Grand sand plan at Iroquois land, again

Hope springs eternal, and one can only hope that in the ongoing efforts to restore the eroding beach at Iroquois Point, the umpteenth time is the charm.

The beach sand, exposed as it is to the tides and currents, has moved from the point where everyone would like it to stay, to the channel, where it blocks access to Navy docks and a channel marker.

Now there’s a massive beach restoration project being done by the Texas-based Hunt Cos., a $14 million project, even though Hunt no longer owns the property.

Crews are even cleaning up the remnants of all those past failures, the bits of rock, masonry, concrete and timber left in attempted restoration efforts of 1978, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1993, 1995, 2004 and 2009. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again, and again and again and again.

As symphony plays on, fans needed

The Hawaii Symphony Orchestra will be back!

That’s good news, long awaited, although the announced plans sound more like a concert series than a second season for the resuscitated organization.

Starting in October, assuming the musicians sign off, the orchestra plans to book the Blaisdell Concert Hall for weekend concerts, ending sometime in the holidays, when a rendering of Beethoven’s Ninth will be the finale.

Those who had been hoping for a ramping up of the schedule instead of a scaling back might be disappointed. But others would rather see this gradual building process than watch the whole thing collapse again.

After all, some board members had to dig deep to get the new orchestra out of the red following its debut season. That kind of thing can’t keep happening.