The bakery’s principal, Todd Wiebe, opened his bakery on Anzac Day this year before and after the service in Pambula.

They split the takings received between Bega Valley Legacy and Merimbula-Pambula Support Services. Both groups received $462.50, a most generous contribution.

Wild Rye’s also supports other service groups, Tathra Lions Club for example, by giving a generous discounted rate on the price of pies and other goods that are purchased from the bakery.

This is not an advertisement, just a public acknowledgement of a special thing done in a special way by an obviously caring person.

So, Bega Valley Shire towns are to get new signs (BDN, 26/5). Wonderful!

I trust the one for Bega will read "We're Happy Little Vegemites" - something far more imaginative and welcoming than the uber-boring design that's recently been suggested for Cobargo.

All the hand wringing and hyperventilating about North Korea misses one huge point.

North Korea has almost certainly developed nuclear weapons to defend itself from attack by the US, not to attack it.

Who wouldn't, if an immensely powerful nation had for decades been threatening and sabotaging you; the same nation that in the early 1950s killed nearly 30 per cent of your population?

To attack North Korea over nuclear weapons would be akin to a schoolyard bully attacking some child for daring to defend itself. 

If the US wants to curb North Korea's enthusiasm for nuclear weapons, all it has to do is to promise not to attack North Korea, and to show it genuinely means it, even extending the hand of friendship.

Nothing could be simpler.

Of course, it would take years and years for the US to demonstrate this, because of its decades of belligerence towards North Korea. But with the US's need to use force to keep everyone in line, and with the biggest and most insecure bully of all in the White House, the chances of this are zero.

Bernard Tomic might, in his own exasperating way, be telling us something.

That professional sport has something intrinsically nasty about it.

Plenty of money to be had – like $50,000-plus for losing a match – but often not much joy or fulfilment.

Money, by itself, isn’t the right kind of fulfilment.

Once upon a time, Ron Clarke tripped and fell during the 1500 metres final at the 1956 Australian National Athletic Championships.

Fellow runner John Landy stopped and doubled back to check that Clarke was OK.

Clarke got up and they both started running again.

Too late…However, Landy’s attitude has won an honoured place in the hearts of all Australians.

That was a different century and a different world.

Something selfless and truly good for us moderns to admire and to emulate.