Southern Peninsula News 11 August 2020

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Clear fairways to the fore THERE’S not much that can put golfers off their game, but a state of emergency and the introduction stage four restrictions to stop the spread of COVID-19 will do the trick.

Fairways are clear, pin flags have disappeared and ball cleaning apparatus is taped up.

However, courses are being kept in shape as greenkeepers are among the permitted workers during the lockdown.

For more information about what the latest restrictions mean on the Mornington Peninsula see: “State of emergency changes daily life” Page 5

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Equality key to reducing violence Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au TWO of the most insidious, yet often hidden, scourges of modern Australian society are linked.

One, gender inequality between men and women, is recognised as a key driver of male violence in the home; the second, male suicide, can result from the pressure exerted on men to follow outdated stereotypes of masculinity leading to anxiety, depression and risky drinking.

The two issues are central to Mornington Peninsula Shire’s long-standing commitment to addressing the gender drivers of violence against women and their children through its Gender Equality Strategy 2020-30.

The strategy also supports efforts to promote women’s independence and decision-making, questions gender stereotypes and roles in both sexes, and promotes positive, equal and respectful relationships.

An aligned project, Men and Boys Making It Happen on the Mornington

Peninsula, last week received $120,000 from VicHealth over two years.

The project aims to encourage healthier attitudes towards masculinity contributing to advancing gender equality and improving the health and wellbeing of men, boys and the broader peninsula community.

The project will follow the findings of the Jesuit Social Services’ study The Man Box which looked at what it was like being a young man in Australia.

The study focused on a survey of a representative sample of 1000 young

men aged 18-30 from across the country, as well as focus group discussions with two groups of young men, on their attitudes to manhood and male behaviours.

It found that pressure to be a “real man” and, to follow outdated stereotypes of masculinity, was contributing to anxiety, depression, risky drinking and, consequentially, violence against women and potential suicides.

Services provider Family Life will join Mornington Peninsula Shire and Jesuit Social Services to deliver train-

ing and education sessions to peninsula men and boys with the aim of “challenging unhealthy masculinities and breaking the stigma around men’s mental health”.

The project is in the initial planning phase with no set dates set, but updates will be posted on the shire’s website as it progresses into awareness raising, engagement and education activities.

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Have Your Say A safe cycling network for the Peninsula Mornington Peninsula Shire is inviting the community to provide their thoughts on its draft RideSafe Strategy 2020.

The draft Strategy aims to encourage more people to cycle on the Peninsula for transport and recreation, by providing a safe, low stress, integrated and connected cycling network focusing on the user experience.

The four main objectives are : • Improve cycling infrastructure to reduce risk to users.

• Develop a connected cycling network to ensure most areas of the Peninsula can be accessed by bicycle.

• Enhance the user experience to encourage more people to cycle.

• Educate road and trail users and promote cycling on the Peninsula.

How to Have Your Say Community consultation closes 5pm Friday 11 September 2020 Online

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A STRATEGY to determine how the Mornington Peninsula handles housing and population growth over the next 16 years – while ensuring the peninsula’s special values and character are protected – was adopted by council last week.

The Mornington Peninsula Housing and Settlement Strategy: Refresh 2020-2036 comes as the state government projects the shire’s population will increase from 161,520 at the time of the 2016 census to 200,360 in 2036 – an increase of more than 38,800.

The planning services committee meeting on Monday 20 July resolved to start the process of amending planning controls to ensure development better respects the peninsula’s valued neighbourhood character and makes it easier to build a new home or extend an existing one.

The mayor Cr Sam Hearn said adoption of the strategy was “one of the [council’s] biggest achievements of the past four years”.

“As a local council we have a significant role

in managing the demand for housing and population growth on the peninsula, as well as ensuring the unique characteristics of the peninsula are safeguarded,” he said. “However, our role is to also make sure our residents have the ability to stay in the townships they love for longer.

As such, we’ve worked to improve the process of building or extending … to make it more streamlined for residents.”

The council’s next step is to seek authorisation from planning minister Richard Wynne to prepare a planning scheme amendment to formally introduce the proposed changes into the planning scheme.

Planning committee chair Cr Antonella Celi said: “A key part of this will be engagement … to ensure the proposed changes are understood by the community and enable the community to have their say.”

Yawa: first a name, now a manager THE manager of the still to be completed Yawa Aquatic Centre at Rosebud is Dan Andrews.

Mornington Peninsula Shire says Mr Andrews has “an extensive background in health and fitness” that will enable him to “bring a great wealth of experience and knowledge to the new centre”.

As centre manager of the $50 million aquatic centre taking shape in Boneo Road, Mr Andrews will be responsible for “maintaining a strong relationship with council and leading a highperformance community minded culture where all visitors feel welcome”.

“This role is integral to the smooth operation and success of this Shire facility and we think

Dan is a great fit,” the mayor Cr Sam Hearn said.

While construction of the aquatic centre has progressed, marketing and branding have been delayed by councillors insisting on community feedback about its name (“Yawa ‘milestone’ for aquatic centre” The News 4/8/20).

Finally adopted as Yawa, more controversy has now been raised about the meaning of the word.

The shire says it means “swim” or “to swim”, but evidence is now being produced claiming it means “journey” (see Letters Page 10).

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Universities get down to business at Pt Nepean The cuts were announced after staff refused to accept a two per cent pay cut.

Nepean MP Chris Brayne said the type of environmental research that would be undertaken in the latest proposal “is a feature of the Point Nepean National Park master plan”.

In 2006, the then Prime Minister John Howard and Mr Hunt distributed a newsletter which stated that $9.7 million would be “allocated to the [Launceston-based] Australian Maritime College to create a National Centre for Marine and Coastal Conservation”. On 16 June that same year, then Treasurer Peter Costello and Mr Hunt issued a joint news release saying the federal government would provide $27 million “to restore and protect [Point Nepean’s] important heritage values and assist in the completion of the National Centre for Marine and Coastal Conservation”.

However, within one year the deal with the AMC had fallen through and the federal government then invited Melbourne University to step in and fill the void.

A memorandum of understanding was entered into, but a business case never undertaken.

In June 2010, Mr Hunt told Parliament that a “vision” for a National Centre for Coasts and Climate at Point Nepean had been “allowed to slide”.

He accused the state government of having “immediately pocketed” $7 million allocated to Melbourne Uni-

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Nearly lights out: Rotarian Colin Stokes and friend snuggle up for warmth.

A night to warm hearts ROTARIANS slept in their cars, outside in tents, or on couches to help the homeless on the Mornington Peninsula for one night last week.

Mount Martha Rotary club president Roger Skipsey said members were happy to “do it tough” to support Fusion Mornington Peninsula’s annual Sleep In Your Car event. The experience on Saturday 1 August gave them an insight into what it means to be homeless.

The Rotarians usually aid the cause by sleeping rough and running a

barbecue at Mornington Park but this year, because of coronavirus restrictions, they held a “virtual” sleep-out which raised $1690. This amount will be added to the $25,325 Fusion’s overall event has currently raised.

The cause is urgent: On any given night, 116,427 people are recorded as homeless. About 42 per cent are aged under 25.

The Sleep In Your Car event was held in the lead up to Homelessness Week (2-8 August) which is now in its sixth year.

THE federal government has earmarked $25 million to build a “worldclass marine and oceanographic research and education centre” in the quarantine station at Point Nepean National Park.

Flinders MP Greg Hunt said the universities were undertaking a business case and proposal in partnership with Parks Victoria and “all levels of government that aligns with the state government’s master plan for the … precinct”.

Mr Hunt said a four-year grant agreement had been finalised with Melbourne and Monash universities to build the National Centre for Coasts, Environment and Climate on the historic site.

Mr Hunt’s office later told The News that the centre would be situated in refurbished existing buildings.

The latest proposal follows several failed attempts to establish a permanent tertiary level research centre at Point Nepean.

The announcement also preceded revelations that Melbourne and Monash universities would be cutting staff due to declining enrolments, mainly by overseas students.

Melbourne University is looking at a $1 billion deficit budget (2020/23) and the loss of 450 jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

versity for the centre in breach of the terms and intention of the Commonwealth handing over control of Point Nepean to the state.

A decade on, Mr Hunt says he is delighted “that this long-held vision is now a step closer”.

“This project brings a long-term, sustainable environmental use to the buildings [as well as] two higher education institutions to the Mornington Peninsula and a world-class marine and coastal research facility to Victoria and Australia,” he said.

Mr Hunt predicted the centre would “become one of the world’s great marine and oceanographic research centres”.

It will foster “interdisciplinary research on marine and coastal ecosystems, climate science and environmental management, with its location at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay [being] ideal for researchers to observe ocean, coast and atmospheric conditions”.

Environment Minister Sussan Ley said the universities would focus on environmental and cultural sensitivities of the Point Nepean precinct and listen and work closely with the local community as the project develops.

“The potential of the facility to contribute to greater public understanding of the ecological and cultural treasures of Point Nepean is also something the universities will be exploring,” Ms Ley said.

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THE latest restrictions to stop the spread of COVID-19 may have limited the chance to travel, but they also create plenty of inspiring ways for expressing creativity and recording these exceptional times through pictures.

There are many opportunities for pictures while still observing social distance and authorised reasons for being outside (and masked) as well as in the home.

Readers are invited to send and share their pictures, with a short caption, to: lockdown@mpnews.com.au

THESE first images on the Lockdown Pictures pages vary from a sunset (taken well before curfew), to a moth looking in from the outside, innovative nesting boxes and a mysterious road sign. But of course there’s no limit to the scope that may fall under the lens during lockdown.

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Mornington Peninsula Shire Council postal election Your council, your vote You must be enrolled to vote A general election will be held for Mornington Peninsula Shire Council in October 2020. To be able to vote in the election, you must be enrolled by the close of roll at 4 pm on Friday 28 August 2020.

Two categories of voters can be enrolled to vote in the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council election: State-enrolled voters and Council-enrolled voters.

State-enrolled voters

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Am I enrolled to vote?

Am I enrolled to vote?

You are automatically enrolled for this election if: • you will be 18 years of age or over on Saturday 24 October 2020 AND • you live in Mornington Peninsula Shire AND

To be a Council-enrolled voter, you must be: • 18 years of age or over on Saturday 24 October 2020 AND

• you are on the State electoral roll for your current address.

You need to enrol if: • you are an Australian citizen aged 18 or over on Saturday 24 October 2020 AND • you live in Mornington Peninsula Shire and you are not on the State electoral roll OR • you have lived at your current residential address within Mornington Peninsula Shire for at least a month and have not yet updated your enrolment details, including any changes to your postal address.

How do I enrol?

You can enrol online at vec.vic.gov.au You can also download an enrolment form from the website.

All enrolment applications must be received by the Victorian Electoral Commission by the close of roll at 4 pm on Friday 28 August 2020.

How can I check my State enrolment?

You can check your enrolment details online at vec.vic.gov.au at any time, or call 1300 805 478.

• not a State-enrolled voter within Mornington Peninsula Shire.

You are automatically enrolled for this election if you were enrolled as a non-resident owner at the most recent election for your local area. This includes any by-elections held since the last general election.

If you meet any of the mentioned criteria and wish to enrol, contact Mornington Peninsula Shire Council on (03) 5950 1344 for a council enrolment form. Council enrolment forms must be received by the Council by the close of roll at 4 pm on Friday 28 August 2020.

How can I check if I am Council-enrolled?

Who else can enrol & vote?

Candidate requirements have recently changed. To nominate as a candidate for Mornington Peninsula Shire Council, you must: • be an Australian citizen and enrolled on the voters' roll for Mornington Peninsula Shire Council AND • be eligible to become a councillor should you be elected AND • have completed the mandatory candidate training before lodging your nomination with the Election Manager.

You may also apply to enrol if: • you have purchased a rateable property in Mornington Peninsula Shire since the last election or by-election and you are not automatically enrolled OR • you are not an Australian citizen and you live in, and pay rates for, a property within Mornington Peninsula Shire OR • you pay rates on a property you occupy in Mornington Peninsula Shire, for example you are a shop tenant and pay rates to the Council for the tenancy, and you have no other voting entitlement within Mornington Peninsula Shire OR

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State of emergency changes daily life MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire mayor Cr Sam Hearn has called for calm following last week’s declaration of a state of emergency and the introduction of stage four restrictions to stop the spread of COVID-19.

“As we navigate the next six weeks let’s do our best to be patient, resilient and calm. This situation is unfamiliar to all of us,” Cr Hearn said.

“We are in this together and if we all do the right thing we will be on the other side of this sooner.”

Changes to the daily lives of Victorians include: An 8pm-5am curfew (the only reasons to leave home during these hours are for permitted work, essential health, care or safety).

Face masks/coverings are mandatory.

Exercise limited to a maximum of one hour a day within five kilometres of home with one other person.

Shopping limited to one person a household a day also within five kilometres of home (on the peninsula travel is allowed if a supermarket is further than five kilometres).

Students (including years 11 and 12) began learning from home from Wednesday 5 August; from Thursday 6 August kindergartens, family day care and early childhood education services were only open to vulnerable children and children of permitted workers.

The Night Network (bus route 970 to Rosebud) has been suspended.

If you can’t leave home because it would mean leaving a young child or at-risk person alone they can accompany you.

Services continuing as normal are the emptying of rubbish, recycling and green bins.

Tips and hoppers are closed to the public but open for commercial use.

The shire’s 2019-20 waste voucher expiry date has been extended to 31 December.

Closed: Mount Martha Golf Course, boat ramps (except for commercial fishing), play-

Ferry services cut

Picture: Yanni grounds, skate parks, community halls and houses, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (online activities), libraries (Zoom events, including childen’s storytime), recreation centres and swimming pools (online fitness and nutrition advice).

Open for those living within five kilometres: The Briars, Mount Martha (pedestrians only); beaches, cemeteries, and sporting fields (personal exercise only).

Modified services include the shire’s customer service (phone and online only), aged and disability care, maternal and child health and immunisation, family day care, youth services and the animal shelter.

Help: Beyond Blue 1800 512 348, Lifeline 13

11 14 or facing threat of family violence 1800 737 732.

Food and emergency relief: Mornington Community Information and Support 5975 1644; Westernport Community Support 5979 2762; Southern Peninsula Information and Support 5986 1285.

COVID-19 testing: 24-hour coronavirus hotline 1800 675 398; Rosebud Hospital clinic at Eleanora House 10am-6pm dailys; Frankston Hospital 12 Hastings Road, Frankston, 10am-6pm; Monash University Peninsula Campus, Moorooduc Highway, Frankston, 8.30am-4pm; Atticus Health Medical Clinic Hastings (appointment only); Rosebud Respiratory Clinic (appointment only).

WITH an expected drop in demand due to the stage four coronavirus restrictions, Searoad Ferries has suspended weekend ferry services between Sorrento and Queenscliff until at least 19 September.

The ferry, left, will continue its two-hourly Monday-Friday service.

The cut back follows changes brought in with the stage three restrictions last month (“All clear for essential ferry” The News 13/7/20).

“This is obviously an historic and significant step to suspend the service for the first time in 33 years,” Searoad CEO Matt McDonald said.

“However, we must respond to the unprecedented circumstances which we find ourselves in, with stage four lockdown in the greater Melbourne region.”

Mr McDonald said essential travel and for permitted work and would continue.

“We believe we have a responsibility to provide a service for those who need to travel and to assist the critical and essential parts of our community to remain operational,” he said.

Under the regulations the transport operator is an essential service for approved travel, transport and freight. This includes travel for emergency services, essential supplies, work, medical purposes and compassionate reasons.

“During COVID-19 we have continued to move a broad range of customers who rely on our service,” Mr McDonald said. “[This includes] essential travel, such as the supply of milk to the Mornington Peninsula, tradies travelling to jobs on either side, emergency services, medical staff, as well as individual carers travelling for compassionate reasons.”

“We are maintaining our practices in line with our COVID safe plan which includes hourly sanitation and cleaning of the vessels.”

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AGL Crib Point Gas Project Information Session The AGL Crib Point Gas Import Jetty & Pipeline Project is proposed to increase the supply of natural gas to southeastern Australia. However there are potential impacts on the protected Western Port Ramsar site, listed migratory species, listed threatened species and ecological communities.

The State Government has now put an Environmental Effects Statement on public exhibition until August 26 and we’re encouraging all residents to have their say on this proposal.

For more information visit: engage.vic.gov.au/crib-point-IAC Council will adopt a position on the proposal at its August 17 planning meeting.

A free online community information session will then be held to outline Council’s position and provide advice on how to make a submission.

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Grants tap into water source

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THE state government has given $1 million towards supplying recycled water to Mount Martha.

The money will be used to connect The Briars property and surrounding areas to the Mount Martha treatment plant, allowing access to class A recycled water from the South Eastern Outfall.

The project is part of a larger plan to help drought-proof the peninsula.

The outfall pipeline carries 350 million litres of water a day from the Eastern Treatment Plant at Bangholme to be discharged into Bass Strait at Boags Rocks, near Gunnamatta.

The shire has long advocated for money to tap into the secure water source that runs along the entire length of the peninsula.

A pipeline will extend from the Mt Martha treatment plant in Craigie Road to The Briars to support Green Dreaming, a project showcasing regenerative agriculture, land management and horticultural techniques.

The water will also support expanding the wildlife sanctuary and a test of climate change-resilient vines and the commercial growing of bush foods.

South East Water is covering the cost of the design and construction of equipment from the pump station to boundary fence of The Briars and neighbouring treatment plant.

In stage two the pipeline will be extended across to the beach side of Nepean Highway to irrigate Mace, Ferrero, and Citation ovals and the shire cemetery. It will have the capacity to deliver 200-megalitres of water a year, with initial demand estimated at 80-megalitres annually.

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A SECTION of Point King Beach, Portsea being claimed by trucking magnate Lindsay Fox is turning into a legal and political quagmire.

Not unaccustomed to controversy surrounding his expansive Portsea beachside property, Mr Fox wants to increase its size even more by using what is described as the “archaic English“ law.

The Doctrine of Accretion applies when the increased size of a beach has been “gradual and imperceptible” or natural.

On Christmas Eve 2013, Mr Fox was granted private title to a slice of the same beach.

This latest claim seeks an even larger portion of the beach (“Grainy narrative in tale of two beaches” The News 20/7/20).

In the wake of that successful application in 2013 to extend Mr Fox’s holding, the then planning minister, Liberal Matthew Guy placed a public land planning control over the area of beach involved.

Mornington Peninsula Shire subsequently fined Mr Fox for breaching those controls and is currently seeking an enforcement order through the Victorian Civil Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) to have the cleared area reconstituted.

Mr Fox has lodged a “retrospective” planning permit application, a move that will further delay the shire’s application for an enforcement order. If successful, Mr Fox’s application to the Supreme Court would overturn

SECLUDED Point King Beach at Portsea where trucking magnate Lindsay Fox is making a second bid to gain ownership of sand abutting his property. Picture: Yanni the planning controls which the shire used against him.

The shire has now sent a “please explain” letter to Planning Minister Richard Wynne asking why the Department of Environment Land Water and Planning allowed Mr Fox to lodge his application.

Shire planners have told councillors that it was “disappointing to learn that if DELWP has lawfully provided consent to Mr Fox to lodge the application, they did not check with council about any current or ongoing enforcement actions”.

Kate Baillieu, who has long sought

public access to the whole of Point King Beach, warns that if Mr Fox wins his case “then, potentially, he could fence off and build on his beach”.

“I welcome Mr Wynne’s commitment to strongly defending the public land zoning in the Supreme Court, but I call on the government to put a stop to Mr Fox’s latest land grab and potentially other similar claims around the coast - by legislative reform,” Ms Baillieu said.

“All sides of politics agree that Victorian beaches belong to the people and should not become private prop-

erty, however wealthy that landowner is.”

Ms Baillieu predicted “many other locals” would join her by insisting “that the beach at Point King has widened dramatically and very perceptibly in recent times, and that this has not been caused by natural coastal drift processes”.

“At the very least, Mr Fox should be made to prove beyond doubt that the beach he wants for himself has accreted gradually, imperceptibly and naturally,” she said.

“If he’s unable to prove it, then he should not be given our beach.”

Have Your Say Help shape the Peninsula’s Agriculture Food and Beverage Industry Mornington Peninsula Shire Council is committed to supporting growth in the local agriculture and food industry and building resilience to climate change through sustainable farming practices.

To achieve this aim, the Shire is undertaking research and consultation to develop a five-year Food Economy and Agroecology Strategy.

The project will examine the region’s Agriculture, Food and Beverage Industry at an economic, social and environmental level and will consider the impact of recent shocks, such as COVID-19, on the economy.

How to Have Your Say Farmers, food businesses and industry stakeholders are encouraged to complete one of two short surveys at

mornpen.vic.gov.au/agrofood

Hard copy forms are available upon request by phoning

1300 850 600

The first round of community consultation is currently open and closes Friday 21 August 2020 For more information

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To have your say visit:

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Limits to safe riding during lockdown Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au CYCLING within five kilometres of home for an hour a day is allowed under tougher COVID-19 restrictions, but the reality is that there are few safe biking options for residents of Mount Eliza, Mornington and Mount Martha.

Mornington Community Safelink Group’s Graeme Rocke said none of the existing trails were connected, meaning access to trails from people’s homes “may present road safety risks”.

His call for safer riding areas was amplified by the death of a 41-yearold woman cycling along FrankstonFlinders Road, Shoreham, Monday 3

POLICE, ambulances and concerned motorists in Nepean Highway, Mount Eliza on Sunday 2 August after a cyclist was hit by a car. Picture: Ian Button

August, and injury to a cyclist knocked down by a car on the corner of Nepean Highway and Eliza Terrace, Mount Eliza, Sunday 2 August.

“There is really only one good trail

– the Harrap Creek Trail which is relatively short and runs from behind the bowls club in Civic Reserve to Craigie Road,” Mr Rocke said.

“For most people the Peninsula Link

trail is outside the five kilometres which will also cripple use of other Mornington Peninsula trails.”

Mount Eliza residents were able to access only part of the Peninsula Link Trail as just getting there takes up part of the exercise limit, Mr Rocke said.

“Mornington residents can only access the Harrap Creek Trail which has no connecting links with other trails or pathways and is relatively short. Road safety issues may arise getting to the trail.

“Mount Martha residents can access the Harrap Creek Trail and possibly the northern end of the Bay Trail at Safety Beach. Access to the Bay Trail for most Mount Martha residents is unrealistic.”

Mr Rocke said Mornington Pen-

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insula Shire recognised that existing paths across the peninsula were not connected and safe bike riding options were limited.

“Many other Melbourne municipalities have wonderful trails and pathways – but not here on the Mornington Peninsula,” Mr Rocke said.

“We need better bike trails and pathways which interconnect.”

The Mornington Community Safelink Group Facebook link is: fb.me/ morningtonsafelink and the petition for improved pathways is at change. org/morningtonsafelink Bike users can comment on the shire’s draft Ridesafe Strategy 2020 at mornpen.vic.gov.au/About-Us/Haveyour-say/Have-

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Mt Eliza break in DETECTIVES are searching for a man, right, who entered a house on Daveys Road, Mount Eliza, and stole cash from a handbag, 1.17am Tuesday 23 June.

Half an hour later he is believed to have entered a property on Denistoun Avenue where he stole a Hugo Boss bag, Nike shoes, cigarettes and a security camera.

The man is described as 50 years old with long hair tied back, or perhaps a wig and glasses. He was wearing a red and black top, Globe baseball cap and mismatched golf gloves.

Anyone who recognises the man or has information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential report at crimestoppersvic.com.au

Shoreham fatality A CYCLIST died when her bike collided with a car at Shoreham, Monday 3 August.

Police were called to the scene on Frankston-Flinders Road about 10.10am.

The 41-year-old woman, of Shoreham, was reportedly riding south just past Point Leo Road when the incident occurred. The driver of the car, a 61-year-old Mont Albert woman, was assisting police with their inquiries.

Anyone who saw the collision, or who has dash-cam footage or any other information, is urged to contact Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000.

Cyclist down A CYCLIST was knocked down by a car on the corner of Nepean Highway and Eliza Terrace, Mount Eliza, 12pm, Sunday 2 August.

The man, 40, of Carnegie, was taken by ambulance to The Alfred Hospital with a shoulder injury.

Sergeant Jeremy Michau, of Mornington police, said the Mt Eliza man driving the car was charged with failing to give way and handed a $289 penalty notice.

Slow trip to Hastings VOLUNTEER Marine Rescue crews were able to assist when a 3.3 metre tinny capsized off Warneet, 11am, Saturday 1 August.

The Hastings crew in rescue vessel TX1 was on scene within half an hour of a call from the Water Police.

By that time the three boaties had

been picked up by a passing vessel and were said to be “very cold, but relieved to be [going] back to shore”.

Skipper Neil Cooper said towing the tinny in the strong outgoing tide meant the rescue vessel could only travel at about one knot.

Plea over damage POLICE are searching for a man, above right, who used a traffic cone to damage the glass doors of a fast food restaurant at Langwarrin.

Police said the incident on Cranbourne-Frankston Road occurred on Monday 15 June.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Carrum Downs 8770 4100 or Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000.

Battery causes fire ELECTRICAL problems are being blamed for a fire on a boat parked outside a house at Langwarrin last

month, above. CFA units from Langwarrin and Baxter fought the fire inside the cabin of the boat on Bevnol Road, 2pm, Monday 27 July, after a neighbour called triple zero.

The eight-metre cabin cruiser was emitting heavy smoke when crews arrived.

Langwarrin firefighter Craig Aiton said crews used breathing apparatus to get inside. “The 12-volt battery was being charged inside the cabin,” he said.

“The combination of the battery charger on a seat cushion and limited ventilation caused the charger to overheat and set fire to surrounding materials.

“The cabin contained bedding, pillows and lifejackets which added to the intensity of the fire and smoke.”

Firefighters were able to contain the fire to the front cabin area and contents.

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Letters - 300 words maximum and including full name, address and contact number - can be sent to The News, PO Box 588, Hastings 3915 or emailed to: team@mpnews.com.au

Journey of a name White settlement on the Mornington Peninsula is a tiny part of the area’s history so, well done to the 18,000 people who voted for Yawa as the name for the pool at Rosebud (“Yawa ‘milestone’ for aquatic centre” The News 4/8/20).

What a pity their choice was based on incorrect information supplied by Mornington Peninsula Shire.

Google “Yawa means swim” and you’ll only find one source - apart from articles about the pool - a story translated by Elder Aunty Fay Stuart-Muir about the journey undertaken by eels.

Google “yawa means journey” and you get two results which state: yawa means journey in Boonwurrung language. You also get Auntie Faye’s story under which she supplied vocabulary such as: yawa journey, long; yawawa long journey away; yawoneit swam.

So it does not contaminate the efforts of Auntie Faye and others to reconstruct the language, the shire must henceforth supply the correct definition of yawa.

This word would be ideal for the renaming of Blacks Camp Road, Somerville (“Showing respect by changing names” The News 28/8/20).

However, Boonwurrung Way acknowledges the first pioneers and hints at a journey.

Many children attending the [Blacks Camp] pre-school live in the parish of Tyabb, an approximation of an Aboriginal word for “mudholes” or “waterholes” used by Boonwurrung people for the waterholes at which they camped in this district.

Quamby is one of few words shared by many Indigenous languages from Tasmania to Queensland. In a journal entry in 1840, William Thomas mentioned his Boonwurrung companions drawing a mud map of their “yawa”, detailing how many nights they would quamba at each place.

Thus the pre-school could be named Tyabb Quamby (waterhole camp). Ray Gibb, Rosebud

Blacks Camp a tribute I reside close to Blacks Camp Road, Somerville and every time I use it, I consider the name it carries to be a tribute to the original owners of my neighbourhood (“Showing respect by changing names” The News 28/8/20). The atrocities the natives endured should never be swept under the carpet, and changing its name is just that.

Aboriginal people have endured everything, from being prosecuted for trespassing on the land they own, material and spiritual dispossession, to more than 170 massacres of men, women and children.

White settlers never had any land given to them they just took it.

In law, past, present and future, this has never been legal, particularly when associated with the killing.

Retaining the name Blacks Camp Road is the history lesson none of us ever received at school.

The reason is obvious.

Tony Nemaric, Somerville

The name game I’m still getting some mirth from the Rosebud pool saga, finally named “yawa”, an Aboriginal word (“Yawa ‘milestone’ for aquatic centre” The News 4/8/20).

I’ve noted that in a Filipino dialect yawa means devil; and that in computer internet slang yawa means someone who says he is away (not replying), when in fact the opposite is true and he is present, just won’t answer.

I believe that yawa is an acronym in Australia and the United States for young adults with arthritis.

I await with interest future slang terms for the aquatic centre.

For many years the former Shire of Mornington motif was a wonderful three-masted sailing ship. Very artistic, reflecting our past.

New blood and new ideas came and we had a competition, if my memory is correct, to choose a new motif, and the council selected our present dull, dreary, meaningless seashell motif.

It all reminds me of the ancient joke about a camel being a horse designed by a committee.

Brian A Mitchelson, Mornington

Information lacking Several weeks ago I requested an accounting from Mornington Peninsula Shire on its spending for consultants. I thought this would be a pretty simple request and that the information

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would be at hand.

The response I finally got after asking the question again (many days after its 12-day response promise) was: “Your request for a document detailing project, consultant, amount, brief and results to this point in time for consultant spending will need to be made under Freedom of Information (FOI). I have attached an FOI fact file and application form (page 4) with details on how to make payment of the application fee, to hit email. As your request currently stands if making request under FOI significant access charges would be applicable.”

It is no wonder the shire whinges about rate capping when the councillors do not even have the information available at hand to evaluate and manage this huge expense.

Why do we pay these officers huge salaries and bonuses when they cannot even do what the consultants do, and that is to look on the internet and then write a report?

Joe Lenzo, Safety Beach

Unions good and bad James McLoughlin is correct in the need for unions (“Unions the answers” Letters 28/7/20).

However, the unions themselves have much to answer for.

I was in a union for 30 years and it did nothing for me when I was sacked for refusing to drive a semi-trailer with no trailer brakes. I was also threatened with being blackballed if I didn’t pay 12 months’ dues in advance after I changed jobs and joined another union. That was two lots of dues in one year I was made to pay.

Soon after that union fell into turmoil as the committee members became like the politicians and personal interests led to much infighting which resulted in negative media publicity.

Having said this, I would point out that wages have remained static over an unreasonable period and finding job security in, as James stated, the most casualised workforce in the world today is next to impossible.

Now retired, some years ago I found joy when I joined a good union. No industrial action was taken without going to a members’ democratic vote. When new management took over and tried to cut our wages and conditions the union held us in good stead when we challenged management to accept similar cuts, which of course they wouldn’t.

Look how hard the police and ambulance unions had to fight for insulting pittance wage increases while the politicians in rare bipartisan agreement gain instant outrageous salary increases at the same time.

Good unions are needed now as never before.

Aussie (Austin) Sadler, Mornington.

Defending Daniel Private aged care is Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s domain, not [Victorian Premier Daniel] Andrews. The name Aspen medical services has popped up lately, the same nursing service that the Premier of NSW, Gladys Berejiklian had in Newmarch House where 19 elderly died from the coronavirus.

This was the same company that had also been assisting on the [cruise ship] Ruby Princess and due to incorrect biohazard routine, allegedly delivered the coronavirus to Newmarch House.

Aspen Medical is now working in private aged care centres in Victoria and they are employed by the Morrison government.

There are 769 aged residents infected in aged care centres, but only five in public-run ones.

Private aged care is the responsibility of Health Minister Greg Hunt. Biosecurity, that’s the prevention and spread of harmful organisms, is the Morrison government’s responsibility.

Andrews was pilloried over the breaches of security at the hotels and unlike a typical LNP politician, he has done a mea culpa. Dan Andrews employed the same companies as the federal government does. The companies hired inexperienced workers with limited training for which Andrews can’t be blamed. Then there’s the senior Australian Border Force officer who allowed 2700 people off the Ruby Princess believing they had tested negative for COVID-19 when they had tested negative for the flu.

I found these facts in the Bulletin, but couldn’t find them anywhere in the other media.

John Cain, McCrae

Defending Scott What an astonishing letter from John Cain (“Knives Drawn” Letters 4/8/20). I am surprised

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The News would publish such a biased view of the current situation about our leadership.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison certainly does have a team of staff working tirelessly on COVID-19 and a few other matters such as Services Australia (Centrelink), treasury, foreign affairs and defence.

Are we to believe poor [Victorian Premier] Dan Andrews is handling everything on his own? That’s not possible because then he would have no one else to blame when the full truth of his mismanagement is finally revealed.

The snide insults directed at Mr Morrison are hardly worthy. Yes, he enjoys his football, which is still being played in NSW and Queensland, unlike Victoria. And don’t be fooled by a long lens which makes everyone appear to be very close together.

The final insult thrown at his “happy clapper group” is a sad reflection on your correspondent. Would Mr Cain dare insult [Treasurer] Josh Frydenberg (Jewish) or Ed Husic (Muslim) in similar fashion? I think not.

Jack Wheeler, Mornington

Defending John I do not need to defend John Cain as I’m sure he can defend himself (“On the record” Letters 4/11/20). But for Roger Cleary to criticise [Victorian Premier] Daniel Andrews when foul-mouthed [Liberal MP for Kew] Tim Smith makes such disgusting remarks that even his LCP mates cringe…

Vic Langsam, Frankston

Only in Victoria While the Letters pages have been inundated with criticism (and a lone voice of praise) of the Premier Daniel Andrews, a lot, including the praise, have been short of actual facts. Here are a few reasons Victoria differed from other states: 1) Only in Victoria did we have a group of eight senior ministers, including the Premier, but not the Chief Health Officer or police commissioner (who only submitted daily reports) making final decisions 2) Only in Victoria could returned travellers in hotel quarantine refuse to be tested and then leave after the 14 days.

3) Only in Victoria did the Premier stand up in Parliament and say “Canberra doesn’t run Victoria, I do” and proceed to make policy against the recommendations of the advising cabinet.

4) Only in Victoria has the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee found that the Health Records Act was used to hinder efforts to contract trace the origins of the Cedar Meats cluster that reached 111.

5) Only in Victoria did someone from the Department of Jobs and Infrastructure decide it would be a good idea to employ out of work hotel bouncers for hotel security.

6) Only in Victoria did health authorities stop using the Covid Safe App for about two weeks because they were “so pressured”.

7) Only in Victoria could health staff and army personnel door knock 3000 homes of people who were supposed to isolate and find 800 not at home, which meant until the declaration of a state of disaster people with the virus were free to leave their homes for exercise.

8) How telling that it was our Health Minister, who went against direct advice and attended Parliament on 4 August along with a few other Upper House members and refused to answer questions.

Michael G Free, Mount Martha

Oppose government I once knew a wise old man named Stan. He was called “Mr Somerville” by many locals. Born during World War I, he fought against the Nazis in World War II, survived the prisoner-of-war camp, lived through tough post-war times working in different European countries and finally migrated to Australia in 1950.

He built a new life with his family from scratch under difficult circumstances and he truly loved his adopted country. Just occasionally he would say to me “Australians are like children”, and I never quite understood what he meant by that. Until now.

I wonder when Australians will grow up to take their lives and livelihoods into their own hands again and challenge their biggest child, the incompetent, helpless and fearmongering Victorian government?

When the restrictions of civil liberties are completely out of proportion to the desired outcome - managing the threat of COVID-19 - it

is time to stand up.

I am sure Stan would agree with me.

Silke Steenblock, Somerville

All together now Sadly, on the condition you do not live in South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania and most of New South Wales, we’re all in this together.

Cliff Ellen, Rye

Explanation needed When John Cain sits down to write his next letter to The News, could he please explain why are the citizens (and economies) of NSW, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory not experiencing the same lockdown as Victoria? Hopefully, the findings of the judicial inquiry due on 25 September will tell us the truth. Will genomic sequencing reveal that most, if not all, outbreaks of COVID-19 in Victoria (and other states) are due to the shambolic mismanagement of the hotel quarantine in Melbourne?

Bill Holmes, Sorrento

Delays at Rye Thankyou Mechelle Cheers for your efforts in seeing that improvements at the Rye pier area were finished (“Amazing outcome” Letters 4/8/20). However, the letter didn’t mention that the project actually started two years ago and that the scope of the plan has been drastically reduced.

In July 2018, the area was fenced off and a large part was excavated for what the plans said was to be a sunken paved seating area. There was also to be a raised bay viewing platform.

In August 2018, the project suddenly stopped, the hole was filled in and the fences were removed. When I asked why the project had stopped, I was told that it was going to be started and completed in Autumn 2019.

What also happened was that the new boat ramp jetty, which was not to be built until 2019, was completed months earlier than announced, in 2018.

Was it a coincidence that the two projects were swapped? Did two council officers have competing projects, or was it interference by a councillor who had a favourite project?

I don’t know the answer, but I have seen several publicly announced projects delayed for similar reasons over the past few years.

I think we need a councillor who is in touch with the community’s needs and wants rather than one who I believe appears to act for those who predominantly don’t live here.

David Trunfull, Rye

Stop the dogs Under stage four restrictions in Victoria we cannot have a haircut, exercise for more than an hour, or buy food after 8pm. Why, then, is dog racing still permitted? According to the Premier [Daniel Andrews], shutting down the industry would present “significant animal welfare issues.”

What can we take from this statement, apart from assuming that a greyhound who no longer makes money for his or her “guardian” is going to be neglected, abandoned, or killed? After all, this is an industry that railed against legislation requiring it to provide dogs with enriching toys, claiming this “anthropomorphised” greyhounds.

Greyhound trainers have previously been exposed for dumping dogs in mass graves, and live-baiting small animals.

I am the proud fur-grandpa of two rescued greyhounds. These loving, quirky individuals spent their early lives cut off from natural pleasures like play, socialisation, and regular walks.

One of them was confined to a cage for most of the day, and forced to live in her own waste.

Her only exercise was being chained to a walking machine.

The other dog has badly-worn teeth from chewing on the bars of her cage, and anxiety issues that are only now settling after years in a loving home.

The cruel practices of this patently non-essential business should not be permitted in a state of disaster, or any state at all. This exemption to the lockdown only serves to prove that racing industries put profit above anything else – including public safety.

Desmond Bellamy, PETA Australia

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Miss Gregory and Mrs Ward take aeroplane flights Compiled by Cameron McCullough ON Thursday Morris Bros’ aeroplane made a fight from Mordialloc to Frankston, and the landing and the taking-off were splendid.

Amongst the passengers who made the flight at Frankston were Mrs Ward and Miss Dolly Gregory, who thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

Morris Bros hope to visit Frankston again shortly to make passenger flights.

The date will be advertised in “The Standard” in due course.

Messrs Fitzgerald and Sheridan also made a flight. *** ON August 17th, after touring Gippsland, a Peace Loan aeroplane, piloted by Captain Matheson, will arrive at Frankston.

Captain Matheson earned “his wings” on the battle fronts of France and Palestine, and the machine he is using is a 130 h.p. Clerget Avro, which travels at a rate of 75 miles per hour.

He will leave Lang Lang on August 17th for Somerville, where he will land at 12.15.

At two o’clock he will arrive at Mornington, and lands at Frankston at 3 o’clock, leaving for Cranbourne 30 minutes later.

The arrival of the aeroplane will be the occasion of a special effort by local committees to secure the district’s quota. *** ACCORDING to “The Argus”, the Venereal Diseases Committee is at present urging the State Ministry to accept an offer by the Commonwealth

Government for the transfer of the Langwarrin Camp which, it is suggested, should be used as an isolation clinic.

The area at Langwarrin comprises 550 acres, and the purchase price is about £7,000, while it is estimated that 50 beds, could be maintained at an annual expenditure of £3,000. *** THE Trustees Executors and Agency Company Limited of No. 412 Collins Street, Melbourne, is applying for Letters of Administration of the estate of Thomas Male the elder, late of Yuilles Road, Mornington, retired farmer, who, died on the 20th May last.

The estate which is valued for duty purposes at £2821 consists of realty £392 personalty £2429 and is divisible amongst the Widow and children. *** MISS Mackay expects to leave Frankston to take charge of the Mornington post office on Tuesday next.

During her residence here Miss Mackay proved a zealous worker on behalf of the Presbyterian Church, and her departure will be a great loss to the church.

The members intend entertaining Miss Mackay at a social in the hall on Monday evening next, when the general public are also invited to attend. *** BY advertisement in another column a public meeting is convened for Wednesday night next in the Mount Eliza State School, to consider the question of erecting a public hall in the district. ***

MR Bolger, father of the well-known Frankston footballer, Mr. G. Bolger, died at Cheltenham on Monday last.

He at one time resided at Frankston, and deep sympathy is felt for the bereaved family. *** OWING to pressure on advertising space we are compelled to hold over a quantity of interesting reading matter including correspondence, reports of local functions and an interesting contribution from our Tyabb contributor. *** A PUBLIC meeting to discuss the formation of a company to establish cool stores at Frankston is advertised to be held at Brody and Mason’s office on Wednesday afternoon next at 3.30. *** THE fortnightly euchre party and dance, in connection with the Frankston Brass Band, takes place next Thursday. *** PROTESTANT Federation.

Frankston Branch.

There was a good attendance at the annual meeting of the above association, held in the local Mechanics’ Hall on 22nd July, 1920.

Mr Hartland was voted to the chair.

The secretary read an apology from the President of the Branch (Mr Jas Grice) who was unable to be present through illness.

The minutes of last annual meeting were read and confirmed on the motion of Mr Nicholson, seconded by Mr Johnson.

After the correspondence had been received, the secretary’s report and balance sheet was read and adopted,

on the notion of Mr Nicholson, seconded by Miss McComb.

It was resolved, on the motion of Mr Jos McComb, seconded by Mr. Twining, that a letter of condolence be forwarded to the President on his recent illness and congratulations on his recovery.

Mr. H. McComb moved and Mrs Randell seconded, that a letter be forwarded the Executive stating that this meeting upholds the Ministry in the deporting of Father Jerger. Carried. *** TRELOAR will umpire the DromanaSomerville match at Dromana next Saturday.

Nugent takes the game at Hastings. *** THE Peace Loan quotas are: Shire of Flinders, £20,000; Shire of Frankston and Hastings, £18,006; Shire of Mornington, £9,000. *** FOR Chronic Chest Complaints Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. *** THE State Treasurer, Mr. McPherson, proposes to visit Tyabb, Somerville and Hastings next week for the purpose of inspecting the cool stores of the co-operative fruit growing companies.

As the growers have subscribed the conditional £1000 the Government proposes to erect similar stores at Red Hill. *** THE Family of the late Mrs. W. Firth, of Orkney Farm, Somerville, desire to thank their many friends for cards, letters, telegrams, and floral tributes received during their recent sad

bereavement.

*** HEARD on the Train Progress! Progress everywhere!

Shop rents in Frankston are on the rise!

A vacant house advertised in the “Standard” on Friday, last attracted no less than 18 enquirers before evening the following day.

Summer is in sight! And once more the question of freezing works for Frankston is being discussed.

This time it looks as though there will be “something doing.”

Anyhow the orchardists will be asked the question shortly.

The Frankston Pictures, promoted by the Frankston Brass Band, is the advertised attraction for tomorrow night in the Mechanics’ Hall.

A feature of the show will be the screening of incidents at the Frankston-Dromana football match, snapped last Saturday.

The Band is endeavoring to be a self-supporting institution, and one commendable feature of the enterprise is that it will keep upwards of £500 in the town, which sum formerly “went abroad.”

The council elections do not promise to be wildly exciting, although there is time for development between now and nomination day – the 12th inst.

The East Riding contest wherein the Shire President, Cr. D. Hoban, is being opposed by Mr A. J. Alden, will be watched with interest. *** FROM the pages of the Mornington Standard, 6 August 1920

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scoreboard Stingrays don’t lack Pace SOUTHERN PENINSULA NEWS

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By Craig MacKenzie PROMOTION within two years and a personal honour thrown in. Adrian Pace dares to dream.

The 27-year-old “veteran” of Aspendale Stingrays senior squad thinks both targets are realistic and he’s confident that at least one of them is within striking distance.

“I think promotion is definitely on the cards,” Pace said.

“The squad is pretty strong. A lot of the boys came up from the under-18s who won their league and they will only get better after the experience they got last year playing their first senior games.

“I think I’m the oldest one there. Our average age is probably around 20, 21 and we’re a pretty exciting team to watch.

“We might cop a few goals but we outscore a lot of teams.

“I think we won 5-4 in one of our games last season.”

As for personal honours his trophy cabinet remains empty. No best player award, no players’ player award, nothing.

“Something to strive for I suppose.”

His playing CV isn’t barren though as it lists eight clubs on a journey which started at Beaumaris in the under-9s.

However he stopped playing and only returned to the sport a few years later after successfully trialling for a place in Bentleigh Greens under-14As. But as the teenage Pace discovered junior soccer isn’t immune to club politics.

“Right before the season started and after all the try-outs to make the squad the coach actually left and took half the side with him so we didn’t have a very good season.”

Pace lasted just two seasons with Greens then moved to Centenary Park to play with Strikers’ under-16s while doubling up in the reserves.

His next move was to see him make his senior debut for Frankston Pines against Old Scotch in 2011.

Pete Schwellinger, Jamie McMinimee and John Bruce were part of the passing parade of coaches at Monterey Reserve in that era as Pines were trapped in an alarming freefall that saw them plummet from Premier League to Provisional League in successive seasons.

Promotion prospects: Adrian Pace in action for State 5 South outfit Aspendale Stingrays. Picture: John Punshon

That changed dramatically in 2012 with the arrival of Danny Verdun as senior coach and the club clinched promotion that year and returned to State League after finishing second in Provisional 1 South-East.

“Danny’s a great man manager,” Pace said.

“He really gets you pumped up for the game.

“He gets everyone on his side and you really want to play for him.”

Although Pace was part of the senior squad in 2013 that consolidated Pines’ State League status the following year he was on the move joining Chelsea along with a couple of his mates for the 2014 season.

But that didn’t work out as Chelsea’s off-field problems had a direct impact upon its onfield fortunes.

“They were in State 5 and there were a lot of problems within the club back then.

“We went through three coaches that year and although we were a lot better after the technical director Rob (Giabardo) took over it was a little too late.”

Pace returned to Strikers for the next two seasons under local icon Craig

Matty Morris-Thomas took over.”

Within weeks Pace was on the move once more.

“Again I kind of fell out of favour a little bit so I went to Baxter mid-year and played under Roy (Kilner).”

Although he only made eight appearances for Baxter there was never a dull moment.

“I usually played on the left either at left back or left wing but Roy played me up front.

“Baxter was good for me and the best part was that we stayed up.”

Baxter dragged itself off the deck in the back half of that season and although Football Victoria’s records credit Pace with a solitary goal during his stint up front they are wrong.

That goal was scored in a 2-2 draw with Dandenong Warriors, a result that was overturned on appeal.

Tuach Ter was playing with Langwarrin’s under-20s that season but turned out for Warriors wearing the number 21 strip and was listed as Thor Kong on the official teamsheet.

Members of Langy’s coaching staff were at the match and identified Ter and Langwarrin notified FFV of the

Lewis.

“Off the park Lewie was like your mate.

“He was similar to Danny in the way he got you pumped up for games.

“I enjoyed that 2015 season and given that we introduced a few young guys into the side I thought we did quite well.”

When the 2017 season came around Pace was restless.

Verdun was in his second season back at Knox and Pace was keen to link up with his former coach.

“I did a pre-season under Danny but that didn’t really work out so I went back to Strikers but that didn’t work out either.

“I had some injury issues and I fell out of favour so I ended up going to Seaford midway through the season.

“They were in a pretty bad spot. They were on the bottom and Paulo (Pinheiro) was coaching.

“We didn’t really have the team and I don’t know if Paulo was given the support from the club in terms of coaching staff.

“I was there the next season under Paulo as well but eventually he quit and

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FV eventually ruled in Baxter’s favour giving it a 3-0 walkover which proved crucial as the club avoided the drop from State 4 South by just one point.

“There was a great bunch down there and I had probably some of the most enjoyable times I’ve had on the park.

“We were all mates and there was a strong culture at the club with lots of players sticking around after the match and having a beer together.”

Yet the camaraderie enjoyed by the playing group couldn’t keep Pace at Baxter Park and he joined Aspendale Stingrays for the 2019 season.

“I’m from Aspendale and the opportunity came up to go there when (senior coach) Lee Barber messaged me.

“He was taking on a new venture with a group of young guys and I wanted to see what it was like.”

Pace alternated training sessions between the Stingrays and Baxter but he settled on the goal of getting his local club out of State 5 South.

“That didn’t work out last season and I think we finished seventh.

“We only lost to Somerville and White Star Dandenong in the second half of the season and they finished first and third so it was a pretty promising end.

“We were looking to build on it this year until this virus stuff happened.”

Given no interruptions to the 2021 season Pace has much to look forward to.

Stingrays have use of a multi-million dollar state-of-the-art complex at Kerr Reserve and continued use of Jack Grut Reserve so off the field the springboard for expansion is in place.

“I’m pretty positive about our future.

“I can’t see any reason to move now.

“I walk to training plus I’ve got a coach who puts up with my crap so I’m pretty happy here.”

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Brideoake unveils promising filly HORSE RACING

By Ben Triandafillou MORNINGTON-based racehorse trainer David Brideoake unveiled an exciting threeyear-old filly on the Pakenham synthetic on Tuesday 4 August.

Donning the Group One-winning purple and blue checked silks, Jenni’s Rainbow settled quietly at the rear of the field before searching for a run at the top of the straight.

She wasn’t able to gain clear running until the 250m mark but once she straightened up, the daughter of More Than Ready steamed home in the fastest last 200m of the day (11.00 seconds) to land a convincing three-length victory.

With the Spring just on the horizon, trainer David Brideoake said he’ll still be taking it one step at a time.

"We will see where it takes her,” Brideoake said post-race. "She's still a work in progress. She's still green and learning, but it’s all in front of her now.”

"You have got to get things started now because in the next couple of months there are some good fillies’ races and hopefully she will stand up for them."

Jockey Ethan Brown said he was really happy with how the filly relaxed in the run.

"She's a strong filly with a really good brain," Brown said. "From the wide gate we thought there was no point being posted wide in a speed battle, so she relaxed lovely.

I thought the pick-up and go to the post was very good. It's a nice animal, nice individual and it's a fantastic way to start a filly's career."

Jenni’s Rainbow holds a nomination for the Group One Thousand Guineas (1600m) at Caulfield in October.

Guineas bound?: Jenni’s Rainbow wins on debut at Pakenham for David Brideoake. Picture: Supplied

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