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<br />KAMAKA: Aloha. Aloha mai kākou.
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<br />UNGER: Aloha.
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<br />KAMAKA: I am Sandy Lehua Kamaka. I am from Kailua-Kona, I am from Kona. I stand in
<br />backing everyone that has testified so far in the opposing of this plan. In fact, maybe it should
<br />just be turned off already and kala mai to the applicants. But there has much status been said
<br />already. For me it’s people of place, we are people of place. As I look at all your names, that is
<br />huge, because I grew up knowing these names. I grew up hearing the histories of these names
<br />that you carry today. So if there is a place where you come from and you are, you have to save it
<br />for every reason. Kaholo, I am a kia‘i of Kīholo, and you are the descendant of Kīholo, so as
<br />much as I would protect Kīholo whether I be standing on the top of Mauka Kea making sure the
<br />aquifers that come through Ka‘ohe to Hualālai to Kīholo be protected by any development.
<br />Likewise, Nobriga, Keauhou families, oh, you, you know what the impact can be here, and I
<br />thank you for being here, and I thank you that you are upon the chairs that you are sitting upon. I
<br />just want to just always remind everybody that know who you are, know where you come from,
<br />know your stories. For Kahalu‘u for me, if this development is this much of a want or a need by
<br />the applicants, what about Pa o ka menehune Wall? What about the history of the wall? What
<br />about what Chief Ku‘emanu and what had gone on in the era? We ask to restore the wall; we
<br />don’t get it, you know, it just keeps getting down and down and now it’s basically almost
<br />nothing at Pa o ka menehune. There is so much history inside of the bay also. The stones that
<br />they represent in the bay, they are just not coral or stones; they are names, Kahekili, there is
<br />many more names that are named in the bay of the names of great chiefs. I come as a surfer also,
<br />and observant to the ocean, so I can know that by the wintertime destruction right across the
<br />street of this development, these houses that are always having to, what you call it, redo it,
<br />they’ve got to keep going back. That’s a sign already; the ocean is moving in. You look at the
<br />tide level, you can see it with your own eyes already. You see what’s happening on the
<br />shorelines. Yet we continue to allow development. I think it’s time for us to start healing the
<br />lands, listening to what needs to be done. The ‘āina speaks to us. The kai speaks to us. The
<br />mauka speaks to us. We are the children of these lands. And I know I’ve been raised by any of
<br />your families, and I know that for my own fact of being a child of Kona. So being known that
<br />everyone in this room is here because there is a deep purpose, because we know our place, we
<br />are the people of this place. And with great respects to our kūpuna who are seated here, these are
<br />my aunties, these are my families. I, I honor them for just being here. So please open your ears,
<br />not the ears of your ears but the ears of your heart, and listen to us. And mahalo for your time
<br />and for being here. And mahalo nui loa. I do this for also for the next generation, and I, I hope
<br />we can continue doing this. And let me say one more thing. You guys heard the generation of
<br />this time. They are fierce. They don’t want to let nothing slip by. Look at what Ruth just
<br />testified. These are our generation. So allow them, listen to them, for they are now bringing up
<br />the truth. Like Brother Ed said this morning when I heard when I came down here, you can pay
<br />the man, you can take the land, but you can’t take the truth away. Mahalo. That’s for Brother
<br />Ed.
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<br />C. FREITAS: Aloha kākou.
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