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IN THIS ISSUE
Case closed at Cooroy Library THE Cooroy Library is a great local resource and over the school holidays there’s been plenty of activities on offer to keep the kids entertained. When a staged crime was committed on the premises participants were required to use all their detective skills, including matching fingerprint data, to piece together and solve the case.
Amateur sleuths Korraku, Biarra, Lottie and Alexandra
Volunteers dishearted by graffiti assaults “PLEASE don’t trash our town.” That’s the message Cooroy resident Tex Pipke wants to communicate to people with spraycans spreading graffiti in our town. His plea comes after both the Scout Hall and Lower Mill site buildings were extensively vandalised by graffiti over the holidays. Although the police have dealt with the juveniles involved in these particular graffiti offences, the cost of removing this ‘artwork’ places a huge burden on our community, and it is not just a financial cost. Mr Pipke, who is the current president of the Lower Mill Board, says that the disheartenment felt by our town’s hardworking volunteers when they see their efforts decimated by these ‘Taggers’ is palpable. “For the past eight years a band of dedicated volunteers have negotiated with government to save the heritage value of the buildings that remain from
January 22, 2014
a 100 year old sawmill. To achieve this many years and many hours of unpaid work has been required. This work has been and continues to be done by community minded persons who seem always to find time from their busy lives to apply the glue that holds us all together, our past,” said Mr Pipke. “It has taken the combined efforts of this merry band of people (women and men) to have these buildings refurbished and the businesses of the town have played a large part is doing so. We also owe a vote of thanks to the help and support Cooroy has received from council (Noosa, SCRC and now Noosa again) to achieve this result. So along come these Neanderthal’s who think they have the right to deface these results. How do you think we might feel about this,” said Mr Pipke. Continued on Page 3
Wellington protests anti biker laws Page 7
Local Real Estate Page 24
Cooroy goes international Page 27
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