An article about the retirement of State Library staffer Alan Davies in a recent issue of the Sydney Morning Herald brought back many memories. Alan was one of those heavily involved in the microfilming of copies of the Boorowa News back in the Bicentennial Year of 1988. The process was funded under a Bicentennial grant and was an important step in preserving the files of the paper for researchers of the future. Now we believe the records have been digitised, which makes it even easier to read them. Your columnist can remember travelling to Sydney with local Bicentennial chairman Rod Travis to accept the first roll of microfilm from Premier Barry Unsworth. The late Peter Gorham, then a Boorowa councillor, turned up for the ceremony. We wish Alan all the best in retirement.
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We notice that a ‘lopping’ team has been busy around the town recently cutting tree branches back from the power lines. The ‘loppers’ have left heaps of prunings wherever they did their work. Now we are wondering who will clean them up? It has been suggested that there is a bit of a difference of opinion between the ‘pruners’ and the Council as to whose responsibility it is to remove the debris.
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And that brings us to the subject of people who have a ‘beef’ with Council and what they do about it. This column has had plenty of say about Council in the past, and quite a bit of it was critical. No one was in any doubt as to whose opinion it was, whether right or wrong, and anyone with an opposite opinion knew where to find the author. Anyone who has anything to say should be prepared to stand by his or her remarks. That is why we were not impressed by two recent letters in our paper where the correspondents were allowed to remain anonymous. The management of this paper is aware of our views.
