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Diners fork out to back MND fight

Shire objects to quarry rules

A toast: MND event organisers Torie Schwarze and Rob Tucker, above, and, left, GP Adrian Murrie talking to diners. Pictures: Supplied

A SELL-OUT lunch at Sorrento last week raised $16,300 for the fight against motor neurone disease. International MND Awareness Day was recognised in Sorrento, Friday 21 June, with the launch of the Mornington Peninsula MND Association started by Torie Schwarze in memory of her late father Marty Mackinnon.

Ms Schwarze and Rob Tucker organised the three-hour lunch at Mr Morce restaurant, with all money raised going to support those living with, or caring for, a motor neurone sufferer. Ms Schwarze and GP Adrian Murrie gave presentations on their experiences of caring for an MND sufferer.

Sponsors included Mercedes Benz Mornington, Volvo Cars Melbourne, Wooden Boat Shop and artist Jos Law. They all donated items to be auctioned by Peninsula Sotheby’s agent Rob Curtin, along with peninsula fine food suppliers donating all food served. Money raised will help buy a powered wheelchair, two manual wheel-

chairs, electric riser chair and hoist. These daily use items are urgently needed to assist MND sufferers to continue living safely at home. MND Victoria supplies equipment free of charge on a loan arrangement for those living with MND. Ms Schwarze and Mr Tucker plan to hold another event in November.

Continued from Page 1 The fight against Hillview’s latest proposal is being led at the community level by the Peninsula Preservation Group which in 2013 was at loggerheads with the same company when it wanted to convert the disused Pioneer quarry into a rubbish tip. The Environment Protection Authority eventually rejected the tip plan. The group’s SaveArthursSeat website says Hillview is now “selling” its plans for a new quarry “as a boon for our children's future housing and roads”. “While disused quarries are being converted into popular attractions worldwide, our state Minister for Planning, Richard Wynne, has allowed Hillview to bypass council planning permit requirements for a quarry which will destroy the Arthurs Seat landscape,” the website states. Flyers being letterboxed by the Peninsula Preservation Group say the new quarry “adjoins Arthurs Seat State Park which has one of the state’s highest levels of biodiversity”. “A sizeable chunk of the escarpment will be blasted away, significantly changing the shape of the landscape and leaving a massive pit that will be a permanent scar. Damage on this scale cannot be rehabilitated.” The flyer also quotes Liberal Flinders MP Greg Hunt and the Labor MP for Dromana as also opposing the new quarry.

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