DEAR News Of The Area, I REFER to the article by Mick Birtles (‘The role of local Churches on display at Mary Boulton Cottage’, p5, 25 March Edition, Nambucca Valley NOTA) about the role of churches in the establishment and development of towns in the 1800’s, as briefly, but well explained

  DEAR News Of The Area, I WOULD like to express my dismay and disappointment at the recent Council decision to rezone community land in order to sell it off. In particular, I take offence at the argument, put forward by Mayor Rhonda Hoban, that the land in Ocean View Drive will be

  DEAR News Of The Area, LET’S look at this scenario. A person has an illness which could be well managed if only they would adopt practices in their daily life which have been proven to reduce their risk of becoming ill. Imagine if this person’s doctor took the attitude that their patient didn’t

  DEAR News Of The Area, ACCORDING to the Collins Dictionary, the expression to “put your money where your mouth is” means that you want a person to spend money to improve a bad situation, instead of just talking about improving it. In that context you could say that Federal Government spending, as

  DEAR News Of The Area, ACCORDING to a recent post to Facebook page called Coffs Harbour Nationals - since removed - we seem to have a new bogeyman to add to ‘the Yellow Peril’ and ‘Reds under the Beds’. It’s called the ‘Evil Far Left’, and they said it’s trying to capture

  DEAR News Of The Area, I HAVE a feeling that the chickens are coming home to roost in Australia. Free money, enormous debt. Excluding our older generation who have experienced harder times, we are becoming fat and lazy, having had it too good for too long. History reminds us that the good times never

  DEAR News Of The Area, ONE answer is to make readily available more of the vast quantity of our home grown vegetables and fruit which never reach the supermarket shelves, because it is not the ideal shape, size or colour. There are endless examples of these food products such as forked carrots,

  DEAR News Of The Area, I’M another who’s concerned about the so-called ‘Independents’ popping up to run for federal parliament. One surefire way of telling that they’re likely to be party-aligned, is when they sidestep the two big elephants right in front of them. One of those elephants is, of course, the global

  AT this month’s Council meeting I called on all Federal election candidates to support the Australian Local Government Association’s (ALGA) ‘Don’t Leave Local Communities Behind’ national funding initiative, which based on independent review, would contribute $6.46 billion per annum to Australia’s Gross Domestic Product. I’ll be writing to our local Federal

  DEAR News Of The Area, THE recent article in News Of The Area about rebuilding the old WW1 War Memorial failed to engender much local interest. From my discussion with people, the main point of contention is that the old war memorial is not in keeping with the modern image that Woolgoolga