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ONE of the biggest ever drug-busting operations in the southern suburbs has resulted in the arrest of 16 people, some described by detective Senior Sergeant Shane Rix as “significant players in the drugs market”.

Up to 100 police from specialist branches were involved in coordinated raids on 13 homes and factories in suburbs on Monday (15 August) including Chelsea, Aspendale, Frankston, Cheltenham, Moorabbin, and Seaford and a clandestine drug laboratory in Industrial Dr, Braeside.

They seized quantities of pure methamphetamine – or ice – as well as heroin, LSD, cannabis, “magic” mushrooms, and ecstasy, and also found drug-making glassware, precursor chemicals, $50,000 cash and an imitation handgun.

Senior Sergeant Rix, of the Caulfield Divisional Response Unit, said the “outstanding result of the raids was the rounding up of those involved in the manufacture and dealing in drugs, as well as a network of traffickers, down to those at street level who commit crimes to buy drugs”.

He said 16 people had been arrested, 14 interviewed, 11 charged and six remanded in custody, while five had been released pending summons. Several ap-

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“This is an ongoing operation and further arrests are planned, and we have put restraints on assets seized.”

Senior Sergeant Rix said police would allege that those arrested were “all interlinked” in the drug trade in various roles.

He said further arrests were planned in the ongoing operation and police are pleased the alleged drug-making operation had been curtailed.

He said six ounces of pure methamphetamine allegedly found at the Braeside factory would typically be cut down by a factor of five, meaning it would yield many times its original size in adulterated form.

“We hope there’s a spill-over effect [in the drug trade],” he said. “We have not stamped out the problem but, hopefully, put a huge dent in it.”

Other police involved included the critical incident response unit, canine unit, clandestine drug lab squad, Kingston and Bayside detectives and uniform police from the southern area.

Inspector Bernie Edwards, of Kingston CIU, said the 10-month operation culminating in this week’s raids targeted crime syndicates.

“We hope it has a massive effect on organised crime,” he said.

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Church considers church sale Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au ONGOING maintenance costs at ageing buildings could force the Uniting Church to sell a place of worship in Kingston.

The church has three places of worship in Kingston – at Edithvale, Chelsea and Carrum – and when Reverend Claire Dawe was contacted by The News she said parishioners will be consulted before any church is sold.

“We’ve got major building problems with the maintenance and a congregation across three churches that really want to do mission and outreach and spend their time with local people in the community

doing some projects rather than building maintenance,” she said.

“We’re all one parish anyway so it’s just different buildings. We’re not sure which one will close, we’re not sure which one we’re going to go with.

“That’s the point of having a whole consultative process that’s been going on for about two years already.”

Synod representative David Southall confirmed the Uniting Church is in “the very early stages of what they’re doing with their property” in Kingston.

“The church is looking at what they want to do in terms of the mission and how they serve the community and they’re looking at how property can con-

tribute to that but there have certainly been no decisions made on sales or anything like that.”

The News understands the church’s Edithvale premises, a former Methodist Church established in 1912, in particular, are becoming increasingly dilapidated.

The church faced a backlash from some parishioners elsewhere in Victoria in 2013 when it sold more than 30 properties to pay off about $36 million in debts following the collapse of the Uniting Church’s co-educational school Acacia College in Mernda.

Mr Southall said any church sales in the Kingston area are unrelated to that situation.

Run down: Uniting Church’s place of worship in Edithvale could be under the hammer soon due to maintenance costs. Picture: Gary Sissons

Cash boosts arts creativity

Advertising limits for sports grounds BOUNDARIES will be put in place to limit advertising around sports field boundaries at Kingston reserves.

Under new guidelines adopted

by Kingston Council advertising signs are allowed on scoreboards, coaches’ boxes and fences but not on toilet blocks.

Club identification signs are allowed on pavilions and a limited number of free-standing signs will be allowed to promote club membership drives and events.

Kingston mayor Cr Tamsin Bearsley said the Guidelines for Advertising and Promotional Signs on Council Sporting Reserves “struck a fine balance between meeting the needs of local sports clubs and responding to resident concerns over the growing amount of advertising at local reserves”.

“By introducing common-sense boundaries we can keep our parks looking pristine while still allowing local sports clubs to seek financial support from the community,” Cr Bearsley said.

The policy covers all Kingston sporting reserves, except Moorabbin Reserve and Kingston Heath Regional Soccer Centre where separate signage and sponsorship arrangements already exist.

“Sports clubs will have two years to make any required changes to allow them plenty of time to adjust,” Cr Bearsley said.

The mayor noted some councils elsewhere had banned all advertising but Kingston Council “believes our local sports clubs play a huge role in helping create a healthier, more connected community and want to support them in this role.”

SIX artists and organisations will share in $22,000 to help develop a range of original works including a community art day, a new mural for Clarinda Community Centre, and a photography book documenting local industrial estates thanks to the annual Kingston Arts Grants.

Mayor Cr Tamsin Bearsley said the grants helped support community artists and arts organisations display innovative and creative arts.

“We’re proud to support such an interesting and diverse group of grassroots community artists and I’m looking forward to seeing their projects in action.”

Grants are provided in four categories: community grants (up to $3000), youth arts internship (up to $3000), arts and cultural tourism (up to $5000) and sharing cultures (up to $5000).

Chelsea Heights Community Centre will run a community art day with art therapist Anne Riggs and artist Carla Dix ($3000), Tomislav Mikulic will create an animation project for The Bridge at Kingston City Hall ($4500), Arts Access Victoria will work with participants at Art Day South to create a public, interactive artwork ($3000) and Tatiana Biryukova will run workshops in partnership with the New Hope Foundation to create a mural for Clarinda Community Centre ($5000).

Michael Kluge will publish a photography book documenting Kingston’s industrial estates ($3800) and playwright Kieran Carroll will present the play The Truth is longer than a Lie at Chelsea Activity Hub and Dingley Village Neighbourhood Centre followed by a question and answer session ($2979).

See kingstonarts.com.au for further information on Kingston’s Arts Grants program.

The play’s the thing: Edithvale playwright Kieran Carroll’s The Truth is longer than a Lie will be staged at Chelsea Activity Hub and Dingley Village Neighbourhood Centre. Picture: Yanni

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Bikes found: owners wanted

UP to 25 stolen “high-end” cycles were recovered when police raided a factory in Southern Rd, Mentone, Thursday 11 August.

Senior Constable Chris Victory, of the Caulfield Divisional Response Crew, said some of the bikes – including Schwinn, Giant and Cervelo makes – were valued at $12,000 each. They were allegedly stolen from properties from Mentone to Seaford over several months.

A 36-year-old man and an 18-year-old girl, of Mentone, have been charged and bailed to appear at Moorabbin Justice Centre on 17 October charged with trafficking and possessing drugs of dependence, handling stolen goods and dealing property suspected to be the proceeds of crime.

Inquiries are being made and more arrests are likely, said Senior Constable Victory, who is still in the process of establishing values for the bicycles and finding their owners.

“Anyone who has lost a bike can approach me at Caulfield DRU and I can facilitate viewing the property,” he said.

Anyone with information on the thefts can call Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000.

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DETECTIVES have arrested a 24-year-old Cheltenham woman over thefts and deceptions in the Kingston area.

AN attendant at Duncan’s liquor outlet, Mentone, was kicked in the stomach by a man who stole two bottles of whisky, 11.50am, Thursday.

Police were told the man entered the Mentone Parade store and went straight to the spirits section where he grabbed two bottles of Jim Beam. As he attempted to leave via the rear roller door he was challenged by the attendant, aged 25. The man allegedly threatened “to kill” the attendant before kicking him in the stomach and leaving the store.

Anyone with information on the thefts can call Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000.

Indecent exposure A MAN exposed himself to a schoolgirl outside Mordialloc Primary School, 11.50am, Tuesday 9 August.

The girl, 15, was at a bus stop outside the school in Albert St, opposite the railway station, when the man approached and asked if she had a lighter. When she said no the man moved away from her and leant up against the school fence, exposing himself. The girl quickly packed her bag and ran down the road. The man did not say anything further.

He is described as Caucasian, 183cm, solid build, brown eyes, wearing a black beanie, black jacket and light brown pants.

Anyone with information on the thefts can call Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000.

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THIEVES used a screwdriver to force open the window of Southern Automotive auto electricians in Boundary Rd, Mordialloc, overnight Saturday 13 August, before stealing two diagnostic tuners valued at $8000.

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BUY DIRECT & SAVE! Twin towers: St Louis de Montfort Primary plans to install wind turbines in its school grounds. Digitally altered picture, Australian Wind and Solar.

An ill wind for turbines Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au BUILDING wind turbines at an Aspendale school showered in awards in recent months for a sustainability precinct built within its grounds may cause an environmental eyesore for neighbours according to some nearby residents.

St Louis de Montfort Primary School has lodged a planning application with Kingston Council to install two 12-metre tall wind turbine towers in the midst of the school grounds near a sustainability centre building.

More than 40 objections to the propeller blade powered wind turbines have been received ahead of council deliberations on the planning application next Monday (22 August).

Graeme Rimmer is one of several neighbours unhappy at the prospect of twin turbine towers being erected in a residential area when they got wind of the plan.

He said a note was placed in letterboxes about three weeks ago stating wind turbines would be installed at the school.

“When we put our objections in it was already past the due date because no-one knew about it,” Mr Rimmer said.

“The parents whose kids go to the school didn’t even know about it.”

He says people living near St Louis de Montfort Primary are concerned about noise from the turbines and potential “health issues”.

“The school has said it will be the same noise level as kids make in the playground but the kids are playing for an hour a day, not 24/7.”

Wildlife flying past from the adjoining Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands could also be killed by a turbine’s whirling propeller blades, according to Mr Rimmer.

“They kill birds like there’s no tomorrow.”

The school has won several national and state awards for its sustainability precinct features developed in 2013 featuring an outdoor kitchen, vegetable gardens, compost and worm farms, wetlands, permaculture area, aquaponics, orchard and animal enclosures with chooks, ducks, geese,

rabbits, guinea pigs and birds.

The News tried to contact St Louis de Montfort Primary principal Tom Lindeman but was advised the school will make no comment until after next week’s council meeting.

A letter to Kingston Council, lodged with the planning application dated 18 July, from turbine installation company Australian Wind and Solar describes the installation of two wind turbines at the school’s sustainability centre as having “many benefits to the built environment of Kingston”.

“Without any detrimental impact on neighbouring properties, the wind turbines will − on a small scale − improve the liveability of the public realm by reducing greenhouse gas emissions produced to provide electricity to the school,” Australian Wind and Solar project coordinator Jonathan Lines wrote.

“On a broader scale, the installation of turbines in an educational facility will provide the children, teachers, and parents an example of what can be done to reduce the environmental impact of electricity usage.”

Mr Lines said the turbine towers, made from galvanised steel, would be white and “visually unobtrusive despite their height”. The project coordinator stated the towers need to be at least 12 metres high to generate electricity.

“The towers will fit in with the existing environment well without being overly obvious.

“The nearest residential neighbours to the west will have the view of the turbines skewed by the sustainability centre; the turbine will protrude above the height of the centre’s roof.”

The wind and solar firm advised council it has installed turbines “of this size” at schools elsewhere, within 10 metres of classrooms.

Mr Rimmer believes solar panels rather than wind turbines would be a better option for St Louis de Montfort Primary.

“There are batteries now that are really good and run off solar panels and wouldn’t annoy anybody.”

Kingston councillors will consider the planning application at the monthly public council meeting on Monday evening.

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OF the 893 drivers breath-tested at a booze bus on Thompson Rd, Patterson Lakes, Saturday night, only two were found to be over the 0.05 limit. Traffic Alcohol Section Sergeant Geoff Yeo said this result – one driver for 446 tested – was much better than the state average of one for every 250 tested.

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Tide changes for surf industry TWO of the biggest names in the surf industry have quietly moved onto the Mornington Peninsula.

Rip Curl came first, buying out Peninsula Surf and next month Billabong takes over the Trigger Brothers store at Sorrento.

Recognising the strength in local branding, Rip Curl still displays prominent Peninsula Surf signs at its Frankston, Mornington and Rye stores and Billabong is set to do the same with Trigger Brothers in Sorrento.

“After the Rip Curl buyout of Peninsula Surf stores six months ago Billabong needed to ensure rack space or real estate on the peninsula,” Phil Trigger said.

“They approached us and we came to an agreement where they would take over the running of our Sorrento store on 5 September, with us keeping a small percentage of the business.

“Unlike their other takeovers they plan to make our 50 years of surfing the peninsula a highlight of the store.

Most of our amazing staff will stay and all our clothing and surf and skate hardware will remain.”

Phil trigger and his brother Paul will keep running their stores at Point Leo and Frankston.

Peninsula Surf founder Ted Bainbridge said the “time seemed right” in late 2015 to sell out to Rip Curl, one of the surfing world’s major brands which grew from humble beginnings at Torquay.

“With ageing directors and the stores all performing well, despite the downturn in retail, Rip Curl was the best option to take over Peninsula Surf,” he said.

“We'd stocked their wet suits from the beginning and surfed over many years with founders Doug Warbrick and Brian Singer.

“Having employed more than 700 peninsula kids since starting in 1974 it was a priority to have a company which allowed our staff to have a career path if they stayed in the surf industry.

“Rip Curl is an international company with heaps of opportunities.”

The latest move by the Trigger brothers follows the closure of their original store in Chelsea in 2005 (including auctioning 80 surfboards that were hanging on the walls), along with shops at Prahran and Mornington.

The shop at Point Leo also includes a shaping bay where custom boards are made and dinged boards fixed.

Point Leo was the site where the Triggers organised a vintage surfboard day which, in 2012, had 30 exhibitors and attracted about 1500 viewers.

“Two years later we held another one, this time we had a display of 30 Kombies, they came in a convoy as far as you could see up Point Leo Rd,” Paul Trigger said.

“In almost 40 years of manufacturing with the help of John Jolly and Al Francis and so many shapers, we have made about 30,000 surfboards.”

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IT is not hard to find connect surfing on the Mornington Peninsula with Australian surfing great Bernard “Midget” Farrelly, who died on Sunday 7 August after several years of battling cancer.

At 71, Farrelly’s death came as a shock to the surfing community, both here and overseas.

Many of the peninsula’s younger surfers would not know that they most likely owe Farrelly a debt of gratitude.

His fame came on the cusp of major changes in surfing: the advent of the shorter board and professional surfers.

As Australia’s first official world champion – won at Manly 17 May 1964 - Farrelly dragged surfing into the public view and influenced the next generation of surfers who set about establishing an industry that brought the necessary equipment within reach of anyone who wanted to tackle the waves.

The founders of the two biggest surfing product outlets on the peninsula acknowledge Farrelly’s influence: Paul and Phil Trigger, of Triggers Bros and Ted Bainbridge of Peninsula Surf.

Bainbridge, who in 1974 started what became a chain of shops operating under the Peninsula Surf banner, remembers the mid-1960s weekly Midget Farrelly show on ABC TV. Farrelly’s “personable manner” came through the TV screen to the young lad growing up in Noble Park.

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Knitting together: Angela, left, Taya, Kim, Cathy, Bec and Jaz enjoy the company at Aspendale Gardens Community Service. Picture: Gary Sissons

Woolly way to help needy KNITTING is a thread that connects the community at Aspendale Gardens Community Service.

People are invited to drop in to the centre on Tuesday mornings to sip some free tea and help knit some scarves, beanies, blankets, toys, childrens’ and babies’ clothing to be distributed to the needy.

“The knitting mornings offer a wonderful opportunity for members of the community to share a cuppa and meet new friends while all the while creating knitted items that are desperately needed in our community,” community development coordinator Angela Costigan said.

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surfing’s trailblazing champions “[The show] showed him sailing a catamaran and surfing with such style, precision and grace and then went on to showcase what was happening here and around the world in surfing,” Bainbridge recalled last week.

“It opened my eyes to what was out there; why didn’t I live on Sydney’s northern beaches instead of Noble Park?”

Bainbridge recalls “being in awe” when he eventually saw Farrelly at Bells Beach near Torquay in 1967.

Seven years later they met in person when Bainbridge and then business partner Harry Hodge (later to become an executive with Quiksilver) were in Sydney picking up surfboards for the recently opened shop in Nepean Highway, Frankston.

“He was fun; he was an old guy – 30 - and still skateboarded. He enjoyed making surfboards, he drove a Kombi, he enjoyed a beer and he could still surf rings around most of the young guys in the water,” Bainbridge said.

Farrelly and his wife Bev came to Victoria the following year and attended one of the Peninsula Boardriders Club’s notorious “band nights” at Morning Star.

The association between Bainbridge and Farrelly also included the former world champ advertising his company Surfblanks in the Frankston-based surf magazine, Breakway.

The magazine was published by Bainbridge, Tony Murrell (later a director of the Independent News Group of newspapers) and this writer.

On one trip to Sydney Bainbridge and myself stayed overnight at Farrelly’s

house where, over dinner, he told about advising Victorian surfer Wayne Lynch not to rely on jam sandwiches for nutrition.

Bainbridge’s friendship with Farrelly saw him come to Rye in1992 to open a new Peninsula Surf store.

Paul Trigger also remembers the sincerity that came across during Farrelly’s show on the ABC which, in part, explains his lasting anger at some members of the surfing community who turned their backs on Farrelly because of his publicly expressed anti-drugs stance.

“In a lot of ways Midget probably set things up to make surfing what it is today,” Trigger says.

“But a lot of things that came out in the [Sydney-based] magazines were kind of disappointing. They made out that it was cool to do drugs, applauded surfers who took drugs and portrayed Midget as a square.”

Trigger believes Farrelly would have won the first professional surfing titles at Bells Beach in 1973 “if the competition had been judged differently”.

Farrelly came second to Michael Peterson, but also in the lineup for that contest were Ian Cairns and Terry Fitzgerald.

Trigger, one of the judges, speaks as if the contest was yesterday: “The surf had dropped back from about 10 foot to six or eight in the final round. Midget had got a bit sick and Peterson was surfing on the shoulder. He was doing all these maneuvers while Midget was riding deeper, but they were getting the same scores [because of wave size].”

Trigger said Peterson had a copy of the competition format on the dash-

board of his car and knew what points would be awarded for each maneuver.

During that contest Farrelly opened his Kombi to show Trigger his quiver of boards.

“He was such a pro. They were all yellow, all had swallow tails and ranged incrementally in length from six foot three inches to eight foot,” Trigger says.

His earliest memory of Farrelly was also near Torquay, in 1965, when he and Phil were driven there by their elder brother, Peter.

There were “probably all the best surfers in Australia” at Fishos Beach.

“It was the best mal surfing you could have seen and Midget was riding the first stringer-less board we’d seen,” Paul trigger says. “There were up to 100 of us in the car park watching, no one else was going out.

“Midget was also a master shaper, but he didn’t get the credit – he wasn’t pumped up by the magazines.”

Trigger remembers watching as Farrelly – talking to himself as he shaped a board – “don’t you like the way Midget does these rails”.

“He started work at 15, but was very smart and could have been a civil engineer. He made and flew hang gliders,” Trigger says.

“Once, when I was in a contest at Long Beach in Sydney, he was flying around on the other side of the headland.”

Phil Trigger once stayed a few nights at the Farrelly household only to discover that his host rushed home every night to watch Doctor Who. Paul Trigger: “And that’s who Midget was, not unlike a Doctor Who character himself.”

Planning extension for ‘eyesore’ site at ‘gateway’ to Frankston Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au LONG-RUNNING attempts to redevelop the site of the former Ambassador Hotel function centre are set to run for at least another couple of years.

Frankston councillors at this month’s public council meeting last Monday (8 August) unanimously voted to allow a further extension until March next year.

A planning permit to build a fourstorey apartment complex at the 325 Nepean Hwy, Frankston site after

previous owners were unable to begin construction had lapsed.

Planning consultant Richard Umbers, on behalf of mortgagee Jack Gringlas of the Jadig Group, asked councillors for an extension of time on the planning permit so the land can be sold to a new developer.

“While there are purchasers showing strong interest in the land they will not enter into a contract of sale to purchase the land until the planning permit has been extended for a further two years,” he said at the council meeting.

Mr Umbers told council Mr Gringlas had spent $345,000 demolishing

the Ambassador function centre in February, despite having no legal obligation to do so, as a goodwill way to demonstrate he is committed to the site’s sale and redevelopment.

The demolition had stopped “antisocial and criminal activities by illegal occupiers”, according to Mr Umbers.

Councillors praised Mr Gringlas for demolishing the building and backed the extension of the planning permit but did not it will continue to be “an eyesore” until it is developed.

Council stipulated the building of the apartment complex must begin by January 2018.

Sign of demolition: Wreckers move in to demolish the former Ambassador Hotel function centre earlier this year. Picture: Gary Sissons

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100 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK...

Two candidates set for polling day Compiled by Melissa Walsh MESSRS Adamson, Strettle and Co will hold their next sale at Tanti on Monday next—For entries see advt. *** MR Joseph Unthank will address the electors at the Somerville Hall on Wednesday evening next, and gives a cordial invitation for all Centre Riding ratepayers to be present. *** A PUBLIC meeting will be held on Thursday evening next in the Frankston Mechanics’ Hall, when addresses will be delivered on the 6 o’clock closing question by prominent speakers. *** A PRESENTATION of a travelling bag was made to Guard Phil O’Grady, on being transferred to Mornington, by his fellow employees, Frankston, who regret the loss of P. O’ G, but wish him good luck in his new sphere. *** THE Scotch concert this evening at the Mechanics’ Hall will be given by a capable company of inimitable artists, clever and charming performers, who have everywhere and always been enthusiastically received. *** MR Harry Skinner, the well known Scottish entertainer has arranged a musical treat for the residents of Frankston for this evening at the Mechanics’ Hall. The funds are in aid of the Frankston District Roll of Honor Fund.

*** A GENEROUS donation of £2 was given to the “Wattles Club”, by a friend, and small donations amounting to 16s were also handed in 54 cups and saucers and 100 tea spoons were given by Mrs Hay, 66 cups and saucers, and 12 bread and butter plates, by Mrs Maloney, £1, for small plates, by Mrs C. Gray and tea pot, by Mrs Wilcox. *** HEREUNDER I beg to submit balance sheet of Seaford Red Cross Society for the year ending June 15th.

Debit— Expenses, including cost of material purchased, £21 2s 5d. Cash in hand £9 11s 10d. Credit—Money collected by public subscriptions £40 14s 3d. Credit balance £9 11s 10d. The people of Seaford can be congratulated on the magnitude of their effort, considering the size of the place, as 1232 articles have been made during the year by members of this society which is financed by local contribution. *** THE members of the W.C.T.U. held a drawing room meeting in connection with the above Society last Thursday afternoon. The gathering was a most enjoyable one. Mrs Carroll delighted the audience with a beautiful song, “The Valley of Laughter” and a paper given by Mrs McCormack on “Women, her present duty and privilege ‘ was also particularly well received, as was also a duet by the two above mentioned ladies. In the absence of the President (Mrs Twining) the chair

was taken by Miss Watson, who gave a most able address. Refreshments were handed round during the afternoon and the secretary had the pleasure of receiving three new members to the society. *** AMONG the correspondence read at a meeting of the “Wattles” Club held at the Hall, on Wednesday evening, was the following letter:—G.P.O., Sydney, 11.8.16—Dear Sir, or Madam—It gives me greatest pleasure to write a few words of thanks I feel so rightly due to you and your fellow workers of the “Wattles Club” in giving us, the returned soldiers, on A14 “Euripidies”, such a great and enjoyable reception during our short call at Melbourne.

I am sure in this matter, mine is the general sentiment of the boys, and we greatly appreciate what you did for us, and later, during the reminiscences of our service in this war, surely this reception at our homecoming, will never be forgotten.

Once again thanking you for your great kindness,—Yours truly,—PTE. W. GREENE, 1st A. A.M.C. *** FRANKSTON was again visited by about 270 returned New South Wales and Queensland sick and wounded soldiers, and were entertained in the Mechanics’ Hall by the “Wattles Club”, on Monday last. Having had an exceptionally rough time coming across, and not being allowed to land at Fremantle, the boys seemed to appreciate doubly, the outing which was

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As their boat was to remain in Melbourne just the one day, the pleasure trip was quite unexpected. The only fault to find was that time and tide wait for no man— not even a soldier, and although there was ample amusement for hours to come, good-byes were said amid loud and prolonged cheers, which were good to hear.

One of the soldiers, and a lady visitor kept things going merrily during the afternoon. *** THE Candidates Song. Now polling day will soon be here, with the question to decide who best to cast a vote for, and who to cast aside. You have the choice of two this time, both good men and true, and we’re waiting, calmly waiting, to hear what you will do.

Now one of us you’ve tried before, who proved so just and fair, his comrades thought so much of him, they placed him in the chair. Perhaps they hope to see him back, and trust that he’ll pull through, so they’re waiting, calmly waiting to see what you will do.

Now just a thought to the other one before your vote is cast he’ll likely hold good trumps this time, and win the seat at last. He’s patient at the game no doubt, he’s tried, and tried before, but never yet has had the luck to top the voters score.

But soon the waiting time will end, the day is coming fast when each of us will know the best, or perhaps the worst at last.

So now good folk ‘tis left to you to exercise your will, to put a new man in the place or keep the old one still. So voters you must please yourselves, your judge and jury too, while we are waiting patiently, to hear what you will do. *** RESIDENTS of the Mornington Peninsula will be highly gratified to learn that the question of the provision of water supply has; at last, been practically settled. The Federal Public Works Committee, which was asked to investigate the matter, has decided in favor of the scheme drawn up by the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, known as tile Bunyip scheme.

Its report recommending the adoption of this scheme will be presented as soon as Parliament meets. The Bunyip scheme, which the Public Works Committee recommends, has a catchment area of 211,000 acres . It is estimated that a supply for 300,000 people can be drawn from this scheme, and that even then the riparian rights of the settlers lower down stream will not be affected. The gaugings show that in the driest season and under the worst conditions, there is a daily flow of many million gallons, and analyses of the water have shown it to be a point better than the metropolitan supply. *** From the pages of the Mornington Standard, 19 August, 1916

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All aboard the 6am train to slumberland

By Stuart McCullough HE was sitting directly opposite. It was the 6.00am Frankston to Flinders Street and my fellow commuter was wrestling with the very concept of being awake. Despite his best efforts, his eyelids kept fluttering down over his pupils as his head tipped back and a small stream of saliva began oozing from the corner of his mouth. Part of me thought I should do something useful: perhaps leap forward and clap my hands or gently position my headphones in his ears before giving him a few seconds of ‘Release the Bats’ by the Birthday Party to send those eyelids rolling back like tin shutters. But, instead, I did nothing but watch on as he wavered like a human bowling pin, threatening to topple over at any minute.

We’ve all done it. Try as we might, sometimes sleep gets the better of us.

No one can ignore the siren-call of slumber land forever and it’s foolish to even try. Legend has it that Keith Richards once remained awake for five days straight but, frankly, Keith Richards isn’t much a benchmark when it comes to good living. Granted, his 1983 aerobic video beats Jane Fonda’s hands down and he’s a whizz with a juicer, but other than that, it’s best to let Keith be Keith. I, for one, have no interest in sleep deprivation.

I may have been wide-awake on the 6.00am to Flinders Street, but there are plenty of occasions when staying conscious has been too great a task. I have nodded off in all manner of circumstances including a Russian literature tutorial in second year Uni. I can’t remember which book we were

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discussing, but chances are it was serious and laughs were very few and far between. Suffice to say, I was something less than riveted. As the discussion meandered showing no signs of coming to an end any time soon,

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I could feel myself starting to wilt.

As I sat in my uncomfortable plastic chair, I slowly turned to lead, lurching slightly forward before catching myself and springing back to attention. It was only a matter of time.

Now that I think about it, the odds were against me. The room was unreasonably small. The book we were discussing was unforgivably large. To make matters worse, there’s a very good chance that I was yet to get around to reading anything more than the blurb, preferring instead to simply pick up on the ‘vibe’ of the thing in class. If that wasn’t enough, there was also a small electric heater in the corner, spewing heat into the atmosphere.

Frankly, given the circumstances, I’m surprised that anyone was awake.

Sensing I was in trouble, I used every trick in the book to avoid humiliation. First, I changed the way I was sitting in a bid to feel less comfortable. This I did by uncrossing my legs and sticking my head between my knees as though preparing for an emergency landing. Then, I bit my lip in the hope that a small jolt of pain might be enough to keep sheep and numbers as far from my thoughts as possible. But arithmetic livestock can only be kept at bay for so long. In an act of desperation, I even expended a great deal of energy in concentrating on every word my classmates uttered.

However, this backfired spectacularly and within moments I was completely unconscious and remained so until I fell off my chair onto the floor. The mark I received for the class was not nearly as memorable as the mark on my forehead after it collided with the table.

It’s not just Russian literature tutorials that have seen me nod off. I have even fallen asleep at a rock concert.

Granted, this was only made possible because the rock concert in question

was seated rather than standing (although nothing is beyond me). The artist responsible for sending me to sleepy town was Jose Gonzalez. On second thoughts, describing it as a ‘rock concert’ might be putting it too highly. Jose’s a long way from Led Zeppelin. It’s not so much a case of ‘hammer of the Gods’ as it is a wet lettuce leaf. Mr. Gonzalez specializes in laid-back acoustic music that plays in the background whilst you select the flat-pack your heart desires at IKEA. Perhaps I took the whole thing too literally. The music was ‘laid back’. I followed suit and swiftly fell asleep. I awoke to the unmistakable sensation of an elbow being plunged into my ribs just as Jose and his merry men were returning to the stage for an encore. Apparently, it was no problem for my eyes to be closed throughout the proceedings. However, my failure to clap for an encore was deemed unforgivable. I’ve never bought another of his recordings but, to this day, at the very mention of his name I feel surprisingly well rested.

I’m not sure if my fellow commuter had just heard a track by Jose Gonzalez or read the opening paragraph of Crime and Punishment, but he was struggling. I began to feel sorry for the lady sitting beside him as he crashed into her like an anchorless ship. Suddenly his eyes opened and he squeezed the arm of his neighbour. She squeezed back. He wasn’t being a nuisance after all and no intervention was necessary.

I could simply let sleeping dogs and passengers lie. Sweet dreams. stuart@stuartmccullough.com

HEART OF FICTION

By Andrea Louise Thomas Melbourne-based author Toni Jordan has penned four critically acclaimed novels. Originally from Brisbane, she studied physiology at the University of Queensland. She worked in molecular biology as a protein chemist amongst other things before becoming interested in copy writing. She took a Professional Writing and Editing course at RMIT and it was there that her first novel, Addition (2008), was born. It became an international bestseller. Her latest novel, Our Tiny Useless Hearts, has just been released. It’s brilliantly written, insightful and hilarious. I caught up with Jordan before she speaks at Frankston Library on August 27 as part of the Melbourne Writer’s Festival.

MINT: As an avid childhood reader, did you ever imagine you’d become a writer?

JORDAN: Not in a million years. I thought I’d work with Mum at the TAB or become a greyhound trainer. I didn’t grow up in a family that had very many artistic pursuits.

MINT: You started your professional life as a scientist. What prompted the shift to writing?

JORDAN: I worked in bench research for a lot of years. I ended up writing drug dossiers - scientific technical writing. I went back to uni to get a qualification in writing so I could start up my own business. Completely at random I chose one of the creative subjects. My first novel, Addition, was an assignment

for that course.

MINT: At what point did you realize you wanted to be a novelist?

JORDAN: Once I started writing Addition, I just didn’t stop. It was nervewracking for me to think I was going to be writing fiction full-time and I had a lot of trouble leaving my technical writing business behind, but writing is just my favourite thing. Now I’m well into it and I want to do it forever.

MINT: What was the inspiration for Our Tiny Useless Hearts?

JORDAN: I was reading Anna Karenina on holidays. I stole the beginning from Tolstoy. The second line in it is, ‘The house was in an uproar because the husband’s affair with the governess had just been discovered.’ I just couldn’t stop thinking about what a great start that was for a farce. I wanted to write a comedy and this line from Anna Karenina kept going through my mind. I like a good old-fashioned farce - people coming in and out of doors and hiding naked in cupboards.

I’m really pleased with how it turned out.

MINT: Is your protagonist, Janice modeled after you?

JORDAN: There are circumstances that aren’t but certainly I worked as a microbiologist for a long time.

Certainly I spent a number of years on IVF unsuccessfully. So I suppose I’ve stolen both those things. She’s a bit more diligent than I am and much more

patient so I’ve given her bits of me, but other bits are completely her.

MINT: How do you go about constructing your novels?

JORDAN: I write from beginning to end.

I’ve got to keep going. I kind of imagine it from the reader’s point of view so I can’t muck around. I’m pretty good now with it coming out just the way I want it.

MINT: What advice would you give to an emerging writer?

JORDAN: I think people need to spread their reading wings a little bit wider.

I think people read well within their narrow band of interest, but sometimes things from outside your normal thinking can teach you the most.

MINT: How would you suggest going about getting new work published?

JORDAN: I think that you need to concentrate on being the kind of writer that everyone wants to publish. Do well in some competitions. Write work that is so fantastic that word of mouth precedes you.

MINT: What would you most like to be remembered for as a writer?

JORDAN: If I can make people laugh when they are going through a difficult time, that is more than enough for me.

Hear Jordan in conversation with Kylie Ladd at Frankston Library, 60 Playne Street, Frankston on Saturday, August 27 at 1 pm. Free, but bookings essential on 9784 1020 or www.library. frankston.vic.gov.au

2016 NATIONAL WORKS ON PAPER PRIZE WINNER ANNOUNCED Twenty-six-year-old Torres Strait Islander Daniel O’Shane won the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery’s National Works on Paper Prize of $15,000 sponsored by Beleura House & Garden. National Works on Paper was established in 1998 and incorporated the former Spring Festival of Drawing and the Prints Acquisitive which began in 1973. The National Works on Paper is a biennial prize and exhibition organised by Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery to discover and showcase the most outstanding contemporary works on paper from across the nation. Works acquired from the National Works on Paper become a part of the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery’s collection – one of the most renowned works on paper collections in Australia.

The 2016 judges were Kirsty Grant, Director & CEO of the Heide Museum of Modern Art; Roger Butler, Senior Curator, Australian Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Australia and Jane Alexander, Director Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. The judges commented: “The winning work by Daniel O’Shane is remarkably accomplished and monumental in scale; created by a young artist, using the traditions of Torres Strait Islander art that has developed in Cairns over the last 20 years.

Coming out of the histories of carving pearl shell, the intricacy of the cutting in this work is simply amazing.”

O’Shane’s work was chosen from the sixty-six artists shortlisted from around Australia from close to 1,000 entries for the $50,000 National Works on Paper acquisitions and awards.

The prize, the most prestigious acquisitive prize and exhibition of its type in Australia, showcases recent works by artists working in the field of drawing, printmaking, digital prints and paper sculpture.

Victorian artist Lily Mae Martin was the winner of the $3500 Ursula Hoff Institute Emerging Artist Acquisitive Art Award 2016 for her work Wrestling three. Other pieces acquired include works by Jonas Ropponen, who grew up on

Above: Lily Mae Martin with her work Wrestling three 2015, Winner of the $3500 Ursula Hoff Institute Emerging Artist Acquisitive Art Award the peninsula, Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, Rew Hanks, Mark Hilton, Jake Homes, Deborah Kelly for her stop motion animated paper collage, Roy McIvor, Fiona McMonagle and Jim Pavlidis. The Friends of MPRG purchased Brian Robinson’s Up in the Heavens.

The Mayor, Cr Graham Pittock says “The Mornington Peninsula Shire has provided critical funding support since the 1970s towards the MPRG’s acclaimed National Works on Paper exhibition. This exhibition of contemporary works is held every second year at the Gallery and has resulted in its Permanent Collection becoming a significant and valuable community asset featuring works by legendary Australian artists such John Olsen, Rick Amor, Gloria Petyarre and Charles Blackman.”

The 2016 National Works on Paper exhibition runs until 11 September 2016.

Come along to the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery’s National Works on Paper Family Day, with ‘drop-in’ creative activities, Sunday 28 August, 2pm–4.30pm, $4 adults, $2 concession, no bookings required. Use the power of paper to create some crazy critters, wild dinosaur hats or vibrant wheels of colour.

Enjoy a guided tour of the National Works on Paper exhibition at 3pm.

Until 11 September NATIONAL WORKS ON PAPER An outstanding exhibition of contemporary works on paper from across the nation

NATIONAL WORKS ON PAPER FAMILY DAY Sunday 28 August, 2pm–4.30pm, $4 adults, $2 concession, no bookings required Use the power of paper to create crazy critters, wild dinosaurs or vibrant wheels of colour. Join a guided tour of the National Works on Paper exhibition at 3pm.

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Bulls respond to turmoil PENINSULA LEAGUE

By Toe Punt KARINGAL put a week of turmoil behind it on Saturday, ending Edithvale-Aspendale’s 2016 season.

It was a massive game for both footy clubs at Ballam Park, the Bulls hoping to respond to the resignation of their coach Michael Triep on Tuesday, while the Eagles needed to win to reclaim their place in the top five.

Edithvale now needs to beat Frankston YCW at home in the final home and away game of the season while hoping that Mt Eliza can beat Seaford, who is currently in fifth spot.

The Tigers are two points clear on 34 points.

Karingal trailed by 22 points at half time on Saturday and by 19 points at three-quarter time. Everything was going to plan for the Eagles.

However, through the likes of one of the competition’s greatest of all time, Michael Burke, together with Cal Dixon and youngster Christian Matthews, the Bulls booted six goals to one in the final term to run out 10.11 (71) to 8.9 (57) winners.

Earlier in the day on the RPP Footy Show, Karingal President Daniel Watts took “full responsibility” for the coaching dramas of earlier in the week, which saw Triep resign and assistant Leigh Poholke take the reigns for the remainder of the season.

“It’s a really exciting time at the footy club with new three million dollar rooms being announced, works going on around the ground and a really exciting crop of kids coming through,” Watts said.

“I may have been guilty of taking my eye off what was happening on the footy field and not listening to some of the things that were bubbling along under the surface.

“In essence, without going into detail, the senior playing group didn’t feel that Michael was the best person to take us forward as senior coach in 2017.

“We spoke with Michael about that and after some consideration, he felt that he couldn’t go on given he didn’t have the support of the full playing group.

“For me personally, it was devastating news. Michael and his family have put more into this footy club in the past three years than anyone I can remember in my time at the club.

“Our seniors have a great crop of youngsters and our U19s, U17s and U15s are all really strong. Michael has been responsible for bringing at least 70 kids to our club.

That’s a long way from where we were three years ago.

“As tough as it is though, footy clubs are a business and they have to be run like a business. If the man at the top doesn’t have the support, then a decision has to be made and we have to quickly move on. That’s the nature of footy clubs.

“I’m really, really hopeful that in time, Michael will decide to stay with us in some capacity,” Watts said.

Karingal has already put together a sub-committee to find a new coach and this process will begin “as soon as this week”.

There’s a lot to like about the list of Karingal Football Club and it would be a very interesting proposition for an aspiring or existing coach.

Bonbeach may have been the form side but Frankston YCW again flexed its muscles on Saturday, winning 11.13 (79) to 7.1 (43).

The margin may have been six goals, however 24 scoring shots to eight clearly highlight the dominance of the Stonecats.

The home side opened up a 27 point quarter time lead, however, the margin was just eight points at the final change. YCW then kicked four unanswered goals in the last to win comfortably.

Paul Minchington was outstanding with three goals and Anthony Bruhn booted four. Sam Widdowson played arguably his best game.

Ash and Nick Waterstone were the best of the Sharks while Luke Damon kicked three goals.

Mornington made it four wins in five games with an easy 13.11 (89) to 7.9 (51) victory over Langwarrin.

Jimmy Cameron was the best player on the ground while Barry Smeeton was also very good out of the middle. Jai Haddock did the job on Langwarrin forward Kieren Albanese.

Mt Eliza bounced back and smashed Chelsea 22.14 (146) to 9.6 (60) in Dan Gormley’s 150th game.

Jordan Capkin booted six goals for the Redlegs while Harper Leonard dominated.

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Reaching new heights: Mt Eliza gave Seaford a bad day, dispatching them by 86 points. Picture: Andrew Hurst

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Yabbies break the drought NEPEAN LEAGUE

By Toe Punt THREE years and three days or a total of 1099 days – that’s how long it had been since the Tyabb Football Club had been on its losing streak.

The Yabbies last win had come in the final home and away round of the 2013 season against Somerville.

On Saturday, facing 50 straight losses in a row, Tyabb broke the drought, dominating for four quarters to beat Pearcedale by 37 points, 13.8 (86) to 6.13 (49).

The Yabbies booted the first 11 goals of the game before Travis Bravo kicked the Panthers first at the 18 minute mark of the third quarter.

As you could imagine, the Yabbies belted out the club theme song with enormous gusto.

Coach Mark Paganoni said on Sunday morning that he was ‘still pinching myself wondering what happened yesterday.”

The Yabbies went into the game with four second gamers, fielding one of its youngest sides for the season.

In fact, 14 of the Yabbies’ playing group had played just 173 games between them. The average games among the 22 was less than 35.

Paganoni said his team “played out of their skin”.

“We’ve been threatening in fits and starts for a lot of the season but just lacked some belief,” Paganoni said.

“We conceded the first 10 goals against Devon Meadows and then got back to within 19 points, so I think that was the catalyst for the belief.

“Things went our way too. We won the toss, which we haven’t been able to do in games we gave ourselves a chance in, and things just worked out for us.

“The more experienced players in the group supported the younger players and shared the ball with them and it all went really well for us,” he said.

The Yabbies have been so close in 2016 and the final home and away win was just reward for the commitment of the group.

“We’ve had 40-50 players on the track, despite not winning a game, which says a lot about the group,” Paganoni said.

“Now we need to build on that. We need a couple of experienced players, because we have outstanding young talent, and we need some more people to support the club off the field.

“Hopefully this win is the catalyst to take us to greater heights in 2017,” he said.

Tyabb snare a win: The Yabbies broke a 1099 day losing streak with their win over Pearcedale. Picture: Scott Memery

Hastings and Red Hill will limp into their “do-or-die” elimination final on Sunday at Rosebud after coming-off horror losses in the final round of the season.

Hastings was thrashed by Frankston Bombers, conceding the first six goals of the game, while Red Hill was touched up by Sorrento, who missed the finals.

The Blues went into the game without ruckman Josh Mulherron, coach Brendan Dunne and arguably the best player in the game, Paul Rogasch.

This allowed Frankston’s Ryan Kitchen to control the ruck and dominate around the ground, dominate around the stoppages and clearances and kick easy goals.

The final score of 18.16 (124) to 15.7 (97) flattered Hastings. The Blues booted six unanswered goals in the fi-

nal quarter when the game was already iced. They trailed by more than 10 goals at three quarter time.

The reason the Blues were poleaxed was because of poor decision making and execution. The Blues also allowed the Bombers to have numbers behind the footy. They overused the footy and went indirect, playing totally into Frankston’s hands, allowing them to push back in numbers and utilise the spare.

Mark Devereaux and Nathan Gray were targeted physically by the Bombers but they withstood the onslaught and played very good games. Jake Hewitt was outstanding across half back and Scott Foster was clearly their best player.

The Bombers, who finished on top of the ladder, had winners everywhere.

Dale Sutton and Sam Fox dominated,

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Fox booting four majors and Ryan Marks-Logan was outstanding, as always, in the back half.

The match as also Brian O’Carroll’s 150th game.

Red Hill were humiliated by Sorrento.

The Sharks had 40 scoring shots to just 15 and the result should have been a lot worse than 14.26 (110) to 8.7 (55).

A 10 goal loss going into an elimination final isn’t ideal.

There are some Red Hill players, who, in the past couple of weeks, have gone away from what they do best and that is hunting the ball and creating their own opportunities.

For the second week in a row, one of the games’ best in Harry Larwill, who is so important for the red and white, has been waiting for silver service. He

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needs to get back to working hard.

Luke Tapscott was clearly the best player on the ground with five goals, while the Sharks also played Tom Langford in his second game, who had zero influence on the match.

Somerville geared up for its qualifying final against nemesis Rosebud with a convincing 17.17 (119) to 4.5 (29) win against Crib Point while Rosebud demolished yet another team, restricting Devon Meadows to 3.8 (26) while they booted 15.18 (108).

In the final game, Rye came back in the second half to beat Dromana by a point, 14.13 (97) to 14.12 (96). The Demons trailed by 17 points at half time but booted nine goals to six after the break to scrape home in a thriller.

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Baxter in promotion romp, bad break for Ojo SOCCER

By Craig MacKenzie BAXTER continued to celebrate promotion from State 5 South with a 3-0 win over visitor Pakenham United on Saturday.

Baxter created enough chances to make this a double-figure rout as Shaun Walker turned on a midfield masterclass while strikers Mark Pagliarulo and Liam Kilner terrorised the Pakenham defence.

The visitors can thank keeper Jarrod Reynolds whose heroics time and again kept his team in the contest.

Baxter should have scored four goals inside a five-minute period of the first half highlighted by an interpassing combination involving Frank Ntim and Pagliarulo and ending with a first-time Kilner volley that went wide.

One minute later Daniel Disseldorp unleashed a 25-metre thunderbolt that sent the ball crashing against the inside of the far post and bouncing back across goal before being scrambled clear.

Pagliarulo finally broke the deadlock in the 51st minute when he received a quick long throw-in on the left of the penalty box then skinned two defenders before sending a firm low shot that beat a diving Reynolds at the near post.

Bryce Ingram and Daniel Sharratt blew oneon-one chances before Kilner gave Baxter a two-goal cushion with a firm header in the 71st minute getting on to the end of substitute Rhys Wilson’s deflected cross.

Pagliarulo broke onto a long Heath Goss ball in the 80th minute and once clear of Reynolds had a tap-in to complete the scoreline.

Rosebud Heart remained on track to complete the season with a perfect record in State 5 South after a 3-1 home win over East Bentleigh on Saturday.

Dave Greening gave Heart the lead in the 25th minute with a spectacular side-foot volley following a superb Blake Hicks cross.

But East Bentleigh caught out Heart on the counter attack in the 45th minute to make it 1-1.

Despite dominating possession in the second stanza Heart had to wait until the 76th minute to regain the lead thanks to a low volley from Hicks from just inside the box.

Eight minutes later a long clearance from Heart keeper Sean Skelly sent Greening through and he made no mistake for his 28th goal of the league campaign.

The State 2 South-East clash between Peninsula Strikers and St Kilda on Saturday was abandoned after Strikers keeper Ritchie Ojo fractured his tibia and dislocated his ankle in the 15th minute and had to be taken to Frankston Hospital.

Ojo was operated on the following morning and his playing future remains uncertain.

Harry McCartney reports that Seaford United continued its recent fine form with a 1-0 away win over Doncaster Rovers in their State 2 South-East encounter last Friday night.

Seaford has now taken eight points from its past four games and what once loomed as a horror season has been transformed thanks to senior coach Paolo Pinheiro and his staff.

Dylan Waugh has played a significant role in the change in the club’s fortunes and his 15th goal of the season was enough to give Pinheiro’s men all three points against Rovers.

The home team failed to clear a Paul McGuire corner in the 30th minute gifting Waugh a simple header.

McGuire was denied from the penalty spot by Rovers keeper Matt Davoli in the 65th minute while Seaford custodian Paul DiGiorgio, who has been in fine form since returning from injury, chalked up another clean sheet.

Mornington maintained its march towards back-to-back State 1 South-East titles with a 3-0 away win over relegation-threatened Berwick City on Saturday.

Goals to Steve Elliott, Shane Tagliaferro and Andy Skledar in the second half settled the issue.

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tion for 36-year old central defender Stylianos Maistrellis, who boasts a stint with AEK Athens on his CV. Maistrellis has returned to Greece but plans to relocate to Melbourne later this year.

Langwarrin edged out Mooroolbark 4-3 in Saturday’s State 1 South-East contest at Esther Park.

Mooroolbark’s Brett Tronconi looped a floating header over Langy keeper Robert Acs in the 34th minute to open the scoring.

Langwarrin then had a strong penalty claim denied after Koray Suat was brought down but just on half-time another infringement on Suat saw the referee point to the penalty spot and Langy scoring legend Caleb Nicholes obliged.

The second half was only minutes old when Nicholes headed home a cross from Nick Thorogood to make it 2-1.

Within three minutes scores were level after Davey Breckett equalised for the home side with another header.

Nicholes secured his hat-trick from a free kick to make it 3-2 but an Alex Van Heerwarden own goal made it 3-3.

The issue was settled by Langy substitute Brandon Giles when he struck home a cutback

by Nicholes late in the match.

But for two stunning saves by Acs the home team could have come away with a share of the points.

Frankston Pines continued to stare down the barrel of relegation from State 1 South-East after losing 6-1 away to Malvern City last weekend.

Daniel Hilder and Jordan Templin both notched hat-tricks while Pines’ solitary response came from Josh Calle.

Pines’ captain Kyle Crawford has moved to New Zealand while veteran sweeper Ben Caffrey is overseas and will miss next weekend’s clash with Clifton Hill.

Goals to Matt Wilson (2), Nick Theodore and Michael Putson spearheaded a 4-3 away win for Skye United over Lyndale United last Saturday.

Skye remains on top of State 4 South a point ahead of Keysborough and is at home to East Brighton on Saturday night.

NEXT WEEKEND’S GAMES Saturday, 20 August, 3pm: Mornington v Casey Comets (Dallas Brooks Park), Langwarrin v Warragul Utd (Lawton Park), Clifton Hill v Frankston Pines (Quarries Park), Seaford Utd v Noble Park Utd (North Seaford Reserve), Beaumaris v Peninsula Strikers (Beaumaris Reserve), Dandenong Warriors v Rosebud Heart (Lois Twohig Reserve), Baxter bye.

Saturday, 20 August, 8pm: Skye Utd v East Brighton (Skye Recreational Reserve).

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