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Camp’s chapel has a new lease on life VICTORIA’S longest-running camp, YMCA Camp Manyung, is celebrating the restoration of its historic outside chapel, the Crosby Memorial Chapel, after receiving $74,000 from Victorian Heritage Restoration. The body is dedicated to the preservation of heritage values. After six months of research and construction, the 77-year-old chapel has been brought back to life with original pews, landscaping, and paintwork using the original colours and former pathways. The chapel was designed by architects Walter Burley Griffin and Eric Milton Nicholls, with Griffin best known for designing the townships of Mt Eliza and Canberra. The chapel was dedicated to Charles Fenwick Crosby, one of Melbourne’s most generous, active and best-known social and philanthropic workers – as well as being president of the YMCA for 27 years. It was used widely 1940s-60s for services and community events before falling into disrepair. YMCA Camp Manyung community development officer Steve Merson says the restoration has been a gratifying project and history lesson for all involved: “We thought this would be a good year to undertake this project as it coincides with Camp Manyung’s 90th year, so it’s quite a reflective and exciting year for the camp,” he said. “It’s important not only to preserve Camp Manyung as a heritage-listed camp, but also to recognise the significance the chapel has for the community; how it has brought people together and how it can continue to do that in the future.”
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Sunday service: Hymns are sung by families at the Crosby Memorial Chapel, Camp Manyung, Mt Eliza, in the 1950s.
He said preservation was a wonderful way to reconnect with older people who spent time there during the 1950s and 1960s. “The chapel is a beautiful place for the local community looking to hold events, whether they for pres-
entations, services or even a wedding. “It’s definitely a special space, as much for quiet reflection as it is for celebration, to enjoy the outdoors and provide a place to connect as a community.”
A ceremony to commemorate the origins of the chapel will be held 1011.30am, Thursday 12 May. Members of the public are welcome to attend and to visit the new chapel. Call Camp Manyung, 97881100.
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A NATIONAL skate competition at Mt Eliza, Saturday 21 May, will have categories for skateboarders as well as scooter and BMX riders. The free event will be held at the Mt Eliza Skate Park, Emil Madsen Reserve, Wooralla Drive, which has the peninsula's largest skate bowl. The competition is sponsored by Mornington Peninsula Shire and organised in partnership with the Impakt Freeza youth events committee and the YMCA. The competition is part of the YMCA’s National Skate Park League and provides a development pathway for amateur skate and BMX riders. The winners from the skateboard section will join finalists from concurrent events elsewhere in Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales, with the national final to be held in Melbourne. Check out: skatepark.ymca.org.au or facebook.com/impaktfreeza Registration times: Scooters 10.30am, BMX noon and skateboards 2pm. Divisions: Scooters and BMX: 14 and under; 15 and over. Skateboard: 12 and under; 16 and under; female all ages, and open.
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