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According to CBS, the UK royal wedding last weekend cost an estimated $45 million, yet almost all of that (about $40 million) went towards security. Who pays for the security costs? The public of course, The Independent reports. In a perfect world, humans wouldn’t be so easily infatuated by outdated models of governance and the flaunting of obscene wealth and privilage by inbreds. Q Q Q Q
A 200-year-old fig tree that is disrupting someone’s driveway on Castle Drive, Lennox Head, is now likely to be axed by Ballina Council, despite concerted protests from those who see the obvious value in such heritage. Mayor David Wright says all options have been exhausted. ‘Since 1980, developers with fig trees on their property have to put a 50-metre buffer around it; that’s how much we want to protect fig trees, but this one of course didn’t have that,’ he said. Q Q Q Q
Parents are asked to keep an eye out for hand, foot and mouth disease after a local school reported a case. Signs and symptoms start with blisters that begin as small red dots, which later become ulcers. Blisters appear inside the cheeks, gums, and on the sides of the tongue, as well as on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. For more info visit www.health.nsw.gov.au. Q Q Q Q
The government-run corporation that is trying to fleece Brunswick Heads – The NSW Crown Holiday Parks Trust – has another name to go by! Yes, one of the best way bureaucrats and corporations can confuse and muddy the waters is by constantly renam-
The Brunswick Heads Scouts held their big day on Saturday at the Soundshell. Pictured are Okie Greenwell, Jayden Tonnet, Kai Berriman, Blake Nicholson, Blake Nicholson, Oliver Webb, and Tom Kuskink with Sylvia, the Big Fish purchasing officer. Photo Jeff ‘Woggles’ Dawson
ing your brand. It’s been hard to keep up with this lot, who continually change CEOs and board members. In true dystopian Orwellian style, they are now calling themselves Reflections Holiday Parks. So where is the reflection?
Management Plan is on public exhibition! Staff say it will guide the management of assets such as roads, footpaths,
bridges, parks and culverts over the next decade. Visit http://bit.ly/2GCCJgN for more info.
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Anna McCormack from Beacon Social Media was recently nominated for the Social Media Marketing Institute’s ‘Best Emerging Social Media Marketer for 2018’. The winner will be announced at the Social Media Marketing Awards in Sydney on August 16 – good luck, Anna! Q Q Q Q
Want a quick insight into how govcorp do their business? See editorial on page 12, where the proposal to plop a large private hospital on Ewingsdale Road is slowly making its way along the Joint Regional Planning Panel conveyor belt. And it’s all without much in the way of traffic mitigation. Q Q Q Q
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