We asked for the community's opinion

Are you concerned about the health of the Collie River?

YOU SAID: (some responses have been edited for readability)

Brian Kippin: I'm no expert but the Collie River, or “Collie Canal”, needs to be returned to be more “river-like”, with rocks, more natural features that create eddies and changes of flow, to increase oxygenation and restore the composition of the water. I'm too young to know what a flood is like, and what prompted those to carve out the canal all those years ago, but I believe there must surely be a compromise solution between flood mitigation and a more natural river.

Janine Baker: The river in certain places along the Parkrun course smells terrible - definitely not a sign of a healthy river. You used to be able to kayak from Minningup through to past the high school, but the amount of weed in the river near the Preston Road bridge prevents that.

REPLACEMENT MEDALS: Collie’s only surviving World War II veteran, Ted McCormick, will be presented with duplicates of WWI and WWII medals tomorrow, after medals belonging to him and his father were stolen four months ago. INSET: A 1914-1915 Star, one of the medals stolen.