Divercity Issue #85 July / Sept 2016

city o f po rt p h i lli p maga zi n e - i s s u e 8 5 ju ly - s e p t em b er 2 0 1 6

Red Stitch turns 15 walk with yalukUt willam

festival winners property revaluation

property revaluation

Securing the Palais tops list of achievements

As we near the end of Council’s four-year term, it’s timely to look at what has been achieved or is underway for our community.

The long-term future of the Palais Theatre is now secure and much needed repair works are in progress.

This important performance venue can now Mayor delight audiences Cr Bernadene Voss for years to come and continue to showcase the talents of local and international artists.

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Stitch in time Red Stitch Actors Theatre is celebrating 15 years in St Kilda.

Founded by a group of passionate local actors in 2001, the ensemble is now a multi-award winning producer of independent theatre. Our cover features actor and ensemble member Tim Potter in character for Trevor, which plays from 26 July.

See more local theatre redstitch.net 2

The Ferrars Street Education and Community Precinct, which Council has invested in, is taking shape and is an example of what can be achieved in partnership with Council and the Victorian Government.

There are also terrific improvements to our foreshore underway, which you can read about on page five.

Continuing efficiencies and improvements allowed us to deliver a 2016/17 Budget which, despite the Victorian Government’s 2.5 per cent rate cap, does not reduce services and includes $45 million to deliver significant projects and upgrade ageing assets.

The Victorian Government introduced a rate cap of 2.5% for all councils for 2016/17, which is also a revaluation year.

So, will my rates increase by 2.5% this year?

Not necessarily. Although the increase in Council’s total rates revenue will be capped at 2.5%*, your individual rates will change by more or less than that depending on changes in your property’s valuation.

How are average rates affected by revaluation?

Detached houses Average change in valuation

+22.5%

Rate change

+10.7%

Units Average change in valuation

+7%

Rate change

-3.3%

When rates notices arrive in early August, some residents may notice their rates have risen by more than 2.5 per cent, as this year updated property values have been factored in.

For more information, please go to our website or read the infographic on this page.

Commercial / retail

We have just had another successful St Kilda Film Festival and it’s wonderful to read about our thriving creative industries.

*excluding growth in the ratepayer base.

Happy reading!

Average change in valuation

+8%

Rate change

-2.4%

For further information www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/rates

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contacts

www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/ contact_us.htm Phone: 03 9209 6777 Facsimile: 03 9536 2722 SMS: 0432 005 405 email: assist@portphillip.vic.gov.au

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For more information please visit: www.relayservice.gov.au

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Storytime rocks

Dangerous liaisons

Libraries come alive at storytime for 39,000 youngsters.

Little Ones camp up a classic at Theatre Works.

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Please contact ASSIST on 03 9209 6777 if you require a large print version.

Audio recordings of Divercity are available on the City of Port Phillip website and on CD at Port Phillip libraries.

Divercity 85 - July / Sept 2016 Editor: Greg Day - gday@edunity.com.au

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Story suggestions are welcome: (note no Oct / Nov edition) next deadline 7 October for Dec / Feb Divercity feedback: engagement@portphillip.vic.gov.au Information included in this magazine is accurate at the time of publishing but may be subject to change.

Light up St Kilda

Fresh faces at Festival

Projections will transform St Kilda streets in September.

Women and new faces are winners at the St Kilda Film Festival.

The City of Port Phillip respectfully acknowledges the Yalukut Willam Clan of the Boon Wurrung. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past and present.

We acknowledge and uphold their continuing relationship to this land.

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Walk with Yalukut Willam The local Boon Wurrung people have lived by the bay for countless generations and have many local places of significance.

Now everybody can learn more about significant Indigenous landmarks across Port Phillip, thanks to a self-guided tour with 10 beautiful interpretative signs created with the Boon Wurrung Foundation and Council.

The signs can be found at St Kilda Town Hall, Point Ormond, Beaconsfield Parade, Peanut Farm Reserve, St Kilda foreshore, West Beach, South Melbourne Market, Fraser Street, Lagoon Reserve and Port Melbourne foreshore.

Grab a map, start your tour portphillip.vic.gov.au/

indigenous.htm

Signs of reconciliation: Boon Wurrung Foundation CEO Gheran Steel with Auntie Jacko and Council’s Todd Condie at the St Kilda Town Hall sign.

Photo: Chris Cassar

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news

Busy winter foreshore From Elwood to Sandridge, our foreshore is getting even better.

Here are just some of the many projects on the go.

Works on the Elwood Life Saving Club and Sails on the Bay restaurant are set to finish this year. At Point Ormond, public toilets are being upgraded and a new beach shower and bike hoops are being installed.

The new St Kilda Life Saving Club and Stokehouse are taking shape side by side and are expected to open later this year.

At South Melbourne, concept designs for the new South Melbourne Life Saving Club have been endorsed by Council. Subject to planning approvals, construction will start in 2017.

Meanwhile, temporary distance markers on foreshore paths are showing the way to the shops and cafes at the Port Melbourne Waterfront.

Track progress www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/

foreshore-parks-projects.htm

Pinnies on parade Be pinny proud say members of the Older Persons Consultative Committee. From left to right, Liz Robson, Betty Knight, Coralie Ling, Maureen Smith, Brenda Richards.

Put your favourite pinny on display at this year’s Seniors Festival.

The humble pinny will take centre stage at this year’s Seniors Festival. The Emerald Hill Library and Heritage Centre will host a major pinny exhibition from 17 October until 2 December. There will also be a pinny catwalk parade at the Seniors Festival Tea Dance on 10 October.

Register your pinny for the exhibition by returning the application form by Friday 16 September.

Register your pinny www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/

seniors-festival.htm 9209 6416 Seniors Festival Monday 10 - Sunday 23 October

Get active at the new Alma Park Pavilion The $1.6 million Alma Park Pavilion is now open, providing improved sporting facilities and upgraded public toilets for the St Kilda East community and visitors.

As well as the new pavilion, the Alma Park West paths have been upgraded to create a more family friendly space around the barbecue and playground.

Stay up to date on every chapter in Melbourne’s growth story. www.fishermansbend.vic.gov.au

Interested in standing for Council?

Don’t miss the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) information session for community members and candidates.

Monday 29 August, 6 pm - 8 pm St Kilda Town Hall

Solar town hall

St Kilda Town Hall has gone solar with a 172kW solar photovoltaic rooftop system.

New plaza for Acland Upgrade works on Acland Street are set to start in August. Look for unique tram shelters, distinctive paving and a new plaza at the Barkly Street end creating an active street space for events and installations.

More loos for you Council has started a scheme in partnership with local businesses to open more privately owned toilets as public toilets.

With the Community Toilet Scheme (CTS), Council arranges for toilets in local businesses to be available to the public. In return, Council contributes to the toilets’ maintenance and cleaning.

The first toilet in the scheme is at Domino’s Pizza in Port Melbourne, located at 253 Bay Street. The new accessible toilet facilities are open from 11 am to 12 midnight (1 am on Friday and Saturdays).

Keep a lookout. Where you see this sign, you’ll know you’re in the right place.

Find out more www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/

haveyoursay

Best foot forward

Our community can face many barriers to walking, including damaged, cracked and uneven footpaths, and lack of suitable pathway connections to accessible parking bays.

The Older Persons Consultative Committee recently discussed footpath maintenance with the Council teams that manage our footpaths. Council has a thorough inspection and maintenance program that recognises footpath conditions can change through tree root damage, building, and other authorities’ work, and more.

Council welcomes community help to identify footpath hazards and accessibility barriers in your everyday journeys.

Your suggestions on problem spots will be used in planning the annual works program as well as management of permit conditions.

Point out a footpath problem ASSIST 9209 6777 assist@portphillip.vic.gov.au

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The solar will avoid 300 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions and save around $44,000 per year on electricity costs and supply charges.

Energy use in the Town Hall has already fallen by 34 per cent since 2012 through efficiencies to the lighting and airconditioning system.

Solar will be rolled out across other Council-owned community buildings, such as libraries and community centres, over the coming years.

See the Toward Zero plan portphillip.vic.gov.au/

sustainability.htm

Theatre makeover in the works The Gasworks Arts Park Theatre will be getting a makeover. From October, the works will take about six months - but the show will go on.

Top of the makeover program is more and better dressing rooms, a more functional foyer, and improved disability access and facilities. Upgrades to both theatres will result in internal acoustic improvements and increase the use of both spaces.

Gasworks plans to make full use of the theatres’ outdoor elements during summer for its popular Midsumma programming.

Learn more www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/

gasworks-building-upgrade.htm

Port Phillip Library Officer Monica Dullard, with the support of a Margery C Ramsay Scholarship, has just produced a web-based short film called ‘It All Starts with Storytime!’

Here she is at Albert Park Library with fans of all ages.

Photo: Chris Cassar

It all starts here

Children love coming to the library to hear stories, sing songs, perform action rhymes and try a bit of dancing.

Library storytime sessions promote early literacy, build friendships within our community and set up a lifelong love of books and reading for children up to age six.

It seems that the story is spreading.

Last financial year Port Phillip Library storytime participants topped 39,000 - that’s enough to make Dr Seuss turn green!

See a short film about story time library.portphillip.vic.gov.au

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what’s happening in your city Your guide to what’s on, in and around your city - www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/events Port Melbourne

South Melbourne

Albert Park

Middle Park

Windsor

St Kilda

Balaclava

Elwood

arts and entertainment

Art of the Polish Poster School

Sunday sessions at All Saints

Seniors Festival - artist info session

Until Sunday 7 August Jewish Museum of Australia 26 Alma Road, East St Kilda

Sundays 4 pm - 5 pm All Saints Church 2 Chapel Street, East St Kilda

Thursday 11 August, 11 am - 12.30 pm Foyer Gallery, Gasworks Arts Park 21 Graham Street, Albert Park

An exhibition of communist propaganda posters produced by Polish artists after World War II.

Ensemble and organ concerts for everyone.

10 July - Blake Fischer and Martyn Parkes 24 July - Ariel Ensemble 28 August - Aequales Ensemble, Brahms String Quartet

Speak to curator Tracey McIrvine about your proposed artwork and its sale price for the Seniors Festival Art Show.

jewishmuseum.com.au

Alick Tipoti and Samuel Tupou

$10 / $25

tracey@gasworks.org.au

Introduction to Indigenous basketry

Trevor

Tuesday 26 July - Friday 26 August Q&A with the cast, Thursday 11 August Red Stitch Actors Theatre 2 Chapel Street, East St Kilda He used to be a star, but after a botched Dunkin’ Donuts audition he starts acting out.

Based on a real life incident, Trevor hilariously tackles fame, delusion and humanity. redstitch.net

ALICK TIPOTI, Ngulayg, 2013, lino print on paper. Image reproduced courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Michael Marzick.

Joint exhibition Thursday 21 July - Sunday 9 October Linden New Art 26 Acland Street, St Kilda Alick Tipoti uses dance and visual art to promote and strengthen Torres Strait Islander culture. Samuel Tupou’s vivid colourscapes combine street art with traditional Tongan designs.

Meet Samuel Tupou

Sunday 23 July, 2 pm - 3 pm Free weteach.me/1XBl91X

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Book Fair and Writers’ Festival Writers’ Festival Opening Night Friday 29 July, 6.30 pm Book Fair Saturday 30 July, 10 am - 4 pm Albert Park College 83 Danks Street, Albert Park The Rotary Book Fair will be run in partnership with Albert Park College’s inaugural APC Writers’ Festival.

Bush Toys

Sunday 31 July, 2 pm - 4 pm Linden New Art 26 Acland Street, St Kilda Learn about grass collecting and a simple sculpting technique with Indigenous artist Adrienne Kneebone. Part of the Children’s Crafternoon series. $22 weteach.me/1ssZygz

Adrienne Kneebone’s creative basket weaving.

Sunday 28 August, 1 pm - 4 pm Linden New Art 26 Acland Street, St Kilda Harvest leaves, vines and grasses, and use traditional techniques to weave a beautiful and functional basket. $55 weteach.me/1ZZiWfe

70 years of the symphony

Sunday 11 September, 2.30 pm South Melbourne Town Hall 200 Bank Street, South Melbourne

Celebrate 70 years of the South Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Beethoven, Bruch and Mendelssohn. $20 / $15; children 12 and under free.

Gasworks Winter Holiday Program

Hot theatre for cold nights

Theatre Works, 14 Acland Street, St Kilda

A school holiday program for children aged 4 to 14.

Dance like Michael Jackson

Wednesday 6 July, 11 am - 12 noon

Write your own story

Wednesday 6 July, 11 am - 12.15 pm

Hip hop dance class

Wednesday 6 July , 1 pm - 2 pm

Fencing

Friday 8 July, 10 am, 11.30 am, 1 pm

Snowflakes and scarves

Friday 8 July, 10 am - 11.30 am

Mill on the Floss

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Thursday 28 July - Saturday 13 August

Monday 22 August Saturday 10 September

George Eliot’s classic story of Maggie Tulliver, who is forced to embrace social norms, but triumphs in an act of free will.

Dangerous Liaisons Tuesday 16 - Saturday 20 August Sex, gender and power play take to the stage in an opulent display of debauchery.

Light Up St Kilda

Bertolt Brecht’s satire is a mash-up of American gangster movies and Richard III. A searing allegory of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. $35 / $26 / $20 theatreworks.org.au

Interfaith art exhibition

Wednesday 21 September Bright Space Gallery 8 Martin Street, St Kilda East

A celebration for World Peace Day, this exhibition explores spiritual experience through visual arts. planetaryhealingartists.org

Friday 9 - Sunday 17 September Various locations A festival of artworks projected onto buildings, laneways and streetscapes around St Kilda.

Self-portraits

Friday 8 July, 12.30 pm - 2.30 pm $25 / $30 per session gasworks.org.au

Never Did Me Any Harm

Saturday 3 September, 2 pm and 7.30 pm Gasworks Arts Park 21 Graham Street, Albert Park Drawing inspiration from real life interviews, Kate Champion explores contemporary attitudes to raising children in a dance theatre work. $20 / $40 gasworks.org.au

Calling all artists

Opening night, Friday 14 October Albert Park College 40 Bay Street, Port Melbourne Professional and student artists are welcome to enter the Albert Park College annual art show.

Enter online by 5 pm Monday 5 September.

Prize pool of $6,500.

Trudy Rice 0410 596 415 apcollegeartshow@gmail.com albertparkcollege.vic.edu.au/artshow 9

what’s happening in your city Your guide to what’s on, in and around your city - www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/events Port Melbourne

South Melbourne

active

Port history ride

Saturday, 23 July, 9.30 am Spuntino Cafe 103 Beach Street, Port Melbourne Join the Bicycle Users Group’s (BUG) ride around Port Melbourne’s historic landmarks. trybooking.com/LREV

T’ai Chi for beginners

Wednesdays 6.30 pm - 8 pm and Fridays 9.30 am - 11 am Middle Park Community Centre 254-256 Richardson Street, Middle Park Taoist T’ai Chi classes aim to improve your circulation, balance and posture.

melbourne@taoist.org 9384 6120

Winter Pétanque Tournament Sundays until 28 August, 11 am St Kilda Sports Club 66 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda Beginners and experts play in a series of friendly pétanque games. All welcome. $13 per session Jean-Claude 0409 174 778

On your pony ride

Saturday 20 August, 9 am

Join a BUG bike trip to Pony Bikes in West Melbourne for coffee and chat. trybooking.com/LRNV

Shake off the winter blues Saturday 27 August, 9 am O’Donnell Gardens, St Kilda Join your friends and neighbours for yoga, pilates, zumba, dancercise, mental health and good nutrition to get your engine started for spring.

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Albert Park

Middle Park

community

Homeless Persons’ Week Who is homeless tonight?

Monday 1 - Sunday 7 August

Homeless Persons’ Week raises awareness of homelessness. Events in Port Phillip highlight the challenges and provide help for people experiencing homelessness. www.homelessnessaustralia.org.au

Port Phillip Housing Association extravaganza Tuesday 2 August, 6 pm 50 Barkly Street, St Kilda A community arts event that includes performances by rooming house residents and established performers.

9534 5837

Bring what you can, take what you need Thursday 4 August Cnr Carlisle and Chapel streets, St Kilda and South Port Community Housing Group, 259 Dorcas Street, South Melbourne Enjoy music, food, books, clothing and good company at the Inner Rooming House network pop-up swap and meet.

Homeless census count Just prior to the Australian Census on 9 August the Homeless Census Count encourages people who are homeless to take part and be counted.

Windsor

St Kilda

Balaclava

Elwood

environment

Clean the canal

Sundays 17 July, 7 August and 11 September, 10 am

Meet on the grassy banks of the Elwood Canal beside the Glen Huntly Road bridge. Bring working gloves and plastic bags for rubbish.

Short films about our bay

Tuesday 19 July 6.30 pm - 8.30 pm Phoenix Theatre, Elwood College 101 Glen Huntly Road, Elwood Two short films - Melbourne Down Under and Baykeepers about Port Phillip Bay’s amazing marine life. $5 via Bookings

loveourstreet3184@gmail.com

Day of the penguin

Saturday 27 August, 10 am - 4 pm Memo Hall 88 Acland Street, St Kilda Hear the latest research from12 different speakers as Earthcare St Kilda celebrates 30 years of St Kilda Breakwater penguin research.

Free www.earthcarestkilda.org.au

EcoArts Festival

Saturday 24 September, 3.30 pm - 7.30 pm Port Phillip EcoCentre St Kilda Botanical Gardens 55a Blessington Street, St Kilda Take part in Illuminate 2030, a roaming projection work that explores climate scenarios for Port Phillip. ecocentre.com

heritage

Cemeteries alive

Open House Port Phillip

Saturday 30 - Sunday 31 July, 10 am - 4 pm, (Part of Open House Melbourne)

Cemetery sculpture, beauty and history Saturday 16 July, 10 am - 12.30 pm Emerald Hill Library & Heritage Centre 195 Bank Street, South Melbourne Elizabeth Hore will talk about the St Kilda and Kew cemeteries and their denizens.

Bookings essential 9209 6416

Monumental St Kilda Sunday 28 August, 2 pm Explore the grander memorials in St Kilda Cemetery.

Lawyers and judges Sunday 25 September, 2 pm Visit the graves of notable judges and lawyers in commemoration of 175 years of the Supreme Court in Victoria.

Meet at main gate, St Kilda Cemetery, Dandenong Road, East St Kilda $10; members free info@foskc.org 9531 6832

Espy battle relived

Sunday 24 July, 2.30 pm St Kilda Library Community Room 150 Carlisle Street, St Kilda Join members of the Esplanade Alliance to relive the passion of the battle for the Espy 1997 - 2003. The history of the campaign is available on the St Kilda Historical Society website. stkildahistory.org.au/ history/espy-hotel

Charnwood Oaks, St Kilda, State Library of Victoria, H2014.983.

The Vaults Lower Esplanade, St Kilda, opposite the Sea Baths

How green can heritage buildings get?

Take a self-guided tour and see a slideshow of historic St Kilda.

Saturday 30 July, 12 noon Emerald Hill Library & Heritage Centre 195 Bank Street, South Melbourne

South Melbourne Town Hall

A conversation with Council heritage and sustainability experts.

200 Bank Street, South Melbourne Self-guided tours all weekend, or take a guided tour with Kay Rowan, local history librarian, from 11 am both days.

art&heritage@portphillip.vic.gov.au openhousemelbourne.org

St Kilda Flat Living Saturday 30 July, 10 am - 12 noon St Kilda RSL, 88 Acland Street, St Kilda Join author David Willis in a talk about the development of flat living in St Kilda.

Prehistoric Middle Park

Monday 1 August, 7.30 pm Middle Park Bowling Club Canterbury Road, Middle Park

Hear a talk about the Middle Park area and its environment before European settlement.

Sorry there will be no October / November 2016 edition due to Council elections.

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New faces of film

St Kilda Film Festival 2016 saw a huge increase in the participation of talented women, with almost half of the Top 100 film directors being female.

St Kilda East resident, director Nikki Richardson (centre picture), took the Audience Choice Award for her film We’re Here Now, which was filmed in a toilet at the St Kilda Town Hall.

Over 170 films screened at the 10 day event, which had an official attendance of 13,033. Don’t worry if you missed out, you can catch a selection of films at Cinema Nova during the Festival’s Victorian tour.

Festival on tour stkildafilmfestival.com.au 12

Photos: Cloakroom Media

www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/divercity

Thriving local film focus Port Phillip is home to over 85 film industry businesses that deliver talent to local and international productions.

There are excellent local sound stages, technical crews, catering outfits, producers - everything that’s needed to create great film and television.

cr eati v e c i t y

Festival of film

Examples include Soundfirm, who delivered award winning soundtracks for The Dressmaker, That Sugar Film and The Great Gatsby, and December Media, producers of The Doctor Blake Mysteries and other ABC productions.

The St Kilda Film Festival pop-up cinema at the St Kilda Town Hall in May.

Short films go places

House Husbands on location.

The St Kilda Film Festival can be a platform where films and filmmakers flourish.

As an ACADEMY AWARDS® qualifying event, the winners of the Festival’s Best Short Film and Best Documentary categories are eligible for consideration in the OSCARS® Short Film and OSCARS® Documentary Shorts award categories.

Location of choice The 250 filming permits issued annually point to the area’s popularity. Location managers such as Hugo Cram say that Port Phillip is film friendly. ‘The Council is very organised and the residents are savvy and supportive.’

Port Phillip has provided locations for some of the best of local productions, including House Husbands, Winners and Losers, Time of Our Lives, Jack Irish, Miss Fisher, Dr Blake Mysteries, Mad As Hell, Please Like Me, Molly, MasterChef, Restaurant Revolution, My Kitchen Rules and Upper Middle Bogan.

St Kilda Film Festival success stories include Harvie Krumpet, directed

by Adam Elliot, being awarded an Oscar® in 2004. Kenny took toilet humour to a new level and went on to become a successful Australian feature, while the television series Wilfred also grew from a short film.

The multi award winning 2014 horror feature The Babadook, started life at St Kilda in 2006 as the short, Monster.

Festival 2016 winners are grinners: (page 12 clockwise from top left) Jamie Messenger, Melanie Brunt - Winner Best Animation, Best Original Score - The Orchestra; Burak Oguz Saguner - Winner Best Achievement In Cinematography - Driftwood Dustmites; Brooke Goldfinch Winner Best Director - Red Rover; Darlene Johnson - Winner Best Indigenous Film - Bluey; Niels Gabriels - Winner Best Achievement In Sound Post Production - Somniloquv; (centre) Nikki Richardson - Winner Audience Choice Award - We’re Here Now; David Hansen Winner Staff Choice Award - Slingshot; Ellen Richardson - Winner Best Youth Short Film - Odd Socks; Isaac Natoli - Winner Best Young Actor The Trophy Thief; Harry Hayes - Winner Best Documentary - You Better Take Cover.

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Join the penguin patrol Earthcare St Kilda needs volunteer penguin visitor guides for the peak season October through to April.

The guides promote care for the environment and respect for the penguins. Applicants must be over 16 and able to do one shift per fortnight.

Laura, Emily and Giselle say food and community combine in local food groups.

Send your details earthcarepenguinguides

@gmail.com

Photo: Chris Cassar

Peaches & Pears Elwood local Emily Ballantyne-Brodie visits farms in outer Melbourne to buy fresh seasonal produce for members of the Peach & Pear food group.

Members of the group meet weekly in Elwood to box and take away their share of the organic produce.

‘Farmers love it because they get paid directly. We love it because we get fresh

organic produce at better prices than at the supermarket,’ says Emily.

Emily urges others to start their own food group. ‘It’s all about community and eating well. Start with neighbours and friends to help spread the load.’

From farm to community www.peachnpear.com

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The Minister for Planning has approved updated planning controls for local areas that may experience flooding. New planning permit requirements will ensure that new development is designed to minimise future flood risks.

Council wrote to owners of the over 21,000 affected properties during the exhibition stage of Amendment C111.

Learn more about C111 www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/ amendment-c111.htm

Fog Theatre thrives for 25

Fog Theatre, the Council supported ensemble inclusive of adults with intellectual disability, is 25 years old this year! It is one of the longest running all abilities theatre groups in Australia.

Updated planning controls tackle flooding

Show you care

While stocks last, readers can get up to three free stickers by sending an email nominating the type of stickers you want: my friends, dad, mum, child, etc.

Fog Theatre ‘Cumulus Nimbus’, 2011.

Photo: Paul Dunn

Three for free transport@portphillip.vic.gov.au 9209 6274

TOM helps Aimee achieve

Cr Bernadene Voss

Mayor Sandridge

mayor@portphillip.vic.gov.au Mobile 0413 246 704

Local entrepreneur Aimee Marks has been named Victorian Young Achiever of the Year for her success with TOM, a range of feminine hygiene products made from organic cotton.

Aimee became concerned about hygiene products when she was doing a school project 10 years ago. After university she set about making bespoke organic cotton pads and tampons for sale in health food stores. With cool packaging and an authentic message, TOM has grown to employ eight staff and has expanded the TOM range to include a range of baby care products.

Cr Serge Thomann

Deputy Mayor Catani

Aimee Marks, founder of TOM has been named Victorian Young Achiever 2016. ‘Business can be a force for good,’ she said.

Local international friends Earlier this year, Port Phillip was one of 10 Victorian councils to strengthen cooperation with developing municipal government in East Timor.

For 16 years, through Friends of Suai, our community has walked together with the community of Suai Covalima, a rural coastal district on East Timor’s remote south coast.

Money is not the main focus and financial support is often quite small, but the community-to-community bonds add a magic ingredient. Our Suai partners say this offers greater equality than the traditional donorrecipient relationship.

Local estate agent Sheree Rubinstein was also recognised with the Leadership Award for helping to establish not-forprofit networks Think Big and One Roof.

Both promote women and networking.

OA for good works Thirty-two years of good works by local woman Gendrie KleinBreteler has been recognised with an Order of Australia. Working through Good Shepherd, Gendrie started as a volunteer, and went on to play a leadership role in outreach to disadvantaged women in St Kilda, especially sex workers.

Your 2016 rates notice arrives in:

More friends welcome 9209 6777 Pat Jessen

sthomann@portphillip.vic.gov.au Mobile 0432 299 372

Cr Andrew Bond

Junction

abond@portphillip.vic.gov.au Mobile 0481 034 028

Cr Anita Horvath

Emerald Hill

ahorvath@portphillip.vic.gov.au Mobile 0438 906 161

Cr Vanessa Huxley

Carlisle

vhuxley@portphillip.vic.gov.au Mobile 0406 890 739

Cr Amanda Stevens

Albert Park

astevens@portphillip.vic.gov.au Mobile 0481 034 029

Cr Jane Touzeau

Point Ormond

jtouzeau@portphillip.vic.gov.au Mobile 0432 287 634

Life’s a beach for poets The Elwood Poetry Prize is calling for entries. This year’s theme is ‘Beach’. Get poetic before entries close on Thursday 11 August.

Elwood Poetry Prize entry forms assist@portphillip.vic.gov.au

Early

August

For further information www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/rates

20– 27 AUG 2016 FREE LIVE MUSIC IN LOCAL VENUES AND HOT SPOTS #LIVENLOCAL LIVENLOCAL.COM.AU

Festival programs will be available at the end of August from your local town hall, community centre or on the website.

www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/seniors_festival