Plenty on offer at Willaura market

Music, entertainment and the best of regional produce and home-made goods will be on offer at this year’s Willaura Healthcare Outdoor Market.

Willaura Healthcare Auxiliary member and market coordinator Jane Millear said the market was shaping up to be one of the best.

She said market stalls would include jams, preserves, homewares, metal art, cards, jewellery, art and craft, chocolate, fudge, plants, soy candles and more.

“Not only will we have stalls packed with home-made and home-grown goods, but we will have music and children’s entertainment,” Mrs Millear said.

“Popular music duo SOFT will return to the market this year, which we are really pleased about, and Willaura Primary School’s newly formed band and choir will also perform.

“Ararat 800 Primary School’s Bamboozle circus troupe will wow everyone with their acrobatics and circus tricks and we will have a jumping castle, mini golf and a trackless train to entertain the children.”

The market raises money for new furnishings and fittings for Willaura Healthcare and outings and activities for residents.

The market is on Sunday from 10am to 2pm next to Willaura Healthcare in Delacombe Way.

Bypass petition alarming

SIR, – I was very disturbed to read an article by Dean Lawson in The Weekly Advertiser on February 15 quoting Sue Exell on a project to petition Horsham and district residents to endorse Vicroads’ ‘Option D’ Western Highway bypass of Horsham in an attempt to persuade Planning Minister Mr Wynne to choose this route.

The paragraph that disturbed me most was a statement made by Mrs Exell, a Haven resident, who stated: “and being part of a floodplain is a good idea because in many cases it involves land you can’t do much else on.”

Placing a highway through a floodplain is very dangerous and in this case more so.

There is already a levy bank along Rokesky’s Road and the proposed highway would create another one running parallel to it.

In flood time, this will create a future ‘dam’ and right in the middle of it is a power station.

Mrs Exell’s views are very biased and inflammatory and will pit Horsham and district residents against each other.

I am very disappointed in her actions and would like some advice on how to prevent this petition from dividing our community. June Liddy Horsham

Climate change challenge

SIR, – Congratulations to David Waterhouse on his clarity of thought on climate change – letters to the editor, The Weekly Advertiser, February 22.

I wholeheartedly support his suggestion of throwing the question at our politicians, but don’t be surprised if you get a non-committal response.

I have challenged Member for Mallee Andrew Broad and other politicians as well as media outlets to supply the proof that anthropogenic CO2 emissions cause, or even contribute to, climate change.

Nothing has been forthcoming.

The only basis I have ever seen to believing this ‘fact’ is that many scientists ‘believe’ – hardly scientific proof.

If police presented to a criminal court, ‘police believe Joe Blow dunnit’ without presenting concrete evidence, Joe should surely be acquitted. Ron Fischer

Horsham