Offers to share toilet paper
[Forum] Today (Friday, March 13), I was shopping in my local supermarket at Umina and stopped to talk with a friend. We had both walked past an empty toilet paper…
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Council should do what is necessary for a permanent solution
[Forum] Dave Horsfall misrepresents my letter on roundabouts (Coast Community News edition 233). I never said that roundabouts were “dangerous”, an emotive word that means only what the writer wants…
NSW verification requirements have increased
[Forum] This is a brief but confusing look at the muddled verification requirements for Service NSW. I recently attempted to update my Working With Children Check (WWCC) authority with Services…
All council toilets should have hand cleaners
[Forum] It’s time for Central Coast Council to provide soap and/or hand sanitiser and towels and/or hand dryers in each and every public toilet. This would help every one of…
Times have definitely changed
[Forum] The Member for Robertson’s full-page advertisement in edition 489 is a major turnaround from her election campaign in May 2019. A short list of probable reasons for this change…
Everyone is entitled to solar access
[Forum] Eunice Warden (edition 489) raises valid concerns about the approved Pacific Link development at Ocean Beach Rd and Waratah Ave Woy Woy. Everyone, social housing tenant or otherwise, is…
Heywire presenters are more deserving of awards
[FORUM]May I once again raise these relevant and important issues which deeply concern me. I’m sure there are many others who, like me, would appreciate some believable answers. After viewing…
We live on a fragile Cinderella Planet
Global Warming is real and getting worse. Scientists predicted it over a century ago. We have known that burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide, a “greenhouse gas” which controls the…
Training not required to use a defibrillator
[FORUM] I write in regard to an article that appeared in Coast Community News edition 233 about a defibrillator being installed at Davistown Progress Hall. In the article it says…
Funding eligibility claims refuted by Auditor-General
[FORUM] It takes some chutzpah for Lucy Wicks to reiterate Scott Morrison’s lie, that every project funded by the CSI program was eligible for funding (edition 183), when the Auditor-General…
We are living in an economy and not a sustainable environment
[FORUM] This short update on lessons learnt regarding the fight with Transport for NSW over the rail maintenance facility at Kangy Angy is not really what you want to hear….
No scientific facts have linked humans to climate change
I see that Central Coast Council is holding workshops on how to plan for Climate Change. Isn’t it about time we started to debate the real issue that climate changes…
Tuggerawong refurbishment supported
An open letter to all Central Coast Councillors. [FORUM] Dear Councillors, you are well aware of my passion to follow through with Council’s commitment to make the Central Coast accessible…
Climate change deniers lack scientific understanding
[Forum]With all due respect, I have become rather disappointed with the clearly displayed lack of scientific understanding and the false information promulgated by climate change deniers. Reading letters to the…
A nuclear power station is inappropriate for the Central Coast
[Forum] Just a few points as to why a nuclear power station is inappropriate for the Central Coast. Nuclear power stations can’t be built under existing law in any Australian…
Scientific predictions made long ago are being shown to be true
[Forum] Fellow Woy Woy resident, Charles Hemmings’ letter re the ‘two climate camps’ in Coast Community News edition 232 is an unfortunate example of the distortions generously sponsored by fossil…
Ocean Beach Rd intersection already too busy
In support of the letter written by Eunice Warden (edition 489) I have written two submissions to Central Coast Council saying exactly what she has outlined. A three-story, 12-unit structure…
Four well-being programs are offered
[Forum] Woy Woy Public School is offering four well-being programs this term: Top Blokes, Shine, Stronger Braver Wiser and Mentoring through Sport. Assistant principal Ms Michelle Williams said: “We have…
Many causes for potholes
[Forum] Laurie Powell is only partly right about lack of camber being the cause of potholes (Forum edition 489). It is easy to see on the Peninsula that there are…
Happy without the noisy intrusion
[Forum] This letter is in response to an advertisement which appeared on page nine of edition 489; For some decades, Dick Smith has been of the opinion that what is…