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Farmers win water battle Bid for licence to tap Barwon Downs ‘pulled’

By Luke Voogt Otway farmers have won their “30-year war” to stop groundwater pumping that killed fish and flushed toxic chemicals down the Barwon River.

Barwon Water yesterday announced it would withdraw its licence application to controversially extract water from a borefield following hundreds of submissions against the project.

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“We’ve been in the battle for 30 years and this is the culmination of one enormous campaign,” Kawarren farmer Malcolm Gardiner said.

Licencing authority Southern Rural Water confirmed yesterday that it had received more than 900 submissions, mostly against the application, by 5 March.

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from page 1 Mr Gardiner said he knew of at least 200 more objections.

The majority came from “people that benefit from the water“ in Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula, Mr Gardiner explained.

“It’s an enormous comment from the community saying, ‘Don’t grant the licence’.”

The withdrawal followed Barwon Water acknowledging in 2016 that its groundwater extraction at Barwon Downs over 30 years had reduced base flow in nearby systems.

The reduced flow produced acidity levels that killed fish and caused toxic flushes, included one down the Barwon River last year.

Barwon Water stopped extracting groundwater from the borefield in 2016 but applied to renew its licence before it expired in 2019. In August 2018 Water Minister Lisa Neville intervened, requesting a legally-enforceable remediation plan.

Barwon Water has agreed not to reapply before repairing the environment.

Mr Gardiner, a member of the communityled Barwon Downs Community Reference Group, said environmental recovery could take 25 to 75 years.

But Barwon Water chair Jo Plummer said remediation could take “several years”.

Barwon Water would work with the reference group to define the remediation area, she said.

“This (licence) has been withdrawn to take away that confusion because what we’ve committed to do is the remediation (and) be wholly focussed on that.”

She refused to rule out Barwon Water reapplying for the licence after the remediation.

“Once that has occurred, we will then put the process back in place.”

Barwon Water did not need the borefield for its short-term water security and had made it a “last resort” due to a “diversity of other sources”, Ms Plummer said.

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Drawing reminds Mutheinchri Ra of her life’s journey from growing up in a refugee camp on the border of Thailand to arriving in Australia.

“Telling my story through art reminds me of where I came from and how far I’ve come,” the 21-year-old said.

“It’s a story I want to share because not many people know much about it.”

Ms Ra's story will appear in her artwork at Drawn Together, a free exhibition inside Renew Geelong Concept Space from Harmony Day, 21 March, until 17 April.

The artwork tells of life in the refugee camp, where each day began with a rooster crowing before chores, eating rice and going to school.

“We didn’t have any worries as children," Ms Ra said.

"We were happy to play with our friends but

our parents were very worried.”

Exhibition co-contributor Khin Khin Sumon, 18, also grew up in a refugee camp, but on the Thai-Burmese border.

She harnessed augmented reality to tell her story through art, which comes alive on smart phones with spoken word, music and animation.

The exhibition is a collaboration between Bluebird Foundation, The fOrT and North Geelong Secondary College.

The young artists participated in weekly art workshops where they learned how apps could augment their 2D creations into “something more”, Bluebird Foundation’s Bron Lawson explained.

“The combination of visual art, spoken word, music and animations in the augmented reality artworks is very powerful,” she said.

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Knife raid ‘first’ for Torquay servo boss

By Natalee Kerr A Torquay businessman has spoken of his shock after an employee was allegedly robbed at knifepoint this week.

Monday's armed robbery was the first in the service station manager's experience, he told the Geelong Indy.

“I’ve never dealt with a situation like this before. It’s horrifying,” the manager said.

“Not only is this the first time in my life I’ve experienced something like this, it was also the first for my employee, too.

“I was upset and devastated to hear that my employee was put in such a scary circumstance.”

The lone employee was in the servo when two masked men in colour-coordinated outfits entered around 9pm Monday, the manager said.

The male attendant, in his early 20s, watched the masked, hooded and gloved men steal cash and cigarettes, the manager said.

Police confirmed that both men had knives and jumped the counter.

The employee was shaken afterward, the manager said.

“No one should have to go through this. He was very scared and shocked at the time.”

The employee watched the offenders flee on foot before immediately calling police, the

manager said.

Police later released security camera images of the men in the hope someone might recognise them or their clothing.

The images showed them wearing yellow gloves, grey T-shirts and white masks.

One was wearing a red long-sleeved hoodie.

The other wore a black hoodie under his T-shirt.

The manager said he believed that police had questioned two suspects.

Victoria Police was unable to provide further details when the Indy went to press on Thursday. Police asked anyone with information to phone Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Experts gather as victim’s battle continues

Three anglers have washed up alive on the other side of Port Phillip Bay after going missing off Queenscliff in an “ill-prepared” tinnie, according to police.

The 21-year-old captain, from Swan Bay, and his passengers, aged 15 and 12, were unable to return to shore after a westerly wind “blew up” on Tuesday night, police said.

Waterfront plans Work on the $19 million first stage of a Geelong Waterfront Safe Harbour Precinct could begin this year following Wednesday’s release of draft plans, City Hall has announced.

Council’s website would display the plan for 21 days with the aim of ensuring the project provided “an improvement of the public experience” on Geelong’s waterfront, City Hall said.

Drugs sniffed Sniffer dogs have busted revellers with drugs ranging from cannabis to MDMA during an operation in central Geelong, police have revealed.

Officers working on Operation Pluto “processed” nine individuals for possessing drugs and also issued penalty notices for various anti-social behaviours last Saturday night, police said.

Ducks axed The 20th annual Festival of the Sea has axed its traditional race of plastic ducks on the Barwon River as part of an “an exciting new format” this year, organisers have announced.

The Barwon Heads festival, which began on Tuesday, would also conclude a day earlier with a “special Saturday evening of art, food and music”, the organisers said.

By Natalee Kerr World-leading researchers have gathered in Geelong to shed light on one of the most-puzzling medical conditions.

Attendees at this week's three-day conference detailed the impact of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis.

An estimated 240,000 Australians experience the condition, whose symptoms include severe mental and physical tiredness that cannot be resolved through rest.

Geelong’s ME/CFS International Research Symposium was the second major Australian conference of its kind in the past year.

Emerge Australia's Dr Heidi Nicholl said the event highlighted latest biomedical research findings to increase the understanding of CFS. “It’s vital the brightest minds in medical research globally share what we know about ME/CFS and collaborate on the areas which need more enquiry,” Dr Nicholl said.

CFS lacks any biomedical diagnostic tests, clear treatment guidelines or cure.

An estimated 25 per cent of sufferers are so severely affected they are either bed or housebound.

Geelong's Simonne Harrison said she had suffered from CFS since she was a teenager, experiencing 31 years of crippling symptoms.

“It’s completely frustrating," Ms Harrison said.

"I lack basic cognitive skills and find it difficult just to do normal day-to-day activities.

“Due to my condition my husband has taken on a lot more responsibility and it’s also been really hard on my 11-year-old son.

“Because your priorities change, you stop participating within society as a whole. Putting my health and family first has meant I’ve missed out on a lot of things and lost friends as well.”

Ms Harrison said inadequate public un-

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Lara ‘concerns’ Safety concerns ranging from cycling to heavy vehicles have emerged in a traffic study at Lara, according to Geelong’s council.

City Hall officers were using the “feedback” to prepare a draft action plan for release later this month with suggested priority works, council said.

Car ‘submerged’ Police have found an apparently stolen car “partially submerged” near a boat ramp at Clifton Springs.

Nobody was with the 2014 Holden Commodore when officers arrived at the scene around 2.15am on Saturday, police said.

Injuries study Geelong researchers will investigate “the frequency and type of injuries” to the increasing number of women playing Aussie Rules football.

The Deakin University study follows research last year indicating that women playing AFL were at significantly higher risk than men of knee injuries, especially anterior cruciate ligament damage.

Triathlon ‘best’ SUFFERING: Simonne Harrison is one of the estimated 240,000 Australians suffering with chronic Photo by: Rebecca Hosking fatigue syndrome. 191460 derstanding of CFS meant that some sufferers were also unfairly stigmatised.

“It’s exciting to see ME/CFS receive further investigation on a biological level, instead of it

just being referred to as a physiological condition,” she said.

“The quality of researchers here was huge, so great it all happened right here in Geelong.”

Athletes from around the world have named Geelong’s IRONMAN 70.3 the “best of its kind in the world”, according to City Hall.

The long-course triathlon topped a survey of 55,000 respondents to choose the best of more than 100 IRONMAN 70.3s around the world, the City said.

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SKM silent on waste fate

By Luke Voogt The fate of Geelong’s recycling remains a mystery as processor SKM refuses to comment on where the waste will go after collections resume.

Geelong’s council announced on Tuesday that recycling collections would resume after dumping 1600 tonnes of the waste in landfill at a cost of $261,000.

Council began diverting recycling to landfill on 20 February after China’s refusal to accept imports for reprocessing forced the closure SKM’s Geelong depot.

SKM reopened its Laverton North site this week after achieving compliance from the Environmental Protection Authority.

But the company refused to comment when the Indy phoned its head office to ask how it had disposed of existing stockpiles to

achieve compliance.

How SKM plans to process recycling as collection resumes in Geelong also remains uncertain following the company’s refusal to comment.

SKM notified council it would re-commence receiving materials at its Geelong site from Wednesday, according to city services director Guy Wilson-Browne Mr Wilson-Browne told the Indy last week diverting the recycling to landfill was costing $70,000 per week under a State Government levy charging councils per tonne of rubbish.

But council would recoup the levies and other costs, totalling $261,000 over three weeks, from SKM recycling under both parties’ contractual agreement, Mr Wilson-Browne said.

Greater Geelong’s household recycling service returned to “normal“ on Wednesday, he said.

“So please make sure you continue to sort your rubbish between your red and yellow bins appropriately.”

Mr Wilson-Browne supported Municipal Association of Victoria’s (MAV) calls for State Government to bolster local recycling infrastructure.

“The compliance of the SKM Laverton site is positive news for Victoria,” he said.

“However, it is worth pointing out that this is not the solution to the nation’s continuing recycling crisis.

“It’s going to take a partnership approach between state, federal and local government alongside industry to find workable long term solutions to this national problem.”

The MAV’s ‘Rescue our Recycling’ campaign urges State Government to invest “half a billion dollars of unspent landfill levy income sitting in the Sustainability Fund” on local re-

possessing infrastructure.

The campaign also calls for greater regulation of the local recycling industry and for businesses to take more responsibility to reduce waste.

Ratepayers could do their bit by remembering the waste hierarchy - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle - in “that order, rather than just focus on recycling”, Mr Wilson-Browne said.

“Reducing your waste is the most important and effective way all of us can help solve this crisis.”

SKM has yet to reveal what it has done with its growing stockpiles of recycling in order to reopen its Laverton site.

The manager of SKM’s Geelong site directed the Indy to phone the company’s head office for official comment.

NY ‘whippings’ prime bid for jiu jitsu title Net hits floor

By Luke Voogt

By Luke Voogt Few would associate combat techniques that can break and dislocate arms and legs with artistic expression.

But Bell Post Hill’s Ryan Gibson, preparing for Brazilian jiu jitsu’s (BJJ) world championship in May, describes the martial art as exactly that.

The 20-year-old returned from New York City two weeks ago after 40 gruelling days training “hundreds and hundreds of hours” under BJJ champion Murilo Santana.

“It was unreal. It’s the next level,” Ryan said.

“I just worked my bum off.”

Santana has won world and Brazilian titles, and has trained several champions of the sport, many of who also instruct classes at Unity Jiu Jitsu School.

“Those guys are the pinnacle. They just live on the mat,” Ryan said.

Ryan took a break from studying law at Deakin University, Japanese at University of Melbourne and working in a cafe to visit New York.

He spent thousands of dollars on accommodation, training fees and flights, to grapple an exhausting three times each day.

“I had to sleep 10 hours a night just to recover.”

Ryan faced off against fellow purple belts who “whipped” him at first.

“If I went there and beat everyone, that’s my money wasted,” he said.

Some students went to the school to prove a point by beating the best, but Ryan said he went to learn and improved his skills dramatically.

“It was hard for me to leave. I’d love to go back.”

Ryan began training in Brazilian jiu jitsu at age 15 after a couple of years of judo.

MARTIAL ARTIST: Ryan Gibson grapples with training partner Gavin Buchmasser at DC Jiu Photo by: Rebecca Hosking Jitsu, South Geelong. 191417 His dad had encouraged him into martial arts to protect himself “growing up halfAsian”, Ryan said.

But he “fell in love with BJJ” and quit Judo to make it his sole focus.

“There was so much freedom artistically (in BJJ) for me.”

Soon after he decided to go competitive.

“Since I got my purple belt it kind of just switched on in my brain, how seriously I could take it.”

Ryan is now training to compete as a lightweight or middleweight purple belt at the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation World Championship in California.

“If I go there and get belted I’ll just come back and train harder,” he said.

Frustrations over “snail-paced” internet at Geelong high schools have reached the floor of state parliament.

MP Bev McArthur this week called in the Upper House for an end to the “disadvantage" of local schools compared to their counterparts in Melbourne.

“The Andrews Government claims that Victoria is The Education State,” the Member for Western Victoria said.

“This is impossible when internet speeds are totally inadequate in secondary schools.”

Ms McArthur's call followed local councils alliance body G21 revealing last month that Geelong public schools had NBN download speeds ranging from 12 to 100 megabits a second. In contrast, Geelong private schools had speeds from one to 100 gigabites a second, G21's Elaine Carbines said.

The difference was like comparing a “Ferrari” to a “snail”, she said.

Ms McArthur told parliament the public school speeds prevented online activities such as streaming online classes and participating in high-definition video conferencing.

She urged the government to adopt the private schools' “ready-made solution” of connecting to not-for-profit provider AARNet. But Education Minister James Merlino said recent upgrades at Geelong and Surf Coast public schools had lifted minimum bandwidth to 100Mb/s and sometimes 150Mb/s.

“In the Geelong area more than 16,000 student computers are being upgraded and all 49 local schools are receiving upgraded wi-fi and virtual conferencing infrastructure.”

The investment included 300 upgraded wifi hotspots, 300 new hotspots, and 49 new virtual conferencing systems, he said.

Ten Geelong schools would achieve internet speeds the same as their melbourne counterparts under the government's $16.4 million Improving Regional Connectivity initiative, Mr Merlino said.

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$171M convention centre closer with deal funding boost Geelong’s planned $171 million convention centre is closer to becoming a reality after a $48 million boost to a federal-state agreement this week.

The 1000-seat centre would bring $350 million to the regional economy during construction and generate $50 million each year once operating, Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas said.

“The convention centre will support 270 jobs, boost tourism and drive new business growth in the region.”

Last May State Government announced $153 million for a Geelong City Deal, while the Commonwealth followed in October pledging $154 million.

The Commonwealth spend included $30 million for the convention centre amid con-

SITE: Geelong's waterfront appears set to host a convention centre.

cerns its contribution would not be enough.

The additional $48 million this week brought the total Federal Government contribution to the $355.8 million deal to $183.8 mil-

lion, with the Victorian Government providing the remaining $172 million.

State Government will dedicate $141 million to the convention centre while the Com-

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monwealth amount remains at $30 million, from their respective City Deal contributions.

Elaine Carbines, chief executive officer of municipal alliance G21, described the City Deal announcement as “historic” for the Geelong region.

“The benefits the deal will bring to the regional economy, both in the medium and longer term, can’t be overstated,” she said.

G21 played a key role in “aggressively” lobbying government to have the deal “locked down“ before the upcoming federal election, Ms Carbines said.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison was please to work with the Andrews Labor Government and Corangamite MP Sarah Henderson “to get the deal done”, he said.

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A Geelong father plans to pay off his mortgage and live a “stress-free“ future after becoming a millionaire over the weekend.

The man could not contain his excitement as a lotto official phoned to tell him he had won $1,316,422.

“That is amazing! I can’t believe it!” he exclaimed.

“When I logged in and saw that I had won I thought there must have been something wrong.

“It’s totally overwhelming at the moment. I can’t believe it.”

When asked how the happy family man planned to spend his windfall, he said he was looking forward to his future being free from stress.

“First thing we’ll do is pay off the house,” he declared.

“The stress of paying it off is gone.

“We’ve got two young kids so I’ll put some money away for their future education so I don’t have to worry about that either.

The Geelong man was one of three division one winners in the weekend’s TattsLotto draw who took home $1,316,406 each.

The man also won division six bringing his total prize to $1,316,422.

“It’s just great,” he said.

“It will be a lot easier going back to work knowing I don’t have to stress about it.”

The man, who wished to remain anonymous, admitted he had already bought another ticket in next Saturday’s lotto.

“I originally thought I hadn’t won anything I so logged on and bought another ticket into next Saturday’s draw,” he said.

“I needn’t have bothered now. I feel a bit silly - I didn’t even think to check my ticket.”

The man's win was the latest in a series of Tatts first-division prizes around the Geelong region in the past 12 months.

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‘A’ win for stadium

By Luke Voogt New A-League team Western United will play up to 16 games at Kardinia Park over the next two years, the stadium’s trust has announced.

Local soccer identity Josip Zilic said the move would promote the ’beautiful game’ in Geelong.

“It’s fantastic,” the North Geelong Warriors Football Club operations manager said.

He urged Kardinia Park Stadium Trust to push for a Matildas game next if Australia was successful in its current bid to host the Women’s World Cup. “Can you imagine a 40,000-seat stadium with all supporting Australia versus Brazil in a World Cup ... in Geelong?” he said.

Mr Zilic welcomed the games after previously criticising the trust’s “under use“ of the stadium during summer.

He would continue to scrutinise the trust as governments “threw hundreds of millions of dollars” at the stadium while local soccer clubs struggled for grants, he added.

Mr Zilic said the matches could draw more fans than the stadium’s previous Melbourne Victory games, which have had crowds as low as 5207.

City of Wyndham fans living closer to Geelong, local Victory fans “crossing over“ and hometown “sentiment” would boost crowds for Western United games, he said.

“There will be the ones who have stayed away (from the A-League) because there is no representation of the greater western region.

There are also people who are dye-in-the(wool) for Victory and they’ll stay.”

But the stadium’s seating, set up for AFL, was “not a good viewing platform” for soccer, Mr Zilic said.

“What it can highlight for us is the need for infrastructure support.”

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KICK-OFF: Local soccer identity Josip Zilic welcomes Western United playing up to eight games per Photo by: Rebecca Hosking season in Geelong. 184133 more pathways for young Geelong players chasing professional careers, Mr Zilic said.

But he warned the league must carefully manage these opportunities to avoid diluting the talent pool.

With Victory and Melbourne City having youth sides in the second-tier National Premier League, Western United would likely follow suit, he said.

Kardinia Park Stadium Trust chair Michael Malouf welcomed the up to eight games per

season as the latest “evolution“ of the “premier” regional sports facility in Australia.

“To house the new Victorian team in the growing Hyundai A-League is good for our stadium, good for the club and good for the people of Geelong and surrounds,” Mr Malouf said.

The trust would continue to maintain the needs of stakeholders including the Geelong Football Club, he said.

‘Drunk’ dad’s licence blown A drunk driver on his way to pick up his children from a nearby birthday party has blown almost four times the legal limit, Geelong Police have alleged.

Officers pulled the man over in Geelong about 11am on Saturday before he provided an evidentiary breath test with a resultant reading of .186, police alleged.

The man told officers he had been driving to pick up his children from a nearby birthday party, a Victoria Police spokesperson said.

The arresting officers impounded the his car and suspended his licence immediately.

Meanwhile, two men allegedly speeding at more than 170km/h in Geelong will face court following a busy start to the long weekend for police.

Highway Patrol officers detected a black Yamaha motorcycle travelling 170km/h in a 100km/h zone on Princes Fwy about 5.30pm on Friday.

Police charged the 19-year-old male rider from Truganina on summons for dangerous driving whilst being pursued by police, conduct endangering persons, speeding and other traffic matters.

In a separate incident police detected a Mazda sedan traveling more than 70kms over the speed limit on Geelong Ring Rd about 9pm that night.

Police charged a 28-year-old Anglesea man on summons with speeding and impounded his car.

Also about 9pm police spotted a 24-yearold Leopold man doing burnouts on Portarlington Rd. They impounded his car and charged him on summons with driving carelessly involving an improper use - loss of traction.

State Highway Patrol officers monitored Geelong roads over the Labour Day long weekend from 12.01am on Friday to 11.50pm on Monday as part of Operation Arid.

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New Maritime and Education centre to replace the existing Victorian

AMENDMENT C372 - HAMS ROAD, WAURN PONDS

Sailing School and Club Off the Beach Building.

PLANNING PERMIT APPLICATION NO. PP662/2017AND 663/2017

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NOTICE OF AN APPLICATION FOR PLANNING PERMIT GIVEN UNDER SECTION 96C

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OF THE PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT ACT 1987

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New Royal Geelong Yacht Club Clubhouse building.

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height, fencing visible from the street,

Expanded Royal Geelong Yacht Club marina with additional floating berths.

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double storey dwellings over 7.5m in

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online at www.geelongaustralia.com.au/yoursay

Planning Permit Application No

at 11–13 Chester Street, Newtown.

A 400m long floating wave attenuator

Sessions will be held at our Revitalising Central Geelong office, 108 Moorabool Street,

Conference and Reception Centre, City Hall, Little Malop Street, Geelong on

GEELONG WATERFRONT SAFE HARBOUR PROJECT MASTERPLAN

New Public Realm improvements featuring community access up and over buildings.

This Masterplan provides a high level vision that will guide the future planning and development within a particular area.

The land affected by the application is 35 and 69–93 Hams Road, Waurn Ponds.

In this instance, any approval by the City

roadworks and subdivision of the land

The amendment proposes to rezone land at 35 and 69–73 Hams Road, Waurn Ponds from

of the Geelong Waterfront Safe Harbour

into two lots at 9 Stephen Street,

the Farming Zone to the General Residential Zone with a Design and Development Overlay

Project Masterplan will form the basis of

Newtown.

and rezones an adjoining Barwon Water reserve to the Pubic Use Zone.

a request to amend the Greater Geelong

This meeting is open to the public.

The application is for a permit to seek approval for mutil-lot subdivision, removal of native vegetation and variation to restrictions and easements. The person who requested the

PUBLIC NOTICE BLUE–GREEN ALGAE In the interest of public health we advise that very high levels of toxic Blue–Green algae have been detected in: •

Blue Waters Lake, Ocean Grove

•

McLeod’s Waterholes No. 1 (larger lake), Drysdale

•

Grinter Reserve Wetland, Moolap

amendment/permit is Taylors Development Strategists on behalf of the proponents, Waurn Ponds Trust and Echin Pty Ltd. You may inspect the amendment, any documents that support the amendment and the explanatory report about the amendment at the following locations: •

Planning Scheme, which will then inform all subsequent detailed designs, plans, drawings, and other technical aspects of the project.

If you would like to make any comments on the project, it is highly recommended that you do so now as part of the

Brougham Street Customer Service – 100 Brougham Street, Geelong

consideration of the masterplan.

Monday to Friday – 8.00am to 5.00pm

The closing date for public comments will

•

This City’s website www.geelongaustralia.com.au/amendments

be 5.00pm Friday 5 April 2019.

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The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning website

To have your say visit our website

www.delwp.vic.gov.au/public-inspection

www.geelongaustralia.com.au/yoursay

Any person who may be affected by the Amendment may make a submission to the planning authority. Submissions must be made in writing giving the submitter’s name and

People should avoid contact with the water and should not eat fish caught in contaminated water. Please restrain pets from making contact with the water in these reserves.

contact address, clearly stating the grounds on which the Amendment is supported or

If skin contact should accidentally occur, wash immediately in fresh water. Contact with Blue–Green algae can cause skin rashes, eye and ear infections, vomiting and diarrhoea, mouth ulcers, sore throat and asthma symptoms. Anyone experiencing a reaction should seek medical help.

Act 1987, Council must make available for inspection a copy of any submissions made.

opposed and indicating what changes (if any) the submitter wishes to make.

Name and contact details of submitters are required for Council to consider submissions and to notify such persons of the opportunity to attend Council meetings and any public hearing held to consider submissions. In accordance with the Planning and Environment

The planning authority must make a copy of every submission available at its office for any person to inspect free of charge until the end of two months after the amendment comes into operation or lapses.

The closing date for submissions is Friday 26 April 2019. Submissions must be in writing and sent to The Coordinator, Strategic Implementation Unit, City of Greater Geelong, PO Box 104, Geelong VIC 3220, by email to strategicplanning@geelongcity.vic.gov.au or

Warning signs have been erected at the affected waterways.

lodged online at www.geelongaustralia.com.au/amendments

For enquiries contact us on 5272 5272.

PETER SMITH – COORDINATOR STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION

For further information the City's Strategic Implementation Unit on 5272 4820.

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PUBLIC NOTICE CHILWELL LIBRARY TEMPORARY CLOSURE The Chilwell Library will be closed for refurbishments from Monday 18 March and will reopen on Thursday 4 April. During this period, library patrons can collect reserved items from Geelong West Library.

For more information visit www.grlc.vic.gov.au or contact 5229 1939.

GEELONG HIGHLAND GATHERING — NEW LOCATION SUNDAY 17 MARCH – OSBORNE PARK, NORTH GEELONG

No charges for ‘dash baby’ A driver has avoided charges over video of a “dashboard baby” in Geelong, police have revealed.

Images posted to social media and widely publicised earlier this week showed an apparently unrestrained infant on the passenger-side dashboard of a white Hyundai SUV moving along a street in central Geelong.

The footage of the baby “crawling” inside the vehicle was captured on Myers St

around 11am Sunday, police said.

But subsequent investigations had left the driver in the clear.

“Police understand that the child managed to free himself from the capsule in the rear seat and was grabbed by the front-seat passenger,” police said today.

“After releasing himself from her grasp, the driver immediately pulled over into a parking bay.

“No offence was recorded.”

The Geelong Highland Gathering will be held at Osborne Park in North Geelong this year. Entry is via Swinburne Street.

This event offers a celebration of all things Scottish featuring pipes and drums, highland dancing, Scottish highland games, displays of Scottish country dancing and Celtic musicians playing the fiddle, violin and small pipes. Wander around the Clan tents. Enjoy traditional Scottish food to sampling the finest wine or beer while the watching the Highlanders perform.

The 2019 Geelong Highland Gathering concludes with the traditional mass display of pipe bands. The Victorian Pipe Band Championships for 2019 and also the South Pacific Heavy Games are being held during the day. 20 bands are expected which includes a band from South Australia.

For more information visit www.geelongaustralia.com.au/events

TRAFFIC CHANGES HEAD OF THE SCHOOL GIRLS ROWING REGATTA TEMPORARY CHANGED TRAFFIC CONDITIONS - SATURDAY 16 TO SUNDAY 17 MARCH A section of Barrabool Road from Quarry Close to High Street will be closed to east bound traffic from approximately 8.00am to approximately 5.00pm on Saturday 16 March and from 8.00am to 3.00pm on Sunday 17 March.

A speed reduction to 40kph will be in place on Barwon Terrace Friday 15 to Sunday 17 March. There will be parking changes implemented on both Barwon Terrace and Swanston Street beside Landy Field from Friday 15 March to Sunday 17 March.

Emergency vehicle access will be maintained at all times.

2XU TRIATHLON — PORTARLINGTON TEMPORARY CHANGED TRAFFIC CONDITIONS – SUNDAY 17 MARCH The 2XU Triathlon returns to Portarlington on Sunday 17 March. These roads require traffic treatments to be implemented from approximately 6.30am to 11.30am on Sunday 17 March: •

The Esplanade between Pier Street and Hood Road - closed to motorists.

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Harding Street between The Esplanade and Newcombe Street - closed to motorists.

Cycling in a clock wise direction, the event participants will travel on The Esplanade, Bluff Road, Drysdale - St Leonards Road, Portarlington - Queenscliff Road and Fisher Street.

Motorists are able to travel in an anti clock wise direction on these roads but are asked to proceed with caution and to be patient as delays are expected. Emergency access will be maintained at all times.

For further information contact the event organiser, Fairfax Events and Entertainment on 9595 3000 or 0448 813 433 or visit www.2xutriathlonseries.com.au MCHARRYS BUSLINES TEMPORARY CHANGED BUS SERVICES – SUNDAY MARCH 17 Bus users are advised that the Route 60, 9.15am bus service from Geelong will terminate in Portarlington and will not be able to service Indented Heads or St Leonards.

The 8.30am and 10.37am bus services from St Leonards to Geelong will originate in Portarlington and will not be able to service St Leonards or Indented Head.

For further information visit www.ptv.vic.gov.au or www.mcharrys.com.au

ST PATRICK’S DAY – ELEPHANT & CASTLE HOTEL TEMPORARY CHANGED TRAFFIC CONDITIONS – SUNDAY 17 MARCH Bourke Crescent between Walls Street and McKillop Street, Geelong will be closed from approximately 8.00am until approximately 12.00am (midnight) on Sunday 17 March.

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LET'S TALK: A new play coming to Geelong explores the taboo subject of suicide to build resilience among teens.

Taboo talk in Sacred night “It’s time to talk about suicide,” according to the writer and social workers behind a new play broaching the taboo subject.

Suicide: It’s Time We Talked comes to Newtown's Sacred Heart College on 29 March with an expert panel in a 30-minute Q&A session afterward.

The free, 35-minute play offered “strategies to build resilience”, said panellist Marie McLeod.

“As we raise awareness, it becomes less of a taboo topic and people feel more comfortable talking about it,” Ms McLeod said.

The social worker and positive psychology advocate argued that suicide had been taboo for too long.

Suicide was the leading cause of death among Australians aged 15 to 44 in 2016, according to ABS data. Twice as many girls aged 15 to 19 suicided in 2015 than in 2005, with rates for children under 14 also rising over the same time.

Some people feared that talking about suicide could have a copycat effect but "appropriate discussion" could be preventative, McLeod said.

“We can’t stop adversities in life. We need to think about how we equip young people with skills and strategies, and one of those strategies is talking.”

The play follows character Jessica, whose parents find suicidal comments on her com-

puter. She then discusses her concerns with them, including bullying and friend Lindy’s suicide.

Panellist and Headspace Elsternwick manager Kirsten Cleland said the play encouraged youths contemplating suicide to stop, think and talk to someone.

“It’s really helpful because I think that it can enable conversation and make sure that the message gets out clearly,” Ms Cleland said.

Play author and theatre veteran Alan Hopgood agreed.

“There’s no reason why we can’t discuss it more openly,” he said.

Attendees will receive additional resources such as a copy of not-for-profit group Parent Guides’ Mental Health 101.

Parent Guides founder Eileen Berry encouraged parents and teens to attend.

“We want to deliver an end-to-end evening geared toward safety,” Ms Berry said.

“Our mission is to encourage people to seek help, maintain connections and raise awareness while providing practical tools.”

Registrations for the evening are available at eventbrite.com/e/suicide-its-time-wetalked-tickets-55317826107.

Anyone needing help with mental issues can phone Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyondblue on 1300 224 636.

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LETTERS Long march to equality Alan Barron (Letters, 8 March) stated that we “are rightly opposed to violence against women yet we push for more women in the military and policing”.

How are the two related? Women are and should be in the police and military because we are equally capable and represent over half the population.

Working in an occupation exposing us to the threat of violence is a separate issue to violence that women experience elsewhere.

To answer Mr Barron, we will no longer need IWD when: three million girls annually are not victims of female genital mutilation; when six women are no longer killed hourly by someone they know; when a girl aged under 15 is no longer forced into marriage every seven seconds; when women on average no longer earn 24 per cent less than men; when in some countries women can leave home without their husband or a male escort; when a rape victim is no longer charged with a criminal offence for ‘allowing’ herself to be raped; when a woman’s testimony is no longer worth half that of a man’s in a court of law; when women with careers are no longer called a “career women”; and when parliaments finally more-closely represent the community, which is 51 per cent female.

IWD is not a local initiative, it is an international action shedding light on the issues, challenges and inequality confronting women daily.

I look forward to the day when the genders are treated equally.

Jennifer Gamble Grovedale

Put equality before merit Last week as part of International Women’s Day I participated in a Melbourne debate with the topic ‘Her aspiration needs his cooperation’.

I was on the affirmative team, arguing that all people need to be on the journey to achieve equality. We argued that men and boys must be empowered, educated and supported to become agents of change against gender stereotypes and societal norms that help establish gender bias and discrimination.

A central ideology in the conversation centres on merit-based recruitment and career advancement.

The proposition that decisions should be based on merit and the best person for the job, regardless of gender sounds fair and reasonable. The facts, however, tell a different story.

Meritocracy has failed to create a diverse, culturally rich workforce. Women hold less than 30 per cent of company directorships and 35 per cent of boards and governing bodies lack female directors.

Meritocracy hasn’t worked because underlying barriers like bias, prejudice and discrimination still exist.

While merit-based appointments continue to equate merit with experience, achieving gender balance and diversity in the workplace will remain elusive.

Women are successfully raising the bar and driving change. However, change won’t arrive quickly enough unless everyone is on board and actively contributing.

While quotas remain important in some circumstances to fast-track change and bring greater balance to workplaces, we still have a long way to go.

When ‘gender equality’ is no longer part of our daily lexicon we will have arrived.

The force for change is in us all.

Bernadette Uzelac Geelong

Crowded housing The people who helped make Geelong are now being overlooked as corporations from Melbourne take over.

I’m disappointed with council approving plans to build three connected units, the rear being double storey, in Belmont’s Lloyd St. The impact on neighbours is extensive, with the values of surrounding properties reduced, forcing some residents to sell and move.

With the rear unit overlooking a swimming pool and offering a clear view into another dwelling’s living room area, apart from costing privacy it will also block sunlight to surrounding backyards, along with a sunroom, and especially in winter.

I realise the redevelopment will create extra rates but, with Armstrong Creek extending and other estates available, I consider it is unnecessary for several families to live on one small Belmont block without rear yards for children to play.

What do readers think?

Ken Lovell Belmont

Fine state of affairs In regard to a recent council parking fines fiasco, council once contracted with the former owners of Malop St’s Carlton Hotel to fine people parking in the hotel’s rather large car park, now redeveloped for NDIA offices.

I saw this happen as a hotel resident on a few occasions.

I am aware of unconfirmed reports that council also contracted with McDonald’s to do the same thing in Ryrie St, although no blame can be placed on the businesses.

Council could verify the facts I have raised, and may need to extend refunds to any people so fined because it is difficult to see how council could profess to have any jurisdiction on private property.

The people so affected might like to apply to council for their money back.

Readers might remember several letters I have had published in local papers, stating that many of these fines were unlawful.

Council, in its eternal lust for revenue, chose to ignore those warnings or didn’t read the papers that day.

Gary Oraniuk Geelong West

Drill down on bight threat On 3 March around 2000 members of our community paddled out at Cosy Corner to express their concerns about the prospect of the Norwegian Oil company Equinor drilling for oil in the Great Australian Bight.

It was a moving and remarkable statement.

They were joined by thousands more at beaches around Australia all with the same message: ‘No way!’

Surf Coast Shire has formally expressed its objection to drilling in the bight.

Greater Torquay Alliance believes that drilling in the bight presents a great risk to our community. The drilling rigs would be in deep, hostile and remote waters, and any potential spill could have a disastrous impact on our tourism and fishing industries, coastal lifestyle and marine environment.

Accordingly, Greater Torquay Alliance now poses the question to candidates at the upcoming federal election: What is the stance of your party on this issue?

We call on all candidates to make their responses known to the public as soon as possible.

Darren Noyes-Brown Greater Torquay Alliance secretary

Healthy praise for fresh idea Our major retailers come in for a fair bit of criticism.

Sometimes it is merited, I must say.

However, let us give praise when and where it is due.

My local Coles offers daily a selection of free fruit to children accompanied by their parents.

It is a welcome initiative that can only work to the benefit of children and perhaps encourage

a life-long interest in fruit and healthy eating.

While Coles no doubt has ulterior commercial motives, such as building customer loyalty, the ongoing health of our children, particularly those from socially and economically disadvantaged families, is important.

Any initiative advancing this cause is worthy of community recognition and support.

Michael J Gamble Belmont

Branch out to save world Instead of spending time endlessly arguing and proving nothing, local climate change believers and deniers should join forces and actually start doing something together that could save the planet.

A tree-planting project would be something that both sides would see as a positive move.

The world is losing trees at a phenomenal rate. Replacing trees worldwide would soak up carbon dioxide, release oxygen, and improve the global atmosphere.

First steps could be fundraising locally, applying to councils for areas in which to plant, and using the internet to spread the movement around the world.

This is a time when all people in every country should cooperate in their journey for survival with a motto of ’Form One Planet’.

Melva Stott Anglesea

Trump our power debacle After another power outage in hot weather at Grovedale recently, it appears Australia is facing a power shortfall.

The power from closed coal-fired power stations has not been replaced, and renewables are proving failures at providing baseload power.

Both major political parties are committed to the Paris Accord, but why? Under the accord, Australia is obliged to increase its commitment to intermittent renewable energy and, given our country will import one million extra people in the next four years, a power catastrophe is looming.

Reliable, cheap baseload power provided by fossil fuel power stations for decades has now been set aside in favour of hugely expensive and intermittent renewable energy that, even with battery backup, can’t supply despatchable power, which this country needs now.

However, seeing there is more money to be made with clean energy certificates, power companies have gone green in order to boost their bottom lines. It’s time to end subsidies.

The only way to free ourselves from all this green energy folly is to follow US President Donald Trump’s lead and abandon the Paris Accord.

We also need to jettison renewable energy targets in the national interest and start building HELE fossil fuel power stations immediately.

According to the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) Report, Climate Change Reconsidered, anthropogenic carbon emissions have no insignificant impact on climate and pose no threat to the planet.

There is no compelling reason to decarbonise the economy.

Alan Barron Grovedale

Indoctrinating, not teaching What have our schools become?

They are indoctrinating our children to protest and campaign in school hours (Geelong Indy, 1 March) against political decisions they don’t comprehend.

Their actions are being influenced by deception and political brainwashing about ‘saving the planet’ by reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

Why don’t our educators teach children the facts about carbon dioxide, like the fact that

Email: editorial@geelongindependent.com.au 78 Moorabool St, Geelong, 3220 Fax: 5249 6799 the ideal amount for plant growth is 1200 parts per million but our atmosphere presently contains only 400ppm? The charade to reduce carbon dioxide emissions will only reduce food production.

Our children could also be taught that global temperature has risen less than 1C in the past 170 years, which is well within natural variability.

If our schools don’t teach these facts is it any wonder Australia’s education standards have dropped from the top five to 39 of 41 OECD countries?

The priorities of activist teachers leave much to be desired.

Darryl Rowe Clifton Springs

Icing the fraud Today is meant to be the day of an international school strike, with lots of alarmed students taking to the streets waving placards in order to ‘save the planet’.

The question is: from what?

Is Greenland’s melting ice bothering them?

If so, it’s probably because their teachers themselves are convinced the ice is melting.

I just checked the Summit Camp Station webcam and saw that the temperature was a non-melting -52°C. I then checked Landsat photos via Google Earth, observing effectively zero sea-level rise from 1984 to date at Kiribati, one of the Pacific Island nations supposedly going underwater.

Just to be sure, I also checked a webcam on a beach in the Maldives. And, no, I don’t see anyone fleeing in panic, just people walking around, swimming or sunbathing normally.

So why are the students striking? Have they been taught that burning fossil fuels is releasing “carbon” emissions, thus causing global warming?

If they have then they have been told lies.

All geological records show that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels follow increases in temperature, not the other way around.

All the present climate alarm is based on the biggest fraud in the sad history of frauds, and it’s corrupting our children.

Michael Spencer Doncaster East

Seizure the day Purple Day is on 26 March, when Epilepsy Action Australia encourages Australians to learn the basics of seizure first-aid to reduce the fear they might experience if someone has a seizure in front of them and needs help.

Epilepsy Action has posted a series of animated videos for children and adults under ‘Purple Day’ at epilepsy.org.au. Website visitors can also find out how to get involved in Purple Day activities.

Around 250,000 Australians are diagnosed with epilepsy and approximately 3.5 per cent of Australians will experience this neurological disorder. Knowing how to help someone having a seizure can literally save a life.

Seizure first-aids key steps are: stay with the person; keep them safe, removing anything that could hurt them; avoid trying to restrain them; don’t put anything in their mouth; roll them onto their side once jerking or shaking subsides; reassure them until they have recovered; and call an ambulance if the seizure lasts longer than five minutes.

On behalf of all Australians living with epilepsy, I thank readers in advance for supporting Epilepsy Action Australia this Purple Day. Their support helps ensure that people living with epilepsy can lead optimal lives.

Carol Ireland Epilepsy Action Australia chief executive officer

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Aussie hip-hop Butters up

By Luke Voogt Aussie hip hop royalty Butterfingers will return to Geelong for the first time in 10 years after a long hiatus from touring.

“We all moved on somewhat and had kids and all that,“ the band’s rapper ‘Evil’ Eddie Jacobson said.

“We decided to get back together and do some stuff.”

The band rose to fame in 2004 with Jacobson’s uniquely-Australian self-derogatory lyrics earning regular airtime on Triple J. “I started rapping when I was in high school,” he said.

“In all my early raps I was trying to emulate who I was listening to at the time (American rappers) and it just wasn’t real.

“It just wasn’t believable when I was talking about my guns and how much weed I smoked.”

But taking the mickey out of everyday life connected with Aussie fans.

Jacobson remembered cracking beers at a pool party on Australia Day 2004 as songs from Butterfingers’ breakout album Breakfast At Fatboys cracked Triple J’s Hottest 100 .

I Love Work, Yo Mama and Everytime placed 15, 17 and 38 respectively, back when the countdown “meant something”, Jacobson said.

The band then released hit song Get Up Outta the Dirt in 2006 before going on hiatus a few years later.

Jacobson, who had drawn gig posters for Butterfingers and other bands, learnt graphic design off YouTube and started a business.

He also played guitar for punk band Spitfireliar.

“It felt really good to still be performing but not be the centre of attention,” he said.

LOVING WORK: ‘Evil’ Eddie Jacobson and the rest of Butterfingers return to Geelong this month.

“I found it really liberating. Let someone else take the heat for a minute.”

But the band got back together and began touring earlier this month to celebrate 15 years since Breakfast At Fatboys.

“We’re super stoked to be hitting the road for the anniversary tour and can’t believe it’s been 15 years,” Jacobson said.

“There’s going to be songs in the set we haven’t played live since the original album tour in 2004.”

One of old tunes included an often-re-

“We hid behind the curtain with our feet hanging out the bottom for a bit and then just came back out.”

Jacobson said he was much less self-conscious than ten years ago, when his first couple songs onstage would usually be “kind of s**t” due to nerves.

“I just don’t care anymore. These days I kind of realise my job is to make the party happen.”

He looked forward to playing at Geelong Hotel on 23 March.

“It’s gonna be bananas!” he said.

quested track with the “classy title of Piss On Ya“, Jacobson said.

“But since it features a female emcee who isn’t a regular member of the band, we’ve hardly ever performed it live.

“Fortunately we are taking a female emcee from Melb known as Fresh Violet on the road with us and I’m hoping we can twist her arm to make a cameo on the track.“ The band had already had “a hilarious Spinal Tap moment” on tour, when someone accidentally locked them on stage between the ’last song’ and the encore, Jacobson said.”

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Suicide: It’s Time We Talked Teenage Suicide Prevention

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HEARING - Free hearing check for over 50s at National Hearing Care, Gateway Plaza, Leopold. Enquiries 1800 062 880.

MENTOR - Raise Foundation seeks volunteers to mentor local young people in school and for young mums program at Grovedale and Geelong West. Details raise.org. au/volunteer.

WRITERS - Queenscliffe Neighbourhood House Rip Writers Group seeks members. Meets 12.30-3pm second Tuesday monthly at Queenscliffe Neighbourhood House. Includes barbecue lunch. Enquiries 5258 3367, dmain6@ bigpond.com.

BREASTSCREEN - Free appointments for 10-minute screening available, BreastScreen, 78 Gheringhap St, Geelong. Bookings 132 050 breastscreen.org.au.

AA - Alcoholics Anonymous invites enquiries about its service and support on 5229 1710.

SATURDAY BOOKS - Rotary Club of Geelong West Monster Book Fair 9am-5pm at Geelong West Town Hall, Pakington St, Geelong West. Continues Sunday 9am-2pm. Enquiries 0427 211 273.

QUILTERS - Seachange Quilt Show 10am-4pm at Barwon Heads Community Hall, cnr Hitchcock Ave & Ozone Rd, Barwon Heads. Entry $2, under-15s free. Displays, raffles, handmade goods. Continues Sunday.

DANCE - Ballroom dancing 8-11.30pm at Leopold Hall, 805-809 Bellarine Hwy Leopold. Cost $10 includes supper. Enquiries 0400500402.

BALLROOM - Geelong Ballroom Dance Club meets 8pm at The Ballroom, 1 Carey St, Hamlyn Heights. Entry $10.

Bring a plate. Enquiries 0413 584 051.

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SPEAKING - Rostrum public speaking club meets 6.45pm at St Georges Workers Club, 212 Pakington St, Geelong West. Enquiries 0408369446 or 0418691709.

PROBUS - Combined Probus Club of Geelong East meets 10am at East Geelong Uniting Church, cnr Boundary and Ormond Rds. AGM with installation of president.

VIEW - Geelong Evening VIEW Club dinner, 6.30pm at Waurn Ponds Hotel, Colac Rd, Waurn Ponds. Visitors welcome. Enquiries 0403 778 178.

ART - South Barwon Community Centre Art group meets 1-3pm at South Barwon Community Centre. Cost $2. Enquiries 5243 8388.

BOWLS - Indoor carpet bowls 12.30-3pm at Portarlington.

Cost $4. Enquiries 0431 789 048.

LOUNGE - Village Listening Lounge open 11am-3pm on first floor, Corio Central, Bacchus Marsh Rd, Corio. Also Tuesday-Thursday. Enquiries 5275 5807.

SENIORS - Line dancing 9am-midday at Highton Senior Citizens Club, 84 Barrabool Rd. Also Tuesday, Friday. Carpet bowls 1.15pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday. Tai chi 9.30-10am, bingo 1.15pm Friday. Enquiries 5244 2258

TUESDAY NBN - Victorian Small Business Commission NBN business information session 7.30-9am at Geelong Library & Heritage Centre, 51 Little Malop St, Geelong. Bookings get-your-business-nbn-ready.eventbrite.com.au.

HEALTH - Geelong Region Cancerians free discussion on benefits of cancer research 6.30-8pm at Geelong Library and Heritage Centre, level five, 51 Little Malop St, Geelong. Booking goo.gl/fuxd4B. SQUARE - Geelong Club Dancers square dance class for children and parents 6.30-8pm for $5, mainstream dancers 8-10.30pm for $12, 33 Myers St, Geelong. Enquiries 0435 091 277.

DANCE - Scottish Country Dancing 7.30-10pm at Leopold Hall. Cost $5 includes supper. Enquiries 5250 5540.

MUSIC - Mainly Music program for carers and babies, preschoolers 10-11am at St Albans Uniting Church, 276282 Wilsons Rd, St Albans Park. Cost $2.50 per family.

Enquiries 0447 646 364 or 0417 252 832.

COMMUNITY - Vines Road Community Kitchen 9.30am12.30pm at Vines Road Community Centre, 49 Vines Road, Hamlyn Heights. Enquiries 5277 9027, communitykitchens.org.au <http://communitykitchens.org.au/>.

WEDNESDAY ART - U3A recreational drawing and painting 1-3.30pm at Drysdale Tennis Club. New members welcome. Enquiries u3ageelong.org.au, 0421 559 592.

BALLROOM - Dancer’s Club Geelong ballroom dance including old-time, new vogue and Latin 7.30-10.30pm at Leopold Public Hall, Queenscliff Rd. Cost $6. Enquiries

5250 1937, 5278 7720.

ALCOHOLICS - Alcoholics for Christ 12-step program 7.30pm at South Barwon Salvation Army, 176-180 Francis St, Belmont. Enquiries 0420 910 763.

YOGA - Free Sahaja yoga meditation lessons 7-8pm at Vines Road Community Centre. Enquiries 0430 536 280, sajajayoga.com.au.

THURSDAY CHESS - Geelong Chess Club meets 7pm at 33 Myers St, Geelong. Enquiries geelongchess.com.

DANCING - Life Activities Club dance 2.30-4.30pm at Belmont Pavilion, Barrabool Rd, Belmont. Entry $5. Enquiries 5251 3529.

ELECTRONICS - Geelong Radio and Electronics Society meets 8pm at rear of Belmont Community Youth Centre, 237a High St, Belmont. Enquiries 5243 2737.

BOWLING - Mature league 10-pin bowling 1.30pm at Belmont. Enquiries 5221 0826 or 5229 4987.

PLANT - Plant sale 10am-3pm at The Heights, 140 Aphrasia St, Newtown. Proceeds to Heights gardens.

HELP - GROW meets to help depressed, lonely, isolated, anxious 7pm at 248 Latrobe Tce, Newtown. Also Friday 12.30pm at Vines Rd Community Centre, Hamlyn Heights.

Enquiries 1800 558 268.

PHILOSOPHY - For daily living. Meets 2-4.30pm at Italo’s Pizza Café, Gilbert St, Torquay. Enquiries 5264 7484.

FRIDAY BOOKS - Book sale 10am-2pm at Uniting Church, cnr Reserve and Torquay Rds, Grovedale. Proceeds to Uniting Care Barwon.

FAIR - Geelong East Primary School twilight fair 4-8pm at 184 Boundary Rd. Market stalls, music, community displays. Entry by gold coin.

BOCCIA - Geelong Boccia Club meets 10am-midday at Geelong Basketball and Netball Centre, 1 Crown St, South Geelong. All ages and abilities. Cost $5. Enquiries bocciageelong@gmail.com.

MUSIC - Bellarine Country Music Group meets 6pm at the Belmont Pavilion, 162 Barrabool Rd, Belmont. Enquiries bellarinecountrymusicgroup.com.

COMMUNITY - Lara Community Drop In Centre 6-8pm at Lara Uniting Church, 1 Flinders Ave. Refreshments provided.

The Geelong Indy’s Community Calendar is a free service for not-for-profit community organisations. Entries appearing under specific days are printed the week of the event only. Deadline for submission is the Friday before the intended date of publication. Please keep submissions short, simple and include the day, date, time, location and a contact phone number. Emails without attachments are preferred. Email editorial@geelongindependent.com.au phone 5249 6700 or fax 5249 6799.

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SCOUT - Scout Heritage Centre meets 10am-3pm at 56 Russell St, Newtown. Enquiries 0419591432.

MARKET - Torquay Cowrie Market 10am-3pm on The Esplanade, Torquay. Art, produce, handmade products, food, live music. Enquiries cowriemarket@yahoo.com.

BALLROOM - Geelong Ballroom Dance Club free family fun day with dancing to Annemarie 1-4pm at The Ballroom, 1 Carey St, Hamlyn Heights. Bring children. Enquiries 0418 584 051.

CHURCH - Gospel services 7pm at Aberdeen Street Baptist Church Centre, 7 Aberdeen St, Newtown.

BAPTIST - Anglesea Baptist Church 10.45am at Murch Cres, Anglesea. Enquiries 5263 2744.

RAIL - Miniature railway 11am-4pm at Portarlington Bayside Family Park, Pt Richards Rd, Portarlington. Enquires 0476 124 598.

BINGO - Bell Park Dragons and Raiders Bingo midday at club, Calvert St, Hamlyn Heights. Also Tuesday. Enquiries 5278 9978.

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FINALLY FRIDAY

Carpenter’s ‘apprentice’

By Justin Flynn Angela Lumicisi was out shopping in Target one day when a song came on the PA system.

The then-14-year-old rushed to the counter to ask who was singing.

“It’s The Best of the Carpenters,” she was told.

“I immediately bought the cassette and went home and listened to it a million times,” Lumicisi said.

It began a love affair with the American superstar’s life and music that Lumicisi now puts into a 19-song, one-woman show.

Lumicisi doesn’t try to be Karen Carpenter on stage. Instead she tells a story with Carpenter’s music of a young woman travelling through early adulthood.

“You see this girl in the ’70s from 16 years of age to 28 years of age,” Lumicisi said “She grows up in East Brunswick with very restrictive Italian parents and she writes diary entries to Karen Carpenter telling her what’s happening in her life and how much she admires what she’s doing and that parallels between the two characters throughout the show.

The music moves that storyline along and you see this character grow up before your eyes and how much Karen pretty much saves her.”

Karen Carpenter died at 32 from complications of anorexia nervosa. Lumicisi said she could related to many aspects of her life.

“She was one of the first celebrities that brought it (anorexia) into the forefront even

NAILED IT: Angela Lumicisi brings her one-woman Karen Carpenter show to the Potato Shed.

though she denied it many, many times,” she said.

“I had weight issues long before I knew Karen had weight issues, and mine was the opposite - I overate as opposed to undereating.

“The controlling parents situation - I grew up in a very strict Italian family.

Karen also felt she could never really break out and be who she truly was, Lumicisi said.

“The persona that you see is this beautiful, sultry voice but she was a cook, a nut - she was obsessed with Disney, she was so funny, but people don’t really don’t know about that because she never felt she could be who she was.

The storyline follows my family story, so it’s very personal and very special at the same time.

“Growing up I never felt 100 per cent that I could be who I was because of what I thought I needed to be.”

The show is Lumicisi’s first of the year.

“Even though I cry three times in the show, people ask me where I’m happiest and it’s on stage, whether I’m feeling the most sad or on top of the world,” she said.

“Guests can expect to go on a journey that they probably didn’t realise they were going to go on and they are going to leave the show feeling really happy and that’s important to me,” she said.

“You definitely go along on a journey with this character.”

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Value on the Oppy’s menu It’s the value for money that keeps diners returning to Oppy’s Bistro at Norlane Hotel.

The bistro’s fantastic all-day menu from midday to 8.30pm offers tummy-filling goodies starting at just $11, making Oppy’s a great spot for a quick and hearty lunch.

Add fast and friendly service and pleasant surroundings and it’s no wonder Oppy’s Bistro has a stream of regulars enjoying the venue.

But the value doesn’t end there - public bar meals are available for lunch and dinner from $8.

The Oppy’s Bistro classic menu offers a great range of casual and seasonal dishes for both lunch and dinner, including steaks, seafood, pastas, risottos and stir fries.

A lovely display of sweets is in the dessert case for patrons who still have a bit of room left.

There are also plenty of good-value deals including senior two-course meals from just $16.90 for lunch.

Oppy’s Bistro features speciality nights with pizza or pasta from $12 on Mondays, schnitzels from $11 and parmis from $13 on Tuesdays, and steak from $15 on Wednesdays.

And now the bistro has even more variety on its specialty night menu with burgers starting at $13 on Thursday and curries from $16 on Friday .

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EDUCATION

Students prepared for life Geelong High School is looking forward to welcoming the next potential generation of alumni at the annual information day on Thursday 21 March.

Principal Glenn Davey said that parents and students will be able to see firsthand the development that has been occurring at the school over the last couple of years.

“In just a few short months Geelong High School will take a step ‘back to the future’ as it reoccupies the newly refurbished Kroger wing,” Mr Davey said.

“Parts of the Kroger building date back to the

original building established on the site in 1910.

The Kroger wing, well known to Silver Gull Alumni, has been completely renovated to transform the ageing classrooms into contemporary student spaces fit for 21st Century learning.”

Mr Davey explained that the original internal courtyard is now a soaring internal space ideal for small and large group collaboration and performances, and the highly valued school library has returned to its original position with vistas of Ryrie Street and East Geelong.

“The school has already occupied stage one of the rebuild which consisted of a new Year

Geelong High School's annual information day will take place on Thursday 21 March.

7 learning centre (and) refurbished C.A. Love Hall with attached music and dance studios.

“Stage three, due for commencement in mid-

2019, will see a new arts facility in the Vague Building and a refurbishment of the Winstanley Wing including systems and VCE centre.

“Come the commencement of the 2020 school year, Geelong High School will have state-of-the-art facilities to continue the long tradition of outstanding education which, according to the school motto Vitae nos parat, ‘prepares students for life’.”

For more information about Geelong High School, phone 5225 4100 or visit www.geelonghigh.vic.edu.au.

GEELONG HIGH SCHOOL A LEADER IN QUALITY STATE EDUCATION SINCE 1910 Corner Ryrie & Garden St, East Geelong

Our school is focussed strongly on deliberately enacting our vision and values through the work we do and the relationships we build.

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Saint Ignatius ‘grows again’ The latest Saint Ignatius College building project is well advanced with current construction on the south-east corner of the college’s property underway.

The school community is looking forward to accessing the completed Year 9 and multipurpose centres mid-year.

College Principal Mr Michael Exton said that the extensive building project will provide students with quality facilities that will enhance their learning environment and represent a strong visual statement about the college’s presence as a faith and academic community.

“These new facilities mark an important step in the continuing development of our college,” Mr Exton said.

“The new multi-purpose centre will enable students and staff to meet together again as a community under the one roof. After many years of classes in relocatable rooms, future Year 9 students can look forward to learning in state-of-the-art, purpose-designed learning

spaces comparable to all other student centres of the college.”

The Victorian State Government has generously provided $2M for the multi-purpose centre while the Commonwealth Government has provided an equally generous $2.1M for the Year 9 Centre.

The new centres will comprise a Year 9 centre with ten classrooms, break-out spaces, teacher offices and toilets, a multi-purpose centre with two indoor basketball courts, seating (for up to 1500), fitness room, PE lab, foyer, offices, toilets/showers, storage, games courts including two outdoor flexi-pave basketball courts as well as roads and footpaths.

Saint Ignatius College Open Day will be held on Sunday 24 March between 11am and 2pm. At this time, staff and students will proudly showcase the opportunities provided by their college.

For more information, phone 5251 1136 or visit ignatius.vic.edu.au.

Please Join us for Open Night *Thursday 21st March Flexible information sessions at 4.30 pm, 5.15pm, 6.00pm, 6.45pm in the CA Love Hall

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College’s positive futures In 2019 Newcomb Secondary College celebrates 50 years of creating positive futures in Geelong.

The college offers a future-focused curriculum within an environment which nurtures holistic student wellbeing and engagement.

The school’s teaching and learning structures accommodate a broad range of individualised goals and needs through well-resourced literacy and numeracy supports and an emphasis on student agency and career action plans.

The college is proud to have been the first Australian-based school to offer a P-Tech Program. This enables students to participate in stakeholder-supported pathways to learning and employment within science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) related industries.

Through a partnership with The Gordon TAFE and key members of the Geelong business community, the college is ensuring that its school leavers are equipped with the skills needed for success in workforce of the 21st Century.

This is reinforced through the college’s GROW (Getting Ready for the Outside World) curriculum, which leads the school’s agenda for students to pursue positive future pathways and features a unique digital capability partnership with The Gordon, called Skillsbuilder.

The college also maximises students’ personal growth through broad participation in a range of extra-curricular programs. Students develop confidence, teamwork, and leadership through their involvement with the college’s renowned music program, culminating in a number of celebrated public performances and an annual band tour.

An annual bike tour is also a chance for

Newcomb Secondary College offers a P-Tech program providing a pathway to STEM-related industries.

students to test their mental and physical resilience in conditions that often result in the forging lifelong friendships between participants.

Visitors to the college are always impressed with its open, modern and light-filled learning spaces, along with its vibrant and inclusive atmosphere.

Families can tour Newcomb Secondary College during its open night, beginning 6.30pm on 1 April in the college’s Learning Resource Centre.

Parents & students are invited to the 2019

INFORMATION NIGHT

The evening commences at 6.30pm with an information session followed by a guided tour of the College.

Guided tours depart from the Learning Resource Centre at 7pm. Light refreshments will be served and families will be provided the opportunity to meet and chat with staff and students. We look forward to welcoming you to Newcomb Secondary College.

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Victory for Damien

By Tonci Prusac Bell Park seven-year-old Damien Duraj walked onto AAMI Park with his heroes from Melbourne Victory on 5 March before the club’s opening Asian Champions League game.

While Victory lost 1-3 to South Korea’s Daegu FC, Damien received much happier news less than 24 hours later.

The youngster discovered he had made Victory’s pre-academy training program and was set to take his first steps to becoming a professional himself.

Since learning to walk Damien was destined to have a soccer ball by his feet, according to proud dad David.

“Damien had his first birthday in Poland where he took his first steps,” David recalled.

“We rolled a football to him and he kicked it with his left and was yelling out ‘goal’.”

Damien began playing soccer at threeyears-old with the Little Kickers program, before commencing Mini Roos football with Bell Park under sevens at age five.

Last year he moved up to under nines and in a recent trial session at Bell Park Sports Club earnt a spot at Victory’s pre-academy program.

“When he heard of the opportunity with Melbourne Victory, he was training extra hard and was determined to succeed at the trials,” David explained.

Damien strives to emulate idols Robert Lewandowski from German giants Bayern Munich and his own club’s senior striker Mijo Marinovic.

The football-obsessed youngster supplements his club commitments at Bell Park with sessions at Melbourne’s Elite Football Training Centre every Saturday morning.

And just like his idols Lewandowski or Marinovic, Damien would love kids to one day look up to him.

“Damien is so excited about what lies ahead

TWINS: Rugrat Chuckie and Cat Gary Rohan.

Cats forwards have Chuckie

KICKING GOALS: Damien Duraj, seven, has begun his quest for soccer stardom with Melbourne Victory. of him,” David said.

“He knows that this is only the start of his journey and he also understands he still needs to work really hard so that one day he can be a professional footballer.”

Bell Park Soccer Club is one of the regional partners of Melbourne Victory’s pre-academy program.

The initiative aims to identify potential stars for the club’s junior academy program.

Cats players have nicknamed recruit Gary Rohan after a cartoon character rather than double up on ‘Gaz’, the moniker of an all-time champion in the same side.

Rohan has accepted the nickname Chuckie in deference to dual Brownlow Medallist and two-time premiership star Gary Ablett Jnr, AFL Media’s website has revealed.

Rohan told the website he had no choice in his naming after an also-red-haired character from animated cartoon series Rugrats.

"All the forwards were just in a room and they had four characters (up on the board), red-head characters, and they came up with Chuckie from the Rugrats," Rohan said.

"It's pretty hard with two Garys in the forward line.”

Rohan said he idolised Ablett as a Geelong supporter in his youth.

"I still pinch myself being able to play alongside him, Joel Selwood, Tom Hawkins, Paddy Dangerfield, these guys that are freaks of the game.”

Rohan is set to help form a new-look forward line at Geelong alongside Ablett, Hawkins, Tom Atkins, Esava Ratugolea, Sam Menegola and fellow recruit Luke Dahlhaus.

"I kind of want a mismatch. Because of my speed I usually play on a small so I can take them deep,” he said.

"I've worked hard in this pre-season with the strength-wise. I've lost a couple of kilos, body-wise I'm feeling really good.”

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Geelong in perfect form for tilt at flag Jim Timberlake Geelong Cricket Club has tuned up for the upcoming finals series in perfect fashion, defeating Frankston Penninsula by 105 runs.

Defending 327, set up by the strong batting line up last week, the Cats’ bowlers went to work and dismissed their hosts for just 232.

Brenton McDonald (6/77) was the star, showing all of his class as he cut a swathe through the opposition batsmen.

Jake Reed (2/48) and Hayden Butterworth (2/56) also found some good form.

This weekend the Cats take on Essendon at Windy Hill over two days and will go in knowing that if they can produce their best cricket they are well and truly capable of progressing to the next week.

In Geelong Cricket Association, the final days play of the home and away season will take place this Saturday, and in division one a number of sides will be eyeing off a finals spot right up until the close of play.

While third-placed Grovedale should be able to chase down Bell Post Hill's 159, it is fourth-placed Newtown & Chilwell that will hold the most nerves, knowing that a successful defence of its 258 against South Barwon will earn the right to play off for this year’s flag over the following two Saturdays.

John Simson (64) and Will Simson (54) lead the way with the bat for the Two Blues, and will now look to their in-form bowling line-up to do its bit so the side can march forward into the finals with winning form under its belt.

Lara will attempt to chase down St Josephs’

248 in the knowledge that a win still might sneak the Cats in should Newtown & Chilwell lose, although that seems unlikely.

In division two, Torquay has surged back into premiership contention after a demolition of Manifold Heights on day one of their clash last weekend.

Having lost 12 premiership points due to a transgression with their player points, the Tigers found themselves outside of the top four with a round to play.

However, they destroyed the Sharks in the first innings. Peter Manser (4/18) was the pick of the bowlers before the side cruised to 5/97 declared.

Torquay then elected to have another bowl, and did so with great success, reducing the visitors to 4/28 at stumps. The Tigers will surely now claim outright points and move back into the top four with some impressive form at their back.

And in division three, fourth-placed Bannockburn appears to have done enough to keep fifth-placed Geelong West at bay after posting 277 against Corio last week.

While no batsman could manage a half century, enough contributors came forward on the day to ensure a very defendable total was posted.

Meanwhile, Geelong West, led by star batsman Sam Loftus (113), gave itself a glimmer of hope after posting 5/273 before declaring and reducing Newcomb & District to 3/53 at stumps on day one.

It may be too little too late, though, as even an outright win would not be enough if Bannockburn can hold off Corio, which appears likely.

TOP KNOCK: Will Simson acknowledgES his half century for Newtown & Chilwell last weekend.

Forssman to take on world in Middle East

By Gill Cooper Grovedale gymnast Patrick Forssman says he is “excited” to be competing in the Special Olympics World Games involving over 190 nations in Dubai and Abu Dhabi this week.

The 24-year-old, who has autism, joins 7500 athletes competing in 24 Olympic-style sports in nine venues in what’s billed as ‘the largest sports and humanitarian event of the year’.

Patrick flew with the Australian gymnastics team from Sydney to the United Arab Emirates last week after his family and supporters helped him raise $7500 to make the trip.

His competition started in Abu Dhabi on 14 March)following a week of training in Dubai with Australian national coaches and a grading day.

Proud parents Fred and Jenny have also flown to the United Arab Emirates in to cheer him on from the stands.

Patrick is part of a team of six gymnasts among 105 Australian athletes represented across 11 sports at the 2019 Special Olympics World Games.

He has been doing the hard yards training for several months with his Dad encouraging him to persist on the six apparatus for competitive gymnastics - rings, floor, vault, high bar, pommel and parallel bars. Patrick also plays basketball to keep fit.

“He is strongest on the pommel and rings and has been training harder now up until the Games,” Fred said.

“Patrick’s performance at the last National Games in Adelaide got him selected. That and meeting the criteria for the Special Olympics gives anyone a chance to do their best and go.

“It’s an opportunity to shine. Lots of families are offered the opportunity to participate but not everyone can afford to take up the invitation.”

Fred said Patrick’s training sessions at Aerosport Allstars in Grovedale had been possible due to owner Justine Bratanavicius’ generosity in providing him access to her gym facilities. geelongindy.com.au

ON THE BITE Adam Van der Lugt The past week brought a fantastic run of snapper over Corio Bay’s Alcoa spoil grounds.

Owen Westwell and Peri Stavropoulos fished during the week in 6m of water while drifting and casting soft plastics.

They had a session to remember, boating dozens of fish to 5kg, while also managing flathead, King George whiting and big pike as by-catch.

Clifton springs turned on some of the best squid fishing seen in a while, with some anglers able to bag out in under an hour only a few hundred meters from the boat ramp. Fishing over weed beds in 2m to 2.5m of water using size 3 squid jigs in plain white colours did the trick.

The Barwon River estuary fished well all the way from the Barwon Heads boat ramp up to the Thunder area. Angler caught mulloway, silver trevally and bream while fishing over the slack tides.

Using bass yabbies or squid with a light running sinker also worked well in the estuary, while anglers specifically targeting mulloway found success with live baits like salmon and mullet.

School Bluefin tuna were present throughout The Rip and offshore from Point Lonsdale all the way to Lorne.

Anglers trolling in The Rip with rubber squid on downriggers caught tuna to 15kg, while counterparts who spotted the fish herding baitfish near the surface did well casting small stick bait lures like the Bassday Bungy Cast and the Megabass X-Bladz in any silver or bluebait colouration.

Stony Creek Reservoir, just past Anakie, produced some quality redfin, especially for Hugh Hanson, who found that casting the Daiwa Double Clutch and small stump-jumper lures worked well. Bait anglers using worms or small yabbies should also expect to catch redfin at Stony Creek.

Wurdibuloc Reservoir, near Moriac, produced similar results for anglers casting metal spoons at first light, with redfin of more than 40cm banked.

The Barwon River from Belmont up to Buckley Falls fished well for carp to 5kg caught from the bank, especially for anglers using creamed corn as berley and sweet corn as bait. Some productive locations included under the Moorabool Street Bridge, the end of West Fyans St, Newtown, and the fishing platforms near the one-way bridge at Queen’s Park.

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