What is shire CEO doing?
Lets hear an update of who the Federation Shire has met with re the strengthening cities funds from the merger.
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Has he met with the rowers club in Corowa or Ball Park operators or those at the golf club?
These are just a few examples of locations that can boost the town’s image and create jobs if improved from the 70s time warp they are in and badly lagging required standards.
This is a time that the CEO should be engaged with many parts of the town and shire and overcome the obvious lack of trust and confidence and direction and dysfunction.
Stuart Davie,
Corowa
How many more?
Before moving to North East Victoria, my family had previously lived in Bundanoon in NSW.
In 2009 the village rallied together not only to stop threatened bore water extraction by “spring water” companies but shop-owners also put filtered drinking water filtered taps all over the village.
They sold re-useable drink bottles and refused to sell single-use water in any of their stores including the local servos, shops and supermarket.
Tourism has surged and the town has won a number of prestigious environment awards.
I was gutted to recently learn that the property next to ours has now been sold for water extraction (plus I believe yet another outside Myrtleford) adding to a growing number locally.
In an age of ever-increasing food insecurity why is Goulburn Murray Water allowing any-one to suck out of aquifers and transport the water off-farm?
Water is a precious commodity.
Scientific opinion seems deeply divided on the long-term effects.
I know the people of Stanley are fighting to stop 19 million litres of underground water being sucked from prime farming land each year.
No one knows what effect this would have on interconnected waterways.
Do consumers know their ‘fresh, pure’ Aussie spring water will be largely bore water coming from under old tobacco farms that have used generations of Dieldrin and DDT?
Our beautiful area also relies on tourism – our own road is full of visiting and local families walking, on bikes, horses, joggers, mums pushing prams.
While there are log trucks from time to time, they are only seasonal and shared around a wide geographical area.
I dread the additional water truck movements – on my road and all the way to the border – ever increasing waves of giant tankers.
How many more will we as a community, government and water regulators allow and what will it take to stop this loophole?
Naomi Singlehurst,
Merriang South
AFL investigation due
We read “Armed robber blames Eagles ‘drug culture’” (The Border Mail, April 25) of another former West Coast Eagles footballer now heading for prison following his sentencing for drug offences and armed robbery.
The history of this club and its players and drug usage is a disgrace.
I would have thought it made sense for the Australian Football League to carry out a full inquiry into what really went on at the club.
We have witnessed players loss of life, jail terms, broken families etc.
The problem was obviously rife in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Surely enough is enough, and it is time action was taken.
There are obviously personnel still involved with the game that were involved back then.
Come on AFL, I dare you.