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December 7 Battlefield May Be Destroyed! |
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SAVE December 7 EWA FIELD: Contact Your U.S. Senator or Representative: |
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SAVE December 7 EWA FIELD: Contact the U.S. National Park Service: Jon Jarvis, Director 1849 C Street, NW Washington D.C., 20240 |
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Contact: Your Representatives & National Park Service, Washington, D.C. NOW! |
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BULL DOZERS DESTROYING EWA CULTURAL HISTORY! |
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Development plans jeopardize future of equestrian group-- The Navy has given the club until mid-2011 to remain on former Barbers Point land By William Cole--Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Sunday, August 1, 2010 Barbers Point Riding Club is 30 acres of bucolic, equestrian heaven on crowded Oahu. The stables have been on the Ewa Plain since the 1950s, and 50 horses and the 40 families that own them call it home. It also has some of the most unusual "barns" to be found: circa-1942 concrete dome revetments that once housed a beast of a different sort--F-4F Wildcat fighter planes. The future of both the riding club and the historic revetments are in question as development plans start to overtake the old Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, the target of some of the first attacks by the Japanese on Dec. 7, 1941. The 1.5 million-square-foot Ka Makana Alii shopping center is planned a mile to the north. The 1,100-acre Ocean Pointe subdivision is to the southeast. Parts of a 97-acre state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands parcel immediately to the west of the riding club have been staked and surveyed. DHHL says it's for a possible future city rail transit base yard. The Navy conveyed 499 acres of land to the north, much of it from the air station, also known as Ewa Field, to a Texas-based developer, the Hunt Cos. Those development plans have the riding club feeling like it's being squeezed in the middle. The Navy, which still owns the riding club land, in April notified the nonprofit club it had 90 days to move out. Horse owners appealed, and the Navy agreed to extend the club's lease through June 2011. "When we first got the message in April, we were in shock," said Nancy Lyons, who brought three horses from Montana eight years ago and keeps them at the riding club. "You have these 1,200-pound creatures that are part of your family. Where are you going to put them? It's not like a dog." CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE |