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was beautiful people, and is still beautiful. And I say this with all respect: Please consider,
<br />reconsider, and protect our natural resources for the future of our keiki kanaka. Mahalo.
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<br />UNGER: Mahalo.
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<br />SIRKIN: Aloha. My name is Marleina Sirkin. I’m in here for my granddaughter. I spoke to her
<br />this morning. Excuse me. Kala mai. She called this morning and she said, oh, Grandma, I am
<br />going to be representing the Island of Moloka‘i for my school. I said, that’s wonderful, honey.
<br />She said, but I’m also calling you to ask you to go and testify for me, and tell them how I feel
<br />about this land development. She says, I attend school, tell them I attend Jefferson Elementary
<br />School right outside of Waikīkī, yesterday they announced who was going to be representing
<br />what island. And she said, Grandma, I stood there and they called my name, Mary Jane Aloha
<br />Tulfa, Moloka‘i. She said, Grandma, to the west of me I see Waikīkī, to the east of me I see
<br />nothing, this is Waikīkī. And she says, Waikīkī, this is the sprouting waters, Grandma, to the
<br />east of me is a fountain that is our sprouting water. She said, Tūtū, I surf every day, you taught
<br />me to surf, I surf Waikīkī every day, my waters are polluted, Tūtū, no ‘opihi for me, no can
<br />holoholo for my mother, you have to help stop that, don’t allow the keiki’s in Kona to swim in
<br />dirty waters, if I have a cut, my mother won’t let me go out, she says, because the water is
<br />contaminated, the reef is contaminated. That makes me so sad, because I had nothing for her.
<br />On my side it was silence. And she said, Grandma, what are you going to do for me, what are
<br />you going to do, help me help them, help me when I get to Kona that I can surf in clean waters,
<br />and when I come in, I can pick ‘opihi and I can holoholo those waters, Grandma, help me. I’m
<br />new to this; I have no idea what’s going on. I hear the voices, I hear people talking about
<br />overdevelopment. I grew up here and in Waikīkī; I’ve seen a development. But today I feel so
<br />ashamed as an Irish woman. I am Hawaiian-Irish. My grandfather came over from Ireland to
<br />work these lighthouses, Alexander Dennis to me. He worked all the lighthouses from Kaua‘i to
<br />Kona. I am a Hawaiian from Moloka‘i, Kapela Pa‘ia‘ua. But yet, I am Marleina Sirkin. Please
<br />hear my granddaughter’s call. And please listen and don’t allow those waters to be polluted.
<br />And like he said, you do have a hard job. Make a good decision. Thank you.
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<br />UNGER: Mahalo.
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<br />ROY: Aloha mai kākou. My name is Lamakū Mikahala Roy. It’s my honor to stand among the
<br />people that I see here today, the kūpuna, the po‘e aloha o Kona, ka ‘āina hānau o nā ali‘i, ma ka
<br />‘āina a‘e, kēia ‘āina a hiki i ka mole o Lehua.
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<br />Members of the Leeward Planning Commission. Before you, you have an application, and I
<br />would ask you to deny this. In your work I would ask you to be conscious of testimonies that
<br />have been presented and mine, because you do, you are here for a purpose. I hope your decision
<br />will be one that takes up this consciousness because an earlier decision made by a Leeward
<br />Planning Commission voted in favor of a restoration of a hotel, the King Kamehameha’s Kona
<br />Beach Hotel, that allowed heavy equipment on lands that have burials, that have a most sacred
<br />site of Hawai‘i, Hawai‘i nei. Ke kapikala mua o Hawai‘i nei, the first capital of the Kingdom of
<br />Hawai‘i, organized and joined together, unified by Kamehameha the Great. If your Commission
<br />and a so-called State of Hawai‘i can allow this there, then you really have a tall order here. And
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