EDITOR – In response to the letter headlined ‘Lifesaving Club now a nightclub‘ in your Sun edition dated 4 November, I have lived 50 metres from Winkle Lifesaving Club since 1994 and have full view of the whole beach car park, the lifesaving club and the road right up until the turning to the other car park.
The noise, drunkenness and fighting is not from the club, it’s people who come down to the beach car park, get drunk, blast music out of their cars and fight, screech tires and so on at all hours of the night and not just on weekends. The letter writer is running the club down when it is the general public, mostly youngsters of all races who make the public disturbance. Yes, there are parties at the club, but they aren’t as bad as this person makes out.
On top of this, certain residents in the Winklespruit Beach area have houseparties every second weekend, making a noise louder than the club ever makes. For the most part, Winkle Beach area is like a ghost town at night, aside from the odd homeless drunk conversing with himself and the impending Christmas and New Year madness, but the noise this letter refers to comes from house parties and public drunkenness in the car park, not the club.
WILLIAM MURRAY
