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ASPENDALE professional artist Lindsay Walker has drawn on her love of comic books to earn the job of illustrating The Phantom comics for a US publisher. See page 4. Picture: Gary Sissons
Creek land up for grabs Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au A STRETCH of land alongside Mordialloc Creek could be lost to the Pompei family after Kingston City Council decided to seek expressions of interest from other parties over use of the prime Crown land site.
Councillors voted at last week’s council meeting to put three licences held by the family’s estate onto the open market. The separate licences on the jetty area, slipway and Pompei’s Landing are now up for grabs despite a proposal by current occupier Leon Pompei to start a kayak hire business at the site.
Leon is the son of the late Jack Pompei, known as “Mr Mordialloc” for his role as the custodian of the creek, who operated a boat building business there. He sells marine paint from a shed beside the creek and maintains wooden boats, paying a peppercorn rate of $104 annually for each licence.
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Cr Ron Brownlees said council had previously agreed to allow Leon Pompei to operate his business at Mordialloc Creek after his father and mother, Gwen Pompei, passed away but that council officers had now issued advise that the licences had lapsed. He said council was obliged to determine whether there was any other in-
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