My Food Bag doing a roaring trade in food bags to beneficiaries, free school lunches where kids are refusing it and thousands of meals thrown out. What a waste. Why free lunches for all in some schools? It's not all children who don't have lunch to take to school.
Why not just have lunch made for the ones who don't have lunch?
Yes, Rotorua has been trashed. It's going to take a long time to recover, if ever, if this city keeps being abused by the Government as the emergency housing capital of New Zealand.
Rotorua Lakes Council needs to say, no more. We've had enough and local residents are over it.
Viv Radley
Rotorua
Self-propelled marginalised
It was great to read Aaron Gillons standing up for the few spaces supposedly reserved for cyclists (News, May 12).
As a long-time cyclist, I believe the problem goes well beyond council attitudes and actions. Decades of normalising and prioritising private motor vehicles have left all the self-propelled marginalised.
I am told by lots of motorists how terrifying it must be to cycle as they proceed to make it so. We lost the battle when we started perceiving cycling as an extreme sport and driving as the default means of leaving the house.
Building cycle lanes won't solve this. It needs to be less convenient to drive.
Miriam Odlin
Mourea
Dumbfounded
Oh my gosh ... I must be behind the times.
I made a phone call to the Rotorua Library, inquiring about a book launch, which I thought was open to the public. It took a while before my call was answered by a very pleasant-sounding voice. I asked my question - only to be told, by pleasant-sounding person, they would have to ask somebody at the library.
On hold, I had time to think ... was this a call centre? So, I had another question and, was told, yes, it was the council's call centre.
I'm dumbfounded as to why our library staff are unable to answer outside calls.
Pauleen Wilkinson
Rotorua
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