Residents could have made events viable

In reply to the article in Peninsula News edition 441 "Waterfront group fights on against development", and many other letters printed by your paper over the past few months, as a director of Sporties Woy Woy Bowling Club and an active bowler, I am amazed that no one from your paper has bothered to contact any of the directors or presidents of the Men's and Women's Bowing Clubs to find out the other side of the story.

I would have thought that responsible journalism would require you to investigate fully the facts and not just print one person's opinion.

Your article claims that more than 120 local residents made submissions against the proposed development, and that they wish to uphold the zoning of open recreational space.

I ask, where are these residents when it comes to supporting the club to make sure it is a viable business?

In the past, we have put on functions for New Year's Eve, State of Origin on the big screen, the Melbourne Cup and so on, with only the regular few (about 12) attending.

If 120 of the local residents had attended these and other events, what a marvellous impact this would have had on our business.

We would have been over the moon.

I question the sincerity of these people wanting to keep the bowing club as such when they don't support it.

Or is this a case of no matter what the development was, we would object unless it is something which will benefit us directly? Email, 27 Mar 2018 Gaye Scarfe, Woy Woy Editor's note:

EDITOR'S COMMENT: Peninsula News has made contact with the Club's directors and representatives of both the men's and women's bowls clubs at Sporties over the past months. Some directors were not willing to be interviewed and others did not wish to speak on the record.