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# The Maui News

## LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Monday, January 6, 1997

## Sugar beats dust

I too am a newcomer who selected Maui as a place to live, work and raise a family, as many others have. My newcomer status is prior to statehood. I can easily see the clouds of red orange dust that filled the air during the summer before the introduction of "drip".

Hence a tip of the hat to Harry Eagar for his Off Deadline column Dec. 31. Harry, keep working to keep sugar with its wonderful waves of green, and not 100 sections of the worst desert one could dream of. To the rest of you newcomers like me, you selected Maui for what it is, keep it for what it is, not come and decide you will change a way of life.

R. J. "Dick" Tuell
Makawao