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Queen’s award ‘just for having fun’ SORRENTO Sea Scouts leader Lynette Hipwell awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in last week’s Queen’s Birthday Honours says she was “just having lots of fun”. Sorrento Sea Scouts Group Leader David Burgess said the award paid tribute to Ms Hipwell’s “services to youth through scouts”. “It is a fitting recognition of Lynette’s commitment to the youth of the Mornington Peninsula and the scouting movement throughout Victoria,” he said. “She has been a leader at Sorrento Sea Scouts for over 35 years, a member of the Scout 4x4 team and the Scout sailing team. “Her tireless commitment to the promotion of scouting and the benefits that it brings the youth is outstanding. She thoroughly deserves this award.” Ms Hipwell, a teacher at Rosebud Secondary College, grew up in Sorrento into a scouting family. “It was a big thing when we were kids,” she recalled. “The whole family was involved with dad [Reg Jones] group leader of the Sorrento group and mum [Elaine] on the committee.” That family link continued with her own children: Duane, Nathan and Melanie - now all in their 20s – being cubs, scouts and venturers at Sorrento Sea Scouts. The scouting life has given Ms Hipwell plenty of fond memories. “I love catching up with the children as they grow older and seeing what they have achieved,” she said. “I’ve also loved the camping and the hiking and the 10-day Jamborees.”
Especially enjoyable are the Thompson River tyre-tube rafting trips in March. Mr Burgess said there had been many kinds words said about Lynette on the group’s Facebook page, which received 111 likes. “My favourite is: ‘I have seen you in action – particularly with young people when they are not at their ‘best’,” he said. “This award is well and truly deserved. I have known Lynette for eight years while my own children have experienced scouting and this comment truly hit home for me.” Other comments: “Congratulations Lynette, many lucky children have been guided through scouting with you.” June Robertson. “Congrats Lynette. An amazing lifetime achievement ... all the lives you’ve touched and inspired.” Angie Kennedy. “Congratulations Lynette, truly a well-deserved award for you.” Gail Tucker. Ms Hipwell said: “I feel there are many people more worthy than me of this award, but it was a lovely surprise. It doesn't seem right to get a very prestigious award for just having lots of fun. “I hope along the way I have assisted some young people to take up opportunities, enjoy life and have fun, and that I have encouraged them to reach their full potential, hopefully.” Stephen Taylor
Here’s to you: Sea Scout leader Lynette Hipwell was honoured in the Queen’s Birthday awards. Picture: Yanni
Talks to clear air over Tyabb Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au AN uneasy truce was in place over the Tyabb Airfield dispute last week in the lead-up to a meeting between the Mornington Peninsula Shire CEO John Baker and Peninsula Aero Club president Jack Vevers. The meeting, scheduled for yesterday (Monday 17 June), comes after the warring parties sought common ground in their row over missing or non-existent permits and contentious flying hours.
The mayor Cr David Gill said on Friday that there could be issues such as workers’ compensation insurance if businesses were operating at the airfield without permits. The aero club was stunned when the council issued a stop-work order, Monday 3 June, saying it was unable to find permits issued subsequent to the original 1965 permit which gave the 55-year-old club the right to operate. (“Shire’s order grounds airfield” The News 12/6/19). Mr Vevers slammed the ban saying it put 100 jobs and vital emergency ser-
vices at risk and grounded the club’s 550 members. Early last week the council in a statement said it acknowledged that over the years the level of activity at the airfield had increased and the surrounding population grown. The council said it had “attempted to work with the … Peninsula Aero Club for more than a decade to modernise the relevant planning approvals that exist on the site”. It said it had “advised the club and other landowners and businesses in the precinct that there aren’t any existing
planning approvals and there is a need to follow due process and comply with the planning scheme”. “We encourage and will work with all businesses across the shire to ensure they comply with the planning scheme so they can operate legally and successfully,” the statement said. “Council are ultimately seeking the preparation and approval of an agreed airfield master plan and noise management plan covering all aspects of the current and future operations, and linked to updated planning permit approvals for the precinct.”
Mr Vevers said on Thursday the shire’s Mr Baker had “reached out to start discussions”. “I am really pleased about that. It’s what should have happened in the first place. There are no egos in this. We want to get people back to work.” The meeting comes as a shire-appointed Queen’s Counsel conducts a “full legal review, in order to provide clear information … regarding the conditions of all current planning permits currently applying to the Tyabb Airfield”. The report has a 30 June deadline.
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