Upset at club closure
I WAS really upset when I recently heard Morisset Country Club is finished ("Golf club game over", Lakes Mail, May 23).
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The country club is a huge plus for Morisset, even for people who don't play golf or bowls, because it is lovely just to look at it as you drive by or as you ride by in the train.
It is also home to lots of wildlife including, I believe, endangered species.
If Morisset Country Club is turned into a housing development (as some are predicting) we say goodbye to the wildlife and endangered species and the aesthetic beauty of the trees, fairways, waterways and greens.
We say hello to a sea of roofs, a heap of polluting cars that will add to the already congested traffic of Morisset, and we say hello to sound barriers covered in graffiti along the train line side.
It is not the end of life as we know it, obviously. It's just another nail in the coffin.
- Dawn Potter, Balcolyn
Poem: Our town weeps
MORISSET Country Club/ Ceased trading.
Clubhouse closed./ Car park empty.
Bowling greens vacant./ Golf course silent.
Morisset weeps/ Fifty years of tears.
- Beryl Mullard, Morisset
Speed sign anomoly
SEVERAL months ago I contacted Lake Macquarie City Council about an anomaly I had noticed with speed limit signage, in particular concerning Dora Street, Morisset. A phone call from the council informed me Roads and Maritime Services was responsible for signs.
When driving from Cooranbong to Morisset, as soon as you enter Stockton Street from Freemans Drive the speed limit becomes 60kph and there is no sign reducing this limit as you continue onto Newcastle Street, and up Station Street to turn right or left into Dora Street which is 50kph.
Recently, I have observed a police car standing inside the 50kph zone before the lights at Doyalson Street, possibly checking vehicle speeds.
I just wonder if anyone travelling this route has been booked for exceeding 50kph on Dora Street.
Given the lack of any indication of change in speed limit from Stockton Street up to and before entering Dora Street, is there a reason to appeal?
- Michael Armstrong, Brightwaters
Learn religion at church
WHILE it is wonderful that some people have found comfort and joy in their faith, it is important to remember that not everybody is Christian and therefore not everybody adheres to Christian values. It is perfectly possible to be an ethical person without the need for the fear of the Christian God looming in the background.
If you'd like to educate your children in religious matters, the best place for that is at a church, a place of worship, not at a school. Students should explore the variety of religions with the assistance of a neutral guide.
I think it's lovely that people feel so connected to whichever deity they believe in, but this is real life, and pushing religion in school instead of actual education is not helping prepare future generations for the world.
- A M Wykes, Bonnells Bay
Tweak just one line
I CAN understand why some indigenous rugby league players have an issue with singing the national anthem in the upcoming State of Origin series. It's been said that indigenous Australia is among the oldest cultures in the world and therefore the line in Advance Australia Fair "for we are young and free " is not true for them. This can be easily fixed by changing that line in the verse to "for we are one and free". It may just bring us all together.
- Neil Meyers, Warners Bay