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World Wide Ed Pulpconnection Jerome’s ThoughtsMedia Release: The 11th Annual Waimea Healthy KeikiFest will feature more than 20 hands-on activities for keiki, ages 3 to 12. While keiki have fun learning about growing up safe and healthy, they’ll earn credits they can use to make a Mother’s Day gift and jump in a bouncer. Saturday, May 1st, from 10 am [...]
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Media Release: We invite you to join us at a Community Meeting to share information and to provide input to assist the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), Division of State Parks, in their preparation of a Master Plan Update and an Environmental Impact Statement for the Kealakekua Bay State Historical Park . The [...]
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Media Release: The Hawaii House of Representatives passed House Resolution 136, which establishes a committee to investigate the County of Hawaii Department of Water Supply. The purpose of the committee will be to investigate the status and handling of the stalled Ocean View – Kahuku water system construction project on the island of Hawaii. The [...]
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A minor earthquake occurred at 1:18:26 AM (HST) on Friday, April 23, 2010 . The magnitude 3.2 event occurred 5 km (3 miles) SSW of Mauna Loa Summit. The hypocentral depth is 0.3 km (0.2 miles). More Here
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Media Release: Healthy Kids Challenge, a leading non-profit educating families to eat, move and enjoy a healthier balanced lifestyle, has announced the winners of their 8th annual Stirring Up Health national recipe contest that started last fall at the beginning of the new school year. Almost 2,000 middle school students from across the country participated [...]
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So I get an email from one of my mom’s friends that lives in a completely different country stating this: Damon, can you put this on your blog. See request below. Thanks. And it prompts me to this: Hello to Everyone ( and I apologise to some of you who have not spoken or heard [...]
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GET Tax Plan-2 …attached a plan that is circulating around the capitol that might interest you. I also hear that some people are thinking about calling for democratic legislators to reach super-majority agreement on revenue generating legislation to forestall Lingle from being allowed to make further large budget cuts that would result if the legislature [...]
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Big Island blogger Larry O’Brien suggested just a week ago that I contact an Ultra Light Pilot named Tedd Hecklin to try and see about getting a “Blog Junket” tour of the Big Island with Tedd’s Flying Adventure. On Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 5:08 PM I sent Ted an email about doing an Ultra [...]
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I mentioned the other day that there was a pending lawsuit against the county, last night I asked Mayor Kenoi’s office about the pending lawsuit and this is what Public Information Specialist Hunter Bishop’s response was: Damon, We received a copy of a First Amended Complaint that was filed with the Court. We have turned the [...]
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WordPress, the blogging service that I use… has surprised WordPress users with a new feature that shows how many visitors have visited your site in comparison to the size of a local city for a temporary time. Last night when I checked it… the following popped up: Today you have had 896 views. That’s about [...]
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I sent off the following email to Mayor Kenoi and Hawaii County Public Information Officer Hunter Bishop tonight and I’ll be very interested in the response I get: Dear Mayor Kenoi and Mr. Bishop, It is my understanding that there has been a lawsuit filed against the Mayor and 8 others regarding a Marijuana related [...]
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Media Release: Citizens for Equal Rights is producing a photo booklet of equal rights and civil union/HB444 supporters. The booklet will be distributed to House members to show mainstream community support for civil unions. See the message on the right, or go to www.tinyurl.com/equality4808. HB444 supporters, please send in your photo today to: equality808@gmail.com Aloha! [...]
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Simon Reeve finishes his journey around the Tropic of Cancer in Hawaii, where he discovers that the paradise islands are the extinction capital of the world, with more species dying-out than anywhere else on the planet. Several of Hawaii’s beaches are also covered in plastic rubbish washed-up from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (a vast [...]
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Sponsors Note: Hawai’i Nui Brewing recently claimed a silver medal in the Brewers Association (BA) World Beer Cup® 2010, a global beer competition that evaluates beers from around the world and recognizes the most outstanding beers being produced in the world today. Gold, silver and bronze medals in the competition’s 90 beer-style categories were awarded [...]
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Click on pictures to enlarge: I have always seen the 4 mile scenic drive sign for Onomea Drive as I pass it and have never had the time to get off the main highway to take this drive. Well today at lunch time I finally got a chance to drive it and it was just [...]
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Former Councilman Bob Jacobson Expands on His Comment About Former Councilman Leningrad Elarionoff
The following email was sent to me in response to a question I asked on clarification regarding this comment that former County Councilman Bob Jacobson made on my blog. I am reprinting his email here with his permission: Aloha Damon, Several things. If something is true, or if a public person is being characterized, libel [...]
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