THERE'S no denying we have too many blackspots of neglect - or perhaps more kindly, oversight - in our communities.
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And then there are the thoroughly disgusting ones.
Into the latter category comes Whispering Lane, that much used paved walkway between Lithgow's Main Street and the main mid city car park.
Pigeon droppings are so thick in parts that you can't see the pavers.
It's not just a blight on our CBD, it must be a health hazard and Council is clearly failing in a duty of care by not regularly cleaning what has become Pigeon Poo Central.
Hate to think what impression it makes on the visitors who increasingly stroll our Main Street every day.
Perhaps they'll see it as some strange form of street art and photograph it as often as they do the Marjorie Jackson statue.
Then again we could change the name of Whispering Lane to Grotty Grotto and leave it at that.
Memories of March
WONDER if the Shooters realise the election is over. The State stoush that is. Three months after the event the Bathurst electorate candidate has been continuing to smile down on the passing world from a pole near Lithgow Maccas.
There was an another campaign poster (illegally we're told) on a pole outside QE Park until last week when a gale did the removal job for them. Another, and more offensive, sign is an anti Muslim poster on a highway pole overlooking Lithgow Jail. It's been there since a redneck rally in Lithgow over a year ago.
Not forgotten
LITHGOW in the past week lost another two valued citizens who, in their own way, left their mark on the district community. Bill Allan was a household name in Lithgow during decades as arguably the city's most popular pastry cook. Long after his retirement to the family farm the continuing Main Street business retains the title 'Bill's Old Fashion Cakes and Pies'.
Also lost was Brad Barber who died in a freak accident on his property at Hartley. Brad and his wife Rosemary dedicated much of their life to protecting our heritage with the preservation of the relics from a convict era stockade at their Glenroy property on the Coxs River which was also the site of the first Christian church service west of the Blue Mountains. They will be missed.
The good word
AN interesting program on ABC Sydney radio at the weekend advising weekend tourists to travel beyond the 'high cost hotspots' of Leura and Katoomba on that Sunday drive and visit less costly destinations on roads less travelled for lunch and commune with nature. Hartley and Blackheath both came highly commended. In the same breath, if you're heading overseas, Iran was recommended as a value destination. Might be less challenging at Hartley though.