DEAR News Of The Area,

AFTER my letter to your paper to try and get the Coffs Hospital hydrotherapy pool reopened and then you kindly did a story on this, the response was amazing.

Emails by the dozens and the petition signed by over 100 folk that desperately need this exercise for their wellbeing.

Gurmesh Singh approached the Minister of Health, the Hon Ryan Park MP, on our behalf to let him know how important this pool is to so many elderly folk.

However it was to no avail – the pool will only be used for internal patients and not to the public for their water aerobics.

That means that CHERP will probably close down in the New Year owing to the pool closure to hundreds of members.

Some people are sent to try and stop you from reaching your goals, let their negativity be your fuel, not your defeat.

Regards,
Phyll TAYLOR,
COFFS HARBOUR.