November 19 Town Meeting on the Future of the Big Island, Draft List of Participants
Note: This is an incomplete listing based on the focus group handwritten sheets completed by each team during the three hour session. This list will be modified as late reports come in and as comments on the electronic forum are considered. A hardcopy report with findings and suggestions of the focus groups will be produced at a later date. If your name is mispelled, or if you arrived late and did not sign the focus group sheets, kindly send an e-mail note with the focus group designation and your name to: ansonchong@pobox.com. Mahalo!
Focus Group 1: Affordable Housing
Participants: Marty Stuart (Architect), Diane Chadwick (Hawai’I Community Fdn.), Karen Carvalho (student and ASUH Senator) and Ku’ulei Maunupau (President, Pacific United Nations Alliance).
Focus Group 2: Childcare
Participants: Chita Braceros, Laura DeKoning, Darwin Egusa and Judy Riviera (HawCC students); Mai Wong, Mary Goya (HawCC staff).
Focus Group 3: Co-Ops
Participants: Heather Hedenschau (Real Estate Broker), Ida Prange (Realtor Student), Christopher Carroll (student), Gerrie Morisky (Ala Loa Comm. Fdn.), Bianca Molinari (student), Michelle Medeiros (student) and Tim O’Connell (USDA/Rural Development), Dr. Noelie Rodrigues (Professor)
Focus Group 4: Culture & the Arts
Participants: Sudha Achar (E. Hawaii Cultural Center), Angelina Gramlich (Forest Team Project), Bernie Lustgarten, Gretchen Vanderslice, Dr. Trina Nahm-Mijo (Professor)
Focus Group 5: Disabilities
Participants: Karen Kane (HCC Counseling), Jan Stickney (Full Life), Teddy Justo (ASUH-HawCC), Diane Phillips (HawCC student), Tui Fuaiawa (ASUH, HawCC)
Focus Group 6: Diversified Agriculture
Participants: Judy Neeson (Markoff Fdn.), James Weatherford (landowner), Leila Kealoha (Forest Team & HawCC student), Pat Hope (Kona Farmer's Alliance), Michael Larish (Mauna Illena Farm), Russel Kokubun (State Senator), Randy Rambo (HawCC student)
Focus Group 7: Drug Solutions
Participants: Jay Kimura, Mitchell Roth and Billy Kenoi (Prosecutor's Office), Thomas Hickcox (Hawaii Police Dept.), S. Gomes (parent), Carolyn Lee, Andree Kekoa, Andy Hogue (HawCC students), and the following with unknown organizational listing: Cecil McIntire, Kathy Hammes, Daniel Kawata.
Focus Group 8: Economic Alternatives
Participants: Lorraine Inouye (State Senator), Stafford Oyama (KTA), Kathy Wheeless (Hawaii Comm. Corrections Ctr.), Jay Warkentin (Hawaiian/Sun CableVision), Harry Takahashi (Japanese Chamber), Orando Smith (Honomu Village Assn. & UH student), Barbara Arthurs (staff, HawCC), David Drury (no affiliation)
Focus Group 9: Education
Participants: John Thatcher (Connections PCS), Charlene Masuhara (Hilo HS), Emmanuel Chen (Connections PCS), Alberta Lindsay (League of Women Voters), Robert Daley (HawCC), Deborah Anderson (Honoka'a HS/Interm. School), Marilyn Quaccia ((Keonepoko Elem.); Alan Okinaka (Questor Associates), Ilene Haraki (Keeau Middle School), Janet Cody (HawCC student), Jim Gale (Hawaii Vol. Nat. Park), Charles Taliferro (Sea Explorer Scouter), William Lloyd (Connections PCS), Gwen Kimura (HawCC), Diane Ferreira (retired Professor, Pihanakalani Ranch, Weight Watchers, UHPA)
Focus Group 10: Elder Care
Participants: Julie Tulang (Hawaii Community Fdn.), Cyril Kiehl and Lori Palmer (no affiliations), Jimmy Arakaki (Councilman)
Focus Group 11: Environment
Participants: Roberta Brashear (Sierra Club President), Roger Dilts (Sierra Club), Doug Lentz (Hawaii Volcanos Nat. Park), Julie Jacobson (Councilperson), Bob Jacobson (Hawaiian Acres Comm. Assn.), Fred Stone (Professor, HawCC), Ellen Okuma (Librarian, HawCC), Kathleen Braun (published authur, contactee), Cynthia Thurkins (Forest Team), Joey Watts (UH-Hilo).
Focus Groups 12 & 13: Family Management/Parenting/Community Safety
Participants: Jiro Sumada (W. H. Shipman, Ltd.), Mary Stuart (Amer. Assoc. Univ. Women), Likeke Teanio (Turning Point for Families), Donna Kaneko (YWCA Hilo Familiy Visitation Ctr.), Susan Shirachigunsales (UHH, Univ. Dis. S.), Brenda Kilioni (ASUH - HawCC student gov't), Bonnie Bator (Betterment of Hawai'i Nei), April Hauanio (no affiliation)
Focus Group 14: Healing Island
Participants: Susan Johnson (Hospice/Hilo), Lois Kiehl (Discovery Harbor Assoc.), Pat Linton (Five Mountains Hawai'i), Toddy Martin (Bay Clinic), Patricia Gleason (Bay Clinic), Kathleen Porter (Wellspring), and the following with no affiliation noted: Betsy Cole, Daryl Pieta and Susan McIntire.
Focus Group 15: Health Services
Participants: Stephanie Launiu (Bay Clinic), Paul Young (Pay Clinic), Lovey Scott (NaPoehoaaina), James Sheppard (Self Motivated consultant), Potter Swatz (Hamakua Health Center), HawCC students: Carmen Downs and Vicki Hoffman. No Affiliation noted for Patrick Freehill
Focus Group 16: Hunger
Participants: Moses David (Children of God & Goddes), Hedather Brien (Hawaii Island Food Bank), Leahjames Abel and Yoruba Zeti (Global Hope), Damien Joaquin (Joaquin Help Organization).
Focus Group 17: Homelessness
Participants: Judy Segobia (East Hawaii Coalition/Homeless), Gerald DeMello (UH-Hilo), Huang (HawCC), Roselyn Smith (HawCC), Nannette Savage (HawCC), Steve Humphers (UH-Hilo)
Focus Group 18: Job Opportunities
Participants: Paula Helfrich (Hawaii Economic Dev. & facilitator), George Yokoyama (Hawaii Econ. Dev.), Gary Safarik (Councilman), Leoni Bergknut (HawCC-OCET), Peter Michaud (Gemini Telescope), Gail Seavers (W.K. County Assn.), Bunny Smith (County)
Focus Group 19: Prison Alternatives
Participants: Lance Niimi (Queen Liliou. Trust), Kawika Rivera (Global Hope/RJLC), Summer Shewsberry (HawCC-LC), Samuel Kalileiki (P. Hoopakele), Dana Bellwether (Global Hope). No affiliation noted for: Mary Betancourt, Jennifger Napihaa, David Adams, Jerry Parks and Samu.
Focus Group 21: Residential Treatment/Therapeutic Living Programs
Participants: Donnalyn Johns (BISAC), Andrew Levin (former State Senator, Special. Assist. to the Mayor), Sueko "Keiko" Sakai (HawCC student). No affiliation noted for: Malia Leialoha
Focus Group 22: Responsive Government
Participants: Susan O'Neil (Presenter, Wainaku-Kaiwiki Comm. Assn.), Anson Chong (facilitator, HawCC), Charlotte Donat (HCCEO Initiative), Robert Arthurs (Orchidland Comm. Assn.), Mardie Lane (Hawaii Volcanoes Nat'l Park), Jon Olsen (Puna Community Council), Jherrie Rubeyiat (Puna Scholarhsip HS Club), Robert Akamine (retired Air Force, former UHH student), Shelly Stephens (Ocean Mining Environ. Code/Hawaiian Native Fishermen)
Focus Group 23: Restorative Justice
Participants: HawCC students: Robin Phillips and Maria Randall (co-(reporters), David Heaukulani, Matt and Gesa. Late arrival: Rev. Ron Fujiyoshi (Hawai'ian community activist)
Focus Group 24: Sustainability
Participants: Christopher Yuen (Director of Planning, County of Hawaii), Andrea Gill (State DBEDT/Hi. Energy), Phil Barnes (Sierra Club), Eden Peart (gcfreehawaii), Mary Marvin Porter (Sierra Club & KEDAA), Christina Guaccia (County Planning), No affiliation noted for: Mark Olson, Elin Sand, Henry HKorton.
Focus Group 25: Small Business
Participants: Darryl Mleynek (Hawai'i SBDC Network), Amy Self (Carlsmith Ball), Jane Korike (County R& D), Ernest Matsumura (KIAA), Robert Chase (SBDC Rural Dev. Ctr.), Carol VanCamp (Prince Kuhio Plaza), Beth Sanders (HawCC staff).
Focus Group 26: Transportation
Participants: Ginny Aste (Aide to Councilperson Jacobson), Ann N. Gleason (UHH faculty), Kelley Lau (ASUH-HawCC student senator), Ole Fulks (community activist), Al Beeman (farmer/business exec.), Maya Yonting-Dornes (HIRHA), No Affiliation for: Kevin Horton
Focus Group 27: Youth Activities/Services
Participants: Carrie Blankfield (facilitator, Social Worker), Alan Garson (Casey Familiy Programs), Ken Okimoto (Cooperative Extension Svc.), Arthur Chauarria (Boys & Girls Club, Hilo), Corey Johnson (student, comp. strategies program)
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