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5973 6424 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au New look: Artist Sheldon Headspeath outside the newly-decorated Rosebud Sea Scout Hall with scouts Bruce Male, Oscar Male, Sophie and Hannah O'loghlin. Picture: Yanni
New outlook on scouting A MUCH-needed facelift has transformed the facade of the Rosebud Sea Scout Hall – the SS Coleman – which has been a landmark on the foreshore for generations. Street artist Sheldon Headspeath has created a mural which members say “captures the essence of the scout group”. It can be seen from Point Nepean Rd. Committee president Leanne Male said the sea scouts were “lucky to have the natural wonders of the Mornington Peninsula on their door step”. “In winter months they can hike and camp throughout the hinterland while, during summer, they spend most days at the beach sailing, swimming and kayaking – and Sheldon’s creation celebrates these activities,” Ms Male said. Headspeath’s work is just the start for the Coleman Hall: plans are being drawn up to “bring it into the 21st century” with updated infrastructure and worn items replaced. Hundreds of children have enjoyed seas scout activities over the past 60 years. “Scouting builds resilience and independence in boys and girls and there is always something to be involved in,” Ms Male said. “New members are always welcome to come and see what is on offer.”
Bid to revive Holt memorial Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au PROPONENTS of a new memorial for former Prime Minister Harold Holt are hoping for a major commitment from the federal government on 17 December, the 50th anniversary of his disappearance. Mr Holt’s body was never found after he went swimming with friends on that day in 1967 at the restricted Cheviot Beach.
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The beach was within the then-Portsea Officer Cadet School, and now forms part of the state-run Point Nepean National Park. A small stone memorial with a commemorative plaque sits above the beach while another plaque has been fixed on the underwater reef where Mr Holt was last seen. In 1968, famed architect Robin Boyd sketched a memorial at the suggestion of Holt’s friend, Ross Shelmerdine. Although that design: two 55 metre
long by 3.6 metre high walls across Cheviot Beach and running into the water, is now acknowledged as being inappropriate, it could be a “catalyst, or starting point”, programming director of the Robin Boyd Foundation Tony Lee, said. “We’re certainly not proposing walls. That was designed in the 1960s and things have progressed dramatically since then, such as how to protect the natural landscape at Cheviot Beach. “I would hate to think that that [the
diverging walls] is what’s being proposed.” Mr Lee said the foundation and Stephen Shelmerdine (Ross Shelmerdine’s son) would see a new architect brought in “with a view to having the memorial on the hill above the beach”. He said talks were ongoing with Parks Victoria and in-principal discussions had been held with Flinders MP Greg Hunt and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg as well as “the relevant government people”.
“They haven’t given any commitment but have shown a great deal of interest. Josh Frydenberg and Greg Hunt are both keen.” Mr Lee was expecting the politicians to make an announcement at the site of the present unprepossessing Holt memorial on the 50th anniversary of his disappearance. He said there was no cost estimate at this stage, but thought the project was “good for both state and federal governments”. Continued Page 15
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