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All aboard: On the platform ready to board the Halloween train are, from left, Tommy O’Donohue, Claudia O’Donahue, Oscar and Felix Portelli. Standing in the carriage doorway, above, are Kaylee Ainsworth, Grace and Lucas Allen and Will Milnes. Pictures: Yanni

This train ride’s a scream THE Halloween train huffed and puffed its way between Mornington and Moorooduc sidings on Sunday with hundreds of scary children dressed in their most frightening costumes. Fittingly, they were riding on a steam locomotive that had itself come back from the dead. The K163 – built in 1942 and rescued for the track after 18 years sitting on a plinth at Frankston’s Jubilee Park – has been a feature of the Moorooduc track for the past 18 years. In the fourth Halloween day festivities on Sunday it carried 380 children on four trips. Organiser Arthur Stone, of the Mornington Railway Preservation Society, set the scene with a bloodied apron and a cleaver stuck in his hat. “It was an excellent day,” he said. “We had 230 children on the first loco trip, 70 on the second and 40 each on the other rides.” And the hat with the meat cleaver in his head? “I had to take it off every now and then when little boys asked if it hurt,” he quipped. Stephen Taylor

Shire shake-up sees 8 new faces Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au EIGHT new councillors have been elected to the 11-member Mornington Peninsula Shire Council. Three of four councillors seeking re-election regained their seats: Bev Colomb in Briars ward, Antonella Celi in Seawinds and Hugh Fraser, Nepean. Former councillor David Garnock (Cerberus) was defeated in the 22 October poll which saw 50 candidates contesting 11 seats over six wards. Joining Crs Colomb, Celi and Fraser on the council will be David Gill (Red Hill); Kate Roper (Cerberus); Julie

Edge (Watson); Rosie Clark and Sam Hearn (Briars); Bryan Payne (Nepean); and Simon Brooks and Frank Martin (Seawinds). Frank Martin is a former shire councillor and David Gill was a councillor with the Shire of Mornington. The results were finalised on Sunday night and will be officially declared on Wednesday. It is the biggest shake-up of council members since the formation of the shire in December 1994, when the shire was run by state governmentappointed commissioners. The new councillors will have plenty of opportunity to meet and greet one an-

other before actually attending a meeting likely to test their debating skills. Apart from the annual meeting and civic reception on Monday 14 November to choose a mayor and deputy mayor, the first meeting as a council will be a “community council meeting” at Somerville on Monday 28 November. By that time, the councillors will have been able to attend seven of nine planned induction sessions to familiarise them with their new public roles and responsibilities. The first induction session on Friday (4 November) will include an “introduction and welcome” by shire CEO Carl Cowie, briefings by other senior execu-

tives and Terry Bramham, of Macquarie Local Government Lawyers. With federal and state politicians being accused of having a hypocritical sense of entitlement to the use of taxpayer’s money, so too will the new peninsula councillors be scrutinised for their use of ratepayers’ money. The previous council, while seemingly having a set $4000 a year for each councillor to spend on such things as attending conferences and seminars and courses, was eventually told by lawyers that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to seek reimbursement if that amount was exceeded. Expenditure by peninsula councillors far ex-

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