MAUI
COUNTY
BY JARED LIBBY
JARED@MAUITIME.COM
just two years ago. After serving for 20
COCONUT
months, a year of which was in Iraq, the
brigade will only be in the Middle East
nine months. Best of luck to everyone, our
hearts go with you. Come home soon.
WIRELESS
THURSDAY, June 26
No fireworks on the 4
th
of July?
Where’s everyone’s national spirit?
Sighting poor sales, many retailers in the
county simply won’t be selling fireworks,
THE WEEK IN REVIEW
this according to an article in The Maui
News. More alarming perhaps is the
Williams
severe drought conditions that have fire
A.
officials worried. Parts of Molokai are in
im
full-blown drought status while hundreds
of acres around Maui could go up with the
Let’s not see this on July 5th!
slightest spark. So maybe it’s a good thing
Photo: T
there won’t be as many fireworks this 4
th
.
Just hope all those smokers out there keep
set to start in September. The long-forgot- the Iraqi Oil Ministry pick who they would
their butts under control.
ten public works project has been in the award contracts to for developing some of
In other 4
th
of July news, Cops say
design process for, get this, eight years. the country’s largest oil fields. The article
they’ll be cracking down on drunks in
Bids for the initial phase of the construc- refers to “a group of American advisors
Lahaina town during the fireworks dis-
tion will be considered by September. and a small State Department team.” The
play. Roadblocks too, so don’t be stupid.
Estimated at $30 million, the County has article also claims “it’s unclear how much
With the island’s only public display, there
absolutely no idea when the park might be influence their work had on the ministry’s
will most definitely be a few derelicts out
finished. Somewhere between “2015 and decisions.” But reading a list of those who
WEDNESDAY, June 25
and about, again, maybe it’s a good idea
2020” according to a Maui News article were awarded contracts pretty much clears
A revised proposal for a West Maui
there won’t be as many fireworks.
this morning. With a 1,000-seat gymnasi- that up. Exxon Mobil, Shell and Chevron
Hospital was submitted this week by
um, two softball fields, two soccer fields, top the list of Western oil companies set to
California developer Brian Hoyle.
FRIDAY, June 27
new tennis and basketball courts I see it start suckling at the oily teat that is one of
According to an article in today’s Maui
Interesting story in The Maui News this
taking decade, but even that is a stretch the planet’s largest oil reserves. Will this
News Hoyle, along with the so-called
week about six owners of beachfront
considering how long Mokulele took. I mean our men and women can come home
West Maui Improvement
property in Spreckelsville who want to
think the over-under is closer to 2025; it’ll now? Or lower prices at the pump?
Foundation filed an application last
“re-nourish” their beaches by pumping
be the park of the future. Somehow I doubt it. Instead it looks like
February but was asked by the State
sand from the deep ocean floor and
more record profits for the ol’ boy’s club.
Health and Planning and
depositing it in front of their houses.
MONDAY, June 30 November can’t come soon enough.
Development Agency to provide
Consultant Robb Cole calls it “a privately
So all this time we’ve been told the inva-
more information. Clearly the SHPDA
funded science experiment.” A project
sion if Iraq was never about the oil, funny TUESDAY, July 1
is doing what it can to help the applica-
that has “not really been studied in Maui,
how things change toward the end of a “The United States has stayed out of
tion process, prompting Hoyle to say
or even Hawaii,” according to an agent of
lame duck presidency. A New York Times the matter of awarding Iraqi oil con-
“We truly appreciate SPHDA’s willing-
The Maui Sea Grant Costal Program.
article today revealed that despite what tracts,” – Secretary of State
ness to provide guidance to assure that
Using large “Geotubes” that “extend into
U.S. officials have said repeatedly in the Condoleezza Rice on Fox News earlier
our application meets it require-
the water like large groins.” Huh? I
past, American advisors did in fact help this month. MTW
ments.” Strange, I always thought of an
thought this was Sreckelsville, not Little
application process as something you
Beach. Huge water groins aside, what are
have to complete on your own, and
they doing messing around with the
then the governing body sees if it’s up
beach? Is this an environmental project or
to snuff. But I guess when you own two
a property value restoration project?
banks in California and control stock in
two companies (that would eventually
SATURDAY, June 28
run the new hospital) you get a little
A rather alarming Maui News article
extra help along the way. That’s not to
today titled “CEO: No threat to county’s
say the need for a new facility isn’t
hospitals”. When the CEO of the County’s
there, West Maui could use a decent
largest hospital says “no threat” it usually
hospital and the island in general could
means bad news. Wes Lo, CEO of Maui
always use better medical care. But is a
Memorial and administrator of the
California bank-owner turned hospital
Hawaii Health Systems Corp, also said
developer our best option? He obvious-
every hospital in the county was losing
ly knows how to grease the wheels of
money. But while the corporation may
local government.
recommend lay-offs in other parts of the
The Hawaii Air National Guard’s
state, Maui County is safe for now, Lo
29
th
Brigade Combat Team is get-
said. Set to roll on a $100 million expan-
ting ready to be deployed to Kuwait
sion this year, Maui Memorial looks like it
for a nine month mission. An AP arti-
has legs. What this means for a possible
cle featured in the Maui News told of
West Maui hospital is anybody’s guess.
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