Chill at leisure centre
Like many other local residents, I am a member of the Wodonga Sports and Leisure Centre, and have been so for many, many years. I use the wet area (pools etc) every morning I am at home. l know there are many people who do likewise and who will agree with what I am about to say.
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Over past years there have been many different managers, with ownership of the complex being one of Wodonga City Council's major assets. The value of the Leisure Centre would be many millions of dollars.
For a reason unknown to us users, yet controlled by the Wodonga City Council, the most recently appointed managers are a subsidiary outfit of the Richmond Football Club.
To say they are not capable or efficient at that chore is an understatement. There is always a breakdown in some area.
The sauna has a history of not being hot enough, and never is. The spa area has frequent problems, some of them going on for many consecutive days. Of late the major 25-metre pool temperature has been very, very cool. Lack of attendees proves this point.
It is high time things were improved considerably, and user numbers were back to an acceptable level. Hopefully some readers of this article will support my comments.
Geoff Burton, Wodonga
Some Anzac history
His mother was Emma Isabel Mitchell, daughter of Thomas Mitchell, of Bringenbrong. Thomas was Elizabeth Mitchell's eldest son and pioneered his mother's squatters' run, Mungabareena, in the 1840s.
Why was Chisholm was serving with the East Lancashire Regiment? He had gone to England about 1910 determined to be a professional soldier, rather than a doctor like his father. He was mortally wounded on August 26, 1914, was taken to a surgeon at Ligny, where the Germans captured the hospital almost immediately. He died in captivity within days.
Remarkably, his father William enlisted in the Australian Army Medical Corps in 1915, although in his early 60s. He was a surgeon in the Australian Military Hospital in London for several months, trying to save the lives of diggers wounded at Gallipoli or on the Western Front.
In later life, the parents lived in Woollahra in a house named Ligny. When the mother died in 1928, she was cremated and it was her ashes that were buried with her son's remains.
As a footnote, the first Australian servicemen killed in the war in an Australian military operation were four who died while helping capture German-held Rabaul on September 11, 1914. The first Albury man to die was Arthur Potter, killed on landing at Gallipoli on April 25 1915.
Howard Jones, Albury
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