Kath Ryan and Kim Budin the organisers would sincerely like to thank everyone who came along to the afternoon. It was a fun afternoon where a total of $2176 was raised for Snowy Hydro SouthCare.

Our special thanks to NSSC, the Dalmeny Deviates, Joy Macfarlane, Marggi Ingamalls, Anne Maree Kanpe, Euroballa Turf Supplies, Margi Laker, Gabbi Cheel, Margi Carpenter and Debra Breust for all your generous donations towards the event.

We also thank Adrian for the delicious food and those who helped us out on the day.

Kath & Kim, Dalmeny

Letters regarding the treacherous state of Watertank Road have featured in your columns several times before, without any long term improvement in the road’s condition.

Its present state is dire: pot-holes, corrugations and ruts stretching its length making it well-nigh impossible to negotiate safely.

Locals and tourist alike are ceasing to use it. Are those who are responsible for the maintenance of the road intent on closing it by stealth?

Watertank Road provides access to the Tilba Winery, the Old Highway and Ridge Road. For those travelling from Narooma, this route is 1.95kms shorter than travelling via the Princes Highway.

Obviously this saves fuel, time and money and helps to encourage visitors to the winery. Most important, and often overlooked, Watertank Road provides emergency access for the winery. While the cost/benefit of maintain Watertank Road may be open to debate, its closure would no doubt be a huge inconvenience to many people and a threat to a successful local business and tourist attraction.

Furthermore, at some stage in the not-too-distant past, Watertank Road was included in one of the Narooma Cycleways (Nar 4). So tourists and residents alike are being sent to their deaths along an unmaintained road totally unsuitable for cyclists. I do not exaggerate and I would take odds that before too long an unsuspecting cyclist will be involved in a major accident.

Indeed, only this week a couple who had survived Nar4 had to seek refuge at the winery to recover from their experience. The gentlemen in question returned to his accommodation to collect his car so that he could return his wife to Narooma in safety. Need I say more?

I have invested many tens of thousands of dollars in reviving the Tilba Winery. I have created jobs, brought dollars to Eurobodalla and established an attraction that is an asset to the area. Is all the thanks I get the cutting off of one of our lifelines? The saddest aspect of all this is that no-one ‘in the know’ has had the courtesy to talk to me about the situation.

Sad, but not surprising.

Peter Herrmann, Tilba Valley Wines

The Narooma Plaza car park is the worst I have ever seen and management should be ashamed of the disaster they call a car park.

The disabled parking area on the side of a mound is, I would be sure not up to standard, due to the grade and is a hazard. 

Elderly and parents with children coming out of the supermarket are prone to injury. Since shopping there I have seen my previous car used as a stopping zone for a runaway trolley.

I have watched as old ladies and parents with children in trolleys tip over and or run away. Last week my niece lost control of the trolley with child on board, tipping over due to a pothole, resulting in the child having her teeth go into her lips and causing extensive bleeding etc. 

What does this say to visitors that come to Narooma while on holiday? Do we really care? It seems not, as we have done very little to nothing to fix this well known problem.

Kerry Challis, Narooma