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Natalie aims high to help the children LIKE many young Australians, Natalie Vanderwal wants to go overseas. But instead of heading off to party islands or lazing around on tropical beaches, Natalie wants to work with an aid organisation to help people in need. Until recently the 27-year-old nanny from Baxter was saving to be a volunteer in Africa, but has now readjusted her sights and is aiming to combine trekking in Nepal with helping mothers and their babies through the Save the Children Foundation. “I’m an every-day person looking to make a change,” Natalie says. “My first time overseas and I’ll be diving straight into the deep end. “For as long as I can remember it’s been a dream of mine to go overseas and help those less fortunate and until now it hasn’t seemed possible. “Truthfully, I’m scared, I’m nervous, but taking a leap. “It’s not the travel, the hiking, the adventure or meeting new people that scares me. This I am totally ready for. “My biggest fear is believing in myself and believing there are enough people out there who have the same burning passion to reach out and help those in need.” Natalie is raising money for Save

Volunteer: Natalie Vanderwal is off to help children in Nepal.

the Children through her webpage (savethechildrenfundraising.org.au/ natalie_vanderwal) and a fundraising night on Saturday 15 October at Frankston cafe B’Artiste. The night will include a DJ playing “old classics”, speakers from Save the Children, footage of the last Trek to Nepal, door prizes, raffles and auctions. Volunteers try to raise $4000 for the foundation’s health and education fund. “Anything above this which has not been taxed can be used to go towards my trip costs, which in turn will help prolong my stay in Nepal,” Natalie said. “I hope to stay and volunteer alongside the locals, experience the culture and learn as much as I can along the way.” Natalie hopes her efforts will “broaden other people’s horizons and help them see a bigger picture of what’s really going on in the world. It doesn’t just end at your front doorstep.” Natalie’s publicity is being helped along by Ashleigh Hoult of public relations company, The Promo Donna. Ms Hoult signed on as a fundraising volunteer after friends told her about Natalie’s project. To find out more about Save the Children in Nepal, visit www.savethe children.org.au/treknepal.

Reservoir fish fight By Mike Hast CONSERVATIONISTS and anglers are again fighting over the future of a decommissioned reservoir in the region. Frankston Reservoir is the latest battleground as opposing forces lobby Parks Victoria over the future use of the 90-hectare reserve with its 10-hectare reservoir. Built in 1920 to provide drinking

water for the southern metropolitan area, and taken offline by Melbourne Water in 2004, it is in Frankston South on high ground between Overport Rd and Moorooduc Hwy, and surrounded by housing. Parks Victoria released a draft master plan for the reserve last week and the public has until Friday 7 October to make submissions. The plan calls for the reserve to be

set aside for passive recreation and the protection of indigenous flora and fauna, to “retain its unique natural character within the urban environment and provide a place for contemplation and nature appreciation”. But anglers want the reservoir to be stocked with fish including introduced trout. Other individuals and groups want to walk their dogs or ride bicycles.

Although the draft plan has been developed by a committee consisting of Frankston MP Geoff Shaw, Friends of Frankston Reservoir, Frankston Environmental Friends Network, Department of Sustainability and Environment, and Parks Victoria, some conservationists are fearful the reserve will go the way of Devilbend, where fishing, horse riding and other active recreation pursuits are allowed.

Friends of Frankston Reservoir members are worried the reserve has not been formally declared a conservation reserve. Calls by conservationists to upgrade its status from Natural Features Reserve to Nature Conservation Reserve were supported before last November’s state election by Liberal candidate Geoff Shaw. Continued on Page 4

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Open pool sees cost take $11,000 dip CAUTION is the approach now being adopted by Frankston Council before it jumps back into extending the operating season of the Pines Forest Aquatic Centre. Opening for an extra 11 days in April this year cost the council more than $11,000. Last month councillors put a ban on extending the season at the pool “until it is business-ready”. The pool was used by 300 bathers during the 11 days it stayed open beyond the normal start of November to end of March season. A report to council’s September meeting maintained that “the principle of expanding community access to the facilities at Pines Forest Aquatic Centre has strong merit” but went on to caution that such a move “requires careful planning and diversifying of

the business to ensure council does not incur further financial losses”. “The original council resolution had assumed a business-as-usual model and did not allow for sufficient promotion of the changed dates.” Council consent to extend this year’s pool opening time was made exactly one month before it would normally have closed. The report said shops in Forest Dve benefited from the extra opening time although “the high energy and water consumption of the pool reinforces the need to be definite about the community benefit of operation to justify the consumption”. Steps were being taken to reduce the pool’s high power use, which could make it “more viable to extend the season in the future”.

Dine, chat with ‘top’Australian THE current Australian of the Year will be guest speaker at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Group of the Order of Australia Association, Victoria branch’s annual dinner. Simon McKeon is chairman of CSIRO, executive chairman of Macquarie Group’s Melbourne office and chairman of business for Millennium Development, a supporter of several Australian and international charities and a record-breaking yachtsman. He also led the federal governmentappointed Point Nepean Community

Trust, which was disbanded when the national park was taken over by the state government. Brian Stahl, chairman of the Order of Australia Association’s peninsula group, said Mr McKeon “demonstrates how business and philanthropy can go hand in hand”. The group’s annual dinner is on Friday 21 October at Brooklands, Tanti Ave, Mornington. Book with Harry Macdonald, phone 5974 4290 or email harry mac@bigpond.net.au.

Meetings plan may delay planning decisions SENIOR officers have warned that there could be delays in planning if town planning matters are only dealt with at only one of Frankston Council’s two monthly meetings. Cr Colin Hampton wants the first meeting of each month to hear “all matters except for town planning matters and the second meeting of each month be for the hearing of town planning matters only”. He will seek the backing of other councillors at their Monday 3 October meeting. In a comment attached to Cr Hampton’s agenda motion, general manager corporate Mick Cummins acknowledged it was up to council about what items would be discussed and added “there may be some delay in planning matters as a result of having only one meeting per month to consider planning items”. He was backed by general manager development Jane Homewood: “From a planning outcome perspective, two meetings per month is preferable. Councillors may want to consider planning on a fortnightly cycle on a Wednesday with a delegated council committee.”

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Surprise for young mums

Bedside surprise: Natasha Martin and Maddy Peterson deliver their baby gift package to Elaine Tatterson, of Mt Martha, whose baby Ava was not so happy at being the centre of attention.

A YEAR 9 school project has brought smiles to the faces of young mothers at Frankston Hospital. Three months ago Natasha Martin and Maddy Peterson decided their “community project” would revolve around helping young mothers cope with their newborn babies. Last week the project came to fruition when the two girls in their Dromana College uniforms went to the hospital bearing gifts for the surprised mothers. “We made up 12 gift packages, six for boys and six for girls,” Natasha said. The $160 used to buy such useful baby items as clothes, soap, wipes, mittens and face washers was raised by Natasha and Maddy by holding a morning tea at Peninsula Special School, which is next door to Dromana College. Friends and family baked cakes and slices while the general store at Balnarring Beach supplied tea, coffee and sugar. “It took us three months to organise, get permissions and complete the project,” Natasha said. “The packages will be given to mums who may not have organised everything they need for their babies.” Nurse unit manager of women’s services at Frankston Hospital Kate Brown said the gifts would “make a world of difference” to some of the young mothers. “It’s great to see young people showing to those who may not have anything. “To be given a gift shows them that someone cares.”

City’s clean-up time Council fines urged for dilapidated properties By Keith Platt FRANKSTON may have won a sustainable cities award, but is unlikely to rate the same when it comes to a tidy towns competition. Councillors are planning to take officers on a walk through the city centre to show them how the city is failing to keep up appearances. Cr Brian Cunial wants to prosecute owners of rundown buildings, forcing them to tidy up their properties. He has been warned that auditing dilapidated and unsightly properties could be costly, but believes cleaning up the city is part of council’s job. On his way to work earlier this week Cr Cunial photographed an overflowing rubbish bin and broken doors on a

utilities protection box outside the library in Playne St. Next week he will ask council to order an audit of rundown properties within a two kilometre radius of central Frankston. Cr Cunial wants council to crackdown on any owners who refuse to make their properties more presentable. If clean-up instructions are ignored, infringement notices will impose a daily fine until the problem is fixed. General manager Mick Cummins has warned that policing the dilapidated buildings will not be cheap. He also recommended letting the chamber of commerce know about what council intended “as a courtesy”

as well as running an article in “the local media” before taking legal action. Mr Cummins said it would take five hours for each property to be inspected, researched and issued with warning notices, infringements and follow-up letters and fines. “If further fines are to be issued on a daily basis, this would entail a further one hour each day to continue the process of inspection and issuance of fines. “This estimated body of work would be conducted over a two- to threemonth period after the initial audit.” Mr Cummins said chasing property owners would see local laws officers diverted from “other current critical customer-focused duties and our re-

sponse times to community requests and correspondence”. Cr Cunial told The Times that keeping the city tidy should be part of the council officers’ normal duties. “This is pretty basic stuff; there’s no reason not to do it,” he said. “We really need to get something done and we’re going to get something done to clean up the CAD [central activities district]. “I really don’t care if local laws officers are diverted from other duties. “But I am concerned that the local law concerning dilapidated buildings may not be adequate.” Cr Cunial said he would organise a walk through the city centre by councillors and officers to gain a first hand views of what needed cleaning up.

Overflow: Frankston councillor Brian Cunial showed his annoyance by sending council officers this photograph of a rubbish bin outside the library.

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Lobbyists in reservoir fish fight Continued from Page 1

Mr Shaw defeated Labor’s Alistair Harkness at the election and remains steadfast in his support of the upgrade, but said the designation was unlikely to be made until “some time this year or next year”. The higher status is critical to excluding anglers, dogs and cyclist from the reserve. Melbourne Water handed the reserve to Parks Victoria in 2009. It had previously been offered to Frankston Council, which baulked at the cost of developing and maintaining it. Friends spokesman Hans Brunner, a Frankston zoologist, says the management plan is incomplete and he is suspicious “lobbyists will back door fishing and other activities”. Mr Shaw is adamant the reserve will not be used for fishing or dogs. “You can fish in our two bays and at Devilbend Reserve [near Moorooduc],” he said. “Frankston already has about 30 dog walking areas; there will be no pets in the reserve.” He said a natural features reserve would cost Parks Victoria more to operate than a nature conservation reserve as more facilities would be needed for visitors.

Mr Shaw conceded anglers had lobbied him about stocking the reservoir with fish for freshwater angling. “They were the same people who lobbied for Devilbend to be accessible to anglers,” he said. Conservationists and DSE and Parks officials fought a long battle to stop the release of trout into Devilbend, but lost when the Department of Primary Industries and highly placed officials in the Brumby government ambushed the planning process, dismissed their concerns as well as advice from government scientists, and released trout fingerlings last year. Trout are claimed to be a major threat to native fish inckluding the rare dwarf galaxia. The Friends and Mr Shaw are determined Frankston reservoir will not suffer the same fate. The MP said Parks Victoria had told him more than 120 individuals and groups had already made submissions about the draft plan. Tom Camp, a former member of the community consultation group that advised Parks about Devilbend, said angling groups also wanted to be able to fish at Frankston reservoir. A member of Mornington Peninsula Fly Fishers, Mr Camp said the group

Sylvan spot: A section of Frankston Reservoir and the surrounding reserve, which has been locked away from humans for more than 80 years and is home to rare animals and plants. Picture: Alison Kuiter

would be making a submission. “I won’t speak for our group, as the submission is still being prepared, but as a fisherman I will say that Frankston reservoir is absolutely a good body of water to stock with fish,” he said. Fly fishers, with support from individuals anglers and VRFish, the peak body

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for Victorian anglers, had been involved in earlier draft plans for Frankston reservoir. But after Mr Shaw was elected last November, “we were excluded from the consultation process”. “The decision to exclude fishing from the draft plan seems to be arbitrary; there is nothing in the plan about

why this decision was made.” He said there had been insufficient public debate about using the reservoir for fishing. There were very few places for freshwater fishing for anglers from the peninsula, Frankston and southeast regions, he said.

Reserve a ‘precious place’ FRANKSTON Reservoir has long been known by government and private conservationists as a “life raft” of rare and endangered fauna and flora. Being locked away from humans for more than 80 years has allowed mammals, amphibians, birds and plants to thrive. Some of the species include koalas, sugar gliders, eight kinds of frog including the nationally protected growling grass frog, and 80 birds species including rare musk and blue-billed ducks. The reserve contains rare native vegetation including grassy woodland and the last patch of heathland in Frankston South, just 0.7 hectares. Quinn McCormack of Friends of Frankston Reservoir said the reserve had been known as an area of state conservation significance for many years and it should be retained with as little human interference as possible. She said the reservoir was unlikely to be suitable for fish as it would be fed by stormwater runoff that would include oil and petrol from nearby roads, and fertilisers from gardens. The water was likely to be off limits to humans due to health issues, she said.

Short time to comment ALTHOUGH the Frankston Reservoir draft master plan has been years in the making, residents have very little time to comment on it. A Friends of Frankston email circulating last week states the plan makes protection of flora and fauna a priority. There would be a single point of entry into the reserve (probably off Lawson Ave) and it would not be open 24 hours a day. “It is essential that as many people as possible endorse the master plan – the future of the area depends on it. You can be guaranteed that the fishing lobby will be submitting like there is no tomorrow,” the email stated. “This is our last chance to protect the area.” The plan can be seen at MP Geoff Shaw’s office, 140 Young St, Frankston, or online at: http:// parkweb.vic.gov.au/explore/parks/frankston-n.f.r. Feedback must be made on an official “Have your say” form, which is on the website, or call Parks Victoria on 13 19 63.

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HIP Cat Circus is looking for young people for stage management, lighting, sound operation and front of house. Frankston youth circus has performed at Frankston Arts Centre’s Cube 37 for the past eight years as well as at various festivals and community events. The circus is rehearsing its October production Untameable, which will be at Cube 37 from 5-7 October. Amber Foot of Cube 37 said people don’t need production experience to get involved. For details, call Amber on 9784 1896, or email

Italy tour fundraiser FRANKSTON Ladies Choir is holding a concert to support its tour to Italy next June to participate in the International Festival of Choirs. The choir will present “Songs for all Seasons” at 7pm on 22 October at Boulevard Events Centre, 44 Nepean Hwy, Frankston. Guest artists are African drummers Valanga and Andrea Khoza and the Pearcedale Signing Choir, which will sign some of the choir’s songs for hearing impaired people. Tickets from Marion on 0419 561 082.

Councils, Rotary, Lions pay to keep police on the road By Mike Hast FRANKSTON Council, Mornington Peninsula Shire Council, and Frankston Rotary and Lions clubs will lease two cars for two years at a cost of $57,000 for Frankston police. The cars will be used to combat trouble at domestic parties, graffiti, hoon behaviour and similar problems in Frankston and on the peninsula. The unusual partnership is the idea of Frankston police boss Superintendent Wayne Taylor. Frankston council will provide $30,000, the shire $12,000, Rotary $10,000 and Lions $5000. Police want to develop “a proactive policing team” that will operate under the Community Response Engagement and Social Tasking (CREST) strategy, created to deal with negative impacts on residents’ safety, confidence and quality of life. CREST is the brainchild of Superintendent Taylor and will include socalled STOP teams – Social Tasking, Operations & Patrol – which

will use the four-cylinder cars. Police will use Facebook and Twitter to allow community members to follow the teams’ activities as well as communicate directly with CREST members with feedback and enquiries. Several Frankston councillors were unhappy at being asked to provide money for police cars, and questioned why the council was paying what should be a state government cost. Prominent among dissenters were Crs Alistair Wardle, Glenn Aitken and Brad Hill, who said the cars should be paid for by the state government. Cr Hill said it was an unusual deal given the Baillieu government’s strong campaigning on law and order during last year’s election campaign. “Councillors have been concerned about cost shifting over very many years, with state and federal governments moving costs to local government for so many services,” he said. Under the deal, police will pay for fuel, insurance and Fringe Benefits Tax.

The cars will spend 30 per cent of the time patrolling the Mornington Peninsula. Frankston mayor Kris Bolam said: “Superintendent Taylor said it was only for two years as police expect to have the money for the cars after that.” He said the recent allocation of 35 more police for Frankston was good news, but there wasn’t much point having extra police if they did not have cars to do their job. A report to Frankston councillors stated: “The proposed CREST strategy is to cover the catchment of Mornington Peninsula Shire and Frankston City. Support of the police in the implementation of the strategy is anticipated to provide a positive and improved perception of safety within the Frankston community and progress council’s objectives of improving safety and the perception of safety within the community.” The district governor of the Rotary Frankston area, Kel Hobby, said all seven clubs in the cluster had been asked to support the police

cars project, but only the Frankston club had agreed. “Some clubs thought it was not the best way to spend Rotary funds,” he said. Mr Hobby said he had reservations about the project and had met Superintendent Taylor. “As governor I can’t order clubs to do certain things; I can only make recommendations.” He said there was a level of concern about Rotary funds being used on government capital purchases. Last week, Victoria Police said Frankston would receive 11 more frontline police by December. This was in addition to 35 police allocated to the city earlier in the year. Frankston MP Geoff Shaw said the city was “on track to receive a similar amount by June next year”. “Since the Coalition government took office, Frankston has received the largest allocation of police in the state. The extra police had led to a visible presence in Frankston and recent crime statistics indicate that extra police on the beat was having an effect.”

CUTTING THE COST OF DIAMONDS!

Bullies can be real softies By Keith Platt PETA Lachmund is the victim of mistaken identity. Strangers have been accosting her believing she owns an American pit bull, rather than a “child-friendly” English bull terrier. Ms Lachmund is angry because Ignatius, or Iggy to his friends (which is just about everyone), is a loved family pet and has never caused a dogfight. “I’ve been screamed at for having a pit bull and they won’t listen when I try to explain,” she said. Iggy is taken for a daily walk in the leash-free area on the foreshore at Hastings, which is where Ms Lachmund was subjected to the latest of several abusive remarks by dog owners not knowing the difference between breeds. “A woman’s kelpie came at Iggy from behind, but he just ignored it and I had to pick up our other dog, a ball of fluff really, which was barking at the kelpie,” she said.

Puppy love: Peta Lachmund is tired of being berated by people who think her dog Iggy is a dangerous American pit bull when it is an English bull terrier.

“She threatened to call the police and ranger, so I took a note of her car registration and said I’d be happy to wait

because they would laugh at her. I’ve never seen her down there before and hope I don’t see her again. “It’s a shame people don’t know how friendly English bull terriers are. We’ve had three, and they grew up with our children. I’m not stupid, I wouldn’t buy a dangerous dog. I’ve never met a bull terrier that has bitten a child or hurt its owner.” Ms Lachmund runs the Beach Hut Café in High St, Hastings, with her partner Chris Harmon and has placed photos in the window to show what the different breeds of dog look like. She and Iggy will be among the bull terriers and their owners taking a “bully walk” along the banks of the Yarra and into Melbourne on Sunday 16 October. Ms Lachmund said the bully walks are aimed at showing the public that English bull terriers make good family pets and

should not be confused with the more aggressive American pit bulls. While acknowledging that bull terriers were originally bred for combat with other dogs, the Bull Terrier Club of Victoria says they have a “natural affectionate nature and penchant for luxury”. The club’s website describes them as “highly intelligent and they thrive on human interaction and praise. They have a great sense of humour, imagination and personality, and simply like to do things on their terms.” The club goes on to say they are “wonderful companions and family dogs” but need to be socialised from a puppy with other dogs and animals. “While you may trust your bully, you can never trust other dogs and if an altercation erupts, the bull terrier will usually be blamed regardless of who started it.”

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Proof our dolphins are different By Keith Platt THE dolphins never had any doubt about their difference, but now it’s official – the dolphins that call Port Phillip home are a specific species. They are now known as Tursiops australis, or the Burrunan dolphin, never again to be confused with Tursiops truncatus, Tursiops aduncas or Tursiops maugeanus. After eight years studying dolphins in Port Phillip, Western Port and the Gippsland Lakes, researcher Kate Charlton-Robb has proven they are of a previously unidentified species. “I’ve spent a lot of time with dolphins in Port Phillip since 1998 and know a lot of them by sight. “I know their habits and they have personalities and are certainly charismatic when they choose to come over to the [research] boat,” she said Ms Charlton-Robb said the dolphins in the bays and lakes are smaller and have grey patterns, while those living offshore from Victoria and Tasmania are larger and darker. Ms Charlton-Robb said her initial research had been to find out which of the known dolphin species were living in the bays and lakes “but we discovered it was neither; we were onto something quite different”. “Every line of evidence pointed to them being something quite different,” Ms Charlton-Robb said. Genetic material taken from the Port

Phillip dolphins showed they had not been found anywhere else. Ms Charlton-Robb believed the “new” species “split from the common bottlenose dolphins 5.2 to 5.6 million years ago”. With subsequent changes in sea levels and temperatures, they “separated and found a niche area to live”. The animals living in the two bays and lakes were coping with more recently changed environments, although some had been seen suffering skin lesions “similar to what we see as cold sores”. The lesions on dolphins in the Gippsland Lakes had followed bushfires and floods “and are an outward expression of what’s going on and could also reflect inbreeding”. “Given the likely restricted range of this new species, there is a high priority to conserve and protect these animals.” Ms Charlton-Robb said a detailed look was being made of dolphins in Western Port where there was regular interaction with humans. The executive director of the Hastings-based Dolphin Research Institute, Jeff Weir, sees the recognition of the species as “a really important milestone”. “They don’t move around much and the next phase of research will be to find out where they go and mix with each other.” Mr Weir estimated there were 100-120 Burrunan dolphins in Port Phillip and

about 50 in the Gippsland Lakes. A smaller group inhabited Western Port, although there was evidence that some animals moved between the two bays. Mr Weir said another study had been started into the range of common dolphins that had colonised Port Phillip. “There are about 24 living there, most frequently feeding on the eastern side of the bay between Frankston and Dromana.” The common dolphins were smaller than the “new” Burrunans.

Leap into history: Dolphins in Western Port and Port Phillip have been identified as a distinct species, commonly known as Burrunan. This one leaps out of the water off Sorrento. Picture: Sue Mason. Left, Kate CharltonRobb’s eight years of research have led to the dolphins being recognised as a new species.

Marine education goes for a walk

Bay carers: The group of walkers from Mt Eliza Preschool visiting Western Port included Olivia Barry, Katie Livingstone, Lauren Barry, Liam Atkinson, Liam Waters, Tiana Atkinson, Keely Byrne, Emily Burns, April Livingstone and Phoenix Burns.

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MORE than 200 people rolled up earlier this month when the Dolphin Research Institute issued an invitation for them to go for a stroll along the shores of Western Port. The Hastings-based institute sees marine education and protection of the environment as an important adjunct to its research into the behaviour and wellbeing of dolphins in both Western Port and Port Phillip. “The goal of the Walk For Western Port was to raise the profile of the bay in the community. We want people to feel like they live in a very special place,” institute executive director Jeff Weir said. At the end of the 40-minute walk prizes were awarded for schools, students, individuals, and groups. Mr Weir said Western Port had 24 per cent of Victoria’s mangroves while the offshore Crawfish Rock was home to more than 500 different species. “Six species of migrating shorebirds come to Western Port, which is one per cent of the world’s population. If you related that to humans, it would be 70 million people.” Contact the Dolphin Research Institute on 1300 130 949 or 0400 223 126.

Fireworks, smiles at radio opening By Mike Hast RADIO Port Phillip has its new station with the official opening of a renovated former classroom block in Mornington on Saturday night. RPP-FM has broadcast to the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula regions for more than 25 years from a tower atop Arthurs Seat and a repeater tower on Mt Eliza, which sends the signal into Frankston. The station was first based in Mornington before moving to Moorooduc. In 2009, RPP was told it would have to find a new home after its lease expired at the Moorooduc Coolstores. The community radio station was courted by Frankston and Mornington Peninsula councils. Frankston Council offered the station a section of the former Milpara Park aged hostel in Ebdale St on the northern fringe of Frankston’s CBD, but the annual rent of $90 per square metre was too much. RPP said it was seeking a “community group rate”, but by the time

Frankston Council made a lower offer, the station had decided to move to a classroom block at the former Mornington Secondary College on the Nepean Hwy. About 350 invited guests packed Peninsula Community Theatre in Mornington, adjacent to the new station, on Saturday for the opening after hundreds of residents had earlier inspected the building. RPP FM has a national broadcast standard studio complex, created from an abandoned section of the former school by a cast of thousands, including peninsula-based Rotary clubs led by Somerville Tyabb Rotary, businesses, the shire council and professional builders leading a team of volunteers. In early 2009 the building was home to hundreds of pigeons and lay derelict and unloved after the school moved to its new site in 1999. The conversion was described as remarkable and amazing by a series of speakers on Saturday night. Mayor Graham Pittock said the station was a further rejuvenation of the

Stars out for debut of 3RPP’s home FAMOUS names and faces from the Melbourne entertainment and media scene mingled with local VIPs at the station opening on Saturday night. Many had come at the behest of Bob Phillips and Judy Banks, the showbiz couple who present a variety show called Sugar and Spice on RPP FM on Tuesdays 1-3pm. The couple operated the Australian Museum of Modern Media at the Moorooduc Coolstores, near where RPP was based until Saturday. Many of the more than 5000 items from the museum are now at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Federation Square. Bob is best known as a former Nine Network executive producer who worked with Graham Kennedy, Don Lane, Bert Newton and Daryl Somers. Judy Banks was a star of stage and TV. She has taught budding entertainers since the 1970s at her TV and dramatic arts school, which is now in Moorooduc. Seen with Bob and Judy at the station opening were veteran comedy writer Mike McColl-Jones, magician and writer Ian Buckland, Channel 9 legend Pete Smith, Philip Brady, jingle writer Peter Sullivan (who cowrote Up There Cazaly with Mike Brady), Australian Opera singer Roger Lemke, Melbourne Observer publisher Ash Long, and music promoter Denis Smith and his wife Carol Smith (one of TV’s first barrel girls). Also at the opening were Rotarians from around the peninsula including Somerville Tyabb, Mornington, Mt Martha, Rosebud and Sorrento; federal MPs Bruce Billson and Greg Hunt; state MPs David Morris and Johan Scheffer; and from the shire CEO Michael Kennedy, Alex Atkins and Jim Houlahan; and former director Joe Cauchi.

Radio heads: Dick Cox, front, in one of the three studios with his Rotary renovation team leaders: former Mt Martha Rotarian Peter Barker, left, and James Webb, Doug McDonald and Lindsay Edwards, all of Somerville Tyabb Rotary. Absent: Ron Scheele of Sorrento Rotary. Picture: Alison Kuiter

former school site into a “wonderful entertainment complex” that included the 450-seat Peninsula Community Theatre, formerly the old school’s Findlay Hall, and The Studio, the old library, which was used by art and performance groups. Shire CEO Michael Kennedy said the council’s first “community capital project” had been “mean with a quid, innovative and can-do”. He said some councillors had strongly supported the project when it was first proposed in 2009. They had challenged council officers to make it happen after being told involving the community in such a massive building project would be difficult. Matters of occupational health and safety, procurement rules and insurance had been overcome by innovative thinking, he said. There had been risk in putting such a

project together as council officers had to work out how to bend the rules and think outside the square. It had involved community members, community businesses and hands-on councillors. “The result is a facility with a value that far exceeds the cost,” he said. Project manager Dick Cox, of Somerville Tyabb Rotary and a former harbour master of Western Port, said the work would not have been possible without “my core crew” of Rotarians. Rotary district governor Kel Hobby said the station was a significant community asset. Station president Graeme Kniesse and committee member and former long-time station manager Maria McColl said RPP’s board room would be named the Captain Dick Cox Board Room. Station manager Brendon Telfer said

it was an historic night for Radio Port Phillip. “A generation of people have given their time to this station,” he said. “It’s a humbling experience to be among the supporters of RPP FM – Rotary, shire and friends of the station.” Mr Telfer, who joined RPP from the ABC National in mid-2010, said the station would start broadcasting from the new centre at 9am on 17 October and there would be a live concert the following weekend. “We’ll look after the studios and deliver great radio as an important part of the region’s future.”  The writer co-presents a show about the environment each Thursday 4-6pm on RPP FM, which broadcasts on 98.7FM to the peninsula and 98.3 to Frankston and parts of the southeast.

Wiz and Oz jazz up events

Veteran vibrations: Andrew Farrell, right, and David McMillan, aka Wizard & Oz, play Peninsula Community Threatre in Mornington as part of the second Peninsula Festival of Arts & Ideas: Arts Alive 2011 in October.

THE amazing Andrew Farrell and David McMillan, aka Wizard & Oz, are something to behold. With their interesting look, vast and diverse song list, and passionate, soulful performances, they are crowd favourites at some of the largest jazz festivals Australia-wide. Andrew’s piano prowess and Dave’s guitar playing add and compliment their rich, heartfelt voices. The talented men from the peninsula have been entertaining audiences all over Australia and New Zealand for more than 20 years. Imagine taking equal parts Tommy Emmanuel, Chet Baker, Tom Jones, Liberace and Winifred Atwell. Add a splash of pizzazz and simply pour on stage; together they are mind-numbingly spectacular. Wizard & Oz bring their blend of spellbinding jazz to Mornington Peninsula Shire’s “Arts Alive 2011” program with a performance in The Studio @ PCT, Wilsons Rd, Mornington, at 8pm on Friday 7 October. Pre-sale tickets are $30 from Nepean Music Centre, phone 5975 0293, or at the door on the night. BYO drinks with tea, coffee and nibbles provided. Simon Mills Frankston Times 29 September 2011

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AROUND THE PENINSULA

Travel pays off for tourism By Keith Platt HISTORY books have shown there has always been a link between trade and travel. Archaeologists dig up artefacts that were clearly made somewhere else, proving some form of handover, usually trading one item for another. Arthur Ross has been on 25 overseas trade missions in the past six years, but bringing home the goods for him is seeing increasing numbers of international visitors on the Mornington Peninsula. He is a dealer in destinations. Ross runs Ashcombe Maze & Lavender Gardens at Shoreham, one of seven tourism operators being marketed under the Explore Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula banner. The Explore group is a cooperative, or bundle, of attractions that pays for Ross’s trade missions to persuade Asian-based travel agents to include the peninsula on their clients’ travel itineraries. “We’ve spent six years trying to get on agents’ itineraries. When we started, 100 per cent of them didn’t know the peninsula existed,” Ross says. “From their point of view the peninsula is a second or third tier destination. “The Asian market is all about relationship building; it’s very different to Europe. “On my latest mission in July I’d met about half of the agents before and about 90 per cent of those are trying to get the peninsula on their itineraries. “We sell the peninsula as a mixed destination with attractions in close proximity to one another.” While the mix of peninsula operators in the Explore group has changed since it began, it now includes a range of attractions that can be visited in one day or include an overnight stay. The Explore seven are Ashcombe Maze, Moonlit Sanctuary in Pearcedale, Cape Schanck Lighthouse, Peninsula Hot Springs near Rye, Box Stallion Winery in Merricks North, Sunny Ridge Strawberry Farm in Main Ridge and Rye Bistro & Café. Ross calls the group Mark III, reflecting the change in membership. An earlier member dropped out during one of his missions, creating problems with travel agents he had already approached and spurring him to extend his own business by planting fields of lavender, a flower sought out by many Asians, and one that does not grow in humid climates. He is yet to recover the loss of tour groups from Taiwan, which, since that particular trade mission, head for the Yarra Valley. The impetus behind the Explore group was to provide day trips for international visitors to Melbourne, hitching a ride with the marketing pitch already being made by national and state tourism associations. These government-funded tourism authorities, in Victoria and outside of Melbourne, promote the Great Ocean Rd, Phillip Island and Sovereign Hill. The Explore group exploits this by stressing the nearness of the peninsula to the city and how it can be easily be added to day or overnight trips by using the Sorrento to Queenscliff ferry or making a relatively small diversion when driving to Phillip Island.

“The locals probably know we’re here but international tourists haven’t a clue,” Ross says. “And people won’t come out of Melbourne to visit just one attraction.” The marketing approach evolved by the Explore group has been picked up by Tourism Australia as an example of how businesses in regional areas can be bundled and sold as a destination of choice. Ross: “The peninsula hasn’t got a Sovereign Hill like Ballarat or a Puffing Billy in the Dandenongs. We had the chairlift, which was part of Mark I, but since it stopped running that’s $60,000 to $70,000 a year not now being spent on advertising.” The group was started by Ross and chairlift owner Richard Hudson. The Explore group is in close touch with Tourism Victoria and Mornington Peninsula Tourism. When overseas Ross is usually part of a group including representatives of government tourism authorities. His “mission” to China in June included visiting tourism agents in Shanghai and Chongqing, an inland city of 8.5 million people. “Chinese visitors are time poor, they do all the iconic things – the Great Ocean Rd, Phillip Island or Sovereign Hill – on organised tours,” he says. “The Malaysian and Singapore market is our strongest, with a big percentage being self-drivers. They are a mature market – 84 per cent are repeat visitors – and probably first came to Melbourne on a tour. “I believe the Chinese market, 15 to 20 per cent, is big on visiting friends and relatives, often to see their kids who are out here studying. “The kids then like to take them off the beaten track. “Mornington Peninsula has always been Melbourne’s playground, but slower to develop [as an overseas destination] than other Victorian markets. “I believe the Chinese will become very big in the self-drive market.” Ross said the Explore group is trying to “avoid being seasonal. Peninsula Hot Springs and Moonlit Sanctuary – yearround products – have added depth to the group.” The group has no formal agreement to limit its membership to offering different activities and there has been talk of “adding members to lighten costs, although that could spread potential benefits too lightly”. Promotional material is printed in seven languages – two Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German and English. A DVD has been created for agents and the media. Tour groups responding to the marketing usually number 20 or 30 while a few come from cruise ships. Overseas agents book flights, accommodation and some tours. A $55 attractions pass sold by the group would cost $100 or more if the attractions were paid for separately. Ross says the pass was originally launched with the domestic market in mind, but has been well received by overseas tourists. He emphasises the need for businesses wanting

October pier opening MORNINGTON pier will reopen to the public in October. However, the outer 70 metres will be closed for at least another two years. Closed since April 2010 to repair storm damage, the 53-metre timber centre section has been replaced by concrete supported on steel pylons at a cost of $3.65 million. Mornington MP David Morris said the more than $8 million needed to complete the pier was unlikely to make the government’s budget until 2013. Mr Morris described the repaired section of the pier as “looking fantastic” after an inspection on Monday. He said Parks Victoria had begun “preliminary planning” to repair the rest of the pier “but there’s no money in the budget”. “When built, it will still have the ramp and be made of concrete with steel pylons,” he said.

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A councillor and president of the former Shire of Mornington, Mr Morris said he remembered seeing plans in 1987-88 that showed 65-70 per cent of the wooden pylons “marked red because they weren’t reaching the sea floor”. “It’s been fixed about three times since then, but it was a process of patching. “When all the work is finally done the pier will have a life of 50 years.” Mr Morris said rebuilding the middle section of the pier in such an exposed location had been a “major feat of engineering and construction for Parks Victoria and its contactors with 70 steel piles replacing the degraded timber piles and a new reinforced concrete deck”. “Construction was further complicated by the need to drive the new steel piles into existing rocks beneath the pier, requiring heavy pile-driving machinery.” Keith Platt

Stiltman: Maze owner Arthur Ross reaches new heights to keep his hedges trim at Shoreham.

to attract overseas visitors to be “internationally ready”, especially with future rates. “We’re already quoting rates for 2012-13 and they’re [agents] always asking you to hold prices down. Once in you’ve got to commit to the long haul.” Ashcombe Maze has been operating for 12 years and receives about 50,000 visitors a year, 20 per cent from overseas. The numbers coming through the gate have changed little in the past decade, although an increase in products – meals, jams, honey, teas, essential oils and beauty products – has increased the yield per person. “The long-term view is to take the focus off the maze by adding more gardens,” Ross says. “Gardening is the biggest recreational activity in the world and people come here to look for ideas.

“The maze is popular with businesses for teambuilding activities.” The biggest proportion of overseas visitors to the maze come from Singapore, followed by Malaysia, China, Europe, New Zealand and the United States. “China has the most growth potential and people from Singapore are the biggest spenders. “The high dollar could be challenging this year.” Trying to get business from duty-free shopping tours is not that easy as the shops subsidise the shoppers’ trips and do not want to see their customers spending time elsewhere. The tour guides can also be paid to recommend where they should spend their money. Courtesy BusinessTimes www.businesstimes.net.au

Wildflowers bloom on island WILDFLOWERS are blooming in French Island National Park. “There’s nothing better than visiting the park at this time of the year. There’s a stunning display of wildflowers and more than 60 freshwater wetlands supporting many water birds,” Parks Victoria ranger Mick Douglas said. “The increased rainfall over the past 12 months has revitalised the bush and the wildflowers are better than they’ve been in years. The best way to see wildflowers is a bushwalk or bike ride along Clump or Link roads.” The national park has more than 100 species of native orchids and plants such as grey parrot pea (Dillwynia cinerascens), Austral clematis (Clematis aristata), swamp paperbark (Melaleuca ericifolia) and love creeper (Comesperma volubile). “Bush birds are already pairing up and establishing territories in preparation for breeding,” Mr Douglas said.

“The melodious fan-tailed cuckoo has started singing for a mate, and migratory waders such as the eastern curlew and red-necked stint are arriving from their breeding grounds in the northern hemisphere to spend the summer in Western Port.” Birds of prey in the park include the whitebellied sea eagle, the wedge-tailed eagle and swamp harrier. “French Island National Park has a remote wilderness feel even though it’s quite close to Melbourne. It’s such a great place for peace and quiet and to recharge your batteries,” Mr Douglas said. The island is accessible by passenger ferry from Stony Point and the best way to see the island is by bike or walking. Tours can be arranged and bookings for an overnight stay at the Fairhaven campsite are available by contacting the French Island National Park office on 13 1963 or at www. parks.vic.gov.au.

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For Sale

14 Thurloo Drive, Safety Beach An opportunity not to be missed

For Sale

Walking distance from Martha Cove Marina and approx. 500 meters from the Safety Beach fore-shore this superb, luxury two storey townhouse is almost completed. Approx. 27 squares of living comprise three bedrooms plus a parents retreat, 2 bathrooms and a powder room and two separate living areas. The kitchen has Caesar stone bench tops with tiled splash back, Smeg stainless steel appliances, designer tap wear, Rinnai 24hr gas hot water and the living areas have heating with programmable thermostat and split system air conditioning, generous allowance of lighting and television points & alarm system.

Prime block for land ready to build your dream home or holiday house upon. Situated a mere 500m to the Safety Beach foreshore and boat ramp and a casual walk from the multi-million dollar Martha Cove marina. Land Size approx 958 sqm.

For Sale

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Price: $595,000

Price: $695,000-$740,000

Inspect: By Appointment

32 Meridian Way, Mornington Inspired living and entertaining

For Sale

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21A Bath Street, Mornington Elegant Beachside Residence

This brilliantly designed and precision built home is on a large 1406m2 block and offers four bedrooms, master with spa ensuite, study, formal and informal living areas, expansive kitchen with stone bench tops and high quality appliances. Key additions include a large entertaining deck, second driveway (ideal for boat or caravan) leading to a large workshop, porcelain tiles and wool carpet, with ducted heating & refrigerated cooling.

Brand new and with a fabulous position, luxurious appointments & immaculate attention to detail. Abundant natural light spills throughout the large open plan living room with rich natuUDO WLPEHU Ă RRUV WKDW RSHQ WR D SULYDWH IURQW balcony and are overlooked by the designer stone kitchen with quality European s/ steel appliances. This home consists of 5 spacious bedrooms, three decadent bathrooms plus powder room and is built over three levels with DOO Ă RRUV DFFHVVHG E\ DQ HOHYDWRU 7KHUH DUH three distinct living areas, plenty of storage space and a spacious sunny front sitting room overlooking the designer landscaped gardens.

Price: $750,000 - $780,000

Price: Offers Over $1,500,000

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4 Lesa Court, Mount Martha Home sweet home Located in a quiet court close to local schools and shopping centre, this family home has four large bedrooms plus a study. The formal lounge has a bay window, there is an open plan second living area, family room, meals area and kitchen. Entertain with family and friends over looking alfresco area and inground solar heated, salt chlorinated pool. Double lock up garage with rear access. Two good sized garden sheds and a large backyard with plenty of room for kids to play. Central heating, evaporative cooling and split system heating and cooling.

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6 Avery Court, Mount Martha Elegant and sophisticated on a grand scale A luxury two storey rendered Simmons home situated in cul de sac location of prestigious Mount Martha location. The grand entrance has high ceilings and a sweeping stair case leading to the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four bedrooms and large retreat with balcony overlooking a semi-rural vista. The double bi- fold doors separate the formal area from the main living areas. A Master chef kitchen with granite bench tops has large pantry and the PHDOV DQG IDPLO\ URRP DUHD VXUURXQGHG E\ Ă RRU to ceiling bay window overlooking in-ground pool. Vendor must sell - All offers will be considered.

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For Sale

119 Seaview Avenue, Safety Beach Seaview at Martha Cove

For Sale

Nagambie 6 Acres Of Beautiful Land Nestled amongst the major wineries such as Chateau Tahbilk and the famous Mitchelton Winery this 6 acre block has water frontage for the enthusiastic skier adjacent to the boat ramp, permits for 6 waterfront town houses, all with power and septic connected. Do not miss out on securing this prime parcel of land your retirement years.

Price: $830,000 Inspect: By Appointment

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&Žƌ ^ĂůĞ ʹ ZŽƐĞďƵĚ

For Sale – Mornington

For Sale – Frankston

DĂŬĞ Ŷ KīĞƌ

Flicks Café

ZĞƚĂŝů KƉƉŽƌƚƵŶŝƚǇ

WŝǌǌĂ ͬ WĂƐƚĂ WƌŝĐĞĚ dŽ ^Ğůů

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Ŷ ĞǆĐĞůůĞŶƚ ŽƉƉŽƌƚƵŶŝƚǇ ƚŽ ŽǁŶ ǇŽƵƌ ŽǁŶ :ƵŝĐĞ Ăƌ ǁŝƚŚ ďƌĂŶĚ ŶĞǁ ĮƚͲŽƵƚ ŝŶ ďƵƐǇ ĂǇƐŝĚĞ ^ŚŽƉƉŝŶŐ ĞŶƚƌĞ͘ dŚŝƐ ĞĂƐǇ ƚŽ ƌƵŶ ĂŶĚ ŵĂŶĂŐĞ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ŚĂƐ Ă ŶĞǁ ůĞĂƐĞ͕ ŶŽ ĨƌĂŶĐŚŝƐĞ ĨĞĞƐ ĂŶĚ ŝƐ ƌĞĂĚǇ ƚŽ ŐŽ͊ WƌŝĐĞĚ ďĞůŽǁ ƐĞƚ ƵƉ ĐŽƐƚƐ ƚŚŝƐ ŝƐ Ă ďĂƌŐĂŝŶ͊

For Sale – Mornington

dŚĞ ǀĞƌǇ ďĞƐƚ ƉŽƐŝƟŽŶ ŝŶ ZŽƐĞďƵĚ͊͊ dŚĞ ŽůĚ ͞ ƌŽĂĚǁĂǇ ŝŶĞŵĂ͟ ^ŝƚƵĂƚĞĚ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ŚĞĂƌƚ ŽĨ DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ͕ ƚŚŝƐ ǁĞůů ĞƋƵŝƉƉĞĚ ƌĞƚĂŝů ƐƚŽƌĞ dŚŝƐ ůŽŶŐ ĞƐƚĂďůŝƐŚĞĚ ƌĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŝƐ ƉŽƐŝƟŽŶĞĚ ŝŶ Ă ƐŵĂůů ƌĞƐŝĚĞŶƟĂů ƐŚŽƉƉŝŶŐ ƐƚƌŝƉ ƚŚĂƚ ŚĂƐ ĞƐƚĂďůŝƐŚĞĚ Ă ĨƵůůǇ ĞƋƵŝƉƉĞĚ ĐĂĨĞ ǁŝƚŚ ĞŶƚƌǇ ĨƌŽŵ WŽŝŶƚ ŝƐ ďĞŝŶŐ ŽīĞƌĞĚ ĂƐ ƉĂƌƟĂů Įƚ ŽƵƚ ŽŶůǇ ʹ ǁĂůŬ ŝŶ ǁĂůŬ ŽƵƚ͘ ƵƌƌĞŶƚ ŝŶĐůƵĚĞƐ ůŝĐĞŶƐĞĚ ƐƵƉĞƌŵĂƌŬĞƚ ĂŶĚ ĮƐŚ Θ ĐŚŝƉ ƐŚŽƉ͘ tŝƚŚ ŶŽ ŝŵŵĞĚŝĂƚĞ ŽƉƉŽƐŝƟŽŶ EĞƉĞĂŶ ZŽĂĚ͕ ƚĂƐƚĞĨƵůůǇ ƌĞƐƚŽƌĞĚ ƚŽ ŝƚƐ ŽƌŝŐŝŶĂů ŽůĚ ĐŚĂƌŵ͘ dŚĞ ŽǁŶĞƌ ǁŝůůŝŶŐ ƚŽ ƌĞŵŽǀĞ Ăůů ƐƚŽĐŬ͘ ŚĞĂƉ ƌĞŶƚ ʹ >ŽŶŐ ůĞĂƐĞ͘ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ĂƌĞĂ ƚŚŝƐ ǀĞƌǇ ǁĞůů ĞƋƵŝƉƉĞĚ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ŝƐ ƌĞĂĚǇ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ĂƐƚƵƚĞ ŽƉĞƌĂƚŽƌ ƚŽ ŵĂŬĞ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ŝƐ ƌĞĂĚǇ ƚŽ ŐŽ͕ ĞǆĐĞůůĞŶƚ ůĞĂƐĞ ƚĞƌŵƐ ĂŶĚ ĐŽŶĚŝƟŽŶƐ ĂƉƉůǇ͕ ďŝŐ ƉƌŽĮƚƐ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞ ǁĂƌŵĞƌ ŵŽŶƚŚƐ ĐŽŵŝŶŐ͘ ŚĞĂƉ ƌĞŶƚ ŽĨ ΨϮϬϬͬǁĞĞŬ н '^d ĂŶĚ ŶŽƚ ƚŽ ďĞ ŵŝƐƐĞĚ Ăůů ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ŚĂƌĚ ǁŽƌŬƐ ďĞĞŶ ĚŽŶĞ͘ ,ƵŐĞ WŽƚĞŶƟĂů͊ ŽƵƚŐŽŝŶŐƐ͕ ĞǆĐĞůůĞŶƚ ƉůĂŶƚ ĂŶĚ ĞƋƵŝƉŵĞŶƚ н ǁĂůŬ ŝŶ ĐŽŽů ƌŽŽŵ ĂŶĚ ĨƌĞĞǌĞƌ͘

For Sale – Mornington

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&Žƌ ^ĂůĞ ʹ DŽƵŶƚ ůŝǌĂ

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^ĂůĞ WƌŝĐĞ͗ Ψϱϵ͕ϬϬϬ н ^ s ŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗ dĂŶǇĂ ^ĐĂŐůŝĂƌŝŶŝ Ϭϰϯϴ Ϯϴϵ ϴϱϵ

>ĞĂƐĞ WƌŝĐĞ͗ Ψϭ͕ϳϱϬ ƉĐŵ н '^d н K'^ ŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗ ZƵƐƐĞůů DƵƌƉŚǇ ϬϰϬϳ ϴϯϵ ϭϴϰ

^ĂůĞ WƌŝĐĞ͗ KŶ ƉƉůŝĐĂƟŽŶ ŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗ 'ĂƌǇ ZĂůƉŚ Ϭϰϭϴ ϱϯϱ ϱϬϯ

For Sale – Frankston

&Žƌ ^ĂůĞ ʹ ĂŶĚĞŶŽŶŐ

ŚĞĨ Ͳ ůů ĂƚĞƌŝŶŐ ĂŶĚ ĂĨĠ ŝŶ ĂƌŬůǇ ^ƚ͕ ĐŽŵŵĞƌĐŝĂů ĮƚͲŽƵƚ ǁŝƚŚ ĞǆƚƌĞŵĞůǇ ůŽǁ ŽǀĞƌŚĞĂĚƐ ĂŶĚ ĞǆĐĞůůĞŶƚ ůĞĂƐĞ ƚĞƌŵƐ͕ ĚƵĞ ƚŽ ŝůů ŚĞĂůƚŚ ƚŚĞ ǀĞŶĚŽƌ ŶĞĞĚƐ ƚŽ ƐĞůů͕ ŽƉƟŽŶĂů ĞǆƚƌĂƐ ŝŶĐ ZĞĨƌŝŐĞƌĂƚĞĚ sĂŶ ĂŶĚ ĂƚĞƌŝŶŐ ƚƌĂŝůĞƌ͘

^Ɵůů ŶĞĂƌ ŶĞǁ ĂŶĚ ǁŝƚŚ ŽƵƚƐƚĂŶĚŝŶŐ ĞǆƉŽƐƵƌĞ ƚŚŝƐ ƉƌŽƉĞƌƚǇ ŝƐ ŝĚĞĂůůǇ ƐƵŝƚĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƌĞƚĂŝů Žƌ ƉƌŽĨĞƐƐŝŽŶĂů ŽĸĐĞƐ͘ ^ƵƉĞƌď Įƚ ŽƵƚ ǁŝƚŚ ŬŝƚĐŚĞŶ͕ ƐŚŽǁĞƌ ĂŶĚ ĚŝƐĂďůĞĚ ĂĐĐĞƐƐ͘ Ŷ ŝŶƐƉĞĐƟŽŶ ǁŝůů ŶŽƚ ĚŝƐĂƉƉŽŝŶƚ͘ ǀĂŝůĂďůĞ ĨƌŽŵ ^ĞƉƚĞŵďĞƌ ϯϬ͕ ϮϬϭϭ͘

For Sale – Mornington

dŚŝƐ ŝƐ Ă ƌĂƌĞ ŽƉƉŽƌƚƵŶŝƚǇ ƚŽ ƐĞĐƵƌĞ Ă ŚŝŐŚ ƉƌŽĮůĞ ƌĞƚĂŝů ŝŶǀĞƐƚŵĞŶƚ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ŚĞĂƌƚ ŽĨ DŽƵŶƚ ůŝǌĂ sŝůůĂŐĞ͘ dŚĞƌĞ ĂƌĞ ƚǁŽ ƐŚŽƉƐ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ ǁŝƚŚ Ă ĐŽŵďŝŶĞĚ ĂƌĞĂ ŽĨ ϭϲϲ͘ϴƐƋŵ ĂŶĚ ĐƵƌƌĞŶƚůǇ ůĞƚ ƚŽ ƚǁŽ ůŽŶŐ ƚĞƌŵ ƚĞŶĂŶƚƐ ƐŚŽǁŝŶŐ Ă ŶĞƚ ƌĞƚƵƌŶ ŽĨ Ψϳϳ͕ϮϱϬƉĂ͘ ^ŝƚƵĂƚĞĚ ĐůŽƐĞ ƚŽ ^ĂĨĞǁĂǇ ĂŶĚ ŽƚŚĞƌ ƉƌŽŵŝŶĞŶƚ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐĞƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ƚŽǁŶ͘

For Sale - Mornington

&ŝƚŶĞƐƐ ƐƚƵĚŝŽ ŝŶ ĐĞŶƚƌĂů ƉŽƐŝƟŽŶ ŽĨ ĞŶƚŽŶƐ ^ƋƵĂƌĞ ƐŚŽƉƉŝŶŐ ĐĞŶƚĞƌ͘ ^ƉĞĐŝĂůŝǌŝŶŐ ŝŶ ƉĞƌƐŽŶĂů ƚƌĂŝŶŝŶŐ ͬŐƌŽƵƉ ƚƌĂŝŶŝŶŐ ͬ ďŽŽƚ ĐĂŵƉ ĂŶĚ ŵŽƌĞ ǁŝƚŚ Ă ůĂƌŐĞ ĐůŝĞŶƚ ďĂƐĞ ĂŶĚ ƋƵĂůŝĮĞĚ ƐƚĂī ǁŝůůŝŶŐ ƚŽ ƐƚĂǇ ŽŶ͘

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dŚŝƐ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ŚĂƐ ďĞĞŶ ĚĞƐŝŐŶĞĚ ƚŽ ďĞ ƐƵĐĐĞƐƐĨƵů ĂŶĚ ƉƌŽǀŝĚĞ ǇŽƵ ǁŝƚŚ Ăůů ƚŚĞ ŶĞĐĞƐƐĂƌǇ ƚŽŽůƐ͘ tŝƚŚ ĞǆĐĞůůĞŶƚ ƐĂůĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƉƌĞƐĞŶƚĂƟŽŶ ƚŚĞƌĞ ŝƐ ŚƵŐĞ ŐƌŽǁƚŚ ƉŽƚĞŶƟĂů ŝŶ ƚŚŝƐ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ƚŚĂƚ ĐŽƵůĚ ǀĞƌǇ ĞĂƐŝůǇ ďĞ ƌƵŶ ďǇ Ă ĨĂŵŝůǇ ǁŝƚŚ ĨƵůů ĨƌĂŶĐŚŝƐĞ ƐƵƉƉŽƌƚ ĂŶĚ ůŽǁ ĨƌĂŶĐŚŝƐĞ ĨĞĞƐ ŽĨ ŽŶůǇ ϰй͘ EĞǁ ůĞĂƐĞ ƚĞƌŵƐ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ͘

For Sale – Mornington

dŚŝƐ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚůǇ ƉŽƐŝƟŽŶĞĚ Ğůŝ ƐŝƚƵĂƚĞĚ ŝŶ ďƵƐǇ DĂŝŶ ^ƚƌĞĞƚ͕ DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ ŝƐ ŽŶ ƚŚĞ ŵĂƌŬĞƚ͘ ǀĞƌĂŐĞ ƚĂŬŝŶŐƐ ŽĨ ĂƌŽƵŶĚ Ψϵ͕ϬϬϬ ƉĞƌ ǁĞĞŬ ƚŚŝƐ ĨĂŵŝůǇ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ƐĞĂƚ ϲϬ ŝŶƐŝĚĞ ĂŶĚ ϭϲ ŽƵƚ͘ 'ŽŽĚ ĐŽŵŵĞƌĐŝĂů ŬŝƚĐŚĞŶ ĂŶĚ ƚĞƌƌŝĮĐ Įƚ ŽƵƚ͘

For Sale – Frankston

dŚĞ ǁĞůů ŬŶŽǁŶ ĂŶĚ ǀĞƌǇ ƉŽƉƵůĂƌ tĂƩůĞ 'ĂƌĚĞŶƐ ŽĨ DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ ŝƐ ŽŶ ƚŚĞ ŵĂƌŬĞƚ͘ dŚĞ ĐƵƌƌĞŶƚ ŽǁŶĞƌƐ ŚĂǀĞ ƌƵŶ ƚŚŝƐ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ƉĂƐƚ ϭϬ ǇĞĂƌƐ ĂŶĚ ĂƌĞ ůŽŽŬŝŶŐ ƚŽ ƌĞƟƌĞ͘ ŐƌĞĂƚ ƐŝǌĞĚ ƐŚŽƉ ǁŝƚŚ ĞǆĐĞůůĞŶƚ ůĞĂƐĞ ĐŽŶĚŝƟŽŶƐ ĂŶĚ DĂŝŶ ^ƚƌĞĞƚ ůŽĐĂƟŽŶ͘ WƌŝĐĞĚ ƚŽ ƐĞůů͘ /ŶƐƉĞĐƟŽŶ ƌĞĐŽŵŵĞŶĚĞĚ͘

&Žƌ ^ĂůĞ ʹ ZŽƐĞďƵĚ

&Žƌ ^ĂůĞ ʹ DŽƵŶƚ DĂƌƚŚĂ

dŚŝƐ ĞǆĐůƵƐŝǀĞ ĞǇĞǁĞĂƌ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ŝƐ ĨŽƌ ƐĂůĞ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ĮƌƐƚ ƟŵĞ ŝŶ ϮϬ ǇĞĂƌƐ͘ ^ŝƚƵĂƚĞĚ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ŐĞŶĞƌĂů ŵĞƌĐŚĂŶĚŝƐĞ ĂƌĞĂ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ƉŽƉƵůĂƌ ĂŶĚĞŶŽŶŐ DĂƌŬĞƚ͕ ĐůŽƐĞ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ ŵĂŝŶ ĞŶƚƌĂŶĐĞ ƚŚŝƐ ϮϱŵϮ ƐŚŽƉ ŝƐ ĂŶ ĞǆĐĞůůĞŶƚ ŽƉƉŽƌƚƵŶŝƚǇ ƚŽ ƉƵƌĐŚĂƐĞ ƚŚŝƐ ĐĂƐŚ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ƚŚĂƚ ŽƉĞƌĂƚĞƐ ϯ ĚĂǇƐ ƉĞƌ ǁĞĞŬ͕ ϳĂŵͲϰƉŵ͘

Ğ YƵŝĐŬ

:ƵŝĐĞ ďĂƌ Ͳ ůů ƐĞƚ ƵƉ ĂŶĚ ƌĞĂĚǇ ƚŽ ŐŽ͊ ^ŝĐŬ ŽĨ ZĞŶƟŶŐ͍ ʹ &ƌĞĞŚŽůĚ ĨŽƌ ƐĂůĞ ͞ ĞŶƚKŶ ,ĞĂůƚŚ͟ ŝƐ ŽīĞƌŝŶŐ ƚŚĞ ƌŝŐŚƚ ƉĞƌƐŽŶ ƚŚĞ ŽƉƉŽƌƚƵŶŝƚǇ ƚŽ ŽƉĞƌĂƚĞ ƚŚĞ :ƵŝĐĞ Ăƌ ǁŝƚŚŝŶ ƚŚĞ ŚĞĂůƚŚ ĨŽŽĚ ƐƚŽƌĞ͘ EĞǁůǇ ĮƩĞĚ ŽƵƚ ĂŶĚ ŝŶ Ă ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ ůŽĐĂƟŽŶ ŽƉƉŽƐŝƚĞ ^ĂĨĞǁĂǇ;ĨŽƌŵĂůůǇ ZĞĚ ĂĐƚƵƐ ĂĨĠͿ ƚŚĞ ƐƚŽƌĞ ǁŝůů ŽƉĞŶ ŝŶ KĐƚŽďĞƌ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ƚĞƌŵƐ ĂŶĚ ĐŽŶĚŝƟŽŶƐ͘

ϭϬϲ ƐƋŵ ŽĸĐĞ ĨŽƌ ƐĂůĞ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ &ƌĂŶŬƐƚŽŶ ƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ĞŶƚĞƌ ͻ &ŽƌŵĂů ƌĞĐĞƉƟŽŶ ͻ KƉĞŶ ƉůĂŶ ŽĸĐĞ ͻ >ĂƌŐĞ ŬŝƚĐŚĞŶ ĂƌĞĂ ͻ ^ĞƉĂƌĂƚĞ ŵĞĞƟŶŐ ƌŽŽŵ ǆĐĞůůĞŶƚ ǀĂůƵĞ ͬ ŵŽƟǀĂƚĞĚ sĞŶĚŽƌ

&ƌĞĞŚŽůĚͬ/ŶǀĞƐƚŵĞŶƚ KƉƉŽƌƚƵŶŝƚǇ

^ĂůĞ WƌŝĐĞ͗ Ψϴϵ͕ϬϬϬ н ^ s ŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗ dĂŶǇĂ ^ĐĂŐůŝĂƌŝŶŝ Ϭϰϯϴ Ϯϴϵ ϴϱϵ

^ĂůĞ WƌŝĐĞ͗ ΨϮϵ͕ϱϬϬ ŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗ dĂŶǇĂ ^ĐĂŐůŝĂƌŝŶŝ Ϭϰϯϴ Ϯϴϵ ϴϱϵ

^ĂůĞ WƌŝĐĞ͗ ΨϮϰϬ͕ϬϬϬ ŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗ dĂŶǇĂ ^ĐĂŐůŝĂƌŝŶŝ Ϭϰϯϴ Ϯϴϵ ϴϱϵ

^ĂůĞ WƌŝĐĞ͗ Ψϰϲϱ͕ϬϬϬ ŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗ ZƵƐƐĞůů DƵƌƉŚǇ ϬϰϬϳ ϴϯϵ ϭϴϰ

ǆĐůƵƐŝǀĞ ŚĂŝƌ ƐĂůŽŶ ĂǁĂŝƚƐ ŶĞǁ ŽǁŶĞƌ͕ ƐƚƌŽŶŐ ƚĂŬŝŶŐƐ͕ ĞǆĐĞůůĞŶƚ ůĞĂƐĞ ƚĞƌŵƐ ĂŶĚ ŶĞǁ Įƚ ŽƵƚ͕ ďĞ ƋƵŝĐŬ ĂƐ ƚŚŝƐ ǁŽŶ͛ƚ ůĂƐƚ͊

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ͻ WƌŝŵĞ Wƚ EĞƉĞĂŶ ZĚ ůŽĐĂƟŽŶ ͻ ŝƌĞĐƚůǇ ŽƉƉŽƐŝƚĞ ďĞĂĐŚ ͻ ^ĞĐƵƌĞůǇ ƚĞŶĂŶƚĞĚ͘ ͻ ƉƉƌŽǆ ϭϱϬƐƋŵ ͻ ĞǀĞůŽƉŵĞŶƚ ƉŽƚĞŶƟĂů ;^d Ϳ

&Žƌ >ĞĂƐĞ ʹ ZĞĚ ,ŝůů

&Žƌ >ĞĂƐĞ ʹ ƌŽŵĂŶĂ

^ >

&Žƌ >ĞĂƐĞ ʹ DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ

&Žƌ ^ĂůĞ Žƌ >ĞĂƐĞ ʹ DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ

&ŝƌƐƚ dŝŵĞ ǀĂŝůĂďůĞ

&Žƌ >ĞĂƐĞ Ͳ DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ

EĞǆƚ ƚŽ ƉƌŽƉŽƐĞĚ ĞƉŝĐƵƌĞĂŶ ĐĞŶƚƌĞ

&ĂĐƚŽƌǇ ϯ͕ ϱ ʹ ϳ dƌĞǁŝƩ ŽƵƌƚ

^ĂůĞ WƌŝĐĞ͗ Ψϱϳϱ͕ϬϬϬͬ>ĞĂƐĞ WƌŝĐĞ͗ WK ŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗ <ĞǀŝŶ tƌŝŐŚƚ Ϭϰϭϳ ϱϲϰ ϰϱϰ

>ĞĂƐĞ WƌŝĐĞ͗ ΨϮ͕ϬϬϬ н'^dнK' ŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗ <ĞǀŝŶ tƌŝŐŚƚ Ϭϰϭϳ ϱϲϰ ϰϱϰ

>ĞĂƐĞ WƌŝĐĞ͗ Ψϭ͕ϰϮϬͬŵŽŶƚŚ н '^d н K'^ ŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗ 'ĂƌǇ ZĂůƉŚ Ϭϰϭϴ ϱϯϱ ϱϬϯ

>ĞĂƐĞ WƌŝĐĞ͗ Ψϭ͕ϬϴϱƉĐŵ н '^d н K' ŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗ ZƵƐƐĞůů DƵƌƉŚǇ ϬϰϬϳ ϴϯϵ ϭϴϰ

&ŝƌƐƚ ƟŵĞ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ ŝŶ ŽǀĞƌ ϲ ǇĞĂƌƐ ƚŚŝƐ ƌĞƚĂŝů ƐŚŽƉ ŝƐ ƐŝƚƵĂƚĞĚ ďĞŚŝŶĚ DĂŝŶ ^ƚƌĞĞƚ͕ ĂĚũĂĐĞŶƚ ƚŽ ĨƌĞĞ ƉĂƌŬŝŶŐ ĂƌĞĂ ĂŶĚ ŝƐ ǁĞůů ƐĞƚ ƵƉ ĨŽƌ ƉƌŽĨĞƐƐŝŽŶĂů ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐĞƐ͖ '͗ ĂĐĐŽƵŶƚĂŶƚͬƐŽůŝĐŝƚŽƌ Žƌ ƌĞĂů ĞƐƚĂƚĞ͘ dŚĞƌĞ ĂƌĞ ƚǁŽ ŽĸĐĞƐ͕ ďŽĂƌĚƌŽŽŵ͕ ƚǁŽ ƚŽŝůĞƚƐ ĂŶĚ ůƵŶĐŚƌŽŽŵ͘ >ŽŶŐ ƚĞƌŵ ůĞĂƐĞ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ͘

ZĞƚĂŝů ƐŚŽƉ ŽĨ ĂƉƉƌŽǆ͘ ϲϬƐƋŵ ƐŝƚƵĂƚĞĚ ŝŶ ĂƌŬůǇ ^ƋƵĂƌĞ͘ 'ŽŽĚ ƉĂƌŬŝŶŐ ĂŶĚ ĐůŽƐĞ ƚŽ ĐĞŶƚĞƌ ŽĨ ƚŽǁŶ͘ ǀĂŝůĂďůĞ ϭƐƚ ŽĨ EŽǀĞŵďĞƌ͘ tŽŶ͛ƚ ůĂƐƚ͊

&Žƌ >ĞĂƐĞ ʹ DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ

&Žƌ ^ĂůĞ ʹ ƌŽŵĂŶĂ

EĞĂƌ ŶĞǁ ĨĂĐƚŽƌǇ͕ ŶĞǀĞƌ ďĞĞŶ ƵƐĞĚ͘ /ĚĞĂů ůŽĐĂƟŽŶ ƚŽ ďĂƐĞ ǇŽƵƌ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ͘ ͻ ϭϱϱ ƐƋŵ ĂƉƉƌŽǆ ͻ ZĞŵŽƚĞ ƌŽůůĞƌ ĚŽŽƌ ĂĐĐĞƐƐ ͻ ĂƐǇ ĂĐĐĞƐƐ ƚŽ ĨƌĞĞǁĂǇ ͻ WƌŝĐĞĚ ƚŽ ůĞĂƐĞ

&Žƌ >ĞĂƐĞ ʹ DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ

ǆĐĞůůĞŶƚ ƌĞƚĂŝů ƐƉĂĐĞ ŽĨ ϳϲŵϮ ƐŝƚƵĂƚĞĚ ƌŝŐŚƚ ŶĞǆƚ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ ƉƌŽƉŽƐĞĚ ƉŝĐƵƌĞĂŶ ĞŶƚƌĞ͘ dŚĞ ĐĞŶƚƌĞ ĐŽŶĐĞƉƚ ǁŝůů ďƵŝůĚ ƵƉŽŶ ĂŶĚ ĞŶŚĂŶĐĞ ZĞĚ ,ŝůů͛Ɛ ƌĞƉƵƚĂƟŽŶ ĂƐ Ă ƐŽƉŚŝƐƟĐĂƚĞĚ ƐŽƵƌĐĞ ŽĨ ĨƌĞƐŚ͕ ůŽĐĂů ƉƌŽĚƵĐĞ ĂŶĚ ŵĞƌĐŚĂŶĚŝƐĞ ĂŶĚ ǁŝůů ŝŶĐůƵĚĞ͗ ŽƵŶƚƌǇ ^ƚǇůĞ ĂŬĞ ,ŽƵƐĞ͕ ŚĞĞƐĞ ^ƚŽƌĞ͕ dĂǀĞƌŶ͕ ŝƐƟůůĞƌǇ͕ ŽīĞĞ ZŽĂƐƟŶŐ ĂŶĚ ^ŚŽƌƚ ^ƚĂǇ ƉĂƌƚŵĞŶƚƐ͘

ŽǁŶƐƚĂŝƌƐ KĸĐĞ ^ƉĂĐĞ

&Žƌ >ĞĂƐĞ ʹ DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ

>ĞĂƐĞ WƌŝĐĞ͗ ΨϮ͕ϱϬϬƉĐŵ н '^d н K'^ ŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗ <ĞǀŝŶ tƌŝŐŚƚ Ϭϰϭϳ ϱϲϰ ϰϱϰ

>ĞĂƐĞ WƌŝĐĞ͗ Ψϱ͕ϴϲϭ͘ϴϰ ŝŶĐ͘ '^dнK'^ <ĞǀŝŶ tƌŝŐŚƚ͗ Ϭϰϭϳ ϱϲϰ ϰϱϰ

ǀĂŝůĂďůĞ ĨƌŽŵ ϭƐƚ ĞĐĞŵďĞƌ ƚŚŝƐ ŵŽĚĞƌŶ ŽƉĞŶ ƉůĂŶ ŽĸĐĞ ƐƉĂĐĞ ŝƐ ĂƉƉƌŽǆŝŵĂƚĞůǇ ϭϵϬƐƋŵ ŵĞƚƌĞƐ ĂŶĚ ĨƵůůǇ ĮƩĞĚ ŽƵƚ ǁŝƚŚ ŵĞĞƟŶŐ ƌŽŽŵƐ͕ ŽĸĐĞƐ͕ ƚĞůĞƉŚŽŶĞƐ ĂŶĚ ĐŽŵƉƵƚĞƌ ƉŽŝŶƚƐ͕ ŝƚ ĂůƐŽ ĐŽŵĞƐ ǁŝƚŚ ϱ ƉĂƌŬŝŶŐ ƐƉĂĐĞƐ ĂŶĚ ĞǀĞŶ Ă Y ĂƌĞĂ ŽƵƚƐŝĚĞ ĂĚũŽŝŶŝŶŐ ƚŚĞ ƉĂƌŬ͘ ^ƵŝƚĂďůĞ ĨŽƌ Ăůů ƉƌŽĨĞƐƐŝŽŶĂů ƐĞƌǀŝĐĞƐ Θ ŽĐĐƵƉĂƟŽŶƐ͘

dŚŝƐ ůĂƌŐĞ ŽƉĞŶ ĂƌĞĂ ŽĨ ĂƉƉƌŽǆ ϭϳϬƐƋŵ ŝƐ ǁĞůů ƉŽƐŝƟŽŶĞĚ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ĐĞŶƚƌĞ ŽĨ DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ͛Ɛ ƌĞƚĂŝů ĂƌĞĂ͘ tŝƚŚ ƐƚŽƌĂŐĞ ƌŽŽŵ ĂŶĚ ůĂĚŝĞƐ ĂŶĚ ŵĞŶ͛Ɛ ƚŽŝůĞƚ ĨĂĐŝůŝƟĞƐ͕ ƚŚŝƐ ƉƌĞŵŝƐĞƐ ǁŽƵůĚ ƐƵŝƚ ƌĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚͬ ĐĂĨĠ Žƌ ŵĂŶǇ ŽƚŚĞƌ ƵƐĞƐ͘ >ŽŶŐ ƚĞƌŵ ůĞĂƐĞ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ͘

&Žƌ >ĞĂƐĞ Ͳ DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ

&Žƌ >ĞĂƐĞ ʹ DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ

dŚĞƐĞ ƚŚƌĞĞ ƉƌŝŵĞ ŽĸĐĞƐ ŽĨ ĂƉƉƌŽǆ͘ ϭϱƐƋŵ͕ ϭϳƐƋŵ ĂŶĚ ϯϬƐƋŵ ĂƌĞ ƐŝƚƵĂƚĞĚ Ăƚ ƚŚĞ ďĞĂĐŚ ĞŶĚ ŽĨ DĂŝŶ ^ƚƌĞĞƚ ĂŶĚ ǁŽƵůĚ ďĞ ŝĚĞĂů ĨŽƌ ŝŶĚŝǀŝĚƵĂů͕ ƉƌŽĨĞƐƐŝŽŶĂů ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐĞƐ͘ Ɛ ŶĞǁ ĮƚͲŽƵƚ͕ ŐƌĞĂƚ ůŽĐĂƟŽŶ ĂŶĚ Ăƚ ƚŚŝƐ ƉƌŝĐĞ ƚŚĞǇ ĂƌĞ ĞǆƚƌĞŵĞůǇ ŐŽŽĚ ǀĂůƵĞ͘ Ğ YƵŝĐŬ͘

>ĞĂƐĞ WƌŝĐĞ͗ &ƌŽŵ ΨϳϴϬƉĐŵ н '^d н ^ĞƌǀŝĐĞ &ĞĞ ŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗ <ĞǀŝŶ tƌŝŐŚƚ Ϭϰϭϳ ϱϲϰ ϰϱϰ

DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ /ŶĚƵƐƚƌŝĂů ƌĞĂ

/ŶƐƉĞĐƚ͗ Ǉ ƉƉŽŝŶƚŵĞŶƚ ^ĂůĞ WƌŝĐĞ͗ ΨϮ͘ϭ ʹ ΨϮ͘ϯ ŵŝůůŝŽŶ ŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗ ZƵƐƐĞůů DƵƌƉŚǇ ϬϰϬϳ ϴϯϵ ϭϴϰ

>ĞĂƐĞ WƌŝĐĞ͗ ΨϳϱϬW D н '^d н K' ŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗dĂŶǇĂ ^ĐĂŐůŝĂƌŝŶŝ Ϭϰϯϴ Ϯϴϵ ϴϱϵ

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&Žƌ >ĞĂƐĞ ʹ DŽƵŶƚ DĂƌƚŚĂ

&Žƌ >ĞĂƐĞ ʹ DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ

&Žƌ ^ĂůĞ ʹ ĂǆƚĞƌ

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ϯ ŽĸĐĞƐ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ ĨŽƌ ůĞĂƐĞ ǁŝƚŚŝŶ ƚŚĞ DǇĞƌƐ ůĞĐƚƌŝĐĂů ƐŚŽǁƌŽŽŵͬ ĨĂĐƚŽƌǇ͘ /ŶĚŝǀŝĚƵĂů ƐƉůŝƚ Ăŝƌ ƐǇƐƚĞŵƐ͕ ďĂƚŚƌŽŽŵ ĂŶĚ ŬŝƚĐŚĞŶ ĂŵĞŶŝƟĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƚŚĞ ƵƐĞ ŽĨ Ă ůĂƌŐĞ ĞǆĞĐƵƟǀĞ ďŽĂƌĚƌŽŽŵ͘ ǀĂŝůĂďůĞ ŝŵŵĞĚŝĂƚĞůǇ

For Sale – Mornington

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>ĞĂƐĞ WƌŝĐĞ͗ &ƌŽŵ ΨϭϭϳϬ ƉĐŵ н '^d н K' ŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗ dĂŶǇĂ ^ĐĂŐůŝĂƌŝŶŝ Ϭϰϯϴ Ϯϴϵ ϴϱϵ

^ĂůĞ WƌŝĐĞ ΨϵϱϬ͕ϬϬϬ ŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗ <ĞǀŝŶ tƌŝŐŚƚ Ϭϰϭϳ ϱϲϰ ϰϱϰ͘

&ƌĞĞŚŽůĚ ĂƌĞĂ ŵĞĂƐƵƌŝŶŐ ϭϰϵϯ ƐƋƵĂƌĞ ŵĞƚĞƌƐ ĂŶĚ ǌŽŶĞĚ ƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ Ϯ ůĂƌŐĞ ƐƉĂĐŝŽƵƐ ŽĸĐĞƐ ŽĨ ĂƉƉƌŽǆ ϮϬƐƋŵ ĞĂĐŚ ĨŽƌ ůĞĂƐĞ ŝŶ ϭ͘ tŝƚŚ ǀĂĐĂŶƚ ƉŽƐƐĞƐƐŝŽŶ ƚŚĞƌĞ ŝƐ ŚƵŐĞ ƉŽƚĞŶƟĂů ĨŽƌ ŐƌŽǁƚŚ ŚĞƌĞ͘ DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ͘ ǀĂŝůĂďůĞ ϭƐƚ ƵŐƵƐƚ ϮϬϭϭ tĞůů ƐŝƚƵĂƚĞĚ ďĞƚǁĞĞŶ &ƌĂŶŬƐƚŽŶ ĂŶĚ ƚŚƌŝǀŝŶŐ tĞƐƚĞƌŶƉŽƌƚ ĂƌĞĂ͘

ŚŽŝĐĞ ŽĨ ĨŽƵƌ ƐŚŽƉƐ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ ĨŽƌ ůĞĂƐĞ ĞŝƚŚĞƌ ĂƐ Ă ǁŚŽůĞ Žƌ ŝŶĚŝǀŝĚƵĂůůǇ͘ sĂƌŝŽƵƐ ƐŝǌĞƐ ƌĂŶŐŝŶŐ ĨƌŽŵ ϭϭϬƐƋŵ͕ ϳϬƐƋŵ͕ ϴϬƐƋŵ͕ ϴϬƐƋŵ͕ Ăůů ǁŝƚŚ ůŽƚƐ ŽĨ ƉĂƌŬŝŶŐ͘ tŽƵůĚ ƐƵŝƚ ŵĞĚŝĐĂůͬƉƌŽĨĞƐƐŝŽŶĂů ŽĸĐĞƐ͘

dŚŝƐ ůĂƌŐĞ ĨĂĐƚŽƌǇ ŽĨ ĂƉƉƌŽǆŝŵĂƚĞůǇ ϴϬϬ ƐƋŵ ŽĨ ůĞƩĂďůĞ ĂƌĞĂ ŝƐ ŽŶ ƚŚĞ ŵĂƌŬĞƚ͘ dŚĞ ĨĂĐƚŽƌǇ ŝƐ ůĞĂƐĞĚ ŽŶ Ă ϯ ǆ ϯ ǆ ϯ Ǉƌ ůĞĂƐĞ Ăƚ Ψϲϲ͕ϬϬϬ ƉĂ н '^d н K' ĂŶĚ ƌĞƉƌĞƐĞŶƚƐ ŐƌĞĂƚ ďƵǇŝŶŐ͘

> FRANKSTON TIMES realestate 29 September 2011

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INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL

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Health and fitness can be yours

Lights, camera, coffee

THIS boutique fitness studio is in a central position at Bentons Square Shopping Centre. The business specialises in personal and group training, intensive boot camp training and other programs to suit clientele. The business enjoys a large client base and all qualified staff are willing to stay on and assist the new owners.

THE old Broadway Cinema in Rosebud is home to an established and fully equipped cafe with entry from Point Nepean Road. It has been tastefully restored to its original old charm. The business is ready to go with excellent lease terms and conditions. For any movie fans or those with a love of nostalgia, this great business has all the set-up completed.

Gym, MORNINGTON Price: $140,000 inc. equipment Agency: Kevin Wright Real Estate, 72 Main Street Mornington, 5977 2255 Agent: Tanya Scagliarini, 0438 289 859

Coffee shop, ROSEBUD Price: $69,500 W.I.W.O Agency: Kevin Wright Real Estate, 72 Main Street Mornington, 5977 2255 Agent: Tanya Scagliarini, 0438 289 859

Relocate home business to here RELOCATE your home business to this prime factory site, one of four in a fast-growing commercial area of Somerville. This well-built tilt panel factory has excellent on-site parking and secure perimeter fencing. Measuring approx. 186 square metres with an office area of approx. 37 square metres, new owner-occupiers can move in straight away with vacant possession available. For investors, a rental return of $300 per week would be expected.

Address: 4/21 Simcock Street, SOMERVILLE Price: $299,000 Agency: BayWest Real Estate Somerville 1/ 1085 Frankston-Flinders Road, Hastings, 5977 9660 Agent: Gary Barnes, 0412 347 233

Mixed business milk bar THIS prime mixed business shop is opposite Rosebud Secondary College and on a main arterial road. With regular passing trade and nearby residential clientele, the business currently trades five days a week from 6.30am to 4pm. The business is ready for new owners to take to the next level and with an extension of trading days and opening hours, there is potentially a massive increase in takings and profitability. The premises have a sit-down cafĂŠ area, two-bedroom dwelling at the rear, big backyard and off-street parking. 376 Eastbourne Road, ROSEBUD Price: $89,000 plus GST. W.I.W.O Agency: T. Hobson Real Estate, 1245 Point Nepean Road, Rosebud, 5986 8811 Agent: Alex Menassa, 0419 328 775

To advertise in the next edition of the Frankston Times commercial real estate section, contact Jason Richardson on 0421 190 318 or email jason@mpnews.com.au Page 10

> FRANKSTON TIMES realestate 29 September 2011

MORNINGTON PENINSULA PROPERTY SELLOUT Investors and DEVELOPERS OFFER: FUNDING FROM ͻ ϱϬй sĞŶĚŽƌ dĞƌŵƐ owner occupiers DO NOT MISS OUT ͻ ĂůĂŶĐĞ Ϯ ǇĞĂƌƐ DEVELOPER ͻ /ŵŵĞĚŝĂƚĞ ŽĐĐƵƉĂƟŽŶ EŽ ƐŝŵŝůĂƌ ƉƌŽĚƵĐƚƐ ĂƌĞ ŽŶ

TOO GOOD TO MISS

ƚŚĞ ŵĂƌŬĞƚ ŝŶ ƚŚĞƐĞ ĂƌĞĂƐ͘

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Mini-tradies Factories from $149,000 or rent at discounted price from $869pm + gst

Mini-tradies factories in Mornington From 71sqm @ $149,000

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www.aussiestoragegroup.com

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INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL Cafe in busy plaza

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Complete care

THIS well-positioned café is in a busy shopping plaza with its own front entrance. With seating for 25 diners inside and 15 outside, this is an easy to run business, selling breakfasts, drinks, focaccias, fish and chips, cakes and other items. It is ideally suited to a husband-and-wife team or partnership. The equipment is in very good condition and includes a coolroom.

THIS health and beauty spa trades from Tuesday to Saturday, 9am to 5.30pm with six working rooms, attractive reception area, sound systems in every room and full airconditioning. Services offered are massage, facials, mud wraps, pedicures, make-up, oxyfusion facials, waxing, salt scrubs, spray tans, aroma spa, manicures and microdermabrasion. Massages are done by a sub-contractor and the owner-operator hires two extra staff in summer.

Cafe, LANGWARRIN Price: $91,500 + stock of approx $3000 Agency: Latessa Business Sales 50 Playne St, Frankston, 9781 1588 Agent: Tony Latessa, 0412 525 151

Beauty and health spa, BALNARRING Price: $80,000 + stock of approx $10,000 Agency: Latessa Business Sales 50 Playne St, Frankston, 9781 1588 Agent: Tony Latessa, 0412 525 151

Business Sales Specialists www.latessabusiness.com.au

50 Playne Street Frankston

Tel: (03) 9781 1588 HAIR SALON

SPORTS CLOTHING

Good lease, very reasonable Women’s apparel for yoga, rent. Small appealing salon gym, pilates etc. Well known with 3 stations, 2 basins. to locals, easy to run with Reception and kitchen/ 1 or 2 staff. Many repeat storage area. customers. NOW NOW $35,000 + sav $34,000 + sav

FRUIT & VEG RETAIL

HAIR SALON

CAFÉ

DRAFTING ARCHITECTURAL

9ery busy foot traf¿c area. Extensive coolroom, good vehicle. Renovated 18 months ago. KEEN VENDOR

Large spacious salon on busy road. Has 5 beauty rooms, 8 stations, 2 basins. Nothing to be done, very attractive.Good equipment.

Niche market in town for whole/organic foods inc fruit & veg. 5 ½ days. Seating for 18 in/out. Well known to locals and passing trade.

Home based design service. Caters for home and light commercial – builders, engineers & consultants. 5 days. N

$65,000 + sav

$68,000 + sav

$69,950 + sav

$70,000

CHARCOAL CHICKEN

CLEANING

MILK BAR

FISH & CHIPS

ACCOUNTING FRANCHISES

Well presented shop with plenty of parking. Sub-let upstairs 1 bm accomm. 7 days 8am until 8pm. Good lease arrangements. $72,000 + sav

Trades Tues to Sun from 11.30am. Two twin self cleaning deep fryers. Located in large residential area. NOW $75,000 + sav

Two models, one home-based or one of¿ce-based. All details available on application. $75,000

NOW $79,000 + sav

$79,500 + sav

RUBBISH REMOVAL

BEAUTY, HAIR & NAILS

TAKEAWAY

BEAUTY SALON & SPA

COIN LAUNDRETTE

TAKEAWAY

600 clients. Works Tue to Thurs. Taking $70,361 pa WB Pro¿t app $45,000. Great part-time business. Huge potential. N

Prime residential area/ food precinct close to main road with good signage. Lots of near new equipment. Has 3 bm home. $99,000 + sav

Multi award winning, 95% rebooking rate. Fully equipped, has website. Fully air-conditioned, computer system. 6 treatment rooms. Must see! $125,000 WIWO

8 washers, 10 dryers, 2 HWS. Open 24 hrs, 7 days but has auto open/close doors. Male & female toilets, of¿ce . Fully renovated premises. Est 20 yrs. $128,500

Healthy options in busy Bayside S/C foodcourt. Strong T/O ¿gures, modern and attractive.Franchise. Good cash Àow business.

$90,000

Very attractive presentation with 8 beauty rooms. Sub-lets to manicurist and masseur. No competition, about 2000 clients. Yellow Pages ads. Stock included. $98,000

HAIR SALON

GENERAL STORE

LICENSED CAFÉ

HEALTH FOOD STORE

SECURITY SYSTEMS

DISTRIBUTION

Well established in modern S/C. 4uali¿ed staff. Fully managed. Full assistance offered. Con¿dentiality applies.

Large shop, long standing business.Double storey 3 bm residence. High density residential area. Trial on $6,500pw.

Well equipped, quality P&E. Operates with 2 liquor licences. Two kitchens. Seats 55. Con¿dentiality applies.

$140,000 + sav

$150,000 + sav

Installation & servicing of all manner of security systems, plus ongoing client maintenance and upgrades. Industry experience an advantage. $160,000

Supply of quality hardware products. Australian & imported goods. Fully managed by staff. Two vehicles included. Of¿ce can be unmanned. N

$135,000 + sav

Only 3 owners in 25 years, prime area, no opposition. Huge potential to introduce more lines, ideal H/W team. Excellent takings. Comprehensive website inc. $159,900 + sav

PLUMBING, PUMPS & IRRIGATION

MANUFACTURE & INSTALLATION

VENDING MACHINES

ASIAN FOOD

FRANCHISE RESTAURANT

FIREPLACES

Work less than 2 days a week, machines placed in 35 business locations. Fully custom ¿tted Mercedes van included in price. Machine in situ value $200,000. $299,000 + sav

Wonderful shop in food court of large S/C, great kitchen. Huge takings! Re¿t done only 2 years ago. Owner willing to NE run business for 2 years if wanted. W $290,000 + sav

INDUSTRIAL/COMMERCIAL TAKEAWAY

GROCERY

STREET SWEEPING

BOARDING KENNEL & CATTERY

FREEHOLD & LEASEHOLDLEASEHOLD

Large shop on corner position of main road. Huge pro¿ts! Short hours! 5 ½ days.

Est 40+ yrs, current vendor 11 yrs. Well known Asian business, complete range of products including fresh to imported & dried. 2001, 2-tonne truck included $810,000 + sav

Operating, hiring, servicing, parts & repairs in well equipped factory/workshop. All P & E inc. Showing good pro¿ts. Well known to industry. $1.2 Million + sav

Business & freehold, 4.5 acre property with 5 bdm residence, pool & entertainment area. Con¿dentiality applies.

Country club licensed restaurant & function centre. Large premises seats 450, 4 rooms, function areas, middle of golf course. Inc 3 bm manager’s residence. $3.5 Million + sav

Sales & service, well S/steel & glazed balustrades equipped showroom & for res and comm clients, workshop. Est 10 yrs, vendor pool fencing, self closing owns freehold & offers new gates, high quality lease with neg terms. architectural features. 70% Good pro¿ts. Melbourne 30% Peninsula. $225,000 + sav $220,000 + sav

GYM EQUIPMENT Installation, service, sales of new and used equipment to 80 gyms. 4 vehicles included, has huge potential for hospital equipment. 5 days. $490,000 inc stock

$499,500 + sav

HAIRDRESSING

Large coolroom. Seats 20 in & 10 Residential & commercial Cuts only, male & female. out. New cappuccino machine. customers mainly on M’ton 4 stations, 1 basin. Small 7 days from 11am. Cheap Peninsula. Major contracts in attractive shop, trades 6 days. business priced for quick sale place. Past Business Award Good cash Àow, easy to run. – vendor has bought elsewhere. winner. Stock included. N

$84,000

NOW $130,000 + sav

$175,000 + sav

Well known, bbq chicken, Retail to building trade & ideal location, modern public. One man operation will premises and kitchen facilities. suit tradesperson. Installers Indoor/outdoor seating. sub-contracted, could do Con¿dentiality applies. the lot and pro¿ts will soar. NOW Con¿dentiality applies. $399,000 + sav $380,000 + sav

$2.5 Million + sav

Tony Latessa: 0412 525 151

No. 1 REIV Accredited Business Agent in Victoria 27 years selling experience based on honesty and reliability REIV Business Brokers Committee Member

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Children’s World

For everything your baby needs MORNINGTON Baby Goods Warehouse proprietors, Greg and Adelle, are celebrating their third year as owners. Their team offers expert advice and friendly service on a huge range of products for infants and toddlers. Their product familiar staff will help you choose from a range of baby goods to help you nurture and care for your newborn or toddler. Safety products such as capsules and child restraints, prams, strollers, cots, baths and stands are available at best prices. They also offer “snap buys” of display products at heavily discounted prices – many at nearly half price. Manchester, toys, breast pumps, support pillows, monitors and a whole range of other baby goods are in stock.

They have accredited professional restraint fitters on site to fit your child car restraints, capsules, boosters and harnesses – this service is provided free of charge if you purchase your capsule, restraint or booster from them. Come in and have a browse through their warehouse to see the savings you can make and enjoy the professional and friendly service you will receive. They also have on line shopping at www.babygoodswarehouse.com.au so you can enjoy the convenience of on line shopping. Greg and Adelle look forward to greeting you in their warehouse or on line at their website. Baby Goods Warehouse is located at 127 Mornington-Tyabb Rd, Mornington. Phone 5977 0966.

Get ready for Christmas WANTING some great gifts for the kids for Christmas ? Come into Kids Room Hobbies and see Martin or Kim for some help. They’ll make shopping for the right gift easier. Kids Room R/C Hobbies have been in Mornington for six months. They offer a wide range of radio control hobby goods from cars, helicopters, buggies, tanks, planes, monster trucks right

127 Mornington-Tyabb Rd, Mornington (near cnr Progress St) Open Mon - Sat 9.30 to 5.00

Need ideas for Christmas?

Accredited child restraint Àtting. Baby capsules, car seats, booster seats & porta cots for hire. Beema Evo Retro Pram Normally $429 Special offer

$299

Safe n Sound Maxi AHR Normally $499 Special offer

Helicopters from $50

6 months to 7 years. Plus free installation

While stocks last

Junior Rangers Doll Pram

$79 Save $20

Cessna or Biplane $40

ow n y b y La up k c i p and s! a m t s i r for Ch

$419

Sovereign Glider & Ottoman Normally $459 Special offer $399 9

through to construction equipment, Slot car sets & train sets are also a specialty. Kids Room Hobbies also offer a repair service & spare parts. So don’t leave it to the last moment, get in now and take advantage of their layby service until Christmas. Shop7/1 Tyabb Rd, Mornington. Phone: 5977 1444

R/C Cars from $20

Construction equipment from $25

Electric Buggies from $200

Nitro Buggies from $350

Lay-by available il bl Call in for friendly service and advice. www.babygoodswarehouse.com.au Ph: 03 5977 0966

Spare parts and repair service ervice available Shop 7/1 Tyabb Road, Mornington. 5977 1444. (opposite McDonalds) Frankston Times 29 September 2011

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Your Local Markets

Grow, re-use, handmade, new, recycle In this current economic climate we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to be complacent in how we spend our hard earned cash and leisure time. Last year it became clear to us what kind of market the people wanted. News flash! Some people call it â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;trashâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, some call it â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;treasureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, others may say that it is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;recyclingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; which would be an argument for being more environmentally friendly. Whatever your â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;karmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, we are back! Market @ Drive In is a market for stall holders selling a wide range of goods; fresh produce, plants, antiques & collectibles, art/craft, toys, clothing, tools, either new or pre-loved. For buyers who are â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;seekingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to find the un-expected or just a day out! The market is truly the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;market for everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;; there is something for the girls, something for the guys, something for the kids; with a budget for everyone. Often the 1st buyers to the market are the proâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, rummaging thru â&#x20AC;&#x2DC; Grandpa Jackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC; stall, looking for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;treasuresâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to place in their Antique shops. Why pay a premium, get there before they do! There is a wide variety of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;homemade â&#x20AC;&#x201C; homegrownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; goods available to purchase. Thinking about de-cluttering at home, have excess stock at work which needs to move? Why not bring it down to the market, have some fun, meet new people, make dollars! So come along and visit our Heritage Victoria & National Trust Listed Drive-In. Shelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Diner, 1950s retro, is open from 8am for Brekky & Brunch. Enjoy an Egg & Bacon roll, Scones, Jam & Cream, hot & cold drinks, Dip nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Dots ice cream and so much more, sit in or grab a bite to stroll around. There is even a adventure

playground for the kids. The market is open Sunday, Sept. 25th 2011, then every 2nd & 4th Sunday in the month, Oct. thru to May 2012 (closed Christmas Day). Plus every Sunday in January 2012 from 8am. Location; The Dromana Drive In, 133 Nepean Hwy, Dromana. For more information including dates of up coming markets, stall holder details, see our web site, www.drivein.net.au/market.htm â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Market for Everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Craft Markets Australia CMA has operated craft and produce markets for the past 37 years, starting a craft market phenomenon back in 1975 with the now iconic Red Hill Community Market. The Mornington Racecourse Market and Red Hill Community Market have the well earned reputation of being the peninsulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier markets. Visitors to both events are rewarded with excellent outdoor shopping experiences in an ideal outdoor environment all year

round. With the pre Christmas shopping season upon us, there was many original unique gift ideas, something for everyone. Flavored with both modern and traditional influences, shoppers can experience countless wonders skillfully hand made by over 300 talented stallholders. A great family day out with entertainment for the kids and live music. Next markets: Red Hill Community Market, October 1st 8am to 1pm

(Mornington Peninsula Hinterland Scarecrow Festival launch). Mornington Racecourse Market, October 16th 9am to 2pm. (visit www.craftmarkets. com.au for more dates) Parking $3 at both events, dogs are prohibited. Office: 03 5976 3266 Email: marketinfo@craftmarkets.com.au Mobile (market days): 0412839417

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Your Local Markets Boneo Community Market IF you’re looking for a true country market then the Boneo Community Market fits the bill. Set in the rural market gardening area of Boneo on the Mornington Peninsula, you will find up to 200 sites with stallholders setting up their wares. All goods sold are either home made or grown and you will find everything from local fresh vegetables and fruit, plants, artwork, crafts, bread, baked goods, preserves, jewellery, wooden items, knitting and sewing, and much more! While there you can pick up a coffee or tea, stop for breakfast or brunch at the many food stalls and entertain the children at the farmyard or jumping castle. Alternatively you might like to sit and have a Devonshire tea in the hall. The market is held from 8am to 12noon on the Boneo Reserve Oval, every 3rd Saturday of each month all year round. Ample parking is available for a small fee of 50c.

Main Street Mornington Market is every Wednesday SPRING is a time of rebirth and renewal and so it seems fitting that Main Street Mornington comes alive this spring with the launch of its new logo and branding. The fabulous logo will evoke different emotions and reactions in everyone, some will see water and waves, some the special Main Street Mornington ‘Ms’, others feel the festival flags or make the connection with seaside and the yacht flags blowing in the wind. Enjoy! As with the seasons, so much is changing on Main Street. With sunshine beaming down and the fresh spring breeze blowing away the winter woollies, Main Street is buzzing and we all have a spring in our step! Spring is an exciting time in Mornington. Take a meander down Main Street and see this season’s new fashions and designs in our Main Street boutiques, chain stores and jewellers. Restaurants and Cafes

have new and exciting menus showcasing seasonal produce to make your mouth water, and our beauty salons and day spas have reinvigorating packages to break free of the winter blues. Bookshops, gift and home ware stores have new and exciting on-trend stock to inspire you, and if that doesn’t get you excited, all your everyday business facilities are at your fingertips. The Main Street Market takes place every Wednesday – rail or shine! As the longest running street market in Victoria, being nearly 30 years old, visitors come from far and wide to sample the home made, home grown and home baked goods, and to soak up the vibrant atmosphere that the Wednesday market is famous for. For further information visit www. morningtonchamber.com.au Main Street Mornington has so much to offer – where the shops meet the sea

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Absence makes the heart grow Fonda By Stuart McCullough ONCE they were ubiquitous as kettles and televisions. Every house on every block had a collection of workout videotapes featuring either Jane Fonda or Richard Simmons. Together, they taught us to lunge, flex and stretch as we had never done before. But if forced to choose between the two, there’s really no contest. As Hollywood royalty, Jane could easily turn a dollar doing just about anything. Indeed, anyone who has seen Monster-in-Law will agree. Richard Simmons, on the other hand, bore an eerie resemblance to Leo Sayer and often wore an expression that suggested he’d just strapped on a pair of ice-cube trousers. If it came to a contest, there’s no doubt I’d choose Jane over Richard. Exercise videos were very much a product of the 1980s. Such was the popularity of the Jane Fonda workout video in 1982 that it inspired many people to purchase their first video cassette recorder. Clearly, there was something about being able to exercise in your own home that touched a nerve, such that nearly every household had one of Jane’s tape loitering somewhere in the vicinity of the VCR. But it was one thing to buy a copy of Jane Fonda Workout; it was another thing entirely to use it. In one regard, exercise videos were much like nuclear warheads in that having them was far more important than actually using them. What Jane was probably seeking to

deter was any form of exercise other than her own. We had several of her videos, their primary job being to provide support for a set of shelves. Amazingly, Jane did not invent aerobics, although many would argue she perfected it. Rather, it was Dr Kenneth Cooper of the US Air Force. He had long been puzzled at how people with good muscular strength could still be near to useless at running. He developed a theory regarding the

use of oxygen correlating to the level of personal fitness. Part of me would like to think this information was then used to develop an elite combat unit entitled “special forces, aerobic division” in which armed troops dressed in leotards and sweatbands would take down their enemies by challenging them to a vigorous straddle down step class. That would certainly be a video worth watching. I was never in the air force, but I did

Taking the PC HAS political correctness gone too far? While walking past one of Frankston’s popular watering holes, I overheard a few mates joking about political correct topics. The brainchild of the jokes was a pleasantly dressed guy, in his mid-30s, saying how funny it would be to have a one-armed mud wrestling lesbian, tussling with a midget. This conjured up all sorts of images and got me wondering what some people really think about political correctness. I decided to search for the politically correct term for midgets, and Yahoo Answers came up with the following: “To be correct we prefer ‘little people’ as the term midget often refers to a person in the circus, otherwise referred to as a freak. I get highly offended when someone calls me a midget or a dwarf, as I am 4ft 8in,” one blogger wrote. Others wrote: “Space efficient!” “I don’t know, but I’m afraid to call them anything, because I’m afraid that I will offend them.” “Vertically challenged. Seriously, why would you want to be called a ‘little person’ instead of ‘midget’. Isn’t that even more offensive and condescending?” “They prefer to be called little people.” “Frankly this surprises me, because I would consider it demeaning. I think the term insinuates that you are less than a person, that you are less important than a full-sized person. ‘Little’ carries connotations of smallness, belittling, unimportant. But I suppose the addition of ‘people’ to the term is positive, because it reinforces that they are people/human who deserve respect, not freaks to be stuck in sideshows and laughed at. “Still, I’m surprised ‘little people’ is the preferred term. I don’t know what was wrong with ‘midget’; Definitely never use ‘dwarf’, even if they have long beards and are threatening you out of their mine with an axe.” “Personally I ignore them. People are so ridiculously sensitive these days that I prefer not to waste my time with them. They are midgets to me. It seems when anyone has a physical abnormality (and yes dwarfism is abnormal) they try to

once watch an exercise video. It was like a portal to another universe; one where leotards, happiness and terrible Doogie Howser-esque keyboard music roamed the earth. More than anything there was Jane. She seemed so enthusiastic and had managed to rustle up a whole crowd of dedicated supporters whose task it was to whoop and holler as though this was the greatest experience of their lives. More than a mere master of ceremonies, Jane Fonda also sported a permanent set so spectacularly huge that, along with the Great Wall of China, it was one of only two objects that could be seen from space. My own aerobic career did not officially begin until university when I elected to attend an aerobics class. My motives, however, were far from pure. My friend Rowan and I reasoned that these classes were attended overwhelmingly by women and that any environment in which we were without competitors could only to be to our advantage. Sadly, our plans were undone by two factors. Firstly, both of us were afflicted with the kind of coordination that suggests we were unlikely to be able to feed ourselves and which prompts those not similarly cursed to look away in horror. The second thing that somewhat undermined our brilliant plan to meet people was my decision to dress exactly as Jane Fonda had done, complete with leotards, headband and stunning permanent set hair. Ourselves aside, I don’t think we said a word to anyone.

The term “exercise tape” is now wholly redundant and “aerobics” has suffered in terms of its popularity. For me, I can only say that my interest in aerobics diminished greatly after I discovered the joy that only jazzercise can bring. I don’t care much for the current crop of exercise gurus. None of them hold a candle to Jane Fonda or even Richard Simmons. This new breed of hard-core trainers may well have abdominals of steel and thigh muscles that could crack a pistachio, but not one of them could turn in a performance as emotionally nuanced as the one Jane gave in On Golden Pond. Indeed, had any of these modern beefcakes appeared in her place, it would have been an altogether different film. For the new breed, exercise is a way of life. For Jane, it seemed just one part of her life. She appeared to be more balanced. Perhaps it’s time I gave aerobics another go. Not in public, mind you, as I suspect that I am as fundamentally “unco” now as I was then. I can only wonder whether those old tapes have made the leap to DVD, perhaps even Blu-ray Disc. I hope so. What I will not do, however, is dig around and see if I can find the leotards, headband and permanent set in the lower recesses of the wardrobe. For I have learned the hard way that only Jane Fonda can be Jane Fonda. And that to try and imitate her would, indeed, be the very definition of a futile exercise. www.stuartmccullough.com

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make it normal by giving it another name. Let’s get realistic that things go wrong when some people are developing and regardless of how it sounds, there are abnormal people out there. It just happens in nature. They are not vertically challenged. A challenge is when someone tries to meet a challenge and accomplish something. Midgets can grow larger than their size so they can be challenged.” “I believe the correct term – although rarely used these days – has always been ‘person of slight stature’ as the proper term regarding someone with dark skin has always been ‘person of color’. These terms have always been around, but are seldom used by the common people. For some reason, common people want to find a specific term that is less than complimentary. I’m not sure why.” Mind you, this is not deep research; it’s just a quick look at what a portion of the population thinks. Let’s do a hypothetical. There are three men you don’t know, nor do they know each other, walking around in circles within a room. Each man is wearing identical red shorts and nothing else. You are asked to individually call each man to you. One man is black-skinned, the other man is white-skinned and the third man is a little person. How do you go about it; what do you say? I wonder if the world has become way too sensitive to blatant facts of life? Name calling and insults are not nice by any means. But what is really hurting us when we are called names? Is it our pride, morals, ideals, personal opinions, egos? I guess not everyone is oversensitive and some people, usually called comedians, do joke about mankind, oops, humankind’s shortcomings. No pun intended, but I won’t give up my day job either.

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Entertainment EMI Music next month releases the original 1966-67 sessions of the Beach Boys’ unreleased album Smile. With the full participation of original band members Al Jardine, Mike Love and Brian Wilson, Capitol/EMI has collected and compiled the band’s legendary sessions for the never-completed album, which was typeset with the idiosyncratic partial capitalisation SMiLE. Now called The SMiLE Sessions, it will be issued in multiple configurations – two CDs, two LPs, digital album, iTunes LP and a giant box set. It is the most famous unfinished album in rock and roll history. In numerous sessions between spring 1966 and summer 1967, the Beach Boys recorded a bounty of songs and drafts for an album that was intended to follow the band’s 1966 masterpiece Pet Sounds. The master tapes were ultimately shelved, and Smile was never released. Drawn from the original masters, The SMiLE Sessions presents an in-depth overview of the Beach Boys’ recording sessions for the enigmatic album, which has achieved legendary, mythical status for music fans around the world. The two-CD lift top box, double vi-

nyl LP, digital album and iTunes LP formats feature an approximation of what was intended to be the completed album, compiled from the Beach Boys’ original session masters. Additional session highlights and bonus tracks are also included, with demos and stereo mixes. The Beach Boys and Capitol/EMI will celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary in 2012. Commemorative releases and other anniversary activities will be announced. The Smile Sessions (Capitol) is available 28 October including tracks

Barnyard, Good Vibrations, Our Prayer, Holiday, and Heroes and Villains plus eight bonus tracks. www.thebeachboys.com www.youtube.com/beachboys *** MY former radio colleague Derryn Hinch has done the rounds in both electronic and print media having gone from a police reporter, foreign correspondent, newspaper editor, television show host, novelist and campaigner to radio host. I would walk the corridors of 3AK preparing for my midnight-to-dawn program only to see him behind closed doors in deep thought and preparing many hours in advance for his radio show. Hinch, 67, was recently found guilty of four contempt of court charges and had one charge dismissed in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court in June. At the time he said: “I know what l’ve done and I am not sorry for what I’ve done. It’s a good cause and the law’s a bad law.” He had solid support from the public, families of victims of crimes and his wife Chantel Hayton. Derryn Hinch the author has released his latest book Human Headlines: My 50 Years in the Media.

Derryn has met all the movers and shakers, and sometimes he has moved and even shaken some of them. How did Malcolm Fraser really lose his trousers in Memphis? What happened with Raquel Welch at the Logies? In this latest book, covering five decades in the business, “The Human Headline” goes behind the headlines to tell the inside stories, from Port Arthur to man landing on the moon. He’s even gone to jail fighting for causes he believes in. Some of the people he has known include Princess Diana, Gough Whitlam, Graham Kennedy, Geena Davis, Buzz Aldrin, Lauren Bacall, Bo Derek, Kevin Rudd, Rupert Murdoch, Christopher Skase, Ronnie Biggs, Sylvester Stallone, Sophia Loren, Alfred Hitchcock and Mae West. Hinch says: “This book covers my half century in the media, in radio, television and newspapers. Some insights and stories never before told include some of the biggest events here and abroad.” Human Headlines is witty, humorous, always perceptive, blessed with exceptional intellectual clarity and is a joy to read. It is almost 500 pages, hardcover, indexed and with full colour photos. It’s

“’Tis folly to expect justice from the unjust.” *** GEORGE Orwell’s take on sport: “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.” If we had guns there would be no umpires. *** FOR years we’ve been told Labor does nothing for the peninsula because it’s a Liberal stronghold. So “now is the hour” right? Are you there Marty? Mr Dixon? He’s gone quiet. While you have Teddy’s ear, Marty, ask him to seriously consider increasing the ratio of registered nurses to aged care residents and increase library funding. Yes, I hear you, the swimming pool on the banks of RoseyBud foreshore. 2020? Don’t think Marty. Do! *** APPARENTLY Northcote is becoming upmarket. I spent my first 19 years there, the last five reasonably unsuccessful in the chase for love, or a facsimile thereof. According to rumour it would be even more difficult these days. A thought: if we allow same sex marriages and disallow mixed cou-

ples marriages most of us could live without guilt. No? Pity. Onwards and downwards. *** WHY do we get so upset about boat people? Almost all of them are running from hell into the jaws of politicians on both sides who treat them dreadfully for political gain. There are three times as many coming by plane who we don’t check on. Those with cash are welcome; those without – barbed wire. The newspapers report from the point of view of Rupert’s political allies but are we that stupid? Don’t answer that. Do a health check here, let them into the community and then assess. Stick to the ABC or SBS; you might get the odd honest opinion. *** MELBOURNE is the world’s most liveable city. Did the judges take the rental crisis into account? Do our governments care about any rental crisis in Melbourne or coming soon to the Mornington Peninsula? And what of the residential property market? Any chance they will remove the 50 per cent capital gains tax exemption and the deductibility of losses against other income? Not in my lifetime. Rich people; doctors, lawyers, judges, popes, Henry VIII? All protecting

their turf. The Club. Bugger the rest. Ad infinitum. *** MY religion is best described as neutral rather than agnostic, but as I move closer to a possible answer, I’m having my doubts; a bit each way so to speak. It’s nice God is a refuge and strength to some. It’s the representatives of God, those Christian leaders, who confuse me; the melancholia/ hocus pocus brigade who contribute to our religious madness by way of superstition and guilt. Why the different costumes, the red cardinals, mass ceremonies, kissing crucifixes, fasting, bells, praying to statues, beads, holy water, exorcisms and confessions? The Hail Marys to be good again to practise envy, lust, hatred and greed. Winning in the name of God; killing in the name of God. How long has it all been going on? Forever, mate. They wrote the books. Give us your money and we’ll save you, but do as I say, not as I do, or it’s a ticket to hell. With apologies to the honest followers.

with Gary Turner a $50 book for $39.95. We have a huge hole in drive-time radio programs in Melbourne and will welcome Hinch back on 3AW in December. www.hinch.net *** JOHN Cleese – star of Monty Python, Fawlty Towers and A Fish Called Wanda – will appear for two nights at the Comedy Theatre on 12 and 13 March. Tickets 1300 111 011. www.johncleese.com *** CONGRATULATIONS to Icehouse after their latest release, White Heat: 30 Hits, earned gold after only two weeks on sale. Debuting at No. 5 in the ARIA top 50 album chart last week and holding inside the top 10 at No. 7 this week, the album’s release has also seen the return of Great Southern Land to the ARIA singles chart, almost 30 years after its release.

A Grain of Salt SPRING brings with it warmer weather, lighter clothes. I always had a hankering for those mirror-type sunglasses, but my wife barred them. Why? My darling has departed and in my twilight I have free rein, in theory, but alas, the sunglasses are out of fashion, as am I; could well be a frustrating six months. Something there to hide my eyes, to appreciate? Wait! Looking is allowed when one is invisible. It’s the thought that counts. *** AFL football boss and “double speak” artist Adrian Anderson says all the money the game makes from gambling is spent on protecting its integrity, which is rubbish. Dean Wallis gets a third of Heath Shaw’s fine after lying. They say AA barracks for Hawthorn. Be interesting if they catch a Hawk; $5 fine? On any given football weekend, at least 100 football bets would be placed by AFL footballers and associated officials. I worked at racetracks for 37 years where betting was banned. I cannot recall one race meeting where some of them did not have a wager, not that I spotted them. Like football, we all knew. The AFL went into it to make a buck. They started it. The rest is arrant nonsense.

*** BITS and pieces: We have two socalled respectable witnesses who claim James Murdoch knew about the phone tapping. Not our James. They

with Cliff Ellen lie. The Murdochs invented integrity. Police Association secretary Greg Davies described us Ned Kelly admirers as “feeble-minded people”. He would know. Our newspapers incite racism, not the odd ratbag let into the country. Change the media ownership laws, Julia. You’ll be famous, forever. Economic growth? Not sure what that means; likely a cash connection between them and us. Two years to examine the feasibility of the freeway extension to Sorrento. Say 10? A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. To Facebook and/or Skype for my intellectual fill. I’ll befriend anybody, even Geelong supporters. cliffie9@bigpond.com

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Frankston YCW take the cake against Karingal FRANKSTON YCW lifted the Peninsula Division premiership cup again on Saturday after beating Karingal Bulls by 10 goals at Frankston Park. The Stonecats defeated Seaford Tigers last year by 44 points and now have seven flags in 20 years. Karingal had beaten YCW in the second semi-final and had the benefit of a week off. YCW had to beat Seaford in the MPNFL preliminary final and its dominant season, where its average winning margin was 90 points, looked shaky. The opening quarter was a close encounter with both teams kicking two goals. YCW had numerous chances to stamp its authority on the game with the majority of the quarter being played in their half. The second quarter was when YCW broke the shackles. From four goals each, the game changed in the blink of an eye. Community radio station RPPFM broadcaster Andrew Kelly said the turning point came when Bulls big man Brendon Lade had an easy shot for goal, but missed. “YCW took the ball down the other end in a flash and scored,” he said. “Two and a half minutes later it had gone from an eight-point margin to a 26-point margin and the Stonecats were away. “You can’t let YCW make the running. They have no weak links,” the long-time sportscaster said. YCW took the 26-point lead into the long break. Kyle Hutchinson had been the player of the quarter. In the third term, YCW sealed the

victory, kicking four goals to one. Lew Roberts sealed the match with a difficult shot at goal to kick his second for the quarter. Karingal couldn’t find any rhythm with forward Brendon Lade gone missing. Their only positives were the solid performances of Bevan Malloy and Aaron Paxton. The last quarter was party time for YCW, who kicked seven goals to cap off a magnificent season. Kyle Hutchinson and David Bodley kicked two goals each and Michael Chaplin looked lively. Karingal didn’t throw in the towel. Forwards Brendon Lade and Chris Hay ended the match with five and four goals respectively. YCW forward Lew Roberts won the medal for best on ground.

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Match details Frankston YCW 19.14 128 d Karingal 9.5 59 Frankston YCW 2.4 8.6 12.8 19.14 Karingal 2.2 4.4 5.5 9.5 Goals: YCW: L Roberts 4, Hutchison 4, Bodley 3, Coghlan 1, Tellis 1, Ulms 1, Lester 1, Chaplin 1, Smrdel 1, McIntyre 1, S Roberts 1. Karingal: Lade 5, Hay 4. Casey Franklin’s votes 5 Lew Roberts (Frankston YCW) 4 Kyle Hutchison (Frankston YCW) 3 Steve Roberts (Frankston YCW) 2 Bevan Malloy (Karingal) 1 Adam Smrdel (Frankston YCW).

Youngsters to fore as spring racing beckons IT seems as though invaders from Sydney are going to be a force in the rich three-year-old races during the spring carnival. Manawanui, who stayed at Rosehill; the Peter Snowden-trained Helmet who won at Caulfield; and the desperately unlucky Smart Missile appear superior to their Victorian rivals. The winner of five of his six races, Manawanui seems to be improving with each outing and is certainly going to make his presence felt when he steps out in the $1 million Caulfield Guineas (1600m) on 8 October. In all probability his main opposition in the Guineas will come from Helmet and Smart Missile. A dual Group 1 winner last season, Helmet proved far more tractable in the Guineas Prelude than he had been going around the right-handed way in Sydney. He scored a most authoritative win in fast time and indicted he would be even better at the longer journey. The highly rated Smart Missile was certainly not disgraced when 10th against older horses in the Group 1 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes. From the outside barrier, jockey Brett Prebble elected to drop Smart Missile back to last in the initial stages. From then on he virtually had no chance of winning, but finished strongly even though he had an interrupted passage in the straight. While Smart Missile’s colours were lowered, an outstanding filly in Atlantic Jewel continued on her winning way when cruising home in the BMW Handicap (1400m). It was her third win from as many

outings and she looks to have a mortgage on the Thousand Guineas (1600m) at Caulfield on 12 October. In fact Atlantic Jewel was so impressive there is even talk she could be a contender in the $3 million Tatts Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley on 22 October. Her trainer Mark Kavanagh won the Cox Plate three years ago with Maldivian and also has the ruling favourite Whobegotyou in his stable. Others who could reward punters over the next few weeks include Speediness, Our Affirmative, Dao Dao, Our Miss Jones, Avienus, and Shewan. Pakenham-trained Speediness has come a long way over the past 12 months and, judging by the way he hit the line when sixth in the Testa Rossa Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield last Saturday, even better thing are in store. Having his first start since a slashing second to Stradbroke Handicap winner Sincero in the Scone Guineas, Speediness settled near the rear early in the early stages, but hit the line with gusto. He looked above himself in condition and can only improve with racing. The $1 million Emirates Stakes (1600m) at Flemington on 5 November could be well within his grasp. Five-year-old Shewan is another who is getting better with experience. Placed behind Guyno in the Mornington Cup (2400m) in February, his three runs this time in have been very

Head start: Helmet, owned by Dubai’s ruling prince Sheikh Mohammed, sizzled when winning the Caulfield Guineas Preclude on Saturday. Right, The winning jockey Kerrin McEvoy. Pictures: Slickpix

good. He did look unlucky when a fast-finishing second in the Perri Cutten Plate (2000m) at Caulfield last Saturday. Kiwi mare Our Affirmative ran into plenty of trouble before finishing eighth behind favourite Midnight Martini in Programmed Property Hcp (1800m). A lightly raced four-yearold, she was having only her second run from a spell and will be seen to advantage over longer distances. Cranbourne trainer Michael Kent may have unearthed another promising stayer in Our Miss Jones. A daughter of New Zealander Darci Brahma, Our Miss Jones again finished her race off strongly when runner-up behind Atlantic Jewel over 1400m and at this stage is a legitimate chance in the Crown Oaks (2500m) at Flemington on 3 November.

Hong Kong five-year-old Mighty High will derive a lot of benefit from his third behind Extra Zero over 1700 metres at Caulfield. Carrying 61.5kg, the John Mooretrained gelding encountered traffic at a critical stage and was doing his best work over the final 200 metres. The Caulfield Cup is his main goal. Classy miler Dao Dao lost his way last season but his eighth in the Rupert Clarke was full of merit as he was trapped wide on a day where the inside was the place to be. On track to avenge his narrow defeat in last year’s Emirates Stakes at Flemington. Former Macau galloper Luen Yat Forever also caught the eye in the Rupert Clarke when a fast-finishing fifth and is sure to be very hard to beat in the Toorak Handicap at Caulfield on 15 October.

Cranbourne mare Avienus has had nothing go her way since finishing sixth in last year’s Cox Plate, but her second at Caulfield behind the males was most encouraging. Horse-to-follow Cross Of Gold pulled up a little sore when fifth in the Guineas Prelude and is well worth another chance. Darley-owned Euryale is one who could surprise at odds at her next start. After racing in the slowest part of the track when resuming at Moonee Valley, the Lonhro filly ran into a traffic jam when sixth (40/1) behind Atlantic Jewel at Caulfield. Another racing in the colours of Sheikh Mohammed, Yavanna was most impressive winning a restricted event at Sandown Lakeside and could easily graduate into stakes grade. Others who came under notice at Lakeside were Miss Zoom, Belgietto and Testas Double. Best: Speediness.

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