Letters & Feedback | Sep 15th 2009
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Island skater Nahir Vasconcelos in action
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Due to a shortfall of just $1500, to cover insurance, the Bay Days Skate Comp, planned for this Sunday, has been cancelled. And while the Festival Committee are pledging to make every endeavor to include this activity next year, the impact on some young Islanders will be a hard one. In the following letter to Magnetic Times, Horseshoe Bay resident Dani Ryan writes about the cancellation's effects and what might be done about it.
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Letters & Feedback | Sep 7th 2009
How lucky are we to live on Magnetic Island? Very lucky indeed is our belief and all the more reason to take notice of the following call for help from a great Aussie, Tim Costello.
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Letters & Feedback | Sep 2nd 2009
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Koala by Sylvia Hayes
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After we published a romantic photo of an elderly couple, dancing at Seniors Music Day, sent to us by resident Barbara Gibbs, we decided to invite readers to send us photos they thought capture why we live here on Magnetic Island. We soon received a delightful response from Horseshoe Bay resident, Sylvia Hayes. But Sylvia didn't just send us a photo. She was so inspired she produced a watercolour painting too! Sylvia's message follows.
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Letters & Feedback | Aug 27th 2009
With huge support for the Magnetic Island State School students petition to ban plastic shopping bags on Magnetic Island being expressed over the last week, another suggestion, to rid the Island of another product deemed wasteful and unecessary, namely bottled water, has been raised in a letter from Horseshoe Bay resident John Becker.
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Letters & Feedback | Jul 31st 2009
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Weeders at work
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For the second year in a row, perhaps Magnetic Island's most beautiful bay, Florence, has been cleared of weeds, in particular periwinkles, by a small band of dedicated volunteers who keep returning to the bay to make sure it stays that way. In the following inspirational release, the group's Co-ordinator, Carolyn Dixon tells how.
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Letters & Feedback | May 15th 2009
Dear Editor, June 8th of every year marks the official, U.N.-sanctioned celebration of World Oceans Day and thousands of leading aquariums, zoos, museums, conservation organizations, Picnic Bay Coast Care, Rick Braly Aquasearch, NQDry Tropics, NQCC, MWP, The Turtle Foundation and individuals of Magnetic Island and around the world will celebrate with fun, inspirational, and educational events.
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Letters & Feedback | May 2nd 2009
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ANZAC Day at the RSL
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In a letter to Magnetic Times Magnetic Island RSL President Geoff Barlow thanks the Magnetic Island community for their support during ANZAC Day and throughout the year.
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Letters & Feedback | Nov 27th 2008
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Another road-killed wallaby
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Over the past month, I have had to bury three Allied Wallabies in my garden. All have been hit by vehicles speeding up the top end of Horseshoe Bay Road past the Black Stump towards Arcadia. I saw the second of these struck by a car that was travelling at more than 80 kmh and the driver didn't pause for a second, despite a loud and sickening thud.
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Letters & Feedback | Nov 13th 2008
Bill of Rights and Greens' activist Pat Coleman calls on labor Member for Townsville, Mike Reynolds, to take a leaf out of, former independent and maverick Townsville politician, Tom Aiken's, book.
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EPA: Croc movement allegations false
In a letter to Magnetic Times, Mr Terry Wall, Director General of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), refutes recent claims (not made by Magnetic Times) that crocodile movements by the EPA had led to the deaths of two men [ read more ] |
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Tel on the croc
Following is a letter to the Editor from Townsville Enterprise's CEO Glenys Schuntner regarding the impact on tourism caused by the visit to Magnetic Island of an EPA relocated crocodile [ read more ] |
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The imported croc
Dear Ed, It is incredible the Department concerned did not take this croc somewhere like Morton Bay [ read more ] |
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A good result
Last month we published a letter sent to New Townsville City Council by Island resident Rolf Petherbridge expressing concerns over the pruning of casuarina trees on the beach foreshore at Geofrey Bay [ read more ] |
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Letter: Reflecting on roadkill
Dear Editor
Some years ago (Island wildlife carer) Jenny Mulcahy sought and achieved a grant, together with the Townsville City Council, to put roadside posts with special reflectors to deter wildlife from crossing at night when a vehicle was coming [ read more ] |
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