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NOR’WEST NEWS Tuesday October 11 2016 11 Your Local Views Readers respond to an article on whether motorists should be charged for parking at Jellie Park Recreation and Sports Centre or be given free things if they cycle or take the bus, in a bid to reduce parking issues at the facility. Gary Knight, of Hoon Hay – While the issue of car parking fees at Jellie Park evolves as a platform of debate, reality must prevail. The innovation by the Fendalton-Waimari Community Board to offer free food, towels and discount cards for those choosing to cycle to this venue, while commendable, is rife with anomalies. It would be virtually impossible to police those who cycled also any arriving there and producing a helmet merely to capitalise on the discount offer. Cycling or utilising public transport will always be ongoing by those motivated to choose this option of travel, devoid of the necessity for discounts for this realistic decision. If 114 car parks is deemed insufficient to cater for 238,024 personnel between the summer months of December 2015 and March 2016, then the reality is to add more. However, charging a fee for them is a retrograde step and contravenes the very nature of a public amenity. The criteria of the 2015-2025 Long Term City Council Plan to operate grants as a contributory factor towards community building is surely the catalyst for required funding of this community upgrade of extended car parking within projected council budgeting. Glynis Condon, Burnside – I am 74 years of age and go to Jellie Park five days a week for aqua exercise classes and I don’t think we should have to pay for parking at the pool. There are all ages and abilities that go to the park be it for the gym or the pool and I can’t imagine that most of them would want to bike to their classes. A lot of the people who attend the classes I go to are retired and travel many kilometres to attend the classes, or do not live on a bus route that would take them to Jellie Park. Some of the people who attend classes at Jellie Park are recovering from hip or knee replacements and I don’t think their surgeons would be pleased to know that they are riding a bike after all their expertise in fixing their limbs. The income of the cafe there would suffer also as most of us have coffee after the classes and if we had to pay for parking I am sure we would be going some where else for coffee. As it is election time again I think they should be directing community awareness in a better direction. I am sure they would not like to see their parents/grandparents biking to an exercise class to keep themselves fit and out of the health system. FLAME FILES Cover a burning pot with its lid • By Mark Thomas – Fire Risk Management Officer AN INCIDENT in Spreydon last Friday had many aspects of slapstick comedy, sadly without any of the humour. A young lady had oil heating on the stove which ignited while she wasn’t in the room. Like nearly anyone else in the same situation she tried to put the fire out. In this instance she used a towel. Now I’m not sure if she moistened the cloth first because the towel also ignited. So she then threw it out the door. Burning oil ignited the wall linings. Which resulted in the range hood being destroyed. Addington’s crew extinguished the fire and the poor occupant was taken to hospital apparently in shock. What went wrong? Like in so many even more serious incidents not a lot. The first thing is to stay in the kitchen while any combustible is being heated. The second is to completely cover the burning pot, preferably with something that won’t burn, TRICKY: It’s duckling season again and firefighters are expecting to rescue more of them from drains. like a lid or oven tray. That’s really all. There’s not a huge difference between a fire that’s a nuisance and one that’s a tragedy. That’s why fire is so damned dangerous. It’s pet and animal time. Three cats, including a wild one, with not one caught up a tree, were rescued by intrepid fire crews around the city this week. And of course it’s duckling season again which meant one careless ducking pulled from a hole in Goodman St, Burwood, last Monday evening. Almost certainly won’t be the last.
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