Cemetery disappoints
I find the Bendigo cemetery a disgrace. We returned to our home town five years ago and the first thing I noticed was how baron and pardon the pun, how dead the old part of the cemetery looked.
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They could plant conifers around the fence line or iceberg roses like the Frankston cemetery, and red gravel on the pathways.
Beverley Adamson, Bendigo
Unfinished works
I am concerned about the roundabout at the intersection of St Aidan’s Road and Glencoe Street. The roundabout was constructed about three months ago and it is great for road safety and the flow of traffic on these streets.
However, the centre part of the roundabout has not been done and it looks unfinished.
Surely this job could have been completed when the road construction works were being carried out. Aesthetically, this looks poor and it is a poor reflection on the City of Greater Bendigo.
Brendan Delaney, Strathdale
Swimming programs needed
I am surprised at the small number of children at pools who are actually learning to swim.
When I was a child, there were a number of sponsored "learn to swim" programs.
It is time the government subsidised the cost of learning to swim because drownings are invariably costing us more.
Ian Oshlack, Guildford
Empty spaces
I wonder if Jacinta Allan has been out to the Epsom Railway Station car park lately, as I have as I observed only two cars parked there yesterday. Most of the time the vehicles parked there are from neighbouring business not for the rail service.
So Jacinta, as you quoted on 3/11/2014 in this newspaper “Empty Epsom has Allan seeing red” still appears to be the fact even although you are in power and have fixed nothing.
Robert K Smallpage, Huntly
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