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that actually care about these people, care about their health, their wellbeing, as well as their general
<br />success in life. People like myself, Bill and Susan have been blessed to know what our passions
<br />are. We use those passions as a vehicle to help other people. I don’t want to get into detail because
<br />obviously the amount of people that testified on behalf of that says enough for that. What I came
<br />here for, though, is to testify on a personal level. I’m a local boy, you know, I was always afraid to
<br />do things on my own and whatnot. They don’t know this, but Susan and Bill’s gym, actually just
<br />themselves, has been somewhat of an inspiration for myself. For years I was working out of one of
<br />these commercial gyms and I really wanted something different; I really wanted to get out and do
<br />my own thing. And, you know, I went to the gym a couple of times, and recently I got to help in
<br />one of their powerlifting clinics. And seeing the family that they have and the passion they possess
<br />and the things that they teach people in the community, and I want to do that. People are getting to
<br />the industry that we are in don’t get into because of money. I owned a gym in Honolulu before and
<br />I sold the thing, and it is not a cash cow at all. We get into it because we want to help people
<br />because that’s a vehicle in which we are blessed to help people. You know, I want to say thank you
<br />to them because they’ve been a big inspiration on to the big steps that I have taken in to trying to
<br />open up my own entity, starting my own team and working on building and possessing my own
<br />gym. So like I said, they need to stay there because indirectly, not just through health, fitness and
<br />strength, indirectly they help people like me, young entrepreneurs, have the courage to go out and
<br />do the same things that they do. Thank you.
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<br />VREDENBURG: Aloha. My name is Keawe Vredenburg. Nobody knows who that is, but my
<br />wife is Aunty Penny for you guys who live in Waimea. I have a few things to say about the, one
<br />person who sat here talking about all the congestion on the roads. I’m a jogger, I’ve been running
<br />for quite a while about ten years. And usually I go out to the 4 or 5 mile marker on Māmalahoa
<br />Highway and also down Lalamilo Road for the specific purpose of pulling out fireweed; it’s all
<br />gone because I did that. I also pulled it out on the makai side of Māmalahoa going out to the 2 mile
<br />marker. So it’s not just idle stuff doing over there. And the other guy who is jogging is a tall
<br />skinny poi pūkea who is about six-foot three, weighs about 30, 39 pounds, and you see him all over
<br />town jogging and he is on the road on the pavement right inside. That’s not me; I’m as close to the
<br />fence as I can get because I’m afraid of the cars. But for the pesticides farmers don’t spray those
<br />just because it’s fun to spray; you have to do that, otherwise you lose your crop. But the people
<br />who are most affected by that, that will be the employees; they have to play in the stuff. And as far
<br />as playing we used to do that in Hilo with the mosquito machine. DDT, yeah? So you guys who
<br />think pesticides are bad, try DDT. People who are working out inside the gym are not going to be
<br />threatened by spraying pesticides nearly as much as the farm employees, so I don’t see any problem
<br />with that. To me this seems to be a specific attack, not a general one on all the people in Lalamilo
<br />who have extra stuff going on over there. I know where I can get my car safety check; that’s where
<br />I go, down Lalamilo. And I can get my motor fixed down there. And there used to be a wholesale
<br />auto parts place down there. But nobody is going after all those people because that would be very
<br />hurtful to all people who live in Lalamilo. It’s a very bad thing to try to do. Going after this one
<br />person, to me, is specific and not such a good thing. As far as health, health is critical for
<br />everybody, especially farmers, cowboys, if anybody else, students certainly. Bobby – you guys
<br />know who Bobby is? At the farmers market he cooks up the breakfasts. He’s got a bad back. Had
<br />he been working out, he might not have the bad back; but he didn’t. So we all need to pay attention
<br />to our health, and the one health facility is in Lalamilo, and to me it benefits the entire community
<br />there. Mahalo.
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