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Wednesday 21 November 2018
5974 9000 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au Time-honoured symbols: Somerville Rise Primary School leaders Noah, Madi, Tilly, Clayton, Tayla and Josh in a field of paper poppies. Picture: Gary Sissons
Learning about, and respecting, our past REMEMBRANCE Day has always been a significant event at Somerville Rise Primary School – as proven by the strong showing at the assembly on Friday 9 November. “Over the years classes have made poppies and pupils have sought to learn more about the war and the sacrifices made by our soldiers,” senior school teacher Bernadette Gray said. “For as long as anyone can remember, the classrooms have always fallen silent for two minutes as a mark of respect and remembrance, with an assembly and small service is held to mark the occasion.” But the work around Remembrance Day was not always obvious to members of the wider community who don’t walk through the busy classrooms or colourful corridors. So, last year the school started its first small “poppy field” on the hill at the front as a visible mark of respect to those who fought and lost their lives. Every pupil made and planted a poppy as part of their learning. “We had a wonderful response to the idea and our flourishing field of poppies is a display that all generations of Somerville can look upon with a sense of pride and community,” Ms Gray said.
Peninsula boat ramps in disarray, says fishing body Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au THE Futurefish Foundation has slammed the standard of Mornington Peninsula’s boat ramps as a shambles. And it has called on the major political parties to remove the management of boat ramps away from the Mornington Peninsula Shire, as well as the multitude of committees of management, which “claim to look after the smaller boat ramps”. The foundation says it is
“time for the management of all the peninsula’s boat ramps to be brought under one single boat ramp authority”. Futurefish Foundation director David Kramer came out swinging last week, saying: “It is a joke having the Rye boat ramp under reconstruction while Tootgarook and Tyrone ramps are inoperable, leaving no launching facilities between Safety Beach and Sorrento. “It is hard to understand how this situation can be occurring in mid-November’s prime time snapper season.”
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Mr Kramer, who also hosts the Channel 31 TV show Talking Fishing, was joined live on air by Premier Daniel Andrews who chose the fishing show as his only “live” television appearance in the state election campaign. He announced on air that if Labor was re-elected he would create a standalone boat ramp authority. He also promised to abolish boat ramp launching and parking fees on the Mornington Peninsula. Mr Kramer told panellists on the show: “It astounds us that the Morning-
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ton Peninsula Shire is reconstructing Rye boat ramp during November and [yet] didn’t call on the Capel Sound or Whitecliffs-to-Camerons-Bight committees of management to have their nearby boat ramps ready to take the increased traffic while the Rye boat ramp was out of operation”. “With the Tootgarook boat ramp closed for dredging that should have been done months ago. And the Tyrone boat ramp, which the local committee-of-management has neglected to maintain for several years now, is
also inoperable. “This is an absolute disgrace and a total disrespect for boat owners that the Mornington Peninsula’s ramps are in this situation.” The Futurefish Foundation boss said it was “most excited that Daniel Andrews will pull the Mornington Peninsula’s boat ramps away from the shire and the committees and get the ramps open, maintained and fully operational, for the thousands of boat owners who use these facilities”. Continued Page 14