LOVES PICK,HATES PIC Thank you for posting my event “Breast Cancer Fund Benefit at Flatbread in Paia” (Picks of the Week, May 31, 2012). I appreciate the prominent spot in your publication. I read MTW every week and always enjoy it. However, I just had to comment that the photo was a little bit in poor taste. Women lose their breasts to breast cancer. They don’t need to see … [Read more...] about Readers Talk About Breasts and the Ultraviolets and the Maui Visitors Bureau
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Readers Sound Off on the Maui Visitors Bureau
The following letters are in response to Anthony Pignataro’s May 17, 2012 cover story “This Year Terryl Vencl wants the County to give the Maui Visitors Bureau $3.5 million.” * * * As a representative for an organization that received an Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) grant, also overseen by Teena Rasmussen’s county Office of Economic Development (OED), I find the … [Read more...] about Readers Sound Off on the Maui Visitors Bureau
Here is Why The County of Maui Should not Give Terryl Vencl and the Maui Visitors Bureau Three and a Half Million Dollars
The story goes that Terryl Vencl spends a lot of time at Maui County Council budget hearings. Supposedly, she’s there every day, during the spring months when the council painstakingly reviews its proposed budget, which is hovering between $550 million and $560 million. It makes sense, because Vencl, the executive director of the Maui Visitors Bureau (MVB), has a lot riding on … [Read more...] about Here is Why The County of Maui Should not Give Terryl Vencl and the Maui Visitors Bureau Three and a Half Million Dollars