Tag: Opinion
Due place for top apprentices, trainees
By Tony Smith
IN 2009, I initiated the Casey Apprentice/Trainee of the Year Awards to recognise, reward and encourage careers in local trades and small...
Lenscape
IT’S not every day you come across a sunset quite like this one. Rod Thom captured this incredible photograph of a sunset from Toolebewong...
Remember the walking wounded
WITH the fanfare of the Anzac Centenary now done and dusted, it can be easily forgotten that our recently returned soldiers continue to fight...
Timber Release Plan
'MAIL’ readers may have seen an unattributed ad last week which made reference to VicForests’ Timber Release Plan (Mail, 7 July, page 2).
In response...
Wake up, road users
I DON'T want to pick fights and, in my preamble, I concur that Healesville drivers are exceptionally polite, so it is relaxing to drive...
Lenscape
‘MAIL’ reader Kennith Woodworth captured this beautiful image of yet another inspiring sunset at Millgrove recently. Despite the cooler months now setting in, there...
Amendment wrong approach
I AM writing in response to the ‘Mail’ article (“Intense ‘free range’ heat”, 2 June, page 5).
Currently in the Shire of Yarra Ranges you...
‘Op’ shops tops
WHAT a great article on the Adcare Opportunity Shop, telling of sharing their 'profits’ between several Yarra Valley schools.
I thought it was a terrific...
Walkway a wonderful result
I KNOW Archdeacon Gail Pinchbeck (Anglican and Uniting Church minister), who fell and was injured badly on the Warburton Brisbane Bridge in 2013.
In complaining...
Spokesman surprise
I WAS surprised to see in the ‘Mail’, Geoff Biggs of Toolangi presented as a spokesman for the community.
In the 1990s, Geoff was a...
Fracking exposure salutary
I WOULD like to thank Jeanette McRae for warning us of the possibility of mineral exploration within our area. I am absolutely appalled by...
Road needs attention
I READ the recent article in your paper and would like to add my comments.
As a regular user of the road between Healesville and...
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