MPs push for police counter service
Action stations: Carolyn Donovan says her calendar pays tribute to firefighters – and raises funds for a worthy cause. Picture: Keith Platt
Firefighters pause to pose for the cause A STYLISED calendar featuring firefighters from across the Mornington Peninsula is helping raise money for the new Monash Children’s Hospital. Designed to hang on the wall, the Victorian Firefighter Calendar 2016 displays a month a page with space for jotting down notes in each day’s box. Public holidays are clearly marked. The glossy pages feature fire fighters in posed, semi-action shots at locations all over the peninsula. Producer Carolyn Donovan, of
“My husband is a firefighter and I saw that there was no calendar here and yet, overseas, lots of crews do them as major fundraisers,” Ms Donovan said. The print run of 500 is designed to $5000 for the hospital once costs are deducted. The online price is $20 or $15 when bought over the counter. “The hospital is excited and proud that we are using the concept to raise funds for them,” Ms Donovan said. “It promotes fire fighters in such a positive light.”
Mornington, said the calendar paid tribute to the crews who “go above and beyond every day to serve the community”. “They choose their valued profession because they want to make a difference in the world – to their community,” she said. “They are willing to put their own lives on the line for ours, every day, and for that the community is truly grateful.” This is the second calendar: last year’s effort raised $2700.
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OPPOSITION Police spokesman Edward O’Donohue and Hastings MP Neale Burgess were at the $16.3 million Somerville police complex on Friday voicing their concerns over its lack of counter service. They wanted to highlight the fact that it “remains closed to the public because of Daniel Andrew’s failure to provide funding for more police”. Mr Burgess said it was important that he had been allowed inside the police building at the corner of Eramosa Rd West and Coolart Rd, Somerville. He was taken on a 30-minute tour by Acting Senior Sergeant Peter Drake and Detective Sergeant Jason Hocking. “It was designed it as a station for the community,” Mr Burgess said. “Regardless of what our state government would have us believe, that is what it is.” He blamed the government’s “soft on crime approach” for not providing a public counter service at Somerville and for saying the lack of manning was “an operational issue”. Detective Senior Sergeant Nick Vallas said yesterday the Somerville complex was “never designed to be staffed by uniformed police”. “Mr Burgess would have been aware of what the Chief Commissioner [Graham Ashton] said at the time, that the complex would not provide counter service, and that residents could access uniform police at Hastings, Mornington, Dromana, Rosebud and Sorrento,” he said. Detective Vallas said it is better to
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