I also enjoyed Lynne West’s letter about gratitude and agree with Gerry Gleeson, from last week’s letters, that a dedicated space for gratitude in The Echo would be a wonderful inclusion. The Echo is a community newspaper and reports the news and we all know that bad news gets top priority. However, it would serve our community well to be able to read more good stories. A little bit of regular happiness to uplift us from the doldrums.
You could ask for readers’ contributions and someone could simply choose one each week. It could even be a volunteer so The Echo would not have to pay someone to do it. The Nimbin Good Times runs its fabulous newspaper completely by volunteers.
Please, for goodness sakes, give us a dedicated ‘Good News and Gratitude’ section.
Happy New Year
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. 
