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Article: $1 saves Kunia homes
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
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- May 29, 2008
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The city is saving Kunia Plantation Village from demolition thanks to a deal worked out with the James Campbell Co., Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann said yesterday. The Hawaii Agriculture Research Center bought the 119 acres for $1. Here, Charles Cabucana, who is retired after working 13 years for Del Monte, worked yesterday in his garden.
Loma Corderos has lived in the same Kunia Plantation Village house all her 56 years.
Her grandfather first moved into the four-bedroom wooden home. She grew up several houses away from a boy a few years older who later became her husband.
Since 2006, Corderos -- along with the other families living in Kunia Plantation Village -- feared they would be ...