Is there life in the Other Side of Paradise ?
Category: Life Aloha Ohana and Friends Our film project is called The Other Side of Paradise. We are coming along with our film project on The Other Side of.Paradise... We are hoping to get done with our filming for our trailer this coming weekend in Los Angeles........ and then launch it as our fundraiser. Once we our done with our trailer …please forward it to your Ohana ( Family) and Friends. Our major problem in L.A is that we are paying more for gas than food. Trailer does not mean our film is done …it is just the beginning of a long process. I am very much interested to screen our film trailer as fundraiser for local homeless community in L.A and our film . We need a lot of help to finish our film so that we too can help a lot of people . Thanks and God Bless…. ........ PS...WE ALSO HAVE EBAY. We will sell products at our ebay to raise funds for our film .....the second purpose of our ebay account is to sell hand crafters made by homeless in Hawaii. Although the house is about over half a million dollars... we can also help them to get some income by any means . Hawaii's homeless are very talented with thier handcraft from carving canoe to tiki to handcraft bone necklace. http://myworld.ebay.com/braddahrandy ( Our Film Garage Sale ).... Single, homeless and nowhere to go
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http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Mar/13/ln/hawaii803130346.html .... Can ....Waikiki.... handle growth?
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http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Mar/10/ln/hawaii803100358.html .... .. .. Honolulu.... inflation pushes prices up 4.8%
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http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Feb/21/ln/hawaii802210359.html.... .. .. Top 10 Beaches
The beaches in ........Hawaii........ are all unique with their different sizes, shapes, sand color, and waves. They are found on all sides of the islands and you can go at any time of the year.
http://www.alohamagazine.com/en/top_beaches.htm
Top 10 Hawaiian Beaches
By Valerie Conners
http://travel.discovery.com/ideas/beaches/hawaii-beaches/hawaii-beaches.html
Homeless must leave Hawaii Beach Park
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Jan/16/ln/hawaii801160409.html....
Photo gallery: Hawaii beach Park
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Jan/16/ln/ulehawa.html
Hundreds meet with Lingle on Turtle Bay
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080305/NEWS01/803050444/1001/&source=nletter-news
33% in Isles not self-sufficient ........ ..February 3, 2007.......... By Mary Vorsino
Advertiser Staff Writer........ http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Feb/03/ln/FP702030350.html.... Posted on: ..Saturday, March 24, 2007.. .... Seeking cheap rental? Good luck .... ....By Catherine E. Toth
Advertiser Urban ........Honolulu........ Writer........ .. .. .. .. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Mar/24/ln/FP703240338.html.... .. .. .Posted on: ..Monday, November 12, 2007 More of Hawaii's foster children being adopted By Loren Moreno
Advertiser Staff Writer........ Homeless in Hawaii..How many?...Understanding what the annual tally of .Hawaii's homeless tells us actually might take some of the despair out of the equation.By Michael Ullman
Special to the Star-Bulletin.... ...... .. http://starbulletin.com/2007/02/04/editorial/special.html.... .. .. HOMELESS ON THE WAI'ANAE COAST
Wai'anae's homeless just can't afford to rent. By Will Hoover and Rob Perez
Advertiser Staff Writers........ http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Oct/15/ln/FP610150359.html Housing relief coming to Wai'anae, but slowly By Rob Perez
Advertiser Staff Writer........ http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Oct/20/ln/FP610200356.html........ State missteps worsen homeless crisis By Rob Perez
Advertiser Staff Writer........ http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Dec/17/ln/FP612170360.html .... ....Hawaii.... seeks to set up emergency tourism fund http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2007-01-04-hawaii-emergency-tourism-fund_x.htm.... Hawaii.... nonprofit fighting rental bias .... By Mary Vorsino
Advertiser Urban ........Honolulu........ Writer ........ .. .. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Nov/12/ln/hawaii711120352.html .... Honolulu ..Hawaii..'s Real Estate Boom Contributes to Homeless Problem PRWEB Newswire http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/12/prweb486514.htm $25M sought to repair Hawaii public housing .... By Lynda Arakawa
Advertiser Staff Writer........ http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Nov/08/ln/hawaii711080376.html........ Housing options drying up for poor By James Gonser
Advertiser Staff Writer http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Jun/06/ln/ln05p.html .... Legal help out of reach for many in Hawaii .... By Jim Dooley
Advertiser Staff Writer http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Nov/08/ln/hawaii711080377.html.... Vegas seeing more Hawaiian transplants .... By Christie Wilson....
. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Aug/09/ln/hawaii708090343.html.... More whites, fewer Asians in ....Hawaii. By Christie Wilson....
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Aug/09/ln/hawaii708090342.html Beach access limits hit nerve
By William Cole
Advertiser Staff Writer
In what may have been the biggest beach-access rally ever held on O'ahu, hundreds of people mobilized yesterday around the island with placards, shakas and pleas for passing motorists to support public access to the ocean.
There was a whole lot of honking, especially in ....Kailua...., where locked gates have sprung up in recent years preventing beach access.
"We're losing access and traditional access points that may or may not go across public land are being closed off," said Roxanne Darling, who was at ....Kailua....'s ....Triangle.. ..Park..... "It's not just for the community (in ....Kailua....), this is for the public at large. These beaches are public beaches. They've always been public."
....Kailua.... resident Ray Schab held up a sign that read ALOHA vertically, with the first letters horizontally spelling out "Allow Open Hawai'i Access."
"As the price of real estate goes up, people are like, 'You know what, I don't want people coming through my lane (to get to the beach),' " Schab said. "A lot of people don't even know about this."
About 26 people waved signs at ....Triangle.. ..Park...., a similar number were at ....Kalama.. ..Beach.. ..Park.... on ....Kalaheo Avenue...., and about 35 rallied at ....L'Orange Place...., a private road where a 6-foot-tall gate was installed last August blocking public access to the beach.
Similar rallies were held around Turtle Bay Resort, in Portlock, '....Aina Haina.., ..Hawai'i.... Kai, and at ....Ala.. ..Wai.. ..Boat.. ..Harbor..... Others were scheduled on ..Maui.., Kaua'i and the ....Big.. ..Island.....
Rich Figel, a co-founder of Beach Access ....Hawai'i.... and a rally organizer, said the statewide event was intentionally held yesterday on Groundhog Day.
"A lot of these issues have been kind of lying dormant," Figel said. "We felt it was time to wake up the public and remind them of all these various battles we're fighting."
Those battles include fighting the increasing numbers of gates blocking beach access, beachfront homeowners planting thorny plants to keep beachgoers at bay, and resort, commercial and residential development cutting off access.
It all adds up to fewer and fewer ways for the public to get to ....Hawai'i....'s public beaches.
"We need to be more diligent in protecting the public access we have," said state Senate Majority Leader Gary Hooser, D-7th (Kaua'i, Ni'ihau).
Hooser yesterday attended a kickoff rally at the state Capitol, where some of the members of 20 different participating organizations spoke of the beach access problem.
Ann Marie Kirk, from the Livable Hawai'i Kai Hui, said that in East O'ahu there is just one public right-of-way for six miles of oceanfront, in addition to three parks.
"Public right-of-ways open up the space, so you don't have one point taking all the activities," Kirk said.
Figel said his group has received reports from people trying to go to Ko Olina Resort who say "that if they try to go in the afternoon, they have been turned away by the guards."
"This is the other fear with the planned expansion of ....Turtle.. ..Bay.... — that it would probably be kind of a similar plan, with very limited parking," Figel added.
Although Beach Access ....Hawai'i.... said the state Supreme Court repeatedly has upheld the public's right to use beaches, getting to them has gotten increasingly complicated.
The city has a "suggested guideline" that — where reasonable in urbanized areas — there should be beach access every quarter mile, according to the organization.
In ....Kailua...., there are seven public accessways to the beach, counting parks and 17 gates, Figel said.
Some roads and beach accessways are privately owned, and in recent years have been closed to foot traffic.
....L'Orange Place...., a short private road off ....Kalaheo Avenue...., has become ground zero for the beach access movement. According to Beach Access ....Hawai'i...., residents used the beach path at the end of the lane for decades.
But last August, a gate went up.
In September, John Price, who has lived on the street for 20 years, said residents grew tired of the increased traffic, noise, litter and crime, late-night revelers and bonfires on the beach.
But Bob Moncrief, who has lived on L'Orange for 38 years, yesterday was one of 35 people along Kalaheo rallying for beach access. He and his wife voted against the gate.
"I feel like I always have. It's always been open on L'Orange as long as I can remember," said Moncrief, 68. "I'm against the whole concept of closing off access to public beaches."
Moncrief said the people who used the accessway were respectful. But he also said the demographics are changing with homes on L'Orange selling for $2 million to $4 million.
"People with a local spirit and local attitudes have been displaced by people from the Mainland who know nothing about it," he said.
A private security guard was stationed on the street yesterday to keep people out, and the street entrance displays permanent signs saying "Private lane, no trespassing," "....Private Road....," and "No Beach Access."
Lawmakers increasingly are paying attention to the beach access issue, and at least five bills have been introduced in the state Legislature this session.
With yesterday's statewide rally, Figel hopes there will be more public attention to the issue — and more results.
"I would like to see state and county laws that are consistent," Figel said, "and at least say there shall be — not should be — public beach access every quarter mile or less of beach."
Melissa Ling-Ing, with Common Ground ....Hawai'i...., had argued at the state Capitol against proposed parking fees at the ....Ala.. ..Wai.. ..Boat.. ..Harbor.... as part of the access issue.
"It's wrong," she said of parking fees. "That's what makes ....Hawai'i.... special — free beach access."
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Mahalo Pono for posting my blog. We are still casting in L.A , Las Vegas and San Diego and Bay Area. My film blog website....is www.blog.myspace.com/braddahrandy .
We are also looking forward filmming in Waianae Hawaii, because that is what our called The Other Side of Paradise ( Documentary). Thanks
I am very grateful.......