Updated at 1:12 p.m., Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Meeting tomorrow on Honolulu Memorial Park
Advertiser Staff
Families with niches or cemetery plots at Honolulu Memorial Park will attend a meeting tomorrow at McKinley High School to vote on changes to bylaws and new officers.The meeting will start at 7 p.m. in the cafeteria at the school. Registration starts at 5:30 p.m., and those wishing to vote must bring proof of their ownership.
The park, with its landmark pagoda, has been embroiled in controversy since 2001, when its owners — the Richards brothers — filed for bankruptcy in Circuit Court.
At the time, they said it would cost more than $1 million to repair the pagoda. Niche and plot owners at the park, meanwhile, said the cemetery was mismanaged.
For a time, there was no maintenance at the park — not even trash pickup. But a manager was hired in February, and he is running the office and taking care of groundskeeping.
