[AusRace] Gawler

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Is the removal of the grass to be a permanent feature?



On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:03 AM, L.B.Loveday <lloveday at ozemail.com.au>wrote:

> Gawler is calling a Special General Meeting to deal with, inter alia, the
> sale of "surplus Club land" and indemnifying the Committee "in relation to
> transactions of this kind". The "surplus" is the pointy end. Maybe I'll
> attend and suggest they donate it to Gawler High School instead.
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> The grass track is to go shortly (weeks a trainer told me), which begs the
> question why it was being watered this by large rotating sprinklers at
> 3:30pm in 39C heat. No matter whether ground or mains water.
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> Of course the loonies were too busy sipping chardonnay in air-conditioned
> comfort to bother about it, so once again worthwhile protesting is left to
> me.
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> LBL
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausrace-bounces at ausrace.com [mailto:ausrace-bounces at ausrace.com]On
> Behalf Of L.B.Loveday
> Sent: Monday, 23 February 2009 8:16 AM
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> Subject: [AusRace] Gawler
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> I was at the Gawler track this morning jawing as country folk do. The
> horses
> are going to have to do their grass work at Lindsay Park or Balaklava
> starting, as there will be only a short sand track available at Gawler very
> shortly.
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> The trainers wanted to use Cheltenham, but the Morphettville-based trainers
> are using that. All the blocks of land in the subdivision I mentioned when
> the re-development was announced have been sold, so there seems to be
> confidence in its success.
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> One trainer told me of his concerns about the loopies stopping the
> development as there are three trees that need to be removed to erect the
> multi-function centre, and a common MO of the loopies is to wait to the
> last
> minute then launch their negative strike. The biggest of the trees is old,
> scraggly, drops branches and, the trainer said, is clearly dying, but that
> has never stopped the loopies - he asked whether if a branch fell and
> killed
> someone would the loopies say a tree was more important than a person.
>
> Pre-empt and poison them now I suggested.
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> When I got home, it was after 7am and the street lights were still all on,
> despite it having been daylight since at latest 6:30.
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> But where are the loopies railing against thousands of lights consuming
> tonnes of non-reusable fuel for no purpose? No joy for them in that.
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> Guess who saw the local MP (previous Gawler Mayor) last week and complained
> to him about the waste (no use talking to the loopies on the Council)? Not
> a
> loopie, but me; go figure.
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> LBL
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