The Bega-Tathra Rd is totally unsuitable for bike riders and it's no good finger pointing and blaming the other by bike riders that insist on using that road.

An alternative bike track would be a wonderful community asset, but this is the Bega Valley not Leichardt. 

Who's going to pay for it? 

We have the population of one Sydney suburb from Bermagui to Eden.

John Cafe

Bega

I am no longer able to drive and if my son is away I use a taxi to go and do my shopping, using a walker. 

A juggling act with a trolley!

Last Friday, heading to the rank outside Medicare, I had my trolley removed from my hands to help me!

The woman, with two probably early teens with her, refused to allow me to get a cab and insisted on driving me home. 

When we pulled up in my yard, she and her wonderful children then made sure everything got safely inside.

She made light of her "random act of kindness", but it really made my day!

I can't pay it forward in the same way, but I will do something for someone.

Bega we have some priceless locals!

Bev Davies

Bega

New South Wales is one of the states with the most to lose if the Federal Government slashes the national Renewable Energy Target (RET) following the recommendations of a review by former Caltex chairman Dick Warburton. 

Despite the review concluding the RET was working effectively and that reducing the target would result in higher prices to consumers, it still recommended slashing the target. 

If the Federal Government goes down this path, it will be much harder for mums, dads and small businesses to install solar power and solar hot water systems to help reduce their power bills. 

Not only that, but almost 2200 NSW solar jobs and hundreds of solar businesses would also be at risk if the policy is cut. 

Billions of dollars in investment will be created if the RET is left alone, generating jobs, providing work for contracting businesses and solar installers. 

Australians want a solar future, so Tony Abbott, let's not blow it. 

Kane Thornton 

Acting chief executive, Clean Energy Council

HuntFest or gunfest? 

It is exhausting to expend your energy opposing something.  

It’s so much more rewarding to be promoting something. 

But sometimes you just have to stand up for what you believe in. 

The recent application by Huntfest Narooma organisers to sell firearms and ammunition and have a shooting range has many in our shire wondering if this was the intention from the beginning.  

What happened to the “photographic competition”?    

One of the Huntfest organisers stated that if this latest application does not get approved then Huntfest will not be viable.  

This seems incredulous when we have been subjected to all the hype about the financial benefits this event brings locally and does this mean that the last two events have not been viable. 

Very confusing.  

I don’t believe the financial benefit of one weekend per  year could outweigh the benefit of repeated visits by  tourists  who come to this area for weeks every year,  sometimes two and three times a year because it is the Eurobodalla Nature Coast/ Land of Many Waters.  

A festival selling firearms and ammunition or promoting killing animals for pleasure is not a good fit for Narooma or any part of the Far South Coast.

If people want to buy firearms and ammunition – they’re not too hard to obtain – even online.  

Why then, do Huntfest organisers feel it is so crucial to have these flagrantly displayed for sale in our beautiful shire? 

Paula Underwood

Narooma