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Netflix’s hit teen surf drama series ‘Surviving Summer’ is filming for its second season on the Surf Coast. The story follows rebellious Brooklyn teen Summer Torres, played by Sky Katz, who is expelled from school and sent to live with family friends in the tiny fictional town of Shorehaven on the Great Ocean Road. The first season received mostly positive reviews and filming for season two continued at Anglesea this week. Queensland actor and surfer Lilliana Bowrey (pictured left) is one of the stars of the show while fellow cast members Annabel Wolf (middle) and Torquay surfer Todd Rosewall (right) were pictured, taking a break from the filming on Monday, February 4. The show reached the top 10 in more than 42 countries around the world on Netflix. The first season premiered on the streaming platform giant on June 3, 2022, and was renewed for a second season in November last year.
Seasonal sport stand-off By Matt Hewson Lara Tennis Club and the City of Greater Geelong (CoGG) are at a stand-off over the club’s access rights to the newly-constructed pavilion at Lara Recreation Reserve. The pavilion, part of CoGG’s wider $17 million 2019 Lara Recreation Reserve Master Plan, was always intended to be a shared netball and tennis facility. However, the tennis club was recently informed that access would be divided into summer and winter seasons, in line with the city’s policy for football and cricket clubs. Access would be granted to the tennis club from October to March and Lara Sporting Club from April to September. Lara Tennis Club president Robert Dando
said this was unacceptable given the tennis club held both summer and winter competitions. “A lot of clubs in Geelong have shared clubrooms for cricket and football, and they only give the football club access during winter and cricket in summer, which makes sense because those sports only play during those seasons,” he said. “CoGG is using that as their model for all shared pavilions in Geelong in the sense that there’s no overlap. I’ve been explaining this to them for months now, and they just keep saying this is their policy and they can’t change it.” Mr Dando said while the Lara Sporting Club netball section had been “fantastic” to deal with, the tennis club needed guaranteed access during its winter season.
“We’re just trying to future-proof this situation,” Mr Dando said. “We don’t see any problems this year or the next, but in five years’ time if there are different committees for each club, you just don’t know what’s going to happen.” Lara Tennis Club suggested to Lara Sporting Club and CoGG that both clubs have 12-month access subject to a sharing agreement, which, initially, all parties had agreed with. “On January 25 we were emailed a 12-month licence,” Mr Dando said. “Four days later we were told, ‘I checked with my supervisor and I can’t give you that. You’re not getting the keys unless you sign a six-month licence’.” CoGG community life director Robyn Stevens said the city’s policy of appointing
each club as head licensee for half the year was the best approach to shared-use facilities. “The licensing arrangements we’ve put forward match those in place at other shared-use sporting pavilions across the region, where they work successfully,” Ms Stevens said. “For shared-use pavilions, it is standard to have a head licensee during winter and a head licensee during summer, so that responsibility for the operation of the building – such as management of the canteen, payment of utilities, and general upkeep – is clear.” Lara Sporting Club president Peter Kelly said his club had no objections to both clubs receiving a 12-month licence. “When that was offered to us, we accepted it,” Mr Kelly said.
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