PUBLIC NOTICE – FIREWORKS
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The Sorrento Portsea Chamber of Commerce Inc. will be displaying fireworks on the evening of Sunday, 9th December 2018. The fireworks will commence at dusk (or between 9 and 9.30pm) from the end of The Baths Pier (over the water), Sorrento Foreshore, Point Nepean Rd, Sorrento. The display forms part of the Sorrento Christmas Concert and is expected to last for approximately 5-10 minutes. It is requested that dogs are either kept indoors or restrained during this time. Should you have any objections to this display, please contact the Mornington Peninsula Shire’s Community & Special Events during office hours on 1300 850 600 or Tammie Winward of the Sorrento Portsea Chamber of Commerce outside of office hours on 0412260146.
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Coast guard first in at Rye THE new Rye boat ramp was officially opened on Friday with the Safety Beach Coast Guard boat being first off the ramp and into the water. The controversial extra ramp was built as part of a major upgrade, with $648,000 from Mornington Peninsula Shire and $588,000 from Transport Victoria. The mayor Cr David Gill predicted the new ramp would cut boat launching and retrieval times “from 51 minutes to 16 minutes” during the busy season. While seeing the Rye works an “investment”, Cr Gill said an election policy announcement by the incoming Labor government should reduce the $250,000 spent on boat ramps each year by the shire. “The announcement of Labor’s Better Boating Fund has now signaled a fairer and more sustainable policy for the boating community with all funds raised from boating registration and licensing going back directly into boating and fishing,” Cr Gill said. “This commitment will hopefully see the end of the current confused, bureaucratic and inef-
ficient system of funding boat ramps and piers that has wasted resources and been inadequately funded for years leaving local government and their ratepayers funding much needed boating facilities. “We look forward to working collaboratively with the state government to have this commitment come to fruition”. Also at the boat ramp opening were Marcus Higgins (Transport for Victoria), Steve Walker (CEO Boating Industry Association Victoria)
and representatives from the marine industry, Rye Lions Club and Simpson Construction Company. Cr Hugh Fraser said “a lot of hard work” had enabled the ramp to be open for summer. “The extra boat ramp and renewal of the existing boat ramps was much needed and will make a positive difference to the boating community. It will ultimately make the area safer for its users and making it easier, quicker and safer to get all watercraft in and out of the water,” he said.
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Southern Peninsula News 5 December 2018
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