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MISC team enlightens Seabury Hall students

Recently, a group of students from Seabury Hall had the great fortune to work with the Maui Invasive Species Committee in Hana, led by Imi Nelson and Aja Akuna, both Hana locals who have worked for MISC for many years and who both possess prodigious knowledge of Hana’s ecology.  In the two days Seabury’s tenderfoots worked with and learned from MISC team, students pulled miconia in “the core” and in the process, cultivated a deep respect for the men and women of this organization and similar conservation groups on island. Students can put opportunities like these to two ...

County refusing to inspect Lower Honoapiilani Road?

Since infrastructure is reported to be a contributing factor to the loss of life during the Lahaina fires, it should be noted that the county departments of planning and public works are presently refusing to perform a recorded field inspection which reveals a developer’s unfulfilled infrastructure obligations on Lower Honoa’piilani Road.  Why? Because the engineering firm is the oldest, and one of the biggest in Maui County. The firm failed to put that very infrastructure into its civil engineering plans pursuant to its own Order of Magnitude Estimate. The estimate was also ...

Terminated fetus destined to be great benefactor

Christians and other religious people, with good reason, have a firm belief in the survival of life and consciousness, or soul, after the destruction of the physical body. How then can abortion be considered murder, the taking of a life? One can destroy the human form, but not the ensouling life which departs the body. This is not to suggest that abortion is free of invasive karma. After action, there is reaction. Causes produce effects or consequences. An abortion causes the severing of relationships destined at the time of conception. Let’s consider one aborted fetus. Might ...

Eh, no talk stink, no ak stink, no spew stink, please

A Feb. 6 online article from The Guardian by Adrienne Matei, entitled Dust Busters: What’s Really in Household Dust and How to Get Rid of it, highlighted the prevalence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons generated by wildfire exposure, car exhaust and other things. Researcher Aurelie Laguerre asserts that these compounds remain hazardous for 40 days and can contribute to lung, skin and bladder cancers, in addition to kidney and liver damage, jaundice, cataracts. They cause mutagens, which she defined as creating genetic mutations and affect fetal development. As I frequently walk ...

Developmentally delayed evictions break heart

A red-letter day for the developmentally delayed community of Maui was the opening of La’a Kea Village, with gifted funds used to purchase Mele House in Paia. Presently, there are 1,600 developmentally delayed people on Maui. It took 18 months to get a state license for Mele House to be a group home, Today La’a Kea is closing the home and evicting the residents. Their reasoning is that they cannot find workers to manage it. Maui Hope, a licensed provider for the developmentally delayed population, offered to manage it for them. They do not like Maui Hope’s executive ...

He does not care for Valentine’s Day, thanks

Valentine’s Day: a day for roses and chocolate. A day for murmurs and kisses. A Declaration Day for love. But I don’t care for it. It was on Valentine’s Day in the early 1980s when, while I was working as an EMT at a truck/motorcycle accident on Papa Street, a car hit me and damaged my life severely. As this Valentine’s Day approached, I found out that Rose Marie Falcon, my wife from 1975-1980, died at Maui Memorial in 2019. I am contented with my current wife of 35 years, and she with me. We adore each other. But Rose Marie was the love of my life; my best friend. I was ...