Give Glenorchy a break

AMONG my favourite items in my daily Mercury are the cartoons. They are often very pertinent. However, I feel Polly’s cartoon yesterday looking at Glenorchy City Council was slightly off target. Yes 12.5 per cent rate rise may be unpalatable, but most medicine is! The council may have had a 100 per cent credibility decline with the previous mayor and a couple of senior managers, but that was then. We have a new council of people resolved to clean up the mess. They deserve 100 per cent credibility for taking on such a thankless task. Please give them some clear air to work in. driveways throughout Tasmania. Each RACT member would have their own and sometimes embarrassing stories of “beachings” that compelled them to ask for assistance. Mine occurred early this year when I returned to Hobart one Friday evening from Launceston in a latemodel work car. Having washed and refuelled the car I dutifully arrived at the carpark pleased with my efforts to return the vehicle in a pristine condition for the use of the next person on Monday. Unfortunately, try as I might, I could not turn off the interior lights which had come on unexpectedly. After exhausting every combination of knobs and switches, I raised the white flag and sheepishly called the RACT who arrived promptly and nonjudgmentally extinguished the lights with the dimmer switch. natural colour (160a), vitamins (vitamin A, vitamin D). Do they honestly believe they can get away with this unnoticed? It makes you wonder how many more products of the thousands on their shelves have been downgraded.