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Hi Keith

find a letter for the next edition of the Community News and no editing please

If your one of those who have lived on the Mountain District for more than a few years, chances are you would have remembered Rev John Price whom along with running a Commercial Citrus Nursery at Somersby gave Anglican services at St Barnabas Church Yarramalong , The Union Church at Mangrove Mountain and the St Albans Anglican Church throughout  the 70s 80s and 90s. John (now deceased) was a big fellow who enjoyed a beer and a chat but didn’t entertain fools for long and I am sure he would have had a few choice words of advice for the 4 or is it now 3 Uniting Church committee members that have taken over the Mangrove Mountain Union Church and want to sell it.

The point here is the Union Church which was built back in 1912 was never intended to be owned or sold by any mainstream religious denomination, it was to be used as a place for all half decent people who lived in the district to gather for religious worshipping or to celebrate a wedding or funeral or christening or remembering those who have passed, in fact after the end of the First World War from 1919 it is believed the Mangrove Mountain Union Church was the site of districts Anzac Day services and this continued until 1956 when the original Mangrove RSL Club cenotaph was built in Nurses road Central Mangrove.

So don’t think this is just another Christian Entity selling one of their own Churches , help stop them selling the Mountain District’s own Union Church.

Mark Townsend