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New lease for beach boat hire
World first for Arthurs Seat loo A TOILET at Arthur’s Seat has won the World’s Most Accessible Toilet award. Opened in January, the toilet is designed to meet many needs - tourists with disabilities, those with mobility limitations, visitors with young children, older people and tourists from culturally diverse backgrounds. It even includes an Asian squat toilet. The award judge described the toilet as being “beautifully designed, thoroughly functional, modern and inclusive; a highly impressive addition to the destination experience. I have never seen anything quite like this accessible toilet. It’s a gold star, best practice example.” The Arthurs Seat toilet was one of 30 entries from around the world – including one where visitors can “do their business” overlooking a creek with crocodiles and an art studio where guests pull up chairs to admire the toilet doors. “The inclusion of human diversity forms the foundation of our community. Disability is not rare. It can happen to any one of us,” Mornington Peninsula Shire’s all abilities consultative committee vice-chair Karen Fankhauser said. Karingal Disability Services, Rosebud, project coordinator Dee Davey said the toilet “puts the Mornington Peninsula on the world map for people of disabilities in deciding where they will visit and stay”. The awards are based on research by cofounders of MyTravelResearch.com Carolyn Childs and Bronwyn White who organised the inaugural 2017 International Toilet Tourism Awards to demonstrate a link between toilets and tourism. “Great loos in tourism destinations become talking points, encourage repeat visits and can be a positive indicator of how the host community respects tourists,” Ms Childs said. “When visitors stop to spend a penny, they usually spend more than that and end up boosting the local visitor economy and creating jobs.”
Dream team: Frankston Hospital associate professor David Langton and chief scientist Kim Gooey at the hospital’s sleep laboratory. Picture: Gary Sissons
Hospital in deep on sleep A MEDICAL specialist who helps people with potentially life-threatening sleep conditions has been named as an OAM in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List last month. Associate professor David Langton received the honour for service to thoracic and sleep medicine. He said he regarded the Medal of the Order to be recognition of a team effort at Frankston Hospital to improve treatment for patients. The 59-year-old said he had seen many changes that have improved medical services since he first arrived at the hospital 30 years ago. “I have been very lucky to see an enormous transition”, he said. “For me, it’s a little bit like seeing a child growing up.” As the hospital’s first full-time physician. He was appointed to set up and run the intensive care unit. “At that stage, it was a fairly small community hospital but it needed a good intensive care unit to service the emergency department and to create the ability for the hospital to take on more advanced
surgery.” After about 12 years of running the ICU he “was able to take on more things in the hospital” including the establishment of a sleep laboratory in 1995. “Sleep medicine is quite a new discipline, probably only 30 or 40 years old, and it’s only in that period of time that people have recognised the presence of stopping breathing during sleep and sleep apnoea,” he said. The way to diagnose it is to monitor a patient overnight while they’re asleep and monitor their breathing.” General practitioners in Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula refer patients to be diagnosed in the sleep lab that is open seven nights a week. Of those referred, the associate professor says “about a third have relatively severe sleep apnea, one-third have a milder disease that can be managed and about one-third don’t have anything at all”. Severe sleep apnea can ultimately cause cardiovascular heart disease, heart attacks and strokes if not diagnosed and treated. Neil Walker
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THE boat hire business at Scout Beach, Mornington, has been granted a new nine-year lease along with a 300 per cent rent hike. The lease to Mornington Boat Hire and Bait and Tackle run by Paul Pingiaro operates from a boat shed and includes about 120 square metres of foreshore, which can be used for boat hire and a kiosk. Boats have been hired from a business on the beach for 90 years. A report to Mornington Peninsula Shire Council’s Tuesday 27 June meeting said Mornington Boat Hire had nine employees “and is Melbourne’s largest boat hire with other operations at Mt Martha foreshore and Yaringa Boat Harbour [Somerville]”. “The proposed rent [$9200 plus GST for the boat shed and $6000 plus GST for the foreshore] is based on a market rent determination by valuation and the income aligns with Council’s budget projections and will provide revenue to support council services,” property and strategy manager Yasmin Woods stated in a report to council. “The tenant has demonstrated a good history of lease compliance and is a well-known boat hire business with an excellent reputation. This report recommends that a lease be negotiated by private treaty with the current tenant.” Ms Woods said the rent was based on information from Matheson Stephen Valuations, which had been asked to “assess the fair market rental”. “In assessing the market rental and appropriate licence fee payable for the premises, MSV investigated rentals for foreshore properties, including the following Bluey’s Boat House, 221 Bay Trail, Mordialloc; Yaringa Boat Hire, Yaringa Boat Harbour, Somerville; The Baths Restaurant, Sorrento; and Sofia on the Pier Restaurant, Frankston.” Keith Platt
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WHAT’S ON AT NEPTOURS
vicroads.vic.gov.au
*CROWN CASINO – MONTHLY*
Mornington Peninsula Freeway run-off-road treatment Community Information Session
The proposed treatment involves installation of continuous flexible safety barriers (wire rope barriers) on both sides of the carriageways along the freeway. To ensure the barriers perform effectively in the event of a crash vegetation will need to be removed.
Casino’s bus program with a great BUFFET lunch (all) $35. Only p/p over the age of 18 permitted.
THE BODYGUARD
Wed 11 Oct (a) $130 (p/s) $120 GIPPSLAND
LAST THURSDAY EACH MTH GARDEN & HOME EXPO (numbers permitting) Sun 15 Oct
July 2017 As part of Victoria’s Road Safety Strategy and Action Plan, Towards Zero 2016-2020, the Mornington Peninsula Freeway between Mount Martha and Rosebud has been earmarked for significant improvements to address run-off-road and head-on crashes.
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Learn more about the project at the upcoming Community Information Session: When
Pop in anytime between 10am and 7pm on Wednesday 19 July 2017
Where
Atrium at Safety Beach Country Club 10 Country Club Drive, Safety Beach
CRAFT AND QUILT FAIR
$70 p/p
QUEEN VICTORIA MARKET
Wed 10 Jan 2018 (matinee) (a) $140 (p/s) $130
Fri 28 Jul all $65
Tue 8 Aug - All $30 MELBOURNE ZOO
Tue 10 Oct (a) $85 (p/s) $75 (c) $60
ALADDIN
DREAM LOVER
Wed 17 Jan 2018 (a) $130 (p/s) $120
If you would like more information please contact Ranjith Gamage on 9881 8914.
Phone: 5981 1277
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Mornington News 11 July 2017