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Back in black – and red and blue WORK has begun on a new mural at Kingston City Hall. Melbourne artist James Beattie is spray painting a Kingston area timeline on the in Moorabbin hall’s car park wall. The timeline will include a picture of legendary AC/DC singer Bon Scott to commemorate the time the rockers played a gig at the former Moorabbin Town Hall in 1974. Beattie uses a projector to beam his design onto the wall and then paints images using the projection as a guide. It is a tricky project due to pipes on the wall. The projector provides invaluable help to Beattie. “It makes the job so much faster since I know it’s going to all fit in,” he said. “I know the scale is right and it’s a good way of working.” Visit www.facebook.com/KingstonArtsAU to follow the mural project’s progress until completion.
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Trail tale winds on Neil Walker neil@mpnews.com.au
THE long and winding road to decide the exact location of the first stage of Kingston’s Bay Trail between Charman Rd and Mentone Life Saving Club may be coming to an end. However, the trail still faces a rocky
road before completion, after eight years of council and community debate, amid conservation group claims that Kingston Council’s final round of community consultation regarding the Bay Trail had been extremely limited. Mordialloc Beaumaris Conservation League secretary Mary Rimingston said council had declined to provide
access to the detailed plans for the construction of the section of the Bay Trail, a decision she said was “undemocratic”. The group is frustrated that just one option to build the Bay Trail along the specified strip of Beach Rd has been presented by council for consultation. Councillors voted in May last year
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to proceed with a “back of kerb” plan to build the trail which will be used by cyclists and walkers, after a “period of comprehensive community consultation”. The back of kerb plan released for consultation would, if it proceeds, remove 1500 square metres of foreshore and vegetation to clear a path
for the Bay Trail. A second back-of-kerb option that would see the section of Beach Rd between Charman Rd and Mentone Life Saving Club narrowed to accomodate the bay trail without the need to “cut in” to the foreshore was not put out for consultation. Continued on Page 7
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