Tag: graham greenwood
OPINION: Scouting provides many life skills and leadership
BOYS and girls who join Scouts are not just better prepared than other children - new research shows they are better problem-solvers, more confident...
OPINION: Rejoining society to face oncoming challenges
THERE are times in life when you wake on a Monday morning and if you knew the challenges and dramas that might lie ahead...
LETTER: Community involvement instilled in members
Liz Rymill, SCTPG member
I READ with interest Mr Graham Greenwood's column in last week's Border Watch.
Mr Greenwood ruminates on the decline in membership (and...
OPINION: City Council gets it right on fossil fuel vote
MOUNT Gambier City Council made the correct decision last week when it voted not to condemn new conventional gas and oil exploration licences in...
OPINION: Council poll backflip a win for common sense
IF the "survey" announced by city council this week on the $40m indoor sports centre is indeed a de facto ratepayer's poll, it is...
It was almost the perfect month for Tony Pasin
IT WAS almost the perfect past month for Member for Barker Tony Pasin and, in some ways, for the city of Mount Gambier.
Firstly, Mr...
Mayor Lee ‘remains in denial’ as more call for pool poll
AS the move to force council to have a poll on the indoor sports centre gathers momentum, it is amazing how the mayor Andrew...
OPINION: Russia shows how to turn around log exports
AS each week passes more and more people are asking why the Liberal Federal Government has not acted on the huge amount of logs...
Indoor sports centre is not what it seems
WHEN the 10,008 signed petition supporting an indoor sports centre was presented to City Council it was decided to proceed with the first stage...
Civic leaders seek ideas to revitalise main street
ONE of the great challenges which has dogged City Council during the past 50 years or more has been the main street.
Probably more than...
Milestone for last of the ‘original timbermen’
ONE of the city's longest-serving and certainly the elder statesman of the local timber industry, Les McDonnell turns 90 next week.
His legacy has been...
Golf: Trent schools field with maiden hole-in-one
TRENT Eitzen schooled the field on Saturday at the Attamurra golf course, with an excellent five-up and along the way claimed his maiden hole-in-one...
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Strong roster promises much
THE Mount Gambier Pioneers men have enjoyed an almost-perfect start to the 2024 NBL1 South Season.
They current sit in second spot on the ladder...
