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6 September – 19 September 2012 Your fortnightly community newspaper covering Safety Beach to Portsea For advertising and editorial needs, call 1300 MPNEWS (1300 676 397) or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au
The point of environmental studies POINT Nepean became a focus for environmental education when 225 students from nine schools shared their knowledge with teachers and classmates. Looking at locally relevant environmental issues such as climate change, water, waste, conservation, energy, drought, population and pollution was all part of last month’s Australia Post Kids Teaching Kids Week at Point Nepean National Park. Schools represented were Boneo Primary School, Derinya Primary School, Mt Eliza Secondary College, Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Primary School, Penbank School, Sorrento Primary School, St Macartan’s Catholic Primary School and The Peninsula School. Their students participated in workshops and activities covering peninsula environmental issues such as the aquatic environment, plastic in the oceans, biodiversity, recycling and renewable energy. “The world our kids are growing up in is changing rapidly. With the boom in alternative energy and the increasing impacts of global climate change, it is absolutely vital that they are engaged today to understand the world they’ll be living in tomorrow,� Kids Teaching Kids Founder and managing director Arron Wood said.
Traffic a target New tactics to combat peninsula’s toll By Keith Platt OVER the next few months, police will be out to convince Mornington Peninsula motorists to think twice before getting behind the wheel after they have been drinking. Traps will be laid to catch drink drivers who take back roads to avoid
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strategies would lead to “some positive outcomes�. The 2011-12 crime figures showed there had been five murders on the Mornington Peninsula, 42 rapes and 131 non-rape sexual assaults. Continued Page 6
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“I can’t stress to the community enough that this is an opportunistic offence and our intelligence reflects that it occurs primarily at night, by our younger community, upon cars that are unlocked,� Inspector Tynan stated on a police website report. However, he was confident new
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Inspector Tynan, who took over as area commander last October, said the statistics included “good news stories� as well as “disappointing statistics in other areas�. While burglaries had dropped 13 per cent between July 2011 and June this year, thefts from cars stayed the same.
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