Friday night action in Illawarra premier League Football saw Cringila Lions defeat Warilla Wanderers 1-0 in a match that was much closer than had been expected.

Regrettably, it seemed only a matter of time before that new dawn promised when Administrators took over Wollongong Council would pale in the face of community despair that the most important decisions are not made at the ballot box, but behind the doors of smoke-free rooms.

Mr PROSSER has once again got his knickers in a knot; this time it’s over a fish-cleaning table at Reddall Reserve.

Good to see that serial pest and consummate purveyor of doom and gloom, Bob Parsons, is still pushing his barrow, without announcing his disappointment over being unable to stand, yet again, for Council.(Lake Times, July 31). Bob, give up, mate, and accept that there will not and should not be an election until 2012. Our fate is in the capable hands of the Administrator, Mr Jesson.

WARILLA kayaking star David Smith has arrived in Beijing for the Olympic Games and is strongly focused on coming home with a gold medal.

With its half-year results reporting a 79 per cent fall in profits, the Shell Cove joint venturer Australand Property Group has taken urgent remedial action with a hard-nosed revision downwards in the value of its real estate assets of $35 million, after tax, that reduced operating profits to just $25.5 million.