Di McKee, Brunswick Heads
A lot of people knew and loved the free shop in the Brunz Housie shed. It was shut down because of complaints to Reflections North Coast Holiday Parks. Two days after the staff packed up and took away the free shop, I started it up again.
People loved it and some really needed the warm blankets and warm clothes they received.
Unfortunately since I re-started the community collective there has been relentless sabotage – clothes cut up, ripped up, burned, dirt thrown over everything, smashed up odds and ends, all the signs destroyed.
I’m responsible for community safety. Unfortunately, I’ve found a dangerous piece of aluminium fencing put in among the baby clothes, it was curled up with three sharp points standing up. What kind of person goes that far?
I have now shut down the community collective because of risk to the community. My daughter came to help me pack up, and we found another piece of aluminium that had been put there since I tidied up the afternoon before.
Thank you to all who supported this community collective. Since Denis has gone from the Housie shed, so have his hygienic practices. The Housie shed is now looking like it used to, a grotty mess.
As Reflections North Coast Holiday Parks are responsible for cleaning of the Housie shed I rang Jennifer Scott to ask if they would do something about the state of it. There is a lot of blood on the floor at the toilet end of the shed – a serious biohazard. Six times I got the answering machine but I’ve had no answer to my calls.
They are happy to reap the revenue from our park and give very little in return.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
