Students tackle Clean Up Day
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Please find attached a selection of letters to the editor written by students at Narooma High School. They have been studying environmental issues and letter writing. We would really appreciate it if their letters could be published in the lead up to Clean Up Australia Day - Kate Klose (class teacher)
Dear Editor
I am writing to say how important I think Clean Up Australia Day is. Clean Up Australia Day is on Sunday the first of March this year. Clean Up Australia Day is good for our environment as it cleans up all the rubbish that people leave all over the place. I think it is everyone’s job to clean up rubbish, not just on Clean Up Australia Day but all year. In 2013 11% of the rubbish collected was cigarette butts. Australians have been doing this for 25 years. If you are interested in cleaning up Australia, please register online at www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au and help us keep our land clean, when you register you can win some cool prizes.
Connor McCarthy
Narooma
Dear Editor
I am writing to say how important Clean Up Australia Day is. It has been going on for 25 years and it is on Sunday the first of March. It is good for the environment; it makes it cleaner and easier to walk around. The bottle is the biggest rubbish maker in the world. The rubbish can get into our waterways and oceans killing the animals. You can help by registering on the website www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au you can also help by keeping Australia clean every day.
Zoe Tot
Bermagui
Dear Editor
I am writing to say how important I think Clean Up Australia Day is. This is the 25th year of Clean Up Australia Day, and this year it is on the first of March. It is important to look after our environment and Clean Up Australia Day is a great way to do this. If you want to help you can register online at www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au Narooma is a great place to live, let’s keep it clean.
Treat Dufty
Narooma
SAFE Eurobodalla bullies
Heather Irwin you may not be a “lunatic fanatic or urban guerrilla” as you stated in last week’s Narooma News but you are a members of a group that thinks it can bully local councillors and members of our community into doing what you want.
I’m also shocked to see you admit that you were frightening children but as you’re a member of SAFE I shouldn’t be surprised, as SAFE has a bad reputation in Narooma if not the whole of the Eurobodalla. What is worse than having guns on display in a public building you ask? Having Narooma’s main street lined with angry faces preaching intolerance. That mother could choose not to visit HuntFest with her kids. If she wanted to spare them your antics they’d be a prisoner in their home!
Members of SAFE were asked to leave the Narooma Plaza for putting up signs without permission which embarrassed both Woolworth and Plaza management. These two members later made public apologies on Facebook for their actions. Let’s also not forget one of the same members put a sign up on a local bank and had to be asked to take it down by bank security and the Police because the bank didn’t want to be associated with SAFE’s activities.
You also say the group’s “hijacking” of a family and community event was a last resort, but in the same newspaper Mr Alan Baxter spokesman for SAFE tells us that this group is not going away and that’s the problem. You don’t care that you represent no one but yourselves.
You will keep trying to impose your will on others as bullies do. It’s clear from what Mr Alan Baxter has said that unless the councillors back down there will be more hijackings by SAFE of council and family events. SAFE is a group of urban terrorist now is it?
Despite having next to no support the community will be forced to endure your shenanigans until it does your bidding?
So far SAFE has taken its case to council on four occasions and lost on four occasions. Then it took the fight to the NSW Minister for crown lands, the Hon. Kevin Humphries and again lost.
SAFE screamed that too many non-residents were allowed to put submissions into council in support of HuntFest application to sell firearms and ammunition.
Then surprise, surprise SAFE hands a worldwide petition to council containing 38000 non-resident signatures against HuntFest and tells council it must be counted!
SAFE keeps telling everyone they have 80 per cent of the shire residents’ support but only 16 people show up to their “hijacking”. SAFE has no support apart from the few that showed up, their partners, children and close friends and their credibility after the infamous “hijacking of last resort” is in tatters.
By the way Mr Baxter, council can’t approve the sale of firearms and ammunition at the HuntFest event, only the NSW Firearm Registry can.
As far as I can see SAFE has become a bunch of urban terrorist and bullies whose time would be better spent on efforts to build the community’s economy instead of undermining the efforts of those who already do.
Dan Field
Narooma
Thanks Narooma News
Many thanks to Narooma News for running the “Bus That Rocks” competition, which I was fortunate enough to win.
Thanks also to Bermagui Country Club and Eddie Daniels and his troupe. We enjoyed a lovely meal in the club’s Terrace restaurant before the show, and what a show it was!
Great music, impressive impressions, and a lot of laughs. It was worth every bit of the 70 cent stamp it cost me to enter the competition. I feel sorry for all the people of our vintage that weren’t there, they missed a great night’s entertainment. We’re looking forward to catching another one of Eddie’s shows next time they’re in our region.
Thanks once again for a lovely evening.
Russell Howick
Kianga
Hardcover fantasies
On the movie 50 Shades (sounds like a lighting shop) of Grey, I've never garnered enough interest to read the book or to consider the movie. Maybe I'm just oldish.
There are so many other awesome books to taste for intuitive attraction, and to inhale the aroma of new print, and the touch, the so varied heaviness of the bound book (I pause for breath).
Once enamoured of, or besotted with, the unerring desire to read through the whole book to seek the subtle nuances of its movement towards its artfully orchestrated climax, no night can be too long.
The dawn will see me (I pause for breath again) satiated and exhausted, yet full of satisfaction and gratification and in awe of the art of the writer who has touched and moved me. Ahhh, l do love a good book.
Paddy McMuggins
Dalmeny
“I'm always well” – Chris Vardon OAM
We are lucky indeed to know Chris Vardon OAM and his lovely wife Judy, and we are even luckier that they chose our beautiful part of the world to settle.
Chris has been a school teacher, our Councillor, our Mayor, past President of the Local Government Shires Association, was appointed by the then Labor government to undertake reviews of Councils across NSW, is a recipient of an OAM and the Jeff Britten Award, and more recently was the Executive Officer of South East Australia Transport Strategy.
Chris has been an extraordinary leader in his public life and will leave many legacies to our community, NSW regions and LG generally. Locally people will look at physical things like our combined library and education centre, Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens, South Batemans Bay by-pass and many more.
Yet it is the legacy he has instilled in the people he met and worked with that leaves an indelible imprint. These are legacies of service to our community, integrity and of helping those who are struggling to help themselves. There are also on-going programs like our Youth Employment Trainee Scheme which still today see young local people given a start in working life at Council where we watch their confidence soar over 1-2 years so they can go on to do great things in life.
Chris was a Mayor who helped many people, and for those of us at Council, his gentle inquiry about us as people and our families built self-esteem, confidence and a caring for our community. And during these chats, we would inquire back to Chris and ask how he was going. His simple reply with a smile and a lift in his tone, 'I'm always well'.
Last Friday Chris Vardon OAM, his health now failing, retired from his position as EO of SEATS after 12 years of unprecedented leadership, during which time he helped build SEATS into an organisation highly respected by Government and industry alike. As usual Chris spoke eloquently and humbly of the great work by others rather than himself.
So I write this short piece to say a huge thanks to my friend Chris Vardon OAM & his ever supportive wife Judy, for a life of dedicated to serving our community and caring for the welfare and personal growth of others.
Warren Sharpe OAM
Moruya
Listen to the people
After reading the Narooma News on Feb 11th, where an article about the proposed rate rise was on pg 30, it is obvious that Councillors Thomson, Harding, Burnside, Brice, Pollock, Brown and Schwarz are still unable to hear and act on the wishes of the people they are supposed to represent, unlike Councillors Liz Innes and Milton Leslight who put foremost the concerns of the ratepayers and residents and are to be commended.
Just recently I observed a supposed work crew of six council staff standing around in harness with tools, talking for half hour down near the visitors centre.
So much for ‘Euroworks”, more like Eurobludge!
Is this what the 8 per cent, now pathetically peeled back 1.5 per cent SRV is to fund? They need to get real and listen to the people.
B. Vit
Kianga
(Editor's note - we were not able to fit all the letters in this week and have saved over a number to run next week!)