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realestate 16 April 2013
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A PHILLIP Island Nature Park volunteer rescues a young short-tailed shearwater, or muttonbird, that strayed too far from its nesting burrow. The bird is one of hundreds of thousands about to leave Western Port for a perilous, 15,000-kilometre journey. See ‘Visitors take flight on Anzac Day’, Page 3.
By Mike Hast MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire Council comes to Hastings on Monday for a community council meeting and briefings that will tell a lot about the future of the district. The meeting starts at 5pm at Hastings Community Hub with a briefing about progress at the Port of Hastings from port development authority CEO Mike Lean. Premier Denis Napthine has promised $110 million over four years for “completion of preferred scope”, design, transport connection planning, early work to support environmental approval processes, business case development and “procurement and delivery strategies”. He said the money would help “complete the work required to start building a world-class container port with land-side transport connections at Hastings”. Community leaders say Hastings and the wider Western Port region need the port after the loss of jobs from a struggling BlueScope Steel hammered the region’s confidence earlier this year and in 2012. At 5.30 there will be an update on the Hastings Neighbourhood Renewal Program, which was started in 2005 and is due to end this year. Hastings Neighbourhood Renewal is one of 19 state government projects to revive disadvantaged communities by bringing together the resources and ideas of residents, governments, businesses and community groups to tackle disadvantage in areas with concentrations of public housing. A buffet dinner starts at 6 and the council meeting is at 7. Area councillor David Garnock said a flyer about the meeting had been distributed to “lots of community groups in Cerberus Ward”. He said there would be an opportunity for residents to mingle with councillors at the dinner. “Many residents may be interested in staying for the first or second item of the formal council meeting when we will receive a briefing from [director of sustainable infrastructure] Alex Atkins on the capital infrastructure projects that have been completed in the Cerberus Ward over the past year,” Cr Garnock said. Mr Atkins would also present a list of all new capital works planned for the ward in the coming year, he said. People wanting to attend the dinner must RSVP with Kylie Osborne at the shire on 5950 1137 by Wednesday.
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