No speedway for Morisset
THERE have been some good multi-user ideas floated for Morisset Showground by residents in recent letters to the Lakes Mail that have much more relevance to residents than motor racing and a speedway. Keep the showground as a multi-user facility.
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And how about extending the Bonnells Bay-to-Morisset shared pathway to the showground, with a loop of the venue. Let's encourage people to use the area for exercise.
There are plenty more residents in that area now, with more retired people in the nearby villages, and they might welcome a walking trail.
Let's forget pandering to noisy, polluting things like a speedway, and think about some peace and quite.
- G Davis, Windermere Park
Dump response disappoints
I REFER to the article 'Power station ash dumps a 'ticking bomb' (Lakes Mail, July 11). I was disappointed to read the comments by Delta Electricity spokesman, Steve Gurney, who rejected the findings of the report, and accused its authors of being anti-coal activists. He should understand that polluting operations like the Vales Point power station can only operate with the approval of the local community. The closures of the Cockle Creek and Port Kembla smelters are good examples of this principle.
- Richard Edmonds, Balcolyn
Toronto up for fight
YES, indeed, Henry Wellsmore ('Fair go on foreshore', Lakes Mail, July 11). The Lake Macquarie Council's Labor mayor Kay Fraser was elected touting "Labor values" of fairness for all. We have many Labor councillors who are now in support of a high-rise apartment building on what the Toronto community overwhelmingly agrees needs to be kept, and maintained, as a public foreshore and well designed recreational space.
I understand Cr Fraser is currently accompanying a small group of local teenage athletes at the International Children's Games, in Russia. One can only hope that she is not seeking architectural inspiration from the post-communism, cement, apartment towers built there.
One wit in our Toronto community recently pondered : "Perhaps the council wants to build high-rise on this foreshore site because the connection to sewerage would be very cheap. After all, it is adjacent to a Hunter Water sewerage station".
Toronto refuses to give up its fight for fair dealings with council. We are determined to be given just treatment in our quest for saving public foreshore, recreational land.
Toronto folk also "Love the Lake". And remember: the council election looms.
- Kate Elderton, Toronto
Renewables get job done
FOR a while over Saturday and Sunday South Australia had some 70 per cent of its power coming from renewables. Also the grid had nearly 40 per cent of its power coming from renewables. The grid did not break down with heaps of renewable power supplying it.
- Agner Sorensen, Teralba
Origin numbers game
WE have figured it out. The education system is the problem. With 10 minutes to the final whistle NSW were leading by 12 points. Right in front of the sticks NSW had the opportunity to finalise the game, kick a field goal. One can only assume the current NSW State of Origin players cannot count?
- John Cooper, Charlestown
Glad climb banned
WHY are people rushing off to climb Uluru right now? It is not like we have a shortage of hills and mountains to climb. I am glad at long last the climb will be banned. Humans have a habit of tainting what we touch. Look what we have done to our planet. Pauline Hanson needs to think before commenting.