Tubby and Rohan channelled the Bee Gees … and the lights all went on in Moruya
On behalf of the Moruya community, I extend my sincere thanks to Rohan Gleeson and Tubby Harrison for getting the Christmas lights up in Moruya.
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The numerous bureaucratic barriers were finally overcome with a sane and tenacious approach by these men.
They have mobilised a whole host of community members and decision makers to achieve this victory for common sense and community spirit.
My thanks also goes to Rob Pollock from Moruya HiFi, Mayor Lindsay Brown, Col Chesher, Graham Ogilvie, the Moruya Examiner and a few individual supporters working within the council, Essential Energy and the RMS.
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a safe and happy 2016
Steve Picton
Moruya Business Chamber President
Volunteers leave lasting legacy ... with lovely smiles
On Saturday, December 5, the members of Batemans Bay Legacy, wives and volunteers organised a wonderful lunch at the Eurobodalla Region Botanic Gardens for the area’s war widows.
What a generous gesture for almost 120 lucky recipients.
Many were picked up at their homes and transported to and from the venue, with a smile.
Many thanks to all who were involved.
Well done!
We were each presented with a bunch of Christmas bush on leaving, to top up a wonderful afternoon.
Thank you again.
Val Leek
Denham’s Beach
Jumping the gun
The Eurobodalla Greens are shocked a further five-year licence for the Narooma HuntFest looks likely to be issued whilst the current licence has two years to run.
The licence, controversially awarded in 2012, expires in 2017. In September HuntFest organisers applied for a renewal for the period 2018-2022. They have been told Eurobodalla Shire Council will process the application in February/March 2016.
You would have thought, with sensitivity around this issue, the council would stick to due process. The renewal of a five-year licence so far in davance renders the council liable once again to legal challenge.
If issued, the licence locks out the community from that venue until after 2022. It holds a gun to the heads of the next elected councillors, who will be unable to re-visit the issue for the full term of their election.
HuntFest has realised a less sympathetic council will be elected next year, so the only option was to go early. The council needs to acknowledge the cynical, undemocratic and questionably legal nature of the application and tell HuntFest to wait their turn until early 2017.
The Eurobodalla Mayor’s announcement last week that an independent audit committee had found the council acted correctly in granting the license and that the agreement was watertight is meaningless.
The initial licence made no reference to guns and ammunition, yet through amendment creep, such sales are permitted.
If the council had determined to refuse the sale of weapons on public land the same audit committee could have easily supported that position as well.
When the people were formally and directly asked about guns and ammunition sales they mostly said NO. At this point, on this issue, what the councillors “feel” is not relevant.
What the community has said must prevail.
Otherwise, why bother to ask?
