Healthy expo OSBORNE Primary School’s Healthy Body, Healthy Mind Expo will be held at the school, 120 Craigie Road, Mt Martha, 5-7pm, Thursday 24 October. The expo will showcase lots of activities to promote a healthy body and healthy mind as they both contribute to a healthy lifestyle. Teachers will run activities, such as dancing, yoga, seven-minute workouts, skipping and elastics, mindfulness, puzzles, and calming strategies. The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden will be open. Other activities include a mini boot camp and Milo Cricket. The coach of the Osborne United basketball team will run basketball drills. The school’s Inclusive Garden will be opened. A cake stall will sell healthy items. Entry is a gold coin donation
Surfing memories WAVES that were ridden, missed or carefully avoided will be freely discussed at the Point Leo Vintage Surf Day, Sunday 27 October. Surf equipment and memorabilia can be swapped along with the exchange of memories. The day starts at 10am on the foreshore ($4 entry fee, $30 for stands) with displays of vintage surfboards, Kombis (and other surf wagons), hot rods and a swap meet. Food and drink available. Vintage Surf Days were previously held at Pointleo in 2014 and 2017. Proceeds from the day go to the Disabled Surfers Association Mornington Peninsula. Details: Rod Jones 0438 458 064.
Concrete dumper set on avoiding tip fees BUILDERS and plumbers across the Mornington Peninsula are being asked to help track down a serial concrete dumper. The dumper has left at least eight solid clues on peninsula roadsides. Authorities believe the concrete is most likely leftovers from a building foundation pour and is being dumped to avoid tipping costs. It is believed a skip bin truck, possibly an Isuzu or Mitsubishi with green writing on the door, may be involved. The Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA), Victorian Building Authority (VBA) and Mornington Peninsula Shire Council have joined forces to “bring a serial concrete dumper to justice”. At least eight incidents of roadside dumping at sites from Pearcedale to Cape Schanck have been reported to the shire. As the concrete is suspected of having come from a construction site, the VBA is contacting all registered builders and plumbers on the peninsula to help track the culprit. The mayor Cr David Gill said dumped waste poses a serious threat to wildlife and can lead to contamination of land, waterways and groundwater. “Council spends more than $700,000 a year cleaning up the mess left behind by illegally dumped waste, collecting 4518 individual cases of illegal dumping in the past 12 months,” he said. “Hardworking ratepayer’s money could be put to much better use in our community.” EPA south metro regional manager Marlene Mathias said tracking down the concrete dumper was an example
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Outside the tip: Concrete dumped on the roadside at South Boundary Road West, Pearcedale and McKirdys Road, Tyabb. Picture: Supplied
of how regulators and councils work together to combat “difficult waste crime activity”. “Dumping construction waste in this way is done for profit. It’s cheaper to leave the problem for others to manage than deal with it the right way,” she said. “It will be the Mornington Peninsula community that carries the
clean up bill unless we can find the culprit and force them to pay for their actions.” The Victorian Building Authority’s state building surveyor, Andrew Cialini said builders had an obligation to dispose of their building waste in designated council locations. “The VBA supports the EPA’s move
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to stop illegal dumping of building waste. We want all builders to act responsibly when disposing of concrete, rubble and other materials.” Anyone with information about the concrete dumps can call the EPA VIC on 1300 372 842. Keith Platt
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