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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley Happy Birthday – We are Now Going Into Our 6 th Year of Publication. Thank You. New AsiAN RestAuRANt RestAuRANt 73 Victoria Street Dargaville. Phone (09) 439 8388 Dine in - Takeaways - Open 7 Days - Licenced The first edition of this newsletter (originally called Dargaville Online) was published on the 29 th February 2008 (a leap year). You can read it and all other editions by clicking here. In that time we have exposed, insulted, upset, informed, and questioned people and events in our community here in the Kaipara – and beyond as well. In turn we have been challenged, threatened, insulted, thanked, and widely read by more than 3500 people each week across the globe. It is reported by insiders that the last Mayor of the District was well know for mumbling about the editorials and exposes that we have published on his councils performance. We are not flavour of the year with other local weekly newspapers as we can get out “special editions” as required when major events occur. That is the advantage of Internet publications over print media. We also publish advance notice of events that are going to happen in and around the District totally free of charge. Please let us know about your events well in advance so we can help you promote them. If you have any thoughts, suggestions, criticisms, or just want to sound off – then send a letter to the editor. We publish all letters received, usually without any editing, as long as they do not contain illegal content or images. A big thank you to all who read this newsletter and contribute thoughts, ideas, cartoons and jokes every week. While you may not always get an acknowledgement we do our best to entertain. John MacDonald Editor Some Interesting Feedback The comments in last weeks newsletter about the performance of the Kaipara District Council Commissioners certainly provoked a reaction. Thank you Clive Boonham for the suggestion in your blog Kaipara Concerns dated 24 Feb 2013 (A View From The West) that this newsletter is a barometer of thinking on the West Coast. Not sure if the comment is accurate but it is nice to get noticed and acknowledged. Like your blog, this newsletter is the work of mostly one individual who expresses his opinions for others to think about. Living in Dargaville can be a very challenging experience for anyone who is a “investigative thinker”. Full of mostly
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. -- Lyndon B. Johnson ageing, totally apathetic, change resistant residents, whose only aim in life seems to be to generate another reason to in-fight within the Community Group(s) that they belong to, and slang off anyone who dares to challenge the status quo, the rest of the world outside of the town boundaries may as well not exist. So the rates here went up a “little bit” from last year in a questionably legal manner. So what? The Dargaville swimming pool is a white elephant built solely as a Neil Tiller/Jack McKercher memorial. So what? The major public groups and businesses who are supposed to be promoting Dargaville as a visitor destination are really busy running tiny, loss making village fairs. So what? Dargaville is loosing businesses at an alarming rate. So what? Long serving community organisations are closing for lack of support. So what? There are almost no jobs available for the young people in Dargaville. So what? Dargaville as a town is drab and unkempt. So what? The Kaipara District Council has a long history of incompetence and corruption in it’s dealings with Dargavillians. So what? Kaipara Rates are forecast to go up 200% if the 2013 -3014 LTP is adopted. So what? Who cares? There are a few of us who do care but are left outside for trying to alter what was done here 25 years ago. New residents? Humbug! Oh Dargaville, Oh Dargaville - when will you awaken again? So it was the most unusual “mutterings of discontent” about the conduct of the Commissioners rumbling around town that promoted last week’s editorial. In spite of all the touch feely bureaucratic speak that is coming out of the mouths of the Commissioners about how well they are doing, it is the lack of any real “action” that has finally aroused the “complacent populace” in Dargaville. People across the District are finally starting to demand answers to questions, correction of past wrongs (not legalising the illegal by a sleigh of hand through parliamentary bills), the calling to account of wrong doers, and tangible evidence that the money being spent from ratepayer money on the Commissioners contracts is being well spent. The population of the District is more than 19,000 according to the most current statistics.
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