US ..
IT'S THANKSGIVING WEEKEND.
TIME FOR FAMILY, SHOPPING, EVEN
ENJOYING THE OUTDOORS...GOING TO
THE BEACH OR THE PARK.
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS, A
RESIDENTS TELL US FOR DECADES
ITS
BEEN FORGOTTEN, A DUMP...SO WE
WENT
TO THE CITY WITH QUESTIONS...
RJ: 15:55
"Have you ever seen a park like
this? No. It's just
amazing actually that there's
two sides of the
directly across the
Auld Lane Mini park in Kalihi
...which strangely
enough ... is split in half by a
street than runs right
through it. One side overgrown
with head high
dump than a park. Complete with
what
appears to be a hastily built
structure.
16:10 "I'm guessing it's part of
park because it's
all one area, and with this
side, I don't know. They
just built this.
I don't know, the renter that
was living downstairs
but ever since he passed away
it's just been sitting
here".
BUTT TO: 17:22 "I came home from
school one
day and he just built it and put
up walls he put up
everything but now that he's
BUTT TO: 16:56
"Not exactly the kind of park
these parts what happens in that
scenario? In that
type of scenario the public
somebody if they want to
tell us to check the park and we
will make sure we
do that and make sure it's
always cleaned up".
"What would be your hope for
this area, it's
right across the street from
your home what
would you like to see become of
it?
Maintenance to the area. If the
city wants to change
it to a nice green park that's
fine or maybe a little
park for the kids on the side
that would be great".
Lovi Domingo told me in the 20
year she's lived
across from the park, she's
never seen any
improvements or maintenance. In
fact she
says she only recently learned
what the two
small parcels of land were.
We never knew it was a parking
till just this past
Nekota says staff from each
district are normally
assigned to maintain several
parks, with priority
given to the most heavily used
parks.
We asked when was the last time
the Auld Street
mini park was maintained - the
city tells us it has no
record.
But the day after we told her
what we saw ...
... City crews were there. And
have since returned
two more times to clean up the
overgrown
vegetation on one side of the
street ...
And remove everything from car
parts, to
bicycles, and the old shed from
the other side.
In all, more than 10 truck loads
of junk.
"This is the third time back
since we initially
game correct correct before that
how long
since anybody's clean this up as
far as you know?
efforts ...And hopes it's just
the beginning of a
complete transformation of the
mini park.
LOVI: 9:40
LOVI 11:33 "I'm just so glad
that Channel 2 News
came back and it's a big change
in the
maintenance of this garden it'll
hopefully
continue on and we can come
together to see
DIRECTOR NEKOTA SAYS GOING
FORWARD
THE PARKS DEPARTMENT WILL DO
ROUTINE CHECKS OF ALL PARKS ...
THAT NEEDS TO ADDRESSED TO
NOTIFY THE DEPARTMENT ... OR
POLICE.