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Rotary awards student citizens MORNINGTON Rotary Club has awarded citizenship certificates to students of six district schools at its annual Schools’ Showcase. Representative students from Mornington primary and secondary schools attended dinner with Rotarians and presented some of the highlights of their programs aimed at citizenship development. Students awarded certificates were Kate Mattingley (Mornington Primary School), Fiona Sanford ( Mornington secondary), Brianna Higgins, (Padua College), Austin Omann (St Macartan’s primary), Will Krawczuk (Benton Junior College) and Jan Silayan (Mornington Park primary) During the evening the students presented accounts of their schools’ projects and programs. “We have some excellent local schools and some outstanding junior citizens in our community,” Rotary president Jack Carter said. “Our young people sometimes attract bad publicity, but students of the quality we saw tonight make us feel proud of students at our schools.” As well as the presentation of citizenship certificates, six students of Mornington Park primary completed the requirements of the Rotary Junior Community Award, a primary school version of the Duke of Edinburgh Award. The students were Zoe Dahlenberg, Paige Chenhall, Jan Silayan, Katherine Coghlan, Sam Bennett and Danielle Wilson.
Pride of Rotary: Rotary citizenship winners, from left back row, Fiona Sanford (Mornington Secondary College), Kate Mattingley (Mornington primary), Brianna Higgins (Padua College); front row, Austin Omann (St Macartan’s), Will Krawczuk (Benton Junior College) and Jan Silayan (Mornington Park primary).
Stop the buses – traders
By Mike Hast A LARGE majority of traders in the vicinity of Mornington’s planned bus interchange in Barkly St don’t want it. All traders get to have their say about the so-called interchange – glorified bus stops on either side of Barkly St east of the Main St roundabout – at a meeting with Mornington Peninsula Shire planners next Tuesday. The interchange will cost $450,000, which was funded in the state budget in early May (‘Transport focus of state budget for Mornington’, The News, 5/5/11). The main objections are the closing of Blamey Place where it meets Barkly St, expected traffic congestion, buildings being forced to remove verandahs and diesel fumes from waiting buses, says David Pealey, president of Mornington Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In May, The News reported the in-
Bus stop: The Barkly St bus interchange will see parking bays either side of the street between Blamey Place, centre left, and Railway Grove, right, which is the entrance to Centro Mornington.
terchange would close Blamey Place. “The chamber has spoken to 20 traders affected by the bus interchange and only two support its location,” Mr Pealey said. He said the closure of Blamey Place would create problems for shoppers
using the gravel car park on the eastern side between Barkly and Vale streets. There will be two entrances to the car park, an entry only at Vale St and an entry and exit at the Eastern Ring Rd. “We’re hoping the shire council will
look at placing the bus interchange at one of two other locations – opposite Beaches restaurant on the western side of Main St or on the corner of Gordon and Barkly streets on the eastern side.” Mornington Ward councillor Bev Colomb said the chamber was coming “from one side of things”. “You need traffic experts to provide information; non-biased opinions,” she said. The bus interchange was an election promise made by Mornington MP David Morris before the state election just over a year ago. In May, soon after the budget funding had been announced, Mr Morris said the interchange had been included in the Mornington structure plan and the next step was to make bus routes work better by to install traffic lights at the intersection of Wilsons Rd and Nepean Hwy near Peninsula Community Theatre. The state government was trying to
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get a few basic public transport elements in place for Mornington, he said. Also in May, the shire council’s director of sustainable environment, Steve Chapple, said two of four buses servicing the town used Barkly St and the shire would encourage Peninsula Bus Lines to reroute 781 and 788 to use the interchange. The two buses currently stop at nearby Vale St. The shire’s manager of infrastructure strategy, Niall McDonagh, said the shire would design and manage the project using the government’s money. Work would involve creating indented bus bays and “beautifying Barkly St”, but would not be done over summer as it would cause too many traffic delays, he said. It was hoped the interchange would be completed by June, Mr McDonagh said.
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