Danger lurks above
Congratulations must go to the Wodonga City Council for the fantastic job they've done on the upgrade of Thomas Mitchell Drive, great road surfacing, great kerbing and all that, but what's with leaving those gargantuan eucalyptus trees dangling over the road like giant guillotines.
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In the fog, a school bus driver wouldn't even see it coming that his bus was just about to get cut in half until it hit.
I’ve raised this point with the Victorian Minister for Transport as far back as 2006, only to be told the dangerous ones have been identified to be removed, even the trees identified as far back as 1998 though still haven't been removed.
Take a drive down this flash new road and you'll see what I mean. It's blatantly obvious the dangers that lurk above. I hope I'm dead wrong about the bus, WCC please.
Pete Pattenden, Leneva
Students’ lack of concern
I live in Sylvania Avenue, North Albury, around the corner from James Fallon High. The senior students drive cars and park wherever they can. Morning and afternoon, come the parents so it has become dangerous for most of us and more.
There is nowhere to park and the street there is narrow. I had a serious accident and need to park close to where I live but it is near impossible with the huge amount of traffic at certain times of the day.
The council say they will do nothing and that makes the residents at this end of the street extremely angry. What are councils for? Supposedly for the people. Well I doubt that very much and I am disgusted.
PS: Yesterday I got soaked whilst the parents were warm and safe in their cars.
Marie Scullin, North Albury
Give where we live
I would like to comment on your article about the Border Relay for Life on page 2 of Saturday's The Border Mail.
The Relay for Life is a fundraising event which engenders a brilliant sense of community spirit in Albury-Wodonga. Our twin cities support the event passionately and this is clearly evident by the phenomenal amount raised each year, close to the highest for any region in Australia including metropolitan centres.
Most of us have been touched by cancer in some way and that’s why we get behind this event so fervently. But have any of us really asked ourselves exactly where the money goes? I was appalled to learn recently 95 per cent of the funds raised each year leave our region - I'm sure the average Joe Blow doesn't know this.
I believe there is now a cancer vehicle helping transport regional patients as a result of our efforts last year but is that all we get for raising over $400,000?
The majority of the money is sent to Melbourne and Sydney, perhaps spent on valuable cancer research but perhaps spent on employee salaries, on national marketing campaigns, on significant administration costs for the Cancer Council. I see on TV and hear on the radio Sunshine Week is coming up in September. I believe this is a week of fundraising events for the Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre. The ads all reiterate 100 per cent of donations received will stay local. Wouldn't it be nice to know our valuable donations are staying in this region and helping people we know and love, rather than strangers in a metropolitan area?
It is wonderful local businesses such as Alessi Motors and the Commercial Club Albury support the Border Relay for Life, but let's hope they also support our own cancer centre and the amazing benefits that will result. I am an educated and affluent lady who has lived in Wodonga nearly my whole life.
I will support Relay for Life and show my community spirit but I will give more of my money to Sunshine Week to support the Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre. Let's support the little guys, give where we live, keep the money in our region.
