Thanks Valerie Stahl for writing in \u201cApollo Bay News\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
about the 10 year program to maintain\/upgrade<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the Barham River Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was challenging raising our three kids on that \u201ctreacherous\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
end of the road. We loved the bush, but my kids were bullied<\/p>\n\n\n\n
on their first school day. In the 1940\u2019s my father-in-law George<\/p>\n\n\n\n
drove his kids 10 kms to school, waiting in town for the last bell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minister for Education said teach them to drive themselves<\/p>\n\n\n\n
with a horse and jinka. George refused. Hence the school bus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That innocent little creek rises up to 3 metres in flood<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and doesn\u2019t hesitate to wash out crappy shire bridges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just short of the 360 degree turn back to town it was<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a federal government that built our decent public bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I guess we wouldn\u2019t have had a road at all if it weren\u2019t for<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the interests in the disastrous Otways logging industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Can\u2019t help laughing how the pirates of Colac can\u2019t<\/p>\n\n\n\n
read the calendar. Fancy advertising \u201cCaruso to Carreras\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
to be held in COPACC the evening before Apollo Bay News<\/p>\n\n\n\n
hits the streets. We must have paid enough rates to<\/p>\n\n\n\n
subsidise an opera house, but we don\u2019t even have a PACC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But we can pack the senior citizens\u2019 hall to the rafters, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
council meetings often providing the best laughs of all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I guess holiday house owners usually don\u2019t bother to vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that\u2019s actually excruciating, not funny at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thanks Valerie Stahl for writing in \u201cApollo Bay News\u201d about the 10 year program to maintain\/upgrade the Barham River Road. It was challenging raising our three kids on that \u201ctreacherous\u201d end of the road. We loved the bush, but my … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}