Jets are kicking goals
I WAS lucky enough to have a friend mention to me that the Ovens and Murray Jets were playing on Sunday.
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For those who don’t know, the Jets are footballers with a disability.
I have seen them play a few times, mainly at half-time in the Ovens and Murray grand final.
Sunday was a round-robin competition with the Jets, Wangaratta Magpies, Goulburn Valley All Stars and the Mulwala Rockets.
I have watched hundreds of footy games over the years of all standards but Sunday was right up there with the best of them.
As Molly Meldrum would say “Do yourself a favour” and get along and watch these blokes.
There is all degrees of skill and abilities but it doesn’t matter to anyone its seems, they all have a fantastic attitude and just have fun.
In saying that they all played to win giving it their best effort.
The three games I watched were entertaining and inspiring, I wish I and a lot of others involved in sport had the same attitude.
Congratulations to all involved in running the teams and event, a big thanks to all the players.
My only criticism is I didn’t see it advertised any where (maybe I missed it).
To anyone who loves sport and life make the effort to get to the next game, I bet you will get more out of it than the players.
ROSS WILLIAMS,
Wodonga
Happy with bin system
SORRY guys (J. Carrodus The Border Mail, July 14 and Shane Stevenson The Border Mail, July 18), I beg to differ!
I am one who is extremely happy with the new system.
The new weekly organic bin and its collection is especially practical for garden prunings.
My red bin was usually only a third full anyway because I don’t need it for baby nappies, so its fortnightly collection will be more than sufficient.
All what’s on my wish list now is to be able to find small biodegradable doggy-doo bags for our daily walks.
That would great.
BRI PFEIFFER,
Wodonga
Never forget these men
FUTURE citizens would like to know who approved the Shenhua Watermark coal mine.
Who helped dig the 35 square kilometre hole in the ground and polluted the aquifers.
Billboards to inform should be constructed in the area which read:
This hole in the ground was approved by:
Ian McDonald: Greg Hunt; Mike Baird; Tony Abbott.
Politicians have a tendency to forget.
C. MORROW,
Lavington
Look at bigger picture
CATHY McGowan, with her green leaning tendencies, needs to concentrate on the larger picture.
We, the beleaguered ratepayers of Wodonga, do not need her to ask our council to waste money on her refugee safe haven program; our council already finds plenty of ways to waste our money.
If she has so much spare time perhaps she could team up with the invisible member for Benambra and fix our third world rail service, the refugee ratepayers would appreciate this!
MURRAY SMITH,
Wodonga
GST change is a 50% rise
THE Liberal Premier of NSW wants to raise the GST from 10 per cent to 15 per cent.
He’s forgotten who, what and where he is.
This is a tax increase of 50 per cent. It is a big new tax. It is a tax on a tax.