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Lockdown in pictures WILLIAM and Alexander Heels, above, are delighted with the Spoonville gradually growing in Maxwell Street, Mornington. Their father Rob, who took the picture, said encouraged other residents to “make a spoon person, and plant it while on their exercise walk”. The recipe for Spoonville - examples of which are cropping up all over the place - has its beginnings in the village of Winnersh and sees brightly painted wooden cooking spoons being planted in an accesible place. Some of the spoons are painted with the likenesses of cartoon characters, monsters, animals, politicians, celebrities and even Reese With-a-Spoon. AT left, Tom McCullough, of Safety Beach, saw the value in patience being a virtue during lockdown”.
THE latest restrictions to stop the spread of COVID-19 may have limited the chance to travel, but they also create plenty of inspiring ways for expressing creativity and recording these exceptional times through pictures. There are many opportunities for pictures while still observing social distance and authorised reasons for being outside (and masked) as well as in the home. Readers are invited to send and share their pictures, with a short caption, to: lockdown@mpnews.com.au
No buts to delaying no-smoking rules Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au IN a strange twist of fate, Mornington Peninsula Shire’s efforts to combat one known source of death and illness is being hampered by another, totally unexpected threat. However, councillors last week
voted against deferring the creation of no-smoking areas, telling CEO John Baker to “ensure that the smoke-free policy is implemented as soon as practical”. In doing so they have rejected a recommendation by one of their own senior officers they delay implementing the Smoke Free Environment policy
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because of the COVID-19 pandemic. While council is taking measures to lessen the effects of COVID-19 under the state government-declared lockdown, delaying its anti-smoking program would do nothing to lessen deaths and illness attributed to smoking. VicHealth says 4000 Victorians die
of smoking-related preventable deaths each a year at an estimated cost of $5 billion. Data from 2018 shows that 10.7 per cent of Victorian adults regularly smoke, down from 13.5 per cent in 2015. Ailments attributable to tobacco smoking include lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, asthma, premature,
low birth weight babies and diabetes. Community safety coordinator Talana Cook in a report to council’s Tuesday 11 August meeting urged councillors to wait for an “action plan for the staged implementation” of the policy rather than bring forward the second stage to 21 December this year. Continued Page 8
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