"Something called common courtesy..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen'

Many people with breathing difficulties are hospitalized every New Years in Hawaii because of the out of control fireworks.
This blog also ran as an opinion article in today's Kaua'i Garden island News with the title; Too many fireworks  http://thegardenisland.com/promo/homepage/letters-for-monday-january/article_f4bf908e-351e-11e1-8fcb-0019bb2963f4.html 

And it also ran on January 5, 2012 in the Honolulu Advertiser on page A-10, titled; "Kauai should follow Oahu on fireworks." http://staradvertiser.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

Fireworks can be beautiful and works of art when professionals are a t the controls. When everyone has carte blanche even on residential streets it is a disastrous situation
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I am blessed to live where not many fireworks go off, but just a few blocks from me in a major residential neighborhood I know 3 families that leave their homes every new years because of the smoke and continuous noise form 7-12. Many people will pop a Valium to relieve the stress and many welcome in the New Years with their homes smelling like smoke.

Many will tell you it's culture, it's not cultural to be discourteous to your neighbors.

Kaua'i needs to follow in Oahu's path in limiting fireworks and requiring a permit to partake in the insanity, better yet just make it illegal.

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