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Mahalo for opening beach, but why barricades?

Mahalo to the County of Maui Parks and Recreation Department and Mayor Victorino for opening Honokowai Park on Saturday, May 16.

Park workers were out at 5:30 a.m. to take down the barricades that were used to close the parking lot as the park has never had the yellow gates that most other parks have. They took them away. At 8:30 a.m. they were back to put them back so that at closing time 7 p.m. the night crew and parks enforcement officers could put them back.

Now to move five barricades chained together, you need a few people. We didn’t have any gates for closing time before, why do we need them now? The police could just give tickets for vehicles parked after the park is closed.

Also, they could have waited till Monday to open the park instead of Saturday. But the workers did like the overtime. There were over 100 people that used the park that day, so I guess the cost was needed.

Steve Ashfield

Lahaina

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