Welcome to Puna! On the way to Volcanoes National Park, Golf, Lava Flow, & Hot Ponds Hungry? We’ve got lots of choices at Kea‘au Shopping Center! Stop by for those famous L & L Drive-Inn plates, or grab some groceries and deli at Foodland Kea‘au. There’s Kea‘au Natural Foods for fresh, local, vegetarian treats, and you can spice up your life with delicious, fresh items at Lemongrass Thai Restaurant! Get laundry out of the way at Suds n Duds, and get a great Supercuts. In a hurry? style/cut at Pick up a pizza at Pizza Hut. If it’s a “do-it-yourself ” day, hit Ace Hardware for good advice and lots of options on any projects Head into The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf for a great pick-me-up. “Serving Aloha one cup at a time” Need to fi ll a prescription? Longs Drugs is here too Kea‘au Shopping Center 6 • April 17, 2016 Hawaii National Park sign on the Puna side. SACRED From page 4 1910 and wrote a letter to the secretary of interior with his proposal. In 1911, Thurston started a public promotional campaign with the publication of an article in the March edition of Mid-Pacific magazine identifying numerous reasons why the park should be created. He also used his newspaper, the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, to write pro-park articles and to advertise support from some very influential friends, including Theodore Roosevelt, his Columbia University classmate, and wilderness advocate John Muir. The Territorial Legislature passed a unanimous resolution in support on April 26, 1911, and a bill was drafted by Frear and sent to Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, Hawaii’s delegate to Congress, for consideration. When Thurston learned that the bill lacked the proper boundary description of the lands proposed, he contacted the governor and asked him to complete a survey, which was done by May 16, 1912, and quickly forwarded to Washington. Between 1912 and 1915, there was not much action in Congress even though Frear reminded the secretary of interior each year of the desire of Hawaii’s people. In 1912, another leading promoter of Kilauea, geologist Thomas Jaggar, became involved in the effort. Jaggar’s primary interest was to secure the lands under the already-established observatory at Kilauea so that access for continued scientific study would be ensured. Weekly newspaper articles written by the geologists at Kilauea helped keep the public interested in the Hawaiian volcanoes and built support for the idea of a national park. In 1913, Frear left office and Lucius E. Pinkham became governor. Thurston gave Pinkham a year in office before he reignited his campaign for a national park. That same year, Thurston traveled to Washington to drum up congressional support. He got an endorsement from the new secretary of interior, Franklin K. Lane, and Congressman Julius Kahn of California. It took some prompting from editorials in the Hilo Tribune before Pinkham finally became an advocate of the park in 1915. In 1914, Stephen T. Mather was appointed to run the National Park Service. Until Mather’s arrival, Congress had been apathetic toward national parks, but in a short time he made them very park-conscious, and in 1915, 124 congressmen came to Hawaii. Thurston, seizing on See SACRED Page 7
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