NEWS DESK
Summer: weekly recycling Monday 18 December until Friday 2 February Your household recycling bin will be collected every week over summer! Our weekly Summer Recycling Service is a boost to the usual fortnightly recycling service to help you better dispose of your waste over summer. Your normal 240L recycling bin (blue lid) will be collected on the same day it is currently every week rather than fortnightly.
What can you recycle?
Here are a few recycling tips:
• Aluminium and steel cans and foil • Rigid and solid plastic items, such as kids’ toys, kitchenware, cups and drink bottles • Pots and pans • Wrapping paper and envelopes • Cardboard, newspapers and magazines • Milk, juice and soft drink bottles • Glass bottles and jars
• Don’t place recycling in a plastic bag • Empty containers of contents/liquids • Recyclables that can’t fit into your bin can be taken to a rubbish tip (Rye, Mornington and Tyabb) or hopper (Sorrento, Dromana and Flinders) for free.
Tree disposal THEY may have cost somewhere between $40 and $100, but no one wants a used Christmas tree. Two weeks after the event the trees have lost their glitter, having served their purpose of being a place under which to store presents and lighten the lives of all who see them. But knowing that there’s nothing to be gained from keeping a tree that’s shedding its dried out needles, Mornington Peninsula Shire is offering to take them in for $4.50 at its resource recovery centres in Rye, Tyabb and Mornington and hoppers at Dromana, Sorrento and Flinders. The normal disposal cost is $8.50, but the offer runs out on 16 January. Tip vouchers can also be used to dump the tree along with other green waste. Christmas trees can also be cut down to fit in a green waste bin; plastic trees can go in the rubbish bin. The address and full list of what can be taken to the recovery centres is at mornpen.vic. gov.au/wasteguide.
Art at Sorrento
To view your normal bin dates, visit: mornpen.vic.gov.au/my-neighbourhood
THIS year’s Sorrento Art Show opened Saturday 6 January and is open at Sorrento Community Centre, McFarlan Reserve, Morce Av, 10am- 4pm until 13 January. Featured artists in the art show run by Sorrento Rotary Club are Jayne Henderson, Ron Farnill, Gabrielle Young and Billy Nye.
Art opening THE opening night of the annual Mornington Art Show has become recognised as a gala occasion not to be missed. Traditionally these opening nights are social highlights for the Mornington art loving community and this year’s opening on Thursday 18 January will be no exception. Entertainment will be provided by the Bakery Jazz Trio whose members select music to suit the mood of the evening. Gourmet finger foods will be distributed by roving waiters from 7pm when the evening starts and refreshments are served. The art show will officially be opened around 7.20pm after which guests can wander through the shows three gallery areas. Opening night tickets are $25 and can be bought at morningtonartshow.com.au or from Farrell’s bookshop at the clock tower corner in Main St, Mornington. A record number of entries this year of more than 850 paintings will be on display and for sale. The entries featuring a wide range of genre, painting styles and subjects, with prices ranging from under $300 to several thousand dollars. This year’s art show also has 23 sculptures from the Tiwi Islands. The hand carved and painted works from the Jilamara Arts and Craft Association, Melville Island will be on display and for sale. There will also be iron bark painted carvings of birds and almost two metre high totem pole carvings of Tutini Tokwampini – the bird carvings. John Vanderwerf’s contemporary sculptures are made from an aluminium composite. The Mornington Art Show is at the Peninsula Community Theatre, cnr Nepean Highway and Wilsons Rd, Mornington. The art show ends on Australia Day, 26 January. Keith Platt
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. Listing should include event name, date, time & address.
Send your listing to:
Community Events
PO Box 588, Hastings 3915 or email your listing to communityevents@mpnews.com.au PAGE 28
Mornington News
9 January 2018
Under construction: A sculptor puts finishing touches to one of the Arabian Nights exhibits before the annual Sand Sculpting Australia event at Frankston’s foreshore. Picture: Gary Sissons
Sand sculptures tell tales THANKFULLY it took less than 1001 nights to build the latest attraction on Frankston’s foreshore telling the tales of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and the forty thieves and other Arabian Nights stories. Twenty skilled sculptors put in more than 5000 carving hours over 30 days using 3500 tonnes of brickies’ loam sand to build the Sand Sculpting Australia exhibition illustrating the stories of the Arabian Nights. Sandstorm Events director Sharon Redmond says the exhibition is open to visitors until 25 April. “Our aim is to capture the imagination and provide a unique experience that reappropriates the natural environment and encourages people to enjoy it in a new way,” she said. “This summer, you’ll be transported back in time to explore the ancient and ever-so-magical stories of the 1001 Arabian Nights, made completely from sand.
“You can see Aladdin fall in love with Princess Jasmine and trick the Genie of the Lamp with his three wishes. “Take a journey with Sinbad the Sailor on his seven magical adventures as he meets mystical monsters and fantastical creatures; then, ‘Open Sesame’, go deep with Ali Baba into the cave filled with jewels and gold.” The annual sand sculpting exhibition is hosted at the Frankston waterfront, 510N Nepean Highway until 25 April; Monday-Friday 10am-4pm daily and 10am-6pm on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. Adults $14, concession $11, children (3-15 years old) $9, children under 2 free entry. A super pass for children is $18. More than 130,000 people visit the exhibition in Frankston each year. See sandsculpting.com.au or call 0426 280 603 for more exhibition details.