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Community at heart: Boneo Community Market grows and grows. Picture: Supplied
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Southern Peninsula News 5 December 2017
BONEO community market is gearing for its 40th birthday on Saturday 16 December with a visit from Santa, live music and an after-market gathering of past committee, volunteers and stall holders. The first market was held on 17 December 1977 and then every third Saturday of the month, 8am-12.30pm. It had 63 stalls when it began and around 200 stalls today but the ethos of “make it, bake it, grow it” has stayed the same. It is run by volunteers from Boneo Primary School, cricket club and tennis club, with about
20 people per market making it happen. Starting as the second community market in Victoria, Boneo market, on the corner of Boneo and Limestone roads, is now the oldest. How times have changed: “The market was originally set up around the oval with parking on the oval, but with the growth of the market, the stalls were moved onto the oval and parking around the oval in 1990,” treasurer Ross Arnott said. “When the Boneo hall burned down a third of the funds for the new hall were raised by the market.
Fifty years answering the call for help ABOUT 80 guests enjoyed a photographic display and a chance to reminisce about the early days of the Southern Peninsula Rescue Squad at a 50th anniversary function at the Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron last week. President Eileen Murray said the squad bought its first helicopter in 1976 – the first of four over the next 34 years. “The helicopter service was unique in Australia as being the only one owned and operated by a volunteer organisation without regular government funding,” she said. “The helicopter was sold in 2010 but the squad continues with its rescue boat operation.” Several boats were bought over the years. In December 2011 the first of the squad’s current rescue boats came into service as well as a second, smaller version, in July 2014. “After 43 years at Sorrento, the squad moved to its current premises at the Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron in December 2012,” Ms Murray said. “Five years on, both
rescue boats occupy permanent berths at the marina allowing a quick response in emergencies. “From humble beginnings, using borrowed boats, vehicles and equipment, the Southern Peninsula Rescue Squad continues to provide a professional, well respected search and rescue service to the local community.” This year also marks the 20th anniversary of the Search and Rescue Op Shop at Blairgowrie. Over this period the shop has raised $785,821 to support the rescue squad. It has now moved to new premises at Nelson St, Rye. In recognition of the work carried out by volunteers over that time op shop coordinator Margo Ashton was presented with a photo of the rescue boats to be displayed at the new shop.
Rescues in their blood: Southern Peninsula Rescue Squad members Bernard Goss, Gavin Keegan, Kate Maren, John Sonneveld, Andrew Keegan, Sandra Hyde, Greg Goss, Yvonne Morrison, Geoffrey May and Rob Newland. Picture: Supplied