I’d like to clarify a point in your recent article about Rolloffs Hawaii, which talked about how the company had filed for bankruptcy (“Fraud alleged in Oahu trash company bankruptcy,” Star-Advertiser. Dec. 27). How the company owes the city over $3 million in disposal fees and debt to creditors is mentioned several times over.

The company was once owned by a very respected and well-known family here in the state. Family members had run their company for over 30 years, being very successful while doing so. After time, the company was sold to a mainland firm that failed to stay profitable and causing the mainland company to file bankruptcy. That fact was not mentioned enough.

A lot of local business people and the general public are aware that the company was owned by the Henriques family for years — so it would be very unfair to a good family to have readers be left with the belief that it was the local family’s doing.

Scott Peterson

Kaneohe

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