ROADS and Maritime crews completed an impressive piece of work in recent days manicuring the highway median strips between Lithgow and Tankersley Hill.
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It was just the sort of enhancement that the maturing avenue of trees needed. But on the other side of town the avenue hasn’t been getting the same attention.
For anyone concerned with the local image it’s distressing to see the weeds dominating the highway nature strips between Dunns Corner and Donnybrook. Seems there are not too many in authority aware that first impressions really do mean a lot. If the will is there it’s not too late to tidy up the welcome mat before the Christmas influx. We live in hope.
That warm glow
ALL over our towns and countryside those Christmas lights are popping up in that seasonal sparkle.
We’re not quite back to the level of enthusiasm that saw organised evening bus tours but there will still be plenty to enjoy in coming days.
Get out and enjoy the spectacle before it’s all packed away for another year.
A walk in the park
IT would be difficult to find a more pleasant way of spending a balmy Summer afternoon than relaxing in the shade at Lithgow’s QE Park and chill out to the background of the bands and songsters belting out a happy blend of Christmas carols and country favorites.
That’s how it was on Saturday with a family program of craft stalls, food and entertainment for kids and big kids. Even the cooling easterly stayed away until the last chord.
Earlier in the day there was another happy community event with the dedication of the born again band rotunda in Saville Park at Portland.
Bucket list?
THE mob in Macquarie Street have developed a not so happy knack of getting voters offside.
There was the greyhound fiasco, the Korean train contract fiasco and now the burgeoning blue over gold plated stadiums. Notably a lot of the protest squeals are coming from bush where the government needs to revive its fortunes.
Pity the enthusiasm for new stadiums wasn’t matched by enthusiasm to advance the redevelopment of Nepean Hospital, an issue so vital to our area.