The much-loved Leaning Tower of Pisa does not fall because its centre of gravity has been carefully kept within it base.
The much-loved Leaning Allora Community Hall does not fall because years ago they built on a supper room to hold it up.
The Hall (pictured) was a hot topic of discussion at last week’s Connecting with Council workshop.
Mayor Pennisi said he was concerned the hall was unsafe and that council was waiting on engineering reports before letting it be used again for functions.
A local, wishing the hall could be soon again open for business, said: “The hall’s been like that forever. That’s why they built the supper room to hold it up.”
“Catty” remark
The large sand area outside the WIRAC fitness centre in Palmerin St was described as “the biggest cat litter in Warwick”.
That was the comment for a lady at last week’s Connecting with Council workshop at the Allora RSL. She was unhappy about the large sand area being a totally disused space.
Degrees of loss
Mayor Pennisi told the 30-odd people who attended the Allora meeting that, when the council ran WIRAC, it ran at a $1.5 million loss.
Now that the YMCA is running WIRAC, he said council’s loss is $600,000.
So that’s all good then.
Time to scan the plan
Director of Town Planning, Scott Riley, celebrating his first year in the job, has been committed since Day One to encouraging people to participate in the development of the new Town Planning Scheme for the Southern Downs.
You have to feel for him. It really is not an easy message to sell.
He told the Allora meeting: “Most people don’t want to know about the town plan until they want to build a garage”.
Who’s a silly sausage?
Oh! The pain of trying to find a house to rent in country towns.
Real Estate Institute of Queensland Chairman Daniel Burrett in a TV news report last week warned there had been an influx of people to regions (like ours) desperately trying to find a house to rent.
He said: “People are screaming for accommodation. They are predominantly backpackers, fruit-pickers and people who gravitate towards the abattoir”.
Eeeek!
Or guess you could say, in the current rental shortage, the “steaks” are high?
Heritage precious the world over
Cultural Heritage has been in this newspaper a lot recently but it is not just an Australian First Nations issue.
The Mexican Ambassador to Australia, in a recent TV news report, thanked our Customs Officers who had intercepted a smuggled precious artwork and an ancient pottery artefact. The ambassador expressed it poignantly when he said: “Cultural Heritage is a love letter to the past, a message of hope to the present, and a promise for the future.”
