10th December 2014

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5973 6424 or email: team@baysidenews.com.au www.baysidenews.com.au They’re off: Competitors enter the water to start the swim leg of the weekend Mordialloc triathlon. Picture: Gary Sissons

Splash start HEAVY overnight rain prompted race organisers to shorten the bike legs in a series of Mordialloc triathlons on Sunday. TeamUp ActiveTRI competitors swam 500m, cycled 13.5km and ran 5km in cool conditions in the event which ran from Peter Scullin Reserve along Beach Rd to Charman Rd and returned twice. Mitchell Kibby, 25, won the senior event with times of 7.22 swim, 20.53 bike and 16.51 run for a total time of 44.26. Second was Nathan Buschkuehl, 21, and third Jeremy Drake, 29. The first female across the line was Alexandra Paterson, 18, with a 7.59 swim, 25.07 bike and 18.27 run. The triathlon was one of five in the series. The others are Elwood Park, Elwood on 18 January, Sandringham on 22 February and back to Peter Scullin Reserve in April.

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MENTONE residents have let Kingston councillors know they would prefer Collins St land - earmarked for a new aged care home - to be used for public parkland instead. A council survey found 94 per cent of respondents opposed the sale of the 101-103 Collins St site to an aged care provider, with most favouring the conversion of the council-owned

former depot into open public space. Several residents publicly expressed this view at a special council meeting on Monday evening and councillors must now decide whether to press ahead with the Collins St plan, or look at building a 70-bed facility at the Mordialloc Community Nursing Home’s Remo St site in Mentone. Kingston Council is exiting the aged care sector and will divest itself of management responsibilities for

Mordialloc’s Nixon House, Edithvale’s Northcliffe Lodge and Mentone’s Corben House once a larger aged care home is built in Mentone. Council intends to hand over management of the aged care homes to a not-for-profit or commercial aged care provider. Part of the deal will include a stipulation that the provider build a large aged care home in Mentone before the three existing homes are phased out and aged care home residents are transferred to the new

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Gardens Group chair Dorothy Booth said councillors should act in the community’s best interests - as happened in 2001 when the Mentone station gardens were saved from becoming a bus interchange. “We should learn from history and try to make wise decisions,” Ms Booth said. “Decisions [we make should] take our residents forward into a liveable future.” Continued Page 4

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