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<br />first movie, Jon, the Drums of Hawai‘i, and I was a little girl at that time. So, there are a lot of
<br />interesting historic sites and the Kalākaua house. I’m still working with Bishop Estate; I teach
<br />Kamehameha Summer School’s program for Keauhou and Kahalu‘u. I’ve been on Bishop Estate
<br />when they first had Kamehameha Development Corporation, and then they changed that
<br />Kamehameha Investment Corporation, so I’ve been sitting on this committee for 53 years. So,
<br />I’m still fighting Kamehameha School, and I’ll fight you, too. So, these are the kind of things that
<br />I want you to wake up with. Check it out. Where the joint is, there is leak. Where there is rust, it
<br />breaks. So, that’s the only thing I can think of, because the saltwater is still rising. And like I told
<br />the Trustee, before you do anything, develop anything, fix Keauhou Beach. I was the one that had
<br />them break Keauhou Beach Hotel down, is because underneath of that Keauhou Beach Hotel is all
<br />rusting. Those irons, cement has chemical in it, and it kills slowly. So now they are getting ready
<br />to tear it down. But, you know, when you wait until late, everything is already done. The ‘ōpelu,
<br />which spawns in Kahalu‘u on the inner part of the seawall, can come in no more. The shiny ‘ōpae,
<br />shrimp, the little, little shrimp, that’s where they spawn, and it used to be, I mean it’s so easy to
<br />catch the shrimp those times, but there is none today. The seaweed, I mean, the sea urchin, that is
<br />the same way. It’s all disappearing. The wana – I had dived last year where George Henders
<br />lived – is crunchy and is not good. So, anyway, thank you for having me here today. And please
<br />check it out. You all have to get off your fanny and check everything out, because, if you don’t
<br />want to take my word for it, check with Bishop Estate on Keauhou Beach. When they had to
<br />change the twelve-inch – now, that sewage line is only twelve-inch big, so you can see all the
<br />homes and condos and all this building to go through a twelve-inch pipe, it’s going to break some
<br />place, because it’s overloaded. So, take it all, take it a, take your time on thinking of any, allowing
<br />any more development. I’m stopping one more, a new one that’s coming up above Bayview,
<br />Bishop Estate. So, this is a kind of thing I do on the, and if you’d all speak out, or even if you
<br />speak out, sometimes they’re deaf. But anyway, thank you very much.
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<br />KEAWEMAUHILI NAVAS-LOA: Welina mai me ke aloha, mai ka ua kani lehua o Hilo a hiki
<br />no i ka welina o Kona, ʻo au ʻo Keawemauhili Navas-Loa, he hanauna hiku o Naʻauhau.
<br />Makemake au e mālama kēia wahi nani loa, no ka mea, aia kō mau iwi kūpuna ma laila, he wahi i
<br />hiki iā ā iā ʻoe ke ʻau, i hiki iʻoe ke hopu i nʻa, aka, i kēia manawa ʻaʻole hiki. ʻAʻohe iʻa. Mahalo.
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<br />PI‘IKEA LOA: Aloha mai kākou. My name is Pi‘ikea Loa and I am a sixth-generation
<br />descendant of Kahalu‘u Ahupua‘a. Mahalo, Simmy. Mahalo, Hearings Officer. One of the
<br />things, many things, that makes Hawai‘i special is that our ali‘i left lands for our people to steward
<br />them. He ali‘i ka ‘āina, he kauwā ke kanaka; the land is a chief, man is its servant. My Kupuna
<br />Naauhau was blessed with a Royal Patent in this ahupua‘a. Right across the street from the bay,
<br />until today, sits the home that my great-grandfather, Willie Thompson, built for my
<br />great-grandmother. My brothers and I have many fond memories of time spent living there with
<br />our tūtū. I think the best of our time spent with her was while we were enjoying her mo‘olelo of
<br />earlier days gathering, fishing, hunting, lei weaving, paniolo and so much more. Tūtū also taught
<br />us about our ancestors who came before us, many of whom are forever laid to rest in that very
<br />backyard. Kupuna iwi, it’s our kuleana, every Hawaiian, to protect them, all of them, not just our
<br />own. Because of my connection and my love for all of Ko Hawaiipaeaina, I’m here today. As I
<br />understand, KIC is the landholder. So, my question is, what would Princess Pauahi do? As her
<br />will states, education of our children was her number one priority, with the goal of building a
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<br />2017-05-15 Public Testimony on SMA 16-063 Contested Case
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