I’d just like to thank all of the members of the Big Island Press Club that took their time to introduce themselves to an “Outsider” such as me at their Club Scholarship dinner tonight at the Hilo Seaside Resort.
I learned a real quick and easy lesson… and that is that cell phones suck as camera’s indoors with not much light… and that my “Data Plan” on my phone sucks big time.
I only had one major outage the entire time I was in California and within a matter of a half an hour to an hour I think I backed up my phone with so much outgoing data… that it froze up for a while.
Of course in California I was able to take advantage of the T-Mobile G3 Network that is available… of course it’s not available here in Hawaii.
Mayor Billy Kenoi is very gracious to those that represent the “Press” on the Big Island and even went as far as telling us three of the reasons why he chose Hunter Bishop and the other former Journalists as his aides.
One of the key things that stood out… was that they care about their community in an unbiased way… and they are informed.
Mayor Kenoi then allowed questions from the members of the BIPC. I’ll let those that asked them blog about them if they feel like doing so.
I asked Mayor Kenoi when the counties website would get updated… He deferred to Hunter Bishop who pretty much through it onto something else talking about videos and what not.
I should have stopped him there and just said… No… I want a new website… not just some stuff added onto it.
Our county website has to be the ugliest thing.
It’s not just the front site… it’s all of the damn county office sites need to be updated! They look like they were built in 1995 or something… I mean seriously!
Once again, I’d like to thank the BIPC for allowing someone who isn’t even a member to come in and take a look at what this organization is about.
Mahalo!
Here is my favorite blurry picture of the night… Tiffany Edwards Hunt dominating Mayor Kenoi in a spur of the moment conversation.

*Side note
Mayor Kenoi… Thanks for showing up on time. I was asked to be a “filler” for time if you weren’t there on time! That would have really put people to sleep!
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