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● Stan Alves ■ Footy identity Stan Alves will speak at a family night for Year 9, 10, 11 and 12 Yea High School students at 7pm-8.45pm tonight (Wed.). Alves is a former Melbourne Football Club captain, North Melbourne premiership player and St Kilda Football Club coach. The presentation will include details of a community program that considers pathways into the world of work. A similar presentation was held at Middle Kinglake Primary School on Monday night (June 20).
No to bullying ■ Six Kinglake area people went on a bullying exercise last week after they read a reader’s letter in The Local Paper.
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The noisy group disagreed with the letter from a reader identifying herself as Wendy Hunt. It is fine for the group to disagree with the contents of a letter to the newspaper. That is the reason for being for letters. Members of the group became insulting on the Facebook of The Local Paper. They attempted to bully Wendy Hunt, accusing her of bullying the Murrindindi Shire CEO.
They accused this newspaper of fraud, and described the Editor as a ‘misogynist’: a person who hates women. We’ve been accused of plenty of things in our long life, but never of hating women! The group members became even more noisy when we deleted their Facebook posts, and blocked them. We are not going to aid and abet defamation about readers
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■ Meanwhile, back in the real world, The Local Paper celebrates this week with its biggest-ever issue. The number of pages of free newspapers are determined by advertiser support. Today we produce the biggest-ever edition of The Local Paper. We also celebrate our biggest-ever print run. That means more readers, and even better value for our advertisers. Online readership is also at its best-ever.
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■ A minimum of 3° is expected in Yea on Friday, with 4° minimum tomorrow (Thurs.). That should be a decent change for newsagent Lynne Bailey who has spent the past nine days in steamy Phuket, Thailand. Welcome back to 3717, Lynne.
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or ourselves. We explained the deal: if they don’t like me, or don’t like The Local Paper, there is a simple answer: don’t read it. We won’t be offended. Now in our 47th year in the media caper, we know we’re not going to please all of the people all of the time. We say these trouble-makers have now forefeited the right to complain about the contents of this paper. They have stated how little regard they have for us. If they are reading these words, they are hypocrites for picking up The Local Paper again - after declaring their bitter contempt for us.
● Copes of the only edition The Yea Truth were snapped up when it was produced for the retirement dinner for the late Det. Sgt. Ian ‘Columbo’ Welch of Alexandra ■ There is nothing like a good ‘furphy’ in a country town ... especially one that has done the rounds before. With a name like ‘Ash Long’, it was inevitable back in the 1980s, that the whacky-tobaccky users would come up with the nickname ‘Hash Bong’. Someone in Yea repeated it this month ... we had not heard it for 25 years. Two people last week told us that I was once a reporter for the scandalous Truth newspaper. Not so. But it’s a good yarn. Our newspaper DID take on the nickname of The Yea Truth in the 1980s and 1990s because of a policy to cover crime stories from Magistrates’ Courts at Yea, Alexandra and Whittlesea. They are all closed now, although Seymour remains and we publish weekly Court lists. The closest we came to an association with the old Truth was a special souvenir edition of The Yea Truth produced to mark the retirement of a detective known as ‘Columbo’ - the late Det. Sgt. Ian Welch of Alexandra ‘CIB’. He was the only person we have ever known to have become a life member of a pub (the Mount Pleasant Hotel at Alex., run then by John O’Brien).
Death of Bettina
■ One of the recent proprietors of the Euroa Gazette, Bettina Rieusset, has died. Bettina and her husband Paul published the weekly Strathbogie Shire newspaper before selling to the Higgins’ family’s North East Media. In the 1990s, Bettina looked after the Yea district’s rubber stamp needs through our local newspaper office. Our condolences to the Rieusset family.
Shire loses VCAT case to ex-Cr ● Pictured: Kim Chadband in her days as a Yea Shire Councillor ■ Murrindindi Shire Council has had an embarrassing defeat at the hands of a former Yea Shire Councillor. Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Member Mary-Anne Taranto last week ruled against the Shire, and in favour of Ms Chadband, over a decision to grant a permit at Ghin Ghin. Ms Chadband joined with Richard Ciborowski and Liliana Ciborowska in appealing a Council decision to grant a permit to Noel and Lori Muddyman. Ms Chadband appeared for herself and John Quinlan, as well as neighbours Judith D’Aloisio and Chris Lawrance. Tania Cincotta, solicitor of Best Hooper, appeared for Mr Ciborowski and Ms Ciborowska. Melissa Crane, town planner, appeared for Murrindindi Shire Council. The Muddymans appeared in person. The Muddymans sought permission from Murrindindi Council to use and develop a 2.623 hectare property in the Farming Zone for a dwelling, with the intent to establish a migratory apiary on the land as well as graze a small number of animals. “They say the dwelling is necessary to enable proper oversight and management of these activities,” Ms Taranto said. Ms Chadband, Mr Quinlan; and Ms D’Aliosio and Mr Lawrance, owners of 35 and 91 Ghin Ghin Rd, respectively, sought a review of the Council’s decision. They successfully argued that Murrindindi Shire Council erred in making its decision, and that the proposal will adversely impact on their current and long-term ability to use their land for productive farming purposes. Mr Ciborowski and Ms Ciborowska, owners of land to the westof 69 Ghin Ghin Rd, argued that the proposal was more akin to a rural residential development, was deficient in detail and lacked strategic support. Murrindindi Council took the view that the land was not identified as high quality argicultural land and in such circumstances, a small niche agricultural enterprise in the nature of that proposed would provide for diversification of agricultural activities on this small rural lot. It argued that the proposal would benefit the Shire’s population and economic base. Ms Taranto said there was a weak link netween the nature of the dwelling use and the proposed agricultural pursuits. “I have concluded that the proposal has the hallmarks of a rural residential development for which there is not planning scheme support,” Ms Taranto said. Ms Taranto said the Muddymans have been beekeepers since 1990. It was proposed that up to 60 hives would be placed on the site for four months a year “during the wintering period”. The Muddymans also proposed to keep up to three steers, six sheep or possibly horses on the land. “I must say I am quite surprised by Council’s preparedness to issue a planning permit for a dwelling in the absence of any plans showing the dwelling’s design, location and other necessary buildings and works,” said Ms Taranto. “It is not a practice I would endorse. Nor is it one that I regard as consistent with fundamental planning principles of orderly and proper planning and fairness.” Ms Taranto said Murrindindi Council’s approach “runs counter to our system of planning in Victoria which endeavours to provide certainty and transparency for all stakeholders throughout the decision making process.”