Please care for our parks
For at least 2 years I have been endeavouring to have our council attend to the removal (and hopefully replacement) of trees in the small parkland bounded by Darling, Janison and North Streets.
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The trees have been permitted to die as a result of mistletoe infestation and secondly a lack of integrity in respect for our community.
The parkland must be passed by Council staff literally hundreds of times each year however, as the rectification of this problem would not present an opportunity to claim favourable press comment, it is obviously considered of little or no importance.
There is no doubt that the responsibility for this lack of integrity and dereliction of care must extend from top management, to parks and gardens staff.
It is time this Council honoured all those who have gone before, as well as the residents they are paid to respect/represent.
Reg Brody
Tamworth
Thank you from an injured cyclist
I am writing to say thank you to the wonderful people of this community who came to my aid after I was injured in a hit and run motor vehicle accident whilst cycling in South Tamworth on October 12th 2016. To the passers-by, the neighbours, the paramedics and police who assisted at the scene, thank you so much.
To the young man who phoned for the ambulance and also took the time to phone my loved ones, thank you. I even found my sense of humour when I heard him say to the call centre staff member “oh she is old” and I interjected, “I am not old, I am 53. I am very young!”
I received expert care at Tamworth Hospital by the Emergency Department staff, the X-ray and CT Department staff, the whole Orthopaedic team, the Operating Theatre team, Social Work, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy team, the wonderful and caring nursing staff of Surgical 2 and of course the ancillary staff who brought my meals, which just felt like one “long lunch” from morning till evening.
I have been surrounded by a loving community of family and friends, I have received cards and many bouquets of flowers. There has been a steady stream of visitors, firstly to me in the hospital, and now to me in my home, ensuring that I am not alone and that I am well cared for with gifts of food and assistance in my home.
To my amazing children and their families, my Dad and my siblings I don’t know what I would do without you all. To my work colleagues who are now managing under high pressure without me, thank you for carrying my load.
I am part of a faith community who are standing beside me in prayer and thank God that my life was spared on this occasion. I live by my faith and I am supported and encouraged by the many people far and wide who have been praying for my recovery.
I am healing well and am getting stronger each day, hopping around the house on my left broken ankle with my walking frame, whilst supporting my very badly smashed right leg and fractured vertebra and carefully avoiding the many bruised parts of my body.
As I lay on the roadside on that terrible morning, it was as though I had been carried to the ground by angels. I don’t know how I landed so “comfortably” on the road as I found myself laying on my left side in a semi-foetal position with my head “gently resting” on my helmet.
As I have no memory of pain of impact from the car nor pain of impact with the road, I’m going to stick to my theory that there was divine intervention on that morning and I was gently carried to the ground and placed in the “recovery” position. Then it was the beautiful people of this community who came to my aid who were my “angels” on the ground.
Thank you most warmly and sincerely.
Jeannine Lewis
Tamworth