26 January 2016

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Mornington

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26 January

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Pageantry takes its place at art opening TIARAS, sashes and beaming smiles added a bit of pageantry to the opening night of this year’s The News Mornington Art Show. The presence of Miss Western Port, Mikaela Fowler, left, and Miss Australia International, Jessica Martini, added to the night’s main attractions: more than 800 works of art. Profits from the night and art sales go towards projects undertaken by art show organiser, Mornington Rotary Club. The club has run the show for 44 years, raising nearly $1 million, $650,000 of which has been spent on community projects within Mornington (from pre-schools, special development centres, scholarships and leadership programs, the lifesaving club, and scouts to the Main St clock tower and gazebos). The rest of the money has gone to International Rotary projects such as eradicating polio, tsunami relief, and help for bushfire and flood affected communities. The News Mornington Art Show is at Peninsula Community Theatre, Wilsons Rd, Mornington, until Australia Day, Tuesday 26 January. Picture: Gary Sissons

Police hunt firebug Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au DETECTIVES are searching for a firebug after Monday afternoon’s Crib Point fire storm and have spoken to two men, although no charges have been laid. The alarm for the first fire was sounded about 1.30pm – nearly the same time and place of a fire one week earlier.

Embers from that fire on The Esplanade have been blamed for starting the more devastating fire which destroyed one house and six outbuildings. “Police are investigating the Crib Point fire as an arson attack,” Mornington Peninsula Southern Metro Region Inspector Karen Nyholm said Friday afternoon. “This is an insidious crime that has an incredible impact on a community – putting fear and terror into people. We will do everything we can to identify

and charge the person or people responsible.” Inspector Nyholm urged people to “come forward with any suspicious activity they have witnessed, or any concerning behaviour they are aware of”. On Friday afternoon Inspector Nyholm, CFA District 8 operations officer Arthur Haynes, Cr David Garnock and Parks Victoria officers attended a “Bushfire and arson awareness roadshow” at Hastings CFA organised by Crime Stoppers.

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Inspector Nyholm said Operation Firesetter would see police keeping a close watch on “bushfire arson prone areas” and monitoring a list of suspected firebugs. Detective Sergeant John Coburn, of Somerville police complex, said police were “chipping away” at tracking down those responsible for the three fires at Crib Point. “We believe the first one [Monday last week] was deliberate and we suspect that fire caused the big one,”

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That second blaze, as well destroying the house and outbuildings, burnt through 83 hectares of bush and grassland on a 200 metre fire front, bringing fear and anxiety to residents. An emergency warning issued at 4pm advising residents of Crib Point, HMAS Cerberus and Stony Point that it was “Too late to leave” and to activate fire plans came just minutes after a “No immediate threat” which had already seen many residents evacuate the town. Continued Page 12

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