'Supermarket duplicity'
Your editorial "Hyper hypocrisy of 'plastic-free' shopping " exposed the duplicity of the major supermarkets (Narooma News, August 14).
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Plastic-wrapped collectable toys are just the tip of the plastic iceberg. The majority of our purchases are wrapped in at least one single-use plastic bag, if not many.
A kilo of pears comes in a single-use plastic tray, inside a single-use plastic bag. Single-use plastic bags are available for your tomatoes, zucchinis, potatoes etc.
This becomes more ridiculous when you purchase banana bread. Each slice is inside a single-use plastic bag. The slices are sitting in a single-use cardboard tray and the whole lot is wrapped in another plastic bag. You take home five slices of bread, six plastic bags and a cardboard tray.
It is nice to know the supermarkets had the environment uppermost in their thinking when they decided to charge customers for take-home plastic carry bags.
Trevor Taylor
Narooma
Open letter to Bega MP Andrew Constance
I sat in your car once when you were a good back bencher- a real good local member.
I said: "Mark my words, one day you will breath rarefied air and back slappers will surround you." You said: "Never; I'm always for the electorate." Unfortunately, I was right.
Your actions on the abortion issue were arrogant and removed from the electorate, only five months, yes, 22 weeks, after an election. Don't thing you can shower the Bega electorate with goodies "and get away with bloody murder" - of course, I mean not consulting the electorate.
Where is your usual press release?
Ron Snape
Tilba
Mum thanks emergency crews after three-year-old girl suffers seizure
Four weeks ago, my three-year-old daughter had a seizure whilst we were visiting my parents' farm at Belowra.
I just want to say a huge thank you to the two amazing paramedics who drove half an hour into bushland to meet us and take her to the hospital (James and James, I believe, from the Narooma ambulance station) and also to firefighter, Jim Potter, who had the road unblocked and cleared from the hazard reduction burn offs in less than two minutes so we could reach the ambulance.
I know it doesn't seem like huge heroic events, but for a mum dealing with their child's first-ever seizure and being an hour into the middle of the bush, they meant a lot.
I just wanted to say thank you and that we appreciate you.
Laura Cupitt
Bodalla
Shire's rejection of climate emergency motion upsets reader
We are faced with a global climate change emergency and still we fail to act.
I'm tired of hearing our leaders putting jobs and the economy before the welfare of our planet.
We are losing the precious diversity of life on our planet at an alarming rate.
The seas are full of plastic, Pacific Islanders are begging us to save their people, but our Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister say the Australian economy must come first (but you'll be okay, you can come over and pick our fruit!)
When Sir David Attenborough tells us the planet is in peril, I listen.
We need to act now, for tomorrow may be too late.
No economy without ecology.
Lea Lingard
Mystery Bay
Shine a light on blood cancer this spring
The Eurobodalla shire is invited to become a host location for the Leukaemia Foundation's annual Light the Night lantern walk this spring.
Community hosts are now being sought to help support regional events and join the 35,000 Australians across the country who'll walk together on the same night in locations across the nation to help shine a light on blood cancer.
The Leukaemia Foundation's beautiful lantern walk is the only event in Australia that truly brings the country's blood cancer community together, with crowds creating a sea of glowing support for Australians affected by blood cancer.
Participants carry lanterns in symbolic colours of blue, white and gold on a beautiful reflective walk.
Gold ... to remember loved ones lost
White ... to honour those battling the disease, and those who have won the fight
Blue ... to show support and hope for a cure for the future
Leukaemia Foundation CEO Bill Petch urged Australians to come together for an unforgettable experience in support of the blood cancer community to help work towards a future free from the disease.
"This is an opportunity for the community to band together and transform the darkness into an ocean of support to give hope to all those Australians impacted by blood cancer," he said.
Every day another 35 Australians are diagnosed with a blood cancer - the equivalent to one Aussie every 41 minutes. Blood cancer still claims more lives than breast cancer and melanoma and sadly an Australian loses their life to blood cancer every two hours.
To become a host phone 1800 620 420 or go to www.lightthenight.org.au