We have the city’s general manager proposing huge expenditure on Dunn’s Rd, now a thought bubble regarding a rodeo facility; there is the Bolton Park proposal, a push for more at Equex and, of course, the urgently needed levee bank.

Our roads are not in the best state and there is a need for decent, safe footpaths.

I think our elected councillors need to sit down and set priorities and thoroughly analyse the financial situation.

This should be done by our representatives who, presumably, are in touch with their community.

When the council built the Civic Centre and upgraded the main street, the money was actually in the bank.

I question whether that is the case today.

EARLIER this week, ABC online presented my daughter Lucy's ongoing battle with Lyme disease.

It was her story about her struggle over the past 11 years.

It was a cry for help.

Many hundreds of comments were made; the majority were rude, disrespectful and ill-informed.

We were shocked beyond belief that people with absolutely no clue about this disease suggested it doesn't exist, her illness in mental, it's a scam, etc.

We are fully aware that Lyme does not exist in Australia, apparently. God knows we've been told by the medics over and over.

The thing is, we were diagnosed in America from a real lab, with real positives, not false positives.

And yet coming back to Australia, the diagnosis, once in Australian waters, just mysteriously disappeared.

I'm not interested in discussing what is and isn't Lyme and where it is and is not.

I'm here to tell you it is here in Australia.

It's in our family. For 11 long years, we have battled an illness that has taken over our lives, and sadly fought a system that does not want to know.

I have a daughter who is three weeks off her 21st birthday.

She's beautiful and she's dying.

We have no doctor, no hospital, no support outside Australia willing to help us.

I'm begging, that's right, begging someone to stop shuffling papers, stop talking, and help us. Is this not a basic human right?

JENNY Moxham (DA, Letters, “Why fishing should be banned”) please, where does this stop?

Psychological distress to fish, please! Who interviewed the fish to find this out, Dr Phil?  

AFTER seeing the huge difference to parking in Kincaid Street, I wonder why the Wagga Council has not considered the same remedy in Murray Street, particularly between Edward and Morgan streets.

The street is wide enough

And we residents could park in front of our own houses!

Furthermore, after seeing the Baylis Street two lanes being replaced by one lane each way, I believe the so-called beautiful street could also accommodate central street parking if the extremely wide centre walk-strips were placed between the pedestrian crossings.

Finally, angle parking should be moved at least one space from driveways. Farm vehicles and four-wheel drives are too difficult to see past.