Thanks for the great help
I would like to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to the first responders and kind individuals who assisted me after my accident on January 22 at the Kilmore Village Shopping Centre.
I am an 86-year-old lady who was doing my shopping when I was redirected to enter the shopping centre. Sadly, I tripped and fell, skidding on my face and sustaining severe bruising to my face and body.
My heartfelt thanks go especially to Mandy from Mitchell Shire for her quick response, calm manner and compassionate care at the scene. Her help meant a great deal to me at a very frightening time.I am also very grateful to the staff at the chemist in the shopping centre, who kindly supplied bandages and swabs and helped when I needed it most.
After spending one week in hospital, I am now home and recovering. I will always be thankful for the professionalism, kindness and care shown to me that day.
Dawn Griffiths
Resident of The Elms, Kilmore
We need better roads
Highlighting the Kilmore traffic, what happens to Kilmore residents getting access to the Hume Freeway, considering the amount of traffic that uses the main streets through our town.
With the amount of large, long trucks using the main streets, it is not safe for pedestrians as the traffic is banked up every day. It is ridiculous.
Go to Wallan to get to the freeway, yeah right, it is dangerous and we were promised this years ago about better roads.
Same as secondary schools, we need to go to Wallan or Broadford.
Kilmore needs better safer roads and high schools for our children. Why should they have to travel to other towns?
Pat Jones
Kilmore
Call for agricultural body
The Mitchell Shire Council has a long-standing environmental advisory committee, Mitchell Environmental Advisory Committee (MEAC). MEAC’s overarching function is to provide ‘council with strategic advice regarding environmental sustainability and management issues and initiatives within the municipality’. This includes advice on strategic environment matters, input into Mitchell Shire strategies, programs and projects and provision of a ‘forum through which community representatives, Councillors and staff can discuss, develop and contribute to environmental issues relevant to Mitchell Shire’.
Just as Mitchell Shire has appointed MEAC, council must seriously consider an agriculture advisory committee, comprising representatives of all agricultural sectors in Mitchell, along with representatives of local agribusiness, an essential component of local agriculture. A large portion of Mitchell Shire is used for agriculture. According to the REMPLAN Economic & Demographic Specialists website, Mitchell Shire’s economy generates an estimated $5.709 billion in output, of which agriculture, forestry and fishing sectors generate about $266 million. Of this, about $175 million worth of product is exported (the fourth largest export in Mitchell).
An agricultural advisory committee would provide valuable input into Mitchell Shire policies, projects and maintenance planning and prioritisation. Such input could assist in such matters as road maintenance programming, roadside fuel reduction, targeted obnoxious weed management, along with preparation and development of strategies and policies that strengthen Mitchell Shire’s agricultural section and its contribution to the shire’s economy, along with advising on the impact of other policies and governance on our agricultural sector.
The Shire of East Gippsland has an agriculture sector advisory committee which could serve as a model for the Mitchell Shire agricultural advisory committee.
Mitchell Shire Council is urged to seriously consider an agricultural advisory committee and reach out to our agricultural and agribusiness sectors to collaborate in forming this vital asset.
David Waye
Pyalong