Dereel

If you like a good market day you're in for a treat this weekend. Both Dereel and Rokewood are holding market days, Dereel on Sunday the 13th followed by Rokewood on Monday the 14th. Dereel's market day will be held in the Dereel community hall and Rokewood's will be held in the Rokewood RSL hall. A sausage sizzle with hamburgers and hot and cold drinks will be available. For further information or booking details please call (03)53461525 or (03)52388224.

The 2nd annual Warrambeen Film Festival will be held soon on March the 5th in Warrambeen. There will be ?Australian short films, international short films, music, gourmet food, local wines, hand crafted beer, camel rides, jumping castles, face painting, petting zoo - and MORE! Check out their website for all the details and be sure and support this great local event. I might even see you there!

DATA have posted a letter of rebuttal to my letter to the editor of The Miner, they have posted it outside the Dereel town hall.It appears now that DATA are resorting to legal threats to silence free speech. Well I wait patiently to receive their writ's and will fight them to the fullest extent of the law. Of course it's all just hot air and an attempt to get me to back down because DATA know they're losing.

This time DATA quote an "expert" who (and this is their own words) "is a Victorian distributor for german company YSheild". YSheild is a company that sells expensive paint to protect your from radio waves. He can tell you of "thousands of sick people" he has helped. Well of course he can, he sells them the cure to the illness he also tells them they have. Well that doesn't make him independent or trustworthy does it, he has a vested interest to further the myth about radio waves because he directly makes money from it.

They also refer to John Patterson who just happens to work for EMR Australia, who just happen to make money from consulting about reducing exposure to... you guessed it: radio waves. Another "expert" who makes a living from spreading the myth that radio waves are dangerous. Why can't DATA find a single independent reputable doctor or engineer to back up their case? Because it's a tissue of lies.

If I knocked on your door and told you that deadly space radiation was slowly killing you but don't worry because I have a tonic that will protect you for the small price of $100, would you believe me and buy it? Well that's exactly what YSheild are doing.

They also make the claim that the tower in Smythesdale is 16kms from Dereel. Anyone with a map can see that's not true (it's 20kms at the minimum) but look to the north west next time you're outside, yes there are hills in the way. Again DATA are telling easily disprovable porky pies. They claim that reception from the tower works in the northern parts of Dereel, well I live at the very northern tip of Dereel and I don't get mobile phone reception. So yet again, another easily proven lie.

And lastly they quote from a disgraced doctor who is claimed was forced to leave the WHO because he was accepting bribes (although I can find no evidence to prove this, only hearsay). Well he sounds like a really trustworthy fellow.

DATA are a joke.

Here is the latest attempt by DATA to stop Dereel getting a mobile phone tower. Here again we see them not understanding the issue and trying to trick you.



Firstly the Rokewood tower will not improve mobile phone service in Dereel. I know this because I have called our area managers at Optus and at Telstra and talked to them. Both managers have admitted that Dereel needs its own tower. Mobile phone towers cost a lot of money to install and these employees would lose their jobs if they just installed towers where they weren't needed. Think logically, would Optus and Telstra want to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a tower that wasn't necessary? They are private companies, not government funded - so no, they would not.

DATA again show their ignorance. Mobile phone towers do not provide "WiFi" signals. Their ignorance of the issues they claim to know so much about really is going beyond a joke. In other literature they claim that mobile phones can make calls via satellites. They've also made the claim that multimeters can be used to read your resistance to radiation.

Lastly DATA seem to think that the NBN and mobile phone service are the same thing. I don't want a mobile phone tower for broadband, that is just a bonus. I want a mobile phone tower so I can use my mobile phone. It's not rocket science. In any case Dereel will not be getting fibre optic cables - this has already been covered many many times and if DATA would do just basic researched they'd know this too.

The 3rd annual Dereel community christmas lunch will be held on Saturday the 18th of December at the community centre. There will be lots of family entertainment including a giant inflatable slide. Food will be available but you should BYO drinks. Entry is by gold coin donation. Everyone is welcome.