500 Letters!

The total number of letters collected and being sent to council has reached 500!
Keep up the good work!

What can YOU do?

Rye's Up Against the Fast Food Giants!

Well, things are progressing along well with the campaign to stop the fast food giants appearing as our neighbours. We have already received over 350 letters of objections (!!) from an incredibly wide range of the community. Everyone from young children, families and retirees are passionate about this issue.The council is and will probably continue to respond to these letters. They state in their response that no planning application for a fast food restaurant has been received at council. We are aware of this fact and urge everyone to continue writing your letters. The goal is to have our objection heard (with an overwhelming roar) even before any plans are submitted. Ideally this matter will be finalised before the council does receive any plans. So keep writing. A letter a week would be fabulous!!

You will find template letters in the side bar on the left. Continue to spread the word, our campaign is only beginning and EVERYONE in our town (those who live here and those that visit) deserve to have their opinions heard. Watch out for many more things to come.

A campaign name will be decided by the end of the week, there will be another town meeting and many more events in the near future. Remember, we will be placing call outs for assistance right here on the blog and adding information regularly, so add it to your Google Reader!

Finally, keep up the letters to the newspapers - all of them. It is the best way to ensure that we continue to get our story out there, we don't have the advertising budget of McDonalds or Hungry Jacks (in fact we don't have an advertising budget at all) but we do have a town full of passionate people who can express our love for Rye in so many ways. Keep it up!

Thank you to everyone for getting involved, and thank you for your patience as we get things up and running.

Katrina Humphrey and Committee

Letter Writing Campaign

We need to make sure that the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council receives as many letters of objection on this issue as possible. This aspect of the campaign is crucial. You will find various templates or letter suggestions in the sidebar on the left.
You can either send three copies (addresses below) or drop them into our Information Centres and we'll do the rest.

Everybody concerned needs to write to:

Mr Ray Webb
The Manager
Planning Department
Mornington Peninsula Shire
Locked Bag 1000
Rosebud 3939

CC - McDonalds Australia
Corporate Communications Dept
21–29 Central Avenue,
Thornleigh NSW 2120

CC - Hungry Jacks
State Head Office
1183 Toorak Road,
Camberwell VIC 3124

CC - Katrina Humphrey (via email) – dixonkatrina@hotmail.com

By keeping our Committee informed we can work to ensure that every letter is heard.