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WPC HEARING ITEM#2
HAWAIIAN OLA BREWING
From: Brenda Adarme TESTIMONY - R. ADARME
To: Plannina Internet Mail
Subject: PL-SMA-2022-000025 Hawaiian Ola Brewing Corp
Date: Wednesday,April 5,2023 6:47:50 PM
Attachments: Windward Planning Commission.odf
Please consider my testimony (attached PDF) in support of item#2, PL-SMA-2022-000025.
Mahalo,
Rupert L. Adarme
Written Testimony on item #2 PL-SMA-2022-000025
Hawaiian Ola Brewing Corporation
for Windward Planning Commission, 9 AM Thursday, April 6, 2023,
Hilo County Council Chambers
Aloha All,
And mahalo for considering my testimony today. My name is Rupert Adarme, and I am
submitting written testimony today in support of item #2, PL-SMA-2022-000025. The prospect
of having a distillery here in Hilo that will bring over 200 new jobs and career opportunities to
our la hui and simultaneously support the growth of our agricultural industry is incredibly
important.
It is clear that Ola Brew is pursuing this project to celebrate a culturally significant plant and
highlighting `Okolehao - a spirit unique to Hawaii, of which they have already won international
gold medals. As a community and employee-owned business, they care about the potential
environmental impacts and are therefore working with engineers, architects, and cultural
practitioners to ensure that this project has the best outcome for not only their community of
shareholders, but for our `aina and la hui as well.
Given their dedication to our community over their last five and a half years of business, I trust
Ola Brew Co. will continue to pursue this project with integrity--keeping the community, and
their impacts on our `aina at the forefront of everything they do.
Mahalo for your time and consideratlbn and I am happy to answer any questions you may have
regarding the above information.
Mahalo,