HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 1155.005 2004-2006
Mr. Chairman and members of the Council: Good morning!
My name is Walter Ita. I am 73 years old and have been a resident
of O'okala for 69 years. I worked for the various sugar companies
for 43 years until the final harvest in 1994.
For those of you who have never lived close to a sugar mill, you
don't know what you have to go through.
It was horrible! There were times the freshly washed clothes
hanging outside on the clothes lines had to be washed over again
because of all the soot from the mill. We experience all kinds
of winds here, living on the windy coast.
Daily, we had dust covering our homes, muddy roads, smelly and
constant noise.
Now that the sugar mill has been closed for 20 or more years, the
environment is so clean, the days are so quiet and peaceful, the
ocean so blue without that patch of dirt water.
Mr. Don Bryan is making every effort to convince us that we need
his veneer mill and power plant in the middle of our residential
community. He THINKS he knows whatsgood for us.
He reminds me of a car salesman who just has to make a sale, so
offers all sorts of "extras" to make it more enticing. Well,
the majority of O'okala homeowners are NOT buying.
Mr. Bryan somehow got the impression that our friendly Hawaiian way
of conversing with him is an approval of his plans. He is mistaken.
Please help Mr. Bryan find an alternative site. Then everyone wins!
Thank you! S S S
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Walter Ita, P.O. Box 67, Ookala, HI 96774 (8A8)962-6296