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Gino and Jenny have attended the Salami Festival for many years and their group just keeps growing.
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They have already reserved 32 tickets for next year's festa, with some of their friends joining them from Sydney.
The Griffith Salami Festival committee would like to thank Nathan and all or our generous sponsors for their continued support of the Festa.
Nigel Ippoliti, Griffith
CITY'S INFRASTRUCTURE IS LAGGING
Right now all country towns including Griffith are experiencing a boom in migration. Under recently introduced federal visa processes, migrant workers looking to establish in regional Australia for at least two years are given priority in their citizenship application.
The recent changes to the immigration policy provide a unique opportunity for Griffith to grow and strive.
But while Griffith is a desirable location for immigration due to the multicultural background of residents, low unemployment, proximity to the eastern seaboard and business investment opportunities in agriculture, our community seems to be lagging in its ability to catering for these migrants.
I can't see the policies in place to meet the demands for increased housing, (public or private), nor do I see any foreseeable changes to public infrastructure for a growing population.
It is time our community leaders, local, state and federal recognise changes to the immigration policy will increasingly impact our city.
We need them to start putting in place the policies and infrastructure to allow our region capitalise on this opportunity.
Greg Adamson, Griffith
OUR COMMUNITY IS BEING 'SOLD A PUP'
The people of Griffith are being sold a pup. Not any old pup, a very smelly, mangy, undisciplined, unwanted mongrel.
I have been a fee-paying member of the NSW Teachers' Federation since 1960. (Yep! 59 years).
And yet when I attended the local Association meeting several months ago and asked for a copy of a "survey" that the regional organiser had put together, I was told I couldn't have a copy. Really?
I pointed out that I was a paying member of the Federation, a regular attendee at local Association meetings, had attended Griffith HS, and taught there as a full time and part time teacher for a total of about seven years.
The regional Teachers' Federation organiser refused to show me a copy of the "survey" (done by teachers at the two public high school sites in Griffith) and refused to show me a copy of the "results".
The reason offered? It was only for the NSWTF members at the two schools.
Maybe that was because the "survey" and the "results" are a joke. Our local MP, Helen Dalton was provided with a copy and was kind enough to send it to me. The survey and results refer only to a "collegiate" model for the Griffith and Wade school sites. The survey did not offer any choice apart from the collegiate model.
The NSWTF organiser's survey didn't offer the high school teachers the option of voting for a de-merge, or Adrian Piccoli's original option one (the big school option), or even the current set-up.
To their credit, the NSWTF members at the high school sites have passed a motion at a school meeting which says they believe "the one High School on two sites model is inferior to every other model including the college model of secondary education.
We, the teachers of Murrumbidgee Regional High School call for an independent review of the merge that is open to the public."
Our two public high schools need to be de-merged and provided with the full funding promised over the last four years.
I hope you're listening, Premier, because the way things are going the Nationals will never win Murrumbidgee again.
Kevin Farrell, Beelbangera
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