Catching the moment
The photo on page 16 of Friday's Bay Post/Moruya Examiner titled "A solo runner put in a great effort at the cross-country event" moved my heart.
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The photo captures the young boy's determination and concentration.
He may not have 'won' the race but he's a winner.
Good on the Bay Post for giving him a place in the sun.
Kerry Foster
Malua Bay
A centre and heart
Congratulations to the Eurobodalla Shire Council for its purchase of the former Bowling Club site, announced recently.
The purchase opens up exciting possibilities and the site at the entrance to Batemans Bay, is ideal for giving the town a centre and a heart. Batemans Bay has grown froma small fishing village to a flourishing town of some consequence, but it has always lacked a heart.
Many Australian country towns grew up with their own town halls or mechanics institutes, but Batemans Bay has never developed its own heart. Now there is a chance to develop a centre of excellence for the whole Batemans Bay community to become involved in the arts, culture, tourism, sport and associated activities.
I urge the council to act wisely and listen to the needs and desires of the whole community. The development of such a site is of vital importance.
Geraldine Currie
Denhams Beach
Great day for Bay
Congratulations to the Eurobodalla Shire Council!
What a great day, not just for Batemans Bay, but the shire. With the purchase of the Batemans Bay Bowling Club, the council has ensured that finally, the town has a fantastic community venue to call its own.
This is certainly the plan and dream of all who have been encouraging its purchase. Yes, there is much to do, but the community deserves this opportunity and will continue to work to create a vibrant, viable, cultural, arts and tourist hub for our people and our shire.
Jeannie Brewer
President, PerfEx
Bonking into oblivion?
The indifference shown by many Europeans regarding the plight of millions of refugees, has annoyed the Pope.
Instead of taking in a token amount of refugees to the Vatican, he should take in ten thousand. Many under-utilized buildings could be turned into accommodation. Ten of them could be turned into mosques. The Vatican has the space and the finance to support this.
It is worth noting that all these devout Muslims do not flee to Muslim countries and that no other loving Muslim country has offered to take them in or offered assistance—even the oil rich Gulf States. It is time that these huge religions, Catholicism and Islam, that do not practise birth control, start to develop economies and political systems in countries they control that can support uncontrolled population growth.
The Pope recently protested to America for not allowing open borders with Mexico. Why don’t Mexicans have less children and start developing an economy that can support their huge population? Why does responsibility have to be shifted?
Perhaps the Pope can advise us when Jesus will return with a never-emptying basket of bread and fish? Many European countries are in deficit and youth unemployment is over 50 per cent. Bio means life but it also stands for bonking into oblivion. Perhaps the Pope has an extra chapter in his Bible – called replenishments.
As a species, we are clever enough to avoid becoming a starving plague, but do we have the will to prevent it?