Photos of grannies making cookies with the kiddos, a grandfather and grandson hand in hand, kicking through fall leaves, and a grandmother reading to a loving child on her lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These are among the scenes that, the Tenderlycare.org website would have you believe, are playing out in three Big Island developments: Luna Loa, a 60-unit affordable development in Waikoloa; Westview [sic], a 112-unit complex in Kona; and Crystal Orchid, 30 affordable units in Puna. The first two are underway in one fashion or another. As to the third, it\u2019s apparently lying low for the time being. A company called Crystal Orchid Developments, LLC, was formed in Hawai\u2018i in July 2020, with its registered agent Zendo Kern \u2013 now the county planning director. Its sole member is Terry Kershner, whose listed address is in California. So far as Environment Hawai\u2018i <\/em>is able to learn, there is no affordable development of that name in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But there\u2019s more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Hilo Tenderly Care project will accommodate \u201cabout 50 affordable elderly care units and a childcare center\u201d \u2013 if Tenderly Care\u2019s realtor can get a long-term lease from the state for the property depicted. That property is a multi-story stucco building with balconies, backing up against an even taller brick building. In Hilo, there\u2019s no such thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s not the only made-up thing on the website. Click on the \u201cTeam\u201d tab to learn about the people involved, and you\u2019ll see four handsome, multiracial people, two men, two women. The same faces appear on other websites from Australia to Long Island, advertising everything from corporate services to hairdressing salons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They\u2019re real people \u2013 models whose images are sold on stock photo sites. Just like every other image on the website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Patricia Tummons<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Photos of grannies making cookies with the kiddos, a grandfather and grandson hand in hand, kicking through fall leaves, and a grandmother reading to a loving child on her lap. These are among the scenes that, the Tenderlycare.org website would … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[497],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-14445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-june-2022","tag-patricia-tummons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}