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5973 6424 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au Good cause: Michelle Donovan has a job many would envy. Picture: Yanni

Muscle men help hospital IMAGES of muscular, well-toned men might be easy on the eye, but they are also raising money for the Monash Children’s Hospital thanks to Mornington mum Caroline Donovan. Ms Donovan is the organiser of the Victorian Firefighters calendar, which was first released five years ago and last year raised $3200 for medical equipment. “A calendar showing off some of our firefighters is a light-hearted alternative to the seriousness of what they do every day,” she said. “They are regularly exposed to traumatic experiences, often including children, so it’s good to get the firefighters involved in something positive that helps families.” Ms Donovan, whose husband is a firefighter, said lots of emails and a lot of “leg work” was involved contacting stations around the state, but that it was no longer difficult to convince firefighters to be involved. “The word has got around now about the money we are able to give to the hospital, so we don’t have much trouble getting the guys to participate,” she said. “Except for my husband, who is a bit shy, they all say ‘yes’, without hesitation.” The 2017 calendar is available for $15 online or through the Bendigo Bank. Liz Bell

Shire shake-up sees 8 new faces Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au EIGHT new councillors have been elected to the 11-member Mornington Peninsula Shire Council. Three of four councillors seeking re-election regained their seats: Bev Colomb in Briars ward, Antonella Celi in Seawinds and Hugh Fraser, Nepean. Former councillor David Garnock (Cerberus) was defeated in the 22 October poll which saw 50 candidates contesting 11 seats over six wards. Joining Crs Colomb, Celi and Fraser on the council will be David Gill (Red Hill); Kate Roper (Cerberus); Julie

Edge (Watson); Rosie Clark and Sam Hearn (Briars); Bryan Payne (Nepean); and Simon Brooks and Frank Martin (Seawinds). Frank Martin is a former shire councillor and David Gill was a councillor with the Shire of Mornington. The results were finalised on Sunday night and will be officially declared on Wednesday. It is the biggest shake-up of council members since the formation of the shire in December 1994, when the shire was run by state governmentappointed commissioners. The new councillors will have plenty of opportunity to meet and greet one an-

other before actually attending a meeting likely to test their debating skills. Apart from the annual meeting and civic reception on Monday 14 November to choose a mayor and deputy mayor, the first meeting as a council will be a “community council meeting” at Somerville on Monday 28 November. By that time, the councillors will have been able to attend seven of nine planned induction sessions to familiarise them with their new public roles and responsibilities. The first induction session on Friday (4 November) will include an “introduction and welcome” by shire CEO Carl Cowie, briefings by other senior execu-

tives and Terry Bramham, of Macquarie Local Government Lawyers. With federal and state politicians being accused of having a hypocritical sense of entitlement to the use of taxpayer’s money, so too will the new peninsula councillors be scrutinised for their use of ratepayers’ money. The previous council, while seemingly having a set $4000 a year for each councillor to spend on such things as attending conferences and seminars and courses, was eventually told by lawyers that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to seek reimbursement if that amount was exceeded. Expenditure by peninsula councillors far ex-

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ceeded that of their colleagues in the cities of Frankston and Kingston. Two bus tours are planned for councillors, one on 9 December to look at the shire’s Mornington and Hastings offices and Mornington Regional Gallery before lunch at Yaringa Boat Harbour, Somerville. The afternoon will see councillors tour The Briars, Mt Martha; libraries; Pelican Park, Hastings; foreshores and cemeteries. The second bus trip on 8 February will see them inspect “planning and infrastructure and capital works projects”. A councillor Christmas dinner will be held between the two excursions on Wednesday 14 December.


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