Highlights of this week’s letters page in Bellingen Courier Sun

The letters page is always fun. Two highlights for me this week…

Flying Foxes and middle class hippy tree-huggers

IL Johnson of Lake Cathie adds to the debate on flying foxes with some words of wisdom. IL notes with incredulity about people who like living with flying foxes

They also object to suggestions that the trees which harbour these filthy animals be cut down to move them away from the area. These middle class hippy tree-huggers may well have a more enjoyable existence if they erected their yertzes (sic) in close proximity to the sewage treatment works.

“Who are these people?” IL wonders.

Cameron’s Corner flooding cripples businesses

Gary Bryant has more on the RTA’s proposed works at Cameron’s Corner. After the flooding last week the shire was in disarray and all because the Waterfall Way was cut at Cameron’s Corner

My business could not open and many others including the NAB Bank because their staff could not get to town.

Without sparing the exclamation marks Gary breathlessly continues

It’s only the working taxpayer that pays for it! Wake up Bellingen! Including our council, get RTA to fix this for good and stop workers losing wages and businesses losing income!

What about the time spent by Council workers, opening and closing the roads! More expense!

I couldn’t get to work that day either but that was because Lavender’s Bridge was underwater. Other people couldn’t get places either because half the roads in Bellingen and across the shire, including several spots along the Waterfall Way, were cut too. We did have 15 inches of rain after all.

And that’s not all. People who oppose the RTA works through the wetland at Cameron’s Corner

don’t care about anyone else’s livelihood or the local business economy, because they don’t work themselves…