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how much people love this place. As a take into consideration not allowing the 16 units and the four stories. If you’d like to have them develop those homes that are already there on the existing footprint, I think that will be less impact on our environment, less impact on our community, less of an impact on our culture. Mahalo nui loa, ka Haku. Aloha. HOUSEL: Thank you for your testimony. I’d like to call our next testifiers: Joy Mills, Sharon Guillermo, Tom Carey, Karen Anderson and Heidi White. If you could please pick up a microphone and raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth on this matter now before the Leeward Planning Commission today? TESTIFIERS: Yes, I do. I certainly do. Yes. HOUSEL: Thank you. I guess we’ll start with, on the left, on your right there. Would you give your name and address, please? wau ko‘u inoa stretches across all these islands. My family is deeply rooted in my culture. And my mother has and the heiau. And over the last few minutes where you folks have seen me, I’ve been blessed with much more – ke Akua is so kind. And so many people have joined the force, and I want to thank and mahalo to every one of you who’ve come out and shown the support. And this is not even a half, not even a quarter of the people that want to be here today. And I speak on their behalf, because they have family, they have jobs. And we need to time this by a hundred;so many people wanted to be here to represent, and it’s -. And I’m sure you heard my . You know, we wanted to be here, and it was not to be but, you know, we got to bless and share our culture. And I’ve been so, so fortunate. And one of the knowledge that I’ve gotten through my mom and through many other people, is poina mai au. Lili‘uokalani, our queen, she was our last monarch that when they came with the bayonets, those businessmen came, she stopped and she said she signed the paper; but what I’m told is that the paper was a treaty of war. We are still in war. These lands should not be sold. These lands are still ours as Hawaiian people, and we have every right. And I have everybody to look at you in your face, Mr. Cory Foulk, until you know ‘a ‘ole. ‘A ‘ole, do not do this. My people are strong. And we have already startedheiau to share with our future with our children and allow places for kupuna to come. My mother is a kupuna and she has come and she enjoys her ho‘okupu there, and we share and we practice our culture. And I am so proud to oli there – (phonetic), mahalo ke Akua – and it comes alive when I oli. When I oli, it comes alive there. And all I ask is you consider, poina mai au. 1893, our queen was told -. And she could have said one word and we would have fought – and I say “we” because I know my bloodline would have ended that day – and we would have fought. And we were told for many years to be ashamed. But now we are proud and we know – because the time has come, those businessmen, they are here again, but they are here with the palapala and they are here with the promises – and we know, we know what those promises hold because we’ve leaned; we have to know that they are not all true and they don’t always hold. So please, poina mai au, remember my queen. Mahalo. WHITE: Thank you very much for giving us time to share our thoughts and mana‘o. Thank you, kupuna, for speaking so bravely. And my name is Heidi White. My address is 76-6129 Plumeria Road. I really don’t feel worthy after hearing Joy and others. But my story is I sailed here with my mom and dad, my two handicapped brothers, 40 years ago. After going to school in Samoa and 9 EXHIBIT D