In This Issue

Help the WTG

Complete Streets Passes!

Speak Up for State Trails

Upcoming Events

DLNR Listeninsg Sessions

Hilo – Fri. Nov. 4 – 5-7p

Waiakea HS Cafeteria

155 West Kawili Street

Waimea – Sat. Nov. 5th

10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Waimea Middle Public Conversion Charter School

67-1229 Mamalahoa Hwy.

Kona – Sat. Nov. 5th

3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Konawaena HS Cafeteria

81-1043 Konawaena School Road, Kealakekua

Waimea – Parker School’s 12th annual Heneghan 5K Run & 1K Keiki Run – 7:30am – Parker Lower School – Entry Form.

Hilo – Big Dog’s Veterans Day 5K – Coconut Isl. 7:30

Info: call 969-7400 or email

Kona Coffee Miracle Mile

Coconut Grove – 4:30pm

Info: 327-9333, BIRC

Waimea – Bike Ed Waimea

Nov. 14, 15 & 16

Request this for your school!

Waimea – Ped Ed Parker S

Nov. 14th

Request for your school!

Honoka’a Western 5/10 K

Sat. Nov. 19th – 8:30am

County Gym & Sports Comp.

Info: 775-7247, Email

Kona – Bike Ed Kealakehe

Nov. 21 & 23

Request for your school!

Hilo – Turkey Trot 5K

Thur. Nov. 24th – 7:30am

Coconut Island

Kona – 7th Wobble Gobble – 6.4, 3.5, 1 mile run/walk

Thurs. Nov. 24th – 8:30am

Walua Rd. Trail @ Lako St.

Info: 327-9333

Peaman Swim-Run

Sun. Nov. 27th – 8:03am

Kona – Bike Ed Kahakai El

Dec. 5, 6 & 7

Request for your school!

Waikoloa – Bike Ed

Dec. 13, 14, & 15

Request for your school!

Kona – Jingle Bell Beach Run – 5 K & 1 mile

Dec. 18th – 7:30am

Kailua Pier

Hilo – Election Run 2 & 4 m

Richardson’s Beach Park

7:30am

Click here for a calendar of upcoming community athletic running events.

About PATH

PATH Mission: To safely connect the people and places on Hawaii Island with pathways and bikeways. Since 1986.

PATH is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Donations are tax-deductible and much appreciated.

To make a donation, send to P.O. Box 62 Kailua-Kona, HI 96745 or click here to donate on line. Mahalo!

Help Set the Record Straight on the Waimea Trails & Greenway

The Waimea Trails and Greenways project is a planned 5 mile stream side trail through the heart of Waimea. Through a series of community work days, there is now a 1 mile section open for use and the community has been coming out to enjoy the trail. A new Walking School Bus has started that helps children from public housing walk to school safely along the trail. Professionals use the trail to ride their bike to work or go for a run during lunch time. Families are walking dogs together and children are discovering the wonders of the Waikoloa Stream banks. This trail is a wonderful template for trails in other Big Island communities.

Over the past year, the project has gone through an Environmental Assessment to become eligible for federal funds to complete the entire 5 mile section. However, recent effort to stop the trail by a few people have unfortunately sent the wrong message to decision makers in Honolulu over the community’s desire for this trail, even though the Waimea community has been advocating for this trail for the last 16 years.

You can help to set the record straight.

Please send an email to Pat Phung at: pat.phung expressing your support for the Waimea Trail and Greenway project.

Once the trail project is approved, there will be a meeting to go over the design details of the trail. That will be the appropriate time to discuss things like preserving trees, costs for bridges and options to pave or leave the trail natural surface. Your support is critically needed to ensure we can move forward on this important project.

Mahalo for your support.

Complete Streets Passes Unaminously

Wow, thank you, PATH members! The Hawaii County Complete Streets Resolution passed unamiously on Wednesday, October 19th. Read it here.

Please send a quick note of thanks to your Councilmember for voting yes on Resolution 171-11, and a special thanks to Councilman J Yoshimoto for introducing the Resolution.

Pete Hoffmann – phoffmann
Dominic Yagong – dyagong
Denis "Fresh" onishi – donishi
J Yoshimoto – jyoshimoto
Fred Blas – fblas
Brittany Smart – bsmart
Brenda Ford – bford
K Angel Pilago – apilago
(Donald Ikeda was not present and therefore did not vote)

We’ll be sharing this victory with the entire Big Island community through our PATH Active Living News this Friday!

Click here for your exclusive sneak peak!

Let DLNR Know We Value State Trails – In Person this Weekend, or Send an Email

The Senate Committee on Water, Land and Housing is hosting a series of Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) "listening sessions" with DLNR Chair William Aila, this weekend starting Friday evening in Hilo and Saturday in Waimea and Kona. This is a great opportunity to share your thoughts about our state trail system, Na Ala Hele, and express support for the preservation of ancient and historic trails as well as the need to establish new publicly accessible trails.

Please try to stop by these listening sessions in person, or send in your own comments via email (Email address & sample letter below)

Hawai’i Island Public Listening Sessions

Hilo Listening Session
Friday, November 4, 2011 – 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Waiakea High School Cafeteria – 155 West Kawili Street, Hilo

Waimea Listening Session
Saturday, November 5, 2011 – 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Waimea Middle Public Conversion Charter School
67-1229 Mamalahoa Highway, Kamuela

Kona Listening Session
Saturday, November 5, 2011 – 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Konawaena High School Cafeteria
81-1043 Konawaena School Road, Kealakekua

Sample Email to: DLNR2011ListeningSessions

Dear, Chairman Aila -

I am a member of PATH and I support the DLNR’s preservation of ancient and historic as well as the establishment of new trails on Hawaii Island. Too many of our beloved trails have been destroyed or closed in recent years, at a great price to environmental sustainability, cultural understanding and quality of life.

We urge the DLNR to take swift action to provide the State Historic Preservation Division with the resources it needs to fully meet its obligations under the National Historic Preservation Act. We are aware Hawaii is in the middle of a two-year probationary period and we feel this is a critical wake-up call for all of us.

We also need a full inventory of ancient and historic trails prior
to 1892 so we may be more aware of these corridors and work together, both public and private sector stakeholders, to preserve them where possible or mitigate destruction with meaningful plans that establish a similar path of travel the trails once provided.

Finally, we strongly support responsible public access to trails and urge the DLNR to establish a hiking license program, similar to the hunting license program currently in place. Such a program can become a building block to responsible public access to our state trail system.

Thank you for the opportunity to share my comments with you.

Thank You,

Name

PATH – Peoples Advocacy for Trails Hawaii

www.pathhawaii.org

808-326-7284

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