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7 April 2015

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5973 6424 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au From the top: Music students perform with members of Orchestra Victoria at Peninsula Community Theatre, Mornington. Picture: Yanni

Orchestral moves MUSIC students from around the peninsula got the chance to perform with experts from Orchestra Victoria during a workshop and concert in Mornington last week. Regarded as the state’s premier orchestra, Orchestra Victoria spent three days on the peninsula from Monday. The highly-skilled musicians play for The Australian Ballet and Opera Australia, among other arts organisations. As part of their visit to Mornington, the orchestra hosted the school musicians in an educational workshop at the Peninsula Community Theatre, Mornington, and then took to the stage with them to perform in a free concert. This gave the students the chance to see the inners workings of an orchestra and perform as part of a professional concert. High schools attending included Woodleigh, Frankston, Toorak, Peninsula, Padua, Killester, Nossal, Rosebud, Flinders Christian, Mornington, Dromana, St Bede’s, Rowville, Monbulk and Balcombe. The tour was made possible through support by Bendigo Bank and The William Buckland Foundation.

Pub ups stake for pokies David Harrison david@mpnews.com.au THE Mornington on Tanti Hotel’s request for another 17 poker machines – almost doubling its number to 40 – is following the community support fund route argued successfully by the Western Bulldogs-owned Peninsula Club, which was successful in lifting its pokie numbers from 20 to 35 a year ago. Tanti is proposing “to formalise an annual community support fund and

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undertake new works to improve [the] venue” if granted its additional electronic gaming machines (EGMs). The hearing was listed for 23 March but at deadline no one at the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation was available to provide information on the status of the application. Dromana’s Peninsula Club offered $30,000 indexed to the consumer price index for a community support fund. The Tanti proposal was for a $50,000

community fund donation and a cut of two EGMs, councillors were told at a recent meeting. Tanti differs from the Peninsula Club in that it is a private profit operation. The Peninsula Club, formerly the Dromana-Red Hill RSL, houses and supports the RSL, which provides welfare support for some 30 veterans and substantial help to individuals and groups. This includes:  School scholarships of up to $3000 annually;

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 Donations to veterans’ centres and Rosebud Hospital;  Providing transport to medical appointments and for shopping;  Home, nursing home and hospital visits. A second gambling venue in Dromana, Stella’s Hotel, failed recently to secure an extra nine poker machines. In its reasons for refusing the Stella’s application, the commission said it was “not satisfied that the net economic and social impact ... will not be detrimental

to the well-being of the community, including the immediately surrounding area or the wider area of the Mornington Peninsula Shire”. Stella’s, also a private organisation, was mentioned in the Peninsula Club hearing. Peninsula Club patrons not able to access an EGM would often leave the club and walk to the nearby hotel, which had a greater number and selection of machines, hospitality manager Peter Dern told the commission. Continued Page 7


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