Letters Tom’s parting shot Byron Greens membership has more than doubled since Tom Tabart was on Council. Members either joined or renewed this financial year, which doesn’t indicate a loss of support for the Greens mayor and councillors or for Byron Greens itself. There are so many possible responses to Tom’s parting shots (Echo 18 October) but I’ll unpick just one. Byron Greens meetings were temporarily moved to Wednesdays owing to my complaints about being deafened by trivia night in the adjacent room on Tuesdays. Wednesdays don’t suit the councillors and our meetings will soon move to another night. Tom knows this but chose to style the councillors’ absence in September as demonstrating being ‘uninterested’. What a cheap shot from a very long-term Greens member. Pam Ditton Byron Bay For the historical record, there were antecedents to the 1993 formation of the Byron Greens, which Tom Tabart states was the beginning of The Greens in this area. There were wide-ranging discussions involving many
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people over several years to establish a Tweed-Byron Green organisation in the late 1980s. I went to three of these meetings. The first, in a local hall, was without any concrete outcome. The next, a very well-attended gathering, was in the Nimbin Town Hall. I facilitated that meeting, and traveled across to Nimbin with Ian Cohen. The third occurred on a long sweaty day in a country hall near Wollumbin. These meetings were protracted and involved many people talking about what
they thought we should embark upon. All this happened before mid 1990. These are merely the events I attended. There were others. Nadine Hood Bangalow
Park Controversy It is lamentable for the community that the Byron Environment Centre Rotunda is threatened with demise. The history of the site goes back to the late 1980s when visionary community members Jan Oliver, Charly Olly, Friederman and Annie Weiland initiated the original
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shop in the arcade opposite the Beach Hotel. In true community spirit both Jan and Charly created all of the shelves with their own carpentry skills. No mean feat. The shopfront became an educational centre for many tourists and local campaigners who initiated the native title claim and the No Club Med campaign. The campaigners worked tirelessly. Rents rose but the community spirit did not die. The rotunda was given to the community for the BEC to continue its work and the wonderful volunteers have since maintained the rotunda for environmental education continued on next page
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