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Tuesday 16 October 2018
5974 9000 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au Walk the talk: Superintendent Adrian White out on the road for police mental health. Picture: Yanni
Walk shines light on police mental health A THREE-DAY walk to “touch base” with every police station on the Mornington Peninsula is Superintendent Adrian White’s way of getting an important message across to his staff. He wants to encourage police to reflect on and, hopefully, initiate discussions with support groups or seek help to prevent their suffering ongoing mental illness or harm. Superintendent White was planning to cover the 100 kilometres over three days – Friday 12 October to Sunday 14 October – from Carrum Downs police station to Sorrento police station to raise awareness of mental issues that he says are “increasing among our current and former police members”. He said he was completing his walk in his own hours, “travelling and touching base with each station within the Southern Metro Region Division 4”. The walk ties into the Head-to-Head walk being completed by Chief Commissioner Ashton Graham and a team led by Secretary Sergeant Wayne Gatt from Mallacoota to Melbourne. The overall walk aims to raise more than $500,000 for the Victoria Police provident fund’s new mental health fund and assist the retired peer support officer program. This volunteer group of retired police members supports more than 700 mostly former police experiencing mental health issues, such as PTSD, depression, anxiety, and alcohol and substance abuse. Rather than accept donations or pledges during his walk Superintendent White asked that they be made on the Head-to-Head website. Stephen Taylor
Conti ‘re-created’ for the future Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au THE architects behind the $80 million redevelopment of Sorrento’s renaissance-inspired Continental Hotel say they want to recreate the charms of the “marvellous Melbourne” boom period of when it was built. Six Degrees Architects will aim to complete the public bar and bistro, fine-dining restaurant and champagne bar in September 2019.
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This will be followed one year later by a “world-class” hotel, wellness centre, cafe and wine bar, day spa and gym, events and function rooms. The National Trust-listed Ocean Beach Road hotel, built in 1875 by the “Father of Sorrento”, comedian, actor, entrepreneur and politician George Coppin, is said to be the largest limestone building in the Southern Hemisphere. Its full-blown re-creation by Sorrento entrepreneur and resident Julian
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Gerner and joint venture partners the Stellar Group is the culmination of his dream after he bought the icon from long-time-owners the Di Pietro family for about $13 million in July 2016. His well-publicised vision for the site attracted plenty of opposition from Mornington Peninsula Shire and Nepean Conservation Group and others who saw his attempts to gain development permits as a means to a quick sale – a charge he always denied. Their concerns were amplified in
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on the right path and that it was a good project,” he said. “We always worked through Heritage Victoria and the shire and I knew that if we stuck to our vision we would get through.” The owners of the 143-year-old building say the revamp will turn the hotel and adjoining facilities into the “largest and most significant tourism investment into Sorrento to date, creating up to 200 casual and full time positions”. Continued page 8
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November last year when Mr Gerner put the hotel on the market for “north of $20 million” after realising that its redevelopment was “too big a project to handle alone”. Now, with a major backer behind him, Mr Gerner will be an “equity partner focusing on business development”. He said last week he was “pleased and relieved” to have the hotel redevelopment and renovation milestones mapped out. “I always had the view that we were
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