A year of planning and the last six months of concentrated work has resulted in a colourful display of knitting and crochet attached to trees and street furniture which has brightened up the town, encouraged conversations and put smiles on the faces of tourists and locals alike.

Children have been taught to knit, people who used to knit have taken up the craft again and there has been the opportunity for everyone to contribute something, whether working on a combined project with members of a club or group or in the privacy of their own homes.

From two-year-olds to great grandparents, the local population has come together with a common purpose and all have benefited from the process. When the street art is taken down on September 2, the colour and novelty will be gone but the community spirit will survive and we can look forward to a bigger and better event in 2020.

So many more groups and individuals have supported the Merimbula Festival with the special events at the museum. The last two Saturdays have been well attended and the Scarecrow Parade next Saturday, with treasure hunts in the museum and grounds and activities by Scouts and Guides will provide the grand finale.

Thank you so much everyone.

Congratulations to the proud member of our community who removed the yarn bombing from one of the bollards at the corner of Market and Beach Street on Saturday night. What kind of sick person would want to vandalise something that is giving so much pleasure to the rest of us.

Great news and a fantastic effort by all those who worked so hard to keep Pambula Hospital, but can all the 'Save Pambula Hospital' signs please now be taken down.

They have served their purpose and now just project a negative message to all visitors to our area.

I am writing to say we need more houses to rent in Pambula. I have six kids and three have a disability and I have been told I have until the 9th of September to be out and there is nowhere in Pambula to rent.

We have to stay in Pambula because my son has autism, he is in the special unit so can't change school because he can't handle change.

I don't know what to do as owners want to move back into the house and won't give extra time.

Your editorial "Hyper hypocrisy of 'plastic-free' shopping" exposed the duplicity of the major supermarkets.

Plastic-wrapped collectable toys are just the tip of the plastic iceberg. The majority of our purchases are wrapped in at least one single-use plastic bag, if not many.

A kilo of pears comes in a single-use plastic tray, inside a single-use plastic bag. Single-use plastic bags are available for your tomatoes, zucchinis, potatoes etc.

This becomes more ridiculous when you purchase banana bread. Each slice is inside a single-use plastic bag. The slices are sitting in a single-use cardboard tray and the whole lot is wrapped in another plastic bag. You take home five slices of bread, six plastic bags and a cardboard tray.

It is nice to know the supermarkets had the environment uppermost in their thinking when they decided to charge customers for take-home plastic carry bags.