Vandals Frustrate Business Owners

LAST night one of the established trees in the median strip of Kelly Street was destroyed to the frustration of local business owners who have been lobbying to revitalise the main street.

UPDATE: Kristie McTavish has said her husband witnessed the tree broken by a wide load at approximately 6:30am on Friday morning, however the matter has not been reported to police. If you do have information on who is responsible for the damage, please report it to police so that the the person responsible pays for the damage they have caused.

Vandals killed a tree to the frustration of local business owners.

Colin Selwood, owner of the Cottage said it is just demoralising when people in the community were making efforts to improve the street and attract more tourists.

“The community are saying we need to beaut I town and as a business owner it is important and then we have people doing this kind of thing,” said Mr Selwood.

“It was obviously not a wide load, based on where it was damaged and a wide load would have taken out more,” he said.

“They were about to go into blossom and now there will just be a big gap there…what a bunch of…” he said.

“Our whole community needs to come together in the drought, it is affecting the farmers and it is affecting local businesses as well, it is hard and this kind of thing is just the last type of thing we need,” Colin Selwood said.