Students from primary and secondary government schools will showcase the wonderful work they do in their schools in the performing and visual arts.

The Arts Festival was originally named the North East Arts Festival and had its first concerts over two days in 1976.

Over the past 40 years there have been many changes to the running of the festival which is now known as the Wodonga District Arts Festival.

This year the festival will run over five days with 11 concerts involving 17 schools and nearly 3000 students.

The schools will perform on stage with music, drama and dance and their art work will be proudly presented in an exhibition at the front of the hall.

The Arts Festival starts on August 29  and finishes on September 2 at Galvin hall, Wodonga Senior Secondary College, Woodland Street, Wodonga.

Entry is $4 for adults and children are free.

The schools put a lot of effort into their presentations and the students are always very excited to see and hear the audience appreciating their efforts.

This is an event that will remain in the student’s memories long into the future.

We would love to see you there.

IT never ceases to amaze me how people who are not scientifically qualified in any way, shape or form think they can get up and lecture and opine on matters of science.

Watching One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts argue with Professor Brian Cox on Q and A on Monday night would have been funny, if only it were not so serious.

People are entitled to their own opinions on all things but science is science, facts are facts and unqualified opinions really need to be left out of debates about man-made climate change.

Q and A has been criticised in the past for not having enough “balance” in the guests it invites on the show. There’s no way anyone could accuse the program of that after the rather stark contrast on Monday night with a scientist and a climate change denier. But when it comes to matters of science, I have no interest in hearing the opinions of a lay person.

IMAGINE being on the Murray River for a 90-minute lunch cruise or an hour-long afternoon cruise together with a commentary on the history of Albury and the PS Cumberoona.

Fraser and Robbie Knowles are keeping their word and returning to Albury (as soon as the river rises) on their modern vessel the Sienna Daisy.

Tourism is going ahead in leaps and bounds since the Cumberoona on Lake Mulwala came, so I’m happy she’s happy.

YOU didn’t have to be all that smart to know that the concessional loans that were offered to help dairy farmers were going to be a flop (“Joyce’s dairy loans a fizzer”, The Border Mail, August 17).

How does going into more debt – even at a massively discounted rate – do anything at all to assist farmers that were left stunned by a backflip on milk prices by Murray Goulburn.

Of course the government had to do something to help out our farmers, and I’m not saying that the offer of loans with discounted interest rates for 10 years was a bad idea.

But with some farmers actually losing money from a day’s work, how could they possibly contemplate taking on another debt. I feel for them.