Going above and beyond
We posted an invitation in a badly-stuck envelope, and apparently it fell out. It would have been so easy to just put it in the bin, but no, a Bendigo Mail Centre employee checked the RSVP info and phoned to tell us about it, and then posted the lost invitation back to us.
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Fantastic! Thank you, Australia Post – and the person concerned, for making the extra effort.
Jennifer Goddard, Sedgwick
Hospital underpins future
Peter Lesuey (“Stick to transport portfolio”, Bendigo Advertiser, August 29) helps highlight the enormous benefits from the massive health development with the new Bendigo hospital, which has been 10 years in the making.
In 2006, I was pleased, as one of the local Labor MPs, to promise Labor would master plan for the future of our hospital building needs and act on it.
We were the only party to promise it - and it culminated, after a lot of work behind the scenes, in the announcement we made in early 2010 for a new Bendigo hospital.
Our plan is for Bendigo to be able to attract patients from across the region, as well as Bendigo, who may otherwise go, or have to go, to Melbourne.
If we can treat patients in Bendigo, it is far more convenient for patients’ families. In addition, it means more medical, nursing and hospital staff in Bendigo, rather than Melbourne.
In the first year of the new hospital there will be an extra 220 full and part time jobs - of an expected jobs growth of 1000 over the next decade as the hospital grows.
The new hospital underpins Bendigo becoming the health hub of the north in Victoria.
Jacinta Allan, Member for Bendigo East
No excuse for stealing
I read Ross Tyson's editorial in the Bendigo Advertiser ("Prejudices prevent us from digging deeper", August 27) with great interest, because unfortunately I am most definitely one of those people who makes "snap judgements" about certain others of our local citizenry who frequent the Hargreaves Mall.
In my shame, I would like to share a recent example of my failings in this regard.
Late last Thursday afternoon I had cause to be in Chemist Warehouse. Also in the store were three "People of the Mall" – two females and one male around 16 to 18 years of age.
They were wandering up and down the aisles, picking up items and then putting them back on the shelf in another part of the store in the wrong section.
Their language would have made a drunken sailor blush, particularly one of the females.
I happened to leave the store at the same they did, and on the way out the aforementioned young lady picked up a tube of hand cream and with the remark "I'll have some of this", squeezed a large glob onto her hand before replacing the container back onto the shelf for the next unsuspecting (and paying) customer.
As the three exited, the alarm at the front door security barriers went off, and with a cry of "Let's go!" they ran off towards the mall, laughing and swearing as they went and leaving a rather sheepish looking young shop assistant standing in the doorway, wondering whether she should pursue them or not.
It was at that very moment I made one of my "snap judgements". I felt that this trio of miscreants were nothing but foul-mouthed, anti-social thieves.
But of course, it was wrong of me to judge others in this way. These young people probably have external reasons for behaving in this fashion which are beyond their control.
And to think that I was brought up with the false teaching that "there is never any excuse for bad behaviour". How enlightened we are now.
