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Have Your Say Provide feedback on the Marine Industry Precinct draft report Council is calling for community feedback on a report into the development of a dedicated Marine Industry Precinct designed to boost the regional economy, enhance innovation and provide thousands of yearround jobs on the Peninsula. Community members, businesses, industry and stakeholders are invited to provide feedback.
How to Have Your Say The draft Mornington Peninsula Marine Industry Precinct Economic Analysis Report will be on public exhibition from 1 July 2019 – 26 July 2019 An information drop in session will be held at the Somerville Recreation Centre on 18 July – 5.30pm to 8pm Mornington Peninsula Shire Council welcomes written submissions. You can complete a form at Shire offices or online at: mornpen.vic.gov.au/haveyoursay
Community consultation closes 5pm 26 July 2019.
To have your say visit:
mornpen.vic.gov.au/haveyoursay
What a haul: Participants in the litter patrol at Safety Beach sort out the rubbish they collected.
Rubbish time at the beach
BEACH Patrol Safety Beach/Dromana members had fine weather for their recent clean up, Sunday 16 June. About 24 volunteers turned out to pick micro plastics from the seaweed and the usual cigarette butts and general plastics off the foreshore. In all, they collected 2401 pieces of plastic plus 38kg of general rubbish. Big hitters were 790 cigarette butts and 750 wrappers and packages. Other items included 12 plastic bottles, 16 plastic cups, 16 glass bottles, 24 cans, 76 pieces of broken glass, 16 coffee cups, 45 plastic bottle caps, 30 metal bottle caps, 93 small hard plastics, 36 large hard plastics, 122 straws, 138 fishing lines, 32 pieces of polystyrene, seven pieces of cardboard, 194 plastic bags, five utensils, and eight “strange and unusual” pieces.
Tracking litter ABOUT 95 per cent of the litter found along the shores of Port Phillip comes from suburban
Things are heating up this Winter at CARRUM GARDENS
B I NG O Presents
CENTRE
This June & July we are giving away over
$65,000 OVER 4 BIG NIGHTS
43 x $100 2 x $1,000 1 x $10,000 $16 per set includes flyer
streets, with about 350,000 cigarette butts washing into the bay every year. A Melbourne Water and RMIT University project called the Litter Trackers project aims to track litter from its source to where it ends up. This will involve university scientists working with schools and community groups to deploy 100 GPS-tracked bottles from 20 locations across Melbourne’s catchments to reveal how litter makes its way from streets onto beaches. Measures can then be put in place to restrict the flow of litter. Litter and waterwatch coordinator Naomi Dart says Litter Trackers is a good learning tool for students and the wider community. “People often don’t realise that the rubbish they drop in their suburban street ends up right here in our rivers and streams carried by stormwater through our waterways. The Litter Tracker technology shows us this in real time.”
Attention Schools, sporting clubs & community groups
Free advertising listings Each month the Mornington News will run a Community Events page, where your school or organisation can promote upcoming events, fund raisers, social events, etc. at no charge. This page is sponsored by the Mornington Village Shopping Centre and listings are completely free.
MONDAY 10TH JUNE 7.00PM WEDNESDAY 26TH JUNE 7.30PM THURSDAY 11TH JULY 7.30PM FRIDAY 26TH JULY 7.00PM
Listings should be about 40 words and include event name, date, time & address.
Roasts from 5.30pm
PO Box 588, Hastings 3915 or email communityevents@mpnews.com.au
Carrum Gardens Bingo Centre 554-556 Franston-Dandenong Rd, Carrum Downs
9775 0065
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Mornington News
2 July 2019
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