The Changing of the Guards in the House. DANGER!

These next 2 years should be very exciting. The last two years the Republicans all together agreed to vote NO on EVERYthing that was put forward. Now John Bohener (the cry baby) will have to come up with solutions and ideas.
The Health Care plan has no chance of repeal. The American people have spoken and they want JOBS< JOBS< AND JOBS>>>>>
Quite wasting the tax payers money and work on JOBS>
Who do you think pays for those that use emergency rooms without insurance. Thats right you and me.
Why is America the richest country but we are dieing everyday from Obesity, diabetes, and illness related to poor diet. Well the new health care plan will require restraunts to post the actual calories. The new health care helps Seniors with expensive drugs, the new health care covers students on Mom and Dad's insurance until they are 27.... on and on.......
If the Republicans are serious about no new TAXs then why did they just fight to give the wealthiest Americans a FREE RIDE? How do they think they are going to bring the deficit down with actions like that?
We shall see.
My vote is still with Obama 2012. Excellent Job with the hand he was delt.

Looking for Host family to Help a Foreign Exchange Student

I appreciate you help circulating this information.

Of the 13 foreign students currently placed in Kona this
school year, three are with first semester families.  I need to find new
host families for these three students ASAP.  They will need their new
homes by January.  I would love to find families that will agree to the
second semester, but I will also be happy to find families that will do it
until Easter, or even 6-8 weeks.

Two students are at Kealakehe: a  girl from Pakistan who just turned 17, and a boy from Cambodia who just turned 16.  The other is a 16 year old girl from Mali at
Konawaena. All speak very good English and are good hard working students,
doing lots of volunteer work and are just really nice teens.

Hosting is purely a volunteer experience: there is no
payment for hosting.  Hosting means offering room and board, making sure
the kids catch the bus to school, acting as a friend, mentor and parent and
enjoying the cultural interchange.  Families can be old or young, with or
without kids, big house or tiny coffee shack.  Willingness is the key
criterion.

Thanks for any help forwarding this message.  I can be
reached at 323 2117 or via email.  There is also a website: www.cci-exchange.com.

Aloha, PAMELA WANG

Local Coordinator for CCI

Center for Cultural Interchange

808 323 2117

Iron Man Father and Son team- the Hoyt's Real Human Spirit.

http://www.wimp.com/fatherson/

Dick and Ricky Hoyt: Fatherson and son team - This is the BEST of the BEST. The ture meaning of the Human Spirit.
We were lucky enough to see the Hoyt's back in 1996. This is a very special team.
This video tells the whole story.
Much Aloha's to the Hoyt's

Our Future- Plastic waste to Oil

http://www.flixxy.com/convert-plastic-to-oil.htm

This is incredible. This machine could change our future. worth every second to watch this video.
The machine takes plastic waste and turns it into oil. No drilling, no greedy deals........

How do I get one?
WOW.

How does Health Care in Hawaii work?

If you are employed for 20 hours a week for 4 weeks in a row; your employer is required to co-pay your health insurance. I know this has helped us over the years to pay for our medical and we have piece of mind knowing we are covered.
Our Country is one of the richest in the world and we have the worst health care. In many states people like Rick Scott came in with their corporations and bought up most of the hospitals and closed all but one or two. This way they can charge anything they want. Supply and demand.
The drug companies advertise on TV all the drugs they think you should be taking. Then there is a long list of side effects; in most cases are worse then the reason you are taking to drug to begin with. It is all about money. The insurance companies don't want Obama's health care because it requires that most of the money (.85 on the dollar) collected actually goes to pay for medical care and not share holders.
Why are we so unhealthy? Obesity is the norm in America. This will be the first generation that is not expected to out live their parents.
Physical exercise in the schools has become an elective and not a requirement. When I was a kid we had the Presidential Physical Fitness program. We were tested every year and PE was a requirement. We also didn't have computers and video games to veg out on. The motivation to be fit is no longer a priority. Children over 200 pounds is not acceptable.
We don't need free health care but we do need affordable health care.
I am looking forward to see what the Republicans call health care and who pays and who benefits from it?
All I have heard from the Republicans is repeal. What is there idea of coverage and what is it going to cost?
No one is perfect but we do need to learn a new word in Congress and the Senate it is "COMPROMISE"
No is not an answer. We need solution minded Government. The next two years will be a test.
Can the Republicans get along with the Tea Party?
Can the Republicans compromise and work for solutions?
Can the remaining Democrats compromise?

The Election is over. We are all winners!

After a nasty mean spirited election we are finally done. I consider alot of great things will come over the next 2 years.
First we are happy to have Neil Abercrombie as our new governor (Dem). Linda Lingle / Iona (Rep) took the State of Hawaii into the ditch. We lost 17 school days, the super ferry, 2 cruise ships, Aloha Airlines and the tax breaks for high tech.
Second we got rid of the idiot County Council members. Emily Nagole and Guy Enriques. Both of which couldn't come up with one idea to cut the Mayor's budget. Welcome aboard Brittany Smart and Fred Blas.
Let's work together as ONE island and get this County turned around.
Third we are very happy all the Republicans have new seats in Congress and the Senate, so now they can say something besides NO, NO, NO, NO and NO. They will be accountable for their decisions. Now maybe just maybe they will try to work together to right our course.

We are looking forward to what President Obama has to say this afternoon. John Bohner will now have to answer for his actions. The next 2 years should be exciting.

and last but not least. How do we change the Supreme Court's decision for disclosure of election contributions? The nasty, hateful election was something most of us DO NOT want to endure prior to every election. Open and Honest disclosure should be required.

Good Luck to all and we are hopeful this Country will be in good hands and solid direction.
ps keep the health care (gee it doesn't even take effect until 2012. So how do they know they don't want it?)

Rally to Restore Peace by Marjorie Cohn

Let’s Rally to Restore Peace
By Marjorie Cohn
Huffington Post

October 31, 2010
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marjorie-cohn/lets-rally-to-restore-pea_b_776759.html

In their Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, Jon Stewart and Stephen
Colbert effectively demonstrated how the media hypes fear. They
brought out Kareem Abdul Jabbar to show that not all Muslims are
terrorists. A couple of musical numbers dealt with the wars we are
fighting. But neither Stewart nor Colbert mentioned Iraq or
Afghanistan and how they are allowed to continue by the hyping of
fear.
Like his predecessor, President Obama also hypes fear - by connecting
his war in Afghanistan to keeping us safe, even though CIA director
Leon Panetta recently admitted that only 50 to 100 al Qaeda fighters
are there. Hoping to put the unpopular Iraq war behind him, Obama
declared combat operations over, although 50,000 U.S. troops and some
100,000 mercenaries remain.
Tragically, both wars have largely disappeared from the national
discourse. On October 22, Wikileaks released nearly 400,000
previously classified U.S. military documents about the Iraq war.
They contain startling evidence of more than 1,300 incidents of
torture, rape, abuse and murder by Iraqi security forces while the
U.S. government looked the other way. During this time the Bush
administration issued a “fragmentary order” called “Frago 242” not to
investigate detainee abuse unless coalition troops were directly
involved. U.S. authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports
of torture, rape, abuse and murder by Iraqi soldiers and police.
Manfred Nowak, the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on Torture,
called on Obama to order a complete investigation of U.S. forces’
involvement in human rights abuses.
Many reports of abuse are supported by medical evidence. Prisoners
were shackled, blindfolded, and hung by their wrists and ankles. Some
were whipped with cables, chains, wire and pistols. Some were burned
with acid and cigarettes. Electric shocks were applied to genitals,
fingernails were ripped off, and fingers cut off. Some were sodomized
with hoses and bottles. Six died from their torture.
And there are reports of widespread killing of civilians by U.S. and
other coalition forces. But after a couple of days of reporting about
the largest incident of whistle blowing in our history, news of the
Wikileaks revelations has disappeared from the news cycle.
Both torture and the targeting of civilians are war crimes. And, in
spite of the reports of torture, Obama completed the handover of 9,250
detainees to the Iraqi government in July 2010. In so doing, he has
violated the Convention Against Torture, which forbids a party from
expelling, returning or extraditing a person to a country where there
are substantial grounds to believe he will be in danger of being
subjected to torture. This is called non-refoulement. The United
States has ratified the Torture Convention, making it part of U.S. law
under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.
The newly released documents show that between 2004 and 2009, at least
109,032 Iraqis died, including 66,081 civilians. More than 80 percent
of those killed in incidents related to convoys or at checkpoints
throughout Iraq were civilians. Pregnant women were shot dead,
priests were kidnapped and murdered, and Iraqi prison guards used
electric drills to get prisoners to confess.
A U.S. helicopter crew was granted approval to attack two Iraqis on
the ground even though the pilots reported that the men were trying to
surrender. Under the 1907 Hague Regulations, it is prohibited “to
kill or wound an enemy who, having laid down his arms, or having no
longer means of defence, has surrendered at discretion.”
Last year, 239 American soldiers took their own lives and 1,713
soldiers survived suicide attempts; 146 soldiers died from high-risk
activities, including 74 drug overdoses. One-third of returning troops
report mental health problems, and 18.5 percent of all returning
service members have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or depression,
according to a study by the Rand Corporation.
Jon Stewart spent a whole show last week interviewing Obama about
everything from health care to the economy. But neither man mentioned
the wars, even though the billions spent on them could go a long way
toward fixing the economy and paying for health care.
It is time to put the wars back on the national agenda. Iraq Veterans
Against the War issued a statement saying, “We grieve for the Iraqi
and Afghan lives that were lost and destroyed in these wars. We also
grieve for our brothers and sisters in arms, who have been lost to
battle or suicide . . . We demand a real end to both wars, including
immediate withdrawal of the 50,000 “non-combat” troops who remain in
Iraq. The Iraq War Logs underscore the urgent need for peace,
healing, and reparations for all who have been harmed by these wars.
The first step is to bring our brothers and sisters home.”
We cannot rely on Obama to end the wars. It’s up to us to put
sustained pressure on him to do it.

Marjorie Cohn is a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and
past president of the National Lawyers Guild. Her latest book is
“Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent”
(with Kathleen Gilberd). Her anthology, “The United States and
Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse,” will be published
in December by NYU Press

What was the Supreme Court Thinking?? Or were they?

The overwhelming horrible TV commercials attacking each other over this election has become unbearable.
The really bad part is that we don't have a clear cut view of who is creating and paying for these commercials. The Supreme Court ruled that NO ONE has to disclose who, what, where and when and why is supporting each canidate. Or how much they are spending?What can we do? Who do we write to?

Since when is America known for this kind of closed / unnamed / under the table kind of campaigning?

Just like the Health Care fight: with Rick Scott of Florida. He bought up all the hospitals in an area (3 States to be exact) and closed all but one. That way he could charge what he wants and the public has no other choices. He is now buying his way into the Senate. America has gone to the dogs.

What happened to our great Nation. We have turned to the dark side, I guess!

Buy AMERICAN MADE. Look specifically for MADE in AMERICA!

One Light Bulb at a Time

A physics teacher in high school once told the students that while one grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn't slow a train very much, a billion of them would. With that thought in mind, read the following, obviously written by a good American.

Good idea ... one light bulb at a time.

Check this out. I can verify this because I was in Lowe's the other day for some reason and just for the heck of it, I was looking at the hose attachments. They were all made in China. The next day I was in Ace Hardware and just for the heck of it I checked the hose attachments there. They were made in USA. Start looking.

In our current economic situation, every little thing we buy or do affects someone else - even their job. So, after reading this email, I think this lady is on the right track. Let's get behind her!

My grandson likes Hershey's candy. I noticed, though, that it is marked made in Mexico now. I do not buy it any more.

My favorite toothpaste Colgate is made in Mexico. Now I have switched to Crest. You have to read the labels on everything.

This past weekend I was at Kroger. I needed 60W light bulbs and Bounce dryer sheets. I was in the light bulb aisle, and right next to the GE brand I normally buy was an off-brand labeled, "Everyday Value. " I picked up both types of bulbs and compared the stats; they were the same except for the price. The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday Value brand but the thing that surprised me the most was the fact that GE was made in MEXICO and the Everyday Value brand was made in - get ready for this - the USA in a company in Cleveland, Ohio.

So throw out the myth that you cannot find products you use every day that are made right here.

So on to another aisle - Bounce Dryer Sheets. Yep, you guessed it, Bounce cost more money and is made in Canada. The Everyday Value brand was less money and MADE IN THE USA! I did laundry yesterday and the dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I have been using for years and at almost half the price!

My challenge to you is to start reading the labels when you shop for everyday things and see what you can find that is made in the USA - the job you save may be your own or your neighbors!

If you accept the challenge, pass this on to others in your address book so we can all start buying American, one light bulb at a time! Stop buying from overseas companies!

We should have awakened a decade ago.

Let's get with the program. Help our fellow Americans keep their jobs and create more jobs here in the U.S.A.

I Passed this on ......... will you ???????

by: Leslie Lichtenstein

September 11th Changed the World forever! We will never forget.

We will never forget.

Our lives have been changed forever.

Travel internationally will never be the same.

Our trust in all men has been shaken.

We are a resilant people and will work through it but we will never be the same.

God Bless America!

Who did the Kona Coastview Water system???

Let’s get the story straight.


After Joe Fagundas’sattempted to do the water without success, I stepped in and organized the neighborhood. No we don’t have a homeowners association so It was by mailing, calling and setting up email correspondence so we can work together. My help researching and putting this project together came from Bonnie Goodell of Volcano. She was my first point of guidance. She came out and walked the subdivision and worked on solutions. I could talk to her and trouble shoot.

My core group was Contractor David Livingston, Jim Williams, Margaret Marceron, Julian and Karen Silva, Jake Jacobs. David wanted a private system but we needed the Federal funding in order to do it and the County fought for a deductible system and it had to be their design. We had an engineer do his Masters degree on our system for ¼ the cost of the county system. The water from the Mamalahoa crashing down the hill ran the entire system without any power (OIL), It had metal tanks and heavy duty PVC type of pipe (they have been using over the past 2 decades, due to iron pipes breaking down and leaching shards of iron into the water system. The research showed Concrete tanks were NEVER used in a seismic area due to cracking and huge maintenance and repairs). The County wanted the concrete tanks and iron pipes, and the county was the only one that could sign for the USDA Federal Funding (Clinton Water 2000), (I found calling Washington D.C.).

The original thought was to complete a fire station at the same time as the water system so our homeowners insurance would go down (within 5 miles of a fire station) and cover the $65.00 cost of the new system. The Matsumoto water company was in the rears for our water for more than a decade. Harry Kim and Curtis Tyler signed a contract to get 1 acre of Matsumoto’s land (between Palisades and Coastview) for the fire station. Due to the lack of follow up from both Harry and Curtis we lost the land because the contract they signed stated the County had one year to survey the land. They failed to do it and it was sold to Bolton.

Then comes time for the County to offer their design and it comes in at over $16,000.00 a lot. We knew people couldn’t afford it if it was over $10,000.00. So we found Attorney Alan Tuhy to work pro bono. He told me to order the Kona Coastview subdivision file from Hilo through the County building department. 2 weeks later it comes in and the file is almost 4 inches thick. I was told it is .10 per copy, so I had a $20.00 in my purse and just starting copying away. I took all my copies to Alan and he began looking through it and asked if I could order the whole file again so he could come down and review it. The file comes back form Hilo and now it is less than ½ inch. It lost weight between Hilo and Kona??? Go figure. By the grace of God I had copied the County dedication of the roads dated 1963. But when the file came back that was gone! So the water department had to redo the figures and take out the $860,000.00 they were charging for the cost of our roads. Then the figures came back under $10,000.00 per lot.

Harry and the water department failed to add all the of costs in the Water Improvement (add in meters and hook up into the USDA funding) so when it came time to hook up we had up charges ( in the thousands) of a new meter, water pipes (and standards to hook up? None provided and what about those that couldn’t afford it?.) We had a meeting with at my house with plumbers, back hoe operators, and George Wilkins (water board volunteer), no I didn’t see Harry, or Angel there. I fielded call after call asking what are the standards to hook up? What if I can’t afford it??????? I helped dig holes and find pipes to give those that couldn’t afford it. No Angel wasn’t there.

After all that work do you think the County (Angel at the time) would step in and help those in need. NO he was not there. Finally I had it. I was exhausted, not being paid for hours and hours of work and I told people to call your county council man (Angel) and let him do the job he is being paid to do. Then and Only then did Angel’s office field the calls (Karen Eoff). As I said before Angel was not there in the time of need for his constituents. For him to claim he did the water system in Kona Coastview is laughable.

Susan McGeachy

World Newspapers At Your Fingertips

Subject: World Newspapers At Your Fingertips

Just put your mouse on a city anywhere in the world and the newspaper headlines pop up...

Double click and the page gets larger. You can read the entire paper

on some if you click on the right place. You can spend forever here.

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/

Coqui Frogs in Kona Coastview.

What a GREAT accomplishment. I finally got the LOUD Coqui frog that has been going all night every night for the past week. I bought a sprayer and citric acid and sprayed the heck out of the area and then it went quite. If anyone has a coqui in your yard give me a call I now know how to do it.
YES>>>>I did sleep like a lamb.

Debbie Hect for County Coucil, district 8

ELECT Debbie HECHT

HAWAII COUNTY COUNCIL, DISTRICT 8,
NORTH KONA
Vote SEPTEMBER 18.

Building Community by Representing You!
http://www.dhecht.com/

Experience:

• Working with community- Coordinator, 2% for the Land Fund campaign approved by 63% of voters in 2006, working to form the Kealakehe Regional Sports Park, Old Airport / Make'o Park, Hawaii Natural History Assoc, assistant tennis coach Kealakehe HS.

• Writing legislation- I know the job! I know the people, because I worked as a Legislative Aide for the county council, reviewing budgets, doing research and writing laws.

o Wrote the Land Fund charter amendment and presented to Charter Commission. This will be a 1% charter amendment on the ballot in November- PLEASE VOTE YES!

o Worked with League of Women Voters to write the charter amendment on Initiative and Referendum approved by voters 2008.

o IN 2009-2010- Wrote 5 charter amendments for the Charter Commission to consider on Vacancies, Board and Commissions, Recall, Revising the Charter and Impeachment.

• Small business owner, licensed real estate broker, property manager, project manager for remodeling and small-scale development since 1978.

• Teaching degree, trained facilitator and mediator.

Ideas:

• Strengthen communication between the county council and residents by:

o Providing email newsletter on issues

o Holding regular talk-story sessions

o Polling residents on important issues

o Meeting with citizen's organizations regularly

• Work with community to create a shoreline park system, from Kailua to Kawaihae using Land Fund money + matching funds, linked by National Park Service' s Ala Kahakai Historic Trail to create an eco-tourism industry, to protect access, reefs and fishing. Increase care for parks.

• Support Eco-tourism and Agriculture as sustainable industries to provide food, create jobs and stabilize our economy.

• Address infrastructure shortfalls- roads, sewers, water etc. and pave streets (like Ka'iminani).

• Work with business to provide park/ride and bus service for Kailua Village.

• Support responsible development and the Kona CDP

• Keep youth busy! Work to obtain funding to build Old Airport / Make'o Park. Work to get 200+ acres makai of Kealakehe HS for the Kealakehe Regional Sports Park to build sports facilities, work to expand youth programs.

Dates to Vote: Primary- September 18, 2010 * General- November 2, 2010 *

INFORMATION? go to: www.dhecht.com , call 989-3222 or electhecht@gmail.com

How you can help:

How you can HELP this is a Grassroots effort!

1. Basic Grassroots Strategy - Talk to friends, family and co-workers - Historically 4,000+ voters vote for Council in District 8. Please talk to 20 people in Kona, give them campaign literature and ask them to vote for me. Then ask them to talk to 20 morepeople to pass on the good word.

2. Hand out information –Please hand out campaign information in a public place or at a public event. Kid's baseball games? Church? Family dinner? Neighborhood potluck? PRINT OUT ATTACHED CAMPAIGN FLYER

3. Signs - Let me post a sign on your property, if your home or business in District 8. (E-mail me to get a map of district boundaries.) Are you on a busy street? Call to get a sign: 989-3222

4. Want to meet us to Sign wave early in the morning or late afternoon?

5. DONATE to Friends of Debbie Hecht, P.O. Box 4148, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96745. I can qualify for matching dollar for dollar public funding if I get 150 to 210 people at $100. each. All amounts at $100 or less go to helping me to qualify for public funding. MAHALO!

6. Gatherings with family, friends, and neighbors - Are you having folks over? May I attend to speak for 5 minutes, then answer questions, and listen to your concerns?

7. Services –Help with printing, signs, [and] radio and newspaper ads. Any ideas for discounts?

8. Walk your neighborhood with me - I want to meet you and your neighbors and listen to what you would like me to do if I am elected

9. Educate others - Invite me to a meeting of your civic group, neighborhood association or office meeting. Print my campaign material in a newsletter.

10. Ads - Pay for an ad through your business.

11. Encourage people to vote - help with phone calling from September 16th to 20th

12. Get out the vote on primary day- by driving people to the polls and phone calling.

Mahalo!
With warm aloha-
Debbie Hecht
P.O. Box 4148
Kailua-Kona, HI 96745
(808) 989-3222

Vote for Democrates (only) that can make a Difference in Congress!

Anyone in Congress that is a republican should be kicked out. They blocked every attempt to right our Nation. We don’t need to be reminded that the Republicans came into office with a HUGE surplus, and when they left we were on the brink of disaster. 2 wars, deregulating of the financial institutions, Bush taxs cuts for the Super rich…. And more.

Let's think back some 60 years ago.. It was the democrats that fought for Social Security. The Republicans cried socialism. Re-think your history and see where we are going. It is the future of our children that is at risk.
My hat is off to Obama for taking on such a huge challenge.
He has passed health care, women’s equal pay, and on and on….
With NO help from the Republican's.
It is congress (republicans specifically) that have voted against all bills put forward. The republicans were pro imigration legislation until Obama got in office and now there is no support.

So think twice, and look to the (d) democrat when you vote next election.
Time to clean house and get the do nothings out.

*112 on your Cell phone can SAVE YOUR LIFE!

Some know about the red light on cars, but nots the *112.

It was about 1:00 p.m. in the afternoon, and Lauren was driving to visit a friend. An UNMARKED police car pulled up behind her and put his lights on. Lauren's parents have always told her never to pull over for an unmarked car on the side of the road, but rather to wait until they get to a gas station, etc.

Lauren had actually listened to her parents advice, and promptly called *112 on her cell phone to tell the
police dispatcher that she would not pull over right away. She proceeded to tell the dispatcher that there was anunmarked police car with a flashing red light on his rooftop behind her. The dispatcher checked to see if there were police cars where she was and there weren't, and he told her to keep driving, remain calm and that he had back up already on the way.

Ten minutes later 4 cop cars surrounded her and the unmarked car behind her. One policeman went to her side and the others surrounded the car behind. They pulled the guy from the car and tackled him to the ground.

The man was a convicted rapist and wanted for other crimes.

I never knew about the *112 Cell Phone Feature,
but especially for a woman alone in a car, you should not pull over for an unmarked car. Apparently police have to respect your right to keep going to a safe place.

*Speaking to a service representative at ** Bell ** Mobility confirmed that *112 was a direct link to State trooper info.So, now it's your turn to let your friends know about *112.

You may want to Send this to every woman (and man) you know; it may save a life.
This applies to ALL 50 states

Rock walls are not an easy task.

A couple of years ago we had a pretty good earthquake and it took down our rock wall.

When we bought the house in 1988 it was a dry stacked wall. Now we have rebar, concrete...

Nothing easy about building a rock wall.

Tom poors and Susan mixes concrete.

The wall goes under the house for support.

It's getting there.

Febuary in Kona.

One of the last racks of bananas in the yard. Dry Dry Dry.....Gecko on Heliconia in the yard.

Ah the sweet smell of coffee flowers in bloom.

It takes 2 years for a coffee tree to begin producing coffee beans.

Bye Bye Miss American Pie

Wow, American Pie is one of my all time favorite oldies but I'll never hear the same words again.

Try, try as we might we ain't going to buy no more American Pie.

Sorry to say but we all drove the Chevy to the levee a long time ago and now we are all singing "Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq8wbXAR4ZQ

Let's Learn from the Earth Quake. Now is the Time to Prepare.

There are lessons we can learn from this horrible Quake. Being ready for an Emergency is easy!
Being on an Island and 100% dependant on a ship/air bringing us food/water can be a matter of life and death. The volcano we live on may not want to stay put forever.
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HOME SURVIVAL KIT CHECKLIST:
Portable radio
extra batteries
flashlight and candles
matches
First Aid Kit
Medications (one to two weeks worth)
5-10 days of nonperishable food supply
Ice chest
containers of water (1 gallon per person per day)
masking tape for windows & doors
propane stove
propane lanterns and light sticks
sleeping bags/ or blankets
personal toilet articles and sanitary needs
change of clothing for each household member
fuel for stove, hibachis or lanterns
extra pet food
tents/ tarps
folding cots
5 gallon bottles of water (enough for 3 days)
cell phone recharger for your car
Always keep at least 1/2 tank of gas in your car
establish an emergency plan/ meeting place for your family
list of emergency contacts: family, doctors, medications and other instructions as needed.
BEING PREPARED IS EASY TO DO. DON'T WAIT FOR A REAL EMERGENCY TO BEGIN GETTING READY.