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VOL. 47, NO. 164
18 PAGES
WAHINE
HOOPS
ACTION
SPORTS, 1B
Landscape companies to be charged
green waste disposal fees
Following a four-month
reprieve, Hawaii County has
set July 1 as the date com-
mercial haulers must register
and pay tipping fees to dump
green waste at the Puuanahulu
and Hilo landfills rather than
dumping it for free at transfer
stations.
The fee, which has been on
the books since 2005, was
postponed in March follow-
ing an outcry from commer-
cial green-waste haulers. The
haulers said the new fee took
them by surprise and they
hadn’t had a chance to adjust
their prices or inform their
customers about the change.
County officials have been
meeting with haulers in the
meantime, but some landscape
companies say the fee was con-
sidered a done deal, and there
really was no back-and-forth
or any attempt at compromise
on the county’s part.
“There’s been no public
forum to bring us all to the
table to come up with solu-
tions,” Kailua-Kona landscap-
er Chris Yeaton said Friday.
The Kealakehe transfer sta-
tion became the flash point
of the dispute, because many
landscape companies using
that transfer station are
BY NANCY COOK LAUER
WEST HAWAII TODAY
Lawsuit aims to halt seafloor mining
An
environmental
group is suing to prevent
a subsidiary of Lockheed
Martin from prospecting
for deep sea minerals on
the ocean floor between
Hawaii and Mexico.
The lawsuit against
the National Oceanic
and
Atmospheric
Administration alleges
the federal agency failed
to examine environmen-
tal impacts before renew-
ing exploratory permits.
The suit, filed May 13 by
the Center for Biological
Diversity, targets just two
of 15 permits for explo-
ration in the Clarion-
Clipperton
Fracture
Zone, which starts 500
miles southeast of Hawaii
and extends almost to the
coast of Central America.
“Deep sea mining
should be stopped, and
this lawsuit aims to com-
pel the government to
look at the environmental
risks before it leaps into
this new frontier,” said
Emily Jeffers, the attor-
ney who filed the suit in
Washington, D.C.
BY BRET YAGER
WEST HAWAII TODAY
SEE
WASTE
PAGE 7A
SEE
MINING
PAGE 7A
The Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, where 15
exploratory sea mining permits have been granted,
is seen.
SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII TODAY
Everest Boyd receives a squash from “Bradda” Hose in exchange for a bag of Lychee from Fujihara Store
in Hookena on Thursday.
LAURA SHIMABUKU/
WEST HAWAII TODAY
BOYD FAMILY CARRIES
ON 100-YEAR TRADITION
IN SOUTH KONA
A Place To Call Home
For exactly 100 years,
Fujihara Store has been
at the center of some-
thing special in South
Kona, which Dusty Boyd
stumbled on quite by
accident.
A flashback to 14
years ago finds Boyd,
now 50, disillusioned
from a life on the go in
corporate Los Angeles.
The former chief finan-
cial officer for Teleport
Communications Group
found himself in the
parking lot of the Kealia
store, coming down hard
off an emotional absence
without leave.
He noticed the flow of
humanity going steadily
in and out of the place,
and sensed something he
was hungry for — a feel-
ing of community.
A decade and a half
after buying the estab-
lishment, he’s watched
fathers teach sons how
to fish and has bartered
with them over the catch.
Eyes that used to barely
peek over the edge of the
counter now stare level
at him. People say things
to him like, “Hey Dusty,
you da mayor. What they
catching at Hookena?”
And he knows the
answer.
BY BRET YAGER
WEST HAWAII TODAY
SEE
FUJIHARA
PAGE 7A
Residents dump green waste at the Kealakehe Transfer Station.
LAURA SHIMABUKU/
WEST HAWAII TODAY
