Beth Midler, actress and singer, born in Honolulu, was caught up on the wrong side of the law when she decided to cut down no less than 230 trees on her premises without permission.
Apparently, the entertainer did not know she required a permit. I guess she thought since it is her property on Kauai’s North Shore, bought and paid for, she was at liberty to do whatever she wanted. She also developed a gravel road which is also against regulations.
The actress will be fined a few thousands for that infraction and will have to develop a program for replanting trees in the area.
Live and learn.
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December 18, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Noticed her name Bette is often mispelled as
Beth. I remember Robert Lapalme who had a symbol Bet for his humour museum and caricature
competition in Montreal. Robert was the director of Man the Creator, the Fine Arts theme pavilion on Cite du Havre at Expo 67. ”Bet” was an Egyptian god of humour and Bette Midler is a fine Jewish comedian. She is an equally talented lyracist and singer which amounts to a dual persona, both beautiful and comic, or of ‘beauty and the beast’.
Moshe Safdie, an Israeli Jew, designed Habitat 67 which is also on Cite du Havre. It is an outstanding
housing complex constructed after
prototypes for Palestinian refugee housing in 1962.
I worked in Louis Perron’s landscape office, the same one that Moshe worked in prior to creating Habitat…
I also rendered jumps in Mr. Perron’s office for the Olympic equestrian event in 1976.
Mr. Perron created the Joan of Arc gardens on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City in 1938.
Next year on July 8th, Quebec celebrates the 400th anniversary of its founding by Samuel de Champlain.
My mom was born on February 20th, 1931 and died on January 17th, 1997. Good luck to Beth on replacing Celine at Caesars on Febuary 20th, 2008.
June 11, 2009 at 8:18 am
Brian
did you attend Sir Winston Churchill High
in St Laurent Quebec?