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Showing the young at art
Pictures: Yanni
Sand pump brings sand for beaches A DREDGE pulled up off Rosebud beach and earth moving machinery arrived onshore last week to pump sand onto depleted beaches. The works will see 20,000 cubic metres of sand taken from offshore sandbars to renourish two beaches. Rosebud West beach is impassable at high tide and beach boxes have been undermined, while the Bay Trail boardwalk has been washed by waves east of the pier. Further south, work has ended and the beach has been fenced off for the summer break before
work resumes in February repairing sandbags at the eroded Portsea beach (“Millions poured into beach sand” The News 10/12/19). At eroded Mount Martha North, beachgoers are awaiting supplies of sand from Mount Martha South. The latest supply of sand comes curtesy of a $1.5 million election promise by Flinders MP Greg Hunt, although the state’s Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning sees it only as “a short-term measure”. Sand has also been washed away from Safety
Beach where early summer storms have also pushed over wooden fences at the beach. Mornington Peninsula Shire’s property works manager Nathan Kearsley, said “failed sections of rock wall” at Safety Beach would be repaired in the new year, including “remediation of eroded sections of foreshore”. He said $250,000 was included in the shire’s 2019-20 capital works budget for the repairs.The fence would also be repaired. Keith Platt
WORKS by students from Toorak College, Mornington Secondary College and Balcombe Grammar are all again featuring in January’s Mornington Art Show. There is a series of photographs by Toorak student Georgie Kerkhoff called “Rose coloured glasses” and Renee Pollock, also from Toorak, has printed on silk her “Trilogy of Tranquility”, her view of the purity of nature. Amber Jeffrey from Mornington Secondary College has entered several small portraits in various mood poses done in pencil. Students from Balcombe Grammar have submitted works representing several genres, including a fabric cactus piece by Soleil Stern. The annual show run by Mornington Rotary Club, entering its 48th year, will be held 16- 26 January at the Peninsula Community Theatre, Wilsons Road, Mornington. There will be more than 800 works on show. The art show has raised more than $1.1 million for international and Mornington community projects. About 60 per cent of the money raised since its beginning in 1972 has been spent on a range of local Mornington projects. Projects supported by Mornington Rotary include: n The eradication of polio worldwide. n Financing a medical team to go overseas to operate on cleft lips and cleft palates. n Bushfire relief. n The Sailability program for disabled at Mornington Yacht club. n An intensive care bed at the Bays Hospital, Mornington. n Clean water filtration systems for schools in Bhutan. n Local “youth-based” support programs.
A joint exhibition opening by Debbie Flintoff-King
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Stephen Glassborow with Bronze Masterpieces and
Ronald Neal
with The Burning Shore, paintings Everyone is welcome to attend Stephen is creating a life size bronze of Olympic and Commonwealth Games medal winner, Debbie Flintoff-King, who will be opening this Exhibition at 11am on Saturday 21st December. A maquette of Debbie will be on show, together with 16 other superb bronzes by this masterful artisan. With numerous prestigious awards behind him, Ronald Neal has created a striking new body of paintings for this joint exhibition. The Burning Shore series features extensive
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multi-layering & heralds Ronald’s return, after many years as an exhibitor on the Mornington Peninsula [where he commenced his art career some thirty years ago].
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