A progress group in Molong wants to paint murals on the town's wheat silos to promote tourism.
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Wouldn't it be far better to open up the 58-kilometre section of closed railway line between Molong and Yeoval for a rail trail so people could walk, ride a bike or hop on a horse for weekend excursions?
After more than 15 years of perseverance by Snowy Valleys Council and supporters, construction has finally started on the first rail trail in NSW on a former railway line corridor between Tumbarumba and Rosewood.
The rail group received funding of a whopping $4.9 million for the 22-kilometre walking and cycling trail project under the NSW government's restart NSW regional tourism infrastructure fund, and an additional $800,000 from the government's stronger communities grants.
What better way to spend a weekend? It's worth another try.
There were moves here a few years ago by a group of interested people to open up the Molong-Yeoval line, but the plan got axed by Cabonne Shire Council that gave in to landholder complaints.
The then transport minister Gladys Berejiklian said there had to be unanimous community support before it could go ahead. So now with rumblings at Molong to paint murals on its wheat silos, is it time for groups there to revisit the rail trail instead, particularly because the Tumbarumba group has received nearly $5 million in government money.
Just think - we could strap on the backpack, fill the water bottle and walk from Molong to Cumnock and Yeoval for a coffee or a cold beer and a hamburger.
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We could chat with farmers along the way before walking back, kicking a ball, counting rail sleepers or flying paper aeroplanes with the kids knowing we've done our part in helping turn the closed railway line into a sustainable tourist attraction for Molong, Cumnock and Yeoval
And there's lots of scenery to look at - old railway bridges built in the 1920s, rusty cars dumped in paddocks, cows and sheep and ramshackle farm sheds.
What better way to spend a weekend? It's worth another try.
'ARE WE BEING FOOLED BY SO-CALLED CLIMATE CHANGE?'
SURE to send into a frenzy the activists who strictly follow the climate change agenda, explorer Sir Thomas (Major) Mitchell after setting out from Cudal on his fourth expedition recorded temperatures of 47.2 degrees Celsius and 53.8 degrees Celsius exposed to wind near the present town of Parkes on December 22, 1845.
Two bullock drivers were scarcely able to walk and six others 'frantic' and unable to work because of the heat and thirst.
The shepherd, he said, had almost lost his senses. At Nyngan he found the Bogan dry as a bone and the heat was so intense his three kangaroo dogs died.
That was 174 years ago and there was no man-made pollution, or mining, or coal-fired power stations, or cars or trucks or any of the things supposedly adding to greenhouse gases, so are we being fooled about so-called climate change?
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THE old saying by French historian Alexis de Tocqueville that 'people get the government they deserve' - generally pretty awful - is usually right on the money.
That's because if people were more careful who they voted for, and took the trouble to find out who they were voting for and what they stood for, we wouldn't end up with so many mediocre people in parliament.
So vote carefully on Saturday but remember, 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it ...'
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