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Vote over boundary Picture this: Pauline Treloar and Jenny Laidlaw at Tussock Upstairs Gallery. Picture: Tommy Ritchie 84611
Pauline nurses a passion for painting BY MICHELLE HERBISON A FORMER Point Lonsdale nurse is using her retirement to fulfill a longheld painting ambition. Pauline Treloar said she always made time for painting through “raising kids and moving around� but since retiring at 60 she was able to paint full-time. “I’ve painted all my life but just as a hobby. Now I am very prolific. I paint every day.�
Ms Treloar will showcase her oil paintings at Point Lonsdale’s Tussock Upstairs Gallery until August 19. “When you get to my age and retire you’ve really got to do something,� Ms Treloar said. “If you ask most painters or artists, it’s a passion. You’ve got to do it – it’s part of who you are.� Ms Treloar said she enjoyed painting scenes of the “lovely� Bellarine Peninsula and the open
Southern Ocean. “I’ve got my own camera and it’s a matter of just going around and spending days tramping around looking for nice photos to take.� Ms Treloar said she might return to a particular area “a few times� before returning home to paint from a photograph. Sketch artist Jenny Laidlaw will share the exhibition space with Ms Treloar.
BY MICHELLE HERBISON AN INDEPENDENT plebiscite will determine residents’ opinions on proposed changes to council boundaries within Point Lonsdale, according to Borough of Queenscliffe’s mayor. Bob Merriman said a letter-drop in August would survey residents from the western side of Fellows Rd on whether they supported their area changing from City of Greater Geelong to Borough of Queenscliffe. “Over the years we’ve had so many people raise the question of Point Lonsdale being divided by two,� Cr Merriman said. Seventy per cent of residents supported the change in a previous community-run poll, he said. Pushing for the boundary change had been part of council’s plan since 2009. “It’s taken this long because it took a while to get the previous Labor state government to listen to us, then (the government) changed. We thought we would’ve got much earlier support from (Liberal Minister for Local Government) Jeanette Powell.� Cr Merriman said Ms Powell visited Queenscliff before last state election when she “indicated� a Baillieu Government would “seriously consider� a change if a plebiscite found support among a “significant majority� of residents. “Then six to eight months ago she indicated she wouldn’t finance it, so we had to put it in our budget.�
Call to unite Pt Lonsdale Ms Powell told the Independent the Government had “no plans� to review the boundary. “Any proposed change would require input from community members of each council affected by the proposal, not just those from the council requesting the change,� she said. City of Greater Geelong Mayor John Mitchell opposed changing the boundary. “We’re comfortable where the boundary sits and we see it as the same as every other boundary.� Point Lonsdale Civic Association acting president Barney Orchard said a single administration applying rules throughout the town “made sense�. Mr Orchard said “a lot of discrepancies� between the two councils created issues for residents. Geelong was “city-centric�, while the borough focused on “tourism, small commerce and a village-like environment�, he said. “We’d urge anyone who votes to be fully informed rather than make an emotional judgement.�
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