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Tuesday 7 March 2017
5973 6424 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au Community crusader: Michael Leeworthy with Mornington Peninsula mayor Bev Colomb, Cr David Gill, and op shop president Felicity Jackson with a painting of the Two Bays walking trail. Picture: Yanni
Artist’s opportunity to contribute RED Hill artist Michael Leeworthy can’t find the time to volunteer at his local op shop so, instead, he’s donating proceeds from his next exhibition. Leeworthy will give 25 per cent of the takings from an exhibition on 18 and 19 March to the Red Hill op shop, which distributes the money to several Mornington Peninsula charities, including the Peninsula Home Hospice and CFAs. A member of the Art Red Hill committee for 20 years, Leeworthy is well known for his passion for contributing to the community. The multi-talented artist wears many hats, having started the successful all-male Men's Book Club concept on the peninsula in 2009 and writing the book Get a Job to help young people find work. He is currently working with Mornington Peninsula Shire and Parks Victoria to improve infrastructure on the walking trails. Leeworthy said many of the works to be exhibited feature the peninsula’s natural attractions such as Greens Bush, Cairns Bay (Kerry Green), the OT Dam and Bald Hill. Liz Bell
Seeing red over chip shop’s blue BEAUTY is in the eye of the beholder, and the bright blue colour scheme of Morgan’s fish and chippery in Sorrento is no exception. Owner Julian Gerner, who says he received the go ahead for his chosen colour scheme from Mornington Peninsula Shire council last year, thinks it is attractive. “The colour is part of the branding of the fish-and-chip shop,” he said. “I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the trading space yet people choose to focus on my painting it a certain colour. Taste is subjective.” Mr Gerner said he had a permit to paint the “whole facade of the shop”.
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Colour bar: The bright blue paintwork of Morgan’s fish and chippery on the Sorrento foreshore. Picture: Yanni
But others in the town are incredulous, with new Nepean ward councillor Bryan Payne saying the paintwork
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is “another blight on the heritage buildings in Sorrento”. “The town has quite a few heritagelisted buildings and we need to preserve them,” he said. “Everyone in Sorrento feels the same way.” The paint job has also drawn the ire of Sorrento Historical Society and Nepean Conservation Group. Member Frank Hindley said it was apparent the council had made an error in issuing a permit for the paint job in January last year. “It is well-known and generally understood that Sorrento’s heritage buildings should not be painted – especially not limestone buildings,” he said. “The paint is very damaging to the limestone.” He said the permit showed the “complete ignorance” of the shire’s plan-
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This has been rendered and it’s more of a bagging; you can see two layers of old paint on it. “There’s been absolutely no contact between blue paint and raw limestone.” Brad Morgan, whose great-great grandfather built the shop, conceded Mr Gerner had received a permit to paint over rendered brickwork: “The council has buggered it up.” “The planning department said it was supposed to look like the Mediterranean [but] I told them that Sorrento’s not the Mediterranean.” Cr Payne said he was “still waiting” for the shire’s planning department to explain why the permit was issued. “The exact details are in dispute,” he said. “The lawyers are looking at it now.”
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