I still get high, you know, when I boogie board. But these things that theyÓre telling us, foothpaths and gates, forget about the Hawaiian issue for a second. What about the old Japanese that have worked all their lives, and now they live in Hakalau and Wailea, and they cannot go down there with footpaths to fish. And they catch little fish that I no more time for do, but they got nothing but time on their hands. So on the autumn of their life they canÓt do what they did when they were younger. Nor can they pass on these skills t and my vovo taught me. ItÓs really frustrating that when we get to the point that we say that the Honomu Village Association and Hakalau Village Association are going to open th and will close it, because we want the gates still there. We still think that the people that live in Hakalau should not be subject to noise pollution at night, most of the young kids racing up and down the road. We told them that we would not, another aina -. And as soon as we get close to this, all of a sudden they attack County officials. They donÓt 24