HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0186.011 2020-2022 Cindy Freitas
hanahanai@hawaii.rr.corn
April 18, 2021
County Council Commissioners
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SUBJECT: RES 80-21 KEAKEALANIWAHI OF HOLUALOA( BANYANS) 15,32 SQ.CT.
Aloha,
I SUPPORT the County to purchase Properties in Kona for PONC Open Space for the following
reasons;
My name is Cindy Freitas and I'm a Native Hawaiian descended of the native inhabitants of Hawai'i
prior to 1778 and born and raised in Hawai'i.
I am also a practitioner who still practice the cultural traditional customary practices that was instill in
me by my grandparents at a young age from mauka (MOUNTAIN TO SEA) to makai in many areas.
We as practitioners are still today doing our cultural traditional customary practices on these lands
including Keakealaniwahi of Holualoa, La'aloa and Pahoehoe of La'aloa.
There are cultural things consisting with monumental walls, lawai'a, platforms, AHU and BURIALS,
hula, surfing ect., in these area and also recorded on the State Historical Preservation, as well as the
tress that provides a habitat for Hawaiian Hoary bats
Therefore, I humbly ask the County Council Commissioners to Support RES-80-21
Mahalo,
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Cindy Freitas
Comm. No. h`r. LI
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Ref. nate APR 2 0 2021