CLASSIC AUSSIE ROCK: Judith A. Edenborough posted on the Narooma News Facebook page this great old photo taken many years ago of her and her two sisters at Australia Rock. She is the one in the green swimmers and will turn 70 this year. “We holidayed there for over 25 years, camping by the bridge in tents,” she wrote. “After camping we rented a small house with an outside toilet and it was always getting to full so my dad complained to the council to empty it with no luck. Dad and my uncle loaded the can into our boat and they took it up to the council and put it on the main desk. Dad was charged but felt he got his message through!” Great story Judith!
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Marina lifesavers
I just wished to let you know about a capsizing (last week) that had a very happy ending when my marina manager Ian Miller and his assistant Rhiannon Mulholland rescued a drowning elderly man and his grandson when their yacht capsized on Forsters Bay in front of the Narooma marina.
Ian and Rhiannon just happened, fortunately, to be watching this yacht struggling in strong winds when it tipped over and then it took some time before anyone surfaced.
They jumped in a boat and by the time they got there the elderly man was really in trouble and couldn’t have stayed afloat much longer as they had left their life jackets back in the car on shore.
I am really proud of their efforts – sterling effort.
Peter Hay
Melbourne
Lies, damn lies
I must confess that I am very distressed, as I have just broken a promise to myself!
This hurts all the more as, unlike certain correspondents, I attempt to not mislead readers of the Narooma News.
But reading last week's letters, the outrageous liberties taken by Heather Irwin in her anti-HuntFest rant boiled my otherwise-cool, blue blood!
Ms Irwin made the remarkable claim that "(W)ith 80 per cent of local residents voting against this...", the local councillors had essentially ignored the wishes of the majority of Eurobodalla residents.
So I have taken finger to keyboard to take issue with these calumnies, even though I had promised myself that I would ignore the evil slings and arrows of the lunatic fringe which tries to tell the majority of sane and quiet, law-abiding locals how they must live.
A casual reader of the News would think, Ms Irwin, that 30,000 local residents had opposed HuntFest!
That would be about 80 per cent! In fact, SAFE (an oxymoron if ever I heard one) presented a petition signed by a couple of hundred locals (plus another signed, apparently, by 40,000 residents of Tajikistan, Calathumpia, Mars, etc) which they have since insisted represents 80 per cent of local residents!
Einstein may not be my name, Ms Irwin, but then again I learned in Sunday school that it was very, very wrong to tell monstrous porkies!
Obviously you were not in my class at the time.
To minimise the risk of a stroke or apoplectic accident I will conclude momentarily, but not before asking Ms Irwin, Mr Baxter and their cunningly misleading cronies to declare a truce.
If people wish to attend HuntFest, they will. If they do not wish to, they won't.
In the meantime, please give me and every other non-fanatic in the shire a break from your boring, pathetic diatribes. I remain, yours faithfully.
S. Kennedy
Corunna
Thanks from OAM
Thank you to Carmen McIntosh for the article in your paper.
I would also like to thank the many wonderful people from across the Shire for their messages of support and congratulations following the Australia Day awards.
It has been a privilege and an honour to work with so many wonderful people across this shire, who all strive to make it a better place to live.
I look forward to continuing at council and on my other committees for as long as I am able.
Fergus Thomson
Belowra
We need dingos
Alarm bells are ringing for me when I read an article by Bob Spiller from Landcare promoting the use of 1080 to get rid of foxes "How many Foxes do you have on your property" 19/1.
I am an animal advocate, and a wildlife rescuer and I feel LandCare and Department of Primary Industries really need to start listening to logic when it comes to using 1080.
This lethal cocktail is not only horrifically cruel in the way it kills, but it’s also banned all over the world except for NZ and Australia and there are reasons for that.
1080 is not the answer, and what it’s doing is exacerbating the problem. The whole east coast of NSW once was in abundance of dingoes, but now with the baits and the traps, dingos are now fast becoming a threatened species.
We need the dingo to keep all everything in balance. The more we play around with and medal the more unbalance we create, has man not learnt this by now?
For further research I ask people to go to www.dingobiodiverstiy.com featuring Dr Araian Wallach, a field researcher on dingos.
There is a section in there as well for pasturers, on how to farm without the use of 1080 with an invite to join their team with new opportunities on predator friendly farming practices 1080 never just kills the foxes and it’s not only dingos that are affected, there is now evidence that its affecting the koalas.
It’s also impacting on the kangaroos, we need our top predators!! So it’s impacting on the whole ecosystem and it’s really quite urgent that people start to understand this.
Louise Watson
Pambula