Geelong Independent - 14th February 2014

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Friday, 14 February, 2014

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Big challenge for ‘little legs’ of mum Rosy By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN SHE claims it was a moment of madness but Hamlyn Heights mum Rosy Borland is sticking to her goal of climbing Africa’s highest mountain. “I saw the opportunity to climb Mt Kilimanjaro and I thought, ‘Why is it always the young people who get to do this?’ “So I signed up with a bit of a point to prove - more to myself than anyone else,� Rosy laughed. But first the keen bushwalker and hiker is meeting a different challenge - raising $4000 for UNICEF as part of the climb. With a dinner party, trivia night and ceramics sale already under her belt, Rosy is approaching the fund-raising summit after accumulating donations of more than $3000 already. She hopes a monster garage sale will get her over the fund-raising line, leaving time to complete her training for the seven-day climb of the world’s highest free-standing mountain. “I’ll make the ascent as part of a group of 25 climbers, accompanied by various guides and porters. Climbing the mountain involves walking five to seven hours a day, mostly uphill. “I love the feeling of being out there, challenging y o u r self in the natural environment. You learn a lot about yourself - everyone should do it. “This trek will be a huge challenge for me, both physically and spiritually. I’m 54 and five foot nothing, so my little legs will have a lot of work to do to get up that mountain. “But by taking on challenges in our lives and stretching ourselves we become more in tune with the meaning of our existence.�

New call for coast ‘lock-up’ By NOEL MURPHY

MOUNTAIN HIGH: Rosy Borland in training at Eastern Beach for her Mt Kilimanjaro challenge to raise money for international aid organisation UNICEF. 114767 Picture: REG RYAN Kilimanjaro won’t be the first mountain Rosy has conquered, though - she has already climbed Mt Fuji as well as hiked Karijini National Park

Gorges, walked the Milford Track, climbed Fox Glacier and traversed the Overland Track. Rosy’s Kilimanjaro Garage Sale, raising money for

UNICEF’s mobile child health teams across Africa, will be open from 8am to 8pm on 22 February at 8 Prosen Crt, Hamlyn Heights.

GREEN activists are seeking a total ban on new housing subdivisions along the Surf Coast and Bellarine Peninsula as well as Moolap’s saltworks, Point Henry’s Alcoa site and Lake Connewarre’s shoreline. Victoria National Parks Association (VNPA) has released a report calling for a new Geelong-Bellarine wetland state park, a merger of Barwon Coast and Bellarine Bayside committees of management and a ban on further Alcoa power station activity at Anglesea. The Coast is Unclear report also called for surfing and indigenous groups to have key management roles at Bells Beach and for the prohibition of wind turbines at Apollo Bay and Johanna. New coastal subdivisions should be disallowed between Eastern View and Altona and Torquay’s controversial Spring Creek should be left undeveloped, the report said. Other recommendations included: extension of the Bells Beach precinct; a 50 to 100-metre buffer around Lake Connewarre to prevent shoreline development; transfer management of Buckley Park and coastal reserves in Point Lonsdale and Queenscliff from Geelong and Queenscliff councils to a new Barwon-Bellarine Coast Committee;

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lands state park; Alcoa’s bid to sell energy ¡ reject from its Anglesea power station to the electricity grid and add Alcoaleased heathland outside the station’s mine pit to Great Otway National Park. VNPA spokesperson Simon Branigan said the report was the first of its kind to document coastal planning and management issues along the entire Victorian coastline. “It finds that successive Victorian governments have contributed to the creation of a complex, disintegrated and ineffective coast planning and management framework that has been unable to stop the squeeze on coast nature,â€? he said. “We’re going to need strong and comprehensive policies from all political parties ahead of the 2014 state election to avoid the impacts of a new wave of development washing over Victoria’s 2000km coastline.â€? But Urban Development Institute of Australia state boss Tony De Domenico warned the plans would create coastal ghost towns. “Ninety-eight per cent of the Victorian coastline is in national parks already and can’t be developed,â€? he said. “If you’re going to lock up the other two per cent what’s that going to mean? You can’t have a holiday home on any foreshore? Continued page 5

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