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Lap of luxury for cats in former dairy WINDREST Cattery, in Myers Rd, Bittern won the Creative Reuse of a Heritage Place award for turning a 1920s dairy building into a cattery. Judges of the Mornington Peninsula Heritage Award’s said the work “retained the original fabric of the building and converted the original layout into individual cattery suites and office space”. Owners Dennice and Robert Breeschoten completed the renovation and opened their cattery in April after owning the building for 25 years. “It had been used for storage,” Mr Breeschoten said. “Then we realised the potential of this lovely building, which now houses the administration section and family villas where cats from the same family are housed with interconnecting rooms so they can be together.” “Diverse choice for heritage awards” Page 5
Cat heaven: Windrest owners Dennice and Robert Breeschoten at their awardwinning cattery. Picture: Yanni
Cloth alternative to plastic Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au THE state government’s ban on single use plastic bags – and commitments by the big supermarkets to phase them out over the next few months – has highlighted the merit of alternatives, such as the free Boomerang Bags. Rosebud Boomerang Bags was launched at the La Casa Nostra deli in July by Gwen Giudici, who picked up the idea from Shelle Hepburn, who had been sewing Boomerang Bags in
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Sorrento with the help of volunteers and school children. Since then, another three Boomerang Bags communities have been established: Somers, Red Hill and Western Port, with more in the pipeline. Ms Giudici and a group of keen women has taken the Boomerang Bags project to schools, scout groups and events (such as last Sunday’s Walk 4 Westernport and next weekend’s War of Waste forum) to spread the message on stopping the use of single use plastic
bags and waste in general. “The Mornington Peninsula Boomerang Bags groups have produced 1660 bags to date and you can add at least another 100 to that after Saturday,” Ms Giudici said. “It’s booming.” The bags are also travelling the world, with Sorrento Community Centre manager Tracey Truman promoting them in the US at Charleston (South Carolina) and Savannah (Georgia) – just two of the stops she has made. Ms Giudici said the group had started making its own Mornington
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Peninsula-branded bags by screen printing the pockets on the front of the bags. “We are having regular sewing bees for everyone to join,” she said. “Lots of people are also sewing from home but, with the increased demand for schools and events, we are always on the lookout for more volunteers.” Energy, Environment and Climate Change Minister Lily D’Ambrosio said banning single-use plastic bags would reduce litter and help protect marine life.
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“We will work closely with Victorian communities and businesses to design the ban,” she said. “We’re proud that we’re doing our bit to reduce the impact plastic bags have on our environment.” IGA Mt Martha co-owner Rod Allen said the store would “look to bring in a plastic bag ban as soon as practicable. We are having a meeting [of IGA management] on Tuesday and I will raise the issue and see when we are going to bring it in as a group.” Continued Page 11
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