for young Josh

FOR several weeks I have been fund­raising for young cancer patient Josh Herrick and I would like to say a big thank you to the community for all their support.

I would also like to thank the City Heart management and traders, Hungry Jack’s management and staff, McDonald’s management and staff, Foodwork’s Red Cliffs management and staff for allowing me to collect at their businesses and to Member for Mildura Peter Crisp and his office staff for allowing me to use their office as a base when collecting.

I have the following upcoming events before the appeal closes on November 20.

I will be having my hair dyed pink at Lombard’s on Friday, November 13, at 9.30am and then at the Red Cliffs Foodwork’s 10th birthday on November 20, I will be having my head shaved.

Then the appeal will culminate with a church service at the Red Cliffs Salvation Army on November 22, 10.30am, followed by lunch.

Once again I would like to thank everyone for their support.

John Burfitt,

Red Cliffs

Casino is a

capital idea

AREN’T we being a bit precious about having a casino in Mildura?

After all, it is 2009, and we live in a state which gives a public holiday for a horse race – even to schoolchildren.

A six-year-old told me he had a horse in a sweep at school – I wondered which subject was being taught.

Was it sport?

Or perhaps maths? (If there are 23 horses in a race, how many will lose?)

There are already countless opportunities in our city to gamble, it is up to the individual to choose.

An entertainment centre/casino will help make Mildura the capital of north-west Victoria in its own right and not just part of the government-designated Loddon-Mallee region, and help put us on the international map.

Cecily Cross,

Mildura

For more of this story, purchase your copy of Thursday’s Sunraysia Daily 6/11/2009.