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Does anyone out there think this is a good idea?
• PETER Cuming’s interesting letter (There is sufficient space in our parks for centuries of burials, January 3) about funding the maintenance and management of parks and gardens by using them as burial grounds, highlights the value of good ideas.
They need an airing to cheer us all up and to give the politicians and civil servants pause for thought.
The New Journal should create a new part of the Letters pages for good ideas.
That’s one “good idea”.
A second one is this:
When I go to the library, it occurs to me that the library service gets a pretty good idea of what interests me from my book choices.
It wouldn’t be that difficult to relate my choices to a database of talks, lectures and meetings in Camden.
An email notification of upcoming events could be run automatically and anonymously with the usual facility for opting out.
What’s good about this ?
It puts the library service in an interesting, possibly pivotal, position with plenty of promise.
It’s inexpensive.
It sustains local live events and fosters participation.
It also helps individual appreciation of the continuing liveliness of public life counteracting corrosive gloom
Lastly, the good ideas could be collated, with additional material from the originators, in a year-end New Journal Christmas pullout.
A yearly event could be established to develop and debate the best ideas as some kind of citizens’ agenda.
A few years of this and quite a body of work could be generated.
Political energy might flow from it.
Tom Young
Bassett Street, NW5
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