Thanks for helping hand
I wish to sincerely thank all the people who helped me on Friday, July 22 when I fell onto the road crossing to the Arnold Street Pharmacy.
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
The truck driver who stopped and two men together helped me to the pharmacy. The pharmacist Chia and pharmacy assistant Kerry, plus a lady customer, all came out to see how they could help.
The paramedics, Catherine and Megan, the emergency staff at Bendigo Hospital and nurse Linda Parker who organised the x-rays – the staff in these departments were excellent.
Special thanks to my daughter Fiona who came to the hospital on a call from Chia and asked Linda questions in reference my condition.
Patrick York-Moore, North Bendigo
Aquatic centre concerns
It is concerning to hear the Kangaroo Flat Enterprise Group are not getting the support funding they expected from the community, in support of their commitment of $1 million dollars towards the aquatic centre project.
Does this mean the project will need to be reduced if the money is not raised?
I believe council was told by the Kangaroo Flat Enterprise Group they had $1 million dollars to contribute if council voted to build the planned 50-metre pool. This money was to cover the shortfall in funding.
Council voted 5 to 4 in favor on this basis at the ordinary meeting of council on June 24, 2015. This is substantiated by an article in the Bendigo Advertiser where this commitment is stated as being made.
Those who have contributed to the appeal are respected on the basis of supporting the community, but no respect is shown to the ward councillors who voted in support of creating this unnecessary saga by accepting a multi-million-dollar project on a promise of further unconfirmed funding just to achieve an outcome which suited council’s hidden agenda to demolish the leisure centre.
I hope ratepayers remember these types of issues during the forthcoming council elections.
Jan Pagliaro, North Bendigo
Bin claim elicits laugh
If you ever suspected that our society has gone completely around the twist then your worst fears will be realised when you read the story in the Bendigo Advertiser concerning the latest organics bin revelation.
Now, to get this in context, let's look at the basic facts. The Bendigo Council has introduced new organic bins for ratepayers so that food scraps, garden waste and the like can be converted to compost and thus be saved from going to landfill.
It sounds like a great idea, and it is. Now, many people in the region have applied for exemptions in relation to the new bin on the grounds that they dispose of their waste themselves via worm farms, chooks etc.
A cynical person would suggest that many of these people only apply for an exemption simply because they don't want to pay the extra fee for the new bin, but of course that is a cynical view.
The subject of the article is a lady from Eaglehawk who applied for an exemption on the grounds that she didn't put organic waste in her rubbish bin for the aforementioned reasons.
Yet the lady in question refused to sign a statutory declaration to that effect because "sometimes she does have to put organic waste in her rubbish bin".
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I suggest you can't have it both ways. You either put organic waste in your rubbish bin, or you don't.
But to top it all off, we are then informed that this is a "violation of human rights", with complaints made to the appropriate authorities about council’s heavy-handed trampling of citizens rights.
It is entirely necessary to chuckle loudly at this madness, or you will, I assure you, surely cry at where we are heading.