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Social sips at Seaview The Gulls Coterie Group will this month hold its annual wine, beer and cheese fundraising event for the Williamstown Football Club. Coterie president Mandy Drew said last year’s event had been so successful, it was now a permanent fixture. The social and fundraising group has about 120 members and has been raising money for the club for many years. This year’s event will raise money for rehabilitation equipment for the players. People attending will be able to enjoy wines from the Mornington Peninsula, Pyrenees, McLaren Vale, Heathcote, Barossa and Clare Valley regions, craft beers from Two Birds, Moon Dog and Young Henrys, and a variety of cheeses for tasting. Ms Drew said it was a very enjoyable way for people to support the club. “This year, the women have got their first night game on May 18 so hopefully people can stay and watch the women play,” she said. The event is at the club’s Seaview events centre on Saturday, May 18 from 3-6pm. The cost is $45. Bookings can be made online at store. williamstown.com.au, by calling 9391 0309 or emailing admin@williamstownfc. com.au Goya Dmytryshchak
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Townhouse ‘toxic’ fears By Benjamin Millar
work on the site could stir up contaminants and have a negative impact on the nearby Maribyrnong River. Kathy Elliot said many of her fellow residents were told when they bought in to the area that the site was Crown land that would remain open space. “At the moment a lot of the objections are about the road access and the amount of extra traffic this would create,” she said. “Residents are also upset about toxic dirt being disturbed.” Orion International bought the site in 2015 for a reported $21.6 million. A planning report lodged with the application for the new road notes that an environmental audit has found the site to be
Plans for 250 new townhouses to be built on a heavily contaminated Maribyrnong site are stirring up health and traffic concerns among neighbouring residents. Orion International Group has lodged a planning permit application to build an access road from Gordon Street that would run through Thompson Reserve to the landlocked property. The former contaminated material dump Concerned Maribyrnong residents at Thompson currently has no road connection or right-of-way Reserve. (Joe Mastroianni) across any neighbouring parcel, triggering the request for a new eight-metre wide road to Residents living in the neighbouring La Scala be built through public land at Thompson residential apartment development have raised Reserve. fears about traffic impacts and are worried that
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