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Public land trust receives Wainiha parcel
by Rachel Gehrlein - THE GARDEN ISLAND
WAINIHA — The deed for a 17,000-square-foot parcel of land in Wainiha was handed over to the Kaua‘i Public Land Trust last month by the Canela Group in honor of Mary McGregor Ballard.
The parcel, a popular fishing spot, is located just west of Wainiha Bay.
“The Canela Group’s generous donation will ensure that another part of this beautiful island will remain undeveloped and available for public access and use in perpetuity,” Jennifer Luck, executive director of the land trust, said yesterday. “The Canela Group is a committed group of individuals who understand the necessity and importance of conserving open space on Kaua‘i.”
Canela Group members are partial owners of the Wainiha parcel. Because they wanted to remain anonymous, they came together under one name.
The group said it decided to donate the land because of the trust’s reputation for conservation and history of successfully acquiring and preserving land on Kaua‘i.
With the gift, the group hopes the area surrounding Wainiha Bay will look as it does today generations from now.
Luck said the land trust will eventually put in some parallel parking stalls to make beach access more convenient. But there are no any plans to build facilities, such as restrooms.
Though the trust will maintain the parcel for now, Luck said that in time the land will be transferred to the county, the state or a state-owned entity.
The acquisition marks the fourth successfully completed transaction by the Kaua‘i Public Land Trust. The four parcels total 27 acres appraised at $8.3 million.
“Currently we are raising funds for $3.4 million, 20-acre parcel in Kilauea that would be added to the Kilauea Coastal Preserve,” Luck said.
The trust is also working toward acquisitions on the North Shore, Kapa‘a and the South Shore.
For more information, visit www.kauaipubliclandtrust.org or call 346-9419.
• Rachel Gehrlein, staff writer, can be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 225) or rgehrlein@kauaipubco.com.
The parcel, a popular fishing spot, is located just west of Wainiha Bay.
“The Canela Group’s generous donation will ensure that another part of this beautiful island will remain undeveloped and available for public access and use in perpetuity,” Jennifer Luck, executive director of the land trust, said yesterday. “The Canela Group is a committed group of individuals who understand the necessity and importance of conserving open space on Kaua‘i.”
Canela Group members are partial owners of the Wainiha parcel. Because they wanted to remain anonymous, they came together under one name.
The group said it decided to donate the land because of the trust’s reputation for conservation and history of successfully acquiring and preserving land on Kaua‘i.
With the gift, the group hopes the area surrounding Wainiha Bay will look as it does today generations from now.
Luck said the land trust will eventually put in some parallel parking stalls to make beach access more convenient. But there are no any plans to build facilities, such as restrooms.
Though the trust will maintain the parcel for now, Luck said that in time the land will be transferred to the county, the state or a state-owned entity.
The acquisition marks the fourth successfully completed transaction by the Kaua‘i Public Land Trust. The four parcels total 27 acres appraised at $8.3 million.
“Currently we are raising funds for $3.4 million, 20-acre parcel in Kilauea that would be added to the Kilauea Coastal Preserve,” Luck said.
The trust is also working toward acquisitions on the North Shore, Kapa‘a and the South Shore.
For more information, visit www.kauaipubliclandtrust.org or call 346-9419.
• Rachel Gehrlein, staff writer, can be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 225) or rgehrlein@kauaipubco.com.
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Ronald Pray wrote on Oct 17, 2009 5:14 AM:
I am a former U.S. Coast Guard Search and rescue team member at Barbers Point. I never read the scathing November 28 article about a rescue I did in 1977 while on leave.
In November of 1977 I had visited Kauai on leave and hiked the Na Pali coast to go camping. On the trail I saw some hikers in front of me ignore the cries of a man saying he was poisoned by mushrooms he had eaten. I know that there are many poisonous varieties from the orange mushrooms to the copelandia varieties which are deadly. I stopped and he was vomitting and telling me that he was dying. I laid my sleeping bag down onto the ground and made him comfortable then lit my coleman stove and cooked him soup to eat. He ate the soup and continued vomitting. He said that he needed immediate attention. I ecouraged him to vommit everything out of his stomache.
I asked him if he would be OK while I ran back to Haena for help and he said please do that.
I ran from his location sometimes skipping the zig-zags in the trails steep inclines jumping straight down to the trail below. I had injured my Achilles tendon by twisting my ankle which put me on light duty upon returning to Barbers Point.
I then knocked on the first door I found and asked them to contact the U.S. Coast Guard that there was a man stranded on the trail who needed immediate attention.
The Fire Department went in on the trail and found the man walking out on his own. This is why the writer in 1977 claimed that I had misread the situation and that is why he called my rescue "The Rescue that wasn't". I believe that had that man died, his death would have been on my ticket and given that rescuing folks was my business I had a responsibility to perform.
We may never know what part my inducing vomiting played in the recovery of this man. I'd like to believe that it played a major role in his quick recovery.
I am proud that I stood for the highest traditions of the U.S. Coast Guard on that fateful day on the Na Pali Coast.To this day, I have a lump in my Achilles Tendon which hurts on certain days to remind me of that day I ran into that man.
Malama Pono,
Former 3rd Class Petty Officer Ronald Pray "