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Brazen burglar tackled

By Chris Brennan A HASTINGS man received a big shock when he found an intruder inside his home, fighting off and injuring the would-be burglar, who is thought to be responsible for a spate of breakins across the town, including on the day of Dermot O’Toole’s funeral.

The Hilltop Rise resident confronted the intruder inside his house around 10pm last Saturday, tackling him to the ground and injuring his arm.

The brazen criminal was able to break free and flee.

Police believe the burglar may be also responsible for a series of breakins at shops in the town centre the previous evening, including Dick Smith, IGA, The Star Bakery, CJs Fish and Chips and a salon in Victoria St. “Video footage shows a male aged in his early 20s and quite tall - at least 183cm – with a medium to solid build committing the offences,” Detective sergeant Ron Fauvel of Hasting Crime Investigation Unit said.

“A male offender with a similar description entered a home in Hilltop rise via an unlocked door; he was confronted by the owner and a struggle ensued.

It is believed the offender may have received an arm injury.”

The News received reports from a resident in Lyall St whose home was

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broken into during broad daylight on Monday, while the adjoining Maritime Union of Australia house in Marine Pde was also hit about the same time.

The homeowner said jewellery and some cash had been stolen during the robbery, which took place sometime between 11am and 3pm.

In the MUA break-in, a window was smashed and a drinks machine “jimmied” open, however there was no money inside and the intruder escaped empty handed.

The thief then appears to have taken advantage of the funeral of murdered jewellery shop owner Dermot O’Toole on Tuesday to target another home in Villawood Drive.

While the Hasting’s community celebrated the life of Mr O’Toole, who died fighting off an armed robber.

The burglary suspect captured on CCTV camera breaking into High St shops was wearing wearing a white T-shirt with a black motif, multi-coloured shorts and white shoes.

Detective Fauvel said anyone with information of a male fitting the suspect’s description that might have suffered an arm injury last weekend, or who had witnessed anything suspicious in the area at the time of the burglaries, should call Hasting CIU on 5970 7850 or contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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Taking control of pets

By Keith Platt WITHIN the next four years only dogs and cats licensed for breeding will be able to escape being de-sexed on the Mornington Peninsula.

A move to make it mandatory for dogs and cats to be de-sexed is among changes recommended to the shire’s Domestic Animal Management Plan.

Neutering all pets is one of the responses suggested to councillors to avoid community concern about the number of unclaimed stray dogs and cats being euthanised.

The problem is made worse because most dogs and cats held at the pound are not microchipped or registered, making it difficult, if not impossible, to track down their owners.

In a report to council, environment protection and community safety officer Claire Smith said 10 per cent of calls to the shire were pet related.

“Hot topics” included aggressive dogs, barking dogs, dogs on beaches, the need for more leash-free areas and calls for rangers to collect nuisance cats trapped in cages supplied by the shire.

Cases of problem pets outlined by Ms Smith included six reports involving two Staffordshire bull terriers at Sorrento, the most serious of which caused “significant fear and trauma” to two women whose Maltese terriers were attacked.

The owner of the attacking dogs was eventually fined $2200 plus $5064

costs. In another incident, a “pointer type dog” collided with a cyclist, who spent six days in hospital. The dog’s owners were fined $1600 with $214 costs.

They face further costs in a separate County Court case being brought against them by the injured rider for $12,500 damage to his bike and equipment.

A “good news” report detailed how rangers were able to track down the owner of a straying Jack Russell terrier even though it had been microchipped in Germany.

Implementation of the revamped plan may also lead to a crackdown on unlicensed backyard breeders and volunteers circulating photographs and details of cats being held at the pound.

Ms Smith said suggested changes to the Domestic Animal Management Plan recognised the need to achieving a “reasonable balance” in issues for pet owners and non-pet owners.

While fewer dogs and cats were being impounded since the plan was introduced four years ago, thousands of pets remained unregistered.

While 26,000 of the shire’s estimated 27,200 dogs were registered, more than 10,000 of its 16,600 cats were not.

Ms Smith said dog registrations were increasing but cat registrations had dropped by more than 8 per cent in the past four years.

Calculations made using Australian Bureau of Statistics figures showed

Out for a stroll: He may look happy, but concern about dogs on Mornington Peninsula beaches are among the top grumbles heard by the shire. Picture: Yanni

that 95.2 per cent of dogs in the shire were registered compared to a “disappointing” 36 per cent of cats.

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while enforcement actions by rangers against aggressive dogs had increased 24 per cent.

“The reduction in numbers of dog aggression complaints is a pleasing in-

dication of success for the shire’s mix of education and awareness programs, plus enforcement action when appropriate,” Ms Smith stated in her report.

Rangers equipped with microchip scanners and iPads were able to quickly identify stray animals and reunite them with their owners.

The proportion of impounded dogs being euthanised had dropped from nearly 17 per cent in 2006/7 to just under 3 per cent last year, which meant 29 dogs and 103 cats were put down.

During same period, the number of impounded cats being euthanised had also dropped, from 74 per cent to 21 per cent.

Between 1 January and 28 May, 455 dogs had been held at the pound and 291 cats, with just nine of the cats being registered.

Ms Smith said the dropping number of cat owners registering their pets “indicates a significant change with more cat owners failing to comply with legislation”.

She said cats were being de-sexed before being released from the pound.

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OBITUARY

‘He brought so much joy to ON a damp winter morning this week, hundreds, if not thousands, came out to pay their last respects to Dermot O’Toole. Murdered on Friday 12 June in a robbery gone wrong, Dermot’s funeral was the end of a torrid time for the family who not only their own grief to carry, but the grief of an entire community around them. What better way to remember Dermot than in the words of his own sons? Below we have reprinted the eulogy given by the boys for the father taken from them.

WE have no doubt that Dad would be looking down on this and saying “What on earth is happening down there? Someone famous must have died!”

He wouldn’t believe this.

The number of you wanting to pay your last respects to Dad is really touching. We have people from all over the country – and family from Ireland – here. On behalf of mum and us three, thank you so much.

We know Dad would want us to have a good laugh today, so feel free to laugh with us as we share some memories.

Well, what can we say about our Dad? Dad gave laughter and joy to our world. He was a man of extraordinary talent and just loved life. On the one hand, he was the professional jeweller with exacting and exceptional skills but he was so much more.

He was mischievous and playful

with a wicked sense-of-humour. He saw the funny side of life in just about every situation. He was the passionate Essendon supporter. But he was also compassionate and loving, and fiercely loyal to those he loved.

In short, he brought so much joy to others.

This is the Dad we love, remember and celebrate today.

So let’s celebrate the life of the man who could laugh until his nose bled… the Irishman who would put on an Irish accent to tell an Irish joke… the man who could get away with anything.

Dad was born on the 7th June 1949 in Dublin. He had an older brother, Lawrence, and younger sister, Maura.

His mother, Eva, ran the family grocery store and his father, Jack, was a train driver.

As we’re sure you could easily imagine, Dad’s childhood was a colourful one. He began smoking at nine. He was popular at school for many reasons, but mainly because he would provide all his friends with lollies and cigarettes that he stole from his mother’s shop. Of all the stories we could tell about his youth, there was one story we promised Mum we wouldn’t tell… well not in detail anyway. We’ll let you fill in the gaps.

Suffice to say that it involves a neighbour, the letterbox in her door, all the penny-bangers and caps he could fit into it, and a display of pyrotechnics.

Another time – when he was about 11 – Dad ‘borrowed’ his mother’s

car and took his sister for a drive. (It was ‘borrowed’ because he returned it.) Things were going well until he stopped at an intersection and the police pulled up alongside him. Now most people would panic. Not Dad. He casually lit a cigarette and started smoking it. Dad told us that it was his father’s cigarettes, but we doubt it. We’re pretty sure that they were ‘borrowed’ from his mother’s shop.

What also saved him that day was the moustache he was already trying to cultivate.

Dad went to De La Salle College, a Christian Brothers School, and later to Emmet Road Technical College.

Dad’s quirky sense-of-humour was already well-formed at De La Salle.

He received six of the best for being the only one to laugh at a priest falling flat on his face during mass.

He never learnt how to laugh on the inside.

At 15 (the same year his father died of tragic circumstances), he began his apprenticeship as a jeweller in Appleby’s. Seven years later, he finished it in Pallow’s after studying all aspects of the craft.

During this time, Dad was an accomplished Irish dancer, having begun dancing at four years of age.

When he enrolled in the renowned Harry McCaffrey’s studio aged six, he met Mum for the first time. When they were about 14, they became dance partners. Together, they won the All Ireland Dance Championship, Dublin Championship and Leinster

Championship. They were one of two teams to represent Ireland in the Edinburgh Festival World Dance Championship in 1967… which they won. They appeared on Take the Floor – a radio and television show in the 60s – and danced in Liberty Hall in a live performance with The Dubliners.

He also set a record: he was the first Irish dancer to be disqualified in a competition for having long hair.

The judges rang the bell immediately after he appeared on stage with his shoulder-length locks. But he was a stubborn git. No-one was going to tell him what to do. He ignored the bell and finished his dance without the music. He was suspended for 12 months.

Now you would think that he would have mum’s best interests at heart when organising his replacement.

She was, after all, his dance partner.

But not Dad. We think he was scared that someone else was going to move in on his girl… so he recommended a young man clearly not up for the job. This poor guy was so bad that in the middle of a competition, his underwear fell down from under his kilt and down to his ankles. They had to be flicked off-stage mid jig. Dad always had to have the last laugh and nobody was going to move in on his Bridget.

Of course, we risk doing Dad a disservice. He was such a committed dancer. Dancing was a way for Dad to express an element of his person-

ality that we should never take for granted – that same part of him that drove him to make jewellery. That is, an artistic sensibility and a desire to give beauty to the world.

But it was, as we mentioned before, the time when he met the love of his life, with whom he was to share the next 48 years.

Mum and Dad were dance partners for two years before they started dating, aged 16. It was an interesting match, perhaps even unlikely. As Mum’s sister, Anna, described them last week: ‘Bridget was the quiet one and Dermot was the explosion’.

So think about this for a moment: You take Mum’s family – reserved, quiet, polite and proper – then add Dad. The result? Dad chasing his future mother-in-law around the house; and, when he was coming to visit, granny would wait for him to come through the back door in the kitchen to hear one of his famously inappropriate jokes.

Mum and Dad also did a lot of travelling around Ireland, staying in youth hostels. The two of them negotiating the hills of the countryside as they shared a 50CC Honda Scooter is an image worth contemplating. On one such occasion, they stayed in Foulksrath Castle in Kilkenny to shelter from a thunderstorm. There they met three nurses and they spent much of the night telling ghost stories. Now remember, we’re talking about Catholic Ireland in the late 1960s, but that didn’t stop Dad from sneaking into

Last goodbye: At the end of the funeral, the procession left the church and headed up High Street Hastings (right) where it was greeted by throngs of well-wishers. Pictures: Andrew Hurst and Yanni

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others’ – Dermot O’Toole the girls’ dormitory when they were sleeping to grab one by the foot. The screaming woke everyone and Dad’s punishment was to sweep the spiral staircase from top to bottom twice.

We all know he would have thought it was worth it.

In 1972, on Mum’s 22nd birthday, they got married in Dublin. Six months later, they arrived in Australia with Dad’s mother, brother, sister and her husband. It took Dad only two days to find work in a shoe factory, packing shoes in boxes. He lost the end of his left index finger at the job, but for years he told us that it was the sort of thing that happens when you picked your nose.

Dad quickly found work in various jewellers’ around Melbourne and, with Mum, opened Irish dancing schools in Geelong, Albert Park and Point Lonsdale. They judged competitions, appeared on television but, most importantly, made life-long friends.

In 1981, our family moved to Hastings. On the 16th February 1983 – the day of the Ash Wednesday bushfires – Dad decided to quit his job in Melbourne and work for himself.

In a small tin shed in our backyard, Dad made jewellery to sell at markets in St Kilda, Boneo, Rosebud, Red Hill, Monash University – Clayton and Geelong.

The shed had no floor, was like an oven in Summer and a fridge in Winter. He would work in there long after we had all gone to bed and

his fingers were always black from polish. This is where the name Jewel Shed originated.

On Hastings Day, in 1987, Mum and Dad opened the Jewel Shed in High Street with barely enough stock to fill the front window and a display cabinet. It was an opportunity for Mum and Dad to work together. But it was the beginning of another beautiful relationship – the one he forged with the Hastings community.

It was a relationship he never took for granted. A relationship we can see today that the community didn’t take for granted either. Those who bought a piece of Dad’s jewellery bought a piece of him.

Mum and Dad played a humble part in your celebration of a birthday, anniversary, engagement, marriage, christening and other important moments such as nose piercings.

Many of you will be wearing something he sold to you, made for you, repaired or re-modeled.

We said it before and we say it again, Dad wanted people to have beauty in their lives.

However, while Dad’s life was a happy one, it was by no means easy.

In ‘96, he spent months in Hampton Rehabilitation Hospital after suffering a major stroke. He struggled to speak and walk. But he still found time to laugh. On the night he had his stroke, Dad lay on the hospital trolley and we were told to keep him relaxed. Dale couldn’t help himself and said: ‘Hey, Dad, at least when you play golf

from now on you’ll have a one stroke handicap.’ Dad’s monitors went off the charts with his laughter.

In Hampton, Dad would arrange comedy nights for the other patients.

By helping others, he helped himself too.

However, despite his best intentions, it didn’t always go to plan.

(This is Dad we’re talking about.) On one such night, he brought a CD player into a small room, lined the wheelchairs up outside and helped them into their seats for an hour of laughs.

The problem was Dad’s short-term memory loss. So when he got up to go to the toilet, he forgot about the others and went to the lounge for some quiet-time. They were left stranded because they couldn’t access their wheelchairs. Two patients wet themselves and half-a-dozen wouldn’t speak to him for days.

On a serious note, Dad’s strength of will was admirable. In Hampton, they sat him down with a tray and gave him his jeweller’s tweezers.

They poured a bag of hundreds and thousands onto it and told him which colour he had to pick up without breaking and place in a cup.

He then moved onto the next colour and so on until it was finished. It took him two days.

He also suffered with Parkinson’s disease and had heart surgery.

Dad’s lasting legacy to us was that happiness was something you worked at. Nothing beat him and he was always determined to be happy. He did

this by putting others first. He made others laugh, or eased their burden by offering a loving ear, because their happiness brought him joy.

But let’s talk about Dad, the family man.

Despite all of Dad’s achievements, he took most pride in his children and grand-children. He gave us a happy childhood. He used to tell us that God gave us the belly button so that when we lay back watching TV in bed, we could fill it with salt and dip our chips in it. He would tell us stories at night that were either so horrifying or funny we couldn’t sleep… but we loved them and so did his grandchildren.

However, he was often unintentionally funny. He hated the sound of crickets in summer. One night, frustrated that he couldn’t sleep, he went outside in his underwear armed with a can of Mortein and a hammer. As he crouched down hunting his prey, the yard lit up – the spotlight of a passing police car focused on him. Dad in his jocks with his backside stuck up in the air – what a sight. Meekly, he held up the Mortein, pointed to it and said “crickets”.

Dad was a determined eejit that always had a solution to any problem, even if that solution came from left field. When we were young, our family was driving to the snow at Lake Mountain... taking a shortcut to save time as Dad always knew best.

We were nearly there when we came across a small bridge that was not

exactly intact. Without enough fuel to drive back down the mountain, Dad devised a solution that many would not have considered: let’s jump this thing Dukes Of Hazard style. So he backed the car up, put it into drive and floored it. He was a genius!

Another way he would solve problems was with his trusty silicone gun.

He fixed everything with it. Only a few weeks ago, Mum commented to me on her shower leaking. Naturally, I suggested calling a plumber. “No, Love,” she said. “Your father’s bringing home the silicone.”

His family was his priority. Mum and Dad’s relationship set the bar for us. We never heard him say a cross word to mum. To all of us, he was gentle, kind, respectful, honest and entertaining.

With his grandchildren, he was energetic, joyous and ridiculous. And with his new grandchild on the way, he was like a young boy counting down to Christmas. Whenever he had moments of anger, it was fleeting. He was never bitter, and he would not want us to be now.

He was a father figure to many, not just the three of us, and there were several he considered children of his own. Such was his capacity to love.

You know who you are.

Finally, there is no nobler gift than giving one’s own life. We feel like he has given us our greatest gift of all – the life of our mother. Nothing says more about who Dad was than his final act.

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Promotional levy cut as tough times hit traders

By Chris Brennan A LEVY on Hastings shops for marketing and promotional purposes is set to be reduced due to tough trading conditions.

Western Port Chamber of Commerce has called for a reduction in fees charged on all retail outlets in the town centre under the special charge scheme (promotional fund) for the Hastings commercial area, indicating it would seek additional money from “other sources” to make up the shortfall.

The promotional fund has been operating since 2004 but is now up for renewal, with Mornington Peninsula Council calling for submissions on the proposed extension at a special meeting held last Monday.

More than $58,000 collected under the levy for the 2012/13 financial year was used to promote business activity in the town through initiatives such as operating the hastings.org.au website, employment of a part-time marketing coordinator/centre manager, hosting an annual trade expo and business awards, and putting up Christmas decorations along High St. Under the proposals submitted to the council by the chamber, the levy charged to shops along High St would be cut from the $365 charged last year to $330 for the current year. Shops in surrounding streets will pay $200.

Western Port Chamber of Commerce president Lisa Dixon said the levy

charged to Hastings retailers was significantly less than those charged by neighbouring towns, with some shops paying more than $1000 for similar promotional funds.

“We think [the promotional fund] is very good value for money for the sorts of promotional activities we’re able to provide and it’s certainly one of the cheapest on the peninsula,” she told The News. “We’re very conscious of the limited means some traders in the town may face, especially with the business climate being as tough as it is at the moment.”

The Hastings special charge scheme was first introduced by the shire in February 2004 to run over five years, and was renewed for a further five years in July 2008. It expired 30 June 2013. The chamber wants the scheme to be extended to seven years.

Earlier this year, the chamber began consultating traders to determine the level of support to renew the scheme.

A survey was sent out to 117 Hastings business outlets. However, 35 shops were vacant at the time and so only 82 responses were received. Of these, 63 were in favour while 19 were against.

A report submitted by the chamber to the shire council says this is considered a particularly high level of support.

“The businesses who are in support of the reintroduction of the special charge scheme see value in taking a united approach for promoting the

town and want the current support and promotions to continue and evolve,” the report states.

“The businesses in support constantly provide suggestions and feedback for the chamber, which is effective in building and improving the goals that the committee set out to achieve.”

The proposed reduction in fees had also been well received, the report says, while noting that businesses away from High St represented the majority of those opposed to renewal of the scheme. “Businesses in side streets saw less value from promotional events. For example, Christmas decoration are placed only High St.” Other reasons cited by traders opposing renewal of the scheme included the fact that business was tough so they couldn’t justify the additional cost, a belief that the scheme should be used to promote individual businesses, rather than the town as a whole, and because the business owners don’t have time to attend meetings or read material provided by the chamber.

The council’s report on the proposed renewal of the Hastings special charge scheme recommended approval of the chamber’s recommendations. “[The promotional fund] is a positive initiative by which council encourages retail activity and commerce within the activity centre and will continue to provide resources and special benefit for the Hastings activity centre,” the report states.

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All quiet at the Waterfront

By Keith Platt THE Waterfront Cafe and Restaurant at Hastings remains closed while Mornington Peninsula Shire maintains that it “all times, complied with its obligations under the lease agreement”.

Outdoor chairs and tables are chained together while inside, table tops are clean and stand ready for service with serviettes and sugar in plastic cups, but the illuminated drinks fridge is empty.

A notice on the door signed by the shire’s property and valuation manager Yasmin Woods says the tenant has breached the terms of the lease and owes $11,343 in rent and for use of plant and equipment.

The cafe’s proprietor, Scott Elks, last week said he called in receivers and locked up the cafe after being unable to reach agreement with the shire to reassign his lease.

The dispute has led to the loss of four full-time jobs and six to 10 casual positions.

Ms Woods, effectively the cafe’s landlord, told The News she was unable to comment further because “the matter is in the hands of the liquidator”.

Mr Elks opened the cafe a year ago after winning the tender for a five-year lease.

The cafe overlooking Hastings pier is part of the financially-strapped Pelican Park Recreation Centre.

Hastings real estate agent Chris Watt said it appeared the shire had been naive and imprudent when drawing up the lease.

“Surely they had a clause in their lease which obliged the tenant to keep the business operating during normal business hours given the interdependence between the Pelican Pantry business and the shire’s own business of operating the Pelican Park fitness centre next door?

“It beats me how it has come to this.”

Mr Elks last week told The News that health problems and flagging sales had left him no option but to leave the business, which he had been running since last July (“Cafe padlocked” 23/7/13).

He accused the shire of frustrating a deal that would have seen the cafe remain operating under its chef Patrick Jacob.

Mr Elks believes he has the right to reassign the 20-year lease (five years with ongoing five-year options).

He said his repeated pleas to council officers for a reduction in the more than $8000-a-month rent had fallen on deaf ears and the final straw came when the matter was not raised with councillors.

“It was not listed on any agenda and that’s what tipped me over the edge. I called my lawyer and then called the liquidator to arrange removal of equipment owned by my business.”

Retiring: Sue Lamanna has left Peninsula Health after nearly 18 years of service.

Nures takes her leave NURSE educator Sue Lamanna has left Peninsula Health after more than 18 years.

Ms Lamanna started with Peninsula Health as a graduate nurse and then worked as a critical care nurse in coronary care.

She went on to gain her Masters in Nurse Education and became a nurse educator nearly seven years ago.

Her daughters, Davina and Kate, are both nurses at Peninsula Health.

“I am really proud that all three of us started here in our graduate years and have stayed on and remained loyal to Peninsula Health,” Ms Lamanna said.

Her immediate plans include spending time with her family and visiting Phuket, in Thailand.

“Peninsula Health allowed me to be a mum and still have a career. While I could have retired a long time ago I stayed because I loved nursing and providing education and support,” she said.

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Youth unemployment on peninsula

By Toni Brient LIKE many of her peers, 18-year-old Kiah Goddard was excited to take a gap year between high school and university.

After completing year 12 at Mt Erin College in 2012, the young Bittern resident planned to take a break from her studies and gain experience in the workforce before starting a bachelor degree at Deakin University in 2014. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The reason I took the year off was to get lots of different jobs and see where I wanted to take the management course, because I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a broad sort of course that you could take it to management in businesses, management in law, or management in industries,â&#x20AC;? she told The News.

But after months of applying for a variety of positions, Kiahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gap year is nearing its end. While she is now working at Kooyong Vineyard in Red Hill South, she is yet to gain any practical experience in the administrative and management fields. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to go and work in an office, just to see a box-standard job.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to work your way up from somewhere, so I thought, if I do something like that and start off there, I can just keep moving along.â&#x20AC;?

But after being rejected for reception and administration roles with small local businesses and bigger companies like Coles and Woolworths, Kiah decided to search for answers.

She contacted the businesses that turned her down and asked what they were looking for in a candidate. It seems most were seeking the same thing: industry experience.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;How am I going to get experience without (a job)?â&#x20AC;? she asked them, but received little feedback. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a few phone calls, but nothing concrete. They just told me that I needed to work somewhere else before I applying somewhere like that.â&#x20AC;?

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According to a study by Frankston and Mornington Peninsula Learning and Employment Network in January 2013, around 6 per cent of 15 to 19-year-old peninsula residents were looking for work.

While almost 20 per cent left school after year 10 or earlier to search for work, less than 14 per cent were employed in full time work. Around 30 per cent were currently employed in part-time roles, and 42 per cent had completed year 12.

For school leavers like Kiah who are between studies, undertaking an additional course to increase employment opportunity is often costly and unappealing. She said youth employment services she looked into appeared to be strongly geared towards providing training rather than helping young people find an actual job. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very sort of, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll train you and then you can find a job by yourself. But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be going to uni and

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OBITUARY

District mourns two descendants of pioneering families

By Peter McCullough DURING the third week of July, funerals were held for Malcolm Gibson and Roy Shepherd, both of whom had long family associations with the Western Port area.

MALCOLM GIBSON MORE THAN 300 mourners packed the Holy Trinity Anglican church in Hastings on 16 July 2013 to attend the funeral of Mal Gibson.

Malcolm William Gibson was born in Hastings on 5 December 1943 to Tom and Irene Gibson. Mal was the only son but he had two sisters, Ann and Lois. He attended Hastings State School and Mornington High School.

On leaving school, Mal worked on the family orchard in Watts Rd, Hastings, and later for his uncles in Hodgins Rd. Then he started working as a truck driver for Greenways Transport, later moving to Mayne Nickless where he worked until his retirement.

Malcolm had a great love of motor bikes and cars and his younger days were spent on trail bikes with the local Hastings boys; a track where Bluescope Steel now stands was one of their favourite haunts. He was a foundation member of the Frankston Motor Bike club, the Monaro car club, and the Ulysses motor bike club.

In the late 60s, Mal met Sue Quinn on a blind date. Sue lived in Cheltenham and was still at school; Mal was limited to two phone calls a week.

Fortunately for him, Jan Unthank was on the telephone exchange so a 45-minute phone call would be given a three-minute charge!

Mal and Sue married in 1970 and began their regular travels; their aim was to visit a different place each year.

Their first long trip was to Queensland with two tents loaded onto the bike as well as their luggage: one tent for Mal and Sue and one for the bike.

Mal always took special care of all his machinery. Occasionally the bikes and motors would make it into the house so that Mal could work at night in the warmth; this was after assuring Sue that no oil would be spilt on the floor.

Mal and Sue’s marriage produced three daughters: Karen, Debbie and Narelle. Mal was very proud of them and taught them how to drive, starting off on the ride-on mower, then the tractor, and finally cars and trail bikes.

He would give the initial lessons and then let Sue take over. At times, he would overlook an important element.

Mourned by many: Malcolm Gibson (left) and Roy Shepherd (right).

When he taught Karen the tricks of trail bike riding, he told her about the accelerator and how to change gears but he forgot to mention the brake.

The result was Karen and the bike going through the front fence. Luckily for them the Tyabb property where the family lived had a fairly loose wire fence and no harm was done to Karen – or the bike.

As the girls grew older, family camping trips became the norm. One memorable trip was to Warburton.

Mal thought he would beat the traffic by going the back way, which he insisted that he knew really well.

Unfortunately, the new electric fan in the Monaro had been wired in backto-front, the engine over-heated, and the trip took 5 hours. On arrival at Warburton, Mal thought he would settle his nerves with an ice cold beer but when he opened the esky, he discovered to his horror that every stubbie had been smashed because of the trip along the rocky back road.

The family camping trips to Eden were always memorable: early starts, no stopping, no eating in the car and only minimal drinks (thereby eliminating the need for toilet stops). These same rules were also applied on a trip to Mildura – a long trip without a toilet stop!

When the girls grew up and became independent, Mal and Sue resumed

their motor bike trips to central Australia and other distant locations.

Mal became a member of the Ulysses motor bike club and regularly went on their Sunday rides. The annual Christmas toy run was a highlight and the bike races at Phillip Island were always eagerly anticipated. There was also time for overseas trips and a visit to the Isle of Man was greatly enjoyed.

In 2012, Mal attended the Hastings Primary School reunion and enjoyed catching up with old school mates.

Around that time, he found that his fight with asbestiosis was about to get a lot harder. He passed away at Peninsula Private Hospital on 9 July 2013.

Malcolm’s funeral was conducted

by Tom Ede and the eulogy, on which this obituary is based, was given by his sister, Lois.

The News extends its sympathy to Sue, Malcolm’s wife of 43 years, their daughters Karen, Debbie and Narelle, sons-in-law Adam, Gerald and John, and the seven grandchildren, Keely, Storm, Oscar, Page, Mia, Emily, and Louise. *** ROY SHEPHERD SEVERAL hundred family and friends gathered in the Lady Nelson Room at the Western Port Marina on Friday 19 July 2013 to farewell Roy Shepherd.

Roy Henry Shepherd was born

at Frankston Hospital on 29 March 1943. He was one of four sons born to Joyce and the late Bill Shepherd. His three brothers are Colin, Rex (Roy’s twin), and Lindsay.

Although Bill died in 1971, Joyce is now 96. She lived at home in Somerville until she broke her hip in a fall about eight weeks ago and is currently in rehab; sadly she was not well enough to attend the funeral.

Although the Shepherds had been nurserymen and orchardists for several generations, Bill and Joyce had a dairy farm at the end of Eramosa Road East. All four boys worked on the dairy farm before moving on to other ventures.

In 1965, Roy met Jan Page and they married on 14 January 1967, moving into their first home on Jones Rd, Somerville. This was built by Roy’s brother, Lindsay, with Roy’s assistance. Roy and Jan had three children: Gary (born 1969), Brett (1972), and Jodi (1973) who, with granddaughter Jessica, now 21, have enriched their lives.

Roy’s trade was that of panel beater/ body builder and he perfected the craft of modifying vehicles such as hearses and ambulances. He also worked in construction for a number of years with his twin brother, Rex. In 1977, Roy and Jan sold in Jones Road and built a new home on five

acres of the old family property in Eramosa Rd East. There Roy ran his own panel beating business single-handedly until the end of 2004 when he felt he needed a change. Accordingly, he obtained his truck licence and in January 2005 and began working for Brett and Fiona in their excavation business.

This was a good arrangement: Roy and Jan could head off to explore Australia in their caravan, simply telling Brett that he would be back at work when he was ready. This arrangement also allowed him to indulge in his passion for fishing.

In 2007, Roy and Jan sold their property and moved back into the township of Somerville, residing in Bayvista Rise until Roy’s passing.

In July, 2009 Roy was diagnosed with bowel cancer and, although the original prognosis was grim (twothree months), this was extended to four years following an operation and extensive chemotherapy. He died on 14 July 2013.

Roy’s funeral was conducted by Steve Coggins, a former Anglican minister in Hastings. He also gave the eulogy and tributes were paid by Roy’s sons, Gary and Brett. The News extends its sympathy to Jan, children (Gary, Brett and Jodi), granddaughter (Jessica), and to Roy’ mother, Joyce, who was the subject of a feature article in this newspaper several years ago.

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NEWS DESK

Conservation group gets into print

CO SE N N RV O TR IC AC E TS

By Tony Duboudin A VOLUNTEER group helping to maintain part of the Somers foreshore has produced a brochure explaining its work and outlining the importance of the foreshore reserve.

Friends of South Sea Foreshore Reserve members help maintain and improve the reserve, which runs from Cora Close in the west and the Hundred Steps in the east.

The group was formed in 2010 with the agreement of the Mornington Peninsula Shire and began the task of clearing weed infestation from the area after years of neglect.

Work by the group on two degraded strips of land within the reserve has opened up a magnificent view of the sea and provided easier access to the beach. However, more work is needed to reclaim the rest of the reserve.

The groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work is supported by the Ramsar Protection Program, coordinated by the Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority (CMA), with funding from the Federal Governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Caring for our Country program.

The brochure, funded by the CMA, aims encourage residents to volunteer for group working sessions or financially support the work. The Friends have also had a portable banner made to promote their work.

Friends of South Sea Reserve committee member and the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work co-ordinator, Rosemary Birney, said that many of the group were â&#x20AC;&#x153;getting old and tiredâ&#x20AC;? and younger volunteers

Banner ad: Friends of the South Sea Foreshore Reserve member Rosemary Birney promotes the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environmental work at Somers.

were needed. Ms Birney, recognised for her 12 years of â&#x20AC;&#x153;outstandingâ&#x20AC;? conservation work with the Victorian Coastal Council Award last year, said the group would like to forge links with other similar groups â&#x20AC;&#x153;to work to preserve Somersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; natural environmentâ&#x20AC;?.

She said the Friends have to match any federal or state grant funds dollar-fordollar for further work on the reserve. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can do this by raising cash or by work in kind, but both are becoming increasingly difficult,â&#x20AC;? Ms Birney said.

A scrapbook of â&#x20AC;&#x153;before and afterâ&#x20AC;? photographs of some of the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work can be seen at Somers General Store.

Call Rosemary Birney on 0400 183 047 or email rosemary.birney@bigpond.com for further information.

A GIANT outdoor chess board and table tennis table have been installed at Hastings foreshore as part of a new family games area.

The new attractions have been installed at the old helipad beside Pelican Park Recreation Centre and near the foreshore playground.

The former helipad has been repaired and painted with the chess board at one end and steel table tennis table.

Cr David Garnock said the shire hoped the improvements would prove popular with locals and help to attract more visitors to the town. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This new outdoor family games area, which is available free of

Game on: David Garnock (left) with former councillor Reade Smith with the outdoor chess board and table tennis set up at Hastings Foreshore. Equipment is available for free from Pelican Park Recreation Centre.

Games foreshore charge, is such a positive attraction for local families and visitors to get out and use the foreshore and all it has to offer,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Cr Garnock said the initial vision for the new foreshore attractions had come from Reade Smith, a former councillor.. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reade had the idea to install the outdoor games area during his time

as councillor and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pleasure to be able to celebrate the opening of the new facilities with him,â&#x20AC;? Cr Garnock said.

A giant chess set and giant checker set can be obtained by borrowing a key from Pelican Park Recreation Centre. Table tennis bats and balls are also available for loan from Pelican Park, or visitors can bring their own.

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Shire borrows $10.8m for super blowout

By Mike Hast SHIRE councillors have signed off on a bank loan of $11.8 million to pay for a superannuation black hole as well as $1 million to upgrade sports pavilions.

The $10.8 million superannuation shortfall in the Local Authorities Superannuation Fund was revealed last year following a review by fund trustee Vision Super.

Victorian councils had to find about $400 million for the generous super scheme for past and present employees that paid benefits no matter how the fund was doing.

The Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) said most of the shortfall occurred during the final six months of 2011 “due to investment market volatility”.

The shortfall was partly due to the global financial crisis and the fund under-estimating the length of time beneficiaries were living after retirement.

The super plan for local government employees was a compulsory scheme from 1982. It was closed to new members in 1993.

“Unlike other exempt public sector schemes, it must be fully funded to pay benefits owed to

members now and in the future,” the MAV said last year.

Mornington Peninsula Shire’s shortfall was the third call on the fund in the past decade, with the shire paying about $17 million. It had to borrow money to pay the two previous calls.

The new loan is with Commonwealth Bank of Australia for 12 months and will cost $418,000 in interest at a variable rate that is currently 3.52 per cent. In recent times the shire has paid 5.5 to 6 per cent on loans.

The loan is for a year while the MAV and councils work on a long-term plan that could see the issuing of bonds to cover the huge super black hole.

The shire is one of about 27 councils collectively owing about $232 million that have borrowed from the Commonwealth to pay off super liabilities.

The shire had budgeted for interest of $485,000 on the $11.8 million loan but the MAV– Commonwealth deal will save it $67,000.

Now comes the huge task of working out how to pay the $400 million in a year’s time and, more crucially, any further calls from the Local Authorities Superannuation Fund.

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Child killer takes secrets to grave

By Mike Hast CHILD killer Derek Percy has taken to his grave the truth about some of Australia’s most notorious child killings.

Percy, 64, Victoria’s longest serving prisoner and the only one held at the “governor’s pleasure”, died of lung cancer in a secure ward at St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne on Wednesday 24 July.

He was jailed indefinitely for the 1969 killing of Yvonne Tuohy, 12, at Warneet, for which he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

His death ended hopes he would shed light on the 1968 disappearance of Linda Stilwell from the St Kilda foreshore.

Percy was the prime suspect in Linda Stilwell’s disappearance and suspected death, and was a suspect in a number of other child disappearances in other states.

Her family had fought for years for Percy to tell them what happened to their girl.

Four days before his death, Percy gave evidence from his hospital bed during a coronial hearing, but denied involvement in her disappearance.

Police have long suspected Percy, known as “The Spook”, was involved in Linda Stilwell’s disappearance. He admitted to one officer that he was in

St Kilda on the day she went missing.

In a police interview in 1969, when asked if he killed Linda Stilwell, Percy said “possibly, I don’t remember a thing about it”.

Percy was based at HMAS Cerberus in Crib Point when he was arrested just hours after Yvonne Tuohy’s kidnapping. Her mutilated body was found in bushland at Devon Meadows, a short drive from Warneet.

Police acted on information from Shane Spiller, a 12-year-old boy who was with Yvonne at Warneet’s Ski Beach in the coastal reserve between Blind Bight and Warneet on an isolated part of Rutherford Inlet, which flows into Western Port near Tooradin.

The boy escaped from the kidnapper’s clutches by brandishing his tomahawk.

Percy amassed more than $300,000 during his years behind bars. Although he was with the navy for only 20 months, he continued to collect ComSuper payments of up to $20,000 a year, based on 60 per cent of a recruit’s annual salary.

In 2007, police found 35 cardboard boxes and tea chests filled with material from Percy in a South Melbourne storage depot.

They alleged the material included clippings on sex crimes, stories Percy

had written on how to commit child abductions, and items that appeared to implicate him in unsolved murders.

There was also a valuable stamp collection.

Police discovered Percy had leased storage units since 1970, had $300,000 in the bank and had successfully invested in gold. He had used part of his income to rent the storage unit.

The murder of Yvonne Tuohy became Warneet’s dark secret, only discussed in whispers behind closed doors.

The murder brought shame on the navy and HMAS Cerberus, and changed forever the life of the boy who was with Yvonne, the daughter of the owners of Warneet’s one general store.

On that fateful day, when US astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, the 12-year-olds had headed off on an adventure, walking about two kilometres from the village through the bush reserve that separates Warneet Rd from the upper reaches of Rutherford Inlet.

Shane Spiller and Yvonne Tuohy were playing on Ski Beach when a strange man approached them and seized the girl. When Percy attempted to grab Spiller, the boy threatened him with his tomahawk.

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Deadly legacy: Derek Percy (inset) and the boy, Shane Spiller with his tomahawk, who helped police find the Royal Australian Navy recruit at HMAS Cerberus in 1969.

Previous page, Derek Percy when he appeared in court in the early 2000s. Right, Derek Percy at age 62.

bush and raised the alarm when he arrived breathless in the coastal village.

Police were called and raced to Warneet. Spiller told them Percy had taken the girl away in an orange station wagon.

He gave detectives a drawing of a sticker he’d seen on its rear window, a Royal Australian Navy insignia.

Police drove to Cerberus and found Percy in the base’s laundry, trying to wash Yvonne’s blood from his clothes.

Shane Spiller was haunted by the incident for the rest of his life and disappeared from Wyndham, a small town in the south of NSW, in 2002 at the age of 44. He had started drinking at age 14, his school results deteriorated, he fell out with his parents, left school and went walkabout from the family home in Armadale.

A neighbour in Wyndham years later described him as “the most paranoid person I’ve ever met. Shane suffered all his life with post-traumatic stress disorder. There was this overwhelming dark cloud over his life and he was ba-

sically self-medicating with drugs and alcohol”.

Police claim Percy ruined Spiller’s life.

Percy had been linked to the disappearances and deaths of eight other children in Victoria, NSW, ACT and South Australia, including the three Beaumont children, who were abducted from an Adelaide beach in 1966 and never found.

Detectives from four police forces have been investigating cold case child murders for four years in an operation codenamed Heats.

Percy had been questioned about:  The murders of 15-year-olds Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmidt on Sydney’s Wanda Beach in January 1965, while Percy, then 17, was holidaying nearby with his parents.  The disappearance of the Beaumont children (Jane, 9, Arnna, 7, and Grant, 4), abducted from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide on Australia Day in 1966, which spawned books, documentaries and the visit of a Dutch clairvoyant,

Gerard Croiset, who said their bodies were buried under an Adelaide warehouse. The site was dug up but nothing was found. The case burned a hole in the national psyche and is discussed to this day. Percy admitted to police he was in Adelaide at the time.  The murder of Allen Redston, 6, in Canberra in September 1966. The boy left his home to go to a nearby milk bar for ice-cream. The following day his body was discovered concealed in reeds by a creek. He had been hog-tied and had plastic wrapped around his throat. When Percy was questioned in 1969, he confirmed taking a family holiday in Canberra that year.  The death of Simon Brook, 3, in Sydney in May 1968, taken from the yard of his home in Glebe. By this time Percy had left school and joined the navy. He lived at the naval base at Garden Island and commuted through Glebe to the dock.

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Percy had admitted to police he drove through St Kilda that day but, as with all of his interviews with the law, says he cannot remember killing anyone. He maintained this line through more than 40 years of interviews.

Linda Stilwell’s brother Gary reportedly said he truly believed Percy murdered his sister and Stilwell wanted to eyeball Percy in court.

The cold case homicide unit first reviewed the Stilwell file more than nine years ago to prepare the inquest brief.

In April 2007, Howard government veterans affairs minister Bruce Billson, the Dunkley MP based in Frankston, promised to investigate the payments to Percy. But the Coalition lost power later that year and the money continued to flow.

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‘Secrets’ let go without a blush Celebration takes

By David Harrison Community council meeting at Rye Civic Hall, Monday 22 July. A nutritious buffet meal (not, as is usually the case, advertised on the shire website) preceded the meeting.

REGULAR council watchers often see pink papers on councillors’ desks – pink denoting confidential – and wonder what is writ therein.

This is the stuff watchers really want to read – but councillors would reveal it at their peril.

But here was Cr David Gibb, stickler for all rules pertaining to meetings and indeed all council matters that come under his purview, complaining about the shire’s financial support for the Rosebud Kite Festival and, apparently, reading figures from the pink sheets in front of him.

Mayor Lynn Bowden interrupted him to ask if this was what he was doing. Cr Gibb, a councillor since the last millennium, admitted his grievous sin without a mea culpa or even a discernible blush. Governance supremo Noel Buck watched on, mute, at this infraction. Cr Gibb continued his effort to gain another $1500 for the kites, to help balance the funding inequity relative to bashes held in Hastings and Mornington.

He went back to his pink sheets and changed tactics from quoting figures to detailing percentages. The material did not seem terribly explosive in nature – perhaps much confidential material is similarly innocuous – but councils, even open and transparent ones, like to have their little secrets.

Perhaps this is not the end of the matter. Council Watch has learned that not long ago new councillor Hugh

Fraser, barrister at law, was alleged to have committed the same offence.

The infringement was considered serious enough for a meeting to be called between Cr Fraser, a lawyer hired by the shire and senior council officers, at which Cr Fraser would be properly admonished, counselled and made penitent. It did not go quite this way. Cr Fraser, the silken-tongued advocate long acquainted with writs of mandamus, certiorari and the like, was able to point out that the “confidential” paper had in fact, M’lud, not been declared confidential as required by an Act of Parliament.

Case dismissed. But can Cr Gibb’s gaffe be lightly dismissed? Surely the shire now ensures that “confidential” is indeed confidential according to law. Naughty Cr Gibb – bring on the lawyers! Off with his head! *** THE meeting’s high point had come early, during Question Time, when Frederick Crump of Mornington asked why his local street clock was regularly an hour slow – a fact confirmed by Mornington councillor Bev Colomb.

It will be looked at, Mr Crump was assured. But will it be fixed?

The possibility that the clock had two faces, one of which might show the right time, reminded this council watcher of Henry Ford’s solution to clock-watchers in his T-model factory : have every factory clock set to a different time.

*** A PLAN to levy Hastings traders in pursuit of town centre rejuvenation – Christmas bunting and the like – brought some sharp questioning from Cr Graham Pittock and created bemusement among council officers responsible for answers.

Why was it proposed to raise the levy by 5 per cent each year until 2020, Cr Pittock wanted to know.

Why not raise the yearly sum by the inflation rate?

Cr Frank Martin of Red Hill Ward sprang to the scheme’s defence. Having furiously tick-tacked on his calculator, he revealed that 5 per cent was an extremely fair figure, even though inflation is currently running at – and the Reserve Bank is restraining it to – about half that figure.

Perhaps the battery in Cr Martin’s calculator was running at the same rate as the Mornington clock?

Those of a mathematical bent can hear Cr Martin explain his sums on the recording of the meeting posted on the shire website, and check his figures.

Cr Pittock’s second question: why should all traders, despite the size or street frontage of their shops, pay the same levy? It didn’t seem fair, he said, that a supermarket and, say, a hair salon up the street would pay the same.

More bemusement from shire staff.

The answer seemed to be that this was the easiest way to impose the levy, and, er, that’s the way we do it.

Council Watch is relieved the shire has not yet thought of collecting rates by this same simplistic and inequitable one-size-fits-all method.

a long look back

By Peter McCullough IN July 1973, what was then known as the Shire of Hastings Historical Society held its inaugural meeting.

On 13 July, 2013, a lunch attended by some 45 history buffs was held at the Hastings Club to commemorate the 40th anniversary of what is now known as the Hastings Western Port Historical Society.

The current president, David Mason, acted as MC and introduced the five speakers: Cr David Garnock, Joy Coleman, Brian Stahl OAM, Shirley Davies, and Valda Cole OAM Several speakers made reference to the development of the Port of Hastings. Former councillor Brian Stahl mentioned that, in a speech at Cowes, the premier had lamented the fact that the so-called experts were obsessed with the dredging of Port Phillip Bay while ignoring the availability of a natural deep water port.

And when did the premier provide the citizens of Cowes with his thoughts on this subject? Well, it was 1910 actually! Now, more than 100 years later, we hear the same sentiments being expressed. As that legendary American baseball player/ manager Yogi Berra put it “It's dejavu all over again”.

Brian also mentioned that there are 80 to 90 studies on the development of Western Port Bay gathering dust in the La Trobe library; do we need

another one? In her address, Valda Cole went back even further, to 175 years ago when it was proposed that a steam locomotive should link Sydney with Western Port Bay, from where travellers would be transported to Tasmania by boat. Sydney to Hobart in three days was the promise!

Past president Shirley Davies listed the main achievements of the society, particularly the acquisition of the Pioneer Cottage and ‘Harry's House’.

Her principal highlight, however, was the finding by Valda and Harry Cole of the 1864 model 40 pound Armstrong ‘Ham and Beef Battery’ gun in the Colac Gardens, and its subsequent return to Hastings, where it has pride of place in the museum.

It was one of the guns based at Hastings between 1890 and 1903; its journey from Hastings to Colac is something of a mystery.

In closing, Shirley mentioned that Volume IV of the highly-regarded series Hastings - People and Places is about to be sent for printing.

Everyone present was then invited to sign a special quilt wall-hanging, made by supporter Trinette Callander, which features a photo print of the museum.

The celebrations concluded with the cutting of the 40th anniversary cake, beautifully decorated with a picture of the Pioneer Cottage.

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The Western Port Whisperer WHAT a terrible few weeks we have endured.

A deep and sharp pain at the loss of one of our own. But not by some natural means that befalls most of us, but by something un-natural and evil.

A pall of sadness descended on our lovely town after the events of 12 June. The slow realization that something terrible happened dawned as grim-faced police began to rope off the area outside the Jewel Shed. The ambulance sat outside. We hoped for something. Our town held it’s breath.

Eventually Bridget came out with a bandaged arm, supported by ambulance and police. Her face spoke a thousand terrible words.

People were dumb-struck. It was simply beyond belief that something so terrible could happen in our community.

The television cameras had begun arriving, as had something else. People. Armed with flowers and card. Placing them outside the Jewel Shed. A shrine for our lost friend.

Grief is a strange thing and people began battling with theirs as best they knew. Grown men cried and people hugged strangers.

We could only imagine the pain and horror of the O’Tooles. A small sense of relief came over us when we saw the three brave sons stand steadfastly before television cameras and read a statement that was both strong and heartfelt.

It was the great loss that was on everybody’s lips. Grief councelling packs were handed out to store keepers, who were on the front line as customers struggled to cope with the senselessness of it all.

Police quickly made an arrest, and anger boiled up once we knew a name. The police began walking the street. Talking to people.

Calming and reassuring.

Then came the day of the funeral. That brave family let everybody know they could be at

ease as it progressed. “It is ok to laugh” said one of Dermot’s sons.

It is so strange to hear the story of this man’s life. His joys and trials. His hard work and his triumphs. Simple pleasures and pure loves.

What a great man. What a brave man.

What a man that must be remembered in our community.

The funeral procession headed up Marine Parade and made the turn onto High St. The street where Dermot walked and talked, and lived and loved. The street where he finally lost his life.

What rush of emotion did Trent, Dale and Christian feel when they rounded the corner onto High St to be greeted by throngs of people lining the street, all for their dad?

What feelings washed over Bridget when she saw the green balloons and streamers, and the grief-streaked faces of those she knew and many she didn’t?

I can say that as a community it was a proud moment. A moment where the pain of the previous 11 days welled up and mixed with tears of pride.

Pride in a community that cared enough to suffer with this family.

Pride that Dermot’s relatives who had travelled from Ireland got to see the real community that loved and cared.

Pride that we will move forward as a community, caring, smiling and living more in his memory.

I believe that we all meet again. When I meet Dermot O’Toole again, I already know what I’m going to say.

“How about that?”

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Putting the lick on grafitti:

The hard work of a couple of members of our community left some graffiti artists scratching their heads and wondering why they bothered. No sooner did Sarah and Chris McLennan notice the mess than they got to work cleaning it off and repainting. They were joined in their efforts by John Antoine, spending the best part of the weekend on the job. The biggest task was the Safeway laneway that was completely covered on both sides with about ten tags up to two metres high. With a high pressure hose, graffiti remover and paint, the laneway was restored to its former state. “We volunteered our time this weekend to keep our town clean,” said Sarah, who is the co-ordinator of the Western Port Chamber of Commerce and Industry, “The message is clear. Get to this graffiti quickly, and let’s keep Hastings looking great.” Sarah, Chris and wanted to pass on their thanks to the businesses that assisted them over the weekend, including Terry White Pharmacy, Beach Hut Cafe, Best Direction, and Dominion Hill.

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Drive in for glamour: Stephanie Dunbar, left, Siobhan Houlihan, Denise Moretti and Mallory Holley all dressed in 1950’s clothing to promote the film Penny. The crew (below) include producer Peter Cordeux, left, Dromana 3 Drive-In owner Paul Whitaker, filmmaker Adam Haywood, producer Karen Elgar, and filmmaker Stuart Stanton. Pictures: Cameron McCullough

Filmmakers bring 1950s glamour to peninsula PENINSULA filmmakers Stuart Stanton and Adam Haywood are bringing the glamour of the drive-in to the big screen in their next project, Penny.

Teaming with peninsula producers Peter Cordeux and Karen Elgar, they hope to do justice to nostalgia for the era.

Set in the 1950s, Penny is the story of Timmy, a young cleaner at the drive-in, and his quest to impress dancer Penny. Aided by his friend Donna, Timmy sets out to learn how to rock ’n’ roll and win Penny’s heart.

Penny is being made as a “proof of concept” short film to secure funding for a full-length feature.

“Both films will provide a fantastic opportunity for peninsula talent and crew to work on a large-scale production,” Stuart Stanton said.

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“We look forward to capturing the vibrancy of the drive-in era with some fantastic production design. The cars, the music, the clothes – we want to show it all. There are so many opportunities for people to come on board.”

Dromana 3 Drive-In has joined forces with Stanton and Haywood’s video production company Final Focus Australia to produce Penny. Vintage clothing company Vivien of Holloway has signed on to supply costumes.

The filmmakers are looking for more community involvement to help secure funding.

While community enthusiasm has been strong, 40 per cent of the funding is still to be raised.

Stanton and Haywood are offering sponsorship packages to peninsula businesses. They include options for video production and advertising as well as inclusion of company branding in all marketing material.

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There is a separate bathroom, and the largest of the bedrooms has an ensuite. This wing has its own private entrance and a double garage has internal access. Also on this side of the home is a decked area surrounding an above-ground pool. The centre of the home is where the family can come together. This impressive and spacious area has a feature dual wood heater and there are comfortable spaces for relaxing and dining. Overlooking the room is the large kitchen with a host of stainless-steel appliances and a recessed space for a double door refrigerator. There are quality granite benchtops, and from the window you get a pleasant outlook to the natural bush surroundings. A timber deck runs along the back of the home and features a nice gazebo for undercover entertaining.

Continuing on towards the west wing are more shared areas including the butlers pantry, laundry and powder room, which as a handy feature, is accessible from the outside. In the traditional sense, the master bedroom does not have an ensuite. Rest assured there is a very luxurious separate bathroom with spa, twin vanity unit and shower, and another interesting point to this home, that seems to enjoys changing all the rules on home design, is the walk-in robe from the bathroom. A fitted study brings the total potential of this home to a staggering six bedrooms and outside is parking for up to eight vehicles. The private block measures about 1-hectare with wrought iron gates across the driveway for security. Detached from the home is a 90-square metre workshop and studio with threephase power and although the property is on mains water there are rainwater tanks with 40,000-litre capacity. Well-designed with a creativity that sets it apart from the crowd, this fine rural-residential property is a must see.

Address: 30 Island View Crescent, BITTERN Price: $1.050 million Agency: Satchwells Real Estate, 1/97 High Street, Hastings, 5979 1888 Agent: Don McKenzie, 0419 955 117

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Somerville

Realise the potential WHETHER a first purchase in the property market or the next addition to the portfolio for a seasoned investor, this quaint weatherboard cottage has a lot to offer. The compact block is full of lush greenery, with rock gardens and ponds sure to interest the greenthumb. The modest home has a lounge and dining area with a woodheater on a brick hearth, and the neat kitchen has some nice leadlight windows. The home has two bedrooms and one bathroom, with a separate laundry and toilet. There is a handy shed with a concrete floor towards the rear of the block that should provide some extra storage space.

40 Bayvista Rise Polish Me Up!

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Address: 27 Thomas Street, BAXTER Auction: Saturday August 10 at 1pm Agency: Craig Mann First National, 4/1085 Frankston-Flinders Road, Somerville, 5978 0955 Agent: Brian Rotherham 0417 056 938

Your home could be worth more than you think!

Give Sam Bucca a shot and call for your free no-obligation market appraisal.

Selling real estate without the headache.

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The original home to a recent 2 unit subdivision.The property is located very close to public transport and the local shops and doctors. Features of this unit include 3BRS with WIR & BIR to bedroom 3, split level dining & living area, racked ceilings, gas/electric stove,s/s heating & cooling. Newly built single car garage with remote.

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(03) 5979 8003 btre.com.au HASTINGS

$249,000

HASTINGS

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NEW LISTING

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A rarity is this 2 bedroom unit situated on a block with only one other. With the feeling of a small house rather than a unit, this property offers kitchen with pantry and plenty of cupboard space, gas wall oven and cook top, meals area, spacious lounge and a lovely fully enclosed sunroom which can be enjoyed all year round. Other features include air-conditioning x 2, gas heating, built in robes and walk in robe to main, separate laundry and toilet and single lock up garage. Set in a quiet part of town with established front and back gardens, this property is perfect for owner occupier or investor. Located in close proximity to shopping strip, public transport and local schools, this property is priced to sell! Inspection by appointment

This 4BR family home, set on 731sqm block, has recent improvements including new carpet, paint, light Ă&#x20AC;WWLQJV GXFWHG KHDWLQJ UDQJH KRRG ZDVWH PDVWHU ZDWHU WDQNV LQ DOO DQG VRODU KRW ZDWHU ZLWK JDV booster. Entertaining couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be easier with a central kitchen featuring gas cook top, electric oven and dishwasher, overlooking a beautiful paved alfresco area with zip track blinds and lighting that can be enjoyed all year round. Other features include lounge, meals area and family room, evaporative cooling, WIR & FES to main bedroom and BIRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to other bedrooms. All completed with a double lock up garage and rear access, a generous back yard with 6m x 5m powered workshop on concrete slab and neat low maintenance gardens. This is the ideal family home.

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This 3 bedroom ranch-style cottage offers comfort and charm without the fuss. Set on a 521sqm , this EHDXWLIXOO\ SUHVHQWHG SURSHUW\ KDV VXEWOH HDUWK\ WRQHV Ă RZLQJ WKURXJKRXW WKH VSDFLRXV RSHQ SODQ IDPLO\ room that has Coonara woodheater, separate meals area and a central kitchen with ceramic electric cook top, under bench oven, plenty of cupboard space, pantry and dishwasher. A spacious 2nd living zone offers room for a rumpus or formal lounge. Other features include built in robes to two bedrooms and walk-in robe and ensuite to main. Two reverse cycle air conditioners and with 16 solar roof panels you will always be in credit with your power company.

Whether you are an investor or owner occupier, you cannot beat this 3 bedroom unit on price, position and quality. New carpets, fresh decor and natural sunlight give this unit a light and airy feel as soon as you enter. Features include large living area, meals, kitchen with gas cook top and electric oven, BIR to main, central heating and reverse cycle air conditioning. Large back yard and paved pergola area, there is plenty of room for entertaining, gardening, or childrens playground equipment. A single lock up garage with remote and internal access plus a medium size garden shed completes this tidy package. Located in Hastings central with only a very short walk to public transport, shopping centre and local schools.

Investors take note - this property will easily rent for $280 pw!! Inspection by appointment only.

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A GREAT PLACE TO START A rare opportunity is this approx 739sqm allotment located in the heart of Orchard Leigh Estate in Hastings.

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This spacious 3BR unit is not only a great price but only 1 year old with current tenants on a month to month lease paying $295pw. The perfect investment opportunity or to live in. This well planned 3BR unit offers plenty of space with a massive WIR in main and BIRs in the further 2 bedrooms. Other features LQFOXGH D PRGHUQ EDWKURRP ODUJH RSHQ OLYLQJ DQG PHDOV DUHDV JDV GXFWHG KHDWLQJ DQG D OLJKW Ă&#x20AC;OOHG kitchen complete with stainless steel appliances and dishwasher. Remote dble lockup garage with internal access, water tank, undercover outdoor entertaining arealockup garden shed on a concrete slab.

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OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS Set on a 702sqm block this 3 bedroom 1 bathroom home is located in a prime position of Bittern. With open plan living, features include kitchen with gas cooking, meals, lounge, gas heating, reverse cycle air-conditioning, built-in-robes in all bedrooms and a large multipurpose room that can be utilised as a sun room or rumpus room. Outside, a single car garage and small garden shed. The central location of this property will have you arrive at, the new Bittern Shopping complex, public transport or Bittern Primary 6FKRRO ZLWK RQO\ D PRPHQWV ZDON 7KLV LV D IDQWDVWLF RSSRUWXQLW\ IRU Ă&#x20AC;UVW KRPH EX\HUV LQYHVWRUV RU LI \RX DUH downsizing.

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LOOKING FOR A SUCCESSFUL YOUR RURAL EXPERT

As Director of Ray White Hastings, Elizabeth Wall still remains very hands on in listing and selling property on the Mornington Peninsula and specialises in rural and lifestyle properties.

Elizabeth has a keen knowledge of what this niche market requires and has been highly successful.

Elizabeth has herself lived on acreage properties and has been involved with pony clubs and still has two horses of her own, this has certainly contributed to her knowledge of what buyers are looking for and the value these types of properties demand.

Elizabeth is always interested and thrilled to visit your properties and advise on current market pricing and sales in your area.

Please call her for any real estate advice, or if you would like an up to date appraisal, on 0417 528 042.

PROPERTY MANAGER?

Cheryl brings 7 years of property management experience to our ofďŹ ce, along with excellent communication skills for both landlord and tenants, Cheryl knows this is the key to a smooth and successful relationship. Your investment property will be maintained in a professional manner at all times.

Cheryl has a broad knowledge of the peninsula area as she has been a local resident here for over 30 years. Cheryl brings a bright and friendly personality with commitment and passion for the rental market.

Ask Cheryl today for a obligation free quote on your rental property and discuss how you can maximize your property investment.

Cheryl Wilkins, Property Manager, 0434 743 236

FREE INVESTORS INFORMATION EVENING How to use your home as equity to purchase your ďŹ rst investment?

How to claim the maximum from your tax with depreciation?

Are you interested in the infrastructure of Hastings?

Looking to save money on your home loan?

Wanting to know how property managers work?

Why Landlord insurance is important?

These are just some of the topics our guest speakers will be addressing.

HASTINGS CLUB, 155 Marine Parade, Hastings Wednesday 31st July at 7.00pm Light refreshments available on the night.

Contact Cheryl Wilkins to RSVP on 5979 4177 or 0434 743 236

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197 Main Street Mornington VIC 3931 T. 03 5975 6888

Mount Martha

For Sale

Stage 2 Selling Now

76 Harrap Road, Mount Martha DELGANY – Your new lifestyle awaits...

Looking to downsize, but don’t want to compromise on quality or location? Then take a close look at “Delgany”, Mt Martha`s premier up-market development with grand gated entry and spacious, landscaped grounds. Freedom to choose from either single or double storey designs plus you can pick your colour scheme and more. Close to parks, transport and Bentons Square Shopping Centre. What are you waiting for?

Price From $435,950 Inspection Wednesday, Saturday & Sunday 2.30-3.30pm Contact Chris Wilson 0417 147 307 Luke McCoy 0467 321 322 bowmanandcompany.com.au

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Auction

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Mount Martha

Auction - Saturday 24th August at 1.00pm

Sensational Single Level Style

25 Driftwood Court, Mount Martha Northern Seclusion In Family Setting Designed to convey a sense of relaxation, this single-level, three-bedroom, twobathroom residence resides on an exceptional, north-facing 1114m2 approx. block in a quiet rural court within walking distance to schools, the beach and Benton’s Square shopping. The home has been consistently updated and extended and all the living and entertaining areas face north. Two living areas complement a remodeled kitchen with great storage and quality appliances, while outdoor entertaining can be enjoyed on the patio beneath a glass sided pergola. Appointments include a double remote garage, caravan storage and 8600 litres of water storage. This is a fabulous home to set down roots and watch your family grow.

Auction 24th August 1.00pm Terms 10% deposit balance due 90 days Inspection Saturdays 12.30-1.00pm Contact Chris Wilson 0417 147 307 Luke McCoy 0467 321 322 3 2 2 bowmanandcompany.com.au

6 Vine Street, Mount Martha Prestige, Position, Privilege Craftsman built to exacting standards, this polished single-level 4-bedroom, 2-bathroom residence features designer finishes & a smartly configured layout to complement the relaxed Peninsula lifestyle. Designed for entertaining, a formal living room complements a spectacular open plan living & dining zone with a sublime Ilve kitchen and a retractable wall of glass to a covered alfresco dining deck. Full mod cons include a triple garage.

Inspection Saturday 1.00-1.30pm Contact Lisa Fraser-Smith 0400 760 101 Robert Bowman 0417 173 103 bowmanandcompany.com.au

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FOR SALE OR FOR LEASE or FOR LEASE WITH OPTION TO PURCHASE (during initial term)

NOW ZONED COMMERCIAL 1 HASTINGS Shops 3, 4 & 7 No.145 Salmon Street (opposite Hotel) HASTINGS 10 & 12 High Street (opposite Library) Suitable for any type of retail, office, medical or other commercial enterprise.

Sizes available: 79m², 82m², 86m², 164m² and 165m² Quality builders retail finish includes tiled internal invalid W.C, floating plaster ceilings with concealed lighting, painted walls and low maintenance powder coated shop front.

Unencumbered title to a minimum of 2 car spaces available with each shop plus additional titles available by negotiation.

Stop paying rent! - This could be your chance to buy your own freehold on easy terms.

Contact Chris Watt on 0417 588 321 for details and immediate inspection.

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CENTURY 21 HOMEPORT PHONE: 5979 3555 2100 Frankston-Flinders Road, Hastings

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Well presented ranch style home on 2 ½ acres will tick all the boxes. The home is well appointed

Well-built and well designed, this spacious & sophisticated residence on 9916m2 allotment

with timber kitchen with large pantry and ample overhead cupboards, plus gas ducted heating and

is situated in a secluded country lane amongst some of the most prestigious wineries of the

r/cycle heating and cooling units throughout the home. Outside boasts a two bedroom bungalow,

Mornington Peninsula. A statement in modern contemporary design, the formal entrance leads to

double carport under roofline, four car garage, wood shed, storage shed, four water tanks and large

the very generous open plan living area. Boasting 3 B/R’s plus a study, 1 cottage for registered B&B,

rear paddock. Contact Exclusive Agent.

2B/R self contained unit & lock up 16x19m workshop. Contact Exclusive Agent.

PRICE: $695,000 to $720,000 VIEW: Saturday 12:00-12:30pm AGENT: Wilma Green 0407 833 996

PRICE: Offers Over $900,000 VIEW: Saturday 1:00-1:30pm AGENT: Wilma Green 0407 833 996

FIRST HOME BUYERS!

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Two and three bedroom residences that will appeal to those who are upsizing, downsizing, first home

Surrounded by a professionally landscaped native garden this 4 bedroom B/V home with remote

buyers or investors. Features include Caesar stone benchtops, stainless steel appliances, floating

double garage is situated in one of the most sought after precincts of Hastings. Featuring master

floors, heating & cooling, outstanding quality fixtures & fittings and huge double remote controlled.

B/R with ensuite and W.I.R, 3 additional bedrooms with double B.I.R’s, split system in living area,

Also featuring pebble paving & well fenced low maintenance back yard. Minimum 5% return for

ducted heating, stainless steel appliances and side access to backyard. Outside boasts vege

investors. Contact Exclusive Agent.

garden, cubby house & entertaining area. Contact Exclusive Agent.

PRICE: EXPRESS SALE VIEW: Saturday 2:00-2:30pm AGENT: Ken Brown 0402 868 368

PRICE: VIEW: AGENT:

FIRST HOME BUYERS!

HASTINGS 3 /14 Hilltop Rise

$379,500 Saturday 12:00 -12:30pm Ken Brown 0402 868 368

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We don’t often have the opportunity to sell a brand new property in one of the quietest court locations

Situated in the exclusive Old Tyabb area and updated throughout, this family home contains

in town. Situated at the very end of Hilltop Rise stands a newly completed and roomy three bedroom

polished floors along with newly renovated kitchen with granite benches and stainless steel

B/V unit with double garage under roof with direct internal access, full ensuite, rumpus room, ducted

appliances. Both the family bathroom & ensuite have also been renovated. An undercover pergola

heating and huge windows to living area with a sunny north aspect.

overlooking the spacious back yard (approx 830sqm) provides the perfect place for entertaining.

Contact Exclusive Agent.

Double carport + shed for ample storage space. Contact Exclusive Agent.

PRICE: $379,950 Negotiable VIEW: Saturday 1:00 -1:30pm AGENT: Ken Brown 0402 868 368

PRICE: $349,500 VIEW: Saturday 11:00-11:30am AGENT: Chris Watt 0417 588 321

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Situated on 672sqm (approx) corner allotment, this well presented very affordable B/V with

with double garage under roof with direct internal access, full ensuite, study, ducted heating

hardiplank facade home features two bedrooms with B.I.R’s, R/V cycle aircon & gas log fire in

and huge windows to living area with a sunny north aspect. Our builder has done a great job and is

lounge area; plus timber kitchen with gas chef stove. Outside boasts single carport, X2 garden

now seeking to move on to his next project.

sheds, variety of fruit trees, vegetable patch and paved BBQ area. Contact Exclusive Agent.

Contact Exclusive Agent.

PRICE: $349,500 VIEW: Saturday 11:00-11:30am AGENT: Chris Watt 0417 588 321

PRICE: $285,000 VIEW: By Appointment AGENT: Wilma Green 0407 833 996

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Invest, Nest Or Develop

This 2972sqm (approx.) vacant block in Bittern is located at the end of a no through road in an established residential neighbourhood overlooking Bittern Reserve.

The block is a regular shaped, inside allotment, that is generally level throughout and located on the Eastern side of the road with sealed road access.

This neat & tidy 3 bedroom, BV home is an affordable entry into the property market. Set at the end of the road with a picket fence out front, this home is well presented with three bedrooms, all with BIRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, a goodsize lounge with gas heating and a spacious kitchen and meals area. The block is 531m2 and includes plenty of space and a garden shed. For investors, rental return is currently $270 per week.

6WRS WKH VHDUFK 3HUIHFW IRU Ă&#x20AC;UVW KRPH EX\HUV LQYHVWRUV or anyone interested in a subdivision project (STCA in sought after Tyabb. Within easy walking distance to shops and schools, the position is perfect for lifestyle and long term capital growth. Set on a large 898m2 block there are 3 bedrooms, a large kitchen, good size lounge and single carport. The options here are endless and at such an affordable price you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to wait.

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For Sale:

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Spacious, Character Filled Home

Located on a quiet no-thru street this 3BR plus study home is ideal for a family looking for more space without blowing the budget. The home has exposed brick and timber paneling throughout and includes a lounge, master bedroom with FES and BIRs plus access to the study. There is a large family/dining room with s/system heating/cooling and a timber kitchen.

Charming double brick residence with picket fence and QHDW IURQW JDUGHQ FUHDWLQJ D ORYHO\ Ă&#x20AC;UVW LPSUHVVLRQ /DUJH IRUPDO ORXQJH ZLWK H[SRVHG EULFN RSHQ Ă&#x20AC;UH SODFH timber kitchen with d/w and island bench plus formal dining room. Main bedroom with WIR & FES, BIRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to two more bedrooms. Extra living space with family room featuring gas heating and split system air-conditioner which opens to paved , undercover entertainment area.

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Four BR home with o/plan living and a spectacular all year round outdoor entertainment area.Wide tiled entry leads to the kitchen which overlooks the o/plan family and dining areas.

Master BR with FES and WIR, other bedrooms are a generous size, include BIRs and are serviced by a family bathroom. Rumpus room to the rear. Large laundry, gas ducted heating/evaporative cooling plus dble lock up remote garage with internal access.

Childrens play area with cubby house. 2000L water tank.

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This property measures 744m2 (approx.) in size and is zoned Residential 1 and would suit development for a 2 lot subdivision (S.T.C.A). The existing dwelling is quite liveable and can be leased out while plans and permits are drawn up. There are 3 bedrooms, a timber kitchen, lounge area with space heater and s/system heating and cooling DQG ODXQGU\ ([SHFWHG UHQWDO DURXQG SZ 2XWVLGH LV front and rear decking, large boat shed & garden shed.

This north facing 2BR unit is located only a hop, skip and a jump to the foreshore and Hastings town centre. )HDWXULQJ RSHQ SODQ ORXQJH ZLWK QHZ Ă RDWLQJ Ă RRUV gas heating and s/system air-conditioning, there is a kitchen with s/steel appliances including dishwasher, that overlooks the dining area & front garden. There is a main bathroom and separate laundry, and outside is a courtyard with wind out shade awning.

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Dual occupancy home 50sq (approx). High ceilings, SROLVKHG WLPEHU Ă RRUV DQG DV QHZ TXDOLW\ FDUSHWV LQ WKH 5BRs, master with WIR and full ensuite.The main home incls a study, formal lounge, o/plan living and games/pool room with bar and sep guest WC. Kitchenwith butlers pantry and island bench.Main bathroom boasts a claw foot bath; large laundry.The self contained 2nd wing of home has 2BRs, separate living and timber kitchen.

First home buyers or investors hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your chance to get in! This 3 bedroom BV home is set on a corner block close to the foreshore and amenities of Hastings town centre. The home features a good size lounge with gas wall furnace and ducted exchange, a neat & tidy kitchen with gas cooking and dishwasher adjoining a meals area.

All bedrooms have BIRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and share the main bathroom plus separate shower room and separate toilet.

A long concrete driveway leads to this well-presented, 3BR, ranch-style home. With dual access bathroom, large ORXQJH ZLWK JDV ORJ Ă&#x20AC;UH DQG VHSDUDWH IRUPDO GLQLQJ URRP D OLJKW Ă&#x20AC;OOHG NLWFKHQ KDV PRGHUQ DSSOLDQFHV ORRNV out to the covered entertaining area with cafe blinds and built-in mains BBQ. Nicely landscaped with rear carport for boat or caravan. Also featuring s/system airconditioning. Set on a no through road.

Smell the sea air from this beautifully located townhouse.

This home comprises of 2BRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s with BIRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, modern bathroom, separate toilet, large lounge with feature gas ORJ Ă&#x20AC;UH GXFWHG KHDWLQJ V V\VWHP DLU FRQGLWLRQLQJ $ large modern kitchen has s/steel appliances & adjacent dining area with high ceilings & polished hardwood Ă RRUV 2XWVLGH LV D VLQJOH JDUDJH ZLWK LQWHUQDO DFFHVV

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$949,000

HASTINGS

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BITTERN - 32 Myers Road

$365,000

BITTERN

$330,000

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Unbeatable Location & Value

Located within walking distance to town and all amenities this single level unit is ideal for retirees, LQYHVWRUV RU Ă&#x20AC;UVW KRPH EX\HUV 7KLV EULFN YHQHHU XQLW features 2 bedrooms, large lounge with split system air-con. and gas heating, bathroom and separate toilet and laundry. The practical kitchen overlooks the meals area which includes a sliding door leading out to the courtyard with access to the single garage.

,GHDO IRU Ă&#x20AC;UVW KRPH EX\HU RU IDPLOLHV WKLV UHFHQWO\ renovated home has warmth and character with natural tones and hardwood features. An open-plan design consists of a lounge, meals area and kitchen with stunning hardwood bench tops and splash backs. Three bedrooms share a modern bathroom. Coonara & s/system heating & cooling and rumpus room.

This block of land is an ideal for anyone looking to create their dream lifestyle by building the home they want without compromising on a private and leafy location. Situated in a sought after area, this 462m2 approx allotment boasts a wide street frontage (25m approx) allowing you to create a home design with an impressive facade and sense of space. New fencing to 3 sides, some basic landscaping taken care of and all services are available.

Brand new unit located only metres from shops presenting ideal option for someone looking for a convenient & low maintenance lifestyle or a smart investment. Finished with a light neutral colours, the unit has modern kitchen with s/steel appliances, open plan IDPLO\ URRP ZLWK Ă RDWLQJ Ă RRUV DQG V V\VWHP KHDWLQJ cooling, two bedrooms with BIRs (master with FES), main bathroom, formal lounge and paved courtyard outside.

For Sale:

For Sale:

For Sale:

$275,000

CYNTHIA DOBBIN Phone: 0438 773 627 Page 12

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35 High Street, Hastings

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Now showing BRILLIANTLY set up as the ultimate haven for the movie lover, this splendid, single-level home is in a class all of its own. On a spacious 3000-square metre block full of established country gardens, this immaculate home has a superb design that fills the whole house with light, further accentuated by the high ceilings throughout. At the centre of the home is a fantastic family living zone, with separate lounge and family rooms, and without a doubt one of the finest home cinemas you will see. Consisting of two tiers of luxurious leather recliners, with seating for six, the theatre room has surround sound and a massive cinema screen for the best engagement possible with your favourite films. If ever an intermission is required, the lovely outdoor entertainment area with aggregate paving and ceiling fan is also very comfortable. A neat kitchen has Smeg stainless-steel appliances and an adjoining dining area. The master bedroom features a walk-in robe and ensuite, and two more bedrooms have built-in robes and share a second bathroom with a double shower.

Address: 4 Dunstan Street, BITTERN Price: On application Agency: Harcourts, 10/14 High Street, Hastings, 5970 7333 Agent: Tim Ripper, 0434 513 640

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As new factory on a block of 6 in Bray Street, Hastings.

Approx 369m2. Well built with 2 roller doors, concrete Ă RRU SKDVH SRZHU DQG LQWHUQDO RIĂ&#x20AC;FH NLWFKHQ WRLOHW Plenty of onsite parking. Redeuced to lease out ASAP \RX ZRQ¡W Ă&#x20AC;QG DQ\WKLQJ HOVH WKLV DIIRUGDEOH

â&#x20AC;˘ 572m2 total factory with high visibility â&#x20AC;˘ 435m2 of factory Ă RRU VSDFH â&#x20AC;˘ 138m2 Mezzanine level including a 67m2 GHFNLQJ VWRUDJH P2 RI RIĂ&#x20AC;FHV 'DWD FDEOHV Ă&#x20AC;WWHG [ aircons. 0DOH )HPDOH :&¡V â&#x20AC;˘ Large 5.3m high electric roller door â&#x20AC;˘ Power to front naturestrip â&#x20AC;˘ 3 phase power in factory â&#x20AC;˘ 4 front car spaces and 3 rear spaces for staff â&#x20AC;˘ Modern design solid construction â&#x20AC;˘ Security cameras LQWHUQDOO\ H[WHUQDOO\ â&#x20AC;˘ Security bollards in front of windows

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For Sale: $450,000 + GST For Lease: $30,000 per annum + GST DOMINIC TALLON Phone: 0408 528 857

Nature lover required for quaint weatherboard cottage located on an serviced allotment, conveniently close to Peninsula Link Freeway.

The open plan home includes lounge & dining, WZR EHGURRPV EDWKURRP KDUGZRRG Ă RRUV throughout and the usual utilities. Connected to main power grid and constantly in credit, the bills here will not break the bank. The rustic gardens also offer some ornamental ponds, bird averies and a fowl run, plus a lock up shed.

Realistically priced this home is ideally suited to the renovator or as an entry level purchase for the budget buyer. Realistic Executor says sell.

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Situated on 25 acres (approx) is this fully operational and functioning broiler chicken farm, operating as free range.

Current capacity of 104,400 free range, can cater for 144,000 under broiler operation.There may be room to grow (STCA) with more shedding. 6.2 batches per year working towards 6.5. Current Inghams contract with excellent future prospects (contact for further details).

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Pearcedale 80 Queens Road

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A Lifestyle Choice This versatile property boasts all the attributes to make for a great lifestyle opportunity. With multiple paddocks, great horse facilities and an immaculate home makes this well suited to all families, hobby farmers, the horse community and anyone after that ideal property to call home. Comprising: 3 bedrooms with ensuite and walk in robe off master, 4th bed/study, formal lounge & dining, open plan kitchen, meals and lounge, central bathroom, laundry, undercover entertaining, triple carport and 11 acres (approx) of lush green land. Special features include: 8x paddocks, 5x horse stables, 3 bay yards, large lock machinery Shed with hot and cold wash area , multiple dams, electric fencing, landscaped gardens, return driveway, internal floor heating, open fire, split system cooling, loads of natural light, contemporary design, fully renovated kitchen with European appliances and fully renovated ensuite. Location: Close to Pearcedale Primary School, sporting ovals, Colley Street Bushland Reserve, local shops, freeway access for a short trip to town and minutes drive to all the Mornington Peninsula has to offer.

Price By Negotiation $880,000 plus View www.harcourts.com.au/VHS4243 Open Saturday 12.00-12.45pm* Jason Stirling 0411 520 173 David Nelli 0403 111 234

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Crib Point Lot 2/36 Milne Street Buy Today, Build Tomorrow This prime 634m2 (approx) parcel of vacant land is ready for you to build your dream home with all services available. An added feature is that its not a battle axe and therefore has its own private entrance. Fenced and free from obstructions and surrounded by established homes and mature trees. All located close to the heart of Crib Point village, schools, day care, cafe and restaurant, golf course, sporting reserves and transport including bus and train station allowing you to stroll to everything. Not to mention just minutes drive to some of the Peninsulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading wineries and great freeway access for a short trip to town. Be quick to secure such a premier block of land.

AUCTION Saturday 24th August at 11am View www.harcourts.com.au/VHS4288 Open Saturday 10.00-10.30am*

David Nelli 0403 111 234

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Hastings 10/14 High Street 03 5970 7333 www.hastings.harcourts.com.au

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Hastings 18 Rankin Road

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A Brilliant First Start Enhanced by a convenient central location, this inviting residence offers enticing potential and provides a wonderful opportunity to enjoy as is, or renovate beyond all expectations! Revealing yesteryear features and light-filled present day comfort, the generous living proportions ensure a thoroughly welcoming environment for comfortable living all year round. The interior highlights are three spacious bedrooms with built in robes to master, formal lounge with feature fire place and air-conditioning, central open plan dining and well-appointed kitchen with ample cupboard space, bathroom with separate shower & bath plus convenient laundry facility. Complete with secure and spacious backyard - the perfect play area for children, pets or providing superb facilities for entertaining family and friends on any occasion plus long driveway providing easy access to double carport. This is your ideal investment opportunity or perfect place to call home for the very first time in such a sought after locale only minutes to Reserves, Parkland, schools, shops & transport!

AUCTION Saturday 17th August at 1pm View www.harcourts.com.au/VHS4279 Open Saturday 1.00-1.30pm* David Nelli 0403 111 234 Jason Stirling 0411 520 173

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Hastings 10/14 High Street 03 5970 7333 www.hastings.harcourts.com.au

AUCTION

Tyabb 5/7 Mornington Tyabb Road

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Picture Perfect This designer unit is sure to impress all who inspect! With a high quality finish, central living zone and a low maintenance lifestyle, makes this unit well suited to first home buyers, professional couples, investors, downsizers and anyone after that ultra modern home in an ideal location. Comprising 2 bedrooms with a central bathroom, open plan kitchen, meals & family area, laundry with outdoor access, low maintenance garden and a single car garage. Special features include: fully tiled, gas ducted heating, carpeted bedrooms, close proximity to local schools, Tyabb shops, public transport, freeway access and only minutes drive to the Peninsulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest wineries and beaches

Auction Saturday August 17th at 12pm View www.harcourts.com.au/VHS3996 Open Saturday 11.30-12.00pm* Gavin Doig 0421 986 157

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Think Real Estate, Think Gavin Doig, Think Sold!

Possibly your area’s hardest working, and professional real estate agent, Gavin Doig understands that real estate is so much more than buying and selling houses.

It’s about local market knowledge and creating long lasting client relationships built on trust.

Gavin’s friendly and honest approach is what his clients are most impressed by when dealing with him. Most importantly, Gavin believes in over servicing his clients and will deliver nothing less.

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Crib Point 41 Milne Street

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Decked Out To Entertain - Large Family Home Superbly renovated with focus on a free flowing quality family lifestyle, this open plan weatherboard combines unrivalled design with an enviable position. Meticulous attention is devoted to the three bedrooms, bathrooms and study, all beautifully styled with optimum natural light and practical modern appeal. The large master retreat is situated upstairs with full ensuite and private balcony overlooking the treetops. A secluded study - or fourth bedroom - with open fire place is positioned at the front of the home and a superb open living space greets you as you enter the home, flowing into a large kitchen with stainless steel appliances, large pantry and an abundance of bench and cupboard space. The adjoining dining area features bi-fold doors stretching out to your vast decking area with feature gazebo and a magnificent secure grassed area. Crib Point Primary School and St Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Primary School are just around the corner with parks, shops and Crib Point train station an easy walk away. With a host of quality inclusions: ducted heating throughout the home and air conditioning in the master, polished floor boards, large family bathroom with spa bath, separate toilet and side access to the rear of the property AUCTION THIS SATURDAY at 11.00am Price Guide $390,000+ View www.harcourts.com.au/VHS4223 Open Saturday 10.30-11.00am* Jason Dowler 0403 598 754

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Harcourts SINCE 1888

Hastings 10/14 High Street 03 5970 7333 www.hastings.harcourts.com.au

FOR SALE

Hastings 19 Hodgins Road

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Spacious Home In Great Location This three bedroom home is well suited for new comers to the property market, or for investors who want a property to join their portfolio or kick start it! The functional floor plan consists of three bedrooms, all with generous built in robes. You will be greeted by a large formal lounge as you enter the home, flowing onto the open plan kitchen and dining area with ducted heating throughout. The spacious kitchen features dishwasher and an abundance of cupboard space and the central family bathroom is light and bright with separate toilet and a good size laundry.

The yard is fully fenced providing a safe place for the children and pets to play. There is also a carport and garage to the rear of the property to store all the toys! In a great location within walking distance to Hastings Primary School and Hastings Foreshore Reserve and just a short drive to all other local amenities.

Price By Negotiation $280,000 plus View www.harcourts.com.au/VHS4267 Open Saturday 1.30-2.00pm* Jason Dowler 0403 598 754

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Harcourts SINCE 1888

Hastings 10/14 High Street 03 5970 7333 www.hastings.harcourts.com.au

FOR SALE

Hastings 10 James Hird Drive

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Prime position without the price tag. Walk to the water!

Positioned in a modern low maintenance village offering easy living and an even better location, this well sized townhouse is within a short stroll to the Hastings foreshore. With a large rear yard and two separate living areas, you can have as a home or add to your investment portfolio! Offering three bedrooms and two bathrooms the property has a car park at the front door and has privacy to boot! As you enter through the front door, you immediately feel at home. The home also features gas heating and stainless steel appliances in the kitchen. A double garage has remote doors and access into the house and rear yard! Green gardens and mature trees, close to everything that Hastings has to offer. Whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re single, a couple, small family or investor, you cannot afford to miss a great opportunity in an amazing position.

Price By Negotiation $320,000 - $360,000 View www.harcourts.com.au/VHS4294 Open Saturday 1.30-2.00pm* Jason Dowler 0403 598 754

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Harcourts SINCE 1888

Hastings 10/14 High Street 03 5970 7333 www.hastings.harcourts.com.au

FOR SALE

Hastings 24 Olivia Way

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Five Bedrooms In Family Friendly Location This outstanding family home comes alive as you step inside the front door. Located in the Cottonwood Estate this home has a functional floor plan with separate living areas a real feature, providing the perfect balance in formal and informal living. From the formal living area, you move into the kitchen featuring stainless steel appliances, breakfast bar and ample storage space and the flow continues into the open plan casual living and dining areas of the home. This area combines casual dining with a relaxing lounge area, ideal for day to day living, with ducted heating and there is access out to the low maintenance backyard. The abundant bedrooms total five, or four with a rumpus room or study. The master bedroom is complete with full ensuite & his and her walk in robes, and the three remaining bedrooms all have built in robes and share the main bathroom towards the rear of the home. Once again the location of the bedrooms ensure this home will suit the family and provides the opportunity to enjoy all aspects of the home at all times of the day. Under the roof line of the home is a double lock up garage with remote roller door and internal access and outside improvements include low maintenance gardens and an entertaining area. All of this located within easy access to schools, High Street shops, local sporting and recreation reserves and the Hastings train station, not to mention easy access to Peninsula Link and the city. Make sure this one is on your short list Price By Negotiation $370,000 - $410,000 View www.harcourts.com.au/VHS4269 Open Saturday 2.30-3.00pm* Jason Dowler 0403 598 754

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Hastings 10/14 High Street 03 5970 7333 www.hastings.harcourts.com.au

Introducing Chris Graf The third Salesperson in Jason Dowlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top performing Sales team!

Jason Dowler and Amber Donnelly achieved a top 4 Victorian position in Harcourts last year and are aiming to increase their service standards and results this coming year. In moving forward Chris will improve communication between Harcourts Hastings and the 6272 potential buyers on our contact management system.

Having had a background in the Australian Army for nine years, Chris chose to end his service at the beginning of 2011. He then sought to become a qualified Personal Trainer, and strongly believes in leading a fit and healthy lifestyle and encourages more people to do the same.

Chris is very much people focused in what he does in the real estate arena, and knows that success cannot be achieved without proper communication and loyalty, paving the way for strong trusting relationships.

If Chris can assist you with purchasing property on the Peninsula please contact him on 0413 507 573 anytime. He would love to hear from you.

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Shop 2, 188-194 Main Street Mornington

www.conleyluff.com.au

5975 7733

MORNINGTON

AUCTION: THIS SATURDAY AT 11.30AM

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This spotlessly presented front brick veneer villa boasts a huge front yard which is on title so offers both a remote garage and additional off street parking to suit a caravan or boat. With 2 generous bedrooms (2way bathroom/Walk in robe to master), spacious lounge with gas heating and air conditioning, stylish kitchen with family / meals area separate laundry and a delightful covered deck with sunblinds for year round entertaining.

SUIT $360,000 PLUS BUYERS

Space & light abound in this delightful BV home, offering 24 Squares of living PLUS a sensational 4 square Queenslander room and comprising 4 generous bedrooms (large master with corner spa in ensuite), 2 very spacious and separated living rooms, quality kitchen with s/steel appliances, big laundry and auto d/garage. With delightful gardens and a big 800M2 court lot creating an ideal family setting & including d/heating & cooling, video entry, shade sail and 5x4M shed.

SPACE & COMFORT IN ALL SEASONS! SUIT $490,000 - $540,000 BUYERS

1/49 Separation Street

20 Tira Court

Inspect Wed & Sat 11-11.30am

Inspect Wed & Sat 1-1.30pm or by appointment Contact Duane Pedron 0448 867 765

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This most appealing two-bedroom brick-veneer villa is ideally positioned in a quiet well-maintained group, only a leisurely 5 minute stroll to Main Street and Centro. With s/system reverse-cycle air-conditioning, sun blinds, auto garage & double gate side access for boat/caravan. Very comfortable now! Easily improved!

Inspect Wed & Sat 2-2.30 or by appointment Contact: Kayn Luff 0416 265 337

3/87 Barkly Street

MORNINGTON

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EXECUTOR’S AUCTION! - VILLA IMPROVER IN GOLDEN TRIANGLE!

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Ideal as either a home or an investment, this attractive brick-veneer villa at the rear of only 3 enjoys a 1st class position close to both the Esplanade and Mornington Village.

With two bedrooms, both with built-in robes, lounge & dining rooms, central kitchen with servery, separate laundry, lock-up garage, and a generous yard.

LOW MAINTENANCE LUXURY NEAR BENTONS SQUARE

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Positioned within walking distance to Bentons Square shopping & buses, this superb single level BV residence is 4 years old and has been built with quality in mind. Comprising 3 bedrooms, master with WIR & FES, large open-plan living area overlooked by high end kitchen with stone tops, main bathroom with porcelain tiles, double lock up garage and outdoor entertaining area. Features ducted heating, refrigerated cooling, plantation shutters, dishwasher, remote double garage & ducted vacuum.

3/12 King Street Inspect Wed & Sat 11-11.30am or by appointment Contact Alan Hayes 0413 028 353

Inspect Wed & Sat 12-12.30pm or by appointment Contact Duane Pedron 0448 867 765

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STEVE CONLEY 0428 389 670

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GEOFF LUFF 0416 142 336

KAYN LUFF 0416 265 337

ALAN HAYES 0413 028 353

DUANE PEDRON 0448 867 665

ROBERT LOSCHIAVO 0418 563 580

JADE WILSON 5975 7733

MARIA DAMOS 5975 7733

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Erol Savas 0433 007 153

www.vipbusinessbrokers.com.au

Fantastic Charcoal Chicken Business

Contact: Lainie Brewer 0412 613 127

$349,000

One of the best franchise operations Buy in for MUCH LESS than set up cost Ideal location as part of shopping centre Will sell quick for this price

Contact: Erol Savas 0433 007 153

$109,000 Mornington

Pizza Shop

Shoe shop, MORNINGTON Price: $89,000 + SAV Agency: Kevin Wright Commercial, 72 Main Street, Mornington 5977 2255 Agent: Russell Murphy, 0407 839 184 $149,000

Industrial Takeaway “Diamond”

Great busy location Fully equipped commercial kitchen Long lease available This one won’t be available for long

Contact: Lainie Brewer 0412 613 127

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Be your own boss Cheap rent No weekends!!!

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Contact: Erol Savas 0433 007 153

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Dromana Fully Licensed Restaurant

$169,000

Takeaway / Pizza Shop

Newly refurbished!

Opposite beach Seating 90 patrons inside & out Ideal for functions and/or bar!

Fully equipped kitchen Cheap rent Large premises, huge potential for more Late night liquor licence

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Nandos Franchise - REDUCED TO SELL

Busy shopping strip location Near new kitchen Huge summer takings!!!

Loyal year round customer base

Rosebud

If the shoe fits

Lainie Brewer 0412 613 127

$129,000 Mornington

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COMMUNITY MEETING Heeding the widespread grief and anguish arising from the tragedy that occurred on 12 July, your local politicians, the Hastings Police and the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council are keen to take this opportunity to get together with members of the close-knit community of Hastings to discuss issues and develop ideas to improve safety in and around our town.

When: Thursday 1 August at 5.30 pm.

Where: Hastings Hall.

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AROUND THE REGION

Tough stance on quarry tip

By Mike Hast MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire councillors have taken a tough stance on the proposed tip, or landfill, at the old Pioneer quarry in Dromana.

The Environment Protection Authority had asked the council to consider an application the EPA had received from Peninsula Waste Management (PWM) for a so-called works approval permit.

PWM needs permission from the EPA as well as the council to operate the tip in the old quarry on the Arthurs Seat escarpment off Boundary Rd, which could take 3.7 million cubic metres of domestic and industrial waste over 20 years or more.

EPA referred the works application to the council for comment.

Nine of 11 councillors said they did not “support the application as it is presented” based on “the information contained in the works approval application”.

(Two councillors did not vote – Cr Graham Pittock was on leave and the mayor, Cr Lynn Bowden, has declared a conflict of interest and will take no part in the issue. Her husband Ron Bowden is chairman of a community reference group for the Taylors Rd landfill in Lyndhurst near Dandenong, operated by French multinational waste and recycling firm SITA. It is the only landfill in Melbourne licensed to take toxic waste from industry.)

There was no debate by councillors at the special council meeting held in Mornington, attended by about 150 people, most of whom oppose the tip.

Councillors agreed the EPA “should

Concerns: Shire councillors do not support the existing application to the EPA by Peninsula Waste Management for a rubbish tip in the old Pioneer quarry on the Arthurs Seat escarpment at Dromana. Picture: Yanni

ask for further information from Peninsula Waste Management”.

“This ... should include an assessment as to whether the proposal complies with each specific requirement of the Best Practice Environmental Management and the principles of the Environment Protection Act 1970.”

The council called for the EPA to hold a public conference to consider objections.

It also stated: “If the EPA decides to ultimately approve the works approval application, it should impose condi-

tions specifically drafted to ensure that the landfill poses no long-term risk to the environment or community of [the] Mornington Peninsula.”

The council’s decision came after it had considered a scathing report from senior shire planner Sotirios Katakouzinos (“Quarry tip plan flawed: planner”, The News, 11/7/13).

Mr Katakouzinos recommended the council should not object to or support the application to the EPA but councillors led by Frank Martin and Tim Rodgers took a harder line.

After the meeting, Cr Martin told The News he had been receiving about 10 emails a day from tip objectors.

The quarry is in Cr Martin’s Red Hill Ward.

Peninsula Waste Management CEO Vince Latham said in a prepared statement that Mr Katakouzinos’s report “contains factual inaccuracies and is based on incorrect assumptions”.

Mr Latham listed four errors: a reference by Mr Katakouzinos to noise on “Saturday evening”, which should have read “afternoon” (although the

Shire warning over ‘no tip’ signs

By Mike Hast MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire has warned objectors to the proposed rubbish tip in an old Dromana quarry to remove signs from nature strips and public land.

Hundreds of anti-tip signs have sprouted like mushrooms in recent weeks, especially in the Dromana and Arthurs Seat areas (“Anti-tip slogans sign of the times”, The News, 11/7/13).

A bulletin sent to members of Peninsula Preservation Group, lead objector of the tip, stated the shire’s planning compliance department had contacted the group “to alert us to the unlawful positioning of some of our ‘no tip’ signs after receiving a number of complaints”.

“They stress that signs will be removed as a last resort, and have given us opportunity to alert supporters to relocate any signs on nature strips back onto their private property,” the bulletin stated.

“Signs on fences are also permitted. Thank you for your assistance in this matter; we certainly don’t want to make enemies of the planning people, and they have been very reasonable to date.

“In the meantime, let’s keep up the signage – they are obviously making an impression.”

The group is distributing signs from three outlets – a cafe and a liquor shop in Dromana, and a food shop in Red Hill – as well as through its website.

Some of the “no tip” signs are small and handmade while others are large ones produced by professional signwriters.

One is next to the freeway near Martha Cove marina at Safety Beach erected by Dromana real estate agent Roger McMillan on a property he is selling for the owners.

Another is on Dromana cattle grazier Andrew Duncan’s property on Collins Rd leading into the industrial estate, and he has one near the corner of White Hill and Bittern-Dromana roads.

Mr Duncan is a high-profile opponent of the tip

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Signing on: Left, Roger McMillan’s board beside the freeway at Safety Beach. Picture: Yanni Right, the Yabby Lake Vineyard board on Arthurs Seat Rd.

who in May paid for large advertisements in local papers objecting to the proposal.

One sign on Arthurs Seat Rd at Yabby Lake Vineyard reads: “Say no to the stinking, dangerous, noisy tip at beautiful Arthurs Seat. This is an environmental dereliction of duty by our council. Sponsored by Yabby Lake Vineyard and the Kirby family.”

Yabby Lake was established by Robert and Mem Kirby in the late 1990s. The father of Robert and his brother John is the late Roscoe “Roc” Kirby who started the Village Roadshow cinema chain. Yabby Lake is now operated by Robert and Mem Kirby’s children Nina and Clark.

Another sign in Boundary Rd, Dromana, reads: “We want our kids to grow up in a park not a tip.”

Some objectors have injected humour into their messages.

A digitally altered photo doing the email rounds shows several naked young women at a quarry

holding anti-tip signs to protect their modesty.

The quarry is not the old Pioneer quarry on the Arthurs Seat escarpment.

Another is an actual photo of the top of Arthurs Seat with several additions – a huge, overflowing litter bin named “The Big Rubbish Bin” with seagulls hovering above it and with smaller signs reading “Welcome to Arthurs Seat” and “Tip Tours”. Next to the bin is a huge sign reading “No tip near Arthurs Seat”. It is on Facebook.

If battles were decided by “image warfare”, the anti-tip movement has already won.  Peninsula Preservation Group’s website is at: savearthursseat.com The group’s 12,000 signature petition is at: www. communityrun.org/petitions/save-arthurs-seat  Peninsula Waste Management’s website is at: peninsulawaste.com.au  There is information on the shire website at: www.mornpen.vic.gov.au

times were correct); disagreeing about the EPA’s 500-metre buffer zone from homes; disagreeing about the meaning of “immediate future” regarding the closure of Rye landfill in about five years; and the report’s concern about the landfill not having an Alternative Waste Treatment facility.

“It is common knowledge that the site is unsuitable for such a facility.

The EPA required buffer separation distance for an enclosed 90,000 tonnes per annum organics processing facility in the order of 1400 to 2000 metres.

This buffer is not available here and therefore such a facility is not and cannot be part of the [EPA] application,” Mr Latham stated.

Mark Fancett of Peninsula Preservation Group said Mr Katakouzinos’s report “outlines many pages of significant concerns and omissions from PWM’s submission”.

“These include but are not limited to leachate and groundwater management, dust suppression, vermin and pest control, odour, noise, buffer distances and fire risk,” Dr Fancett said.

“It is an engrossing read, taking us on a dramatic journey through the inadequacies of the proposal.”

Dr Fancett, a biological scientist, said there had been a leachate spill “at Rye tip in 2008 after the rupture of a leachate pipe”. “This is evidence that all landfills are prone to technical failures during their operation and beyond. The EPA should take heed of its own guidance: appropriate siting of a landfill is the primary environmental control.”

Big win for a village A COURT case involving a small village in the Hunter Valley of NSW threatened by a planned coal mine could play a role in whether the old Pioneer quarry on the Arthurs Seat escarpment becomes a rubbish dump.

Bulga (population 300) had a big win in the NSW Land and Environment Court over Coal & Allied, a subsidiary of global mining giant Rio Tinto, which wanted to dig an open-cut mine in a refuge for endangered plants and animals.

The land court, overturning the NSW government-endorsed proposal, criticised the government’s approval of the proposed mine, saying it could damage Bulga’s “sense of place”.

Many objections put to the court – equal in rank to NSW’s Supreme Court – are the same as opponents of Peninsula Waste Management’s proposal to convert the old quarry to a landfill site.

Peninsula Preservation Group and 850 objectors to the quarry tip plan have raised concerns over dust, noise, pollution of groundwater and creeks, traffic and bushfires.

Justice Brian Preston, chief judge of the Land and Environment Court, said he was not persuaded by the economic analysis offered by the company.

“The project’s impacts would exacerbate the loss of sense of place, and materially and adversely change the sense of community of the residents of Bulga and the surrounding countryside,” he said.

The mine would have had “significant and unacceptable” effects on plants and animals, and would generate serious levels of dust and noise, the judgment said.

A Rio Tinto spokesman reportedly said the community’s ability to challenge the government’s decision was “significantly obstructing investment and job creation in NSW”.

The matter was taken to court by the Bulga Milbrodale Progress Association, representing the views of most of Bulga’s residents, with help from the Environmental Defender’s Office of NSW. The land court’s decision is being appealed.

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AROUND THE REGION

Mongolia ride seals the trilogy

By Keith Platt BY all accounts, Mongolia is a rugged place – populated by hardy, nomadic people who travel with the seasons finding fodder for their animals.

Documentaries have brought the Mongols into our lounge rooms: living in transportable yurts and making sure no blood is lost when slaughtering animals for food.

The reality is only 30 per cent of Mongolia’s population is nomadic and the country joined the World Trade Organisation in 1997 and is seeking regional trading partners.

But there is no doubting the harshness of Mongolia’s terrain – a drawcard for increasing numbers of tourists, including some who revel in putting their bodies and minds at risk.

George Paterson, of Rye, is training for this year’s Mongolia Bike Challenge, a 900-kilometre, seven-day race across steppes and mountains.

There is no prizemoney “just the glory of riding across some of the most remote areas left on the planet”.

Paterson, at 59 the oldest competitor, leaves next week for his “training camp” on the remote Indonesian island of Roti and goes to Mongolia at the end of August.

He sees the Mongolian ride as the third part of his “hardship trilogy”.

Paterson has twice tested his skills while “experiencing the thrills and spills of East Timor’s six-day Tour de Timor”.

More usually found at sea level, the lifelong peninsula resident and Peninsula Surf partner sees the September

race as an “opportunity to be as far as remotely possible from the nearest ocean”.

Paterson, whose son Bryce joined him for one of the Timor events, says his family “has learnt to avoid these things now”.

“The height is going to be an issue; as a sea level person who gets altitude sickness at the top of Arthurs Seat, the event starting height of 1500 metres and going up to 3000 metres could be a problem,” Paterson told The News.

“I’ll go slowly, I guess. It’s the end of summer and the climate is probably similar to outback Australia, with hot days and cold nights.

“Anything is possible and every rider must carry a survival kit to avoid a time penalty, including a space blanket, whistle and mirror.

“The event is centred on the Khan Khentii National Park, the birth place of Genghis Khan in about 1162, which has been sacred and off limits for centuries to all Mongols and foreigners.”

There are 100 competitors in the mountain bike race, ranging in age from 20 to 59. Paterson turns 60 in October, the month after the race.

He is one of three in the 50 and over section “so I’ve just got to finish to get a place. I’m the oldest and probably least experienced, and prepared, I’d say”.

Competitors have 10 hours to finish each day’s ride, except on the fifth day when they are allowed 14 hours to make the 175 kilometres over a 2000-metre high mountain range.

Across the line: George Paterson cruises across the finish line in the 2012 six-day day Tour de Timor endurance event last year.

“The event is high endurance in a stunning and competitive environment,” Paterson said.

“The Mongolian event is about one and a half times harder than the Tour de Timor and in an even more remote location.

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100 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK...

Melbourne thief tried for larceny, Booze to blame for bodily harm Compiled by Matt Vowell From the pages of the Mornington Standard, 2 August 1913.

BEFORE Messrs N. Rudduck (chairman) and A. V. Shaw, J’s,P., Harold Mulder, a young man of about 25 years of age, was charged with entering the dwelling of, and stealing therefrom the sum of £27 14s 4d, the property of George Perugia.

Inspector Skehan, who conducted the prosecution, asked the Bench to amend the charge to that of simple larceny. The Bench had power to do this under Section 69 of the Crimes Act. On the Bench concurring, the accused pleaded guilty.

After hearing the evidence of George Perugia and Detective Rohen, who arrested the accused in Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, on the l4th inst., the chairman stated the sentence would be 3 months’ imprisonment, and that accused would be dealt with as a first offender, and to enter into recognisance’s to be of good behaviour for 12 months and to find a surety of £10. This was forthcoming and he was set at liberty. *** WHEN trying a case of wounding at the Central Criminal Court, Judge Rentoul, K.C., observed that, in his opinion, 90 per cent of the cases heard arose out of excessive indulgence in drink, and 97 or 98 per cent of the cases of bodily harm were traceable to the same pernicious evil. *** THE Frankston Brass Band will play out in the street on Saturday evening, weather permitting. *** THE secretary of the Frankston Football Club acknowledges, with thanks, a donation of 10s 6d towards the club funds from Dr Plowman. Mr K. H. Webb, secretary of the Somerville Football Club, begs to acknowledge, with thanks, a donation of £2 2s from Mr G. Keast. *** REV. J. Bateson has been granted a special pension of £100 a year by the Government of India in recognition of Shis labers in the cause of temperance I in the Army. *** MR Wm. Carter, of Katunga, has purchased a building block in Frankston and proposes during the summer months to spend much time in Frankston. Mr Carter is a first rate cricketer and possibly may play for the local team. *** THE Moonee Valley Steeplechase of £850 was on Saturday last won by the favourite, Bullawarra. The second prize of £100 was annexed

by Zephuron, who was not fancied for the event with 10st 6lb in the saddle, started at the long price of 12 to 1 against. *** AT the recent primary examination at the Melbourne University, Mary Stark, one of the pupils attending the Convent of Mercy, Morninton, passed in the following subjects:- English, French, Arithmetic, Algebra, Geography and Drawing (mode, memory freehand and practical geometry.) *** AFTER the football match:Caller: “Your brother had a rough time at the football match on Saturday, and I hear he is in bed; does he want anything? Sister: “Poor Jack!

He is in a sorry plight. He wants two deltoid muscles, a couple of kneecaps, one elbow, about a yard of cuticle, a left ear, and a bridge for his nasal organ.” *** LANDOWNERS in the Shire of Mornington are finding themselves taxed with another mattter besides rates and land tax at present, and that is to destroy the rabbits on their holdings. In many cases the rabbits have ruined the land to such an extent that it will not produce anything at all and in all cases it will be an expensive affair getting rid of the pest. *** A VERY enjoyable social evening was spent by the members of the Mornington Young Men’s Christian Association at “Parkside,”’ on Tuesday last. The evening’s amusement consisted of parlor games, etc., which were generally enjoyed, after which supper was partaken of. The catering, which was in the hands of Mr F. Bieri, gave entire satisfaction. ***

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It is the best programme ever submitted to the public, the proceeds being in aid of the Catholic Church debt. *** A EUCHRE party and dance in aid of the funds of the Frankston Brass Band will be held in the Mechanics’ Hall on Wednesday evening next, 6th August. Good music and supper will be provided, and an enjoyable evening is anticipated. *** EVIDENCE of Spring are visible on every hand.

Almond and cherry plum trees are just opening their flowers. Orchardists generally are very busy with winter spraying and pruning. *** A GANG of men are at present busily engaged in strengthening the crane at the Somerville railway station yard. The large bundles of trees, crates of cabbages, and heavy machinery loaded and unloaded at this station require a strong crane. *** WE regret to say that Mr Wm. Thornell is in a very low state. Mrs Robert Frayne is also in a serious condition, two trained nurses being in attendance. Mrs Grant, senr., has made good progress towards recovery since her attack. *** DURING the past few weeks, a considerable number of properties have changed hands at Mornington. Dr Somers has sold nearly all his building allotments in Bath Street; Mr J. G. Barrett has disposed of several building sites and properties, including a choice block on the Esplanade (next to the State Savings Bank) to Mr J. Conroy; Mr A. Bestlie’s property, in Waterloo Place, to Mr Hoskins, of Red Hill; and Miss Warrell’s property, in Albert Street (which is at present occupied by Mr J. G. Barrett and family) to Mrs A. B. Gray, “ The Glen,” at satisfactory prices. *** EXTENSIVE alterations have been going on during the past few months at Mr Edwick’s residence, “Belura,” and although about twenty men are constantly employed, the necessary alterations and additions will not be complete until another month or two.

Mr Edwick intends having the place lighted with electric light, and radiated pipes through all the principal rooms, and skewered throughout.

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HISTORY

The Bryants – Hastings pioneering family

By Peter McCullough Carl Bryant was born in Hastings on 22 September 1928. Although he had a varied working life, including time working as a stevedore and a number of years with the PMG as a linesman and cable jointer, for many years he was a shark fisherman in Bass Strait. As a Hastings fisherman, Carl followed in the footsteps of his father, Owen Ernest Bryant, grandfather, William Charles Bryant, and great grandfather, Edward Bryant.

The Bryants of today are numerous and widely scattered, so this is not a definitive account of their family tree; rather it takes a look at one or two of the branches.

Part Two Owen and Coralina’s five sons were Fred (born 1914), Dick (1919), Jack (1923), Carl (1928) and Len (1930).

During the war years, Fred and Dick, both qualified as fitters and turners, worked at the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, as did a sister (Irma) and Dick’s future wife (Joan White).

After the war, these brothers had a saw mill at Shoreham, before Fred went to work for English Engineering in Kookaburra Street, Frankston.

Meanwhile Dick worked at Repco in Mornington as a fitter and turner for a few years, before joining his brother at English Engineering.

While at Repco, Dick commuted in an old Vauxhall. One day, on the return journey, he spotted an echidna beside the road. Thinking that this would be of interest to the children, Dick stopped and coaxed the animal into his lunch bag. By the time he reached home, the echidna had eaten its way through the lunch bag, the seat cover, and had enmeshed itself in the springs of the seat.

Fred eventually became the proprietor of English Engineering; he took care of the office while his brother, Dick, ran the workshop. Fred did not marry, but Dick and Joan (nee White) had five children: Terry (born 1943, served his apprenticeship with English Engineering, had several motor bike businesses in Frankston, ran motor bike safari tours of the outback, but was killed several years ago on the Monash freeway), Jill

The Bryant family in the 1990’s: Back row Fred, Joy, Dick and sylvia. Front row Jack, Von, Carl and Len. Absent Irma. Also note, Bessie died of diptheria at the age of two.

Wright (1946, who lives in Western Australia), Max (1950, one of the current newsworthy Bryants - see below), Lyn Beaumont (1954, one of Australia’s best known equine artists), and Glen (1962, an industrial diver).

Jack was a carpenter and spent much of his working life at Cerberus.

He served in New Guinea during the war, married Melva Scott, and had two children (Christopher and Lance).

Len worked for the PMG and then as a wharf supervisor at Lysaghts/ BHP for a number of years. Len was a ‘jack of all trades’, working as a bricklayer, interstate truck driver and fisherman in Bass Strait and the south coast of Tasmania for approximately six years. He married Shirley

Fredericks and they adopted two children Ron and Peter) before having a daughter (Merridy).

As well as the boys, Owen and Coralina had five girls: Joy (born 1916), Irma (1918), Sylvie (1921), Bessie (who died in infancy), and Vonnie (1926). Of their ten children, only the fourth son, Carl, survives.

Carl was born in Hastings on 22 September 1928 and started shark fishing with the Burgess family in 1949. For 13 years from 1968, Carl fished in Bass Strait on the Jean Bryant, the largest locally-owned fishing boat to work out of Hastings. It was built by his eldest brother, Fred, at English Engineering to Carl’s design, with a length of 57 feet and a beam

of 17 feet 6 inches. It was launched at Jack’s Beach in Bittern and sailed on its maiden voyage on 13 December 1968.

For the next 14 years, Carl fished around all of the islands of Bass Strait. He was mostly long-lining for shark until the introduction of monofilament nets around 1971, after which he switched to nets, as did most of the long line shark fishermen.

Today, Carl, now 84, and his wife, Jean, live quietly in retirement in Stumpy Gully Road - quite some distance from the water. They have a family of six: Jenny (born 1954), Lloyd (1956), Robin (1957), Mandy (1959), Stacey (1963) and Ian (1968).

Although Jenny is the most news-

worthy member of this family (see below), it is worth noting that the Bryant family is not completely done with fishing, with Robin working as a crayfish and shark fisherman based at Port Welshpool. Moreover, Ian has built his own 22-foot aluminum boat and works as needed on mussel farms off Flinders.

References: The Hastings Fishermen (by Bruce Bennett), Hastings People and Places Vol.3 (edited by Shirley Davies, Beryl Stockton & Rita Cooper), Jenny Bryant, Max Bryant, and Hastings-Western Port Historical Society.

To Be Continued...

Owen Bryant and the Hastings Football Club IN the first decade or so of the twentieth century, when a regular football competition was getting established on the Mornington Peninsula, the Hastings Football Club created a record that will probably never be broken. From 1903 to 1910 they were premiers for eight years in succession, then runners-up in 1911, before becoming premiers for a further three successive years from 1912 to 1914. Eleven premierships in twelve years is a remarkable performance.

Owing to the fact that many of the players were fishermen who lived on their boats, training on a Tuesday was a problem. However, every boat carried a football on board.

Groups would train on French Island and Churchill Island or wherever there was a clear space to kick the ball and have a run. According to folklore, on calm days the ball would be kicked from boat to boat, a claim one would have to agree prompts a ‘pull the other one’ response!

By Thursday, the fishermen were generally ashore so that was the main training night. There were no rooms of any sort and so those that required a rub-down made their way to the nearest home, which was half a mile away and belonged to Mr And Mrs Floyd, who had three sons playing.

Not having any change rooms didn’t worry the Hastings boys. There was plenty of ti tree around the ground and a creek full of water provided the means of getting rid of mud after games. It was only after the many protests to the As-

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sociation that a shelter was provided for opposing teams to change in, but for years they had to share the creek with the local boys if they wanted to get rid of the mud.

The fishing fleet at that time was crewed by a good number of men of English background, complemented by many of Italian descent. Accordingly, the Hastings football team in those premiership years consisted of Anglo-Saxon named player such as Knox, Francis and Slocombe playing alongside those named Incigniri, Mirabella and Sposito.

In 2013, the Hastings Football Club named its team of the century and ten teams of the decade. One of those named in the 1910-19 team of the decade was a forward named Owen Bryant. Although his fishing responsibilities restricted his contribution to 32 games between 1910 and 1912, he was a member of the Hastings Football Club premiership team of 1910 and also played in the side that was runner-up to Frankston in 1911. His grandson Max is the proud owner of the official medal which commemorates this contribution.

Reference: Some of this information was obtained from the reminiscences of Norm Francis which appeared in “Blue Power” in 1976 and which was reprinted in this newspaper several years ago.

Winning image: The Hastings Football Club premiership medallion from 1910.

The Jean Bryant: Carl’s boat, named after his wife, built by his brother Fred at his engineering works in Frankston. It was launched at Jack’s Beach in December 1968, and the picture right shows it operational in Bass Strait.

Hastings from the air: Photos taken by Dick Bryant in the 1930’a from the top of a tall pine tree where Woolworths is currently located. Photo left has post-office in the centre. Photo right shows Owen Bryant’s house in Victorian Street near where Kmart is now located. The tree at the right of the photo was removed at the time of the Kmart redevelopment and the trunk now sits outside Kings Creek Hotel.

Cyclists at Hastings in the 1930s

Pedal-power: Cyclists (l to r) Bert Edwards, Dick Bryant, Tom Barclay, Billy Longmuir, Mac Bryant, George Barclay, George Slocombe, Tom Longmuir, and Fred Barclay.

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Monkeyshine on you crazy diamond

By Stuart McCullough THE trappings of success are plentiful when you’re a musician. Limousines, fabulous wealth and an adoring public – these are just some of the benefits writing a song that can be hummed by others will bring you. It’s not just wheelbarrows of filthy lucre, either.

Indeed, it’s pretty much a law of physics that the greater the success, the more unusual the riches.

Fur-lined bathtub, a diamond encrusted toothbrush and your own personalized range of sneakers – that’s how the truly rich and famous celebrate the unending glory that it is to be them. But speedboats made of chocolate and motorized socks will only get you so far. True superstardom means one thing and one thing only: your own monkey.

Take Justin Bieber. Please. He started off as a kid with a haircut and unfettered access to Auto-Tune who seemed to strike it lucky in life’s super-draw jackpot. Justin has sold recordings and concert tickets in obscene quantities.

But like any self-respecting rock star, he knew this was simply a platform to realize the one dream we all have but too few of us ever see to fruition. Justin got himself a monkey named ‘Mally’. And while, at 19, Justin Bieber is insultingly young, the monkey was younger still, at less than 6 months old.

When a pop star finally reaches the stratospheric heights of stardom needed to justify getting a primate to call their very own, it should be something of a love affair. Sadly, this has not been the case for young Justin and Mally. It started well enough, with candid photos of the two larking about. But their bliss would prove to be short-lived.

Being a young pop star may give you tens of millions of followers on Twitter, but it doesn’t make you any better at paperwork and German authorities confiscated Mally. When the singer later missed a deadline to submit his documents, ownership of the creature was transferred to the state and the monkey sent to an animal park.

The verdict is in: sorry Justin, you’re

clearly not ready for a monkey. Perhaps before you make your next bid for all-out superstardom, you should take a moment to consider those who have come before you.

Elvis may be regarded by some as the ‘King’ of rock ‘n’ roll’, but there was a time when he wanted to add the title ‘Lord of the Apes’ to his collection. ‘Scatter’ the chimpanzee was, in many respects, perfectly suited to the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle as he had a tendency to steal people’s drinks and to look up the skirts of unsuspecting guests. He was a constant source of amusement for the King.

Scatter would be dressed in suits and sneakers and would sit in the back of a Rolls Royce while the chauffer drove around Las Vegas.

Apparently, it tickled Elvis’s fancy

when fellow commuters glanced at the back seat of the car beside them only to see a monkey. Sadly, it wasn’t all just stealing drinks and doing a ‘blockie’ in the Roller. Scatter also tended to bite people and, eventually, was banished from Elvis’ Bel Air digs, dispatched back to Memphis.

When it comes to the sacred bond between man and chimp, there’s no better example than Michael Jackson and ‘Bubbles’. The pop star bought the animal from a research facility.

The two were soon inseparable.

Bubbles wore human clothes, including the glittery military-style suits so favoured by his owner. He was said to sleep in a crib in Jackson’s room and was bestowed the ultimate honour of being allowed to use the King of Pop’s bathroom.

The chimp had his own bodyguard and was taught to moonwalk. He also had his own agent, although (sadly) Bubbles never landed that one careerdefining breakout role. He would have brought something entirely unique to the role of Stanley Kowalski in A Street Car Named Desire.

Fists raised to the sky, Bubbles would wail for Stella before tossing a monkey mound in her direction. It was not to be. As the chimp got older, he became more aggressive. Removed from Neverland, he ended up at the Centre for Great Apes in Florida.

But of all the pop stars to own a monkey, no one was more devoted than French singer Leo Ferre. For those unfamiliar with his work, Leo’s music is very, very French. So much so, had he visited French Island during his lifetime, he would doubtless have been crowned its king.

Leo was a struggling songwriter who ultimately achieved extraordinary success with his unique and, frankly, somewhat eccentric take on French folk music. Propelled to mega-stardom, like so many before him, Leo bought an island with a castle on it and settled down. As you or I would, he then filled that castle with animals.

Among a menagerie of beasts that would put Noah to shame was a chimp called Pepee. However, primates need a firm hand and, without the appropriate discipline, Pepee eventually took control of the castle, stealing valuables from guests and biting servants.

He was later put down after injuring himself in a fall. Leo Ferre was inconsolable.

It never ends well with monkeys.

Then again, it never ends well with mega stardom either. Perhaps young Bieber is lucky Mally was confiscated.

Rather than adopt wildlife, he should just settle for changing his name to a symbol. Rock on,. stuart@stuartmccullough.com

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KIA, Rio, 2008, sedan, 1.6L auto, red, only 75,000kms, reg 09/13, EC, older lady owner, economical small sedan, log book, serviced, XHJ-531, $8,500. 5977 8060. Somerville.

Notice of Intention to Declare a Special Charge Scheme HASTINGS ACTIVITY CENTRE In accordance with a resolution of the Mornington Peninsula Shire (“Council”) made at its ordinary meeting held on Monday 22 July 2013, notice is hereby given that, at the ordinary meeting of Council to be held on Monday 14 October 2013, it is the intention of the Mornington Peninsula Shire to declare a Special Charge under Section 163 of the Local Government Act 1989 (“the Act”).

The Special Charge is for the purposes of defraying advertising, promotion, centre management, business development and other incidental expenses associated with the encouragement of commerce in the Hastings Activity Centre. The funds are collected on behalf of the incorporated body known and operating as the Western Port Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

In proposing the declaration of the Special Charge, Council is performing functions and exercising powers related to the stimulation and facilitation of business development and local employment opportunities.

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The proposed Special Charge will remain in force for a period of seven years from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2020.

It is the intention of Council to declare the Special Charge to apply to all rateable premises (except vacant land) used for retail and commercial purposes within the Hastings Activity Centre. The land covered by the Special Charge includes: The area covered by the Special Charge Scheme includes:

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2 – 6 (inclusive) and 11 Alfred Street 2 – 16 (inclusive) and 3 – 11 (inclusive) Arthur Street

CAMPER TRAILER, 2010, 7' x 4', off road with Oztrail camper 10 set up. $4,500. 0414 412 224. Mt Martha.

1 – 49 (inclusive) Church Street 2 – 38 (inclusive) Elizabeth Street 2 – 16 (inclusive) Herring Street 2 – 146 (inclusive) and 3 – 141 (inclusive) High Street 14 – 42 (inclusive) and 15 – 61 (inclusive) King Street 7 – 29 (inclusive) Marine Parade 1 – 21 (inclusive) and 2 – 12 (inclusive) Queen Street 123 – 147 (inclusive) and 136 – 192 Salmon Street 20 – 44 (inclusive) and 23 – 53 (inclusive) Victoria Street The proposed Special Charge is assessed and levied on the basis of a property’s location in the Centre, and in Year One if declared the Charge will be as follows: All properties located on High Street, Hastings with ground floor frontage - $330 All other properties within the proposed boundary - $200 Charges will increase by five per cent annually to take into consideration the increased cost of future activities.

Council considers that each rateable property and each business included in the proposed Scheme area that is required to pay the Special Charge, will receive a special benefit because the viability of the Hastings Activity Centre as a retail and commercial area will be enhanced through increased economic activity. The value of the properties included in the scheme boundary, their desirability as letting propositions, (where applicable) and their general image and stature, both separately and severally in the context of the area generally, will be maintained or enhanced.

Council proposes to levy the Special Charge by sending notice to those liable to pay it. The Special Charge will be payable by four equal instalments or by one instalment payable each year in accordance with rate notices. In instances of nonpayment of the Charge, interest may accrue in accordance with Section 172 of the Local Government Act and standard Council practice on non-payment of rates and charges.

Copies of the proposed declaration (which includes a map of the Scheme boundaries, a list of properties included in the Scheme and amounts payable by each property) are available for inspection during normal office hours at any of the Council offices for a period of at least 28 days after the publication of this notice, namely Monday 2 September 2013.

Any person who will be affected by the Special Charge is entitled to make a written submission and/or objection (under Sections 163A & 223 of the Act) in relation to Council’s proposal; while any person required to pay the Special Charge has the right of objection (under Section 163B). Where an objector is not the property owner, evidence of their requirement to pay the Special Charge should be included with their objection.

CAMPER TRAILER, like new, $3,666.60, charcoal and green, awnings and side walls, double bed, 7x4, ROG-839.

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CARAVAN OFFROAD, Quantam ZS2009, one owner, the perfect van for those trips you've been dreaming about, rugged but lightweight, outdoor kitchen, solar, many extras. $71,990. 0427 644 290.

GALAXY, 2003, poptop, 16' 6", island double bed, innerspring mattress, front kitchen, microwave, rollout pantry, new awning with mesh wall and flooring, many extras, one owner, always garaged, $19,950ono. 0412 839 489. Bittern

FORD, Transit van, decked out for camping, awning, double bed, barbecue, EC, new transmission, RWC, ready to travel, 516-SCL. $14,100. 0410 398 933.

JAYCO FREEDOM, pop top, 2001, caravan, GC, approx. 15' x 7.6', 4 burner, gas, cooktop with grill, microwave, 90lt, 3 way Electrolux fridge, stainless steel sink, rangehood, 2 rear single beds, roll out awning, view at Mt Martha, $16,500. Ph 0428 069 367.

JAYCO, Freedom Poptop, 17', 2001, EC, always garaged, twin beds, AC, front kitchen, sink, 4 burner stove, microwave, 3 way fridge, electric brakes, rollout awning, full annexe, extras available. $19,750 neg. Ph 5975 0565. Mornington MAJESTIC KNIGHT, pop top, 15.6" x 7' x 6", 2006 model, front kitchen, rear singles, microwave, TV, stereo, roll out awning, innerspring mattresses, galaxy windows, one owner, as new. $21,500.

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ONSITE CARAVAN, permanent annexe, at Shallow Inlet, sleeps up to 8, 2 sets of bunks, QS bed, sofa bed, AC (not fitted), fully equipped with just about everything you need, including a shed, BBQ, and outdoor setting, $13,200 ono. 5997 5815 or 0418 599 142.

REGENT, 18', 2007, auto roof lift, tandem axle, as new, has the lot. $28,000.

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REGENT, 18', 2007, auto roof lift, tandem axle, as new, has the lot. $28,000.

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Manager Economic Development, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Private Bag 1000, Rosebud 3939 and received no later than 5pm on Monday 2 September 2013.

Following consideration of all submissions, Council intends to formally consider its intention to declare a Special Charge at the Ordinary Council Meeting on 14 October 2013.

Enquiries should be directed to Sara Schwarz, Business Development Officer on telephone (03) 5950 1855 or business@mornpen.vic.gov.au.

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HOLDEN, VE Commodore, silver with black race stripes, 2007, dual fuel, demo model. full holden options, sunroof, full electrics, factory gas, 20" mags etc etc, 165,000klms, well looked after car, regretful sale.

1st to see will buy, XLG-900. $18,500ono.

Contact Graham on 0409 173 461 or 9755 7352.

HOLDEN, Astra TS CD, grey, 2003, hatch, 5 speed manual, new windscreen, near new tyres, full service history, 198,850kms, well loved, one lady owner, EC, RWC, reg until 06/13, SHA-199. $6,700. Narelle: 0418 362 161, 5941-2365.

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HOLDEN, Barina, 2009 model, silver, alloy wheels, 72,000km, AC, ABS, in as new condition, manual, RWC, XMZ-933. $9,000ono. Phone: 0457 879 059 after 5pm.

HOLDEN, Captiva, 2011, 3.0V6, 7LX series 2, VGC, full leather trim, electric drivers seat, white, 15,500kms, RWC, YMD-700, $29,950. 0418 154 024.

HOLDEN, Commodore VY, 2003, 170,000kms, regularly serviced, RWC, SJX-830, $7,000ono.

0409 182 966. 0418 338 370.

Submissions and/or objections should be in writing, and addressed to:

Any person who has made a written submission and/or objection to Council may also elect to appear in person, or by a person acting on his or her behalf, before Council’s Section 223 Committee at a day, time and location to be confirmed.

Those who wish to appear in person should indicate this in their submission and/or objection.

FORD, Focus CL, December 2009, 2 lt auto, 5 door hatch AU. Colour satin white, EC, 40,600km, XIL-399, one owner, $15,500. 0408 307 458.

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The maximum annual cost of the performance of the functions is $105,000 ($90,000 for marketing and managing the Activity Centre plus Council’s administrative costs of $15,000).

The maximum total amount of the Special Charge to be levied is $630,000 over a period of seven years. This equates to a maximum of $90,000 per annum.

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GALAXY, Poptop, 18'6", 2003, tandem axle, roll out awning, island bed, front kitchen, microwave, reg. to 08/13, $25,500ono.

0418 571 544. Blairgowrie.

JAYCO, 1986, 15', single axle, poptop, VGC, east west bed on gas struts with storage, also has portaloo cupboard. $9,000ono. 9704 7834, 0439 509 997. Narre Warren.

JAYCO, Freedom, poptop, 17', 2004, single beds with inner-spring mattress, roll out awning, electric brakes, all in EC. $16,500.

0425 797 901.

JAYCO, Poptop, 16.5' x 7'6", roll out awning, annexe, two single beds, 2004, good clean condition with extras. $18,300.

9704 7086 or 0437 629 179.

TRAILER, tandem box, new, 7'x5', aluminium, galvanised frame, checker plate, jockey wheel, spare tyre, reg Nov 2013. $2,650ono. 0413 341 409.

WINDSOR, 2005, Trustar, pop top, 17' 6", twin beds, reverse AC, TV antenna, battery pack, awning, annexe, stereo, radio, more extras, EC, reg 08 2013. $23,450neg. 5971 3277, Frankston South.

HOLDEN, Commodore, 2009, SS, ute, V8 6 speed manual, never been smoked in, always had seat covers, tinted windows, reverse camera, tow bar, full service history, reg. to 05/14, RWC, 72,000kms, ZGO-033, $26,000ono. 0418 524 522.

HOLDEN, Commodore, VY, 2003, sedan, black, 19" wheels, reg. to 01 /2014, WFO-723, $7,000.

0421 457 944.

MOTOR VEHICLES BMW, 2002, 5 speed sports, auto, coupe, 2 door, black Sapphire with black leather seats, 172,507kms, EC, registered until 02/14.

FWD-061. $15,000. 0430 563 529.

MAZDA 3, SP23, 2005, black, 5 speed manual, sports interior, full electrics, cruise control, airbags, power steering, 17" alloy wheels, brand new Yokohama tyres, ABS brakes, AC, climate control, remote keyless entry, engine immobiliser, fog lights, EC, 4 door sedan, 6 stacker CD player, very reliable car, RWC, YAR-105. $12,000. 0402 700 340.

MAZDA, Tribute, wagon, 2, in storage, immaculate, 26,000kms, 2 months reg, RRY-920, $12,500ono.

0414 873 254.

MERCEDES, E320, 1994, auto,leather interior, electric sunroof, 241,400kms, reg until 2/14, service books available, RWC, VGC, OUJ-284. $9,500.

0418 991 588 Mount Martha.

MITSUBISHI, Triton, ute, 2001, manual, 6 cylinder, 190,000kms, immaculate condition, tinted windows, AC, RWC, WMU-394, $6,800. 0407 220 356.

TOYOTA, Camry Sportivo V6, 2006, four speed, auto, reg until 11/13, ULC-707. Priced to sell $8,700. Antonio 0421 638 754.

TOYOTA, Landcruiser, 100 series, 4.2 diesel 5 speed, 6 seater, 07/02 build, twin batteries, snorkel, dual fuel tanks, Sunraysia wheels with three new tyres, ARB side steps, IPF Extream sport driving lights, towbar, winch, UHF radio, CD player with iPod connectivity and remote control, cargo barrier, air horns, extras including Husqvarna chainsaw, jack, car stands, tree guard, D shackles, gloves.

156,865kms, RWC, 12 months reg, TREHGR, sold with standard plates. $29,900. 0409 148 114 or 0407 345 209.

VOLKSWAGEN, Golf Sport, 2004, auto, 1 lady owner, 104,000kms, EC, serviced regularly, SYV-683, $9,000. 0412 875 444.

Sell it local...

JEEP, Grand Cherokee Ltd, black, reg until May '14, REE-253, RWC, VGC. $5,000. 9770 7057

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Eagles pip Demons at the post in thriller NEPEAN LEAGUE

By Andrew ‘Toe Punt’ Kelly “WE’VE got to get under their skin and challenge their arrogance”.

That was the quarter time message from Rosebud coach Nick Jewell after his side was held scoreless in the opening quarter of their match against league leaders Sorrento on Saturday.

A former Sorrento premiership player, Jewell gave his old side zero respect at the quarter time huddle, singling out a number of opposition players in a ‘not too kind’ fashion.

Going into the match without dominant ruckman Paul Lewis (thigh) and star midfielder Greg Bentley (shoulder), the Buds needed to produce something mighty special against Sorrento to win. Afterall, the last time they played, Sorrento won by 106 points.

Jewell couldn’t allow the same thing to happen again and the tactic was clearly to play the ball and the man hard.

There were a number of scuffles in the opening half, some ignited as a result of Rosebud’s heavy tackling, while others were ignited by Sorrento, not comfortable with the treatment they were getting.

The likes of Leigh Treeby, Scott Cameron and Troy Schwarze were all targeted, known to have short fuses.

Even the eyes of mild-mannered Guy Stringer were rolling at one point in the second quarter.

Call Jewell’s tactic what you like but it seemed to get his boys up and going.

Former Sorrento small man Glenn Boyington and Somerville hard nut Paul McDonald did the majority of the unsettling, a tact they seemed very comfortable with.

On the scoreboard, however, it seemed to have very little difference.

At three quarter time, the Sharks had kept Rosebud to two goals for the afternoon and led by 61 points.

Hastings’ Day: The Magpies struggled against a dominant Blues outfit.

Picture: Andrew Hurst

Rosebud kicked six goals to three with the wind in the final term, eventually going down by 45 points, 14.12–96 to 8.3–51. Sorrento simply put the cue in the rack by the 10 minute mark of the last term.

Sorrento forward Ryan Jeffrey was reported in the third quarter for ‘abusive, threatening, insulting or obscene language towards an umpire’.

He will be missing for the next two weeks.

Rosebud skipper Ryan Spooner

was badly knocked out in the second quarter and didn’t reappear. It is doubtful that he will play this week.

Leigh Poholke was outstanding for the Sharks with five goals, while Leigh Treeby and James Hallahan dominated.

Ben Shultz was starved of opportunity in attack but still managed to kick five goals while Matt and Brenton Payne, along with Tom Baker who played in the ruck, were clearly the Buds’ best players.

Rye gave up a 27-point three quarter time lead to go down to Somerville by the smallest of margins at RJ Rowley Reserve.

The Eagles hit the front with two minutes left on the clock, before Rye drew level a minute later. With ten seconds left in the match, Somerville rushed a behind, giving them a 15.12– 102 to 15.11–101 victory.

Turnovers and unaccountability cost Rye in the last quarter.

There was a two-three goal wind advantage to the Melbourne Rd end of the ground and 22 of the 30 goals kicked on the day were slotted through at that end of the ground.

Somerville had the aid of the breeze in the final quarter and as it did in the second quarter, booted six goals with it to steal victory. In fact, the Eagles booted 12 of their 15 goals to the Melbourne end of the ground.

Todd Farrelly was back and finished the afternoon with five goals for the winners, while Rhys Palmer finished with three.

Justin Farrelly won the battle in the ruck, Caleb Cox continued his wonderful form at Rye’s home ground and Justin Allsop was dominating through the middle with two goals.

Jack Kennedy also finished with a couple of goals and was lively in attack.

Rye forward Andrew Dean played clearly his best game of the season with seven majors, while Ben Holmes finished with four.

Andrew Dunn, Jai Lloyd and Adam Kirkwood were the best of the Demons.

Pearcedale had to produce some special footy in the last quarter to get the better of Devon Meadows.

The Tractors trailed by 16 points at half time and by five points at three quarter time, before booting seven goals to five in the last to win 18.15– 123 to 17.10–112.

Pat Heijden finished with eight

goals for Pearcedale while Pat Cadd dominated with three majors.

Chris Fortnam and Ben Cadd were the best players for the winners and Luke Murray led from the front in the back half of the ground.

Heath Black was superb for Devon with five goals, while Pat Chin also finished with five. Gavin Kerr and Callum O’Hare were at their best.

Hastings booted 13 goals to four after half time to smash Crib Point to the tune of 49 points.

The Blues trailed at half time but completely dominated the second hour, winning 18.11–119 to 10.10–70.

Colin McVeigh booted six goals and Luke Hewitt three for the Blues while Taylor Stratton and Andy Kiely shone.

Matt Sloper and Jon Flack with three goals were the best of the Pies.

Dromana had another day out, this time against Tyabb.

After booting three goals in the first quarter, the Tigers kicked 24.6 to 5.4 in the following three quarters to win 27.18–180 to 6.6–42.

Daniel Waddell booted five goals and a further 15 players contributed on the scoreboard. There were eight players who kicked multiple goals for the Tigers.

Christian Ongarello was the best player on the ground, while Shaun Clarke and Terry Wheeler also had plenty of the footy.

Craig Conlan and Matty Dimkos were amongst the best for the Yabbies.

Frankston Bombers completed the expected and beat Red Hill, winning 19.13–127 to 4.7–31.

Ryan Lonie was best afield with four goals, Allan Williams played forward and finished with three and Jason Kingsbury and Duncan Proud saw plenty of the footy.

Jake Mitchell and Josh Mold were the best of the Hillmen, while Ben Maguinness continued his fantastic season.

Four goal derby delight for Mornington SOCCER

By Craig MacKenzie MORNINGTON left Lawton Park on Saturday with its promotion credentials enhanced and huge question marks hanging over the title aspirations of home team Langwarrin.

Adam Jamieson’s men ran out comfortable 4-1 victors in this local derby after a second-half display that at times reduced Gus Macleod’s side to non-participant observers.

No doubt the ex-Langy contingent in Mornington’s starting line-up savoured every moment, none more so than perennial pest Wayne Gordon, the wee man that opposition fans love to hate and an ex-Langy favourite.

Two minutes into the contest Langy midfielder Boris Ovcin was forced to limp off to be replaced by Mark O’Connor and a Nick Waite shot on the turn in the 8th minute forced Langy keeper Colin McCormack into a one-handed save.

McCormack was only registered on Friday afternoon in a last-ditch bid to solve Langy’s goal keeping injury crisis and he had a fine game despite the score line.

Perennial pest: Mornington striker Wayne Gordon enjoyed his return to Lawton Park on Saturday. Picture: Paul Seeley

Irish midfielder Alan Pratt suffered a brain fade in the 10th minute inexplicably handling inside his own area and Mornington hitman Waite made

no mistake from the resultant penalty.

The last 20 minutes of the first half were the best for the home team but its efforts to level were thwarted by poor

finishing and a clear penalty claim that somehow fell upon deaf ears.

Captain Caleb Nicholes twice was set up by Liam Ryan and once by Berkan Sakaci but the closest the Langy hitman came was with a low shot that struck the far post and was cleared.

With half-time looming Waite and fellow striker Jordie Scott both shot wide before Gordon ghosted past two defenders and struck a firm shot that McCormack could only parry to the feet of Waite for a tap-in and a 2-0 lead for the visitor.

The contest was put out of Langy’s reach two minutes into the second half when Stevie Vernon charged down the left and cut the ball back to Waite who completed his hat-trick with a measured strike from 10 metres.

Gordon should have scored in the 57th minute when he ran onto a Waite through ball only to shoot high and wide and Shane Tagliaferro forced McCormack into two fine saves as Mornington threatened to run riot.

Tagliaferro had one of his best games at Lawton Park but sadly for home fans this time he was in the orange colours of Mornington.

Gordon, Tagliaferro and Scott combined to great effect in the 72nd minute with Gordon making it 4-0 via a low shot that went in off the far post.

Alex van Heerwarden turned and hammered a deflected Chris Driver shot past Mornington keeper Christian Morales to make it 4-1 late in the piece but that did little to quieten Mornington fans who already were celebrating.

“I thought we were good in the first 10 to 15 minutes but Langwarrin dominated the final 20 minutes of the first half,” said Jamieson after the win.

“After half-time I thought we put on a really good performance and the early goal in the second half killed them off.”

The win leaves Mornington in fourth spot in State 2 South-East, four points behind league leader Springvale White Eagles.

Langwarrin slips to third just two points above Mornington as the title race heats up in what has been a topsyturvy season.

Mornington’s promotion push continues at 3pm on Saturday at Dallas Brooks Park when it hosts 9th-placed Malvern City.

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Pythons outrun Redlegs, Sharks put bite on Doggies, Bombers win easily over Tigers PENINSULA LEAGUE

By Andrew ‘Toe Punt’ Kelly PINES season is well and truly alive after it came from behind to knock over Mt Eliza in Peninsula League football on Saturday.

Trailing by almost five goals in the early stages of the third quarter, Pines dominated the final 40 minutes of play to run over the top of the Redlegs, 11.7–73 to 8.15–63.

While the Redlegs squandered opportunities in front of goal in the second half, the Pythons were kicking them from all angles.

Redlegs spearhead Scott Lockwood finished the afternoon with five goals, however, he missed some vital chances, especially in the final term.

On the other hand, Guy Hendry slotted one from the boundary line and Dale Tedge snapped one out of a pack to put the Pythons in front.

While missing opportunities told a tale for the Redlegs, it was Pines leg speed and willingness to run, spread and push to the next contest that saw them win the game.

Mt Eliza controlled the match on their terms in the first half with Josh Norman dominating.

However, the Pythons ability to spread and take the game on was a highlight of the second half comeback.

The half back line worked extremely well, the onballers worked hard both ways and the attack looked dangerous

and menacing when the ball went inside attacking 50.

Jake Prosser did a wonderful job on the dangerous Ben Lean and really cut him up in the second half and Brendan Cowell was close to the best player on the ground. Cade Egan was also back in the seniors and showed a lot of leadership when it was needed in the tense final term.

The only time the Pythons didn’t look like they were in control in the last was when Chris Guganovic broke a pack, tucked the footy under his arm, and booted the ball 50 metres in the wrong direction. Only minutes earlier he drilled one down the throat of Guy Hendry, who went back and kicked truly. Thankfully for Guganovic, Lockwood missed the opportunity to make him pay.

Pines coach Steve Ryan said the win was an important one for the club.

“We are a lot further ahead of where we were this time last season, which is very pleasing for the group,” Ryan said.

“We are still well and truly in the hunt for a finals spot and probably need to win all three of our remaining games to make it.

“That’s going to be a tough ask in such a close competition but the guys are really enthusiastic and I refuse to write them off.

“They have a lot of self belief and resolve and know their best can match

it with anyone in the competition.”

Edithvale–Aspendale sits a game clear in third position after coming from behind to beat Karingal.

The Bulls are now a game behind the Eagles in fourth position.

Eagles forward Brad Tagg finished the afternoon with seven goals and Adam Budge booted four as the home side put on a football clinic in the second half.

Trailing by ten points at half time, the Eagles turned it on in the second hour, booting 13 goals to four to run out comfortable 19.16–130 to 12.12– 84 winners.

Tim Mavric and Zac Muschialli continued their outstanding seasons while Stevey Mannix was also at his best.

Chris Hay booted six for the Bulls and Luke Van Raay was exceptional in his return game, along with Grant Goodall.

Mornington may have won two in a row against Chelsea and Seaford but it was brought back to earth with a thud against Bonbeach on Saturday.

The Sharks kicked six goals to one in the opening quarter, ending any opportunity the Doggies had of winning the game.

The visitors were keen to take the crowd out of the equation at the kennel and were able to maintain their stranglehold on the game throughout.

Accuracy in front of goal was

certainly a feature of the Sharks’ play, kicking 10.3 to 6.11 in the first half and finishing with 24.9–153 to 12.16–88.

Emily Bitters, Anthony Franchina and Daniel Moss all finished with two goals each for the Dogs while Chris Coyle and Scott Matthews were among the sides best.

Frankston YCW maintained its strong run with a comfortable 22.15– 147 to 11.3–69 victory over Seaford.

Ben Tellis booted five and Kyle Hutchison three goals for the winners and were clearly the best two players on the ground.

Scott MacLeod also played one of his best games for the Stonecats.

Frankston YCW opened the game up in the second quarter with a five goal to two term and led by 36 points at the change.

The Tigers, who have used 43 players through the season so far, just couldn’t go with the ladder leaders in the second half.

Aaron Walton and Kain Taylor led from the front while Levi Hughes was yet another youngster who was given an opportunity.

Tigers coach Craig McIndoe said it had been a long season.

“We showed at the beginning of the season that our best, with a full team, was good enough to be competitive against the best sides in the competition.

“Unfortunately, we have been hit

very hard with injuries, some of them long term, which has affected our ability to put our best on the paddock.

“Some weeks we are having five to seven changes – that makes it hard for any side.

“It has given a lot of kids an opportunity, however, which is positive for the club.”

Langwarrin had to overcome a slow start to get over the line against Chelsea.

After a couple of lean weeks, the Gulls jumped out of the blocks and led the more fancied Langwarrin by 21 points at the halfway mark of the match.

However, a five goal third quarter and some midfield dominance from Dan Wehner and Beau Muston saw the Kangas hit back and snatch the lead by 18 points at the final change.

Had Langwarrin kicked straight in the third (5.11), the margin could have been far greater.

Luke Damon finished the afternoon with five goals against his old side, while Aaron Shaw booted three. Jarryd Amalfi and Michael Parker continued their outstanding form.

Fia Tootoo was the best for Chelsea, ahead of Joel Connelly, who finished with five majors.

FRANKSTON VFL DOLPHINS ROUND 16 Sunday 4th August Vs Northern Blues Dev League: 11am Seniors: 2pm Played at Frankston Park Come watch the Dolphins play at home!

ROUND 17

South East – Region General Manager The newly formed AFL South East Commission is seeking applicants for the position of Region General Manager (RGM).

The successful applicant will be responsible for the establishment of the new Commission model and assisting in the development of the Commission’s Strategic Plan for the growth and sustainability of football in the region.

Employed by the local Commission with the support of AFL Victoria, the RGM will have agreed performance measures, obligations and management responsibilities established collaboratively by both parties. A remuneration package commensurate with the experience of the successful applicant will be negotiated.

Written applications should address the following key selection criteria: z Experience in the establishment of business and financial management systems z An understanding of Australian Football networks in the region and/or Country Victoria more generally z Extensive experience in stakeholder relationship building including sporting clubs, community leagues, business, government or community groups z Excellent marketing and promotional skills z Comprehensive leadership and staff management experience z Detailed understanding of Board practices and accountability

For further information and position description please contact Jeff Kimber at jeffkimber@bigpond.com.au or 0400 259 625.

Please address applications as ‘South East Region General Manager’ and send them to Jeff Kimber at the above email address by close of business on Friday 9 August, 2013.

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Final’s venue choices vexing

By Andrew ‘Toe Punt’ Kelly THE venues for the Nepean and Peninsula Finals were announced by the PCN Alliance last week.

Both Crib Point and Red Hill have been selected as finals venues in 2013.

Rosebud, Rye and Frankston Park will also host finals.

Pines and Frankston Park will host Peninsula League finals.

This is the first time in memory that Crib Point and Red Hill have been selected to host finals.

As it stands, the surface at Crib Point is far from fit to host a final, while Red Hill’s ground lacks the atmosphere required to host a final.

Finals are a showcase of the league and simply must be played at the best venues on the peninsula.

If the league wanted a final on the Western Port side of the league, Hastings and Pearcedale both offer much better facilities and atmosphere.

The selection of these grounds is nothing more than the league giving the home clubs an opportunity to raise funds. The decision has nothing to do with selecting the best venues to host finals for spectators.

In a media release sent last week, PCN Alliance general manager Jeff Jones thanked the eight clubs who submitted expressions of interest to host the 2013 finals matches for football and netball this year.

“Whilst we have allocated finals games to some of our more traditional venues we have also looked outside of the square and included venues that are either new to hosting finals or haven’t hosted finals for a number of years,” Jones said.

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“Our decision sends all clubs within the Nepean League a clear message that with all the right foundations in place there is a possibility to host finals away from the traditional venues in the future years to come,” Jones said.

It would have been interesting if Jones went further and gave football followers an understanding of why the decision was made to select Crib Point and Red Hill as finals venues. What is the definition of the ‘right foundations’?

I’m sure the committees of Crib Point and Red Hill will do a sensational job hosting the finals, that is not in question.

Finals are the pinnacle of the season that clubs have worked so hard for and spectators have paid to enjoy. Surely they all should be able to see their teams in action at the best venues at the most important time of the year.

The Nepean Finals calendar is: Week 1 Saturday 17 August – Rosebud FNC Football – Qualifying Final Netball – 1st & 2nd Semi Finals Sunday 18 August – Crib Point FNC Football – Elimination Final Week 2 Saturday 24 August – Rye FNC Football – 2nd Semi Final Netball – Preliminary Final Sunday 25 August – Red Hill FNC Football – 1st Semi Final Week 3 Saturday 31 August – Rosebud FNC Football – Preliminary Final Netball – Grand Final Week 4 Saturday 7 September – Frankston Park Football – Grand Final

Footy appointments

Email: team@mpnews.com.au or call us on 5979 8564

THE AFL South East Commission has appointed experienced duo Ben O’Brien (left) and Michael Roberts (right) as the Football Development Managers (FDM) for the region.

The role of the FDM combines the responsibilities of the current AFL Victoria Regional Development Managers and WorkSafe AFL Vic Country Area Managers, and represents a substantial investment into grass roots football in country Victoria.

The extra resources will make a significant impact to affiliated leagues and clubs, who will receive access to increased levels of support and game development expertise.

The two new FDMs will play an important role in the development and implementation of a strategic plan for football in the region and have a hands-on-role in growing the game in conjunction with WorkSafe AFL Victoria and the AFL South East Commission. The FDM’s will also focus on assisting all Commission Member clubs and leagues to help grow and improve the game in the region.

WorkSafe AFL Victoria Country General Manager Brett Connell said he was delighted by the calibre of the successful applicants.

“We are extremely pleased to have secured the services of such experienced and talented individuals and are excited by the support the additional resources will provide for country football in general,” Connell said.

“Having people with local knowledge and strong links to the local community will allow benefits to flow through to all levels of football from Auskick to senior and junior competitions.”

It is expected that the RDM’s will commence their role fulltime in the region once the appointment of the Regional General Manager has been finalized.

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$14,792 DRIVEAWAY

2010 Honda Jazz VTi

2009 Ford Territory TS

2009 Mitsubishi Outlander

Honda Accord Euro Luxury

2008 Honda Accord VTi-L

ABS, Air Cond, Airbags, Auto, CD Player, Low kms. 1.5 Ltr, 4 Cylinder. XMK746

Auto, ABS, Cruise, Power Windows, V6, Airbags, Alloys, CD Player, Climate. XFU981

Auto, ABS, Cruise, 4 Cyl, Air Cond, P/Windows, P/Steering, Alloys, Airbags, CD. Nudgebar. ZTV711

Auto, ABS, 4 Cylinder, Power Windows, Alloys, Airbags, Sunroof, CD, Leather, Climate. UXL155

Auto, 4 Cyl, A/C, Power Windows, Airbags, Alloys, Leather, Climate, CD, Low kms. WTJ957

$23,955 DRIVEAWAY

$23,989 DRIVEAWAY

$26,883 DRIVEAWAY

$26,987 DRIVEAWAY

$26,596 DRIVEAWAY

2010 Honda CRV Sport

2010 Holden VE II SV6

2012 Holden Captiva 7 Seater

2010 Ford Territory 7 Seater

2010 Toyota Aurion Presara

Auto, 4 Cylinder, Power Windows, Alloys, Sunroof, CD Player, Climate Control. XQI681

Auto, ABS, Cruise, ESC, P/Windows, V6, Climate, Airbags, Alloys, CD. Very Sporty! ZHP320

Auto, Air Cond, Power Windows, Airbags, Alloys, CD Player, Low kms. ZGV652

Auto, ABS, V6, Airbags, Alloys, CD Player, Leather, Climate. Limited Edition. YAL901

Auto, V6, Airbags, Sat Nav, Alloy Wheels, Sunroof, Leather, Climate Control. ZVI394

907 Nepean Highway, Mornington.

Honda Dealer

Phone 5975 9755 AFTER HOURS CONTACT: GEOFF 0418 179 246

LMCT 10662

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Honda Dealer

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^Recommended driveaway prices available at Peninsula Honda while stocks last for MY12 Honda Insight VTi Auto Hybrid Hatch, MY13 CR-V 2 manual, MY13 Accord Euro Luxury. Peninsula Honda reserve the right to change or extend these offers. The Bluetooth word mark is owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and use of such mark by Honda is under licence. iPod is a trademark of Apple, Inc. + Leather includes some PVC vinyl material.

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