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By Mike Hast A SOMERVILLE teenager hit with a $1000 fine for carrying a box cutter in her bag near Frankston railway station meets with high-profile lawyer David Galbally this week. Nineteen-year-old qualified disability support worker Ashleigh Hicks is fighting to clear her name after being given an on-the-spot penalty notice by transit safety division police during a knife blitz in Frankston in late January. She is worried that being fined for carrying the cutting tool, which has a 15 millimetre retractable blade that must be held in place with a thumb, will jeopardise her budding career and her ability to work with children. Ms Hicks works part time at Kmart in Hastings unpacking goods and stacking shelves while she seeks a full-time job in the disability services sector. She started working at Kmart four years ago while still at school. She is also doing parttime work as a casual teacher’s aide at schools for children with disabilities in the region. She was a highly regarded student at Chisholm TAFE in Frankston last year where she completed her Certificate IV in Disability Work. Her written plea to the transit police seeking withdrawal of the fine was rejected so she contacted Neil Mitchell of 3AW who interviewed her on air, sparking a minor media frenzy. Ms Hicks has been interviewed and filmed by the three major commercial television channels. “I was so disappointed the police rejected my request,” she told The News on the weekend. “I had letters from my boss at Kmart, and my TAFE course coordinator.” The incident and subsequent fuss has disrupted the normal lives of the family of two adults and five children aged between 13 and 21. Her father Geoff Hicks is ropeable the knife rules do not allow discretion. “You lose faith in the system over something like this. She is a good, smart girl and had no intent to harm

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Servo plan’s knock-back EXPERT advice is being sought by supermarket giant Woolworths after being knocked back on its plans to build a service station in High St, Hastings. Mornington Peninsula Shire gave several reasons for refusing to issue a permit, including that the proposal was contrary to the zoning, which aimed to encourage offices or units. The project manager for the service station said Woolworths would seek the advice of experts before deciding whether to appeal to VCAT (the Victorian Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal). Mr Webb, director of Claremont Project Management, said the experts would “look at the objections” to assess the chances of winning an appeal Woolworths had 60 days after the date of the permit refusal in which to appeal. The service station earmarked for vacant land at 122-130 High St included a two-storey building for offices and four takeaway shops. The shire’s senior statutory planner David McPherson said the two-storey building was a “poor planning outcome” and did not provide a transition to neighbouring houses. The first floor facing High St was “overly dominant” and a service station at that location would create “an unreasonable level” of conflict between pedestrians and vehicles. The proposed 24-hour operation of the service station complex would be “an unacceptable loss of amenity” to nearby houses. Objector Paul Leeson said Woolworths would be better off finding a site on Frankston-Flinders Rd, where there was more passing traffic.

Counting time: Volunteers taking part in the Western Port bird survey use various forms of transport to reach the bay’s shoreline, including kayaks and this hovercraft driven by David Cropley, who is a member of the Victorian Wader Study Group.

Birds of a feather take a holiday together By Keith Platt A SURVEY in February has shown Western Port mudflats as well as its beaches are popular with overseas and interstate visitors. However, residents were not shy of paddling in the shallows and mixing with the hordes that flew in for the summer. In some cases the locals were more inclined to take the visitors for a meal, rather than taking them out to dinner. White-bellied sea eagles were seen on two days, with one sitting on Long Island spit eating a puffer fish and one on

the Esso jetty eating an oyster catcher. But being preyed on by the locals is unlikely to put off future visits by the many different species of birds recorded in the February bird survey by volunteers working with the Department of Sustainability and Environment. While the five-yearly federal census of Australia’s population is to be held in August, the head count of birds in Western Port is more frequent and requires more stealth. Despite some bad weather on the final day of the count, the survey showed there were 489 curlew sandpipers on the

Eastern curlews were also spotted on Long Island spit near Hastings. Another bird count, also commissioned by the Port of Melbourne Corporation, will be held in May. The project aimed at finding out how birds use the Port of Hastings and nearby areas. Birds are counted at the port, on the bay’s western shore north of Yaringa boat harbour and the western shore of French Island. Counts are being made at high tide and low tide over four seasons, ending this winter.

tide edge of the north-west French Island mudflats on Monday 14 February. A day later 23 eastern curlews, six bar-tailed godwits, 182 pied oystercatchers, one whimbrel and one sharptailed sandpiper were recorded on the Middle Spit mud banks. Other birds counted in the survey included 36 eastern curlews on French Island, flocks of waders on Barrallier Island including 3158 red-necked stints, 310 curlew sandpiper, two double-banded plovers, 22 red-capped plovers, 42 pied oyster catchers and one terek sandpiper.

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Fence sitter: A koala crosses the boundary of a Mornington Peninsula backyard.

Keeping tabs on koalas ANYONE spotting a koala on the Mornington Peninsula can add their sighting to an online map of Australia. The mapping portal is part of the national movement to help protect koalas and their habitats. Launched by Esri Australia and the Australia Koala Foundation (AKF), the koala map lets visitors add to research on koala sightings and habitat quality. Australia Koala Foundation CEO Deborah Tabart said more than $8 million worth of research and 25 years of koala information was now available to the public. “Koalas can never be protected until their trees are,� Ms Tabart said. To report information about a koala sighting or habitat, go to koalamap. savethekoala.com.

New association: Members of Shoreham Community Association include, from left, Steve Dolman, Barbara Kelly, Peter Renkin, Gina McInnis and Rob Patrick.

Shoreham group wants ‘identity’ By Keith Platt SHOREHAM residents want their town to have its own identity, with facilities and a social life befitting a small town. “There is a strong feeling among permanent resident that we don’t want it to be just a dormitory suburb of Hastings,� said Peter Renkin, recently elected interim president of the Shoreham Community Association. The formation of the association also follows concerns over the future of Shoreham’s Post Office and general store. The store in Byrnes Rd is vacant and the post office operates under a shortterm lease. Development plans were abandoned

in the wake of the failure of a company that owned both sites, although uncertainty remains as the new owner, based in Bangkok, also wants to sell. The vacant general store is being advertised for $1.4 million by a real estate agent who says it has “almost unlimited scope� and can “emulate the success enjoyed by comparable entities at Merricks and Somers�. In April 2002 it was on the market for $650,000. The agent also states that buying the store will provide its new owner with “the chance to make a contribution to the local lifestyle that is certain to be appreciated�. This part of the sales patter is certain to come under scrutiny by members of

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residents and ratepayers in Shoreham and will tackle issues of development, amenities, services, young people, the future, community advocacy and social needs in Shoreham,� Mr Renkin said. “Issues including development of the Shoreham Triangle and the common, and the future of the post office and general store development will be high on the agenda.� The association will have a website and the interim committee is organising its incorporation. A public meeting will be held at Shoreham CFA at 2pm on Saturday 4 June to adopt final rules and objectives of the association. For details call Mr Renkin on 5989 8818.

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Aldi faces delay in Somerville By Mike Hast IT’S back to the waiting room for Aldi’s proposed Somerville supermarket after Mornington Peninsula Shire councillors called for more reports about the controversial project. The German supermarket chain first approached the shire in July 2007 seeking approval for premises on the eastern side of Frankston-Flinders Rd next to shire-owned Somerville Preschool, also known as Annie Sage child care centre. On Monday 28 March, councillors were meant to consider the Aldi planning application as well as amendments to the planning scheme that would rezone the preschool land from public use to business, and the main section of the adjacent shireowned car park to business. The car park is an integral part of the Aldi proposal and will be shared by Aldi customers and others visiting the shopping centre. There would be 54 car spaces on the Aldi site and 59 in the shire car park, eight fewer spaces than required by council rules for a commercial development of this size. Somerville area councillor Lynn Bowden convinced her council colleagues more time was needed to study the complex proposal. She wants the shire to do its own traffic management plan and not just rely on the Aldi traffic plan. She says the routes taken by Aldi delivery trucks and when they come and go is vital to get right.

“There are people living beside and behind the proposed supermarket and you can’t have trucks disturbing people at all hours of the day and night,� she told The News last week. The car park entrance on Eramosa Rd is also a worry, being next to a small roundabout and off a busy road that services a key part of the shopping centre and Somerville Primary School 100 metres away. Cr Bowden’s other concerns, shared by all councillors, include the fate of the preschool, how the council-owned car park will operate and the form of a memorial honouring Somerville’s war heroes and heroines. The latter concern relates to the history of what was originally an infant welfare centre, now the preschool, which was paid for by residents after the Second World War to honour those who fought and died in Europe and the Pacific. The land at 1097 Frankston-Flinders Rd was donated to the then Shire of Hastings by T W Brunning, the father of Leila Shaw, a longtime resident, historian and one of the people leading opposition to the shire’s plan to close the preschool and sell the land to Aldi. Thomas Brunning served in France and there is a plaque in his honour near the building’s entrance. A new $1 million preschool would be built at Somerville primary but there is concern there would only be room for a four-year-old kinder. The shire is asking Aldi for $700,000 for the preschool site. Leila Shaw wants a small memorial

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Who is Annie Sage? ANNIE Moriah Sage was born in Somerville in 1895 and trained as a nurse at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne Women’s Hospital and Victorian Baby Health Centres Training School. She entered the Royal Australian Army Nursing Service in 1939. During a distinguished military nursing career in the Second World War, where she rose to the equivalent rank of colonel, Ms Sage introduced the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service Training Scheme and helped start the army’s nursing corps. After the war she played a leading role in the establishment of the War Nurses Memorial Centre and the Centaur War Nurses Fund. She was Lady Superintendent at the Royal Women’s Hospital in

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Anchor away without any local backing DOCKLANDS, Melbourne, is the latest place being investigated as an alternative destination for the HMAS Otama, the submarine slowly rusting away at anchor at Crib Point. Caught in a net of bureaucracy for nearly a decade, the Otama is owned by the Western Port Oberon Association whose members are considering weighing anchor in Western Port if their tourism project is acceptable somewhere else. In 2008 the Oberon class Otama was listed for sale on the internet, reportedly attracting the interest of drug smugglers, which in turn attracted attention from ASIO and the Federal Police. Association president Max Bryant told The News that a “handsome offer” had been made about a year ago by a Queensland-based consortium. The latest possible destination announced by Mr Bryant is Melbourne’s Docklands precinct. He said talks are being held with the “Docklands people, those that control the water and harbour and Melbourne City Council”. While admitting it is early days with the discussions and that he would rather the submarine be developed as a tourist attraction in Western Port, Mr Bryant has two scenarios for it to be a showpiece at Docklands. His favoured one would be to see the Otama lifted onto an existing wharf which would be strengthened to carry the 2000tonne vessel. Mr Bryant said the Otama could be propped up while sitting safely on its reinforced keel. The other alternative would be to basically build a steel cradle alongside the wharf. Once in place, an interpretive centre would complete the project, much the same as planned originally at Hastings. Mr Bryant said there was “no shortage” of heavy lift crane ships that could be brought to Melbourne to lift the submarine.

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Sub-plots to Otama quiz By Keith Platt SUPPORTERS of the $5 million submarine project at Stony Point say it will be a waste of time and money seeking community approval. Hastings MP Neale Burgess says a questionnaire asking residents if they want the Oberon class submarine HMAS Otama “brought ashore” will later this year be published in Mornington Peninsula Shire’s newsletter, Peninsula-Wide. The shire’s communications manager Todd Trimble told The News that “nothing is planned at this stage” and that requests for a questionnaire about the submarine “would come from the council, if at all”. In a Thursday 31 March email to former councillor Snez Plunkett, he stated “let me assure you there will not be a survey/questionnaire from Neale in Peninsula Wide!”. Seeking the public’s opinion of the submarine project was one of Mr Bur-

gess’s pre-election commitments and he now says that if the answer is ‘yes’, he will make sure the job is done with state government money, failing investment from the private sector. Western Port Oberon Association president Max Bryant believes plans to turn the submarine into a tourism attraction already have wide public support. “There have been public meetings, panels and all sorts of due diligence done already – more than for the Port of Hastings. “It would be a ridiculous waste of time to have another referendum.” Mr Bryant said the shire’s economic development manager Shane Murphy had not contacted the association since November 2009 “that shows how interested council is in the project. It would be a different story if it was at Mornington”. Mr Bryant said association members were “doing odd jobs” to make money to pay for the submarine’s $30,000 a year

insurance and maintenance costs while it is anchored at Crib Point. He said council had told them 10 years ago “you get the submarine here, and you’ll be ashore in 12 months”. It had been “pretty horrendous” ever since, Mr Bryant said. Association vice-president Howard Bull said its members “don’t trust council” and that “council has torpedoed” the group. “They hope the association will turn turtle and then they will come out as saviours. They want the submarine for themselves.” Mr Bull said Mr Burgess had suggested seeking public approval “as a platform for his election”. “The survey is ill-conceived and, if there is one, the association should play a role in framing the questions.” Mr Murphy said work was “still being done on the questionnaire” and Mr Trimble would be the one “to organise it going into the paper”. “Neale will frame the questions which,

very simply, would be ‘do you want the submarine ashore’.” Mr Murphy said the shire “has always been supportive of the submarine project”. He believed there was room for the submarine on the foreshore at Stony Point between the existing pier and another on the drawing board ready for a planned vehicle ferry to Cowes, Phillip Island. Plans for it to go on the foreshore at Crib Point had been ruined by a permit being granted for a Boral asphalt plant in the same area. Mr Murphy said dredging would be required wherever the submarine was brought ashore. “You can’t get it through without some amount of environmental effects.” Asked if the shire should underwrite the project, Mr Murphy said “there is the question of risks ... if it sank tomorrow, can you afford to lump the ratepayers with that one?”

Search for family furniture ‘sold by mistake’ A HASTINGS market stall worker has a strange request – she wants to buy back two items of furniture sold in error by her partner late last year. Rose, 74, who did not want to give her surname for privacy reasons, has been trying to find the buyers of Chippendalestyle sofa table and cocktail buffet cupboard that were sold at the National Antique Centre in Mornington just

before it closed late last year. “They were my mother’s and were never meant to be sold,” she said. “I know it’s a long shot, but you never know your luck.” The antique centre is making way for one of Woolworth’s new Oxygen hardware megastores. Rosa said the sofa table is about six foot long (180cm), 20 inches wide

(50cm) and has ball and claw feet on its legs. It sold for $500 or $600. The buffet cupboard has a fitted glass top with a mirror interior and double doors, with double doors below covering two wooden shelves. It cost about $200 or $300. “I think my mother bought them in the 1950s. I’d be happy to pay substantially more than what they cost.”

Rosa believes they were sold to someone living in Hastings or Crib Point. “Even if the owners don’t want to sell, I’d like to take photos of them for the family history book.” If you can help Rosa, call Western Port News on 5979 8564 and we’ll put you in touch with her. Mike Hast

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Mangroves a ‘carbon bank’ WESTERN Port’s mangroves seem to be loved or loathed. To many observers they are seen as a barrier between them and the water, something dark green that grows in mud. Up close they can appear like a bonsai tree, gnarled and ancient-looking with roots that poke up into the water and, at low tide, the air. Naturalists see them as essential for the health of the bay, a nursery for fish and other aquatic life – a necessity for the ecosystem. Scientists have now discovered a new reason to treasure and nurture mangroves: they store more carbon than forest trees. Research has shown that mangrove destruction amounts to 10 per cent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions while accounting for just 0.7 per cent of the tropical forest area. While the destruction of mangroves steadily climbs – declining 30-50 per

cent in the past 50 years – the researchers have found mangrove forests store large amounts of carbon below ground, according to a study published online in Nature Geoscience. The amount of carbon being released by the clearing of mangroves is being seen as the largest source of CO2 emissions after fossil fuel combustion. While Western Port contains Victoria’s most extensive and developed mangrove areas, studies have shown a steady decline since they were first mapped in the mid-1800s. Aerial photographs taken since 1939 have confirmed the increase of sandy beaches at the expense of mangroves. Clearing of mangrove and salt marshes began in Western Port as early as 1840, to make loading points for cattle and produce. Oil and steel industries were established by the 1970s at Hastings, with port facilities at Crib and Stony Point.

Under threat: Mangroves have been cleared to make way for industry at Hastings since the 1970s and for jetties, such as that built at Jacks Beach, Crib Point, in 1908.

Scientists find gaps in bay knowledge By Keith Platt SCIENTISTS have found gaps in scientific research needed to make valid environmental assessments of Western Port. Papers reviewing information already available have highlighted reductions in bird and fish numbers and the effects of diminishing seagrass beds. However, the existing science is not conclusive and more research is needed to fill the gaps “to help inform the future management of the bay�, according to Melbourne Water’s water-

ways and wetlands research manager, Rhys Coleman. “Western Port will be under increasing pressure from changes in climate, more urbanisation and coastal development,� Mr Coleman said. “That’s why we need a better picture of how vulnerable this area will be to these changes and how we can best protect the environment in this context.� Mr Coleman’s comments followed release of the review led by Melbourne

University’s Professor Mick Keough at a seminar at Cardinia on Tuesday 5 April. The review was jointly financed by Melbourne Water and the Department of Sustainability and Environment. Mr Coleman said about 200 attended the seminar to hear the findings of the review, which aimed to find “critical issues and research gaps to help inform the future management of the bay�. “One of the key elements of reviewing the science of Western Port was to

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Human activity also reduced the amount of food available to birds. Dr Dann said oil spills and a predicted sea level rise of 80 centimetres would halve the amount of rock available to the 20,000 Australian fur seals at Seal Rocks, off Phillip Island. Prof Greg Jenkins of the Department of Primary Industries and the University of Melbourne said fish in the bay were most threatened by a loss of seagrass beds, water quality, climate change and over-fishing.

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Teen’s career threat Continued from Page 1 Ms Hicks called her father, who arrived at the station half an hour later. He talked with the policeman briefly, but was then asked to have further discussions away from the Channel 7 news camera that was filming the knife blitz. The incident has not stopped Ms Hicks from her volunteer work. She is part of a support crew that helps take older children and teenagers with disabilities on camps, giving their parents and carers crucial respite. She is volunteering at two camps this month to help high dependency teens where volunteers have to do almost everything for them. The incident has had a funny side with Ms Hicks being mildly teased at work the day after being on the TV news. “One of my friends said he was getting T-shirts made saying ‘I survived the box cutter girl’,” she said with a wry smile. Mr Hicks has taken a few smart comments from his workmates, too. Ashleigh Hicks won’t make the same mistake again. The next time she was at work she put a security tag on her box cutter. “If I walk out at the end of my shift and have forgotten to take it out of my bag, the tag beeps.” It’s happened just once since 25 January. She walked back in and took it out of her bag.

Tool now ‘weapon’ GOVERNMENT and society paranoia over box cutters can be traced directly to 9/11, when terrorists stormed the cockpits of four American commercial passenger aircraft using box cutters as weapons. The grim history of that world-changing day in September 2001 records that two planes

Offending weapon: The box cutter that was being carried by Ashleigh Hicks when apprehended by police.

were flown into the World Trade Centre’s twin towers in New York City, one into the Pentagon in Washington DC and one crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after brave passengers forced their way into the cockpit and overpowered the pilot terrorists, who were flying the aircraft towards either the Capitol Building or the White House. Nearly 3000 victims and the 19 hijackers died in the attacks. The cutting tool with its snap-off blade introduced by Olfa in Japan in 1956 and made into a heavy-duty tool by Stanley will never be seen the same again.

Have a say on Tyabb reserves A PLAN to guide the future of Tyabb’s two biggest reserves – Bunguyan and Tyabb Central – is being prepared and residents are asked to contribute ideas. Bunguyan is on Frankston-Flinders Rd on the eastern side of town. It is home to Tyabb Preschool, Tyabb Tennis Club and two ovals used by the Tyabb Football Club, known as the Tyabb North Sports Ground. Tyabb Central Reserve is on the western side of Frankston-Flinders Rd on the corner of Mornington-Tyabb Rd, with tennis courts at the

northern end and the scout hall in the south. The plan is being prepared for Mornington Peninsula Shire by Dr Ken Marriott of Williamstown-based recreational planner H M Leisure Planning. The shire is holding meetings at the reserves on Sunday 17 April, from 1.30-3.30pm at Bunguyan and 3.30-4.30pm at Tyabb Central. All residents can attend. For details or to submit ideas if you can’t make the meetings, email ken.marriott@ hmleisureplanning.com

Developers agree to Sisters’ walkway NEPEAN Historical Society, Nepean Conservation Group and Nepean Ratepayers Association have won the cooperation of the developer of the Sorrento first settlement site for a public walkway around the base of the Eastern Sister, connecting Camerons Bight with Sullivan Bay. The groups have been negotiating with Mornington Peninsula Shire and developer Richard Shelmerdine for about 18 months. The groups also successfully lobbied for the beachfront boundary to be adjusted from the

high-water mark back to the existing fence line, so the public will have access to Sullivan Bay at all times. Nepean Historical Society president Dr Robert Barnes said the groups wanted the state government to buy the land and turn it into an historical park, but the new arrangement was the next best thing. Dr Barnes said Mr Shelmerdine had been cooperative and understanding during the negotiations. Work on the pathway will start in 2012.

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You are invited IT is that time already when a new committee must be elected. The Western Port Festival Committee is seeking community minded volunteers/representatives from local service clubs, community groups, business, schools and residents that are interested in being involved in this important iconic event. It is vital that representatives from the Western Port community contribute their energy, ideas and skills to create this community based festival. The meeting will elect a new Western Port Festival Committee but also hopes to recruit volunteers that would be interested in assisting in the lead up and on the weekend of the festival. “This is your chance to share constructive criticism from previous years and also keep the festival moving forward. I would like to start mentoring someone and share my passion for the event so it continues to be a success if I am not in the driver’s seat of future festivals. I am a single mum working full time who has run the festival for the last 5 years in my spare time, if I can do it, anyone can!” said committee president Tammie Johnstone.

Fire threatens to roast chickens

At least 160,000 chickens were facing a very grim future when their home caught on fire. Hastings Fire Brigade were called out to a shed fire on Carpenters Lane North, Hastings on Thursday 24 March at approximately 5pm. As the brigade approached the scene, smoke was seen issuing from the property. Fire Crews immediately called for an additional 4 fire trucks including those from Tyabb and Bittern. Upon arrival the crews found a chicken shed in flames. Fire fighters quickly gained control of the fire and it was confined to a small electrical control room. Fire Fighters isolated the power to the area and extinguished the fire before any major damage occurred. Captain Colin Cook stated “Due to us having to isolate power to the area, this in turn shut down all the ventilation and water systems for the other chicken sheds creat-

ing heat problems.” Fire crews began opening doors to all sheds to cool the chickens down as there was no airflow to the sheds and the chickens were getting extremely hot. A call went out to other brigades for large fans to be dispatched to the property to help cool the chickens down. Fans were set up at the main doors and pushed fresh cool air into the sheds to remove any stress from the chickens. A representative from Baiada Poultry arrived at the scene and checked the temperature of the sheds and liaised with the brigade as they continued cooling the area. Farm owners, Mr and Mrs Atkinson, and the Baiada Representative were extremely grateful for the fast actions of the fire brigade who prevented a major incident from occurring. “Due to the fast acting fire fighters, the best outcome was achieved and the chickens are all safe and well.”

A close call: Chickens in the shed that caught fire. The damage is contained: A close up of the effected area.

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Cash flow hits radio deadline By Mike Hast RADIO Port Phillip’s new home at the former Mornington Secondary College site in Wilsons Rd will not be ready by Easter. Cash flow problems have seen the builder, Point Leo-based Staff Building & Contracting, forced to take a three-week break. Building restarted on Monday 11 April. Renovation of the last remaining classroom block at the old school, of which 3RPP will lease half from Mornington Peninsula Shire, is mostly being paid for by a raffle run by the Rotary Club of Somerville Tyabb. Mornington Peninsula Shire gave the project $50,000 last year and is leasing half the building to 3RPP at a reduced rate. The project is well advanced, but the studio complex will not be ready by the scheduled completion date of Easter Monday 25 April. “Ticket sales have been slower than expected,” said project coordinator Dick Cox of the Rotary club. “People are suffering from ‘donation fatigue’.” Mr Cox said floods in Queensland and Victoria, earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan, and other raffles on the peninsula had taxed people’s generosity. “We had a licence to issue 150,000 tickets, but printed 100,000 and have about 60,000 out there, but not all have sold,” he said. “With the benefit of hindsight, it would have been good to have 12

months to sell tickets rather than five.” Tickets are $2 and there are four prizes – a Toyota Corolla valued at $26,000 and a Toyota Yaris ($19,500), both from Motor Court Toyota in Mornington; a cruise package ($10,000) from Travelscene Westernport; and a plasma television ($3300) from Rosebud Retravision. Mr Cox said the odds of winning “are pretty good at the moment”. Most of the tickets had been sold by Rotary people and 3RPP volunteers. Four outlets have tickets – the shire’s office in Besgrove St, Rosebud; 3RPP’s current studio behind Moorooduc Coolstores in Eramosa Rd West, Somerville; and two places at Mornington’s Wednesday market, outside National Australia Bank and Farrell’s Bookshop, both in Main St. Mr Cox said the raffle would still be drawn at the new studios at 3.30pm on Monday 25 April. Winners will be notified and the result published in The Age on 30 April and local newspapers in early May. Good news this week for 3RPP is that BlueScope Steel Western Port has donated thousands of dollars worth of ColorBond roofing steel for the project. Mr Cox said it was the latest gesture from peninsula businesses that had supported the renovation. “We will get 136 sheets 10 metres long, enough to do the roof of the whole block,” he said.

Visibly grateful: At the presentation of the vests at Membrey’s depot are, left, Chris Nolan, Jessica Henrick, Captain Colin Cook, Craig Membrey, Courtney Davidson, Mark Simpson, Corey Kingdon, Jordan Simpson and Rory Kingdon.

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The Western Port Whisperer THE Whisperer is sick and tired of all the cooking shows on television at the moment. They are all the same and, quite frankly, boring. Watching one the other day, there was going to be an elimination. How were they going to decide who was to be eliminated? “Sudden death cook-off”. The contestents look at each other with looks of horror. Maybe these cooking shows have hit on something, though. Extend this most appropriate way of solving an impass to other areas of life. The Libyian crisis? Get Gaddafi into the kitchen for a “sudden death cook-off” with the rebels. The next council elections? No need to vote. Get the candidates to whip up a bouillabaisse and have four celebrity chefs choose the winner. One of the frustrating things about these banal shows is that now everybody is a cooking expert. You’ll soon be hearing people at McDonalds looking between the buns and saying “they really should have sweated off these onions a little”.

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them, and with the assistance of South Beach Screen Printing they had the brigade logo placed on them. Now every Sunday the kids put on the vests and know how to be seen and safe. “We’d like to pass on our thanks to Membrey’s Transport for lifting our safety at Hastings fire brigade.”

THIS brings The Whisperer to a little story that came in to Whisperer headquarters. A woman eating at a local cafe felt she should impart some of

her extensive knowledge on how to run a cafe (gained from reality TV shows no doubt) to the owners. Instead of raising her concerns directly, she wrote a long and rather nasty note and simply slipped it to the owner as she left. The owner was, understandably, shattered. Standing there reading the note, she realised that the writer had quickly exited with great theatre and left her dry cleaning behind. Sure enough, the “expert” made a sheepish return to collect the plasticcovered items. WATCH this space. Well, that’s what the Whisperer believes protective services officers (PSOs) will be doing when they are assigned to the nine stations on the Frankston-Crib Point line. The state government and Hastings MP Neale Burgess have promised two armed PSOs will be at every station from 6pm until the last train at night.

That’s 18 PSOs, two each at Leawarra, Baxter, Somerville, Tyabb, Hastings, Bittern, Morradoo, Crib Point and Stony Point. Another pair will be at Frankston, but I’ve left them out of the equation because a couple of trains do head north frome there every hour or so. It’s a while since the Whisperer caught the rattler to Stony Point but, from memory, not every station has a toilet or even a shelter. Under employment rules a police vehicle will have to ferry the PSOs to and from toilets during every shift. With nine stations on the line (not counting Frankston) there’s a good chance PSOs will outnumber passengers waiting or alighting at each station whenever a train comes to a halt. The most crowded train is likely to be the last one to Frankston – the PSO special – as it carries the armed guards back to Frankston on completion of their shift.

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After the quake: Villagers at Tarley in northern Myanmar (Burma), left and above, and the damaged church at Bethel after the 6.8 magnitude 23 March earthquake.

Appeal for quake victims BURMESE contacts of the New Peninsula Church are appealing for money to help them restore villages hit by a 6.8-magnitude earthquake on Wednesday 23 March. Teams from the church regularly visit Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) to help orphanages. In January a 10-member team followed hot on the heels of another group from the Mt Martha and Rosebudbased church to extend a training centre and help rebuild two cyclone-damaged

dormitories at orphanages “adopted” by the church. Late last month Mark Brown, of Mt Martha, received an email and photographs from a pastor associated with the church detailing the damage caused by the earthquake. The pastor had been in Thailand when the earthquake hit, breaking plates on his dinner table. The following day he spoke by phone with another pastor from a Bible school established by the New Peninsula Church who told him about the houses collaps-

ing in several villages. Upon returning to Mayamar the pastor was “surprised, shocked and saddened by what I saw”. “According to the witness, there were 60 people found dead in Maing Ling township. There were 21 found dead and 50 injured in Kya Ku Nyi. These 71 were gathering for worship at a church building … there were 21 dead and 50 or more injured.” In nearby Tarley there were 11 dead, including a Church of Christ pastor.

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Fear of climate change the best motivator: CEO By David Harrison MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire CEO Michael Kennedy was pleasantly shocked by what he saw at the shire’s first Climate Change Conversation meeting in Rye on a winter’s night in 2008. Waiting in the hall were 300 people – far above expectations, standing room only – to hear what the shire had to say. “Oh, my God,” was the shire chief’s reaction, “Truly remarkable.” Certainly they had been bribed to come, he admitted, with climate change showbags and with food, and prodded along by fear – “unquestionably the best motivator of the lot”. The same thing happened next night at the second meeting, held at the shire’s Rosebud HQ. Dr Kennedy was recounting 2008 when addressing the 2011 Australian Coastal Councils Conference in Torquay last Wednesday (26 March). The council represents coastal local government all around Australia. It attracted about 180 delegates from these councils and from state and federal governments, academe, business and scientific organisations. Dr Kennedy’s topic was “Engaging with Communities”, emphasising what he claimed to be the successes of the shire’s Climate Change Conversation 11 meetings. It was not about the planet, he told delegates who came from Cairns to Broome. “No one cares about the planet,” he declared. “The planet is a bit amorphous. They care about where they live – ‘what’s going to happen to my house, my street, my family, my school’.” That’s why they came, “because we said ‘Come along and hear about what’s going to happen exactly where you live’.” So the shire published a climate change booklet and put it in a brown paper envelope – “Some of the blokes got a bit excited when they saw that” – to encourage the public to come along. “There was no chance people did not know the meeting was on.” The shire was prepared to say, many times, “We don’t know,” Dr Kennedy said. Other councils didn’t want to do that, saying they didn’t go out to the community until they had the answers. “Nup. Be brave,” the CEO advised delegates. “Go out there and say,

‘Look, we got this information three weeks ago, we don’t understand it yet, but we wanted to show it to you as soon so we got it so you can tell us what your concerns are and we can embrace all of that’. “So the answer will be ‘We don’t know’. And people actually liked that point.” Community engagement on climate change was continuing via the shire website by way of an electronic newsletter called Continuing the Climate Change Conversation, subscribed to by some 2000 of the 3000 residents who attended the public meetings, Dr Kennedy said. (This writer finally tracked down the newsletters on the shire website, but the path was strewn with thorn-filled thickets and potholes.) “We got slagged off by Andrew Bolt – and I wear this as a badge of honour,” the CEO said, prompting laughter and applause. Keeping up the momentum required continuing effort, the audience was told. People wanting to take action on climate change faced obstacles – how to access grants, how to find one’s way through the information jungle. The shire had helped with its groupbuy solar panel scheme, its continuing engagement with the community, its Eco House at The Briars in Mt Martha, its plans for more group-buy schemes and its continuing policy of building environmentally sustainable peninsula plans into the planning process; “Something of a challenge,” delegates were told. Examples were Sorrento’s bid to become a ZEN (zero emissions neighbourhood), continuing emphasis on sustainable food production and helping people to get a sustainability rebate. Dr Kennedy also lauded the recently introduced green waste service, the dramatic rise in public transport on the peninsula and the shire’s many sustainable buildings. The shire now had a highly sustainable agriculture base, watered in many areas “by people going to the toilet”, he said. On the drainage scheme started three years ago, he said: “We are putting ratepayers’ money where our mouth is.” As to the shire’s approach to reducing the bushfire danger, $1.5 million a year was being spent in a

Fire and tide: The shire’s climate change booklet published in 2008 warned of more days of higher fire danger and storm surges as well as sea level rise. Above: A fire beside the Mornington Peninsula Fwy at McCrae threatened homes in Bayview Rd in January 2009. Below: In winter of that year, a high tide and storm surge battered the peninsula coast including McCrae beach.

process that started well before Black Saturday, delegates were told. One of the important messages in communicating with ratepayers was the importance of “brands or reputation or credibility”, Dr Kennedy said. Councils should not “say these things unless you’re going to walk the talk. “I remember when we first approached the council [and said] we’re going to have the shire logo [right next to the slogan ‘Committed to a Sustainable Peninsula’]. And somebody said ‘But they’ll hold us to it’.” This provoked considerable mirth, to which Dr Kennedy said: “Exactly. But that’s the point. So you can only say this if you’re going to deliver it in every policy decision. “That [the shire logo] is a religious symbol. That’s not pretty colours. It has a meaning – the three colours are the social, economic and environmental aspects of sustainability. “But it doesn’t work unless everybody [employed by the shire] is a true believer.”

In conclusion was a statement of the Kennedy credo: “Attracting people is:  Through track record;  Through timing – picking the moment when you can get people’s attention through what I call carpet bombing, making sure that it’s impossible for people not to know you’re doing it;  Fear – fear is unquestionably the best motivator of the lot – people think their house is going to be underwater, they’ll probably come along to find if it’s true or not;  The desire of people to be part of the solution;  And, last of all, bribery.” While reluctant to rain on Dr Kennedy’s parade, this writer feels obliged to point out that the climate change meetings were not without incident. At Red Hill, attendees were told they would be wise to install rainwater tanks (the area has no mains water). Moments later they were asked how many were connected to mains gas (there is none in the hinterland). “We haven’t got anything,” someone called out, possibly pre-empting a question about how many present were connected to reticulated sewerage. So much for thorough shire preparation for that meeting, at least. Thus the shire had to admit that, yes, it did not know. Its staff, including

Dr Kennedy, left Red Hill that night better informed. Indeed, locals do often know best. For the record, Mornington Peninsula Shire was listed as being represented by two delegates – Dr Kennedy and coastal strategic planner Victoria Smith. Bass Coast Shire sent eight delegates, conference host Surf Coast Shire sent nine. East and South Gippsland shires together sent nine delegates. One hopes their understanding of proceedings exceeds that of an English judge who, having had details of a complex case set out brilliantly by an outstanding barrister, said: “Mr Smith, I fear you have left me none the wiser.” To which Mr Smith (later Lord Curzon) replied: “Perhaps none the wiser, M’Lud, but certainly better informed.” To end, a carping point: since the conference’s stated aim was to grapple with the problems facing non-metropolitan coastal councils, one wonders what value was obtained by the nine delegates representing Hobsons Bay, Port Phillip, Bayside, Wyndham City and Frankston councils, especially since the Association of Bayside Municipalities was represented, of which they are all members. The writer is a former Age journalist. He lives in Red Hill and is a member of Red Hill Community Action.

Shire starts second group-buy scheme for solar power MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire is again offering residents the opportunity to buy solar power systems for the home at group discounted prices. The shire says installing solar power to a home will help people save money on the electricity bill and reduce the carbon footprint. The Australian Government’s LivingGreener.gov.au website states that solar panels “are the ideal choice for city or major urban areas as they don’t make a noise, have no moving parts and are usually installed out of the way up on your roof”. It also states that “solar panels require a significant upfront cost but, once installed, require little maintenance, can be expected to last 20

years or more, and the electricity they generate is free and clean. “Any excess electricity can be fed back into the mains power grid or into a storage system like a battery bank.” The shire is partnering NU Energy as the exclusive preferred supplier for the group-buy program. NU Energy will provide residents with a 1.5 kW solar power system for $1999, fully installed (standard system only and with government rebate included). The price is guaranteed until 5pm, 15 May 2011. Other system sizes are available. For more information, contact NU Energy on 1300 768 225 or visit the website www.nuenergy.com.au

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NEWS DESK

Young skipper charts ferry service’s new course

By Mike Hast SORRENTO to Queenscliff ferry operator Peninsula Searoad Transport has a new boss who is on a mission to change perceptions about the service. Professional skipper Matt McDonald, 30, replaces longtime general manager Jack McKeddie, who retired in March, and the young captain is already making his mark on the company. High on his agenda is “reinvigorating perceptions of the ferry service”, he told The News during an interview late last month in his Queenscliff office. “Our car ferry is seen as too expensive, but the reality is it’s the cheapest service in

Australia,” he said, turning to his huge Apple Macintosh computer screen and calling up car ferry costs from around the nation. “Kangaroo Island [South Australia], now that’ll cost you $86 a car plus $44 for every person in that car. “Our customers pay $52 a car plus $7.50 a head for the 40-minute crossing. Foot passengers pay $10 or $9 concession. “In Queensland, it’s $115 a car on the Moreton Island ferry and $84 for the Magnetic Island ferry plus $13.50 a head for the 50-minute crossing. “We receive no government subsidy or funding; we lease government land at Queenscliff and Sorrento, and we’ve spent a lot of money on our two terminals.” He said Mornington Peninsula Shire had told him peninsula senior citizens were concerned the $1 concession was too low when compared with bus and train concessions, but “the government gives huge subsidies for seniors to bus and train operators”. Mr McDonald and his team are working on a marketing plan, which will be released in June. He will outline plans at a Searoad staff seminar this month and request input from employees. He wants to change the name of the company, Peninsula

Searoad Transport Pty Ltd, to better reflect its ferry business. “It sounds like we’re a trucking company,” he said. In the biggest move so far, MV Queenscliff, the 80-car ferry launched in December 1993, will receive a full refit this winter and be ready by September. Designed in Tasmania and built at Port Lincoln in South Australia, MV Queenscliff’s rows of seat will be removed and replaced by a lounge-style interior with big television screens and other fittings. There will be an improved cafe, tourist information area and Wi-Fi for computer users. He said Searoad did the basics of carrying cars and other vehicles well, and now “we want to make a trip on our ferries a better tourism experience”. An ally in the tourism experience for many years has been the resident pod of bottlenose dolphins, which more often than not flip across to the ferries as they make their hourly crossings and ride bow waves of MV Queenscliff and her sister ferry MV Sorrento. News of this extraordinary sight has spread around the world and they could one day become as famous as Phillip Island’s penguins. People come to Melbourne and drive down to Sorrento or Queenscliff just to cross Port Phillip and see the dolphins.

Skipper at age 18 McDonald’s last job before taking over from Jack McKeddie was as captain of MV Platinum, a luxury motor yacht for “adventurers”. The sleek 38-metre (125ft) vessel was custom built in Tasmania of steel and aluminium, with teak decks and interior of English beech, Tasmanian myrtle, oak and leather. It was launched in 2008, and in May 2009 was a star attraction at Sanctuary Cove international boat show, the biggest in the Asia-Pacific region. For $10,000 a day you could charter Platinum with accommodation for 10 people in its four double cabins, owners’ suite on the main deck, and six-person jacuzzi on a sun deck. Captain McDonald skippered Platinum for two years on charters before she was bought by Australia’s second-richest woman, Perthbased mining heiress Angela Bennett, who with her brother inherited father Peter Wright’s

fortune after his death in 1985. Mr Wright and the late Lang Hancock, friends from primary school days, made their fortunes in iron ore mining in the west, sealing all their partnership deals with a handshake. Matt McDonald took Ms Bennett and friends on a mega-cruise through Asia before returning to Victoria to join Searoad. Born and raised in Gippsland, Captain McDonald sailed aboard the tall ship Alma Doepel at age 14 and became a coxswain (first level ship’s captain) at 18. By 26 he was a master 4, entitled to skipper boats of 35 metres and since then has added to his qualifications. The young captain is happy to be off the water, driving a desk and enjoying the challenge of taking Searoad into a new era. Now Mornington Peninsula residents, he and his wife Alena are expecting their first child in July.

Aye, aye: Captain Matt McDonald (left), the new boss of Searoad. Above, the old ferry Peninsula Princess and the new ferry cross paths in 2007.

About Searoad THE idea of a car ferry linking the Mornington and Bellarine peninsulas had been a dream of residents, local councils, businesses, tourism groups and some government departments for more than 30 years before the first crossing by the $2 million, 35-car MV Peninsula Princess in September 1987. Three sea pilots, Paul Ringe, Keith Finnemore and Maurie Cobal, founded Peninsula Searoad Transport in 1983, but it was to be four long years before the idea became reality. The company opened a ticket office and transit lounge at Queenscliff in January 1990 and at the end of the Sorrento Pier in April 1992. The 80-car, 700 passenger MV Queenscliff, designed in Tasmania and built in South Australia, started service in 1993 and gradually took over from Peninsula Princess. Business continued to boomed in the 1990s and sister ferry MV Sorrento was built in Tasmania and began operating in March 2001. Searoad now crossed southern Port Phillip 24 times a day, leaving on the hour from both terminals. Sorrento looks similar to Queenscliff, but has better lounge areas and cafe, a function lounge, full internal lift for wheelchairs and prams, a light-filled conservatory and a bronze sculpture of a mother and baby dolphin. The 5.6 nautical mile (10.3km) crossing takes 40 minutes. The road distance from Sorrento to Queenscliff is 220 kilometres and can take up to three hours. Searoad says cars travelling on the ferry emit the equivalent of 13.5 kilograms of CO2, but emit 57.2kg

travelling around the bay. The two ferries carry more than 100,000 vehicles and 600,000 passengers each year. Searoad had an “interesting summer” with MV Queenscliff out of service for three weeks in February after a small part failed in the gearbox. Mid-February saw MV Sorrento’s arrival at the Sorrento berth delayed by about 35 minutes when ferry skipper Wayne Gallop spotted eight scuba divers lurking in the berth area. Despite attempts to get the divers to move, police had to be called and the divers were later charged with obstruction. Searoad is offering free travel for children during the holidays from 9-21 April. It applies to children under 15 travelling in vehicles only. It is also offering free meals for kids with the purchase of an adult meal at the Queenscliff ferry terminal Beach Cafe before or after the crossing. Children’s activities on board the two ferries during April will include Queenscliff’s Marine Discovery Centre “look and touch table” on 11 and 17 April, face painting and balloon sculpting on 13 April, Mr Ree the Magician on 20 April, and talented Queenscliff children entertaining passengers to raise money for the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal on 22 April. The ferries reverted to the offseason schedule last Sunday with the last sailings at 6pm from Sorrento and Queenscliff. Details: (03) 5258 3244, email travel@ searoad.com.au or on the web at www. searoad.com.au

Call to crush hoon cars CARS of hoons “should be crushed after their first offence” was the call from a majority of people at a meeting in Frankston Arts Centre late last month. About 100 people were at the meeting called to tackle hoon driving, organised by Frankston Council and chaired by Cr Glenn Aitken. Cr Aitken said a vast majority of people called for tougher hoon driving laws and they were backed by attendees including federal MP Bruce Billson and state MPs Geoff Shaw, Neil Burgess, Donna Bauer and Jude Perera. “The state government is bringing in new laws on 1

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July, but they’re just not tough enough,” Cr Aitken said. He said recent statistics about social disorder showed people were more concerned about noisy, hoon drivers and dangerous drivers than drugtaker and graffiti vandals. “The Australian Bureau of Statistics crime victimisation survey figures show 13 million Australians claim to be affected by hoons and bad drivers,” he told the meeting. “People feel unsafe in their homes, property is being damaged and, worst of all, hoon drivers are taking the lives of pedestrians and other motorists. “Frankston Council has called for stronger laws to

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combat hoon driving, as have many other municipalities; the laws are out of touch with community expectations.” He said police were frustrated with hoons being taken to court but receiving a slap on the wrist. He called for stronger laws to combat “this rising selfishness of a minority of drivers; this mongrel mentality”. Cr Aitken said he called for a show of hands of people supporting the crushing of cars for first-time hoons and for cases of bad speeding: “There was a sea of hands; almost everyone in the room.” Frankston’s hoon hotline is 1800 NO HOON (1800 66 4666).

Crash call: This was left abandoned along the same stretch of road at Crib Point where, two days after the Frankston meeting, ratings from HMAS Cerberus died after their car hit a concrete power pole. Picture: Snez Plunkett

This is the first of an occasional series of articles by Andrew Raff and Peter North covering a range of environmental topics including the CO2 debate, use of resources, future energy and the nuclear power debate. Both are members of SHIPPS, St Andrew’s Habitat Improvement, Preservation and Protection Society, on the southern peninsula.

Global warming – from go to woe PRESENT-day climate sceptics sometimes write up global warming as a recent invention by climate scientists. This is not the case. The effect has been known for a long time. The first recorded mention of the greenhouse effect was in a published essay by French polymath Jean Baptiste Fourier in 1824. Upgrades of the theory regularly appeared thereafter. Laboratory experiments confirmed the greenhouse gas properties of the atmosphere’s principal agents of global warming – water and carbon dioxide. The first definitive paper on global warming was written by Swedish Nobel prize-winning chemist, Swante August Arrhenius in 1896. From physical principles that were well established by the end of the 19th century, Arrhenius calculated global warming from various concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Though Arrhenius could not have included the feedback effects of the current climate models, his first estimate of the effect of temperature effects was remarkably close to those produced by Intergovernmental Panel

on Climate Change (IPCC) a century or so later. For years after all this was known by scientists, global warming created little interest in the wider community. The subject lay tucked away in some dusty pigeonhole of science and most people went about their business unaware that the world was a little warmer for its atmosphere. Astronomers noted that the Earth’s atmosphere kept the planet about 33o C warmer than its accompanying moon – which was the same average distance from the sun, and therefore received the same average solar radiation. The warming effect of the atmospheres of other planets in the solar system was also noted. As the theory predicted, atmospheres heated the surface of their planets. That the surface temperatures of other planets were as they should be was confirmed by heat transfer calculations. Since the time of Arrhenius the economic growth engine has pumped billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide and other energy-absorbing gases into the atmosphere. In the mid1980s, concern about global warming

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resurfaced culminating in the birth, in 1988, of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). Before too long, realisation dawned among business leaders that their most precious ideology – economic growth – was under attack from atmospheric scientists. Global warming, as an ideological threat, represented a collision between business and science, reminiscent of various collisions between religion and science of the last few hundred years. The number one villain in this conflict was carbon dioxide that, as well as its role in warming the planet, is the principal waste product of many industries. To go about their business of making money, mining, oil, power, automobile and countless other companies and people as individuals

discharge billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. This vast volume of waste product with little commercial use has to go somewhere. Discharging it to the atmosphere came as natural as breathing. To counter the threats of climate scientists from the IPCC and elsewhere, a cross-section of powerful industries coalminers, oil companies, car companies, and many others of the wider industrial community went on the defensive against the scientists. In this endeavour they were joined by oil states like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran and Australia. This powerful group disrupted IPCC conferences and started manufacturing their own version of climate science. (For an account of the attempts to

sabotage IPCC conferences by fossil fuel countries and companies, see Jeremy Leggett’s The Carbon War.) In this contest of wills, the fossil fuel interests have been successful. In the 23 years since 1988, no binding emissions agreements have been signed between nations. The carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have increased each year and are now higher than any in the last million years (for details look up “Keeling Curve” on an internet search engine), temperatures have risen to the highest ever recorded, and extreme climate events predicted by climate scientists have proliferated. (According to NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies, 2010 was the hottest year ever recorded.) During endless climate debates on all sorts of media outlets, fossil fuel commercial interests have succeeded in turning the scientific enquiry into climate change into the political issue of the times. As a result, dependence on depleting reserves of fossil fuels has increased year by year.  Andrew Raff has lived on the Mornington Peninsula for 50 years, was in the Royal Australian Navy for 20 years, served in Vietnam, and has studied the nuclear industry and climate change. He is a member of Sustainable Population Australia and founded SHIPPS last year.  Peter North has degrees in engineering and commerce, and has worked in the petrochemical, mining, manufacturing and construction industries in Australia and overseas. He has published nine books on business, travel, environment and economics, has written for the environmental magazine Pacific Ecologist and is also a member of Sustainable Population Australia.

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Check out the classes we have on offer this term, there’s sure to be something you’re interested in. Neighbourhood House Week is in May along with National Volunteers Week. Come along to the Hastings Library and check out some of the classes we will be having there. Take a Break Childcare

Basic Computers

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FRIDAY Knitting for a Cause Italian for Beginners Friday Night Cards

for all seniors will be available at the Community House on Wednesday 1st June from 10:00am12:00. Please contact the ofÂżce for enrolment.

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SOCIAL GROUPS Walkers & Talkers Meets in the foyer at the Recreation Centre on Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday at 9:00am

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WESTERN PORT

realestate The people to call for your real estate needs... Nigel Evans Mobile: 0439 540 055

Sid Ferguson Mobile: 0418 321 963

Rob Pryzler Mobile: 0408 808 698

Tallon First National 35 High Street, HASTINGS

Satchwells 1/97 High Street, HASTINGS PHONE: 03 5979 1888

Stockdale & Leggo Hastings 1/109 High Street, HASTINGS

EMAIL: RealEstate@satchwells.com.au

EMAIL: rpryzler@stockdaleleggo.com.au

PHONE: 03 5979 3000 EMAIL: info@tallon.com.au

PHONE: 03 5979 2288

Ben Tallon Mobile: 0419 339 489

David Nelli Mobile: 0403 111 234

Jason Dowler Mobile: 0403 598 754

BTRE 1/34 High Street, HASTINGS PHONE: (03) 5979 8003 realestate@btre.com.au

Baywest Real Estate 87 High Street, HASTINGS PHONE: (03) 5979 4412

Harcourts Hastings Shop 10, 14 High Street. PHONE: (03) 5970 7333

EMAIL: dnelli@baywestrealestate.com.au

EMAIL: jason.dowler@harcourts.com.au

MC REAL

Don Campbell Mobile: 0419 533 786

At your service

ESTATE

Michael Curry Mobile: 0409 410 456

PHONE: (03) 5979 4177

MCReal Estate 4/82 High St, HASTINGS PHONE: (03) 5979 8833

prestigerealtyhastings@bigpond.com

EMAIL: sales@mcrealestate.com.au

Prestige Properties 69 High Street, HASTINGS

Western Port

Craig Mann Mobile: 0412 559 816 First National Craig Mann Suite 4, 1085 Frankston Flinders Road, SOMERVILLE

PHONE: (03) 5978 0955 EMAIL: craig@craigmann.com.au

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Auction: Sat 07-May-11 2:00PM

Magnificent contemporary home in Old Tyabb

5 Large bedrooms with BIR, Master suite with walk in robe and full ensuite 3 Large living areas plus 1 dining area with polished hardwood floors throughout Ducted heating, vacuum and reverse cycle air conditioning Kitchen with Caesar stone benches, 900mm premium stainless steel oven and walk in pantry

Yard with manicured gardens, expansive rear decking and Jacuzzi 15x7 fully powered workshop 2 car garage plus single carport and plenty of boat and caravan parking Side street access Situated on half an acre (approx) Prior offers considered. Inspection By appointment Only.

Agency: Baywest Real Estate, 87 High Street, HASTINGS. Phone: 5979 4412. Agent: David Nelli, 0403 111 234.

Hastings

$1,400,000

You draw the line Developers here’s a landmark property offering many possibilities and situated only metres from the foreshore. A chance to create 2 blocks of vacant land and incorporate the existing high quality dwelling into the development or start from scratch with the possibility of 10 or more townhouses with the possibility of bay views (stca). Option 1 - 2 x 1,000m2 blocks with the existing 30 square dwelling able to be easily split into 2 homes each on around 900m2

Option 2 - Create an exceptional development site with high density bayside housing and watch them rush of the plan to buyers!! Option 3 - Enjoy the beautiful home and gardens - 3 bedrooms & study, 3 living zones all designed around a tropical water feature (around 30 squares) and 11.5m x 10.5m American barn and then develop or sell off bits later.... This is a dream property where a great location will guarantee its future!

Agency: BTRE, 1/34 High Street, HASTINGS. Phone: 5979 8003. Agent: Ben Tallon, 0419 339 489.

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$740,000 - $780,000

Vendors on the move Originally one of the first blocks purchased in the Kinfauns Estate, this property is as much about location as it is about the home. Approximately 1.5 acres, this parcel of land is private and low maintenance whilst offering fantastic broad views through Westernport Bay. Set aside in Bay View Country Lane this property positions itself as quiet, relaxing and caters for local residents and their families. The home itself features the warmth, charm and character of timber and includes vaulted ceilings, colonial windows and a fantastic black-wood kitchen with dishwasher which overlooks the dining and sitting areas which have been blended together to take full

advantage of the panoramic views. Upstairs also features a powder room, large lounge room and an outside decking ideal for the outdoor setting and BBQ. The formal entry branches off to the bedrooms and bathroom which features a spa and the master suite includes a WIR and full en-suite. GDH and cooling keeps this home at your desired temperature and there is an oversized 4 car remote garage as well as rear access. This is truly a fantastic opportunity for a lifestyle change in a highly sought after position within the Kinfauns Estate Bittern.

Agency: Stockdale & Leggo - Hastings, 1/109 High Street, HASTINGS. Phone: 5979 2288. Agent: Rob Pryzler, 0408 808 698.

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Hastings

$345,000

Offers over $295,000 considered

Lorimer Mews Only 1 year young

Prime Position A golden opportunity to invest or buy this 3 bedroom brick veneer unit incorporating an open plan lounge/dining which leads to the side patio, modern kitchen with gas cooktop & wall oven and plenty of benchspace, 3 good size bedrooms - 2 with BIR’s, evaporative cooling & gas column heater. Outside features a double garage with remote, hedged gardens and lemon tree. All within a short walk to the town centre and foreshore. Currently rented at $280 per week with lease expiring 17/05/2011.

robes, family bathroom, separate laundry , double garage with internal access. Outside features large private landscaped courtyard, water tank, clothesline etc. A great all round package not a cent to spend, an ideal investment, 1st home or for retiree’s. Vacant possession or expected rental return of $310pw, whats your preference nest or invest? Still under builders warranty, make your move now!

An exceptional lifestyle opportunity presents itself here with this Immaculately presented 18sq (app) well designed three bedroom house, located in the heart of Crib Point. Comprising open plan kitchen/dining area with stainless steel gas cooking, oven, dishwasher, ample cupboard space, separate loungeroom, heating & cooling. Main bedroom with walk in robe and ensuite, plus a further two bedrooms with built in

Agency: Tallon First National, 35 High Street, HASTINGS. Phone: 5979 3000. Agent: Nigel Evans, 0439 540 055.

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Agency: MC Real Estate, 4/82 High Street, HASTINGS. Phone: 5979 8833. Agent: Michael Curry, 0409 410 456.

Craig Mann

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Hastings As New Townhouse!

Neg. Over $310,000 Hastings An absolute steal in Old Tyabb!!

Neg. Over $580,000

Hidden behind a private fence within the popular ‘Old Tyabb’ this near new townhouse will really impress. In soon to be a complex of 3 the townhouse has great living space and is presented as a display. Other features include gas ducted heating and double lock up garage. The very central and convenient position allows for you to walk to nearby schools, shops and public transport.

The choice is yours with this unique property nestled in sought after old Tyabb in fast growing Hastings. On a huge 1800Sqm approx, the opportunities are endless for development or quiet private living. Featuring a large 4Bdrm 2 bathroom home with room for the growing family and a double garage. Boasting a large rear block for cricket, bikes and football. Or possible sub -development at a later stage STCA. A great opportunity awaits, don’t wait !

ADDRESS: 1/257 Marine Parade

ADDRESS: 237 Marine Parade

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Price by Negotiation over $420,000 Crib Point Development Opportunity!!

Situated in a great location this well designed sandstone home will not disappoint. Featuring a versatile floor-plan with built-in robes to bedrooms, master with ensuite & walk in robe, spacious study, ducted heating, evaporative cooling, open plan living and dining area, separate lounge and rumpus room. Modern kitchen featuring dishwasher, stainless steel wall oven and gas hot plates adjoin the light and bright family living/meals area. Outdoors offers fully fenced manicured gardens, a covered entertaining area, and a double lock up garage. Close to all essential amenities, this is a property well worth an inspection! Harcourts Hastings ADDRESS: 9 Alexander Drive

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Shoreham Unbelievable Value!!

What an opportunity, your chance to enter the market and build your dream home or units on a large 642 Sqm battle axe block STCA. Located in a perfect position close to schools, shops and public transport. A great block at a bargain price, purchaser to occur sub division cost. ADDRESS: 177A Disney Street

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Neg. Over $500,000 Bittern Your Storybook Home Awaits!

Price by Negotiation over $735,000

This little gem is in a great position offering glimpses of the bay and just waiting for the right purchaser to scoop up this great holiday home/weekender. Offering bayglimpses with the potential to take in great views if you build up, 4 bedrooms with a fully self contained area at the end of the home, this neat and easy to maintain home will attract a multitude of buyers. Offering polished floorboards throughout under the carpets and enough space to give an easy makeover to capitilise on the potential. With-in only a short drive to Balnarring Village, beautiful beaches, wineries and all the attractions including our famous wineries you can purchase in this very special area. Harcourts Hastings AUCTION: 30 April 2011 at 11:00am ADDRESS: 6 View Court

If peace and quiet is what you are after then this property is for you. Perfectly positioned in one of the most private locations is this large picturesque 5 Bdr storybook cottage set on approx 1.75 acres (7759 Sqm) which has more than enough room for the growing family. This home is full of features including a fully serviced scullery open plan kitchen, dining, living, formal lounge, rumpus and 2 study’s, 2 bathrooms and self contained bungalow. What more could you ask for? If you are the home handy man and needs room to work, then look no further with a 12 x 9 barn style shed with car hoyst and another large 6x8 colour bond garage both fully powered. Harcourts Hastings ADDRESS: 41 Bullecourt Road

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Neg. Over $320,000 Somers Neg. Over $670,000 Deceptively Large... Updated & Spacious Family Home

With amazing kerb side appeal and charm throughout, this home has been updated and improved with many features making it the ideal choice for the astute investor or owner occupier looking for a fantastic location where all the hard work has been completed. Comprising of three bedrooms all with built in robes, family bathroom with spa bath and carport with drive through access into the backyard. Aside your very own pool with solar and gas heating is the covered outdoor entertaining area perfect for you to enjoy with family and friends. Further features include ducted heating, split system cooling, garden shed and recently rendered exterior. Harcourts Hastings ADDRESS: 176 Hodgins Road

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Fully Renovated with 3 Living rooms, 3 bathrooms and large block. Step through the front entry and be taken a back by spacious light interior. Newly renovated and extended to a high standard this lovely home offers an excellent floor-plan and loads of natural light.... Within an easy 5 min walk to the beach and positioned facing a quiet court location this substantial home comprises of 4 generous bedrooms (2 with en-suite) 2 separate living areas plus sitting room, Open-plan living all beautifully presented and finished with no expenses spared. Completely revamped with new carpets, tiles and new kitchen and bathrooms with lovely stone bench tops, quality appliances and fixtures. Harcourts Hastings ADDRESS: 36 South Beach Road EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: CLOSING 5:00PM 4/5/11 (If not sold prior)

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Situated on a huge 1470m2 (approx.) these 2 adjoining properties are located in a prime position, only a short stroll to the High Street shopping precinct, Western Port Marina, transport & schools. This is a fantastic & rare opportunity to secure both properties to rent out then later develop this five unit site (STCA). The property comprises two 2/3 bedroom homes both in excellent condition, with great potential rental income. Features include established, gardens, ducted vacuum system, gas ducted heating, evaporative cooling & huge 15m x 8m shed complete with remote roller door. This is an opportunity not to miss out on, call to schedule your personal appointment today.

OPEN HOME: Saturday 11:30am - 12:00pm ADDRESS: 21 & 23 Spring Street

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$357,700

35 HIGH STREET, HASTINGS

$525,000

$125,000

www.tallon.com.au

$575,000

5979 3000

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Hastings

Expressions of interest closing 18 May

Hastings

Sale by negotiation

25 acres with excellent income 25 acres - Broiler Chicken Farm of 144,000 birds, four bedroom home, great lifestyle, plenty of room for free range birds, the pony and a few sheep and cattle. A great property with enormous Surrounded by existing residential developments, opposite the Westernport Secondary potential. College, close to the thriving centre of Hastings township.

Outstanding site of 6.06ha with subdivision potential

Agency: Satchwells Hastings, 1/97 High Street, HASTINGS. Phone: (03) 5979 1888. Agents: Andrew Satchwell 0418 321 961 or Sid Ferguson 0418 321 963

Somerville

Auction: Sat 14-May-11 2:30pm

Charm & Character on over 40 acres Be prepared to be swept off your feet by this delightful rural property which has a charming, tastefully renovated 1930’s home set in 44 acres (approx). While you enjoy the abundance of friendly bird life and mature trees, you are located only 3km from the convenience of Somerville which offers schools, trains, buses, medical facilities and a growing shopping centre. The character filled house retains many art deco features whilst offering newly renovated fully equipped kitchen, bathrooms and laundry. The house has 3 large bedrooms, and a study (or fourth bedroom), 2 bathrooms, an open plan kitchen and impressive period living and dining rooms. All ceilings are 9’6” and some have original ornate deco centre pieces.

The house is set in a delightful maturing garden approx. 600m from the road. The land is gently undulating with scope for a variety of uses. The property currently offers quality horse infrastructure including numerous sheltered paddocks with improved pasture, stable complex with 4 large stables and tack room. There are a number of outbuildings including lockable machinery shed and a 3000 bale hay shed. A large 1.6 mega litre dam complements mains water to all paddocks. The property is well fenced and all improvements are maintained to a very high standard.

Agency: Prestige Realty, 69 High Street, HASTINGS. Phone: 5979 4177. Agent: Don Campbell, 0419 533 786.

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Affordable living in the exclusive Kinfauns Estate!

This fabulous open-plan family home is located in the very sought after and exclusive Kinfauns Estate with the convenience to every amenity plus the Hastings Marina. Set on approximately 1.1 acres of land, this young home delivers the ultimate indoor/ outdoor family lifestyle. The property is immaculate with a generous master bedroom, ensuite and WIR, further 3 bedrooms with BIR, family bathroom with Do no miss this opportunity to enjoy the separate toilet, study, separate living areas lifestyle you deserve in the centre of the and a double lock up garage. renowned Mornington Peninsula.

Agency: Craig Mann First National, 4/1085 Frankston-Flinders Road, SOMERVILLE. Phone: (03) 5978 0955. Agent: Craig Mann, 0412 559 816.

Neg. Over $695,000

The kitchen overlooks an open lounge room which flows onto the large decked/pergola area aside your very own playground and large child friendly secure rear yard, a perfect ‘blank canvas’ for you to do as you wish with plenty of room for a pool and tennis court if desired. Added features include established front yard creating a screen of privacy, floating timber boards, split system cooling and gas ducted heating. Be quick to secure this slice of heaven!

Agency: Harcourts Hastings, Shop 10, 14 High Street. Phone: 5970 7333. Agent: Lauren Dunsford, 0422 385 869.

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Satchwells

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Asking $329,900

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Auction: Saturday 16 April at 1.00pm

Expressions of Interest Closing Wednesday May 18th 2011

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1/97 High Street 14 Balnarring Village Cnr Cook and Wood Streets

03 5979 1888 03 5983 5509 03 5989 0744

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BTRE YOU’LL SOON BE HOME

(03) 5979 8003 www.btre.com.au

“Your Local Expert”

COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES 3/34 High Street, Hastings

For Lease

2/34 High Street, Hastings

For Lease

26 Glendale Avenue, Hastings

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166 Marine Parade, Hastings

13A Lyall Street, Hastings

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13 Warranqite Crescent, Hastings

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$519,950

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18 Compass Court, Somerville

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Bittern

18 Bayview Country Lane

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OriJinally one of the Àrst EloFNs purFhased in the .infauns (state, this property is as muFh aEout loFation as it is aEout the home. Appro[imately 1 ô aFres, this parFel of land is private and low maintenanFe whilst offerinJ fantastiF Eroad views throuJh :esternport Bay. Set aside in Bay 9iew Country /ane this property positions itself as Tuiet, rela[inJ and Faters for loFal residents and their families. The home itself features the warmth, Fharm and FharaFter of timEer and inFludes vaulted FeilinJs, Folonial windows and a fantastiF ElaFN-wood NitFhen with dishwasher whiFh overlooNs the dininJ and sittinJ areas whiFh have Eeen Elended toJether to taNe full advantaJe of the panoramiF views. Price: Inspect: Contact:

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3 Brandary Place

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OnFe in a lifetime a property Fomes on the marNet that Fan turn a dream into a reality. The venue has held a very suFFessful relationship with the people of +astinJs and :esternport throuJhout this era, as is evidenFed Ey a Fonsistent weeNend EooNinJ reFord for Eirthday parties and private funFtions. This 4 m FommerFial property made from BriFN and Colour Bond FonstruFtion has Eeen renovated to speFiÀFally Fater for events Eut would also maNe a Jreat traininJ Fentre. The venue Furrently holds a 9iFtorian /iTuor /iFense under the CluE /iFense. This venue Fan aFFommodate up to 00 Juests. Body Forporate )ees Apply. Offers over $490,000 By Appointment +DstinJs OfÀFe 9 9

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449 Stony Point Road

This younJ and modern home of only 4 years old on appro[imately 0m of land will impress a younJ family looNinJ to purFhase in a niFe new estate in +astinJs. ,f modern and affordaEle is what you are looNinJ for then this will surely impress. Appro[imately 1 sTuares of livinJ spaFe, the house is ideally positioned on the EloFN to allow easy aFFess to the EaFNyard.The home Fomprises of three Eedrooms, the master has a walN in roEe and full ensuite and the other Eedrooms eaFh have Euilt in roEes. This star enerJy rated property inFludes 3 livinJ ]ones, rare for a property in this priFe ranJe one room Fould Ee used as a larJe rumpus or an ideal home theatre room. $3 0,000 - $3 0,000 Saturday 1 .00-1 .30 pm +astinJs OfÀFe 9 9

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Entry level acreage property in beautiful secluded Bittern

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Set on appro[imately 1Ă´ parN - liNe aFres this property offers a solid 4 Eedroom plus open study EriFN residenFe. :ith 3 livinJ ]ones, the lounJe room offers a traditional open Ă€re plaFe and there is plenty of spaFe for the entire family to live and Jrow. Outside the home, Fool wide verandahs, a perJola and a Jreenhouse set the staJe for outdoor entertaininJ in aEsolute privaFy. A douEle JaraJe and Farport Fompliments this property as does the two street driveway aFFess one on the main road maNinJ this a very suitaEle property for the ÂśTradesman¡ and his Flan The residenFe is ripe for renovation should you wish and this aFreaJe property is without a douEt a Flever investment for the future. Offers over $ 0,000 Saturday 11.00-11.30 am +astinJs OfĂ€Fe 9 9

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Hastings

14 Windrest Place

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3 Penshurst Avenue

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Are you looNinJ for a wonderful home in down town +astinJs" Then looN no further. This 3 Eedroom EriFN home has Eeen lovinJly maintained Ey the one owner. Built Must 10 years aJo the internal desiJn inFludes an open plan NitFhen with stainless steel oven, FooN top and dishwasher. $3 0,000 - $3 0,000 Saturday .00- .30 pm +astinJs OfÀFe 9 9

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News from Hastings-Western Port Historical Society CALLING ALL POETS! Do you write poetry? If so, Hastings-Western Port Historical Society would like you to share your poem(s) at our next Morning Coffee – Poems and Poets – to be held at the Hastings Museum, cnr Marine Parade & Skinner Street Hastings on Thursday 5th May from 10.15 am to 12 noon. You are welcome to read your own poem(s) or else bring along your poem for someone else to read. The morning will feature favourite, well-known poems and poets as well as poems written by our own local poets. However, it is essential to contact Shirley on 03-9781 1141 or Ann on 0448 023 287 to include your poem(s) in the morning’s program. The popular morning coffees are held on a quarterly basis. Entry fee is $5 per person and there is a door prize. All the proceedings of the morning coffee go toward the Society’s projects. In the past these have included contributions towards paint, plants for the garden, purchase of chairs and tables, photograph framing, book publishing, purchase of cabinets, etc. Due to limited seating at the Museum prior bookings for the

morning coffee is requested. Contact Shirley or Ann. SENIOR CITIZENS VISIT HASTINGS MUSEUM A group visit by the Hastings Senior Citizens to the Hastings Museum precinct took place on Wednesday, 6th April. After the morning tea, a short talk about early Hastings and its people was given followed by a tour of the premises. The school display, the Willow pattern china, the hand embroidered names of the earlier Hastings CWA members, the fruit industry display and the fishing boat with fishing memorabilia were popular exhibits. The group then divided into two with one group going to see the c1905 Pioneer Cottage and the other group listening to the talk about the 40 pounder Armstrong gun that is a prize exhibit at the Museum. Later, the groups swapped places so that everyone was able to see what the Museum had to offer. Groups visiting the Museum in the past have been primary and secondary schools, senior citizens from the Cheltenham area, a Legacy group as well as walking groups. Should your group wish to visit the Muse-

um at Hastings please contact Shirley on 03-9781 1141 or Ann on 0448 235 287 to arrange a mutually suitable day and time. 150th ANNIVERSARY OF HASTINGS GAZETTING Planning is in place for activities at Hastings/Tyabb to commemorate 150 years since the local township was gazetted. Other townships in the Mornington Peninsula that were gazetted at the time are Rye, Dromana and Mornington. Each township has planned their own local activities and some have already taken place. The unearthing of the Hastings time capsule was the first of the local activities at Hastings and this took place in February. Other activities still to come are a pioneer dance to be held at the Tyabb Public Hall on Friday evening 9th September, a tree planting ceremony and a pioneer lunch to be held at the Hastings Club on Sunday, 16th September. For further details please contact David Mason, president of Hastings-Western Port Historical Society on 5977-5786.

HISTORY HUNTER tell me, do... Question: Where was the Merricks North Post Office? Answer: It stood at the junction of Bittern-Dromana Road and Merricks Road, opposite Fenton Hall. The small building was put up in 1931 by voluntary labour when local resident and parliamentarian, James Fenton, persuaded other locals of the advantages of having their own post office. As an MHR, Fenton had a great deal of correspondence which had to be collected from the Merricks P.O. Community members also contributed the cost of building materials. The post office was closed in 1966. Question: Was there ever a church in Somers? Answer: Yes, Somers had a church for about

twenty years. In 1958 a small wooden building was moved to the corner of Camp Hill Road and Tasman Road. It had been the Methodist church in Somerville, originally built in 1885, and was earmarked for demolition when it was purchased and moved to its new location to serve the Somers community. After the Uniting Church was formed in 1978 the building was relocated in Somers and became a private home. Do you have a question about the Balnarring District? The History Room at the Balnarring Hall is open every Monday morning from 10.00 until noon. You are welcome to stop by and see us. The Balnarring & District Historical Society can be contacted by phone 5983 5326 or email balhist@optusnet.com.au

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BOOKS

Here is the news: from the front LETTERS and diaries from Gallipoli, the Middle East and the Western front of nearly 100 years ago tell the stirring and sometimes frightening tales of the Great War. The stories are in a new book to be launched mid-April, Our Boys at the Front, compiled and published by Mornington and District Historical Society. Almost 700 “boys” from the Mornington Peninsula out of a population of 6500 went to war, and 118 were killed or died from wounds. The letters reflect their courage, patriotism, humour and strong sense of mateship. The men appreciated parcels from home with garments, cigarettes and tobacco. Writing from Gallipoli, William Tope of Sorrento thanked his father for clothing, but wrote: “I will drop workers a gentle hint: do the mufflers in one colour: nothing looks more out of place than to see anything gaudy or striped here.” Their experiences would have been forgotten but for the foresight of the publisher of The Peninsula Post, which was produced in Mornington. The paper printed many reminiscences by the young men at war. Its reports provide a contemporary picture of how the war affected peninsula communities. Our Boys at the Front: the Mornington Peninsula at War 1914-1918 through the pages of The Peninsula Post. The book and DVD will be available from peninsula bookshops in time to commemorate Anzac Day. Across the oceans: Officers and men of the 11th Battalion, AIF photographed on 10 January 1915 at the Great Pyramid near Mena Camp shortly after their arrival in Egypt.

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THE BOOK PAGE looks at the wonderful world of books, courtesy of PETERSEN’S BOOK STORE, the place to go for all your book needs. This month we feature lots of lovely Easter books for the kids, and a colouring competition...

Local bookworms are invited to join THE FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB, meeting on the ¿UVW 0RQGD\ HYHQLQJ DW Petersen’s Book Store each month. It’s a relaxing forum for book enthusiasts to share literary conversation, debate and love of reading. Hope to see you there!

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What Becomes of the Broken Beefhearted? By Stuart McCullough DON Van Vliet died on 17 December last year. While for the past 30 years he had carved a successful career as an expressionist painter, it’s his work under the name Captain Beefheart that he’ll be remembered for. I have to be honest – I only own one record by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Trout Mask Replica. According to Rolling Stone, the album comes in at number 58 of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Incidentally, he was sandwiched between The Beatles (Meet the Beatles) and The Rolling Stones (Beggars Banquet), both of which he had openly mocked in Beatle Bones ‘n’ Smokin’ Stones. I suspect they put him on the list solely to annoy his neighbours. I can’t pretend to understand his music. The first time I played Trout Mask Replica, it sounded like a bunch of instruments having an argument. All the usual songwriting habits and conventions were missing. It was strange, unsettling and almost upsetting. For this reason, I would usually cue up Trout Mask Replica at great volume whenever I took my car in for a service, so that when the mechanic turned on the ignition, he was greeted by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band’s particular brand of weirdness. Even the cover was disturbing. It featured the Captain himself, wearing a mask made from a giant carp. Years before Lady Gaga threw on a couple of forequarter chops and decided to call it art, Captain Beefheart was

Bongo Fury: Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart (right) on the cover of their 1975 album.

wearing a fish for a face. Granted, it’s a process that has since been perfected by Susan Boyle, but at the time it was revolutionary. While the music sounds like a mess, it was actually the product of an extremely strict and ever-so-slightly cult-like work ethic that required the band to rehearse for 14 hours a day. Members of the group were allowed to leave the house on a restricted basis and – legend has it – the Captain tried

to employ a range of brain-washing techniques such as sleep and food deprivation, and consistent negative reinforcement. He even rewarded band members for attacking each other. He went so far as to encourage an intra-band “fight club” where musicians were encouraged to express their disapproval through physical violence. The drummer, John French (also known as “Drumbo”) described being

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ANDRIY and Taras Kogut are the familiar faces of Blue Bay Cheese at farmers markets on the Mornington Peninsula and Melbourne’s kosher food scene. As founders of Blue Bay Cheese, the Kogut brothers come from a rich European heritage of cheese making in their homeland of the Karpathian Mountains, Ukraine. They now embrace Port Phillip and Mornington as their “sparkling inspiration” for a new life in Australia producing cheeses and fine food for the local market that would make their grandmother proud! “Each day our grandmother milked the cows and goats herself, taking great pride in having fresh yoghurt and cheese on the table for the family.”

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kicked, punched and attacked with a broomstick. You don’t get that with Coldplay. Unfortunately, Drumbo tendered his resignation after being thrown down a set of stairs. Which is fair enough. When it came time to record, the Magic Band were a well-oiled machine (probably some kind of lawnmower) and got all the music down in four hours. The whole shebang was produced by Frank Zappa. Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa had been friends since their teenage years. That’s them sitting together on the album cover for Bongo Fury. While it might be tempting to tar them with the same freaky brush, the two were very different. Frank may well have been responsible for songs such as Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow, The 3rd Movement of Sinister Footwear and The Muffin Man, but he was a disciplined and exceptional musician. It was Frank that gave Don the stage name that served him so well. And it was Frank who signed Captain Beefheart to his own label, Straight Records, when the other labels thought the material too dark (which it wasn’t) or too weird (which it most certainly was). They apparently fell out, though, during a tour in the 1970s. Frank would be playing on stage while Captain Beefheart sat and sketched tangled caricatures of his friend. They stopped speaking for a time, but reconciled prior to Zappa’s death. The Captain gave up on music and directed his efforts towards painting. It’s ironic that having struggled in an

idiom like rock and roll – which is supposed to be about non-conformity – he was judged to be too weird to ever receive mainstream acceptance. Painting was a different story, and his works were highly A true maverick spirit is a rare thing. It’s the type of character who has been driven near to extinction by the gelatinous, creeping conformist sludge that condemns us all to live in a world where The Black Eyed Peas continue to prosper and the back catalogue of Steeleye Span remains hard to come by. Many people become performers for the attention – they seek to draw in the love and adoration of worshipping hoards. Not Captain Beefheart. He made music that dared you to like him. Heck, those records almost dare you to listen to them without ripping off your own ears. It’s an uneasy experience, but someone’s got to do it. That’s why the world still needs the likes of Frank Zappa and Don Van Vliet. It’s those artists willing to take the ultimate risk of being dismissed as weird who are the only things standing between us and a life of pasteurised blandness. I might dig out my copy of Trout Mask Replica but I doubt I’ll listen to it. Instead, I’ll probably put on a copy of Bongo Fury and take a good long look at that cover. What I will not be doing any time soon is wearing a fish on my face as part of an ill-conceived homage, no matter how much you beg. Complain all you want, but that would be carping. www.stuartmccullough.com

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Entertainment AFTER two hit singles, including Australian country music’s biggest hit of 2010 with Thank You for Cheating on Me, two-time Golden Guitar winner Dianna Corcoran follows up with her third single, the title track from her smash album Keep Breathing. The single release also comes with a new video directed by Ross Wood. Dianna said: “It was time to showcase my voice and to show the emotion with a serious song.” The Parkes-born singer-songwriter burst onto the country scene with her debut album A Little Bit Crazy in 2003 and in the same year was awarded the Australian Independent Rising Star of the Year Award. In 2004 Dianna received two nominations in the Country Music Awards of Australia 2004 and a Golden Guitar for Best New Talent of the Year and was selected to receive a $10,000 grant at the Australian Performing Rights Association (APRA) Professional Development Awards. This gave “Corky” (pictured with yours truly) the opportunity to head to Nashville and do some writing and recording. In 2007 Corky received three nominations in the 2008 Tamworth

Country Music Awards, Album of the Year, and Female Artist of the Year and Vocal Collaboration of the Year with Karl Broadie. Keep Breathing is a must for every country music fan’s collection. www.diannacorcoran.com *** GOLDEN Guitar winner Kirsty Akers will release a new single, In Spite of Ourselves, from the forthcoming album Naked due for release in June.

The single is produced by Matt Fell (Sara Storer, Graeme Connors). www.kirstyleeakers.net *** HARMONY James has won the 2011 (APRA) (PDA) Award in the country section. Harmony and eight other Australian songwriters will receive a package worth $25,000 each. In 2007 Harmony won the country section of the international songwriting

competition with her song and album title Tailwind. Her single Somebody Stole My Horse was one of the hottest country songs playing on radio in 2008. The same year she won Independent Female Vocalist of the Year. *** THE Sydney Country Music Festival, Stampede On Down, will be held at the Castle Hill Showground 1-3 April with acts including Troy CassarDaley, Jetty Road and McAlister Kemp. Gates open at 4pm and the concert begins at 7pm. The show will also feature a Ute Muster and Talent Quest on Saturday 2 April. The show will be hosted by Ray Hadley. Details: www.sydneycountry musicfestival.com.au *** CONGRATULATIONS to Jasmine Rae who has retained the No.1 position on this week’s ARIA Australian Artists Country Sales Chart with her new album Listen Here (ABC). The album features the hit singles Hunky Boys and I’ll Try Anything with Joe Nichols. Jasmine will appear at the Empire Theatre, Toowoomba, on 29 April. www.jasminerae.com.au

Melbourne Cup Day and anticipate the joy of clean beachside rubbish bins for six months. I should add that I mean no disrespect to Jesus, obviously a man of the highest principles and courage. *** I SEE where the Victorian Education Department is considering Christian education classes in primary schools to be taught by volunteers. Who chooses the volunteers? Do the children (and parents) have a choice? Why do some religions engage in witch hunts, otherwise known as the subtle persecution of people of other faiths? What of the burning of Ingrid Bergman (Joan of Arc), a Catholic saint found guilty by an ecclesiastical court, burned to death at age 19 and declared innocent by the Pope 25 years later. Then there’s the Spanish Inquisition with the choice: as in convert or be killed. As George W Bush said after the 9/11 terrorist attacks “Either you’re with us or you’re a terrorist.” Shades of brainwashing? *** THERE’S no doubt about the Prince, as in William. What a decent young man. He willingly gave his time to the locals in New Zealand and no doubt provided those fortunate enough to see him in person with some spine-

tingling moments. I was driving to Frankston on 19 March when it was announced on the wireless that he had landed in Australia. I was too excited to drive, so I pulled over for five minutes to savour the moment. Sadly he’s so busy he simply cannot fit in a visit to the RSL dedicated smoking zone. Never mind (as Mum used to say), the media will keep us informed step by step, page by page. If only Kate could join him. That would represent perfection. *** ASSUMING the Libyan rebels (with US help) oust the lovable Colonel Gaddafi, thereby bringing glorious democracy to Libya, along the brilliantly successful lines of our achievements in Afghanistan and Iraq, our contribution (always a big plus to help the Yanks) should include sending our two top advisers on decency, capitalism and a fair go over there, namely the arithmetical Terry McCrann and all things wonderful Andrew Bolt. Oh, and Caroline Wilson for the Libyan ladies. *** I MENTIONED previously that Professor Patrick McGorry reckons 4.4 million Aussies confront mental

illness every year. I wonder about these outrageous claims. We tend to assume that all “now” opinions are correct. So many people seemingly suffering from various forms of clinical depression today -- a fact? Presently we’re overrun with psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors and antibiotic-supplying medical practitioners with an almost pathological opinion that smoking causes everything. Fifty years ago the perfect Mum and Dad smoked cigarettes. In the US 50 years ago they gave homosexuals electric shocks, sometimes lobotomies and castration, and called them sexual psychopaths. Things change, sometimes for the better. What about in 2061? Will we decide in favour of Socrates? Will we become enlightened, yet again, and today’s certainties scoffed at? Not me obviously -- I’ll be up yonder. Lah de dah. *** THEY’RE hitting hard with this prepaid funerals nonsense. And wills. Radio and television. Fair enough to make a will, but refrain from disclosing the details, particularly to your wonderful children. Time enough when you’re gone. Add a codicil along the lines of “anyone who enquires as

with Gary Turner Top Ten Albums 1. Keep Breathing – Dianna Corcoran 2. Listen Here – Jasmine Rae (ABC) 3. Behind the Lines – John Schumann 4. Woolshed Creek – James Blundell 5. Red Stiletto – Vanessa Lea & Road Train 6. Connie Kis – Connie Kis Andersen 7. Left of Center – Left of Center 8. 14 Funny Songs – Jim Haynes 9. Love & Bravery – Bec Lavelle 10. Behind Bars – Allan Caswell Top Five Singles 1. Bad Machines – Shane Nicholson 2. Spend it – Aly Cook 3. Steamy Dreams – Connie Kis Andersen 4. Keep Breathing – Dianna Corcoran 5. Two Miles Down – Luke Austen

A Grain Of Salt I’VE been crook. Doctor said smoking; surprise, surprise. He sent me to Rosebud Hospital where I was held prisoner for five hours on a painfully uncomfortable bed. Fortunately the nurses were beautiful, thus allowing my imagination to run riot. Twice I needed to relieve myself, twice they brought me a bottle and twice (when they were out of sight), I took all the sticky thingos off and walked to the toilet. Fair go ladies! I enjoyed the sandwiches. OK now. I’ve cut the smokes down from 25 to 22 a day, with special dispensation when Collingwood wins. But if Essendon beat Collingwood on Anzac Day, I’m giving them up forever. Might as well suffer two pains in the one hit. It’s quite amazing the extent of self-pity a male undergoes when one is crook. *** ARE we all looking forward to Easter? Why? Is it the holidays, your Christian beliefs, the eventual mass evacuation or all three? On the third day, according to my 1948 Sunday school teachings, Jesus came alive. But on the fifth day here on the Mornington Peninsula some 63 years later we really celebrate, as we wave ta-ta to the holiday hordes from Melbourne until

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Hastings premiers 1906? HASTINGS Football Club historian Vic Jeremiah has requested the help of readers of the Western Port News in identifying the members of what he believes is the 1906 premiership team. Pompey Francis, who appeared in the previous edition of The News, and who subsequently played with Melbourne Football Club, is in the centre of the front row; he was possibly the captain. Vic thinks he can identify George Slocombe Snr (front row left) and Don Knox (second back row, third from left). These were the days before team uniforms, at least in country football. Each player simply wore the jumper he fancied. The intriging question is: who is the woman in the back row?

Carlton v Essendon the pick of the week however showed great fight in their 28-point loss to premiership favourite Collingwood. I think it comes down to Carlton’s depth and Essendon’s midfield. Just comparing the two midfields, Carlton’s just look far too superior and I can’t see them getting beaten. Carlton by 18 points.

Round 4 previews Friday 15 April Richmond v Collingwood, MCG 7.40pm Unfortunately for the Tigers, the fixture doesn’t get any easier for them. Last week against Hawthorn they looked sloppy and lacked direction, Dylan Grimes struggled against Lance Franklin and he’ll have to play on either Travis Cloke or Chris Dawes, so almost mission impossible for the kid. Collingwood will look to keep their unbeaten run intact after beating Carlton last Friday with Simon Buckley set to return from injury. Ben Reid will have a huge task to try and keep Jack Riewoldt quiet, but he’s more than up to the task. Collingwood by 88 points. Saturday 16 April Hawthorn v West Coast, Aurora Stadium 2.10pm Despite an excellent start to the season, West Coast will have a tough game when they travel to Tasmania to play the in-form Hawks. Last week Lance Franklin was unstoppable and it will take Darren Glass’s best effort to stop the champ. Everything is going right for the Hawks at the moment: Cyril Rioli will return from suspension, Luke Hodge is in terrific form and key defender Josh Gibson is reaching his potential. The Hawks will be hard to beat. Hawthorn by 29 points. Carlton v Essendon, MCG 2.10pm Every year this game never fails to entertain, and this time around both teams find themselves in good form. Essendon buried St Kilda’s premiership chances with a flawless victory on the weekend. James Hird can be extremely satisfied with the progress his young team has made. Carlton

Sydney v Geelong, SCG 7.10pm This will be a truly exceptional match, with both teams in great form. Sydney continued to show their never-say-die attitude when they came from behind to beat West Coast on the road. The super sub Gary Rohan came on in the last quarter and won the game for them with the assistance of Andrejs Everitt. Jude Bolton broke a league record with 19 tackles; a phenomenal effort. Geelong on the other hand cruised to an easy win against Port Adelaide. James Kelly was a machine with his 38 disposals. Geelong by 4 points. Port Adelaide v Adelaide AAMI Stadium 7.40pm In the ‘Showdown’, both teams will go into the match after disappointing losses. Adelaide after the bye failed to beat Fremantle on home turf. Port Adelaide have had a much worse start to the season after getting belted by the Cats. If Port Adelaide wants to turn their season around, they need a key forward; the loss of Jay Schulz has had a disastrous effect on them, they have no target in the forward 50 and Daniel Stewart won’t be become competitive for another year or two. Adelaide 52 points. Sunday 17 April Gold Coast v Melbourne, Gabba 2.10pm This game will be a good opportunity for the Gold Coast Suns. Melbourne so far this year has been known to struggle to play all four quarters. They didn’t look convincing in their victory over Brisbane; at one stage they were down by 30 points. Gold Coast, however, slightly improved in their loss against the Bulldogs, but they can be sure to go into the match without vice-captain Campbell Brown after an act of stupidity that will

almost certainly earn him a suspension. Everyone should watch Liam Jurrah who was exciting while kicking five goals last week. Melbourne by 44 points. Fremantle v North Melbourne, Patersons Stadium 4.40pm After a big win on the road, the Dockers’ confidence will be sky high. Young gun Nathan Fyfe was sensational last week against the Crows. This team when they get their game right will be extremely hard to beat; they have the right balance of youth and experience, and have the best ruckman in the game. North Melbourne, however, have nothing to worry the Dockers; it’s their second Perth trip in four weeks and combines with internal issues after Brent Harvey criticised players on radio. Fremantle by 43 points.

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WHILE Black Cavair stole the show at Royal Randwick on the weekend, some of the lesser lights indicated they are horses to follow in the coming weeks. Perhaps the most impressive of them was the Adelaide-trained Happy Trails, which finished an unlucky fourth in the Carbine Club Stakes (1600m). Jockey Damien Oliver said he had a chequered passage in the straight and should have just about won. Oliver also reported to trainer Paul Beshara that he felt Happy Trail should run 2400m. With that in mind, Beshara is considering the 2000m Packer Plate on 23 April. Darley-owned Divorces also caught the eye in the Carbine Club with a brave second to the highly progressive Needs Further. A group 3 winner, she appears back to her best after losing form last spring and will be tough to beat in any race she contests over the next month.

Patinack Farm’s Marquardt will derive great benefit from her third ($18) in the Sapphire Stakes (1200m). She was having her first start in six weeks and after looking the winner at the 200m, peaked on her run. Trainer John Thompson will have some nice mares’ races in mind in Sydney and later at the Brisbane carnival. New Zealand Derby winner C’est La Guerre has managed only one victory in 22 starts since being purchased in 2008 by Lloyd Williams, but he did hit the line strongly when third in the Chairman’s Handicap over 2600m. Proven at 3200m, the Sydney Cup is his best chance to set the record straight. Mick Price, who has an excellent record at Caulfield, is following a proven pattern with the promising Vivid Vixen. Two years ago Price won the Easter Cup with Miss Maren and he has Vivid Vixen going along the same pathway. A mare like Miss Maren, she showed her class in winning over 1800m at Caulfield last Saturday and is primed to secure black type on Easter Saturday. Cranbourne-trained Avionics failed to fire last campaign, but her two starts

CRIB Point Football Club celebrates the 10-year anniversary if its 2001 premiership on Saturday 16 April. All past Magpies’ players, officials and members are welcome to join in and celebrate the event. Games kick off against Pearcedale at 10am with under-18s, followed by the reserves and then seniors at 2pm. For inquiries, call John Druvins on 0414 838 665. this prep have been encouraging. The five-year-old was a tenacious third behind the in-form Cat’s Pyjamas at Caulfield last Saturday and will be hard to beat in similar company. Choisir colt Tokugawa is worth backing when he gets to 1400m. A slashing first-up second over 1200m at Moonee Valley, he had plenty to offer when caught in a traffic jam over the same trip at Caulfield. Trainer Nigel Blackiston has the lightly raced Right Of Refusal ticking along nicely towards the $350,000 South Australia on 8 May. An easy winner against older horses over 2200m at Seymour, he was only collared in the last few strides in the Galilee Series Final (2400m) at Caulfield. He is a versatile galloper who will even better suited to the spacious Morphettville circuit. Elvstroem four-year-old Carrara has been a tad disappointing since finishing second behind international

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The Way ($17-$12) wasn’t suited by the greasy conditions at Caulfield, but his late sectionals were very good. Look for him in restricted grade over 1200m or 1400m. Best: Happy Trials.

Hastings netballers looking to new courts in future OUR netballers have put in a fantastic pre-season with sessions starting as early as November 2010. Our major focus has been fitness and a huge thank you is in order for Jess Woodman and Tina Hall for really pushing the girls to increase their endurance. We welcome a lot of new players and are pleased to see that these new girls, as well as our existing players, are showing dedication and the right attitude to make 2011 a great season and set Hastings up as a competitive netball club for the years ahead. This season we’ll be

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fielding 3 teams (A, B and C grades) and are very pleased to announce and welcome our coach Jess Hopkins. Jess comes to us from Devon Meadows with a wealth of experience and knowledge. We’ve also been benefiting from some additional skills and drills training from Mandy Hopkins. Saturday 26th March saw us host a practise match against Cranbourne. This was a great opportunity to get some time on court together and test our skills against such an established team as the girls from Cranbourne.

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Round 1 was Hastings vs Crib Point and although Hastings’ Netballers didn’t come away with the points this week we were pleased to see our girls fight hard against 3 quality teams from Crib Point. After a disappointing 1st quarter in A Grade, coach Jess Hopkins managed to rally the girls to play much better netball for the remainder of the game. Stand out players were Sarah Watkins and Bec Vasiliou. Our B and C grade teams did well to keep fighting for 4 quarters against the much more experienced girls from Crib

Point. Best on Courts were Olivia Comelli and Katelyn Hill for B Grade and Tina O’Mara and Shae Van Harselaar for C Grade. Currently the netballers are training and hosting games at Hastings Primary School. Due to experience and several incidents from last season we have found that these courts are not up to recommended safety standards and are dangerous to play on, particularly in wet weather. The Hastings Football and Netball club is in the process of applying for a grant, through the Country Football and Netball pro-

gram to assist with funding the construction of two netball courts, at the Hastings Football Oval. The players and volunteers at the club are always running fundraisers and looking for opportunities for sponsorship from businesses in our local community. If you or someone you know may be able to help either through sponsorship, donation of goods for raffles or with time as a volunteer we would love to hear from you. Please contact Hastings Football & Netball- Netball President Karen Cowe 0409 793 317. Cynthia

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MAZDA has released details of the powertrain line-up for the All-New BT-50 demonstrating that it will be one of the most powerful utilities ever to hit Australian showrooms. Two new advanced diesel engines, both offering significant increases in power and torque with improved fuel efficiency, will ensure the All-New Mazda BT-50 has the grunt to handle even the toughest tasks. The headline act for the AllNew BT-50 range is the new MZ-CD 3.2 litre diesel engine, in-line 5-cylinder configuration, delivering a massive 470Nm of torque and 147kW of power. This represents a 24 per cent increase in torque while power is up by 28 per cent over the current BT-50’s 3.0 litre diesel engine. The adoption of a new highpressure fuel system combined with advanced turbocharging ensures the 3.2 litre diesel engine delivers a more refined and responsive drive. These refinements also help to ensure that the new MZ-CD 3.2 litre diesel will be more fuel efficient than the 3.0 litre diesel engine it replaces. The new 3.2 litre engine will be mated to a choice of new six-speed transmissions, in either manual or automatic guise.

Both new transmissions have been developed to exhibit low levels of noise, vibration and harshness making for a smoother and quieter ride. Also joining the All-New BT50 line-up is a new MZ-CD 2.2 litre diesel engine which has been designed to further improve efficiency while delivering an impressive 375 Nm of torque and 110 kW of power. When compared with the current BT-50’s 2.5 litre diesel engine, this represents a 14 per cent increase in torque and a 5 per cent increase in power. Fuel economy is also improved. Both new powertrains have been developed to ensure the All-New BT-50 delivers towing capacities never before seen on this type of vehicle. The 3.2 litre engine with either manual or automatic transmission will be

capable of towing up to a huge 3,350kg, delivering a 350kg increase over the current model. The 2.2 litre engine offers a highly competitive 2,500kg maximum towing capacity, an increase of 250kg over the current 2.5 litre model. Mazda Australia national marketing manager, Alastair Doak said, “Utility buyers demand performance from their vehicle and there’s no doubt that the All-New BT-50’s new range of advanced diesel engines will provide just that. Not only will these engines make for a more refined and responsive driving experience but customers will really notice the benefit during common scenarios such as towing or driving with heavy loads.” The All-New Mazda BT-50 will arrive in Australian showrooms later this year.

WHAT’S ON Beleura Ladies Probus Club – Retired/Semi-retired why not join our happy group of ladies for Meetings, Outings Gallery visits and more? Meet 2nd Wednesday of the Month at 9.30am at St Mark’s Uniting Church Hall, Barkly Street , Mornington. New members most welcome. Details Contact Joy 5974 3162.

Over 50’s American Clogging New beginner classes learning Clogging, cross between Country Tap Dancing, Irish Dancing and American Folk Dancing. No dance experience or partner needed. Contact: Mornington Cloggers Lee : 59776985 04129777898 Warhammer Kids Club. Play the game, make scenery, paint miniatures. Free attendance, fully supervised. Bentons Square Community Centre. Mondays 3.30-5.30pm 5977-2468

Cancer Support Group meets every second Tuesday of the month. All welcome. Community Health. 185 High Street, Hastings, or ring 0419 020 543. Rye RSL Social/Angling Club will hold their Annual Market, on Easter Sat. 23rd April from 8.30 am-1.00 pm in the RSL car park, Nelson St, Rye. Books,plants,produce toys household goods and more even a sausage sizzle. Come and find a Bargain. Enquiries- 59852692

ANTIQUE ROAD SHOW -VALUATION DAY. To be conducted by ’LEONARD JOEL AUCTION HOUSE’. On Wednesday 25th May from 10am to 2pm at The Fire Station Collingwood Street RYE. $5 fee for each item to be valued. Light refreshments available (donation). The Day will be run by the Rye Fire Brigade Auxiliary and all money raised will go towards the Brigade New Truck appeal. Ring Dawn 59853054 or Margaret 59857244

Western Port Equestrian Association Inc, for equestrian families, holds rallies on the 3rd Sunday and 2nd Wednesday of every month at Woolley’s Road Equestrian Reserve, Woolley’s Road, Crib Point. New members most welcome. Enquiries 0408 173 486

Chicks to Boilers Lunch. May 10th 12.OO- 2.30pm Brooklands 99 Tanti Ave Mornington. “Living Black in Brighton” - Speaker Mariam Issa will share her story. Escaping from Somalia and becoming a re-settling in Australia. Marian is married with 5 children, and very inspirational women with a burning passion for Education for all women. RSVP Merrilyn 59744072 noon May 5th.

Australian Breastfeeding Association The Peninsula Group of the Australian Breastfeeding Association will hold a discussion meeting on Tuesday, 10th May at 10 am in the Mornington Library Community Room, Mornington. The topic will be “National Mothering Week”. Please bring a plate. New members welcome. Enquiries: phone 9787 7106.

Take Off Weight Naturally Clubs welcome all to join in a weightloss journey and lifestyle change. Contact Judy from the Dromana Club on 5981-4595, Lyn from Rosebud Club on 5988-8822 and Kerry from Tootgarook Club on 0412-627 757. MORNINGTON TOY LIBRARY The Mornington Toy Library is closed for the April school holidays and will reopen on Wednesday, 27th April. Normal hours will resume after Easter: Wednesdays between 9.30 am and 12.30 pm, Saturdays between 9.30 am and 11.30 am and Monday afternoons between 1pm and 3pm. Enquiries: 0406 156 713 Mahjong Club plays at Mornington R.S.L. (Virginia Street) on Fridays. 12:30 - 4:00pm. Experienced players made very welcome. Cost is $3.50. Tea & coffee provided. Contact Lucy - 5981 0801. New Art Exhibtion. “Watching” New Paintings and Prints by Karen Lewis and Sharron Okines Opening 6pm Friday 01 April – 29 April. B’artiste Lounge Bar & Café. Ross Smith Lane (rear of 2/12 Young St), Frankston T: 0422 510 653 Crib Point Advisory Group Inc invite residents to attend their AGM on Tuesday 19th April at 7.00pm in Crib Point Community House, 7 Park Rd Crib Point. Issues to be discussed include Crib Point Township Plan, Boral and more.

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Aglow Mornington, an interdenominational group, will meet in the Mornington Information Center at 320 Main St. on Thursday, April 14 at 10.30am. Our speaker will be Mrs Robyn Carron, President of Dandenong Aglow, so come and share with us. We know it will be a wonderful day at this exciting time of year. Entry is $9 with morning tea included. For enquiries please ring Marie on 59776200 or Pam on 59776073 and we’d love to see you there.

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Whilst uncovering the creek above Panorama Dr, Sunshine Reserve MT Martha, we found some erosion, and so will be having three planting days in the creek, 9 am - 3 pm, Monday 18th April; Tues 19th April; and Wed 20th April; (before Easter) - sausages for lunch - all welcome. We will be planting even if it showers, but not steady rain. Please wear solid sturdy shoes or gumboots, long pants and covered arms and wet weather gear if required, bring “moveable/ pliable” gloves, not the thick ones. We will provide all planting equipment.

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