Who should empty the bins?
When out walking my dogs tonight, I saw this dog waste bin on the side of Dump Road which was in very bad need of emptying. The floor around the bin was also covered in bags of waste.
All of us dog owners are told to clear up after our animals and use the bins provided but shouldnt they at least be emptied so they can be used correctly?
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Virtual Swanage Shop
Due to the online shop on this website having poor sales and the very expensive online payment charges, we have removed the online prints shop from the site.
You can order prints of the area on the local photographers website at http://www.andrewdorey.co.uk/
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And here's the full text of the next one which got edited .........
Dear Sir,
I am disappointed that A C King (Advertiser May 7th) highlights the fact that two of the three letters on the subject of tourist-related businesses came from outside the Town’s boundaries.
Whilst accepting that I am not directly affected by the volume of visitors, this surely does not preclude my protestations on behalf of all Swanage’s seasonal businesses, not just one in particular. Take the time, Mr. King, to think exactly how many people are directly and indirectly employed by the tourist businesses; not just the waitresses and shop assistants, but the decorators, plumbers and carpenters who work on the shops and the homes of the business owners, the garages who service their cars, and so on. Swanage’s economy is inter-related and inextricably linked with the tourist trade.
Very few of the issues which I take up actually concern ME. It would be very easy to ‘shut up shop’ and retire to my house in Harmans Cross with my deckchair and my cats. But one has to take a broader picture, stand up for, and try in some way to work for the community in which I have lived for over 60 years.
If you, Mr.King, have lived here for your whole life and detest tourists, why don’t you move away ? And conversely, if you knowingly moved into a Tourist Town then you have no justification for complaining about the tourists.
And finally; “You Don’t Hear OAP’s complain”. Sorry, Mr.Editor, you got that wrong ! The media is full of OAP’s complaining about the meagre interest on their savings; they’re lucky indeed to have savings. The point of savings is to provided for a ‘rainy day’ and economically-speaking, it’s pouring. I’d rather earn 0.5% on my ISA’s if it means that the low rates can give much-needed relief to those not as fortunate as myself, stuck with huge mortgages to pay.
Life shouldn’t be all about “how it affect ME”. No man is an island.
Live Music In Swanage
A new poster is appearing in the shop windows of Swanage, dedicated to local Live Music. It shows who's playing where and when during May.
This first, trial issue is available from the Tourist Information Centre; participating venues and advertisers; and can be downloaded from http://www.swanagelife.com
If you wish to see your Live Music event listed in the June issue, or you wish to advertise, please contact me. Thank you.
Steve Darrington
EMAIL
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PHONE
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Post as anonymous user
In order to try to get more people posting on here we have added a "Post as anonymous user" link above the comments box.
If you click this link it will put your name as Anonymous and put a fake email address in the email box. This will let you comment on stories and posts without revaling your real name.
Visitors could do this before but noone seems to have figured out how to put a fake name and email address.
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and the rest of the letter which this week's Advertiser did NOT publish......
"No, A C King, if you want to complain about the rate increase, don’t take it out on the tourist businesses without which this town would be dead in the water.
Instead, look at a Council which can generate money from the Beach Concessions, from all the car parks, from what should be a successful Caravan Park and leisure centre, and ask yourself whether perhaps the increased precept is an indication of their total failure to milk these ‘cash cows’.
I question whether any elected body – on which business people are sadly in the minority – has the skill, or even the right, to control these public assets."
Even though the Advertiser wouldn't let me ask this question ..... it still needs to be asked. Along with all the others which I asked in the Gazette this month - to which I've still had no answers. Someone should explain to the Town Council that it is an accountable and elected public body and as such can be asked questions concerning its policies, practices and behaviour. Whether by a tuppeny-halfpenny journalist lilke me, or by the District Auditor. It's their choice.
And as for A C King's reply in this week's Advertiser ....... dont you just hate it when people move to a seaside town to retire and then complain about the tourists ?
