Merrie Monarch results, photos • Page A7
Raising a stink
Dumping conditions irk waste haulers in West Hawaii
By MAX DIBLE
West Hawaii Today
Giving back to the community
US officials make
secretive preparations
for possible meeting
Attracted to bait
Attach to tree
Monday, April 9, 2018
KAILUA-KONA — Friction
between county officials and
West Hawaii septage haulers
has been mounting for months
as pumpers contend policies
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Treatment Facility are onerous
and costing them money.
Complaints range from
disposal regulations to a general
lack of access including
a 24-hour appointment notice
policy and what they describe
as frequent unresponsiveness
to their requests to utilize the
only dumping site on the leeward
side of Hawaii Island.
“If we can’t dump, we can’t
pump,” said William Wilton,
who runs CW Pumping.
Randy Miguel, owner of
ABC Cesspool and Septic
Kumu from
Maui ‘on a
hula high’
Napua Greig’s halau named
overall Merrie Monarch winner
“It’s been quite a week.”
That observation by Napua Greig, kumu
hula of Maui’s Na Lei Kaumaka O Uka and
popular Hawaii recording artist,
might be the understatement
of the year. It certainly was
the understatement of the 55th
Annual Merrie Monarch Festival,
which concluded early Sunday
morning at the Edith Kanaka‘ole
Multi-Purpose Stadium in Hilo.
Greig and her wahine (women)
halau dominated the festival’s hula competition,
hailed as the “Super Bowl of Hula.”
At the awards ceremony, Na Lei Kaumaka
O Uka took the overall top spot and received
the Lokalia Montgomery Perpetual Trophy.
The Maui troupe also won first place in the
wahine ‘auana (modern hula) and wahine
overall categories and placed second in the
wahine kahiko (ancient hula) division.
Oahu Publications Inc., the parent company of the Hawaii Tribune-Herald, presented a $25,000 check to
Hawaii Care Choices (formerly Hospice of Hilo) as part of OPI’s Subscriber Donation Program. The program,
started in 2011, has provided nearly $1 million to local nonprofit organizations. It has won a national award
in the newspaper industry and has been copied by many papers across the country. Dennis Francis, left,
president of OPI and president and publisher of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, gave the check to Brenda Ho,
center, CEO of Hawaii Care Choices. “We thank our generous subscribers for their continuing willingness to
help nonprofits and charities in communities in which we live,” Francis said. On the right is David Kennedy,
chief revenue officer for OPI. OPI also gave a $20,000 donation to Hospice of Kona. See page A5 for a photo
of that check presentation.
LAURA RUMINSKI/West Hawaii Today
See HAULERS Page A5 William Wilton of CW Pumping pumps a septic tank.
By JOHN BURNETT
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
GREIG
See HULA Page A5
NKorea: Kim ready to discuss nukes
WASHINGTON — North
Korea’s government has communicated
with the United States
to say that leader Kim Jong Un
is ready to discuss his nuclear
weapons program with President
Donald Trump, officials said
Sunday, increasing the likelihood
that the unprecedented
summit will actually occur.
The confirmation from
Pyongyang directly, rather than
from third countries like South
Korea, has created more confidence
within Trump’s administration
about the wisdom of
holding such a meeting, as U.S.
officials make secretive preparations.
The Trump administration
has long said that if the North
Koreans weren’t ready to discuss
giving up their nuclear program,
there was no reason for the two
countries to hold negotiations.
Trump took his own administration
and other countries
by surprise last month when
he accepted an unusual offer
from Kim to hold a meeting.
The North had conveyed the
invitation to a visiting delegation
from South Korea, which
Associated Press
A man watches a TV showing U.S. President Donald
Trump, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
during a news program on March 28 in Seoul.
By JOSH LEDERMAN
Associated Press
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