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that’s up there; it’s pretty amazing to hear what is up there. And I just want to say my piece.
<br />And we are talking about little trades. Of course, the Pollak Trust, Family Trust, was given
<br />further use of their property on Ali‘i Drive for the entrance; in return they are given some extra
<br />land, hook up to sewers, electrical, so that’s, they are getting a big bonus out of that one. So they
<br />stand to make out on this thing. I’m right next door to their property, so it’s, you know,
<br />everyone seems to be getting a little, a little bit of, you know, goodies to help put this thing
<br />through. So I’m, that’s all I have to say, and I appreciate your time.
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<br />UNGER: Thank you.
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<br />MAMAC: Aloha mai kākou.
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<br />UNGER: Aloha.
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<br />MAMAC: Ku‘u inoa ‘o Violet Leihulu Medeiros Mamac. I have come and I’ve heard a lot
<br />from people like myself, so a lot of issues has been addressed, but a lot has not been addressed
<br />also. My kupuna wahine, Kanika, comes from Kahalu‘u. And there is much burials back there,
<br />iwi kupuna. My papa, Clarence Medeiros, Sr., was active in all of this in his lifetime before he
<br />passed. And here I am, we are doing the same thing. I ask all of you, please, where are you
<br />come from? Have anyone run over your kupuna iwi? Have they destroyed your culture, your
<br />sites of significance, your name sake, which is kupuna iwi? Has anyone done that for you? We
<br />want to preserve, protect in perpetuation our culture and our culture of our ‘āina, because the
<br />‘āina has a culture of its own, and that’s called natural resources. Water for instance, it has been
<br />brought up today, but our aquifer is important. That’s why we Aloha ‘Āina has put a stop to
<br />TMT on Mauna Kea where our waters come from. Aquifer is important. Keauhou, Kahalu‘u is
<br />getting salty, and we all know it. So where is all this water going to come from for 1,000 more
<br />people? And where is it going to go after the usage? Where is it going to drain? Did anybody
<br />figure that out? Is that going to be in our fish and ‘opihi resources that we eat? That’s our
<br />natural resources also in the ocean. That’s our main food chain that all this toxin, waste, be
<br />drained to, because you cannot tell me there’s someplace else you are going to drain it to,
<br />because it cannot go up. A very, ‘eha ka pu‘uwai. So my daddy’s family is Keohokālole’s,
<br />Puhalahua’s. And my mama’s family is Kalalahua’s. And we are all both of them. Very
<br />Hawaiian, very Hawaiian. So please take care of us. We are endangered. We the people,
<br />Hawai‘i, and our natural resources, our ‘aumakua’s. Most importantly we must take care of our
<br />natural resources. Ke eamāmā, hanu o kākou, the air that we breathe so gently. And the waters
<br />we drink water his life. And there is us the people, ‘ohana. Mahalo.
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<br />UNGER: Mahalo. Thank you.
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<br />MACOMBER LEWI: Thank you for acknowledging me. I’m Adeline Kahaloona Macomber
<br />Lewi. I was so thankful to have a nice grandmother.
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<br />UNGER: If you can speak a little bit more clearly into the mike. I’m having a hard time —
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