Sailing Season Begins
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www.Walpole.org.au December 16, 2015 Free community newspaper of Walpole & Districts made possible thanks to our advertisers. Please support them. Buy local. Proudly published by the Walpole Community Resource Centre Sailing season begins Sailing begins. Photo M. Pickett Fantastic sailing weather and gusts.” Approximately 50 people of families that came from Albany sunshine marked the opening of including some new member and who have a long history of the Walpole Yacht Club sailing families attended the day and involvement with the club and the season last Sunday. enjoyed the Nornalup inlet and the regatta. The very young enjoyed Club Commodore Maree day’s activities. having a paddle on the club kayaks Pickett said “The weather was Maree said some families had and training fleet. perfect with consistent winds come from Albany for the event. 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December 16, 2015 - 3 We welcome your opinion Letters The Walpole Weekly values freedom of expression and welcomes contributions and feedback from readers via Golf ‘not that hard’ letter or email on any topic of community interest: 1) All content submitted for publication must Reader response to letter ‘Synthetic greens pose provide full name and contact details. potential health issues.’ WW December 9 , p 4. 2) If the writer wishes to remain anonymous, the words “Name withheld by request” will be used Rebekka Wake's letter in WW December 9th issue has in the byline. obviously been written without knowing anything 3) Any content published may be edited to enhance about the Walpole Country Clubs circumstances. flow, clarity, spelling, and grammar—not facts or Unfortunately Rebekka we would need water to meaning—therefore the writer should carefully have grass greens!! We would also need fertiliser to check facts and consider their choice of words. make the grass grow and chemicals to control other 4) Should content be deemed by the Editor to be too problems that arise. (all going into the Walpole Inlet - long, incomprehensible, libelous, illegal, or incite Marine Park & Walpole River) a sensitive issue, then it will not be published. Anyway Walpole golfers are used to putting on 5) In the case of content being rejected, the writer/s sand greens that emit and reflect considerable heat so will be notified of the decision by the Editor. hopefully we will be able to cope with the heat coming 6) Should the writer dispute the Editor’s decision off our lovely synthetic turf greens. they should take it up in writing with the But there could be problems with golfers slashing Management Committee of Walpole CRC. their wrists and bleeding all over the place when they 7) The Management Committee will make the final miss a putt. As for sweating on the greens ? Golf's not decision on whether or not to publish the content that hard !! in the next available edition of the Weekly. Email [email protected]. —Sue Hawkins. 4 - December 16, 2015 Study ‘not relevant to project’ Reader response to letter ‘Synthetic greens pose potential health issues.’ WW December 9 , p 4. Please find the link below to the DSR website covering health concerns for natural v synthetic grasses which was quoted in the letter by Rebekka Wake in the latest edition of the weekly. www.dsr.wa.gov.au/sport-and- advice/facility-management/developing-facilities/natural-grass- vs-synthetic-turf-study-report/health-impact You will see that there is no reference to golf anywhere in it. Therefore we feel that it was a very long bow to draw and not relevant to our project. At no time has she, or anyone from Turf Australia contacted the club to establish what product we are installing. To assume that it is the same as that which was tested in 2002 on an American hockey field makes it damaging in it's ignorance. There is very little sweat and even less blood spilt in a game of golf! As editor of the local newspaper, we think you have a responsibility to avert the possible damage that can be done by publishing such letters without checking the relevance of them first. The club has nothing to hide or gain by silencing such letters but perhaps a phone call to a club representative may prevent an ongoing debate on the pages of the weekly in the future. If anyone would like to know more details on the project, they can contact the club or myself directly.