Letters I do not object to these facilities being available to the wider community but would point out that it should be located in a large park and not next to homes in a quiet suburb. The wider community of Suffolk Park was not privy to the extra $200,000 being taken from Section 94 funds, as pointed out by Kerry Wright in last week’s Echo. What happened to the pump track for local young people and kiddies on bikes that the mayor has spoken about on numerous occasions? Kathy Gleeson Suffolk Park
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Sovereignty To the men who think they own the women and children in their lives, and feel they have the right to manipulate, bully, threaten, and physically injure or murder them, your actions will have a permanent and damaging impact on your vulnerable partner and children. If your life and relationship are not working for you, don’t blame your family and make them pay. Your frustration is not their fault or their responsibility to fix. As a survivor of domestic
violence I would like to recommend that if a woman has been brave enough to seek help for domestic violence, then she has just put herself and her children at much great danger, and this should send a red alert that they need immediate and long-term protection from a dangerous perpetrator of domestic violence. Until this is enforced we will continue to sadly see children losing their mothers and mothers losing their children. Sue (Surname witheld) Ocean Shores
Track has morphed I see in a letter, dated 1/12/20, of support to Council, the president of the Suffolk Park Progress Association is still saying the pump track at the Linda Vidler Memorial Park on Beech Drive is to be used by local young people. This track has morphed into a mega competition-size track costing over $500,000. Bike clubs from Alstonville and the Northern Rivers, people from Lennox Head, Ballina etc… have expressed excitement at the prospect of coming to Beech Drive.
It came as no surprise to seasoned valley landholders when ex-Cyclone Debbie swept in from the coast and brought Lismore to its knees with horrific flooding in March 2017. Decades of floodplain interference had left the city as a sitting duck, helplessly awaiting the flooding onslaught from a highly urbanised upper catchment powering down from as far afield as the border ranges ▶ Continued on page 13
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