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Jamaica up, eating after muddy fall A ROPE harness was used to rescue much-loved pet horse Jamaica after she lost her footing and slid down an embankment at about 7.30am on Thursday 20 July. Owner Brenda Robinson, of Frankston-Flinders Rd, Frankston South, said the 39-year-old mare could not regain her footing in the wet and muddy conditions, and lay stranded in the cold for half an hour. Frankston SES crews slung ropes around the horse’s middle and lifted her into a standing position while a vet checked her condition. Ms Robinson, Jamaica’s second owner over the past 10 years, said she was “very happy� with the work of the rescue crews. “They did a wonderful job,� she said. “Jamaica is up, eating and moving around and the vet says she is okay.� Picture: Gary Sissons
Shire ‘yes’ to Rye boat ramp plan Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire last week backed plans to build a second jetty, restore the three existing boat ramps and develop a contentious fourth ramp at Rye. The decision, made at Monday’s planning services committee meeting, also approved plans to reconfigure the existing reversing lanes and dredge the launching area to a depth of one metre. The cost of the works is about $1.2
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million, with the shire receiving a $588,000 grant from Roads, Road Safety and Ports Minister Luke Donnellan, on condition a fourth boat ramp is built. Shire planners – who won a Victorian Coastal Council Award for their Rye Recreational Boating Precinct Plan – stated in a report that the proposed redevelopment would “increase the capacity of the existing launching facilities and encourage more tourists�. Councillors accepted their view that upgrading the boat ramps and associ-
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ated works would improve the launching and retrieval of boats over summer “which currently experiences long queue times�. A fourth boat ramp will be built to the east of the existing ramps. Planners said a second 40 metre jetty would be “appropriately sited alongside the existing facilities� rather than being built elsewhere on the Rye foreshore “resulting in further fragmentation of the coast�. Boats and jet skis will be able to tie up to the new jetty rather than circling
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Consultant AW Maritime was quoted in the boating precinct plan as saying that a fourth boat ramp lane was needed; extra boat layby facilities were required to ease on-water congestion; and that the manoeuvring area at the top of the ramp should be realigned parallel with the ramp to ease reversing headaches. The vote capped a drawnout process in which opposing groups described as “nasty� and “underhanded� and what they regarded as the frequent denigration of their campaigns. Continued Page 6
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