Enjoyable month
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What an awesome month of exhibits, activities and entertainment we had for the inaugural Festival of the Face.
It is great to hear comments from a wide range of people throughout the community on what they enjoyed throughout the month.
Many people came to town just to view the art in shops creating not only exposure for artists, but extra traffic into businesses.
Theatre performances showcased the need for more exposure of the talent we have in our region.
The knitting nancy was a huge hit with many people wanting a similar community-made art project in the park more often.
ReARTvision space was so successful it may be an ongoing art space.
The burning Bigface last Saturday was very popular thanks to the input from many community members and the other exhibits throughout the area highlighted some of the artistic talent we have in the Bega Valley.
I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the festival in some way and now ask for expressions of interest for anyone with ideas or a passion for community involvement to join the committee for the next festival in June 2016.
Mal Barnes
Bega Chamber of Commerce president
Generosity welcome
The Salvation Army would like to thank the residents and businesses of the Bega Valley for their support again this year with the Red Shield Appeal.
Due to your incredible generosity we have managed to bank over $33,000.
This is more than the target that we had been set this year.
To those who gave of their time to collect on our behalf, whether that be knocking on doors, standing in front of shops, or collecting at sporting events across the Valley, we thank you as you make the difference in the area we cover each year.
For those who allowed us to put up banners on your properties, thank you.
It is great to have your support each year in allowing us to advertise in this way.
To Eden Marine High, Bega High and Sapphire Coast Anglican College, we thank you for holding Red Days in support of the Red Shield Appeal.
The small amounts each student brings in adds up to quite a bit at the end of the day.
Once again, thank you for you generosity.
Lieutenant Lesley Newton
Assistant Corps Officer The Salvation Army Bega
Privacy please
I have recently received emails from several local organisations, addressed to me but also listing the email addresses of other members or supporters in the “to” box.
The most charitable way to view this is to say it is extremely poor business practice.
But it may also breach privacy laws.
This practice exposes my computer, and those of all the other people being simultaneously sent the email, to increased chances of being affected by malware or to being hacked.
I write to offending organisations urging them to change their practice - an extremely easy thing for them to do.
I will continue to write to offending organisations on the first occasion.
If they then ignore my request, I will feel at liberty to “sell” their membership or supporter database to others - which certainly will not please their members or supporters!
So, local organisations, please make sure your office procedures are in proper order before emailing me.
I provide you with my email address so you can contact me - not for you to broadcast it to others.
Peter Lacey
Quaama
Out of proportion
Regarding the letter “Inciting hatred” (BDN, 27/6), which complains that a recent article about a Department of Immigration raid that detected some illegal immigrant working in a Merimbula shop incited “racial hatred and discrimination”.
This sort of complaint is making a mountain out of a molehill.
So far from being pillaged by a wild mob, the shop in question continues to operate.
Furthermore it is absurd to expect a local newspaper like the BDN to carry news about illegal immigration in Australia generally, or about American servicemen going AWOL in northern Australia, just as it would be absurd to expect the Northern Territory News, the Katherine Times or the Centralian Advocate to carry news about action against illegal immigrants in the Bega Valley
Malcolm Brandon
Merimbula