February 8th 2011

Southern Peninsula

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Probe into breakaway rig

By Keith Platt SHIPS were told to keep away from The Heads and the start of the South Channel while an oil rig was towed into Port Phillip after it broke free from lines during a loading operation in Western Port.

Marine Safety Victoria has launched an investigating into the incident.

The alert in Western Port was sounded when the 1700-tonne Kan Tan IV rig was swept away by tidal currents as it was floating above the semi-submerged carrier vessel, the MV Transporter.

Four wires holding it to the float-on float-off Transporter broke and tugs had to secure and anchor the rig before it ran aground.

The 53,800-tonne Transporter, owned by Dutch company Dockwise, also dragged its anchor and was unable to get underway until it had pumped out its ballast.

The Kan Tan was eventually towed by tugs to Port Phillip where the entire operation was repeated without further incident.

The problem appears to have been caused by the time taken to partly sink the Transporter and position the rig over it exceeding the six hours it takes for each change of the tide.

The strong tidal currents caused the anchored ship and rig to swing on their moorings.

It is understood it takes at least nine hours for the Transporter to de-ballast – effectively lifting itself and the rig back to the surface.

Once in the relatively calm waters of Port Phillip off Mornington, the Kan Tan was able to be loaded onto the Transporter for shipment to Darwin.

The failure to load the rig may lead to changes in the way Western Port is used as a destination for the transportation of rigs.

The United Kingdom-based website Safety At Sea says the incident could spell the end of Western Port being used for such loadings, although the narrow entrance to Port Phillip and extra time and cost involved do not make it the ideal alternative.

The website said early investigations “indicate that fastening equipment was swept overboard from the deck of

Safely aboard: The oil drilling rig Kan Tan IV is successfully loaded on to the MV Transporter in Port Phillip after breaking free during an earlier attempt in Western Port.

Picture: Andrew Mackinnon of aquamanships.com

Transporter, which also dragged its anchor some distance before de-ballasting”.

Investigations by Marine Safety Victoria can follow incidents where vessels have been involved in an accident or an incident involving the loss or destruction of other property “or that any pilot, pilot exempt master, harbourmaster, pilotage services provider or person holding a certificate of competency or service has acted incompetently”.

Port of Melbourne CEO Stephen Bradford said this was the first time he had heard of such an incident in the seven years he had been with the port authority.

He did not think it would lead to a ban on rigs being taken to Western Port.

“I would be really surprised if this type of operation is not done again in Western Port,” he said.

“Each operation like this has to be looked at separately.”

While he had seen “bits of the report … it’s not my job to form an opinion”.

Mr Bradford said each loading was a “learning curve” for harbourmasters in Port Phillip and Western Port.

Although the PoMC also managed the Port of Hastings, the loading of the drilling rig was under the jurisdiction of the Patrick stevedoring company, which operated the port.

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A source has told The News that the rig and its transport vessel were bigger than any previous loading jobs in Western Port.

“It’s never been a problem before and it’s much quicker for them to get in and out of there than Port Phillip,” the source, who did not wish to be identified, said.

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The source said the Transporter could not get underway until after it had pumped out its ballast.

On Friday 28 January a warning was issued by the Port of Melbourne that the fairway through The Heads and the South Channel would be closed to all shipping as the 84-metre wide oil rig was brought into Port Phillip.

The same rules to keep well clear of both the rig and the Transporter were imposed when they left the bay on Tuesday 1 February.

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Overflow surfers: When the surf is up, cars spill over from the clifftop car park onto nature strips at Flinders.

Car park wipeout for surfers EFFORTS by Parks Victoria to improve the entrance to the Mornington Peninsula National Park at Flinders are causing problems with parked cars.

The use of treated pine barricades at the car park at the corner of Golf Links Rd and King St has effectively cut the number of parking spaces, forcing vehicles to park on the nature strips of nearby houses.

Several of the barricades have already been ripped out of the ground and on Saturday 29 January a handwritten notice was placed on car windscreens urging a phone call to Parks Victoria’s Rosebud office.

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“It’s a challenge. We had money to improve the sites with infrastructure that’s at West Head and the ocean beach as well,” he said.

“At King St there’s been a ripple of criticism that goes back to the property owners as well.”

Mr Rowe said nature strips were “not owned; they’re public land”.

“The police were there on Saturday and contacted us to see what the problem was.

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if you tried to stop people parking on nature strips there it would have to apply right across the board, and that’s absurd.”

Mr Rowe said a review would be undertaken and a meeting was being held with nearby residents and Mornington Peninsula Shire representatives to try to find a solution.

One option would be to erect signs and define parking spots with white lines.

He said Parks was doing its best to protect the environment and improve amenity at the national park.

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Leave sought for family violence victims

By Keith Platt IF union negotiations are successful, Mornington Peninsula Shire will become the second municipality in Australia to give paid leave to victims of domestic violence.

The leave, if included in the next enterprise bargaining agreement, would allow staff to take time off to attend police interviews, court or find new accommodation.

Australian Services Union organiser Michelle Jackson said the shire had argued that leave was already available, “but we’re saying that’s sick leave for when they are actually physically in-

jured”. “We are putting a new claim for a family violence clause that allows anyone who is a victim – and they are mostly women – to have up to 20 days’ paid leave,” Ms Jackson said.

“Often, women are too embarrassed or ashamed at what has happened to them to take time off work.

“If they are physically injured then, yes, they can take sick leave. But there’s nothing but annual leave that they can take to attend court, police interviews or look for somewhere else to live.

“I know of one woman working for another municipality who was going to

work each day from a women’s refuge and didn’t want to let anyone know what was happening.

“But she needed time off to get herself together.”

Ms Jackson said the Surf Coast Shire had been the first municipality in Australia to provide paid leave for domestic violence situations and Mornington Peninsula Shire, if it agreed, would be the second.

“It won’t be a big cost for council,” Ms Jackson said, adding that similar award provisions were being considered by local governments in other states.

Shire staff seek 8% annual rise

THE Australian Services Union is seeking an extra eight per cent or $80 a week for each of the next three years for its members at Mornington Peninsula Shire.

The claim is part of the current negotiations for a new enterprise bargaining agreement.

ASU organiser Michelle Jackson said the shire had made a counter offer of an annual 3.9 per cent wage or $40, whichever was the most.

She thought agreement was some months away and the final wage increase would “be somewhere between those two figures”.

The existing EBA ran out in December 2010, but its provisions continue to apply until a new one is negotiated.

The new agreement is expected to be in place well before the next scheduled pay rise for shire staff, which is due in July.

Radar called in to search for dead HISTORIANS are planning to use ground penetration radar to search for the remains of up to 19 people believed to have died during the first attempted European settlement in Port Phillip near Sorrento.

The Collins Settlement was established at Sullivan Bay in October 1803, but was abandoned less than six months later.

It is believed that at least 19 deaths were recorded during the time spent near what was to become Sorrento

by Lieutenant Colonel David Collins, civil officers, marines, free settlers and 229 convicts.

Nepean Historical Society has been given a $5000 grant by Mornington Peninsula Shire to pay for a consultant to use radar to find the missing burial site.

Society president Don Ewart said the dead were believed to be buried near the Western Sister, a point at the western end of Sullivan Bay. He said the method had previously been used during research at Point Nepean and he hoped work at the Col-

Artist takes a brush to beads A FRIEND’S beads from Lagos, Africa, caught the eye of artist Claire Spring, who has now portrayed them in a series of 16 oil paintings.

The bead paintings form the basis of Spring’s fourth solo exhibition, which also includes flowers, couta boats and seascapes.

Spring has been painting for about 20 years and has become known for her “comfort zone” of images of large flowers.

“A friend who had lived in Lagos for many years had the beads, which I wanted to paint,” she said.

This year, as well as exhibiting, Spring also plans to teach art from her studio at Rye. Her current exhibition is at the Portsea Gallery (next to the Portsea Hotel on Pt Nepean Rd) until 18 February, 10am-4pm daily.

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lins Settlement site would begin later this month.

Ground-penetrating radar uses electromagnetic radiation in the microwave band (UHF/VHFfrequencies) of the radio spectrum, and detects the reflected signals from subsurface structures. It can be used in rock, soil, ice, fresh water, pavements and structures.

No substantial buildings had ever been built at the site and the burial ground was thought to be near an area already cleared of weeds and shrubs.

While the remains of the Collins Settlement are thought to be underground, shellfish middens on the clifftop are evidence of centuries of use by Aborigines.

Four graves have been found on the bay’s eastern headland and the only other evidence of the settlement are parts of barrels, leg irons and bottles, which can be seen in the Sorrento Museum, Melbourne Rd, Sorrento.

In January 1804 lack of fresh water, vulnerability to attack and the treacherous entrance to Port Phillip were all given as reasons for moving the settlers to Tasmania.

Forum for shire concerns ONE of the peninsula’s key citizen lobby groups is this month holding its 15th annual forum for residents to publicly air grievances and problems.

The Mornington Peninsula Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association meets quarterly and the first meeting each year is an open forum that anyone can attend.

It is at 2pm on Monday 21 February in the Rosebud library meeting room, McDowell St.

The association has been active in its opposition to the proposed foreshore sites for the Southern Peninsula Aquatic Centre (SPA) as well as lobbying the shire council over its higher tip fees and reduction of free tip vouchers, and over continued annual rate increases.

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Island dream for bay

By Mike Hast RYE businessman and yachtsman Kerry Murphy has a grand plan – to build two islands in the middle of Port Phillip, one for humans and one for wildlife, called “Melbourne Islands�.

Mr Murphy, owner of peninsula tourism businesses Baysail and melbournepeninsula.com, has revived his big idea and submitted it to an inquiry into Victoria’s tourism industry being conducted by the Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission.

He proposed the islands in 2004 when the state government and Port of Melbourne Corporation announced the Port Phillip channel deepening project.

He met government bureaucrats and made a presentation to the panel investigating the potential environment effects of dredging. Interest in his idea was also shown by developers.

Mr Murphy was excited about using some of the 23 million cubic metres of dredged material, or spoil, that was to be taken from the Yarra River, Hobsons Bay, Port Melbourne channel and South Channel between Rosebud and Port Phillip’s entrance, The Heads.

The meetings yielded no firm commitment from any party and he was advised to “wait for another day�.

The tourism inquiry has given him the chance to revive his islands project.

The spoil from the $720 million channel deepening project has been dumped at the Port of Melbourne’s existing northern dredge material ground

(DMG) close to the middle of Port Phillip and a new one off Martha Point near Mt Martha and Safety Beach.

Mr Murphy wants to build a tourist island of six hectares (15 acres) with a 1.2-hectare (three-acre) harbour on top of the northern DMG, which is about 15 metres underwater.

It would be modelled on Rottnest Island in the Indian Ocean near Perth, a popular place for daytrippers and holidaymakers, and would feature a small five-star hotel, backpackers lodge, restaurant and shops.

Preliminary costs done for Mr Murphy by South Melbourne-based engineering firm Aurecon put the bill for the tourism island at about $62 million.

The adjacent wildlife island of about seven hectares has not been costed.

He hopes it could become a marine park, a refuge for birds and marine life similar to Mud Islands in Port Phillip’s south, the above-water part of the Great Sands.

The DMG, which is about 15 kilometres equidistant from Williamstown, Werribee and Sandringham, covers about 9.5 square kilometres (3.61 square miles), about 950 hectares (2347 acres).

It was recently added to when Port of Melbourne contractors dumped 325,000 cubic metres of spoil from what the corporation calls “routine maintenance dredging� undertaken between late November 2009 and Australia Day this year.

This was separate from the controversial main dredging project between 8 February 2008 and 26 November 2009 that saw Port Phillip’s shipping channels deepened from 11.6 metres to 14 metres to allow access for bigger ships (only one of which has used the deeper channels so far).

Mr Murphy told The News “there’s no money in this for me�. “I sail a 10-metre yacht and charter four others as part of my Baysail business and it would be great to have a destination in the middle of Port Phillip for boaties,� he said. “It would provide a boost for Melbourne tourism and provide a safe harbour in bad weather.�

He has an email list of 800 supporters and interested people and companies, and is sending them an update his month with links to press and television stories his idea has generated.

The Camberwell boy, who first visited the peninsula for holidays as a 10-year-old and moved to the southern peninsula in 2000, owned a business importing and selling home appliances in the 1970s (“We brought in the first dishwashers; some people thought the dishes, pots and pans were strapped in and churned around like in a washing machine.�).

Then he founded the software company Unisoft, which he sold in 2000, and now has a suite of tourism businesses with his wife Heather.

They rent accommodation, run sail-

ing charters, and operate winery bus tours and a day spa.

Mr Murphy said he was sympathetic to many environmental causes, but had not yet contacted environment groups about his plan.

Asked about predictions of rising sea levels, he said: “It’s only going to be 80 centimetres by the end of the century, so we’ll build the islands a metre or so above that.�

The Australian Conservation Foundation has consistently warned against developing areas vulnerable to rising sea levels and said developers should make the most of existing assets.

ACF spokesman Chris Smyth said: ‘’Port Phillip belongs to all people and should not be handed over for the use of developers.�

Three days after The Age published a story about Mr Murphy’s idea in late

January, it published an unsigned editorial on the letters and opinion pages (editorials are usually written by senior editors and are almost always unsigned) querying the economic viability of building the islands.

Under the headline “Keep islands at bay, not in bay�, an editor asked: “With such beauteous bounty already popular and within reach, why invade [Port Phillip] with intrusive constructions that might not necessarily be popular? “Other, more considerable, disadvantages have been flagged by conservation groups. In addition to the perils of developing areas vulnerable to rising sea levels, there are difficulties predicted in registering a man-made island as a national marine park. There is validity, too, in the argument that Port Phillip ... belongs to all, and should not be used for private development.�

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Islands in the sun: A dredge making one of the “World” islands off Dubai, United Arab Emirates, (left) a project now in financial difficulty.

Right, Melbourne Islands would be created from dredged seabed material pumped ashore from a trailing hopper suction dredge similar to the three, including the Queen of the Netherlands, used to deepen Port Phillip’s shipping channels in 2008-09.

Peninsula-based Blue Wedges Coalition president Jenny Warfe, a trenchant critic of channel deepening, said the editorial “made some good points”.

She told The News: “Located atop the spoil ground where more than three million tonnes of toxic spoil from the Yarra has recently been dumped, why would anyone even go near it let alone live on top of it?

“I wonder, too, if the proponents of the island idea bothered to ask themselves why Dubai’s man-made islands in the shape of the World (also made from dredged seabed) are sinking rapidly back into the sea, and why only one or two of the “countries” have sold and why even multi-millionaire rock stars have stopped wasting their money on buying one.

“Funny isn’t it how some people operate as though humans can do a better job than nature, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that this is not the case.”

The competition and efficiency commission releases a draft report of all ideas received for community comment this month and sends the final report to the government in June.

For more information about the project, call Mr Murphy on 5985 6559 or look up melbournepeninsula.com on the internet.

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Turning teal to help cancer cure

Suitably impressed: RACV Cape Schanck resort manager Conleth Roche presents a $5000 to Rye CFA captain Mark Boardman.

More than just roadside assist Story and photo by Barry Irving EACH year RACV makes available substantial funding and grants to local communities and areas in which it operates.

As part of RACV Community Good Citizen Fund, each region can donate to worthy causes that, among other

criteria, are recognised as serving the community.

This year RACV Cape Schanck resort manager Conleth Roche said he was delighted to present $5000 to the Rye CFA’s new truck appeal, which has now grown to $125,000, still short of the $230,000 required to

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Mr Roche congratulated the CFA volunteers on their dedication to maintaining the safety of the homes and businesses across the Mornington Peninsula and beyond.

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STAFF at a Rye business are encouraging southern peninsula residents to embrace a Touch of Teal and support an important cause this month.

The team at Rye Beach Chemmart Pharmacy is raising funds for Ovarian Cancer Australia by conducting a raffle with the prize of a new 60 centimetre Sanyo LCD TV. All proceeds will go to Ovarian Cancer Australia, which has adopted teal as it’s signature colour.

There will also be a jelly bean guessing competition and organisers are also seeking sponsors for the pharmacy girls’ bike ride along the Portsea foreshore.

Pharmacy owner Theo Messinis said the store was thrilled to be able to help Ovarian Cancer Australia in its bid to raise awareness of the symptoms of ovarian cancer as well as offer invaluable support to women and families affected by the disease.

“February is Ovarian Cancer Australia’s national awareness month and we thought it was a great opportunity to help educate people and raise funds for this important cause,” Mr Messinis said. ”There is no early detection test for ovarian cancer, so it’s important that every woman knows the symptoms to look out for.

“The month will also be a great chance to come in and have a chat to our staff who will be striving to raise

awareness of the early symptoms.

We’re encouraging everyone to get involved.”

Chair of Ovarian Cancer Australia, Paula Benson, welcomed the support of the pharmacy.

“Chemmart Pharmacy is a wonderful supporter and we are grateful that they continue to support Ovarian Cancer Australia with fundraising but, most importantly, that they are taking our message of ‘learn the symptoms’ to women in the community, which can help to save lives,” Ms Benson said.

Chemmart Pharmacy’s executive director Jonathan Layton said the pharmacy group was proud to be a supporter of Ovarian Cancer Australia and its annual campaign.

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Long haul to Flinders for the summer

By Mike Hast THIS determined-looking bird marching across a beach at Flinders, kicking seaweed and water as it goes, is a ruddy turnstone.

The bird has just completed a 27,000-kilometre round trip migration for the second time, astonishing researchers of the Victorian Wader Study Group.

It is the first time a ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres) has been tracked with a geolocator, or data logger, on its complete migration in successive years.

The birds are small and tough, 22-24 centimetres long (about 9 inches) with a wingspan of 50-57cm (about 21 in) and weighing just 85-150 grams (3-5.3 ounces), but, ruddy hell, can they fly.

The bird was first captured at Flinders in mid-April two years ago and fitted with a one-gram light sensor geolocator attached to its leg. The device recorded where the bird was each morning and evening for a year.

When winter loomed, the bird, well fed after a summer in Australia, took to the skies and flew back to Siberia in Russia to breed during the northern summer.

Researchers led by world renowned amateur ornithologist Clive Minton have used geolocators over the past two years to find out the key stopover locations, which are important for the birds to refuel and rest on their long journey.

(Dr Minton, a British metallurgist, has a lifelong interest in birds, especially migratory waders. He helped develop “cannon netting” where a small explosive device hurls a net

Flying marvel: The ruddy turnstone with ID tag (left side of photo) and one-gram tracking device (right) on Flinders beach has flown a 27,000kilometre migration twice. Picture: Victorian Wader Study Group

over a flock of feeding birds, which are then measured, tagged and released.

He moved to Australia in 1978 and revitalised national wading bird study groups.)

“This is a fantastic result for our group, which is also supported by fantastic volunteers,” Dr Minton said.

“The data shows the birds generally start their northward migration with an initial non-stop flight of about 7600km in six days to Taiwan or adjacent regions.

“They refuel on tidal flats before moving north to the Yellow Sea and

northern China. They then make a flight of more than 5000km to breeding grounds in northern Siberia, arriving in the first week of June.”

The group was amazed to discover that birds returning to Australia take different routes and also fly solo rather than in groups. Some come through Asia, as they did when heading north, but others take a trans-Pacific route.

Dr Minton: “They fly east to the Aleutian Islands off southwest Alaska before making a long journey across the Pacific, stopping only once or twice before reaching Australia in ear-

ly December.” The first record of this route was in 2009 when the bird in the photo spent nearly two months in the Aleutians before setting off southward over the Pacific Ocean and making a non-stop flight of 7800km to Kirabati (formerly Gilbert Islands).

It “holidayed” there for six weeks before making the 5000km trip back to Flinders.

“In 2010 the same bird undertook a similar incredible journey, this time stopping off in the Marshall Islands and Vanuatu in the Pacific before returning to Australia,” Dr Minton said.

Turnstones live up to 20 years and such a bird following this 27,000-km trans-Pacific route would have flown more than 500,000 kilometres in its lifetime, a remarkable feat.

Scientists from the Australasian Wader Studies Group of Birds Australia and Deakin University are still puzzled by individual turnstones from the same breeding and non-breeding population using such widely differing routes.

The study shows the importance of key regions within what is known as the Asian-Australasian Flyway. Scientists are concerned about the ability of these and similar migrating birds to cope with the massive habitat changes occurring as a result of large reclamation and urban development projects.

Migratory bird researchers such as Dr Minton have been instrumental in lobbying governments to protect wild areas in the flyway. Initiatives include the Japan Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (JAMBA), the China Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (CAMBA) and the East Asian-Australasian Shorebird Site Network.

Turnstones also breed in North America and northern Europe, and migrate south when winter arrives, some travelling similar distances to the Australian-Siberian birds.

Turnstones make a staccato, rattling call. They forage in flocks, and eat a varied diet including carrion, eggs, plant material, insects, crustaceans, molluscs and worms.

The hardy world travellers often flip over stones and other objects to get at prey and this behaviour is the origin of the name.

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Fire ready in February Selflessness rewarded: Mornington Peninsula Shire’s 2011 citizen of the year Juanita Aitken.

Volunteer earns Oz Day award

By Mike Hast A 30-YEAR veteran of community work in Rosebud West is the 2011 Mornington Peninsula Shire citizen of the year.

Juanita Aitken has been an active member of Rosebud and Rosebud West communities for more than three decades after she and her husband Ian moved from Kyneton to the peninsula in 1977.

The shire citation for her award – presented at the Australia Day citizenship ceremony at Rosebud Memorial Hall – states she was a key participant in Rosebud West Community Renewal, providing leadership and support for community members and the activities associated with the renewal project.

“She has been described by associates as ‘putting Rosebud West on the map’,” the citation stated.

“Juanita’s husband Ian was diagnosed with motor neurone disease last year, but this has not stopped her

commitment to community issues.

“While she cares for her husband full time, Juanita is consistently available to others for a chat or a cup of tea, she always turns up to meetings and is ready to challenge ideas and support members of the community who are unable to advocate for themselves.”

The shire stated her other significant contributions included seven years of organising gatherings for Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea, which raise money for Cancer Council Australia; long-time support of the Red Hill and Rye cricket clubs during Ian’s long career on the field (he played until age 60); and being an active participant in the community mural in Illaroo St, Rosebud West, part of the community renewal program.

Mrs Aitken is a member of the shire’s Communities That Care program on the southern peninsula, which aims to build safer neighbourhoods where young people and their families are

valued, respected and encouraged to achieve their potential.

Mrs Aitken also is involved in Rosebud Ladies Probus Club, is a former member of Rosebud CWA and was a nurse for 38 years, working at Peninsula Health’s aged care centre Lotus Lodge and teaching student nurses at Chisholm Institute of TAFE in Frankston.

At the community renewal project, Mrs Aitken is the convenor of open spaces and environment, community participation, and community health.

The awards are provided by the National Australia Day Council and administered by the shire on behalf of the council.

“Juanita Aitken has demonstrated an incredible dedication and commitment, and a passion for continuing to improve community life by supporting local activities and local people,” shire mayor Cr Graham Pittock said.

THE CFA is this month holding four Fire Ready Victoria meetings for southern peninsula residents.

“The fire season isn’t over. While we’ve had above average rainfall in many parts of the state – as well as flooding – the fire risk remains very real with significant growth and fuel loads in grasslands, forests and scrub areas,” CFA chief officer Euan Ferguson said.

He said attendance at Fire Ready meetings had generally been low over the past few months and he warned people against being complacent.

He urged residents to attend one of the meetings or take part in an online meeting.

“It only takes a few days of hot, dry, windy weather to create a serious fire risk and we expect February-March will still be a dangerous period in Victoria for fires,” he said.

“It’s important that people in highrisk bushfire areas attend a Fire Ready meeting to learn more about the risk in their area and help them develop an informed bushfire survival plan.

“It’s also an opportunity to find out what other community members are doing to get prepared.”

CFA community education coordinator Chris Barber said there is a lot of fuel around due to recent rain.

“No one can afford to be complacent

about bushfires and it’s important that we all learn from the lessons of the past and take responsibility for getting prepared.”

The Fire Ready meetings cover topics such as fire danger ratings, warnings, basic bushfire behaviour, the location of Neighbourhood Safer Places and Places of Last Resort.

The peninsula has three high fire risk zones of 52 in Victoria – Rye, Blairgowrie and St Andrews Beach.

CFA presenters answer questions and provide information about other CFA programs and initiatives such as bushfire planning workshops, Community Fireguard and free onsite property assessments.

An online bushfire safety meeting is at 2pm on Wednesday 9 February. Details at www.cfa.vic.gov.au.

Coming Fire Ready meetings on the peninsula Cape Schanck – Saturday 12 February, 5pm, outside Gate 2, between 66 and 68 Cape Schanck Rd. Dromana – Tuesday 15 February, 7.30pm, outside Heronswood, Latrobe Pde. Red Hill – Thursday 17 February, 7.30pm, corner McIlroys Rd and Red Hill Rd. Sorrento - Saturday 26 February, 10.30am, Pioneer Memorial Gardens.

Photo: Michael Wittingslow cools off with a couple of youngsters.

Wittingslow wade in to flood relief Story and photo by Barry Irving EXTREME weather on Sunday prevented many patrons from taking part in the Wittingslow Amusements fund raising afternoon in Rye. But for those who braved the conditions thank you, for you were part of special event.

Michael Wittingslow and family opened their carnival on Rye Foreshore from 1.00pm till 4.00pm donating all takings to the flood relief fund.

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Wittingslow Amusements met the costs associated with staffing the rides, and then raised a further $1,000 from passing the hat around staff and family. With great support from Rye CFA, Rye lions Club and a donation of $1,000 from owners Josephine and Gino Maniaci of Vulcano Gelato in Rye. The day still managed to raise a sum of $3,687 a fantastic result that will go to supporting victims of our recent floods.

Shire ‘no’ to T’Gallant winery – again

By Mike Hast BREWING giant Foster’s Group is considering its legal options after another failed attempt to expand its T’Gallant winery restaurant La Baracca in Main Ridge.

Mornington Peninsula Shire councillors refused the application for a scaled-down expansion on Monday 31 January.

They knocked back plans for a 274seat restaurant in March 2009 and Foster’s Group appealed the decision in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.

The case was heard in September 2009 and the VCAT formally rejected the application in February last year, supporting shire councillors, who voted 10-0 to reject T’Gallant’s request to increase restaurant seats from the existing permit for 60 to 274, plus 40 seats for cellar door patrons.

The VCAT described T’Gallant’s plan as being of a “scale and intensity [that] cannot be supported” on the 16-hectare property in the green wedge zone on Mornington-Flinders Road.

Green wedge planning rules state wineries of 40 hectares can have 150seat restaurants. T’Gallant has 60 seats on 16 hectares.

The revised application refused last week was for a 150-seat restaurant plus 40 in the cellar door area.

T’Gallant’s planning consultant Ross Morcombe, of Morningtonbased planning firm Watsons Pty Ltd, had attempted to get the matter deferred after being told shire planning officers would recommend the council refuse the plan.

At the council’s development assessments committee meeting, sustainable infrastructure director Alex Atkins was in the CEO’s chair, deputising for the holidaying Michael Kennedy.

Cr Lynn Bowden was overseas and Cr David Gibb left the chamber before the vote after declaring a pecuniary interest (he has Foster’s Group shares).

The plan was rejected 9-0.

Mr Morcombe was visibly dejected when he told councillors that when

Foster’s had been told the plan was highly likely to be knocked back, he had met senior planner Sotirios Katakouzinos and asked what conditions for the restaurant would be needed for the council to approve the expansion plan.

He said he had not had time to analyse the suggested changes and was seeking a deferral.

“Throughout the course of 2010 we’ve had numerous meetings with council officers to bring them up to speed with where we’re at with our application. So we believed that we were working with council, working towards a position where hopefully we were both onside and we could see approval of an expansion of T’Gallant,” he said.

“Obviously as have a council officer recommendation that doesn’t support that – and I’d have to say I’m a little bit surprised, with the amount of dialogue that we’ve had with council officers throughout last year.”

He said the new proposal was “very much scaled down”.

(In fact, the 190 seats being sought is about 70 per cent of the 274 proposed last time.)

He described the planning officer’s report as “undoubtedly very negative” for Foster’s.

Cr Reade Smith asked: “Do you think that if, knowing there are concerns in the community and in the council and there’s pending applications, that the owners would ensure that the current permits would be complied with?”

Mr Morcombe: “I can’t speak on their behalf.”

His question alluded to the fact that the second application for more seats was an attempt to legitimise T’Gallant’s operation, with opponents, including Red Hill Community Action, claiming the winery sometimes has more than 300 patrons a day.

“T’Gallant admitted in its [first] application to the shire that it regularly had up to 274 diners plus 40 cellar door customers, despite the limit of 60 patrons,” RHCA claimed late last year.

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T’Gallant more than $1100 for permit breaches, but it was challenged and remains in legal limbo.

Cr Smith continued: “Say if a supermarket in the main drag of Mornington was concerned about their space, they wouldn’t go and put tents in the car park and in the Main St to put out extra stock because they need more room ... they wouldn’t break the laws first and then ask for permission later.

I’m asking, why is this organisation allowed to go outside the rules when others aren’t?”

Mr Morcombe admitted seat numbers had been breached previously: “This is a process to recognise the severity of the limitations in those [existing] permits and make the site of a size and with adequate facilities to cope with 150 patrons.”

RHCA claims the current waste treatment plant is old technology and has to be pumped out regularly to prevent pollution.

Red Hill area councillor Frank Martin told the meeting he had visited T’Gallant on Saturday and Sunday 29 and 30 January and noted the car park was overflowing on both days.

“How can your client convince us that the same sort of attitude towards planning permit conditions as there’s been in the past won’t keep continuing?” he asked.

Mr Morcombe said Foster’s was “well aware that council won’t tolerate those sort of things in the future given the approvals that they seek”.

Cr Martin said it confused him that an applicant such as Foster’s had not gone to the effort of convincing the operators of T’Gallant to adhere to the permit conditions. He said its behaviour had not been that of “a good citizen”.

“Have you a comment on that?” he asked Mr Morcombe, who replied: “No, I think I’ll let that one go through.”

A motion to reject the application was moved by Cr Martin and seconded by Cr Shaw, and unanimously supported.

Lobby group scathing RED Hill Community Action group is highly critical of this latest attempt to win more seats for T’Gallant.

The group’s chairman David Maddocks, an industrial chemist and quantity surveyor, said RHCA wondered how Foster’s Group had persuaded shire planners to recommend giving T’Gallant a second bite at the cherry in the application with its request that the matter be deferred for a month.

He said Foster’s had sought a month’s grace to “more fully analyse the draft permit conditions” and to “fully explore whether a mutually satisfactory outcome for the site via new permit conditions could be reached”.

“The deferment sought was simply unreasonable. It was insulting to the officers who drafted the report and the draft permit conditions, as well as to councillors,” he said.

“Surely the applicant has had sufficient time to get its proposal right.

It surely has enough planning, traffic and waste water experts on hand, and the benefit of an almost identically structured proposal presented less than two years ago, to have got its plan right.

“The officer’s report and recommendations are blunt and clear. Foster’s Group’s aim here is that of a tennis player calling for another set or two in the hope of knocking off an opponent.

“We noted the softness of some of the draft permit conditions produced at Monday’s meeting, compared with the recommendation in the agenda downloaded from the website on Friday morning, before Foster’s Group advocates talked shire planners into recommending the delay.”

The group claimed T’Gallant’s record was abysmal and its alleged continuing breaches showed contempt for the shire, its councillors and the VCAT. The VCAT had rejected its last proposal and left in place the permit that allowed it 60 patrons and 41 parking spaces. That permit was still in place but had never been adhered to, never enforced, he said.

Last year T’Gallant founder and winemaker Kevin McCarthy defended the operation and said the winery and its restaurant had been welcoming visitors to its vineyards since the early 1990s.

“We’ve grown with support from our local community: sharing our love of peninsula wine and food with both locals and visitors,” he said.

The expansion plan would allow T’Gallant to upgrade visitor and staff facilities within essentially the same footprint. Visually nothing would change as the upgrade would almost entirely be contained to the existing buildings, he said.

Mr McCarthy said T’Gallant had pioneered the introduction of pinot gris and pinot grigio grapes to Australia.

He said the winery had been a strong promoter of peninsula wine and food, employed 60 staff plus many others indirectly, and the cellar door and restaurants were key destinations in wine tourism nationally and internationally.

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Child killer wants $80,000 from dead girl’s mother

By Mike Hast COMMUNITY anger is mounting over child killer Derek Percy winning Supreme Court approval for 72-yearold pensioner and grandmother Jean Priest to pay for his legal costs for a failed court case.

Last week Ms Priest lost her bid to force Percy, a former naval rating based at HMAS Cerberus in Crib Point, to give evidence about her daughter Linda Stilwell, 7, who was abducted from St Kilda in August 1968.

Her body has never been found.

Police have long suspected Percy, known as “The Spook”, was involved in her disappearance and he admitted to one officer that he was in St Kilda on the day she went missing.

In a police interview in 1969, when asked if he killed Linda Stilwell, Percy said “possibly, I don’t remember a thing about it”.

Last week the court ordered that Ms Priest must pay Percy’s legal costs of $32,247 for the first stage of the failed court case.

The day after, in an affidavit filed in the Court of Appeal, Percy argued through his lawyer that Ms Priest should pay another $48,700 as security in her final appeal to make him answer questions under oath.

Ms Priest faces possibly bankruptcy over the two claims.

Percy remains in jail indefinitely for the 1969 killing of Yvonne Tuohy, 12, of Warneet, for which he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

He is the only Victorian prisoner held at the “Governor’s pleasure”, now at Port Phillip Prison in Laverton North, and has never been charged with any other crime.

Percy was based at Cerberus when he was arrested just hours after Yvonne Tuohy’s kidnapping. Her mutilated body was found in bushland at Devon Meadows, a short drive from Warneet.

Police acted on information from Shane Spiller, a 12-year-old boy with Yvonne at Warneet’s Ski Beach in the coastal reserve between Blind Bight and Warneet on an isolated part of Rutherford Inlet, which flows into Western Port near Tooradin.

The boy escaped from the kidnapper’s clutches by brandishing his tomahawk.

Leading calls for the state government to help Jean Priest is Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews, Steve Medcraft of People Against Lenient Sentencing and prominent Crime Victims’ Support Association spokesman Noel McNamara, who also says Percy should pay his own bills.

Percy has amassed more than $300,000 during his 41 years behind bars. Although he was with the Navy for only 20 months, he continues to collect ComSuper payments of up to $20,000 a year, based on 60 per cent of a recruit’s annual salary.

In 2007, police found 35 cardboard boxes and tea chests filled with material from Percy in a South Melbourne storage depot.

They alleged the material included clippings on sex crimes, stories Percy had written on how to commit child abductions and items that appeared to implicate him in unsolved murders.

There was also a valuable stamp collection.

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Faces of a child killer: Derek Percy, inset above, after his arrest in 1969 for the murder of Yvonne Tuohy and the boy, Shane Spiller with his tomahawk, who helped police find the Royal Australian Navy recruit at HMAS Cerberus; Percy, right, when he appeared in court in the early 2000s; and, left, last year, aged 62.

Police discovered Percy had leased storage units since 1970, had $300,000 in the bank and had successfully invested in gold.

He had used part of his income to rent the storage unit.

The murder of Yvonne Tuohy became Warneet’s dark secret. It was only discussed in whispers behind closed doors. Residents who remember the event have died, moved away or refuse to talk about it.

The murder brought shame on the Navy and HMAS Cerberus, and changed forever the life of the boy who was with Yvonne, the daughter of the owners of Warneet’s one general store.

On that fateful day, the day US astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, the two 12-year-olds had headed off on an adventure, walking about two kilometres from the village through the bush reserve that separates Warneet Rd from the upper reaches of Rutherford Inlet.

In Australia it was still a time when parents allowed their children to go adventuring on their own, a time when child stealing was virtually unknown, although the 1960 kidnapping and murder of eight-year-old Sydney boy Graeme Thorne, whose parents had won 100,000 pounds ($5 million in today’s value) in a Sydney Opera House lottery, was still remembered.

It was a crime that caused massive shock around the nation and overseas, and was the first known kidnapping for ransom in Australian history. It became world famous as one of the first times a crime had been solved by forensic investigation.

The convicted killer, Stephen Leslie Bradley, died of a heart attack while playing tennis in Goulburn jail on 6 October 1968, aged 42.

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still three years away.

The kidnapping, dubbed “Australia’s crime of the century”, had a happy ending as Ms Gibbs and her pupils escaped from a van and police arrested Edwin John Eastwood and Robert Clyde Boland, who were sentenced to long terms in jail (although Eastwood later escaped and committed a second bush school kidnapping in 1977).

Shane Spiller and Yvonne Tuohy were playing on Ski Beach when a man approached them and seized the girl. When Percy attempted to grab Spiller, the boy threatened him with his tomahawk. Spiller ran for his life through the bush and raised the alarm when he arrived breathless in the coastal village.

Police were called and raced to Warneet. Spiller told them Percy had taken the girl away in an orange station wagon. He gave detectives a drawing of a sticker he’d seen on its rear window, a Royal Australian Navy insignia.

Police drove to Cerberus and found Percy in the laundry, trying to wash Yvonne’s blood from his clothes.

Shane Spiller was haunted by the incident for the rest of his life and disappeared from Wyndham, a small town on the NSW south coast near Merimbula, in 2002 at the age of 44.

He had started drinking at age 14, his school results deteriorated, he fell out with his parents, left school and went walkabout from the family home in Armadale.

A neighbour in Wyndham years later described him as “the most paranoid person I’ve ever met. Shane suffered all his life with post-traumatic stress disorder. There was this overwhelming dark cloud over his life and he was basically self-medicating with drugs and alcohol”.

Police claim Percy ruined Spiller’s life.

Percy has since been linked to the disappearances and deaths of eight other children in Victoria, NSW, ACT and South Australia, including the

three Beaumont children, who were abducted from an Adelaide beach in 1966 and never found.

Detectives from four police forces have been investigating cold case child murders for four years in an operation codenamed Heats.

Percy has been questioned about:  The murders of 15-year-olds Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmidt on Sydney’s Wanda Beach in January 1965, while Percy, then 17, was holidaying nearby with his parents.  The disappearance of the Beaumont children (Jane, 9, Arnna, 7, and Grant, 4), abducted from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide on Australia Day in 1966, which spawned books, documentaries and the visit of a Dutch clairvoyant, Gerard Croiset, who said their bodies were buried under an Adelaide warehouse. The site was dug up but nothing was found. The case burned a hole in the national psyche and is discussed to this day. Percy admitted to police he was in Adelaide at the time.  The murder of Allen Redston, 6, in Canberra in September 1966. The boy left his home to go to a nearby milk bar for ice-cream. The following day his body was discovered concealed in reeds by a creek. He had been hog-tied and had plastic wrapped around his throat. When Percy was questioned in 1969, he confirmed taking a family holiday in Canberra that year.  The death of Simon Brook, 3, in Sydney in May 1968, taken from the yard of his home in Glebe. By this time Percy had left school and joined the Navy. He lived at the naval base at Garden Island and commuted through Glebe to the dock.  The disappearance of Linda Stilwell.

Percy was subpoenaed to appear in court in late 2009 to give evidence about Linda Stilwell, who was last seen playing on St Kilda foreshore on 10 August 1968. Percy had admitted to police he drove through St Kilda that day but, as with all of his interviews

with the law, says he cannot remember killing anyone. He has maintained this line through 40 years of interviews.

Linda Stilwell’s brother Gary has reportedly said he truly believes Percy murdered his sister and Stilwell wants to eyeball Percy in court.

The cold case homicide unit first reviewed the Stilwell file seven years ago to prepare the inquest brief.

In April 2007, Howard government veterans affairs minister Bruce Billson, the Dunkley MP based in Frankston, promised to investigate the payments to Percy. But the Coalition lost power later that year and the money has continued to flow.

Last week, Linda’s mother fought back tears after Supreme Court Justice Iain Ross ruled that Percy, 62, did not have to give evidence to answer questions on his alleged involvement in Linda’s abduction.

Percy instructed his lawyers to pursue the Stilwell family for money he spent on barristers defending his fight against self-incrimination.

Deputy State Coroner Iain West last year ruled Percy should not give evidence to an inquest on Linda as his apparent psychosis in the late 1960s meant he would be unreliable.

An appeal to Justice Ross had sought a judicial review to overturn Mr West’s decision and force Percy to give evidence and for evidence of five other child abductions and murders to be considered.

Ms Priest has one more attempt to force Percy to talk. Then she and her family have to face the harsh reality of the child killer’s $80,000 legal bill claim.

Members of the public have offered her financial support, but the real issue is a legal system that has allowed this awful case and a state government that so far has remained mute.

Premier Ted Baillieu and AttorneyGeneral Robert Clark have refused to discuss the case, despite their “tough on crime” stance prior to the November election.

Five shire grants

Cashed up: Dick Cox, left, with shire councillors Ben Colomb, Bill Goodrem and Leigh Eustace with RACV Cape Schanck resort manager Conleth Roche at the under-renovation studio.

Radio station ready by Easter

By Mike Hast RENOVATION of community radio station 3RPP’s new home at the old secondary school in Wilsons Rd, Mornington, is going at an astonishing rate, says project coordinator Dick Cox of the Rotary Club of Somerville-Tyabb.

Half of the last surviving classroom block, which is next to Peninsula Community Theatre, formerly the school’s Findlay Hall, and behind The Studio@PCT, a performing arts centre that was once the library, will be ready for radio by Easter.

A red letter day will be Easter Monday 25 April, which is also Anzac Day, when the work is expected to be completed and a fund-raising raffle is drawn (see separate story).

The latest donation to the renovation project, being run by a cluster of peninsula Rotary clubs – including Somerville-Tyabb, Hastings Western Port, Mornington, Mt Martha, Dromana, Rosebud, Rye and Sorrento – is $5000 from the RACV Foundation through its Cape Schanck resort.

This followed donation of 1000 square metres of insulation batts from a national company late last year. Other big ticket donations of cash or materials are in the wings.

The “renovation rescue” gained pace when Rotary appointed a registered builder, Point Leobased Staff Building & Contracting, late last year.

Mr Cox said it was great to have Rob Lawrence and his team working as well as directing Rotary and other volunteers.

“We start putting up the plasterboard on 27 January, which should take about four days, and then we’ll finish the electrical wiring and plumbing,” he said.

Next stage would be fitout. Some of the

furniture will come from a cache stored away by a senior manager when the shire replaced office furniture and fittings at its Queen St, Mornington, office a few years ago.

The News understands it was a close run thing between dumping the furniture at a tip and keeping it in storage for use in a then-unknown future project.

The classroom block’s exterior will match the nearby hall, and an entranceway halfway down the length of the block would match the hall’s entrance, Mr Cox said.

“We have a big recording room for bands of all sorts, two studios, control and production rooms, voice-over booth, board/lunch room, kitchen, toilets, general office and offices for sales, the manager and presenters,” Mr Cox said.

“The shire said it would cost more than $500,000 to renovate, but we’ll be doing it for under $300,000.”

Cr Leigh Eustace, deputy chairman of the 3RPP project and fund-raising committee, said the renovation had so impressed shire CEO Michael Kennedy when he inspected work just before Christmas that the shire was now considering asking the renovation team to fix up the three other rooms in the block, which would be used for community groups.

Cr Eustace said Dr Kennedy told Mr Cox: “This building was dead and you’ve brought it back to life.”

Dr Kennedy had directed his executive management team to find funds for the unrenovated half, Cr Eustace said.

“It is a stunning renovation,” Cr Eustace said.

“It will be the envy of mainstream radio stations let alone community ones.”

The shire tipped in $50,000 last year and in

Rally around raffle call SELLING 150,000 $2 tickets in the Rotary Club of Somerville-Tyabb raffle to pay for the radio station renovation was always going to be a big ask, organisers admitted last month.

The tickets started selling in late November, months behind schedule due to legal permission red tape, but the influx of holidaymakers to the peninsula has helped sellers.

The raffle is under the auspices of the Somerville-Tyabb club, but seven other peninsula Rotary clubs are putting the hard word on friends and strangers to buy tickets.

Cr Leigh Eustace, a member of the organising committee along with Rotarians and radio station people, said some clubs already had their own raffles in place before the 3RPP raffle came along.

“We’ll have more people selling tickets after Australia Day as at least two clubs have been busy doing their own raffles,” he said.

Cr Bill Goodrem told The News ticket sellers

would be at all major peninsula shopping centres at various times until April.

“We’ll be selling well into April,” he said.

He said there would be four prizes – a Toyota Corolla valued at $26,000 and a Toyota Yaris ($19,500), both from Motor Court Toyota in Mornington; a cruise package ($10,000) from Travelscene Westernport; and a plasma television ($3300) from Rosebud Retravision.

Odds of winning are better than the chance of snagging Tattslotto.

Cr Goodrem said the draw would be a lottostyle affair with selected young people being asked to draw a numbered ball from bags.

This would obviate collecting all ticket stubs and “ensure that all buyers were in the hat”, he said.

It will be drawn at 3RPP’s studios at 3.30pm on Monday 25 April. Winners will be notified and the result published in The Age on 30 April and local newspapers in early May.

December approved $130,000 as “bridging finance” to enable Rotary to continue the project while the fund-raising raffle was being conducted.

Cr Eustace said the shire was studying with great interest the way the renovation had been carried out with its mixture of shire money, corporate donations in cash and kind, money from the community through the raffle, volunteer labour and paid commercial builders.

“The innovative project could be a model for other shire building projects,” he said.

MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire has handed out $25,000 in total to five community groups.

The $4900-$5000 grants are part of five community partnership agreements.

“The partnership agreements enable the council to fund and support community groups helping them provide extensive and effective outcomes for local projects,” the mayor Graham Pittock said.

Family Life and Mornington Park Primary School will use its $5000 to pilot a Fun Fridays Project, which provides access to external services and support to students, families and the community.

The Australian Wildlife Protection Council will create a community and school-based education kit to inform people of wildlife emergency rescue assistance available within the shire.

The grant for Bentons Square Community Centre will pay for 20 disadvantaged women to attend a two-day community leadership seminar.

Anglicare Victoria will buy iPads to give people with disabilities and language impairment the ability to better communicate.

The Nepean Historical Society will hire a geosurvey specialist to use ground penetration radar to search for early colonists’ bodies at Sullivan Bay, site of the 1803 Collins Settlement.

Talks over creek path renewal MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire has received a 24-signature petition calling for the reopening of the footpath along Sheepwash Creek between Mariner Pl and Frank St, Safety Beach.

Access to the unofficial path was closed in 2008 following the construction of a timber fence on the side boundary of a neighbouring property.

Council officers say the remaining path was too narrow to be safe and the council discussed with residents the option of a boardwalk with residents contributing half the cost.

The shire says it is still negotiating with Melbourne Water about building the boardwalk.

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NEWS DESK

Towns marking time

Reward system to give tree vandals the chop Four communities get set to celebrate their 150th REWARDS could be offered on the Mornington Peninsula for information leading to the successful prosecution of tree vandals.

Confirmation that a rewards scheme had been discussed at officer level but not yet put to councillors was given at the 21 January council meeting by sustainable infrastructure director Alex Atkins.

Mr Atkins was replying to a question from McCrae resident Barry Robinson who wanted to know how many tree vandals had been prosecuted by the shire in the past year.

According to council meeting records, Mr Atkins said he suspected that no prosecutions had occurred.

Mr Robinson pointed out that the shire had installed notices on the foreshore saying that penalties of up to $136,000 could be imposed on tree vandals.

“Why has the shire not offered rewards which lead to the successful prosecution of the perpetrators, as is done by Bayside City Council?” Mr Robinson asked.

Mr Robinson told The News he had told council officers that some houses seemed to keep uninterrupted views of the bay despite trees continuing to grow on neighbouring properties.

“It’s like when I wrote to council some years ago about the self-pruning trees on clifftops between Sorrento and Portsea, which not only shed branches but also threw themselves over the cliff.

“The shire does not have a very good record of following non-compliance with permits or laws.

“If they offered a reward we might get these people stopped. Whatever they do to make people play the game is OK with me.”

FOUR peninsula towns will begin celebrating their 150th anniversaries this month.

Even though Dromana, Rye, Mornington and Hastings had been settled by Europeans many years before, 2011 marks the 150th birthday of when they were declared towns.

Volunteer community committees are organising events throughout the year, including heritage days with old-fashioned games such as the egg and spoon race, historical exhibitions, street parades and sporting events.

Mornington Peninsula Shire mayor Cr Graham Pittock praised volunteers for doing a “fantastic job”.

“Community groups, schools, historical societies and sporting clubs have worked for about 12 months to bring a great program of activities to our local community,” he said.

He encouraged residents to be involved in celebrating “the vibrant, exciting townships these special places are today”.

A full list of the year’s events is available from the Calendar of Events at www.mornpen.vic.gov.au.

Events in the first half of the year for Rye’s 150th include a cocktail party at Rye Hotel on 18 February (for details, call 5985 2231) and a parade along Pt Nepean Rd, Rye, on Sunday 20 February.

The parade will include floats and the Victoria Police Pipe Band, a

Making history: Organisers of the 150th celebrations include Norma Cornish (Dromana), Geoff Carson (Mornington Peninsula Shire), David Mason (kneeling) and Shirley Davies (Hastings), Pauline Powell (Rye), Thelma Littlejohn (Dromana) and Prue Found (Rye) with mayor Graham Pittock and Cr Bill Goodrem, far right.

horse-drawn wagon, pioneer families, Miss Rye Community entrants in classic cars, Rye and Tootgarook primary schools, Victorian Reenactment Society and Rye-based community service, social, sports and arts clubs.

Rye Yacht Club will have a regatta offshore and the SS Enterprize will arrive at Rye pier with the 1861 “Governor Sir Henry Barkly” aboard to read the proclamation of Rye becoming a town.

This will be followed by festivi-

ties on the foreshore, including heritage-style stalls, music, dancing and food.

A commemorative service will be held at 10.30am at St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Lyons St, Rye, while the “women of Rye 150th anniversary lunch” will be held in the Clarrie Jennings Pavilion, R J Rowley Reserve, Rye, on Saturday 5 March.

For details, call 5985 7484.

Dromana Primary School pupils will dress in heritage clothing for an assembly and parade on Friday

11 March. The public is invited, call the school on 5987 2367 or visit www.dromanaps.edu.au for details.

A “Back to Dromana Primary School” will be held 10am-4pm on Saturday 12 March with stalls, food, drinks, souvenirs and entertainment for all ages. A supper dance will be held later that night in the school’s Keith Allan Hall. For bookings call 5987 2367.

On Sunday 13 March community groups will hold exhibitions at the Old Shire Office and Community Hall, corner Pt Nepean Rd and Verdon St, 10am-2pm with the launch of the book Dromana at 150 – A Community History 1861-2011 at 12.30pm. For details, call 1300 850 600 or 5989 2243.

A town birthday party will be held on Saturday 23 April coinciding with the opening of the renovated pier precinct.

A time capsule laid down in 1986 will be unearthed outside the Mornington Peninsula Shire offices at 2.30pm on Saturday 19 February.

It was laid by HMAS Cerberus and the then Shire of Hastings to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Royal Australian Navy.

Celebrations to commemorate the 150th birthday of Mornington include a picnic in the park on Sunday 23 October.

Details about more events will be published in coming months.

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Rosebud West

$440,000-$480,000

Totally New Again And Close To Everything!

Walking distance to the bay beach and close to everything (Shops, Plaza, Schools, Hospital etc). Completely renovated to a high standard low maintenance home with a new large kitchen s/s appliances & tiled meals area, neutral tones and quality finishes throughout. 2 large living areas, 3 large BRs (BIRs) ensuite, sep bathroom &

toilet. Additional 2 rooms at the front of the property with own access ideal Parent’s or teenager’s retreat or home office. Heating, ducted vacuum system,dbl garage, fully paved courtyard, large grassed rear yard and plenty of room for off road parking for cars and boat. Interested? Then call to arrange an inspection.

Agency: Basso Real Estate. 1807 Point Nepean Road, Tootgarook. Ph 03 5985 9000.

Agent: Gary Barrett 0415 479 896

Sorrento

$379,000

2011’s Star Buy The perfect property for 1st home buyers or Investors alike. A lovely home in the bowl of a quiet court it is in excellent condition and ready to move into. The brick veneer home is complimented by a carport, lock-up garage, gazebo and even a small shed. The block offers a wide expanse of lawn at the front.

Overall the home looks great and is in a first class location. Step inside to reveal 3 lovely

big bedrooms, a well appointed kitchen and a vast open plan living area. The home offers plenty of room for living and entertaining.

This area is extremely popular with young families and offers a safe & friendly environment without missing the pleasures of the beach, shops, golf courses etc that are only a short drive away.

Agency: Stockdale & Leggo Rye, 2271 Pt Nepean Rd. Phone (03) 5985 6555 Agents: Alana Balog 0412 536 624

$1.15 Million - $1.2 Million

Location And Great Rental Returns Hidden amongst the treetops in tightly held Queen Street only a 260m stroll to the township is this absolutely gorgeous Sorrento getaway.

Built in a relaxed, traditional Queenslander style, with wrap around verandahs, this 4 bedroom home exudes quality throughout from the beautiful tall double sash windows, to the high ceilings. Plus there’s ducted air conditioning and heating, open fireplace, main bedroom with ensuite, central bathroom, polished blue gum hardwood floors, quality wool carpets, beautiful window

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furnishings and lush garden vistas from each room.

Designed for entertaining, there’s a huge covered BBQ area, generous additional storage, oversize double lock up garaging and downstairs 4th bedroom/kids zone.

This is true Noosa style luxury in a prime Sorrento position. Stroll to town or perhaps the Sorrento surf beach in minutes, or simply enjoy the lush garden surrounds with a wonderful holiday rental return of over $38,000 per annum. In three words... location, location and location.

Agency: J.P. Dixon Sorrento. Phone (03) 5984 4388 Agent: Troy Daly 0418 397 771

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30 Helena Court, Rye $495,000 â&#x20AC;&#x153;RYGOWRIEâ&#x20AC;?

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No Fanfare No Fuss Just good honest advice from your local independent agent Call John Kennedy or Sam Crowder today 477 Dundas Street, St Andrews Beach $775,000 â&#x20AC;&#x153;BALI BY THE BEACHSIDEâ&#x20AC;?

Contact: John Kennedy 0401 984 842

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With the sounds of Rye ocean beach in the background and the smell of the sea in the air, this limestone home and LWV H[TXLVLWH %DOLQHVH LQĂ XHQFH GHOLYHUV a surreal experience in this spectacular seaside spot. Directly opposite a track to one of the peninsulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most stunning ocean coastlines, the four bedroom home uses stunning colours and OX[XULRXV Ă&#x20AC;QLVKHV WR FUHDWH D VHDVLGH experience second to none featuring an entry that takes the shape of a Balinese temple.

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Rosebud West

$448,000

Z E N TOR I Property Made Easy

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With an annual circulation of 600,000 copies, can you afford for your property not to be the Southern Peninsula News? List with an agent that advertises here!

Great Development Potential Looking for a development site in close proximity to the beach, well here it is!

This substantial 922m2 (approx) property is located only three streets back from the foreshore and is large enough to accommodate three unit sites. (STCA).

Alternatively if youre not ready to develop the property immediately, then simply enjoy

its great location this summer or rent out the existing three bedroom dwelling. Either way this well positioned property offers the developer or private buyer tremendous potential in the ever popular and increasingly sought after area of Rosebud West.

Such properties are rarely offered for sale so be quick!

Agency: Stockdale & Leggo Rosebud. 1089 Pt Nepean Road, Rosebud. Ph (03) 5986 8600 Agent: Rosebud Office 5986 8600

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Ryan Deutrom 0406 426 766

Roy Thompson 0419 304 650

Tootgarook 1807 Pt Nepean Rd 5985 9000

This three bedroom low maintenance home plus fully self-contained flat is located in a quiet leafy street with no through traffic to worry about. This home is perfect for those of you looking for a holiday getaway, investors or for purchasers looking for accommodation for a relative or friends with the fully self-contained flat at the rear, which has its own access. The home comprises two spacious living rooms, fully renovated bathroom and a bright kitchen meals area opening onto an extensive courtyard ideal for entertaining. The large work shed is great for handyman, crafts or home office.

You can still enjoy your summer holidays at the beach if you act fast! This unit, 1 of 3, is perfectly positioned just 400 metres to the beach only 5 mins walk! Features 3 good size bedrooms with BIR’s, open plan lounge, kitchen & dining area & large laundry. New sisal carpets throughout, wood heater and loads of storage space. The courtyard area is large enough to entertain in or just relax after spending the day at the beach. Single lock up garage to store the boat and associated ‘toys’ is a bonus. Act fast to secure your very own piece of the Peninsula this summer!

$459,000

Paul Basso 03 5985 9000

Roy Thompson 0419 304 650

$300,000-$330,000

This two bedroom home is a great opportunity for first home buyers looking to enter the market, or for investors looking to grow their portfolio. Situated on a 535m2 allotment, in one of the much improved growth areas on the Peninsula, close to schools, beach and shops.

Currently tenanted with a huge potential to renovate and achieve a good return in the future.

This property will not last.

Enjoy the simple pleasures of beach style living.Located on a block of 758m2 in a peaceful street and an ultra convenient location within easy walking distance to everything. This 4 bedroom house awaits your personal touch and put BIG plans into place. Large front verandah across the entire front of the property making an ideal place to enjoy your morning coffee. An open plan kitchen, lounge/meals area set in the centre of the house allowing plenty of room for a large family gathering. Features electric cooking, gas HWS, polished floorboards, A/C, ceiling fans. Large undercover entertaining area, shed & plenty of backyard to enjoy!

$335,000A

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$370,000-$400,000

Roy Thompson 0419 304 650

$449,000

Paul Basso 03 5985 9000

TOOTGAROOK

This comfortable family home occupies a quiet and peaceful street position. The house is designed for comfort and practicality whilst maintaining excellent visual appeal. A single level dwelling complete with master with ensuite, WIR’s & spa room.3 other large bedrooms with BIR’s, 2nd bathroom with bath, & sep toilet. Formal lounge area with raked ceilings, OFP flows through to the family friendly living area, casual dining space and beautiful gourmet kitchen with plenty of bench space and storage. The 3rd living area is large and suitable for family get togethers, playroom for the children or even a theatre room!

$495,000

Beautifully presented and partially renovated WB house has a fabulous location in a very quiet street. There is nothing like it on the market currently. Possibly 2 unit site (STCA). Features 3 generous BRs, 2 living areas, great renovated bathroom & kitchen, formal lounge with open fireplace, sep dining and period features. Gas cooking, HWS and split system heating/cooling.

Outside there is another smaller building with shower, toilet and storage, great for when you return home after a day at the beach which is 1 mins walking distance away. Located conveniently to shops, cafes, beach, hospital and public transport.

ROSEBUD WEST

$320,000 - $350,000

$559,000

$369,000

Roy Thompson 0419 304 650

This fabulousl newly renovated home is sure to impress the moment you enter the front door. Bright and airy living area with polished floors and split system, leading to the kitchen area with its own butler’s panty & stainless steel appliances, making it an absolute dream to entertain guests with an adjacent family room leading out onto a north facing decked area. There are 3 generous bedrooms and a beautiful family bathroom. This property needs to be inspected to fully appreciate. Set in low maintenance gardens with lock up car accommodation and plenty of room for the boys’ toys.

ROSEBUD WEST

Gary Barrett 0415 479 896

Take advantage of this great opportunity to purchase two homes in one, set on approx.

1200m2 allotment. Offers 6 BR’s, 3 bathrooms, 2 kitchens, 2 living areas, superb outdoor area, ample fruit trees, huge veggie patch, fully fenced, sealed driveway, bore water and watering system. This truly is a solid home with ample room for 2 families or more. Located within close proximity to everything on offer on the beautiful Mornington Peninsula, Golf Courses, Wineries & Safe Sandy Beaches.

TOOTGAROOK

Paul Basso 03 5985 9000

Situated on a flat corner block, this neat light filled three bedroom property will appeal to someone looking to add their own personal touch, with neutral tones throughout. Combined casual dining, living and kitchen makes up the largest room in the house, and brings a sense of space and comfort to the home. Outside there is undercover parking and an outdoor shower, plenty of room for the children to play or room to extend at a later date. The property is fully fenced. An ideal holiday home, investment or first home just waiting for your dream to come to life. Ring for a private inspection to fully appreciate the potential of this property...

TOOTGAROOK

$480,000-$520,000

$158,000

OFFERS OVER $650,000

Paul Basso 03 5985 9000

This inviting home has old world, character and charm. A stunning entrance invites you into the open plan living space divided by a fireplace featuring gas log fire. With French doors opening out from all living areas, the open plan design flows into a dining area and kitchen with dishwasher. French doors from the kitchen step out onto a deck and outdoor entertaining area. 4 good size bedrooms, main with ensuite, family bathroom with spa and a third toilet/ powder room. Large carport and garage at the rear of the property, with side street access expands the potential for this site. On a block of 772m2, sub-division (STCA) is possible.

ROSEBUD WEST

Paul Basso 03 5985 9000

This two bedroom cabin partly furnished with built in bunks and double bed, kitchen with fridge, gas upright stove, table and chairs, bathroom, and lounge. This could be the chance for someone to have a cheap holiday/investment or live in permanently with all the facilities a caravan park has to offer; Swimming pool, games room, BBQ facilities and kid’s playground.

Great opportunity for a carefree lifestyle and a only short drive to one of the Peninsula’s best beaches, cosmopolitan cafe and restaurants strips. Act quickly for a private Inspection and start your holiday today.

DROMANA

Paul Basso 03 5985 9000

This 1262m2 flat block of land is located 2 minutes walk to the Beach and is perfect for redevelopment, with plans and permits available for 3 units (STCA). With land in short supply, very rarely does a parcel of land become available in a position such as this, close to Beach, Shops, Schools and Sporting Facilities in a quiet leafy street and at an affordable price.

ROSEBUD WEST

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Tootgarook Dual income investment property!

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Two completely separate living areas and two rental incomes, 2 of everything. What more could you ask for! Upstairs residence consists of 3 bedrooms main with en-suite and all with built in robes, separate bathroom and laundry. Recently completed the private unit downstairs offers 1 bedroom, modern tiled bathroom, open carpeted living room, kitchen with electric stove.

Located only a short walk to the centre of town and the safe family beaches, shops and so much more in the rapidly growing peninsula suburb of Rye, this neat and tidy brick home sits on an elevated block of approx 625.5sqm and would make an ideal family home or holiday destination to spend your summer. Offering 3 bedrooms two with built in robes and central bathroom.

$390,000-$430,000 83 Highbury Road

$450,000 - $495,000 10 Coombes Court

Contact Brendan Adams 0419 566 944

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Offering 2 bedrooms with built in robes, kitchen with gas cook top and electric oven, dishwasher and plenty of cupboard space.

The Vendors have started renovations but have decided to leave it up to the new owners to complete the work giving you the option to add your own personal touch to this 2 storey, 4 bedroom Blairgowrie home. Downstairs consists of 2 bedrooms and large living area. Upstairs comprises of another 2 bedrooms, living/family room, separate bathroom and a new extension.

$345,000 6, 1591 Point Nepean Road

$460,000 15 Friar Street

Contact Brendan Adams 0419 566 944

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AROUND THE PENINSULA

Fammo statue to take pride of place at Ballam Park

Rocks off as paths take costly turn

A LIFE-SIZED bronze statue of former world boxing champion Johnny Famechon could be installed at Ballam Park, Frankston.

Frankston Council is considering an offer from businessman Rob McCarthy and Sydney sculptor Stephen Glassborow, from whom Mr McCarthy commissioned the work.

The donation would be funded by the private sale of 15 smaller statuettes costing $12,000 each with the council covering installation costs of $45,000, which include transportation, footings, a plaque and landscaping.

A report to the council states similar statues have been installed elsewhere, including a statue of legendary footballer (and Dromana hotel owner) John Coleman outside Hastings library in 2005 and Baw Baw Shire placing a statue of another Aussie boxing champ, Lionel Rose, in a Warragul park.

The report stated that when John Famechon was asked where he wanted the statue placed, he said in Frankston, where he grew up after arriving from France as a young boy.

Famechon achieved worldwide fame after his epic title fights with Fighting Harada of Japan.

Born in France in 1945, Famechon has always called Frankston home.

He was actively involved with the community, including helping police run the Frankston Blue Light Boxing Club for young people.

He became WBC Featherweight World Champion in 1969 after

Final costs triple on estimates

Our champ: Johnny Famechon in his fighting prime.

defeating Cuban Jose Legra on points at Albert Hall in London.

He twice defended his crown against Harada.

With a career record of 56 wins (20 by KO), 6 draws and 5 losses, Famechon was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in Los Angeles in 1997.

Fammo, as he is known, was badly injured when hit by a car while jogging in Sydney in 1991 and sustained

horrific injuries. In 1993 he started a radical and demanding rehabilitation program, hoping to improve his acquired brain injury.

After three months he took his first steps. He now walks with the help of a walking stick and his speech and memory have improved markedly.

In June 1997 he walked down the aisle for his wedding to long-time girlfriend Glenys, fulfilling a promise he made to her four years earlier.

By Keith Platt PLANS to build footpaths in Frankston with crushed rock have virtually hit a brick wall – with costs ballooning to twice that of concrete.

In May 2008 Frankston Council adopted a $2.4-million, five-year plan to build 25 footpaths on a priority list.

The plan also included using “modified crushed rock” on a trial path in Brunei Rd, Seaford.

Council officers estimated they could cut costs by 30 per cent by not using concrete.

However, the estimated cost of $23,000 blew out to $69,000.

The estimate for concrete was $46,000.

Factors contributing to the high cost included the belief the rock could be spread manually. It could not, and a paving machine had to be brought in.

Sections that were manually laid had to be reconstructed.

Paving machines can only make paths with a minimum width of 2.3 metres while the Brunei Rd path was designed to be two metres wide.

Geotechnical testing was also needed for the crushed rock path, which also needs regular spraying for weeds.

Neither cost was included in the original estimate.

The Seaford path was built under the

Citywide Pathway Program, part of council objective No 4: Well Planned, Well Built and Well Maintained.

The report says it supports the plan, which is now being modified to make nine planned crushed rock paths out of concrete.

Delays and price blowouts have also occurred with a path in Baden Powell Drive, Frankston South.

One section of the path had been completed, but the remainder needed a complete redesign, taking the cost from $43,000 to $307,000.

“Other paths, particularly in the Frankston South region, will have site restraints requiring designs to be undertaken and additional works such as retaining walls, though they shouldn’t be to the extent required for Baden Powell Drive,” the report states.

The report recommended council raise an extra $500,000 a year from rates to enable the path program to be completed in six years rather than 11 under the current $320,000-a-year program.

“The additional funding required can be covered by re-prioritising the Road Assets class within the Capital Works Program,” the report states.

“No economic implications apply.”

LMA selects freeway servos builder

By Mike Hast THE state government’s freeway authority Linking Melbourne Authority has appointed a builder for the twin service stations on Peninsula Link south of Baxter.

They will be built and operated by A A Holdings, a land development and management company based in Collingwood, in conjunction with a sister company Bredix Pty Ltd. The companies develop service stations for BP Australia and The News understands the twin servos will carry the BP brand.

The centres, which have been described as “truck stops”, one northbound and one south-bound, will be built on farming land south of Baxter and would open by early 2013 when the freeway is complete.

Each will have a truckies’ lounge, showers, toilets and laundry; baby changing room, children’s playground and picnic area; buildings of about 3000 square metres; parking for 100 cars, four buses, five caravans and 16 trucks; 26 refuelling points for cars and four for trucks; a convenience store, five food or retail shops and a tourist information kiosk; indoor seating for 272 people and outside seating for 52; and about 13 toilets, including one for people with disabilities.

LMA issued the tender last May and in December notified Mornington Peninsula Shire of its decision.

In May, then shire mayor David Gibb said he was surprised LMA had issued the tender as he had no knowledge of it.

It was reported that shire CEO Michael Kennedy was privately annoyed at the proposal as the shire has a policy of refusing applications for stand-alone service stations in the green wedge zone, even though they are a permitted use.

Emocean: The battle for a safe harbour at Mornington has started with pro-marina forces hoping to create a place that can withstand storms such as the one in April 2008 that sunk or beached about 30 boats. Picture: Michael Abicare winningimages.com.au

Battle of Mornington harbour

Truck stops: The proposed twin service stations south of Baxter.

In its submission to the Peninsula Link environmental effects statement process in December 2008, the shire told LMA: “That council [would] continue to discourage the development of service centres within the green wedge zone along any adopted route of the ... freeway, to avoid further impacts on the landscape or agricultural land.”

In May Cr Gibb said the shire wanted to see the LMA needs analysis that showed twin service centres were viable.

“When the service centre planning application comes to the council, we would look at elements such as how does it fit in with our landscape values.

There are some high hurdles to jump.”

Cr Gibb said he thought north of Baxter was a better location for freeway service centres.

Peter Baulch, chairman of Baxter Residents and Traders Progress Action

Committee, said the committee and many Baxter residents supported the twin servos.

“They will not be accessible from Baxter streets and can only be reached via the freeway,” he said.

“The centres are sufficiently distant from houses to not pose a noise problem and we have been promised that the operator will offer employment to Baxter residents as a first priority.”

LMA chief executive Ken Mathers has told the shire the servo sites would be extensively landscaped to integrated them into the surrounding environment.

They would have “community assets” such as a picnic area, shared pathways for walkers and cyclists, and a tourist information kiosk.

Mr Mathers said the centres were needed to provide drivers with a place to rest and refresh to combat driver fatigue.

By Mike Hast THE Battle of Mornington harbour started on Tuesday 1 February when marina proponents and objectors faced off at an independent panel public hearing at the shire office in Queen St, Mornington.

The panel, appointed by the state government Department of Planning and Community Development’s Planing Panels Victoria, has to decide if a large part of the public harbour will be handed over to Mornington Boat Haven Pty Ltd, a company formed to build the so-called safe harbour by members of the yacht club.

MBH chairman Philip Coombs said last year the $19 million project would create 172 water berths for club members and others plus 25 public berths for short-term visits. There would be a 200-metre long wave screen to protect the natural deep water harbour from northerlies, 197 berths, public jetty, refuelling area and associated infrastructure.

Mornington Environment Association, the lead objector, has a “war chest” of $10,000 to fight the proposal after contacting more than 800 objectors.

Association president Jan Oliver said objectors had “rallied to support...

the campaign to prevent the third attempt by the yacht club to build a marina in Mornington harbour”. The money would pay for expert advisers and presentation costs at the panel.

Ms Oliver said the public could attend at any time during February and that MEA would be making its submission on 17, 18 and 21 February, following Mornington Boat Haven.

“It will all be an enormous effort – and expense – and we look forward to hearing the panel report, which has to be with the new planning minister [Matthew Guy] within six weeks of the end of hearings. Then the shire councillors vote and a decision will finally be made,” Ms Oliver said.

Mr Coombs said the project would provide benefits throughout the community. “From community harbour users to local traders and tourism operators, the project will secure the future of Mornington as a great place to live and visit,” he said.

Mr Coombs told councillors that $875,000 had been spent on studies and plans for the proposal.

A raft of information is on the shire’s website: www.mornpen.vic.gov.au Look under “On-Exhibition”, then “Planning scheme amendments”, then “Amendments in progress”.

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home&garden A Peninsula Garden Lightweight pots and planters all the go for balcony gardens ... Sow What?

By Frances Cameron I WAS starting to think the day wouldn’t come, but the children are back at school. Now it’s time for me to factor in some quality time in my garden without fear of being called back into the house on errands that could so very easily be done by somebody else. There are plenty of things to do in the garden right now.

As I write I am enjoying the sight of many blooms in my yard, a veritable paradise. The butterfly bush (Buddleia alternifolia) is waving around its arching canes tipped with glorious, purple heads of flowers, attracting a variety of butterflies: my iceberg roses, which have suffered an unfortunate and, I think, undeserved decline in popularity over the last few years, are also putting on a magnificent show. No sooner than I cut off a dead flower than another one appears in its place.

When deadheading your roses as they near the end of their flowering season, cut them back to only the first bud behind the flower, instead of cutting back further down the stem. This will prevent the plant from pushing out excessive new growth.

My dahlias are blooming and looking quite spectacular.

The collection of different colours and shapes of flowers I have is increasing through generous donations from friends. Sharing is a thing that seems to be common among the gardening community. Dahlias come in a great range of shapes, from small, densely packed, globular flowers (known as ball or show), to large, spidery, flowers with long, loosely situated petals (known as cactus). Pinching off extra buds will help to increase the size of the flowers. There is also a massive range of colours.

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that focused mainly on dahlias; it was simply stunning.

My vegie patch is going gangbusters as well. The combination of lots of sun and rain does wonders for vegetables, but unfortunately it does wonders for the weeds as well.

After a good, deep soaking I have topped up the pea-straw mulch in an effort to reduce this problem. Keeping your garden well mulched and being vigilant, removing weeds before they reach nuisance status, is the best way to keep the weeds under control.

My crop of Jeruselum artichokes (Helianthus tuberosum) is spectacular to say the least. They are, in fact, becoming a bit of a nuisance, but I love to see the very tall stems topped off with cheerful sunflower-like flowers waving around.

I have to try and thin them out and slowly reduce the patch before they spread too far. I also have self-sown rocket and lettuce popping up all through the vegie patch after letting one or two plants go to seed. It’s fascinating to see where the seeds go after being blown about by the wind.

It will soon be time to think about what you want for a winter crop. At the time of writing, the local supermarket has cauliflowers selling for $6 each. Admittedly they aren’t in season, but the price is exorbitant, due in part to the terrible floods.

Without trying to be too alarmist, I think these prices may well be what we’ll have to pay for some time. A little forward thinking in preparing a spot to grow some of your own food can lead to not only saving a little bit of money, but also to you and your family gaining the pleasure of getting out into nature and benefitting from producing fresh, healthy food.

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How to keep your printer going AT Cartridge World Mornington Peninsula, we love happy customers and achieve this by helping them obtain the most efficient and economical printing results possible.

But sometimes the printer manufacturers work against us.

Over the past few months we have noted an increasing number of customers who use certain printers returning either refilled or compatible cartridges, and telling us they previously worked successfully, but now the printer is rejecting them.

The good news is, in every case, we are more than happy to refund the customers purchase.

There is nothing more annoying than a printer that suddenly stops working – especially when there is homework, a job application or business statements to print, and replacement cartridges are difficult to get and dollars are a little tight. The possibilities for aggravation are endless.

So why do these printers suddenly stop working?

Here is one possible explanation: if

you read the fine print in the licence agreement that came with your new printer, you will find that the manufacturer provides updates to the firmware in your printer, at regular intervals and that you have little or no control over this.

These updates are automatically uploaded over the internet into the firmware in your printer.

The updates have a legitimate purpose, which is to correct software bugs that may exist in the original printer software. Because this is firmware (software stored inside the printer), it cannot be removed by the user.

Driver updates and firmware updates are a normal part of a printer manufacturer’s toolbox and are expected to fix problems.

But in some cases it appears that the printer manufacturers are using the firmware updates to enable the printer to detect a refilled or compatible cartridge and disable printing.

These updates can be delayed to trigger at a later date or when a certain

page count is reached (in the middle of printing) so they appear to be completely random.

What can you do?

1. One option is to not connect to the internet.

2. In some cases the printer driver software gives you the option of turning off automatic upgrades.

3. Write to the ACCC and complain about the printer manufacturers’ uncompetitive practices.

4. Do your homework before you buy a printer, which is easier said than done.

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The many community groups and all of their volunteers set about their tasks with a sense of great pride following the announcement that the 2010 event had been awarded Event of the Year by Mornington Peninsula Shire.

Thoughts on the day were with those going through tough times and flood relief ribbons and collection containers were at every food and activity site.

MC Tom Potts kept the crowd well informed and ran a tight schedule of entertainment on stage.

On stage the ever-popular Missing Links, Bethany & Lauren Stewart, Ling Marra Singers, Chris Doh, and Billy Joe Blake kept people entertained.

Then Oskar sang a beautiful rendition of the national anthem.

Safety Beach Sailing Club created a spectacle offshore while on land vast crowds came into the Dromana foreshore pier precinct for free breakfast.

For a treat Dromana Sea Scouts served Dutch profferjies with all of the favourite toppings.

Australian Volunteer Coastguard members served chicken schnitzels.

Local honey, coffee, popcorn and fairy floss were all on offer.

Face-painting queues were busy all morning and at the water’s edge, Dromana Bay Life Savers enticed onlookers with rides in their rescue craft.

Painted wooden bird cutouts and surf boards created myriad colours, and peninsula classic cars were proudly on display.

For children there were train and chair-oplane rides in the car park.

The giant slide proved most popular, and nearby, children enjoyed the animal farm.

It was another great Australia Day at Dromana and thanks go to all who made it possible.

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By Barry Irving A BUSY group of volunteers started Rye’s Australia Day early with the 1st Rye Sea Scouts erecting the flagpole for the flag-raising ceremony, a task they have undertaken every year.

Rye schoolgirl Laila Cooke sang the national anthem while the flag was raised.

With Rye RSL committee members in attendance, president Peter Barnett recited the RSL Ode, which was then followed by Australia Day ambassador Tommy Hafey.

Tommy gave an inspiring and motivational talk and stayed to meet and talk with many people in the large crowd; he’s a true Australian and a wonderful ambassador.

As Rye Australia Day site coordinator, I presented Australia Day medals to Laila and Tommy who also received a commemorative pin from Woolworths Safeway.

Sponsors were acknowledged for their contributions – Wittingslow Amusements, Rye RSL, Rye & Dromana Community

bank branches and Woolworths Safeway.

Rye Lions cooked up 500 sausages for the free sausage sizzle and then continued to cook for the crowd well into the afternoon.

Children’s entertainers The Mushroom Show and Kikki the Clown and the Bendigo Bank colouring competition kept the children well entertained during the afternoon.

Local singer Max Rowe and Company, The Vincents, and evergreens Legend kept the toes tapping and the dancers moving in the afternoon and into the early evening.

Late afternoon saw the Rotary club cooking hotdogs, dim sims and selling drinks while the feature band, The Australian Queen Tribute Show, rocked the crowd with Queen favourites until after 9pm when the sky erupted with a fantastic fireworks display that lasted 30 minutes.

If you missed Australia Day 2011, make sure to mark it in your diary for next year: the Australia Day Committee is already planning for 2012.

Australia Day at Rye was true family day. Photo: Barry Irving

Laila Cooke sings the national anthem.

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Some locals after the show. Photo: Barry Irving

1st Rye Sea Scouts erect the flagpole.

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Queen’s “Freddie Mercury” rocked the crowd. Photo: Barry Irving

Tommy Hafey receives his Australia Day Medal.

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A doctor and a lawyer were talking at a party.

Their conversation was constantly interrupted by people describing their ailments and asking the doctor for free medical advice.

After an hour of this, the exasperated doctor asked the lawyer, “What do you do to stop people from asking you for legal advice when you’re out of the office?”

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THE Go!! Show, the television show that created so many local stars and made Melbourne the pop music centre of Australia, is 45 years old and to celebrate, the original stars of the show are coming together for a special concert at the Palais Theatre on Friday 11 March.

The show will feature every living major artist from the 1960s and the guest list reads like a Who’s Who of Australian pop music: Normie Rowe, Ronnie Burns, Bobby Bright, Colin Cook, Buddy England, Ronnie Charles, Marcie Jones, Terry Dean and

Bev Harrell plus the original members of The Twilights, Glenn Shorrock on lead vocals and Terry Britten on guitar performing together for the first time in 40 years.

Johnny Young and Ian Turpie, who compered The Go!! Show during its five years on air, will host the concert.

Normie Rowe, a former King of Pop, had three singles in the Top 40 at the same time in October 1965 and Que Sera Sera was the biggest selling single in 1965.

Normie’s 1966 hit Ooh La La featured Jimmy Page on guitar and John Paul Jones on bass. Both session musicians went on to form Led Zeppelin.

Normie also starred in the stage production of Les Miserables.

Normie has now settled on the Gold Coast and does a lot of club and cabaret work. www.normierowe.com. au The Go!! Show gold tickets are available 136 100 or www. ticketmaster.com.au * * * COUNTDOWN The Musical is a comedy musical send up of Countdown featuring 40 smash hits from the 1970s and 1980s at The Palms Crown, 10-19

A Grain Of Salt IT’S the second day of the heatwave, Monday, January 31st and very hot.

The wireless advises to take care of the oldies in the heat. My darlings are into their 40’s and not a sound from them. Perhaps they’re hoping? I’m bracing myself for a Woolworths visit after days as a hermit. I drive past the carnival and they’re packing to depart. A big plus. I approach Woolies with trepidation. A car spot! Right up the front! I’m in shock. In I stagger and amazingly “real” specials are to be had after weeks of useless Coca Cola. Life is returning to normal. All is serene. What heat?

And so, as we move lazily into February and contemplate the disappearance of those charming little kiddies, many of which were very fat (not that there’s anything wrong with it) and look at the streets devoid of broken bottles, empty cans, empty pizza packages and lots of parking spaces, tears come into both my eyes. I miss them already and gaze wistfully towards late December when they will all return to reap the benefits of the ice cream shops, the takeaways, the monstrous carnivals and literally wallow

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February 10. Book on 1300 795 012. * * * THE Mornington Racecourse will be turned into a concert venue when Chris Isaak comes to town.

Isaak with special guests Joe Camilleri & The Black Sorrows, Melinda Schneider and Danielle Spencer will perform at the track on Racecourse Rd on Saturday 19 March.

Tickets 136 100. * * *

SOME of the classic bands of the 1970s are coming to town including ZZ Top appearing at Festival Hall, 18 April with Rose Tattoo.

Jethro Tull will appear at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda on 28 April.

with Gary Turner

Tickets to both events on 136 100.

Gerry and the Pacemakers will appear at the Frankston Arts Centre, Sunday 13 March. For tickets call 9784 1060. * * * THE Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival will launch on 14 March.

Details at www.lmff.com.au * * * THE whole family will enjoy Walking with Dinosaurs at Hisense Arena on 4-15 May. Tickets 132 849. * * * Top 10 albums 1. Band of Joy – Robert Plant 2. Station to Station – David Bowie 3. 7 Axes – Diesel 4. Goes Down Under – Amanda Palmer 5. Original Sin – INXS 6. Get Closer – Keith Urban 7. Greatest Songs of the Eighties – Barry Manilow 8. Roadsinger – Yusuf 9. Tim Robbins and the Rogues Gallery Band 10. Man Child – Ken Murdoch

with Cliff Ellen in their late night screaming (mainly females-why do they scream?) as a result of the effects of lots of designer (?) drinks. I fervently hope they relax in the coming months up there in the big smoke and return full of energy for a repeat performance. And please, don’t forget to bring lots of fireworks with you. And jet skis; we adore them.

Live and let live is my motto.

I’ve often pondered the advantages of being born beautiful, male or female. A tall male with traditional good looks and a good head of hair is starting at the mile post in a two mile Melbourne Cup of life, or in the straight if he also has a good voice.

Ditto females. Some live up to these advantages and some fall at an invisible hurdle. For some unknown reason, with not the slightest hint of insight, I’ve almost always been able to pick the shonkies early in the piece. Perhaps God gave me this advantage as a counter to my handicaps? Mind you, a very pleasant looking person asked me along for a beer in a downstairs bar in Athens years ago and that one beer cost me over $50, and a good lesson.

It was Lord Byron who said “I can

recognize anyone by the teeth, with whom I have talked. I always watch the lips and the mouth: they tell what the tongue and eyes try to conceal.”

Byron spent a lot of time in Greece, so he may have adopted this procedure as a necessity. I tried it; didn’t work.

Others say “If they turn their head to the right and look away, they’re lying”. Hmnn. Either way I would not know. I leave the beautiful people to frolic with themselves.

Another “Australian of the year” has been announced and I’ve missed out, again; likewise overlooked for “Senior Australian of the year”. My grief was seemingly implacable, as it had been in previous years. As Job said in the Old Testament “Woe unto me”. Suddenly I remembered myself as a boy, watching Dad and our next door neighbour cutting the heads off two chooks for Christmas dinner (that was lunchtime back then), and the headless chooks running in all directions. Of course! I’m the chook. Still running, ever headless, with plenty of mates.

Let’s imagine that I went away overnight and on returning discover

that my house had burnt down due to some electrical fault or the pipes burst causing severe flooding. Assume that I was not insured and only received my fortnightly pension. People may well come to my rescue, the strength and endurance of the human spirit etc.

But would the Federal Government come to my aid other than whatever is covered by Centrelink? So why the flood levy? I’ve already given money. My choice. I have no problem with State and Federal Governments meeting associated flood costs. That’s what they’re there for, despite the propoganda of maintaining a fantasy budget surplus. I do have a problem with feeling a need to help people who build on flood risk areas and yet do not insure for flood damage, in spite of crooked developers. Still, a levy on jet skis ($50) condoms ($5) Aussie flags on cars ($5) Australia Day Award recipients ($500) non smokers in smoking areas ($10) financial advisers ($1000) and Andrew Bolt & Terry McCrann ($5000 each) would help.

A previous suggestion that bald people should have special dispensation

to wear hats in the dedicated smoking zone of RSL Clubs to offset nudity on very cold days was met with an icy shoulder. C’est la vie. It occurs to me that at any one time there would be some 6 to 10 ladies on the machines with wigs on their beautiful heads.

Aha! All I need is to buy a wig (in the shape of a hat) by next June. Voila!

Music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is. [Pepyrs] What are three words a woman never wants to hear when she’s making love? “Honey, I’m home!” cliffie9@bigpond.com

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WHAT’S ON The Southern Peninsula 50+ Club is a Peninsula based friendship club who meet regularly for outings such as dinners, lunches,walks, games,picnics, bbqs, bus trips. The club holds general meetings at the West Rosebud Community Hall the third Tuesday of each month. For more info, ring Val on 5985 3045.

Peninsula Diabetic Self Help Group is a friendly group who meet on the 3rd Monday of each month in the Uniting Church Hall, Murray Anderson Road, Rosebud at 1pm. Diabetics, careers and friends are most welcome. Details 59867795.

Womens pre-loved Fashion Market Mornington Racecourse Loved it Market is a unique event with over 65 indoor stalls selling quality womens pre-loved fashion & accessories. Come along & pick up current fashion, a vintage piece, or a designer handbag. Sunday February 20th 2011 Mornington Racecourse Dining Room 9.30 – 1.30 pm $3 Entry & free parking.

Enquiries 0417 138 125 or email loveditmarket@yahoo.com.au Racecourse Road access from Bungower Rd Closed Tootgarook Combined Probus Club meets at the Tootgarook Community Hall, cnr Barry and Darvall Street Tootgarook on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 9.30am. Interesting speakers and activities. Would you like to become a member and join us? For more information, please call Secretary Jane Johnson on 5985 6542 or President Fred Dyer on 5986 3386.

CHICKS TO BOILERS LUNCHEON. “New Beginnings” - Come and hear local woman speaker Sandra Clack tell her story. Sandra is a breast cancer survivor, living a very full and productive life. Tuesday 1st March - Noon - 2.30pm.

Brooklnads of Mornington 99 Tanti Road. $25.00 each covers a two course lunch and a glass of Wine.

Bookings essential by 24th Feb. Merrilyn 59744072.

Dromana Seniors. On Friday February 11th we have a Blumes end of season sale at the club rooms at 1.30pm. All welcome.

On the 2nd of March we go to Denilequin for 3 days. If you would like a break, come join us.

Welcome to our new members.

Get well to our sick friends.

Rosebud Women’s View Club.

Come and join us at 11.30am at the Blue Room, Rye Hotel. Thursday 17th February 2011. Phone Zelma 59862059

Western Port Equestrian Association Inc, for equestrian families, holds rallies on the 3rd Sunday and 2nd Wednesday of every month at Woolley’s Road Equestrian Reserve, Woolley’s Road, Crib Point. New members most welcome. Enquiries 0408 173 486 A Pleasant Sunday Arvo of Jazz Sunday 20th February 2011 (12.30pm to 3.30pm). Mornington RSL Virginia Street Mornington (Mel 145 G2). With “THE RED HOT JIGGLERS” A seven piece band playing west coast dixieland and New Orleans. Bookings/enquires on 03 5975 2106.

Over 50’s American Clogging New beginner classes for adults wanting to get fit have fun and meet new people whilst learning Clogging, cross between Country Tap Dancing, Irish Dancing and American Folk Dancing, will commence February. No dance experience or partner needed. Contact: Mornington Cloggers Lee : 59776985 04129777898 Cancer Support Group meets every second Tuesday of the month. All welcome. Community Health. 185 High Street, Hastings, or ring 0419 020 543.

The Celestial Teapot Skeptics meet from 6.30pm on Thursday the 17th of February at the ECO House, The Briars.

Guest speaker will be Dr. Stuart Batten whose area of expertise is Crystallography, which is the experimental science of the arrangement of atoms in solids. The real world, properly understood in the scientific way, is deeply beautiful and unfailingly interesting.

For illustration, we need look no further than crystals themselves.

Please RSVP to Graeme Hanigan on 0438 359 600.

Warhammer Kids Club. Play the game, make scenery, paint miniatures. Free attendance, fully supervised. Bentons Square Community Centre. Mondays 3.30-5.30pm 5977-2468

Bluegrass/Country Music Club If you like to sing, play banjo, guitar, concertina, fiddle, mandolin, spoons, harmonica, or just tap ya feet, we want to see you at Mahogany Bluegrass. Jack Verity Hall - Frankston. Cost is $5. Coffee and Tea Provided. 9-786,1445 Your event here? Email team@ mpnews.com.au to have your community group’s event listed in the ‘What’s On Around The Peninsula’ section’.

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Monthly Meeting of Southern Peninsula People With Multiple Sclerosis Self Help Group. At Rosebud Community Health. 1527 Point Nepean Road, Rosebud.

Wednesday 1-30pm 16 February 2011. For further information Ph 59820950

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Current employment opportunities include: Food and Beverage Attendants Housekeeping Attendants Why not join a vibrant team dedicated to serving our members and guests, whilst developing skills to enhance your career? You will ideally have previous hospitality experience and be flexible to work a variety of shifts across a 7-day rotating roster.

RACV offers competitive remuneration, career opportunities and extensive benefits.

Register your interest on www.racv.com.au in the career opportunities section now.

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At the Bendigo it starts with U.

Rye FC kicks off 2011

THE Rye Senior Football Club kicked off their 2011 Pre-Season on Monday January the 31st.

Under the watchful eye of Senior Coach Stephen Ryan, around 45 players gathered for their first night of the season. The good news is that almost all of the players have come back in great shape said Ryan, who again will pull on the boots.

The under 18’s also began their 2011 season on Monday the 31st. New coach, Danny Walker, was delighted with the initial response to the first night, and encourages all under 18 player to come along to training at 5.00pm at the ground. With around 30 players this year eligible for Under 18 football, Danny and the club are looking forward to a promising year.

The under 18’s will start training at 5.00pm on their own to gain some bonding and camarardrie within their group, before joining in some of the senior training. Danny would like to see as many parents down to watch training as possible. First year players, Tim Purchase, Jack Noseda, Josh Garner, Brady Egan, Nathan Hardy, Harrison Wilson and Andrew Dean, will be a welcome addition for 2nd year players such as Scott Shea, Jayden Seers, Bryce Dexter, Billy Briggs, Jye Lloyd and Troy Cullan

Over the off season the match committee at Rye and Coach Stephen Ryan have worked extremely hard on gaining some great recruits for season 2011.

David Willett, Lyle House and Darren Booth will all join the club from Mount Eliza. David is Mount Eliza’s ex Captain Coach, who wins his own ball and can play in the centre or up forward. Lyle House is a versatile big man who can play in numerous positions, forward or back. Darren Booth was a Vice Captain at Mount Eliza and a team of the year player in Peninsula Division; he is a hard running utility that can play wing, on ball or forward.

Mark Chaffey, ex AFL Richmond player, is back from a year travelling after playing at Rye in 2009, and looks in great shape, setting the fastest time in the 2km time trial. Another recruit form Canberra is Cassidy Fitzclarence, a hard running mid fielder, with the fitness base to match Chaffey.

Mick Cain who has come over from our rival club Rosebud, is training the house down, and is certainly enjoying the change of scenery and will play with his cousins Sean and Ben this year.

Our captain Rhett Sutton is also training extremely well and on target for a round 1 come back after last year’s knee reconstruction.

Ben Holmes, last year’s Nepean

Peninsula racer gears up for year

League B & F winner, looks in great shape, hitting the gym hard over the pre-season, with no Iron Man commitments this year. Ben Winters-Kerr, Harry “the Chief” Crowe, Cam and Andrew Dunn, Jared Kirkwood Mattie McIndoe and Dane Veliades are all setting PB in their runs.

Stephen Ryan encourages all local players to get down to the Rye Ground on Monday and Wednesday nights from 5.45pm to begin Pre-Season training with their mates. Ryan said “the club is in a really strong position off ground with a stable committee, and that has certainly helped with recruiting”. If we can put in the hard work now and get a good fitness base, there is no reason with the inclusion of the new players and the development of our younger players of 2010, together with our established leaders of the club, 2011 can be a very successful year.

Travis Sawers will be playing coach of the Reserve side in 2011, with Mick Dunn his assistant coach. The senior support staff will remain unchanged with Rod Lovitt and Scott Beel again assisting Stephen.

Don’t forget all you supporters get on board and unleash the “demon within”. Grab a membership by phoning Bob Jenkins 0418 885 595 or Mick O’Rourke 0419 583 378, all call down the club on any training night.

Bryce Van Hoof of “Hoofy Racing” will be competing on a Kawasaki ZX6 for the 2011 race season. He has some amazing support from Motorcycle Rimstickers, Mototrack Accessories, Motorcycle Race Gear, ASR Suspension, and TBG Photo.

Bryce’s goal for the 2011 season is to compete in all 5 rounds of the Supersport category in the ASBK (Australian Superbike Series), which will take him to most states in Australia Bryce is looking forward to competing on the ZX6 as it is a bike that he knows well and is very comfortable on. His goal is to gain a top 15 place for the series against the factory race teams and highly experienced competitors.

2011 marks a big series for Bryce and his Hoofy Racing team as there will be live TV coverage on Speed TV. You can keep track of Bryce’s

progress on the Hoofy Racing website (www.hoofyracing.com). All results will be on the ASBK website (www. asbk.com.au) and in most motorcycle magazines.

Bryce is still looking for some extra support to help him follow his dream for the 2011 season, so if you would like to help please feel free to contact Bryce: bryce@hoofyracing.com

Groms first up for surf THE 14 and under Groms division will hit the water first at Gunnamatta on Saturday 12 February for this year’s Volcom Stone’s VQS Crustaceous Tour surf contest.

Registration is at 7am for the Groms division at 7.30.

Other divisions open to entrants on a first-come basis are 15-17 Juniors, Girls and Pro-Am. Surfers under 18 need a parent’s signature; to download entry form go to: www.volcom.com/crusty/Series.asp

Heats will last 10 minutes and judged on the best one wave until the semi-finals when the most radical manoeuvre will also be rewarded.

Entry is free and those attending can take home a prize without getting wet.

Finalists qualify for the Australian VQS championships at Manly in April where the winners will be crowned.

The junior and pro-am winners will be flown to Newport Beach, California, to represent Australia and battle it out for a US$100,000 purse at the Totally Crustaceous VQS World Champs.

THE

CHARITY AUCTION IS ON AGAIN!

THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA ASSOCIATION MORNINGTON PENINSULA REGIONAL GROUP

PICNIC AT CRUDEN FARM The property of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC DBE Cranhaven Road, Langwarrin Melway 103-G6

Featuring entertainment from

TOMMY CARTER OAM & HIS CELEBRATED JAZZ BAND Sunday, February 20th 2011 12 Noon to 4.30 pm

Fundraiser for our Secondary Schools Award Programme BYO PICNIC, TABLES AND CHAIRS Donation: $10.00 per Person, School Children -Free

♦ EVERYONE WELCOME - ENJOY TIME WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS – NO NEED TO BOOK – JUST ARRIVE. ♦ SAUSAGE SIZZLE; VALUABLE RAFFLE PRIZES ♦ MAGNIFICENT GARDENS, TREES AND LAKE ♦ PRESENTATIONS: SCHOOLS AND STUDENTS FOR 2010

Excellent under cover facilities COFFEE AND TEA PROVIDED; SOFT DRINKS FOR SALE

Further information from

Brian Stahl OAM JP Ph 0407 683 525 Email: ber.bri@bigpond.com. or Tom Newman OAM Ph 9017 0904 Email: twnewman@optusnet.com.au

Come and share a great night among friends while doing your bit to prevent cancer in Victoria. This is an opportunity to enjoy the electric atmosphere and meet our auctioneer Andrew Morello, winner of Channel 9’s ‘The Apprentice’, and our MC the ‘master of one-liners’ John Blackman.

We have FABULOUS auction items that are yours for the bidding.

Big or small, practical or luxury, we have something to suit your taste, including: • Hummer Limo Rides • Luxury Accommodation Packages • Sporting Memorabilia • A HUGE range of Gift Certificates • And So Much More!!!

Friday 25th of February Mornington Race Club in the Gunamatta Room Doors open at 6:30pm Tickets $40 inc. access to great bargains, finger food and Raffle Ticket to win a $500 cash door prize.

ALL MONIES RAISED WILL GO TO THE CANCER COUNCIL OF VICTORIA as part of the Mornington Peninsula Relay for Life Contact: Darren Morris on 0407 118 788 or, contact@southernlandscapes.com.au for ticket sales and donations

now you’re at home.

P R I N T

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The Great Peninsula Paddle – 2011

Steering the course: Volunteer Des, with a budding sailor, sailing in an Access 303.

Sailing for everyone at Blairgowrie IN what has become an annual event , members of the local Koori Community visited Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron for a day of sailing, boat trips and beach fun on Thursday January 27th.

Around eighty adults and children enjoyed sailing in the Squadron’s seven Access 303 yachts, taking rides in the Wilderness Wear support boat and in the fast Patrol Nine inflatable.

Despite some unsuccessful attempts at fishing , there was time for swimming and beach play, and a hearty barbeque on the upper deck gave time for refreshment and conversation.

The aim of the sailing experience was to show

those new to the sport how easy it is to learn in the very stable Access yachts, which cannot capsize. It is hoped that this will encourage both children and adults to continue to come to Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron to participate in sailing on a continuing basis.

Peninsula Health Community Health’s Koori unit sponsored the event and is committed towards enhancing the community’s access to sailing programs at BYS. Upcoming programs will include the TACKERS sailing training for 9-12 yearolds and teenage and adult sailing training in the Squadron’s Feva, Pacer and Pacer Pursuit class.

RECLINK Australia Inc. and the Portsea Surf Life Saving Club are pleased to announce the second Great Peninsula Paddle. This event provides the opportunity for individuals to participate in a paddle from Sorrento pier to Portsea pier while supporting the outstanding community work of these two organisations.

The event will take place on Saturday February 12 and will commence at 11am from Sorrento pier.

Grab your kayak, canoe, stand up or paddle board, surf ski and your friends and join us in this event. A limited number of places are available, so please ensure you book early.

To register, visit www.thegreatpeninsulapaddle.org All proceeds from this event will be donated back to Reclink and the Portsea Surf Life Saving Club.

“We are grateful that in only its second year, The Great Peninsula Paddle has attracted the support of so many families and sponsors through participating in the paddle, donating prizes or volunteering. I look forward to seeing paddlers of all ages, shapes and sizes and wish everyone a safe and fun day.” said Reclink Chief Executive Officer, Adrian Panozzo.

Event founder, Virginia Cable said, “This is a terrific event

to be a part of so please grab a craft, paddle and friends and come on down to sunny Sorrento to paddle with us.”

Reclink uses sport and the arts to enhance the lives of people experiencing disadvantage and targets some of the community’s most vulnerable and isolated people - those experiencing mental illness, disability, homelessness, substance abuse, addictions, and social

and economic hardship. With a network of over 300 member agencies around Australia, Reclink encourages participation in physical activity in a population group under-represented in mainstream sport, recreational programs and associations.

In the past 12 months Reclink provided 80,000 individual opportunities to participate in more than 4450 sport and arts activities around the country.

Rye Bowls and the community FOR 52 years Rye Bowls Club has been an integral part of the Rye Community precinct along with the Civic Hall, the Senior Citizens’ Club, the kindergarten, the Community House, The Rye Hotel, the Rye RSL and the Fire Brigade. So it follows that the Club and its members want to take an active part in the 150th Birthday celebrations of the town.

The anniversary date is the 25th. February 2011 but throughout the year there will be many events conducted by the various Rye Clubs and associations.

The Bowls Club members are planning to participate in the Grand Parade being held

on Sunday 20th. February and on the same day will conduct one of its premier events, “The Bendigo Bank Invitational Fours”.

In March it will also host the Lamattina Invitational Fours arguably the top single day Bowls event on the Peninsula.

The Club as a special anniversary event held an open day known as “Try Bowls Day” on Sunday the 23rd of January. It opened its doors to the public so that local citizens and visitors of all ages could come along to discover the skills and fun associated with bowls. This event was very successful with 30 folk attending who were

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shown how to deliver a bowl by accredited coaches and senior members.During this time, they enjoyed a delicious barbecue and then most went back onto the green for some more bowling. Nearly half of these people who were new to the sport showed sufficient interest to take further steps such as free coaching to help them decide whether or not to go further towards becoming a bowler.

For information about membership or “Book a Rink” on Wednesday evenings please call Bruce Colliver on 5986 7149 or Bruce Sowerbutts on 5985 6475.

Attn: Local businesses Join the team! Please call Carolyn on 0407 030 761 to advertise in Southern Peninsula News. Not only will you be promoting your business, but you’ll be supporting the only newspaper solely dedicated to the Southern Peninsula.

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Online Bistro Reservations Did you know you can now make a reservation for a table in the bistro online from your computer or iPhone? Visit portseahotel.com.au

Valentines Day Reserve your table now and enjoy a romantic dinner for two on the Terrace overlooking Port Phillip Bay

Friday Night Carvery Our ever popular Carvery is available every Friday Night from 6pm.

Housemade Soup plus Traditional Carvery with all of the trimmings great value at $22.50.

Book a table to avoid disappointment

Sunday Afternoon Acoustic Session Sunday afternoon acoustic melodies in the beer garden!

Enjoy a lazy drink in the sun listening to your favourite covers.

3.00 - 6.00pm each Sunday

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