HELLO, A QUICK wrap up on what your Progress Association has been doing these eight weeks. Wednesday, August 18 was Vietnam Veterans Day. I would like to join our community in saying “Thank you for your service” to all Vietnam…
DEAR News of the Area, Gurmesh Singh continues to characterise all opponents of the State Government’s plan for the foreshores as an anti-progress brigade incapable of constructive input. Every single letter writer in last week’s NOTA taking issue with Gurmesh…
DEAR News Of The Area, Last week an article was published about land clearing titled “Unsustainable” (NOTA, 12 August, 2022). I would love to add to that some facts about what the NSW Liberals and Nationals have done to Australian…
IN moving around the central business district lately, two features of the city have come to my attention. The first is the colourful roundabouts, which lift the heart with their winter displays. The second is the absence of flooding when…
DEAR News Of The Area, Lynette Hyde (NOTA 12/8/22), says increased carbon in the atmosphere “will send us back to a primaeval festering uninhabitable planet”. If she had not looked back into the past, when atmospheric CO2 was ten times…
DEAR News Of The Area, The supermarkets at Toormina Shopping Centre, both Woolworths and Coles, need to address the problem of trolleys taken from the building and left in the streets. Today, in one street, there were ten abandoned trolleys,…
DEAR News Of The Area, In 2011 a bushfire, fanned by a stiff sou’ wester, came our way and jumped the main road near the Aquatic Centre at Mallabula. It then got away in the narrow strip of scrub beside…
JOEL and Jenny found an ideal block on which to build their family home. They sold their old home, to finance the build. Jenny was lucky enough to find a rental property close to the block, so they could send…
DEAR News Of The Area, WHAT else is new? Marlene Griffith’s letter 30/7/22 about Nambucca Shire councillors’ poor decision making about past developments is spot on. Try the Woolworths’ complex at Nambucca Heads – built on the best piece of…
DEAR News of the Area, Regular visitors to the newly-emerging tidal sand flats at the Coffs Jetty boat ramp are a small group of Sooty Oystercatchers, considered a vulnerable species in NSW. The Sooty Oystercatchers are striking black shorebirds with…