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Tuesday 20 November 2018
5974 9000 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au Looking back: Isabelle and Blake lay poppies on a plaque honouring Ernest Samuel Gordon Myers. He is believed to be the only Rye soldier not to return from France after WWI.
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RYE Primary School pupils placed sprigs of rosemary and red poppies on the headstones of enlisted servicemen on the Friday before last week’s Rye Cemetery’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations. The next day, Saturday 10 November, Rye cemetery trust members along with a crowd of families, friends and members of the Rye Historical Society, attended the big day. Guest speakers included retiring Nepean MP Martin Dixon, shire councillors Hugh Fraser and Antonella Celi, and Rye RSL president John Wilson. Rye RSL ladies auxiliary knitted red poppies that were arranged on a grassy hill in the cemetery grounds. Rye Historical Society members – many dressed in period costume and carrying bouquets to place on loved one’s graves – were joined by members of the public as they marched from Rye pier. After Mr Dixon unveiled the commemorative plaque the Rye school choir sang a medley of Australian songs. On display were old photographs and information. Those attending took a walk through some of Rye’s interesting and historic graves. Displays also included a horse drawn hearse and with a 1930s Rolls Royce hearse. Rye lions put on a sausage sizzle for hungry visitors. Picture and story: Barry Irving
Peninsula boat ramps in disarray, says fishing body Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au THE Futurefish Foundation has slammed the standard of Mornington Peninsula’s boat ramps as a shambles. And it has called on the major political parties to remove the management of boat ramps away from the Mornington Peninsula Shire, as well as the multitude of committees of management, which “claim to look after the smaller boat ramps”. The foundation says it is
“time for the management of all the peninsula’s boat ramps to be brought under one single boat ramp authority”. Futurefish Foundation director David Kramer came out swinging last week, saying: “It is a joke having the Rye boat ramp under reconstruction while Tootgarook and Tyrone ramps are inoperable, leaving no launching facilities between Safety Beach and Sorrento. “It is hard to understand how this situation can be occurring in mid-November’s prime time snapper season.”
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Mr Kramer, who also hosts the Channel 31 TV show Talking Fishing, was joined live on air by Premier Daniel Andrews who chose the fishing show as his only “live” television appearance in the state election campaign. He announced on air that if Labor was re-elected he would create a standalone boat ramp authority. He also promised to abolish boat ramp launching and parking fees on the Mornington Peninsula. Mr Kramer told panellists on the show: “It astounds us that the Morning-
ton Peninsula Shire is reconstructing Rye boat ramp during November and [yet] didn’t call on the Capel Sound or Whitecliffs-to-Camerons-Bight committees of management to have their nearby boat ramps ready to take the increased traffic while the Rye boat ramp was out of operation”. “With the Tootgarook boat ramp closed for dredging that should have been done months ago. And the Tyrone boat ramp, which the local committee-of-management has neglected to maintain for several years now, is
also inoperable. “This is an absolute disgrace and a total disrespect for boat owners that the Mornington Peninsula’s ramps are in this situation.” The Futurefish Foundation boss said it was “most excited that Daniel Andrews will pull the Mornington Peninsula’s boat ramps away from the shire and the committees and get the ramps open, maintained and fully operational, for the thousands of boat owners who use these facilities”. Continued Page 14
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