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KANUHA: I think we should note for the record that Commissioner Nobriga left at 11: 24.
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<br />BEAUDET: Thank you. If you all could please raise your right hand. Do you swear and affirm to
<br />tell the truth now and before the Leeward Planning Commission?
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<br />TESTIFIERS: Yes.
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<br />BEAUDET: Thank you. We’ll start to the far left.
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<br />GARRETT DAVIS: I am Garrett Davis. I live at 75-5810 Kakalina Street here in Kona. And I just
<br />want to say that this gym, at the beginning of this school year I’m on the Parker School powerlifting
<br />team, it’s been a completely new experience that I never thought I would ever be in. When our
<br />Associate Headmaster, Ms. Gressard, brought up the possibility of a powerlifting team, a bunch of
<br />the guys that were in school and actually one girl, who couldn’t make it to stay, and she’s the one
<br />girl in our class, and we were all extremely excited about it. And we went to this gym out in the
<br />middle of like a farm road, and I had never known it had been there before, and we got there, and
<br />we walk in, see Bill, I saw him around but I never really knew who he was, and I saw Five
<br />Mountain Fitness shirt, and I never knew that this guy would make such a big impact on my life.
<br />I’ve been working out there since beginning of this year, and I’ve gotten substantially stronger, like,
<br />I moved 450 pounds of weight in a deadlift, working out at the gym, and it’s something I never start
<br />to be able to do. And now I’m going to the World Championships this coming November, and it’s
<br />such an amazing opportunity. And I feel like if this gym wasn’t there, I would have never known
<br />that I could have done these thing with my own self. And it builds so much like strength. And we
<br />have like a sense of family in our powerlifting team like a bunch of the guys I didn’t, I was friends
<br />with a couple of them, but I wasn’t like as close as I would be now, and it just, this whole gym
<br />experiences, it’s a bonding experience, through a whole family of people, that now I see walking
<br />through Waimea and now I know who they are, and it just has widened my experiences with other
<br />people in the community. And I just really hope this gym can stay open, because it’s just a very
<br />humbling experience to know everyone and to grow strength in myself. Thank you.
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<br />GARRISON DAVIS: Hi, I’m Garrison. I live at 75-5810 Kakalina Street in Kailua-Kona. I go to
<br />school at Parker School, and I’m on the powerlifting team. And it had always been a dream of mine
<br />to become a powerlifter. And there is nothing at our school to head off for that; we only have a
<br />small gym with a conditioning class that mostly works outside. And I, in my sophomore year, I
<br />enrolled in the conditioning class, but it just wasn’t doing it for me. And Ms. Gressard came to me
<br />with the possibility of a powerlifting team and I was ecstatic, I was super excited. All of my
<br />classmates that are on the team were super excited. We all got together and we made it happen.
<br />And like my brother said, we walked into the gym and we met Bill, and I was super excited to meet
<br />him; I knew, I had heard of the gym once before, I knew what he could do and I was just looking
<br />forward to my experiences and what I could do. And during the time I lifted there I increased my
<br />deadlift by almost 200 pounds. I can now lift over twice my body weight. And it wouldn’t be
<br />possible without Bill and Susan. Every class when we walk out, we always shake their hands, and
<br />say thank you, because without them there none of us would be where we are today. And I just
<br />want to say thanks to Bill and Susan for being there for us and supporting us. Yeah, I hope the gym
<br />can stay there.
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<br />BASTIA: Aloha. My name is Thomas Bastia. I’ve been lifting weights for 35 years, and I can tell
<br />you that if I didn’t have this release to go work out with weights, I’d be severely depressed. Sitting
<br />next to these kids right here, I have a son who is also in Parker School, it seems what these guys are
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