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Woodworkers open their doors
ALTHOUGH there are a couple of months to go, finishing touches are being made to some of the 800 toys being readied for Christmas by Woodworkers of the Southern Peninsula. Each year the woodworkers hand the toys over for charities to bring joy to needy children. As well as working towards their toy quota, the woodworkers have this year moved from makeshift tin sheds in Besgrove Street, Rosebud to a purposebuilt workshop at the Vern Wright Reserve, Elizabeth Avenue, Tootgarook. The move made way for work to start on the Rosebud Aquatic Centre and created “an interesting and wonderful year” for the woodworkers, according to the group’s president John Bayliss. “We found ourselves plumb in the middle of the proposed new aquatic centre and the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council decided to move us to a completely new purpose-built workshop." The public is invited to the woodworkers’ open day at 11am on Saturday 12 October to inspect the new premises, check out items and toys made by members “and enjoy a free sausage". And the Christmas toys? They will be handed over to the various charities on the first Saturday in December. Santa’s helpers: Members of the Woodworkers of the Southern Peninsula Bert Bartlett, Laura Disbrey and Gerry Gilliland preparing some of the toys for charities to give away at Christmas. Picture: Yanni
Mayor, MP clash over mossie control Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au AN angry buzz of uncertainty has arisen over how the state government intends to manage efforts to control potentially disease-carrying mosquitoes on the Mornington Peninsula. Mornington Peninsula Shire mayor Cr David Gill says a “public consultation” on the Engage Victoria website
is evidence that the government wants “the power to spray insecticide without community consent”. Cr Gill’s assertion follows widespread community concern about spraying, or “fogging”, mosquitoprone areas in a bid to lessen the chances of people contracting the flesh-eating Buruli ulcer (“No fogging in ‘mossie’ fight” The News 26/8/19). Nepean MP Chris Brayne says there
is no bill before parliament and has challenged Cr Gill to put a name to the proposed legislation. Mr Brayne – who says he has received “rather forceful emails” from Cr Gill - says he is “glad the shire has put the Buruli spraying project on hold”. In one of the emails seen by The News, Cr Gill states that he is “sure” Mr Brayne “can, if you wish, provide far more information than I can”.
Cr Gill says the public consultation through the Engage Victoria website “is normal before legislation is enacted”. He said proposed legislative changes to the Public Health and Wellbeing Act included proposed changes to the control of “vector-borne diseases, mosquitoes in particular”. Cr Gill said the public consultation was launched on 20 August with a 30 September deadline for submissions,
“which left little time for the public to comment, especially when local MPs didn’t bother to let their electors or council know”. “Also [the shire] is opposed to broad scale insecticidal mosquito fogging and spraying and believes that there are serious alternatives available that should be investigated,” Cr Gill’s email to Mr Brayne stated. Continued Page 8
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