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Op shop thieves ‘stealing from all’ By Dylan Tickell The Hastings Holy Trinity Anglican Church Community Op Shop has twice been hit by thieves in the past month. The Rev Alex Packett said the thefts lessen the amount of money the church can give back to the community. The goods were taken from the op shop’s storage area, devastating the team of volunteers who give up many hours sorting, displaying and selling the many generous donations. The Rev Packett said the thieves stole items that were the most likely to sell at local markets. Continued Page 4

Housing ‘affordability’ plan Shire moves to cut costs of rent, leases, mortgages By Keith Platt HASTINGS is one of 15 Mornington Peninsula towns listed as being suitable for public housing projects. A draft plan released by Mornington Peninsula Shire says it supports public or affordable housing making up three per cent of the shire’s housing stock within 10 years. The current percentage is 1.4. To achieve this target there will need to be 146 government or not-for-profit group subsidised houses built each year. The policy is aimed at mainly providing more affordable homes for rental. Demand for all types of housing on the peninsula has soared, increasing

prices and rents. Increasing numbers of people are having trouble meeting mortgage payments while public housing waiting lists have blown out to 10 years. There are a growing number of people “sleeping rough” on the peninsula. Towns listed as fitting the criteria for “social housing” are Hastings, Somerville, Baxter, Balnarring, Crib Point, Tyabb, Mornington, Dromana, Mt. Martha, Mt. Eliza, Rosebud, Rosebud West, Rye, Tootgarook and Sorrento. The shire wants developers to agree to include social housing sites in new subdivisions. It will also relax some planning and design rules and discount shire land by up to 25 per cent to make it easier for

more affordable houses to be built. Criteria for choosing locations included the affordable houses being built within urban growth boundaries, within one kilometre of public transport, and near shops, schools, employment opportunities and recreation facilities. A preamble to the draft policy states that the peninsula is undergoing a prolonged and increasing shortage of affordable housing for specific vulnerable groups, including the elderly, the disabled, carers and single parent families. “Low waged singles and families are also experiencing increasing difficulty obtaining suitable housing,” the draft Mornington Peninsula Shire So-

cial Housing and Affordable Housing Policy states. While acknowledging that responsibility for public housing rests mainly with the state and federal governments, the shire says it has “an important role to play” in such areas as planning, consulting the community and encouraging and providing incentives for social housing. The shire defines affordable housing as the cost of housing (rent or mortgage) not exceeding 30 per cent of a household’s income. It is also housing rented, leased or sold below the market rate. A “sustainable” rent is 25 per cent of a household’s income. Housing and social justice officer

Peter Sibly said the shire had three or four pieces of land which could be sold for subdivision to private developers with a discount being offered if they set aside 25 per cent of the blocks for affordable housing. The land had yet to be identified as being “surplus” to the shire’s needs and included four hectares at Hastings and other blocks at Baxter and Rosebud. Commercial developers could not be forced to include social housing in their plans, although South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory had legislated to make this mandatory. Mr Sibly said the shire would encourage the state government to pass similar legislation.

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Aircon thefts: Thieves have stolen and damaged air conditioning units valued at $8000 from this Hastings housing development.

Theft from ‘model’ housing development THIEVES have broken into the housing development site at 71 King St, Hastings stealing one air-conditioner and breaking another beyond repair. The air-conditioners, worth $4000 each, were stolen from the housing site being built for the aged, families on low to moderate incomes and intellectually and physically disabled people who can live independently with support. Site foreman Brad Williams is frustrated with the theft. “I will now have to pay for

replacements out of my own back pocket,� Mr Williams said. Mr Williams said the thieves broke into the site overnight most likely breaking through the fence and loading the air-conditioning unit into a car. “I have contacted the police, although as yet there are no witnesses and no further reports. “The air-conditioners were on the site for two and a half months before being stolen. “Other than the theft the project is going well.

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Probe into runaway rig By Keith Platt MARINE Safety Victoria has launched an investigating into what could have been a major marine incident when a 1700 tonne oil and gas drilling rig broke free during a loading operation and drifted in Western Port. The alert was sounded when the Kan Tan IV rig was swept away by tidal currents as it was floating above the semi-submerged carrier vessel, the MV Transporter. Four wires holding it to the float-on float-off Transporter broke and tugs had to secure and anchor the rig before it ran aground. The 53,800-tonne Transporter, owned by Dutch company Dockwise, dragged its anchor and was unable to get underway until it had pumped out its ballast. Ships were told to keep away from The Heads and the start of the South Channel while the Kan Tan was towed into Port Phillip where the entire operation was repeated without further incident. The problem appears to have been caused by the time taken to partly sink the Transporter and position the rig over it exceeding the six hours it takes for each change of the tide. The strong tidal currents caused the anchored ship and rig to swing on their moorings. It is understood it takes at least nine hours for the Transporter to de-ballast – effectively lifting itself and the rig back to the surface. Once in the relatively calm waters

Safely aboard: The oil drilling rig Kan Tan IV is successfully loaded on to the MV Transporter in Port Phillip after breaking free during an earlier attempt in Western Port. Picture: Andrew Mackinnon of aquamanships.com

of Port Phillip off Mornington, the Kan Tan was able to be loaded onto the Transporter for shipment to Darwin. The failure to load the rig may lead to changes in the way Western Port is used as a destination for the transportation of rigs. The United Kingdom-based website Safety At Sea says the incident could spell the end of Western Port being used for such loadings, although the narrow entrance to Port Phillip and extra time and cost involved do not make it the ideal alternative. The website said early investigations “indicate that fastening equipment

was swept overboard from the deck of Transporter, which also dragged its anchor some distance before deballasting”. Investigations by Marine Safety Victoria can follow incidents where vessels have been involved in an accident or an incident involving the loss or destruction of other property “or that any pilot, pilot exempt master, harbourmaster, pilotage services provider or person holding a certificate of competency or service has acted incompetently”. Port of Melbourne CEO Stephen Bradford said this was the first time

he had heard of such an incident in the seven years he had been with the port authority. He did not think it would lead to a ban on rigs being taken to Western Port. “I would be really surprised if this type of operation is not done again in Western Port. “Each operation like this has to be looked at separately.” While he had seen “bits of the report … it’s not my job to form an opinion”. Mr Bradford said each loading was a “learning curve” for harbourmasters in Port Phillip and Western Port. Although the PoMC also managed

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Looking to roster JPs A CALL has gone out to JPs who are retired from the workforce to help staff at signing centres in Frankston and on the Mornington Peninsula. Signing centres for documents which need to be witnessed or certified by authorised personnel can be found at police stations in Frankston, Mornington, Rosebud, Hastings and Carrum Downs. Days and times at signing centres will be able to be extended if more JPs are able to be rostered on for three to four hours a month. Any JP who can help should call administration officer Cathy Owens on 95257099.

Flood money THE Navy is dipping in to help Victorian and Queensland flood victims. Money is being raised at HMAS Cerberus through a charity golf competition and a uniform-free day. The golf day is already sold out with 68 players signed up for a four-person Ambrose event. Businesses are backing the day and the golf club is donating green fees. The two events are expected to raise about $5000 for the flood appeals.

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PUPPETS are being used to show primary school children that they can tap into their own “superpowers” to overcome anxiety. The anxiety that can haunt children - causing distress, loss of sleep, eating problems and an inability to enjoy themselves - is portrayed by puppets representing Mr Worrythoughts. The two puppets – one large, one small – represent how anxiety can be lessened and placed in a more manageable context. The Frankston Arts Centre-produced performance touring schools this year is based on the acclaimed children’s book “Go Away, Mr Worrythoughts!”. It is the first time the centre has taken on a production role and there are already plans to take it interstate. Langwarrin teacher Nicky Johnston wrote “Go Away, Mr Worrythoughts!” to help her son Bailey who, at five, was diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder (GAD). The book details the ‘externalisation’ technique Ms Johnston used for her son to overcome the fears that were affecting his life in so many ways – loss of sleep, inability to eat properly, unable to laugh with other children. He worried about how he appeared to others and what the future held. The book’s narrative traces Bailey’s six-year struggle and carries the message of hope and

No worries: Bailey Johnston, left, meets the puppet version of Mr Worrythoughts with puppeteer Frank Italiano and Stephanie Evison-Williams who plays various roles in the stage version of “Go Away, Mr Worrythoughts!”.

self-help for other anxiety-ridden youngsters. The cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) technique that helped Bailey and that is “taught” through the book and stage performance comes from Melbourne-based child therapist, Charmaine Holmes. Nicky Johnston and her family watched one of the final rehearsals for the production last December. The three-person performance by Heath Miller (Bayden), Stephanie Evison-Williams (friend Tanya, school teacher and mum) and puppeteer Frank Italinao played to 12 schools in December and already has another 13 bookings in Frankston, the Mornington Peninsula, Gippsland and Geelong. The 40-minute stage production of 'Go Away, Mr Worrythoughts!' is suitable for all ages. The performers stay for questions after the show, provide teacher resources and follow-up workshops are available. For more information or to book a tour to a school call 784 1705.

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“The break-ins have created a need to spend charity money on increased security and, each time, the thieves have left our storage area in a chaotic mess, taking more volunteer hours to set it right,” he said. The Rev Packett said stealing from the op shop “is stealing from the community”. “We are trying to make good quality stuff available to needy people. We are not worried who buys it, we just use the money to put back in the community. “We don’t need to live with a suspicious feeling. “We often get more donations than we can use and have to organise people to come and take the

rubbish to the tip. “Many people also use op shops as dumping grounds for their unwanted goods making us clean it all up and cover the cost of removal.” For more than 15 years the Holy Trinity Op Shop has raised money for community projects such as the breakfast club at Western Port Secondary College, Western Port Community Centre and Hastings, Somers and Tyabb CFA brigades. “We donate around $50,000 a year back into the community making it important to many society members,” the Rev Packett said. Anyone with information about the break-ins can call Hastings police on 5970 7880.

Mayor ‘satisfied’ with executive bonuses By Keith Platt MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire mayor Graham Pittock says he is satisfied with the operation of a bonus scheme for senior officers. Executives at the shire on annual salary packages of $110,000-$200,000 stand to receive a five per cent bonus each year. Directors can get up to 10 per cent. Insiders claim the bonus appears to be paid as a matter of course, but Cr Pittock says he is satisfied “everything is above board�. Neighbouring Frankston has no bonus scheme for executives and the Shire of Cardinia abandoned a similar scheme two years ago. A policy information memo writ-

ten by team support and development manager John Rankine says pay and conditions at the shire are good and “generally� meet the needs of staff “but they are not the best in local government�. He said bonus and gratuity payments are one of the most common features of wages and salaries in local government. The CEO Michael Kennedy makes the final decision on awarding bonuses. In 2010 there were 47 bonus payments totaling $281,344, an average of $5986. The 46 gratuity payments to members of the shire’s 668 staff averaged $2868. “The value of these payments can be

seen in the extent to which the shire delivers innovative services and the extent to which our team members will go that extra distance to ensure the work gets done,� Mr Rankine stated. A “classic example� was the effort put in by staff on fire management. “The (many) staff involved in this program do not put in the effort because of the potential bonus or gratuity; they do it because it is important work that will make a difference in our community and they take professional pride in the result.� The mayor and Cr Leigh Eustace were briefed last month about the bonus scheme by Mr Rankine. “It was all right once we found out how the system works,� Cr Pittock

said. “Councillors were ignorant about what was going on. “As an incentive, the system works well. “Executives can get up to five per cent, but I don’t know if they all get it. They have goals set and they have to exceed them.� Cr Pittock said shire officers, when answering inquiries from The News (‘Call for shire to explain executives’ salary secrets’13/1/2011) before Christmas, “could have been more open�. The Australian Services Union also had trouble breaching the wall of secrecy surrounding the awarding of the bonuses and wrote to the shire in December requesting more information.

“We’ve asked who gets these bonuses and payments and criteria [for awarding them], but the shire was unwilling or unable to tell us,� ASU organiser Michelle Jackson said. “I’ll be writing to them to seek full disclosure under the Fair Work Act.� Ms Jackson, who is negotiating a new wages deal for shire staff, also wanted details about the staff gratuity scheme. “We got a politician’s answer,� she said last week. “They didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know.� The shire’s current $169.2 million budget includes $52.33 million for staff costs, up $3.66 million on the previous year.

Leave sought for family violence victims By Keith Platt IF union negotiations are successful, Mornington Peninsula Shire will become the second municipality in Australia to give paid leave to victims of domestic violence. The leave, if included in the next enterprise bargaining agreement, would allow staff to take time off to attend police interviews, court or find new accommodation. Australian Services Union organiser Michelle Jackson said the shire had argued that leave was already available, “but we’re saying that’s sick leave for when they are actually physically in-

jured�. “We are putting a new claim for a family violence clause that allows anyone who is a victim – and they are mostly women – to have up to 20 days’ paid leave,� Ms Jackson said. “Often, women are too embarrassed or ashamed at what has happened to them to take time off work. “If they are physically injured then, yes, they can take sick leave. But there’s nothing but annual leave that they can take to attend court, police interviews or look for somewhere else to live. “I know of one woman working for another municipality who was going to

work each day from a women’s refuge and didn’t want to let anyone know what was happening. “But she needed time off to get herself together.� Ms Jackson said the Surf Coast Shire had been the first municipality in Australia to provide paid leave for domestic violence situations and Mornington Peninsula Shire, if it agreed, would be the second. “It won’t be a big cost for council,� Ms Jackson said, adding that similar award provisions were being considered by local governments in other states.

Shire staff seek 8% annual rise

THE Australian Services Union is seeking an extra eight per cent or $80 a week for each of the next three years for its members at Mornington Peninsula Shire. The claim is part of the current negotiations for a new enterprise bargaining agreement. ASU organiser Michelle Jackson said the shire had made a counter offer of an annual 3.9 per cent wage or $40, whichever was the most. She thought agreement was some months away and the final wage increase would “be somewhere between those two figures�. The existing EBA ran out in December 2010, but its provisions continue to apply until a new one is negotiated. The new agreement is expected to be in place well before the next scheduled pay rise for shire staff, which is due in July.

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Closer weather eye on climate change storms By Mike Hast MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire is watching weather events more closely after a series of wild storms over the past couple of years. The shire is more closely monitoring its six weather stations when it knows heavy storms are due and sending out “SWAT” drain clearing teams when problems arise. Focusing attention on drainage this and coming weeks and months was the flooding of Koo Wee Rup and Narre Warren on the weekend, and the earlier floods in northern Victoria and Queensland. Koo Wee Rup was inundated after the Bunyip River broke its banks, and parts of Narre Warren and adjacent suburbs went under after they received a huge dump of rain, with Lyndhurst topping the region with 180mm. It is widely acknowledged the Mornington Peninsula was lucky to escape with rainfall totals of less than a quarter of that received by many southeast region suburbs and towns. The 2010-11 shire budget allocated $3 million for new drainage works and programs to better understand stormwater, up 50 per cent from the previous year’s $2m, and the shire’s director of sustainable infrastructure, Alex Atkins, says it is likely to

remain at or above $3 million for the foreseeable future. On top of this was a significant amount to maintain and improve existing infrastructure. “We’ve seen the return of ‘normal’ rainfall after the long drought,” he said. “The rains of winter and autumn soaked the ground and now much of the rain that falls is running off.” He said the shire had ramped up its drain inspection and cleaning program over the past 12 months. “We’ve been doing computer flood modelling for the whole shire and our first flood maps have proved accurate.” How water had moved during and after recent storms had confirmed the predictions of the flood modelling, he said. Detailed maps for the entire shire would be ready in about 6-8 weeks. Mr Atkins said the Mornington Peninsula had many small water catchments and any flood damage was often localised. “We’re expecting more higher density rainstorms that have the capacity to overwhelm existing drainage systems.” The flash flooding could be caused by the build up of silt and debris in drains. “No amount of pre-servicing can

avoid these kinds of problems so we have teams that get in quickly and clear any blocked drains.” The shire had identified problem areas and was using its six weather stations that fed real-time data to cope with flooding. “It’s a matter of adaptation and mitigation, with our focus on adaptation at the moment,” he said. There had been big changes in the way councils dealt with drainage and stormwater management in the past 15 to 20 years. Rather than installing pipes and spoon drains, there was a greater emphasis on slowing down, storing and redirecting water using swales and wetlands. Water sensitive urban design was far more important, he said. The shire encouraged feedback and reports from residents about flooding or potential flood problems, and Mr Atkins encouraged people to call the shire’s 24-hour customer service phone number – 1300 850 600. Flash(flood) back: The first day of summer, 1 December 2010, and a wild rainstorm lashed Mornington Mt Eliza and Frankston. In Mornington the path between Mothers and Scout beaches, which once led to the Mornington baths, becomes a torrent. Picture: Paul “Tracker” Pingiaro

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The life of Joy An interview with Joy Coleman on her interesting life living in Western Port. I was born in Somerville Hospital on 2/12/29. The confinement cost eight pounds- four pounds for the doctor and four pounds for two weeks in hospital. At that time my father had only fifty six pound in the bank, so I was a very expensive baby. My father was a World War One veteran having served in France and Palestine. His family were horse people, trainers etc, and helped save Caulfield Racecourse from being turned into a cemetery in the 1890’s. My Mother was brought up as a lady being taught elocution lessons, and dancing and was an accomplished musician. She was an Unthank; one of the original pioneers of Hastings. She had five brothers and sisters all living within a two mile radius so I had 21 cousins to grow up with. We lived on an orchard and I went to Somerville State School and to High School, walking two miles to school each day. It was during the war years, and we lived on an orchard and life was very hard in those times. As I grew up I played tennis, went dancing and as a teenager

sang with my Aunt’s dance band. Every Thursday night there was a dance held at Hastings and bus loads of people came from Frankston, Somers Air force Camp, Balcombe Army Camp, and Cerberus. It was the time when the Americans were based here. It was at one of these dances that I was introduced to Albert Coleman who I later married. He was a very good sportsman playing tennis, cricket and football. He won a canteen of cutlery (which I still have) for being best and fairest for the Hastings Football Club. His brother was John Coleman; the well known footballer who kicked 12 goals for Essendon in his first game. Albert was an orchardist and had a property in Coolart Road. Although I vowed I would never marry and live on an orchard (as life was too hard) I did marry Albert and we had two children, a boy and a girl, and I now have five grandchildren. We had all the problems associated with orchards over the years; hail, drought, crops failing. We decided to go into broad acre farming with animals and bought a property on Hendersons Road which I still have and is run by my daughter. In 1973 I saw an advertisement

for a guide at Lysaghts; a new steel works that had just opened in Hastings and I applied for and got the job. I acted in that capacity for 33 years. I enjoyed my years there; they were a good company to work for. Albert’s health started to fail and he passed away last July. After living on my own for some time and after a couple of falls, the family thought I should move into Hastings Cove Retirement Village. I belong to two historical societies; Somerville/Tyabb Heritage Society and Hastings/Western Port Historical Society of which I am the only original member. At one stage Hastings, Tyabb and later Red Hill were the biggest apple producing areas in the Southern Hemisphere. Big agricultural shows were held here once a year. There were several large cool stores in the area the largest being Hastings cool store, in Coolstore Road, which was burnt down. I have written a historical book called Days of Joy: Recollections and reflections, which covers the early days in the Hastings area, including the social life and a lot of personal family recollections. I love gardening, and enjoy working on my garden in my new home at the Hastings Cove Retirement Village.

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Reward system to give tree vandals the chop REWARDS could be offered on the Mornington Peninsula for information leading to the successful prosecution of tree vandals. Confirmation that a rewards scheme had been discussed at officer level but not yet put to councillors was given at the 21 January council meeting by sustainable infrastructure director Alex Atkins. Mr Atkins was replying to a question from McCrae resident Barry Robinson who wanted to know how many tree vandals had been prosecuted by the shire in the past year. According to council meeting records, Mr Atkins said he suspected that no prosecutions had occurred. Mr Robinson pointed out that the shire had installed notices on the foreshore saying that penalties of up to $136,000 could be imposed on tree vandals. “Why has the shire not offered rewards which lead to the successful prosecution of the perpetrators, as is done by Bayside City Council?” Mr Robinson asked. Mr Robinson told The News he had told council officers that some houses seemed to keep uninterrupted views of the bay despite trees continuing to grow on neighbouring properties. “It’s like when I wrote to council some years ago about the self-pruning trees on clifftops between Sorrento and Portsea, which not only shed branches but also threw themselves over the cliff. “The shire does not have a very good record of following non-compliance with permits or laws. “If they offered a reward we might get these people stopped. Whatever they do to make people play the game is OK with me.”

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Car park wipeout for surfers EFFORTS by Parks Victoria to improve the entrance to the Mornington Peninsula National Park at Flinders are causing problems with parked cars. The use of treated pine barricades at the car park at the corner of Golf Links Rd and King St has effectively cut the number of parking spaces, forcing vehicles to park on the nature strips of nearby houses. Several of the barricades have already been ripped out of the ground

and on Saturday 29 January a handwritten notice was placed on car windscreens urging a phone call to Parks Victoria’s Rosebud office. Ranger-in-charge of the southern peninsula Chris Rowe said the car park was crowded “about a dozen times a year”, particularly when there was good surf at the nearby breaks. “It’s a challenge. We had money to improve the sites with infrastructure that’s at West Head and the

ocean beach as well,” he said. “At King St there’s been a ripple of criticism that goes back to the property owners as well.” Mr Rowe said nature strips were “not owned; they’re public land”. “The police were there on Saturday and contacted us to see what the problem was. “No one was parked illegally and if you tried to stop people parking on nature strips there it would have to apply right across the board, and

that’s absurd.” Mr Rowe said a review would be undertaken and a meeting was being held with nearby residents and Mornington Peninsula Shire representatives to try to find a solution. One option would be to erect signs and define parking spots with white lines. He said Parks was doing its best to protect the environment and improve amenity at the national park. Keith Platt

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‘Queen’ of shire’s mayors bows out PAT Anderson is one of the key people behind the scenes who make local government work on the Mornington Peninsula as the assistant to the mayor and the 11 elected councillors. She will be sorely missed after leaving the shire council at the end of the month, deciding to pull up stumps and seek a quieter life after a lifetime of work. Pat started with the Shire of Mornington in 1993, the year before the Kennett government forced the amalgamation of Victoria’s 210 municipalities to create 78. Her first boss was governance manager Wal Morrison, then based at the shire office in Queen St, Mornington, now one of three offices of the “super” municipality, the amalgamation of Mornington, Hastings and Flinders shires. She had come from recruitment and training giant Drake International, having worked for the company in Sydney, Brisbane, New Zealand and South Africa, where she met her husband-to-be Alex. Back in Australia, a stint with a drilling and exploration company followed before the couple moved from Sydney to Melbourne for Mr Anderson’s work and Pat did some temp work for Drake. A friend told her about a 12-month maternity leave job at the shire and Pat never left, until the end of the month, that is, after she has handed the reins to her replacement, Paula Creek.

Queen bee: Pat Anderson, centre, with former and current councillors and mayors, from left, David Gibb, David Renouf, 2011 mayor Graham Pittock, Susan Beveridge, Reade Smith, Tim Rodgers, David Jarman, Anne Shaw, Brian Stahl, Bill Goodrem, Frank Martin and Antonella Celi at a farewell morning tea last Monday week.

“Some of the people from those early days included CEO David Collings, Jan Cover, John Ross, Kevin Clarke,” Pat said when reminiscing with The News. “I’ve been lucky to work with a great number of good people.” Pat has been busy in the office of the mayor, but also found time for a couple of other creations – her two sons James, born in 1981, and Ross, 1983. James is a captain in the army and has served in Iraq and East Timor. Ross is a construction manager in Canada, and Pat is looking forward to a big family reunion this month for

Alex’s 70th birthday. Paula replaces Pat on 21 February, but Pat will stay until the end of the month to complete the handover. She says her job has been to be a “mentor, carer and speechwriter” for mayors and councillors. “I was on call almost 24/7 in the early days,” she said. She knew the job would be a major commitment and sat down with her family to make sure they were happy. Pat has run the mayor’s office since 1997 when councillors were first elected to the amalgamated shire after three years of commissioners. David Jarman (see photo) was the first

mayor. “The job requires a capacity to listen and be able to make gentle suggestions. Another part of her job has been to look after community members with whom she came into contact. “I’ve made so many friends.” Pat will stay involved with Red Cross and Peninsula Hospice Service in her “retirement”, but it’s really a Clayton’s retirement as she recently completed a civil celebrant’s course and has already conducted a few weddings. A chance to play more golf beckons, too, and she is looking forward to

playing a few rounds with girlfriends, perhaps at Cerberus golf course in Crib Point. Mayor Graham Pittock said Pat had been a great help during his short time as mayor. “At her morning tea on Monday I said ‘the transition period will require much tolerance and good humour, and, Pat, please tell me I said that’.” He said Pat’s knowledge of names and personalities on the peninsula was boundless. “She has made this a happier place to work.” Longtime councillor and twice mayor David Gibb said Pat had provided advice and wise counsel to many councillors over the years. “She has a light touch of advice. Pat sees angles that councillors don’t see” and had the capacity to impart this knowledge. Pat had the unique ability to communicate equally with superiors and subordinates in the council as well as members of the community.  Paula Creek has had almost 10 years’ experience as an executive assistant in Commonwealth and state governments as well as the private sector. She is a former executive assistant to the commanding officer at HMAS Cerberus and, more recently, was a senior executive assistant at the Department of Primary Industries. She is a volunteer at the Starlight Foundation and at the Peninsula Animal Aid in Pearcedale.

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Long haul to Flinders for the summer By Mike Hast THIS determined-looking bird marching across a beach at Flinders, kicking seaweed and water as it goes, is a ruddy turnstone. The bird has just completed a 27,000-kilometre round trip migration for the second time, astonishing researchers of the Victorian Wader Study Group. It is the first time a ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres) has been tracked with a geolocator, or data logger, on its complete migration in successive years. The birds are small and tough, 22-24 centimetres long (about 9 inches) with a wingspan of 50-57cm (about 21 in) and weighing just 85-150 grams (3-5.3 ounces), but, ruddy hell, can they fly. The bird was first captured at Flinders in mid-April two years ago and fitted with a one-gram light sensor geolocator attached to its leg. The device recorded where the bird was each morning and evening for a year. When winter loomed, the bird, well fed after a summer in Australia, took to the skies and flew back to Siberia in Russia to breed during the northern summer. Researchers led by world renowned amateur ornithologist Clive Minton have used geolocators over the past two years to find out the key stopover locations, which are important for the birds to refuel and rest on their long journey. (Dr Minton, a British metallurgist, has a lifelong interest in birds, especially migratory waders. He helped develop “cannon netting” where a small explosive device hurls a net

Flying marvel: The ruddy turnstone with ID tag (left side of photo) and one-gram tracking device (right) on Flinders beach has flown a 27,000kilometre migration twice. Picture: Victorian Wader Study Group

over a flock of feeding birds, which are then measured, tagged and released. He moved to Australia in 1978 and revitalised national wading bird study groups.) “This is a fantastic result for our group, which is also supported by fantastic volunteers,” Dr Minton said. “The data shows the birds generally start their northward migration with an initial non-stop flight of about 7600km in six days to Taiwan or adjacent regions. “They refuel on tidal flats before moving north to the Yellow Sea and

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Turnstones live up to 20 years and such a bird following this 27,000-km trans-Pacific route would have flown more than 500,000 kilometres in its lifetime, a remarkable feat. Scientists from the Australasian Wader Studies Group of Birds Australia and Deakin University are still puzzled by individual turnstones from the same breeding and non-breeding population using such widely differing routes. The study shows the importance of key regions within what is known as the Asian-Australasian Flyway. Scientists are concerned about the ability of these and similar migrating birds to cope with the massive habitat changes occurring as a result of large reclamation and urban development projects. Migratory bird researchers such as Dr Minton have been instrumental in lobbying governments to protect wild areas in the flyway. Initiatives include the Japan Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (JAMBA), the China Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (CAMBA) and the East Asian-Australasian Shorebird Site Network. Turnstones also breed in North America and northern Europe, and migrate south when winter arrives, some travelling similar distances to the Australian-Siberian birds. Turnstones make a staccato, rattling call. They forage in flocks, and eat a varied diet including carrion, eggs, plant material, insects, crustaceans, molluscs and worms. The hardy world travellers often flip over stones and other objects to get at prey and this behaviour is the origin of the name.

Shire ‘no’ to T’Gallant winery – again By Mike Hast BREWING giant Foster’s Group is considering its legal options after another failed attempt to expand its T’Gallant winery restaurant La Baracca in Main Ridge. Mornington Peninsula Shire councillors refused the application for a scaled-down expansion on Monday 31 January. They knocked back plans for a 274seat restaurant in March 2009 and Foster’s Group appealed the decision in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. The case was heard in September 2009 and the VCAT formally rejected the application in February last year, supporting shire councillors, who voted 10-0 to reject T’Gallant’s request to increase restaurant seats from the existing permit for 60 to 274, plus 40 seats for cellar door patrons. The VCAT described T’Gallant’s plan as being of a “scale and intensity [that] cannot be supported” on the 16-hectare property in the green wedge zone on Mornington-Flinders Road. Green wedge planning rules state wineries of 40 hectares can have 150seat restaurants. T’Gallant has 60 seats on 16 hectares. The revised application refused last week was for a 150-seat restaurant plus 40 in the cellar door area. T’Gallant’s planning consultant Ross Morcombe, of Morningtonbased planning firm Watsons Pty Ltd, had attempted to get the matter deferred after being told shire planning officers would recommend the council refuse the plan. At the council’s development assessments committee meeting, sustainable infrastructure director Alex Atkins was in the CEO’s chair, deputising for the holidaying Michael Kennedy. Cr Lynn Bowden was overseas and Cr David Gibb left the chamber before the vote after declaring a pecuniary interest (he has Foster’s Group shares). The plan was rejected 9-0. Mr Morcombe was visibly dejected when he told councillors that when

Foster’s had been told the plan was highly likely to be knocked back, he had met senior planner Sotirios Katakouzinos and asked what conditions for the restaurant would be needed for the council to approve the expansion plan. He said he had not had time to analyse the suggested changes and was seeking a deferral. “Throughout the course of 2010 we’ve had numerous meetings with council officers to bring them up to speed with where we’re at with our application. So we believed that we were working with council, working towards a position where hopefully we were both onside and we could see approval of an expansion of T’Gallant,” he said. “Obviously as have a council officer recommendation that doesn’t support that – and I’d have to say I’m a little bit surprised, with the amount of dialogue that we’ve had with council officers throughout last year.” He said the new proposal was “very much scaled down”. (In fact, the 190 seats being sought is about 70 per cent of the 274 proposed last time.) He described the planning officer’s report as “undoubtedly very negative” for Foster’s. Cr Reade Smith asked: “Do you think that if, knowing there are concerns in the community and in the council and there’s pending applications, that the owners would ensure that the current permits would be complied with?” Mr Morcombe: “I can’t speak on their behalf.” His question alluded to the fact that the second application for more seats was an attempt to legitimise T’Gallant’s operation, with opponents, including Red Hill Community Action, claiming the winery sometimes has more than 300 patrons a day. “T’Gallant admitted in its [first] application to the shire that it regularly had up to 274 diners plus 40 cellar door customers, despite the limit of 60 patrons,” RHCA claimed late last year. Two years ago the shire fined

T’Gallant more than $1100 for permit breaches, but it was challenged and remains in legal limbo. Cr Smith continued: “Say if a supermarket in the main drag of Mornington was concerned about their space, they wouldn’t go and put tents in the car park and in the Main St to put out extra stock because they need more room ... they wouldn’t break the laws first and then ask for permission later. I’m asking, why is this organisation allowed to go outside the rules when others aren’t?” Mr Morcombe admitted seat numbers had been breached previously: “This is a process to recognise the severity of the limitations in those [existing] permits and make the site of a size and with adequate facilities to cope with 150 patrons.” RHCA claims the current waste treatment plant is old technology and has to be pumped out regularly to prevent pollution. Red Hill area councillor Frank Martin told the meeting he had visited T’Gallant on Saturday and Sunday 29 and 30 January and noted the car park was overflowing on both days. “How can your client convince us that the same sort of attitude towards planning permit conditions as there’s been in the past won’t keep continuing?” he asked. Mr Morcombe said Foster’s was “well aware that council won’t tolerate those sort of things in the future given the approvals that they seek”. Cr Martin said it confused him that an applicant such as Foster’s had not gone to the effort of convincing the operators of T’Gallant to adhere to the permit conditions. He said its behaviour had not been that of “a good citizen”. “Have you a comment on that?” he asked Mr Morcombe, who replied: “No, I think I’ll let that one go through.” A motion to reject the application was moved by Cr Martin and seconded by Cr Shaw, and unanimously supported.

Lobby group scathing RED Hill Community Action group is highly critical of this latest attempt to win more seats for T’Gallant. The group’s chairman David Maddocks, an industrial chemist and quantity surveyor, said RHCA wondered how Foster’s Group had persuaded shire planners to recommend giving T’Gallant a second bite at the cherry in the application with its request that the matter be deferred for a month. He said Foster’s had sought a month’s grace to “more fully analyse the draft permit conditions” and to “fully explore whether a mutually satisfactory outcome for the site via new permit conditions could be reached”. “The deferment sought was simply unreasonable. It was insulting to the officers who drafted the report and the draft permit conditions, as well as to councillors,” he said. “Surely the applicant has had sufficient time to get its proposal right. It surely has enough planning, traffic and waste water experts on hand, and the benefit of an almost identically structured proposal presented less than two years ago, to have got its plan right. “The officer’s report and recommendations are blunt and clear. Foster’s Group’s aim here is that of a tennis player calling for another set or two in the hope of knocking off an opponent. “We noted the softness of some of the draft permit conditions produced at Monday’s meeting, compared with the recommendation in the agenda downloaded from the website on Friday morning, before Foster’s Group advocates talked shire planners into recommending the delay.” The group claimed T’Gallant’s record was abysmal and its alleged continuing breaches showed contempt for the shire, its councillors and the VCAT. The VCAT had rejected its last proposal and left in place the permit that allowed it 60 patrons and 41 parking spaces. That permit was still in place but had never been adhered to, never enforced, he said. Last year T’Gallant founder and winemaker Kevin McCarthy defended the operation and said the winery and its restaurant had been welcoming visitors to its vineyards since the early 1990s. “We’ve grown with support from our local community: sharing our love of peninsula wine and food with both locals and visitors,” he said. The expansion plan would allow T’Gallant to upgrade visitor and staff facilities within essentially the same footprint. Visually nothing would change as the upgrade would almost entirely be contained to the existing buildings, he said. Mr McCarthy said T’Gallant had pioneered the introduction of pinot gris and pinot grigio grapes to Australia. He said the winery had been a strong promoter of peninsula wine and food, employed 60 staff plus many others indirectly, and the cellar door and restaurants were key destinations in wine tourism nationally and internationally.

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Island dream for the bay By Mike Hast RYE businessman and yachtsman Kerry Murphy has a grand plan – to build two islands in the middle of Port Phillip, one for humans and one for wildlife, called “Melbourne Islands”. Mr Murphy, owner of peninsula tourism businesses Baysail and melbournepeninsula.com, has revived his big idea and submitted it to an inquiry into Victoria’s tourism industry being conducted by the Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission. He proposed the islands in 2004 when the state government and Port of Melbourne Corporation announced the Port Phillip channel deepening project. He met government bureaucrats and made a presentation to the panel investigating the potential environment effects of dredging. Interest in his idea was also shown by developers. Mr Murphy was excited about using some of the 23 million cubic metres of dredged material, or spoil, that was to be taken from the Yarra River, Hobsons Bay, Port Melbourne channel and South Channel between Rosebud and Port Phillip’s entrance, The Heads. The meetings yielded no firm commitment from any party and he was advised to “wait for another day”. The tourism inquiry has given him the

chance to revive his islands project. The spoil from the $720 million channel deepening project has been dumped at the Port of Melbourne’s existing northern dredge material ground (DMG) close to the middle of Port Phillip and a new one off Martha Point near Mt Martha and Safety Beach. Mr Murphy wants to build a tourist island of six hectares (15 acres) with a 1.2-hectare (three-acre) harbour on top of the northern DMG, which is about 15 metres underwater. It would be modelled on Rottnest Island in the Indian Ocean near Perth, a popular place for daytrippers and holidaymakers, and would feature a small five-star hotel, backpackers lodge, restaurant and shops. Preliminary costs done for Mr Murphy by South Melbourne-based engineering firm Aurecon put the bill for the tourism island at about $62 million. The adjacent wildlife island of about seven hectares has not been costed. He hopes it could become a marine park, a refuge for birds and marine life similar to Mud Islands in Port Phillip’s south, the above-water part of the Great Sands. The DMG, which is about 15 kilometres equidistant from Williamstown, Werribee and Sandringham,

Islands in the sun: A dredge making one of the “World” islands off Dubai, United Arab Emirates, a project now in financial difficulty.

covers about 9.5 square kilometres (3.61 square miles), about 950 hectares (2347 acres). It was recently added to when Port of Melbourne contractors dumped 325,000 cubic metres of spoil from what the corporation calls “routine maintenance dredging” undertaken between late November 2009 and Australia Day this year. This was separate from the controversial main dredging project between 8 February 2008 and 26 November

2009 that saw Port Phillip’s shipping channels deepened from 11.6 metres to 14 metres to allow access for bigger ships (only one of which has used the deeper channels so far). Mr Murphy told The News “there’s no money in this for me”. “I sail a 10-metre yacht and charter four others as part of my Baysail business and it would be great to have a destination in the middle of Port Phillip for boaties,” he said. “It would provide a boost for Melbourne tourism and provide a safe harbour in bad weather.” He has an email list of 800 supporters and interested people and companies, and is sending them an update his month with links to press and television stories his idea has generated. The Camberwell boy, who first visited the peninsula for holidays as a 10-year-old and moved to the southern peninsula in 2000, owned a business importing and selling home appliances in the 1970s (“We brought in the first dishwashers; some people thought the dishes, pots and pans were strapped in and churned around like in a washing machine.”). Then he founded the software company Unisoft, which he sold in 2000, and now has a suite of tourism businesses with his wife Heather. They rent accommodation, run sailing charters, and operate winery bus tours and a day spa. Mr Murphy said he was sympathetic to many environmental causes, but had not yet contacted environment groups about his plan. Asked about predictions of rising sea levels, he said: “It’s only going to be 80 centimetres by the end of the century, so we’ll build the islands a metre or so above that.” The Australian Conservation Foundation has consistently warned against developing areas vulnerable to rising sea levels and said developers should make the most of existing assets. ACF spokesman Chris Smyth said: ‘’Port Phillip belongs to all people and should not be handed over for the use of developers.” Three days after The Age published a story about Mr Murphy’s idea in late January, it published an unsigned editorial on the letters and opinion pages

(editorials are usually written by senior editors and are almost always unsigned) querying the economic viability of building the islands. Under the headline “Keep islands at bay, not in bay”, an editor asked: “With such beauteous bounty already popular and within reach, why invade [Port Phillip] with intrusive constructions that might not necessarily be popular? “Other, more considerable, disadvantages have been flagged by conservation groups. In addition to the perils of developing areas vulnerable to rising sea levels, there are difficulties predicted in registering a man-made island as a national marine park. There is validity, too, in the argument that Port Phillip ... belongs to all, and should not be used for private development.” Peninsula-based Blue Wedges Coalition president Jenny Warfe, a trenchant critic of channel deepening, said the editorial “made some good points”. She told The News: “Located atop the spoil ground where more than three million tonnes of toxic spoil from the Yarra has recently been dumped, why would anyone even go near it let alone live on top of it? “I wonder, too, if the proponents of the island idea bothered to ask themselves why Dubai’s man-made islands in the shape of the World (also made from dredged seabed) are sinking rapidly back into the sea, and why only one or two of the “countries” have sold and why even multi-millionaire rock stars have stopped wasting their money on buying one. “Funny isn’t it how some people operate as though humans can do a better job than nature, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that this is not the case.” The competition and efficiency commission releases a draft report of all ideas received for community comment this month and sends the final report to the government in June. For more information about the project, call Mr Murphy on 5985 6559 or look up melbournepeninsula.com on the internet. For more information about the VCEC inquiry, look up www. vcec. vic.gov.au under “VCEC Inquiries” then “Inquiry into Victoria’s Tourism Industry”.

Bay of islands: Melbourne Islands would be created from dredged seabed material pumped ashore from a dredge similar to the three, including the Queen of the Netherlands, used to deepen Port Phillip’s shipping channels in 2008-09.

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Fire ready in February THE CFA is this month holding four Fire Ready Victoria meetings for southern peninsula residents. “The fire season isn’t over. While we’ve had above average rainfall in many parts of the state – as well as flooding – the fire risk remains very real with significant growth and fuel loads in grasslands, forests and scrub areas,” CFA chief officer Euan Ferguson said. He said attendance at Fire Ready meetings had generally been low over the past few months and he warned people against being complacent. He urged residents to attend one of the meetings or take part in an online meeting. “It only takes a few days of hot, dry, windy weather to create a serious fire risk and we expect February-March will still be a dangerous period in Victoria for fires,” he said. “It’s important that people in high-risk bushfire areas attend a Fire Ready meeting to learn more about the risk in their area and help them develop an informed bushfire survival plan. “It’s also an opportunity to find out what other community members are doing to get prepared.” CFA community education coordinator Chris Barber said there is a lot of fuel around due to recent rain. “No one can afford to be complacent about bushfires and it’s important that we all learn from

the lessons of the past and take responsibility for getting prepared.” The Fire Ready meetings cover topics such as fire danger ratings, warnings, basic bushfire behaviour, the location of Neighbourhood Safer Places and Places of Last Resort. The peninsula has three high fire risk zones of 52 in Victoria – Rye, Blairgowrie and St Andrews Beach. CFA presenters answer questions and provide information about other CFA programs and initiatives such as bushfire planning workshops, Community Fireguard and free onsite property assessments. An online bushfire safety meeting is at 2pm on Wednesday 9 February. Details at www.cfa.vic. gov.au. Coming Fire Ready meetings on the peninsula Cape Schanck – Saturday 12 February,

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The Buck stops here for Hastings SES THE day started with a cliff-hanger for Hastings SES on Saturday 12 February; quite literally. A bucks night group, just at the start of their festivities, had decided to go for a walk along the cliffs in Mount Martha when one of the group, Carl Arena, decided to take a short cut. Climbing the cliff he came to a sudden stop and realized he could progress no further. Panic ensued and an emergency call was placed. Hastings SES and local fire brigades were called in and began preparing to rappel down for a rescue. “We were at the top preparing to go down, but it was decided that it was too dangerous and steep” said SES spokesperson Danielle Denatris. “Considering the gentleman was unhurt, it was decided to bring in the Police air wing and winch him to safety.” Safely returned to flat ground, Mr Arena and his friends went on their way sure not to attempt any more rock-climbs in the near future. “It was just a stag night prank gone wrong. Fortunately it had a happy ending” said Ms. Denatris. Hastings SES have had a very busy start to 2011. They sent crews to Swan Hill during the recent floods, and also to assist Narre Warren with the downpour last weekend. Local storm damage, fallen trees and floods have kept them constantly busy with a staggering 135 call-outs in the first 6 weeks of the year.

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Fammo statue to take pride of place at Ballam Park A LIFE-SIZED bronze statue of former world boxing champion Johnny Famechon could be installed at Ballam Park, Frankston. Frankston Council is considering an offer from businessman Rob McCarthy and Sydney sculptor Stephen Glassborow, from whom Mr McCarthy commissioned the work. The donation would be funded by the private sale of 15 smaller statuettes costing $12,000 each with the council covering installation costs of $45,000, which include transportation, footings, a plaque and landscaping. A report to the council states similar statues have been installed elsewhere, including a statue of legendary footballer (and Dromana hotel owner) John Coleman outside Hastings library in 2005 and Baw Baw Shire placing a statue of another Aussie boxing champ, Lionel Rose, in a Warragul park. The report stated that when John Famechon was asked where he wanted the statue placed, he said in Frankston, where he grew up after arriving from France as a young boy. Famechon achieved worldwide fame after his epic title fights with Fighting Harada of Japan. Born in France in 1945, Famechon has always called Frankston home. He was actively involved with the community, including helping police run the Frankston Blue Light Boxing Club for young people. He became WBC Featherweight World Champion in 1969 after

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defeating Cuban Jose Legra on points at Albert Hall in London. He twice defended his crown against Harada. With a career record of 56 wins (20 by KO), 6 draws and 5 losses, Famechon was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in Los Angeles in 1997. Fammo, as he is known, was badly injured when hit by a car while jogging in Sydney in 1991 and sustained

horrific injuries. In 1993 he started a radical and demanding rehabilitation program, hoping to improve his acquired brain injury. After three months he took his first steps. He now walks with the help of a walking stick and his speech and memory have improved markedly. In June 1997 he walked down the aisle for his wedding to long-time girlfriend Glenys, fulfilling a promise he made to her four years earlier.

By Keith Platt PLANS to build footpaths in Frankston with crushed rock have virtually hit a brick wall – with costs ballooning to twice that of concrete. In May 2008 Frankston Council adopted a $2.4-million, five-year plan to build 25 footpaths on a priority list. The plan also included using “modified crushed rock” on a trial path in Brunei Rd, Seaford. Council officers estimated they could cut costs by 30 per cent by not using concrete. However, the estimated cost of $23,000 blew out to $69,000. The estimate for concrete was $46,000. Factors contributing to the high cost included the belief the rock could be spread manually. It could not, and a paving machine had to be brought in. Sections that were manually laid had to be reconstructed. Paving machines can only make paths with a minimum width of 2.3 metres while the Brunei Rd path was designed to be two metres wide. Geotechnical testing was also needed for the crushed rock path, which also needs regular spraying for weeds. Neither cost was included in the original estimate. The Seaford path was built under the

Citywide Pathway Program, part of council objective No 4: Well Planned, Well Built and Well Maintained. The report says it supports the plan, which is now being modified to make nine planned crushed rock paths out of concrete. Delays and price blowouts have also occurred with a path in Baden Powell Drive, Frankston South. One section of the path had been completed, but the remainder needed a complete redesign, taking the cost from $43,000 to $307,000. “Other paths, particularly in the Frankston South region, will have site restraints requiring designs to be undertaken and additional works such as retaining walls, though they shouldn’t be to the extent required for Baden Powell Drive,” the report states. The report recommended council raise an extra $500,000 a year from rates to enable the path program to be completed in six years rather than 11 under the current $320,000-a-year program. “The additional funding required can be covered by re-prioritising the Road Assets class within the Capital Works Program,” the report states. “No economic implications apply.”

Radar called in to search for dead HISTORIANS are planning to use ground penetration radar to search for the remains of up to 19 people believed to have died during the first attempted European settlement in Port Phillip near Sorrento. The Collins Settlement was established at Sullivan Bay in October 1803, but was abandoned less than six months later. It is believed that at least 19 deaths were recorded during the time spent near what was to become Sorrento by Lieutenant Colonel David Collins, civil officers, marines, free settlers and 229 convicts. Nepean Historical Society has been given a $5000 grant by Mornington Peninsula Shire to pay for a consultant to use radar to find the missing burial site. Society president Don Ewart said the dead were believed to be buried near the Western Sister, a point at the western end of Sullivan Bay. He said the method had previously been used during research at Point Nepean and he hoped work at the Col-

Artist takes a brush to beads A FRIEND’S beads from Lagos, Africa, caught the eye of artist Claire Spring, who has now portrayed them in a series of 16 oil paintings. The bead paintings form the basis of Spring’s fourth solo exhibition, which also includes flowers, couta boats and seascapes. Spring has been painting for about 20 years and has become known for her “comfort zone” of images of large flowers.

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“A friend who had lived in Lagos for many years had the beads, which I wanted to paint,” she said. This year, as well as exhibiting, Spring also plans to teach art from her studio at Rye. Her current exhibition is at the Portsea Gallery (next to the Portsea Hotel on Pt Nepean Rd) until 18 February, 10am-4pm daily. To find out about her art lessons, call 0418 588 484.

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lins Settlement site would begin later this month. Ground-penetrating radar uses electromagnetic radiation in the microwave band (UHF/VHFfrequencies) of the radio spectrum, and detects the reflected signals from subsurface structures. It can be used in rock, soil, ice, fresh water, pavements and structures. No substantial buildings had ever been built at the site and the burial ground was thought to be near an area already cleared of weeds and shrubs. While the remains of the Collins Settlement are thought to be underground, shellfish middens on the clifftop are evidence of centuries of use by Aborigines. Four graves have been found on the bay’s eastern headland and the only other evidence of the settlement are parts of barrels, leg irons and bottles, which can be seen in the Sorrento Museum, Melbourne Rd, Sorrento. In January 1804 lack of fresh water, vulnerability to attack and the treacherous entrance to Port Phillip were all given as reasons for moving the settlers to Tasmania.

Forum for shire concerns ONE of the peninsula’s key citizen lobby groups is this month holding its 15th annual forum for residents to publicly air grievances and problems. The Mornington Peninsula Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association meets quarterly and the first meeting each year is an open forum that anyone can attend. It is at 2pm on Monday 21 February in the Rosebud library meeting room, McDowell St.

The association has been active in its opposition to the proposed foreshore sites for the Southern Peninsula Aquatic Centre (SPA) as well as lobbying the shire council over its higher tip fees and reduction of free tip vouchers, and over continued annual rate increases. MPRRA has about 300 members and 700 people on its mailing list. Details: Eunice Cain, 5986 7449 or 0428 884 121.

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Welcome To Kinfauns Join the unique community that is Kinfauns! This fabulous executive style 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 both with BIR, study, separate living areas and remote controlled double garage.

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9 Knightsbridge Court, Somerville

9 Cedar Rose Terrace, Bittern

$345,000

18 Compass Court, Somerville

$669,500

$870,000+

“Colonial in the Court”

1 Acre ~ Close To Town!!

1.5 Acres - ‘Cedar Rose Heights’

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45 Melaleuca Drive, Hastings

222 High Street, Hastings

59 Charles Drive, Pearcedale

$379,000

$385,000

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Vine Haven

A Touch Of The Tropics!

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Ben Tallon Real Estate Pty Ltd 1/34 High Street Hastings 3915

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Satchwells

Local Agents with Local Knowledge For Over 50 Years

CRIB POINT

BITTERN

HASTINGS

HASTINGS

Asking $358,000

Asking $560,000 Neg

Negotiable over $700,000

Asking $259,000

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PRIVACY IN CRIB POINT

LOCATED IN THE HEART OF BITTERN

VENDOR MOTIVATED TO SELL

ALL OFFERS WILL BE CONSIDERED !!!!!!!!!

Positioned at the end of a no through road in Crib Point, this spacious 3brm home with recently renovated bathroom & kitchen which includes quality appliances & dishwasher, open plan meals & lounge area and the R/C split system keeps you comfortable all year round.

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An opportunity to purchase this 3brm cedar home has become available. The home is positioned in a peaceful secure setting of approx. 2.5 acres. Wide sweeping verandahs capture the breeze and a formal entrance leads to an open plan lounge, kitchen and meals area.

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This property is situated in the highly soughtafter estate on the water side of hastings and is within walking distance to shops,the picturesque 3.5 km boardwalk and Hastings marina. The impressive home features: Approx 22 squares of living. An approx 700sqm low maintenance block with side gates.

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Asking $265,000

Asking $269,500

Asking $382,000

Asking $395,000

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Inspect Saturdays 1.00 – 1.30pm - 16 Howell Street

IDEAL INVESTMENT

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A TOUCH OF COUNTRY ON 1000SQM’S

Well presented 2 bedroom unit in group of 5. Sunny open plan living area with R/C aircon and gas wall furnace. Lovely kitchen with central bench. Gas hot plates and underbench oven. Single lock-up garage with auto door. Add this great unit to your portfolio.

Solid, low maintenance home and good returns are what the astute investor should be looking for and what we have an offer. Property comprises 3 bedrooms, galley kitchen, lounge with gas wall furnace, good size back yard. Current lease to excellent tenants until 21/05/2011 at $225.00 per week.

This property is one out of the box. Positioned a short distance from transport and major schools (Flinders College, Tyabb Primary) and the heart of the Tyabb township, this 3brm all with BIRs offers ducted heating, split system, air conditioner, a hostess kitchen comprising meals area and a separate lounge.

Don’t waste another moment! When the home comes along that meets all your criteria then you will have to move fast before someone else snaps it up. Quietly set in a sought-after location, discover 3 spacious bedrooms all with built in robes, two bathrooms incl an ensuite.

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HASTINGS

CRIB POINT

HASTINGS

Asking $320,000

Asking $435,000 +

Asking $339,000

Asking $438,000

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Inspect Saturdays 11.00 -11.30am - 10 Point Road

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Only a short stroll the foreshore and High Street this desirably positioned 2 bedroom unit is in absolutely pristine condition. Ideal for retirement with no lawn to worry about, low maintenance interior and exterior. Kitchen with dishwasher, lounge with split system heat & cooling and single garage.

Low maintenance and family living come together to offer more than the usual space. Consisting of 4 bedrooms, main with double shower and walk in robe, or 5th bedroom/study, you enter the home to a large formal living area which leads you to a modern designed kitchen.

This affordable 3 bedroom home on an approx spacious 665sqms will appeal to all types of buyers. Recently renovated tastefully in today’s modern designs is this brick home that is solid as a rock and offers, polished timber boards, robes to all bedrooms, neat bathroom, gas heating and brand new kitchen.

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Asking $529,000

Asking $440,000

Asking $290,000

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Situated in a prime court location this 4yr young home offers everything, comprising 4 bedrooms, main with ensuite and WIR, separate spacious lounge, large open plan meals area and rumpus room both opening onto a large undercover pergola area.

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REALISATION SALE Inspect Saturdays 2.00 – 2.30pm - 41 Warranqite Crescent

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EXCLUSIVE LIVING BY THE BAY

EXCLUSIVE LIVING IN THRIVING HASTINGS

Stylish and Sophisticated this Parkside 4 bedroom sensation is a credit to the owners for creating a sought after designer edge property in the highly desirable Balnarring area. Adjacent to a park and walking distance to schools shops and public transport this property is a must see for all families.

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Built to standards of perfection by Waterfront Homes this quality residence offers two (2) separate living areas and a total of four (4) bedrooms. The under roof-line Merbau front entry deck shelters and welcomes you to the Red front door.

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Featuring fastidious presentation throughout, this family home is situated within an easy walk of schools, shopping centre and everything else that Hastings has to offer. In a popular area, surrounded by other good quality homes, this home is worthy of your inspection.

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Auction: Saturday 19th February 2011 at 12:30pm

Expressions of Interest close 4th Mar 2011, 4.00pm

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Inspect Saturdays 12.00 – 12.30pm - 388 Stony Point Road

Inspect Saturdays 2.00pm - 3.00pm - 88 Bittern Dromana Road

SUBDIVISION POTENTIAL OR RENOVATORS DREAM!!!

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Tucked away behind this native garden is a piece of Crib Point history WITHOUT the Heritage overlay. This gorgeous weatherboard full of charm and character will ideally suit someone looking for a delightful home to renovate, a 3 unit site or a 2 lot subdivision STCA, there are endless options to choose from. Offering a large 1000sqm (approx) block with a 2 bedroom weatherboard , 12 ft ceilings, upstairs attic that maybe used as a 3rd bedroom, neat bathroom separate living and dining area, a workable kitchen with gas upright oven with dishwasher and a veranda at the rear for shade.

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www.satchwells.com.au BALNARRING FLINDERS HASTINGS

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

03 5983 5509 03 5989 0744 03 5979 1888

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Red Hill South Unique Design, Quality Lifestyle

Price by Negotiation

A picture of functionality combined with enduring character is offered at this rustic Red Hill South cottage set on a generous ¾ acre bushland allotment. The individual two-to-three bedroom home is designed over two levels comprising an atrium-style sunroom, pine kitchen, walk-in pantry, family/meals area, optional lounge room, built-in robes, study, ensuite and two-way bathroom-to-laundry facilities. Other notable features include striking American-asphalt roof-tiling, dishwasher, hand-crafted buffet, claw-foot bath, slate tiling, Tasmanian Oak floorboards, gas-log-fire, secondary heating and split-system airconditioning. Harcourts Hastings OPEN HOME: Saturday 3:00 - 3:30pm ADDRESS: 32 Beauford Road

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Crib Point $230,000+ Going... Going... Gone!! 3 unit site STCA

Auction

Within a very central position and offering two separate road frontages this quarter acre block (approx) will be snapped up quickly. Build a home to occupy, 2 large units... or 3 smaller ones the choice is yours STCA. A level building area means reduced site costs. Walk to the local school, catch a bus to nearby Hastings, walk to the local shopping strip or catch a train into the CBD of Melbourne. Please note the land dimensions are approximate.

INSPECT: By Appointment ADDRESS: 253 Stony Point Road AUCTION: Saturday 26 February 2011 at 11:00am (On site) Jason Dowler 0403 598 754 E: jason.dowler@harcourts.com.au

Bittern Living The Dream On Over An Acre!

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Hastings Price by Negotiation over $880,000 Immerse Yourself - Location And Luxury On approx 2 Acres! Hidden down an exclusive private drive off the very popular and convenient Henderson’s Rd. As you drive through your electric gates you are welcomed by established, private gardens and natural bush setting. Replacement costs of the homestead would astound crafted using ‘Hillview Granite’ and cedar during construction. Entering through the feature entrance, it is all the more evident that this is the perfect home, with its soaring high ceilings, polished hardwood Iron Bark floors, central Blackwood (granite) kitchen with upgraded stainless steel appliances, open fire place, sculptured cornice and step down games room. Harcourts Hastings INSPECT: By Appointment ADDRESS: 231 Hendersons Road

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Priced by Negotiation over $695,000

This fabulous executive style home is located in the very sought after and spacious 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 2 bedrooms both with BIR, study, separate living areas and remote controlled double garage. 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. Added features include private and established front yard, floating timber boards, split system cooling and gas ducted heating. Be quick to secure this slice of Heaven! Photo ID is required upon inspection.

OPEN HOME: Saturday 11:30am-12:00pm ADDRESS: 3 Peppermint Place AUCTION: Saturday 5 March 2011 at 11:00am

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HASTINGS

Shop 10, 14 High St

5970 7333

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Hastings Ideal lifestyle - 5 Acres approx

Price by Negotiation over $750,000 Hastings Villas By The Sea – 4 Sold 3 Available

Priced from $389,000

Your dream lifestyle property may become a reality sooner than you’d hoped for. This well equipped lifestyle property on 5 acres captures the true essence of country life with the convenience of being in a great position which is close to local schools, public transport and shops. The outdoor setting offers complete privacy, 5 paddocks, post & rail fencing, a barn, horse wash, dam and a double garage. The practical layout includes 3 bedrooms all with BIR’s, master with ensuite, 2 separate living areas, and an open plan timber kitchen. This outstanding home features polished timber floors, coonara, gas ducted heating and split system air-conditioning. Harcourts Hastings OPEN HOME: Saturday 1:30 - 2:00pm ADDRESS: 51 Graydens Road

Attention to detail and luxurious living starts with this stately, impressive and dignified townhouses with a Marine Pde ‘beachside’ address and great outlook seaside. It’s perfect for those looking for a low-maintenance home, rich in quality and style with elegant formal living/dining, free-flowing family/meals and first class kitchen. Offset by granite bench-top, breakfast bar & s/s appliances. There are 3 generous bedrooms plus sep study area, living area with a balcony with views and a lavish ensuite. There’s a luxury bathroom, landscaped front and rear gardens, ducted heating and a DLUG with internal access. Harcourts Hastings INSPECT: By Appointment ADDRESS: 116 Marine Parade

Jason Dowler 0403 598 754 E: jason.dowler@harcourts.com.au

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Hastings Price by Negotiation over $320,000 Somers Negotiation over $690,000 Attention Buyers! Great Value - Great Location Break out the Bubbly and Chocolate! Now This Is a Surprise Package! Bringing you this inviting neat 3 bedroom home, sitting on approx. 810m2 and presenting all buyers with a great opportunity, I would say stop looking. Situated in a quiet convenient location this property will impress those looking for a great home to live in or an investment for the future. Featuring 3 spacious bedrooms, large living/dining area, modern kitchen with separate laundry with outside access, ducted heating, and split system heating/air-conditioning. Outside offers an entertaining area, a single covered carport with drive through access to the backyard, and a single lock up garage. Harcourts Hastings INSPECT: By Appointment ADDRESS: 18 Michelle Drive

Step through the front entry and be taken a back by the deceptive façade. 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 OPEN HOME: Saturday 2:30 - 3:00pm ADDRESS: 36 South Beach Road

Tim Hughes 0410 470 515 E: tim.hughes@harcourts.com.au

Andrea Hannah 0417 400 660 E: andrea.hannah@harcourts.com.au

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Admin/Reception Position

Harcourts Hastings is searching for a dynamic and ambitious person to join our fast moving office with the latest tools and technology. We are looking for the right person to fit a unique culture that’s hard working, but with plenty of fun and laughter.

We are now seeking an enthusiastic, fun and hard working administrator to join our vibrant team.

The right person needs to have great people skills, no experience required, a reliable car, driver’s licence, agents representative certificate and the ambition to move into a sales role. As a sales cadet, you will be guided into becoming a successful real estate professional within Hastings leading real estate office.

Harcourts Hastings is offering the latest technology along with an emphasis on training and development. An ideal candidate will be looking for personal growth within Victoria’s fastest growing Real Estate network.

To find out more about this position call Kul Numa on 5970 7333 or email resumes to kul.numa@harcourts.com.au

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Seeking Sales Cadet

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Set in this well maintained and very central complex in growing Bittern this impressive townhouse will sell quickly! Conveniently located within easy walking distance to the train, bus, shops and Primary School, this home includes master bedroom with full ensuite and walk in robe, large living zone downstairs and further two bedrooms, study nook and bathroom on second level. Additional features include ducted heating and cooling, feature timber floors, quality window coverings throughout, solar hot water and double lock up garage with remote roller door allowing direct access into the home. Harcourts Hastings INSPECT: By Appointment ADDRESS: 2/21 Portsmouth Road

5970 7333

You must have attention to detail, strong work ethic and a friendly and professional personality.

To find out more about this position call Kari Marks on 5970 7333 or email your resume to kari.marks@harcourts.com.au

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Hastings $295,000

Hastings $405,000 - $419,000

4/82 high street, hastings

5979 8833

Hastings $355,000 - $370,000

Tyabb $649,000

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$1,150,000

2 Acres - “The Resort” You’ll feel like it’s holidays all year round from this stunning piece of paradise set in the exclusive ‘Kinfauns’ estate. As you choose between a dip in the solar pool, tennis on the mondo grass courts or a stroll down by the lake you will marvel at your good fortune.....As for the 55 square executive home, it is hard to compare to anything we’ve seen...built without compromise with a resort like feel and living areas that spill out on the covered pool terrace. Features like 10’ ceilings, gas ducted heat a classy entrance foyer and the unique glass walled meals area. Multiple living areas include a chalet style lounge room with feature stone fireplace, dining, family and a rumpus room with kitchenette and bathroom that would be ideal for a dependant relative

or teenagers retreat. 4 bedrooms & study, (main with walk in dressing and spa ensuite), 3 bathrooms (in total) + powder room and the designer granite kitchen over-looks the pool. Outside, this property is reminiscent of a sub-tropical resort with palm studded lawns, ornamental lake, and of course the in-ground salt chlorinated pool, full-sized tennis court, and sun-deck. For the tradesman or to lock up your toys there are two 8m x 10m - approx garages with separate access and hard stand, water tanks, and a high span 3 car remote garage under roof - With land values over $500K in the area. This is well below replacement cost.... Time to reward your hard work and live!!

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

Happy vendors aren’t hard to find at

Call us on (03) 5979 4412 to find out why! Baywest Real Estate, 87 High Street, HASTINGS

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$295,000 each

As New Villas As new two bedroom villa units offering open plan living, gourmet kitchen, gas stainless steel appliances & dishwasher. Two bedrooms with built in robes, semi ensuite, quality fixtures and fittings, heating & cooling, private rear courtyards and lock

up garage. Still under builders warranty, and three to choose from on the block. Two are currently tenanted and one vacant. Buy one or buy the complex of three.

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

Balnarring

$495,000

Let The Kids Play Let the kids run on this large block of 1901m2 set close to the heart of Balnarring village. A well presented 3 bedroom b/v home, with tiled roof and single garage. With good sized bedrooms + BIRs a lounge with gas

column heater everything you need is here. A bright + airy kitchen overlooking the rear pergola + extensive gardens that backs onto a reserve. Plenty of room if needed to extend the home.

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

Western Port Real Estate 15th February 2011

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Hastings

87 High Street, Hastings Victoria 3915 Ph: 03 5979 4412 Fax: 03 5979 3097 Email: enquiries@baywestrealestate.com.au Web: www.baywestrealestate.com.au

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Saturday

Cross Section JC Apsthorp Rough Edges Check 1 2 Funhouse Australia P!NK Tribute Show (set 1) Ancient Idols Funhouse Australia P!NK Tribute Show (set 2)

Community Stage, Demos and Displays

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Child friendly, great service.

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Bunnings, art & crafts, balloons, bubbles, circus tricks and more Southern Water Ski Team Display Westernport News Fireworks Display

10:00am Sealy Cycles SK8, BMX and Scoota Party 12:20pm BlueScope Steel Street Parade 1:00pm Bendigo Bank FREE Children’s Workshops –

12:30pm Local Schools Performances 2:30pm Miley Montana Tribute Show 3:15pm Street Parade Presentation 3:30pm Pelican Park Fitness demos 4:30pm Voice of Hastings choir 5:00pm Westernport Regional Band

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Main Stage Sponsored by Nepean Waste 10:00am Imaginitis 11:30am Australian Bruce Springsteen Tribute Show 1:00pm Doug Milen Band 2:30pm Straight 8’s 4:00pm Dirty Boogie Band

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METAL 2 METAL, is a locally owned business based in Hastings. They produced the popular one piece metal scooter handlebars and together with Sealy’s Cycles and Peninsula Surf, will sponsor this year’s Western Port Scooter Competition on Saturday 19 February commencing at 2pm. The competition is part of the SK8, BMX & Skoota Party 2011 Western Port Festival activities to be held at the Hastings Foreshore Skate Park. Registration will take place from 10am to 12 noon. Push scooters AKA kick scooters have been around since the 1920s. Since then a lot has changed and with advancements in technology and design scooters have become far lighter, stronger and more compact than any of their predecessors. The scooter is typically designed for all ages with those as young as five taking part in the freestyle scooter community. In commenting on this year’s event, Metal 2 Metal co-founder, Michael McKenna said, “We are expecting a great turn out on the day. There is a lot of talk happening in the local community and it should be an action packed event. We have worked with some of the local kids who have helped develop and produce better scooting products with special thanks to Jyle Stevens, Ben Schroen,

Nigel Nyoni, Robert Mcintyre and Kal Chandler who all live locally. Along with friends they will display some of their great tricks and scooter techniques on the day.� To have your chance at winning any of the great prizes on offer you need to register.

There’s still time to enter this event and to download the entry form go to: http://www.westernportfestival.org.au Scooter riders must wear a helmet and all those participating are required to sign a permission form.

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THIS year Westernport Holden will be proudly sponsoring the Membrey’s Transport Annual Show n Shine event held on Sunday 20th February. There is a full range of trophies including top prime mover, top tow truck, truck off the day, top boat, top bike, top street machine and peoples choice and that’s just naming a few. Vehicles will need to be set up by 10.00 am for judging on the foreshore, entry is on the day and is by gold coin donation gates will be open at 7.30 am. So come and join in on the fun as there is going to be heaps to look at and do. There are 200 confirmed entries so don’t miss out. Western Port Holden have also shown their support of the Western Port Festival by providing a vehicle for event organizers to use in the run up to and during the event. Pictured left is Des Kissick, Dealer Principal of Western Port Holden, handing over the keys to the President of the Western Port Festival, Tammie Johnstone.

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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 the Indie Awards for 2011, and whet your appetite with some news of new books coming soon!

Local bookworms are invited to join THE FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB, meeting on the first Monday evening at 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!

The Book Page PRESENTED BY PETERSEN’S BOOK STORE

INDIE AWARDS 2011 Independent booksellers love books. We read books. We talk to our customers about books. We help you discover exciting new books and great new authors. We find books for you, and help you choose the perfect gift. We are proud to be an independent bookseller. The shortlists for the 2011 Indie Awards, which recognise and reward the best Australian books, and are judged by the independent booksellers of Australia, have been announced. Fiction shortlist * * * *

Bereft by Chris Womersley Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor When Colts Ran by Roger McDonald That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott

COMING SOON NEW & MUCH ANTICIPATED Just to whet your appetite, here are a couple of new titles which will be published in coming months..

training to become a Zelandoni – one of the Ninth Cave community’s spiritual leaders and healers.

The final book in the Alex Ryder series by Anthony Horowitz - SCORPIA RISING

And the latest from Jasper Fforde - ONE OF OUR THURSDAYS IS MISSING.

A dark and shocking conclusion to the bestselling Alex Rider missions. This gripping final mission brings together Alex Rider’s old enemies to frame the teenage superspy in an unstoppable plot of revenge, from which he can never return. Pursued from Europe to North Africa and Cairo’s city of the dead - this is the twistiest and most deadly plot of any Alex Rider mission yet, and will reveal Smithers’ ultimate gadget and see the shock death of a major character.

Thursday Next returns in another inventive, funny and fantastical adventure by the comic and creative genius.

DUE IN MARCH The sixth and final book in the Earth’s Children series by Jean Auel - LAND OF THE PAINTED CAVES - is being released worldwide on the 29th March 2011. Land of the Painted Caves continues the story of Ayla, her mate Jondalar, and their little daughter, Jonayla, taking readers on a journey of discovery and adventure as Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her

DUE MARCH 29TH

It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister? Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, eager to prove herself worthy of her illustrious namesake. Thursday is soon hot on the trail of her factual alter-ego, and quickly stumbles upon a plot so fiendish that it threatens the very BookWorld itself. If you know Jasper Fforde’s books, you will understand the above, and be chortling away already! DUE IN MARCH

Non-fiction shortlist * * * *

The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do How to Make Gravy by Paul Kelly The Well at the World's End by A.J.Mackinnon Street Fight in Naples by Peter Robb

Debut Fiction shortlist * * * *

Rocks in the Belly by Jon Bauer Book of Lost Threads by Tess Evans The Legacy by Kirsten Tranter The Old School by P.M.Newton

Children’s shortlist * Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner * Mirror by Jeannie Baker * The Very Bad Book by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton * Legend of the Golden Snail by Graeme Base

- Best bookshop in town - Great funny, intelligent, gorgeous staff - Very comfy chairs - Great music - Coffee? Not yet, but ever hopeful!

The winners in each category will be announced on Monday March 14 2011, as will the overall winner of the Book of the Year award

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The Western Port Whisperer

THE RED HILL Country Music Festival held a few weeks ago was a great event, by all accounts, but not everyone walked away feeling great about the experience. Although the event was BYO, the whisper is that the Red Hill Football Club decided they might use the opportunity to raise some much-needed coin and man a beer-tent. All the appropriate liquor licences etc were procured and the tent was manned on the day by volunteers. Little did they know they were attended by plain clothes police resulting in a whopping $1500 fine for not having the area appropriately roped off and also not opening cans before handing them over. What started out as a good natured attempt by a local sporting group to do some fund raising ended up costing them! The ridiculous thing about it, and the thing that gets the goat of the Whisperer, is that as a BYO event there were no end of people walking around with unopened beer cans;and still this was grounds for a massive fine for these guys. What a shameful reflection on the law. Who was it that said the law is an ass? The Whisperer was recently disappointed when he discovered a tyre in need of a bit of air and popped into the nearest servo in Hastings. No air services. The second was the same. Where once there was an air facility, they now only offer water. That

wouldn’t help me out of the predicament. Luckily service station three and four (the Whisperer felt he needed to check them all) did offer those facilities. Good on them. Seems the other two have dropped the word “service” from their businesses. Indeed, if the other two servos went the same way and there was nowhere that one could put a bit of air in a tyre… well, the world just wouldn’t be as good a place. Of course, there is still the possibility of another service station in Hastings. Many are against it, and there is at least one petition out to try and prevent its construction next to the rail line on High Street. I had one email asking what the Whisperer thought… The Whisperer would have to agree that High Street is probably not the best spot for it. Frankston-Flinders Road has most of the passing traffic and those sorts of outlets. The top end of High Street, as one of Hastings leading real estate agents told a friend of the Whisperer the other day, will be totally developed within the next few years into office blocks: much like the top of Mornington’s Main Street. Whilst Main Street’s office area also has a servo smackbang in the middle of it, it does seem to be a little out of place. Certainly tidy offices at the top end of High Streets should look attractive and hopefully provide many jobs for locals as businesses decide to base

themselves in the town. The Whisperer’s search for a little lads lost helicopter in the Lantons Way area prompted an email from someone in the Old Tyabb area that had a helicopter lob into their backyard before Christmas. Anyone in the area that may have lost their toy in this area, please contact the Whisperer… After the road resurfacing comments in the last paper, The Whisperer had an email expressing frustration about the Frankston Flinders Road resurfacing between Tyabb and Somerville. It goes as follows: “The still-to-be finished road widening and safety barrier installation along Frankston-Flinders Rd from Baxter to Tyabb cost many millions of dollars and they even resurfaced maybe a kilometre’s worth from Tyabb almost to Stocktons fruit shop. The remainder up to the Bungower Rd roundabout, which has so many patches on patches that I’ve lost count of, looks set to get more patches. Why didn’t they continue the resurfacing?”. The correspondence goes on to state that the widened edges already appear to be in need of repair. The Whisperer thinks it is high time the Council and VicRoads took a stand on this work and ensured it is done in accordance with best practice and with common sense prevailing in its planning and execution. thewhisperer@y7mail.com

Community House News Good Shepherd Community House By Maria Belfrage , Co-ordinator

WE’RE open for business again for the new year! We’ve got lots of new programs happening and we’d love you to come along and participate. There’s a playgroup on Thursday afternoons from 1.30-3pm called “Baby Beanies” for young parents with children 0-18 months of age. Come along and meet other new parents and have some fun with your little ones. Our Occasional Care group happens on Wednesday afternoons from 12-3pm. It’s run by qualified childcare staff so you can enjoy some free time knowing your children are having a wonderful time in the care of professionals. We’ve also got 3 year old kinder on Wednesdays from 9am-12noon. This is a group for 3 year olds to get them used to structured play and activities in a group setting before they start 4 year old kinder. The Westernport Stroke Recovery group has also commenced their meetings this month. This group is for people recovering from stroke and their carers/family members. The group meets 1st and 3rd Monday of each month with lunch, attendance by guest speakers and outings and trips away. They raise money with sausage sizzles and have loads of laughs and fun. We have some interesting and creative craft groups commencing this term including jewellery/beads, mosaics and traditional handcrafts so, if you’d like to access your creative ability and make some lovely pieces, come along and join in the fun. Art, art therapy and yoga are also continuing this year and, if you meet some basic criteria, all these three activities are free. If you’d like some more information or would like to join any of our activities, please call Maria on 5970 7000.

Somerville Community House By Isobel Carlin, Co-ordinator

Westernport Stroke Recovery Support Group Wallaroo Community Centre, 6 Wallaroo Place, Hastings 3915 ______________________________________________________________ Stroke Survivors, Carers and Families Welcome As a group of Stroke Survivors and Carers we have first hand knowledge of the stress and trauma associated with a stroke. The recovery group share and encourage each other to learn new skills. Most importantly we learn to live and laugh again

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Tony & Julie Richardson 5983 8430 Eric & Mabel Vidamour 5978 8307 julieandtony@tadaust.org.au

Western Port News 15 February 2011

HELLO all, Welcome back to the New Year, I hope you’re all surviving this crazy weather we have been having and our thoughts go out to the people in Queensland. Australia is proving to be a very turbulent country at present. Term 1 has thus far proven to be a very busy enrolment week and it’s not over yet! Some of our classes have commenced but most will start on February 14th, ahhh, the day of love, Valentine’s day. The Somerville Community House has many classes for all age groups. For the kids we have hand sewing classes which have proven to be very popular & Bust a Move, disability dance classes. For the men we have the Men’s Shed programs which provide a great socially inclusive setting for the men, along with many “blokey” activities. Computer classes are

proving to be very popular. We also have art classes, researching your family history, yoga, tai chi, Italian, German, write your life story, book reading club, cake decorating, patchwork, knitting for a cause, Friday night cards, cryptic crosswords and bust a move. For term 1 we have a few new classes on offer, such as chocolate making, astrology and silver jewellery making and Italian for beginners; all look very interesting. If you would like to run a class or have an interest in a particular activity and we don’t currently have it on our brochure, please contact us and we will endeavor to assist you. The Somerville Community House is for all ages of the community. We are currently taking expressions of interest to start a community kitchen or cooking groups for various ages to commence in term 2 2011. If you have an interest in cooking or just want to socialise as well as sharing skills, then this might be just the activity you’re looking for! If you’re interested in becoming involved, please contact the Somerville Community House on 59 778 330 or somervi@bigpond.net.au or pop in and have a chat to us: our door is always open. We look forward to seeing our regular users as well as many new faces in 2011.

H a s t i n g s Community House By Lisa Glover, Co-ordinator A VERY happy welcome to Term 1 2011. With the kids back at school and the weather finally improving it is great time to check out the new classes on offer at the Hastings Community House. This term we are running a huge variety of entertaining, low cost classes and activities to suit just about everyone. Check out Krav Maga self defence classes commencing Monday night February 14th. This class will enable you to defend yourself in everyday situations, will improve your self confidence and teach you valuable life skills. It is ideal for everyone from teenagers through to older citizens. Contact the house for further details. Ever wanted to learn the delicate art of cake decorating? Our new four week course will inspire you, with topics including working with different types of icing, shell and star design, cake edging and the art of creating icing flowers. Impress your friends and delight the kids with super homemade creations. For the more musical types we are running a workshop covering music production and setting up a budget studio. This workshop is also a great one for the teenagers and those interested in all aspects of music production. Numbers are limited so book early to access this event. How to find your ancestors and create a comprehensive family tree course might tickle your fancy. Learn how to research your family history,

family crest and discover the secrets of your ancestors. This six week course will help you become a family detective and help bring your family’s past to life. Maybe self awareness through personal counseling might be of interest. We’ll have limited spaces available for a weekend counselling workshop to help you sort through your difficult issues in a supportive, friendly environment. Weekly follow-up sessions are available; please contact the Community House for more details. Other upcoming workshops include writing for comprehension and clarity, as well as getting your message across: a guide to the techniques required to write media releases and professional pieces. Our regular classes in basic computers, craft, social singing, patchwork and astrology are continuing, so feel free to drop in and take a look at what we have to offer at the Hastings Community House.

Crib Point Community House By Mary Budd, Co-ordinator YIPPEE! The kids are off to school and now you have time on your hands to do what YOU want. Well why not come to the Community House and enrol in one of our many courses. If you still have little ones you can put them in our Take-a-break Occasional Childcare which in on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday mornings from 9am to 1pm. Then you can do what you want: go shopping, have a coffee with the girls or just chill out. Maybe you’re new to the area or retired, I’m sure you can find a course to suit you or you might like to volunteer. We love volunteers! We have some new course this term. Why not get your creative juices flowing and try creative writing or save some money and learn to sew. Maybe astrology is your thing; you can have your chart done and best of all you will learn how to read and understand it. If you’ve been thinking of signing up for Facebook and have reservations, why not come to one of our Discover Facebook – Safely workshops. I know there has been lots of expense with getting the kids back to school, so why not book in for the Brotherhood Saver Plus workshop. It will assist you to develop a savings habit, build assets and improve your financial capability, and it’s FREE! Of course we have our usual courses like, computer, day and night classes, cake decorating, yoga, fun with photos, patchwork, folkart, & craft, just to name a few. So why not come in for a cuppa and a chat and we’ll find out what suits you best or maybe you’ll have some suggestions. Don’t forget our trips this term. The Opp shop trip is on Friday 4th March and our other trip is to the Naval Museum at HMAS Cerberus on Friday 18th March. These trips are filling fast, so don’t hesitate; come and book in now.

LOCAL HISTORY

News from Hastings-Western Port Historical Society 150 YEARS – IT’S OUR BIRTHDAY! Hastings, along with the townships of Mornington, Dromana and Rye are involved in preparations for activities to mark the 150th anniversary of our township being gazetted in the Government Gazette which was in February 1861. A number of events have been planned by each township and co-ordinated by Geoff Carson and Sally Robins of Mornington Peninsula Shire. The first activity at Hastings will be the reopening of the Time Capsule placed outside the Shire offices of Mornington Peninsula Shire at Hastings. This Time Capsule was sealed and placed 25 years ago by HMAS Cerberus and the Shire of Hastings. The reopening of the Time Capsule is scheduled for Saturday, 19th February at 2.30 pm. All are welcome to witness this event. Two other activities planned by Hastings-Western Port Historical Society is a Pioneer Dance to be held on Friday 9th September at the Tyabb Hall, and the Pioneer Luncheon at the Hastings Club to be held on Sun-

day 16th October. These two activities are still in the planning stage but people can register their interest to attend by writing to the Secretary, PO Box 223 Hastings 3915. NEW MEMBERS MOST WELCOME Hastings-Western Port Historical Society is calling for new members. Membership is $15 per year, and members receive regular mail-outs, including the quarterly Newsletter. Members are able to come to the Hastings Museum free of charge as many times as they wish during the year. The Museum is open to the public every Sunday from 2-4 pm and on Wednesdays from 10 am to 2 pm. Sometimes the Wednesdays are busier than the Sundays with people calling in with queries, making a donation or coming to purchase one of the many books we have for sale on local history. Should you wish to join the Society, please call in to the Museum (corner Marine Parade & Skinner Street Hastings) on a Sunday or a Wednesday or write enclosing your membership fee to Hast-

ings-Western Port Historical Society PO Box 223 Hastings 3915. NEW SIGN FOR HASTINGS MUSEUM There is a bright blue eyecatching sign outside the Hastings Museum and members are very thrilled with this, thanks to Mornington Peninsula Shire. There is also a new sign just inside the fence of the Pioneer Cottage in Skinner Street, Hastings. In the past, there were many comments from visitors, including locals “Oh, I didn’t know you were there!” The Museum has currently on display a photographic transport exhibition, including early ferries, a fishing exhibition and an informative display near the 40 pounder Armstrong gun. The Armstrong gun used to be used by the Ham & Beef Battery at Hastings. A book about the Ham & Beef Battery written by Bruce Bennett is available for sale at the Museum for $25.

HISTORY HUNTER tell me, do... Question : Who built the tiny little shop in Myers Road, Bittern? Answer: The very small weatherboard shop, with its doorway a step up from the footpath, dates from the 1930s. It stood opposite Bittern’s original general store and was built by Frank Stacey, for Alf Owen, a boot-maker and cobbler, to use as his work premises. Later, after World War II, it was used as a barber shop for a number of years by Roy Price. Question: How did ‘Chapel Corner’ get its name? Answer: This is now the name of a property on the NE corner of the Balnarring / Bittern-Dromana Roads. The name pre-dates the house and was the name given to the corner site, a well-known local landmark. ‘Chapel’ refers to the Roman

Catholic Church, St John’s, which originally occupied the site. Built in 1881 the weatherboard church served the community until it closed in 1972. The following year it was sold and the new owners converted the old church into a home. *** Why not take advantage of Open Day at the Balnarring Hall on Sunday, February 26th from noon until 3.00 p.m. to see our History Room? Stop by to view our wonderful collection of old photos of the District or to learn more about its history. The History Room is open every Monday morning from 10.00 until noon. The Balnarring & District Historical Society can be contacted by phone 5983 5326 or email balhist@optusnet.com.au

Skinner Street, circa 1900. Photo courtesy of Hastings-Western Port Historical Society.

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LOCAL HISTORY

GERARD LYONS

by Peter McCullough

Older readers, particularly viewers of ABC television, will recall the face and voice of GERALD LYONS. Now aged 88, Gerald lived at Somers for 22 years. His reminisences were recorded late in 2009 and he was admitted to nursing care early in 2010. This has meant we have not been able to have his account clarified or elaborated on. It goes without saying that this is not Gerald’s story; that would require a biography of considerable proportions. However we would like to bring you two facets of his long and interesting life.

Part 1. The War Years Could you please tell us a little of your early life? I was born in Bristol in England in 1922 although we actually lived in a lovely little Somerset village called Wokey which was about 9 miles from Bristol. My father was a farmer. I had a happy childhood although, being an only child , it was a bit lonely at times. We had about 50 acres of woodland as well as the pastures and it was there I learned my jungle warfare basics as a boy. Although trespassers could be prosecuted, people used to wander into the woods and I soon learned how to follow them without being detected. After attending the local school in Bath I decided to take up journalism so I did a course in typing and some commercial subjects. This was a great disappointment to my father who wanted me to go to university. Eventually I agreed and a private tutor was hired to bring my Latin up to scratch for entry to Oxford. Then came the war? Yes. It might be hard to imagine now but my classmates and I thought that the outbreak of war was the greatest thing that could possibly have happened. At that point we hadn’t seen the bad side-the bombs and so on-and in fact in the rural areas it was never too bad. Initially I tried to join air crew but was knocked back as I was slightly colour blind. At the outset they were very strict although standards were relaxed later on. After this setback I joined the army (the Gloucester Regiment) and did my basic training at a camp in Wiltshire. After 3 months they said “Would you like a commission?” and I said “I haven’t thought about it, but why not.” This led to me being moved to the Royal Corps of Signals at Catterick in Yorkshire: they had some amazing stuff there even at the start of the war. Up there I shared a room with an officer cadet who went into photo reconnaissance and later into movies. He was Dirk Bogarde. Next stop India? While I was in Signals an instruction came out stating that officers were required for the Indian Army. I thought, “This is just the shot for me.” I had to travel up to Tynecastle where I was interviewed by the Board in the Northern Command library. The interview was quite casual and all of the Board members were English. There were some Indians in the higher ranks, however, and the maharajah was an honorary general. It wasn’t long before I was on a troopship for India; we came down the west coast of Africa,around the Cape, and across to Bombay. The ship after mine was torpedoed so I was fortunate in that respect. I attended the Indian Academy as a member of the Second Punjabi Regiment and soon found that the Indian Army was like a big family: many of the officers had

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Well read: Gerald Lyons at his home in Somers where he had a home library of over 3000 books.

followed their fathers and many of the men came from the same village. This worked well and people were protected unless they did something very wrong. You were fascinated by the North West frontier? I certainly was. After the Academy I did a course in mountain warfare up on the North West frontier. By this time Japan was in the war and the Indian Army grew quite quickly to 12 times its original size. Many of the troops were Gurkhas from Nepal. The Gurkhas had been at Gallipoli and are great people; I have always been keen to see them come out here. They usually get into farming and are honest and hard working. The Germans of course didn’t like them: they used the cutlery too much...slicing off heads! While up on the North West frontier I learned about the Pathans: a very proud warrior race who were great fighters and knew the Himalayas. Whole armies can disappear into some of the valleys up there. People look at maps and see a line defining the boundaries between India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan; in fact in some cases the border is 200 miles wide!It was a wild place. Officially the Pathans were fighting in the Indian regiments:the 12th Frontier Force Regiment, the 13th Frontier Force Rifles, and the 14th Frontier Force Guides which was the top regiment in the Indian Army. The Guides were formed by one of three brothers named Lawrence. They

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had a bright red uniform and could be seen for miles, unlike the Pathans who dug themselves in; you would only see a Pathan if you fell over one. However you could never really trust them: you would be back in Peshawar where the headquarters was located and one would say to you, “You had a quiet night the other night, sahib” and I would reply “You know we didn’t have a quiet night; you stupid buggers were shooting at us.” He would then say, “I not shoot to kill, sahib, just to wake you up.” I would then say, “Thanks. I will remember that.” The shooting was to keep us on our toes as they wanted us out of India even at that time. Even the other Indians feared what Kipling called “the lean, hard, hungry men of the north” who would come down on their horses. The Pathans loved a fight and would attack the Indian army troops, even if they were members of their own tribe: only conflict with troops from their own village was avoided. The many Pathans who did join up did so as they would get a British army pension and could send money back to the families. Then fathers would bring sons in and it was like a clan. As I said, you could never really trust them. They moved stealthily and could infiltrate an army camp during the night and steal the troops’ weapons. When I first went up to the Frontier the Pathans had their own arms factory which the British turned a blind eye to. The Americans would say, “Why don’t you blow up that goddam factory?”but the British attitude was that these people had access to big

money and could buy better weapons than they could manufacture in their factory. Better to allow the factory to continue; besides every now and then it blew up anyway! What are your thoughts on Afghanistan? Well no one has ever conquered Afghanistan. Alexander the Great went through, as did that other great democrat,Genghis Khan; neither of them actually conquered the country. It is such a hard country and, in my view, we don’t look like winning. You could put an army in some of those valleys and you wouldn’t know they were there. The locals know where to hide. Can history teach us anything? Indeed. If you want to understand people and why they do things you need to know their history. There were three Anglo-Afghan wars.The First Afghan War was between 1838 and 1842; everything that could go wrong went wrong. At that time the great game of spying was on and the British in Calcutta (Delhi had not been established) were fearful of Russian influence. Calcutta incidentally was the headquarters of the British East India Company which virtually ran India at that time. That company was so wealthy that it provided slightly more than half the total revenue of Britain! Anyway the Bengal army invaded Afghanistan and its ruler, Dost Mohammad, was deposed and imprisoned.

Dost Mohammad, who would have been a good ally, was replaced by the puppet ruler Shah Shuja who made this demand on the British government:50,000 pounds(a lot of money in those days) and safe transit of his 200 wives from Peshawar to Kabul. Accordingly this very proper British officer named Broadfoot was given the responsibility for the transfer of the wives and their 1000 camels. In total there were 100,000 camels in the procession! Beforehand Shah Shuja had said to Broadfoot, “All British officers are honourable, but if one of those wives is mishandled you will pay for it with your life.” When they arrived after the long march most of the wives were pregnant to the porters: Shah Shuja blamed Broadfoot and was going to have him shot. Broadfoot wisely found an excuse not to complete the final leg to Kabul. Even while the war was still on the British let their hair down; they engaged in cricket, mountain climbing and even skating on the frozen lakes. Some of them even took their foxhounds out and a subaltern would have 20-30 servants waiting on him. They had so many servants that even the servants had to have servants! Their mess kits had to be beautifully ironed and even the servants had white outfits with the appropriate turban. Dhobi wallahs were paid to do all the washing and another servant was required to look after the officers horse. A horse cost 100 rupees and could not be sold outside the regiment-only to a fellow officer. This was a “posh” regiment (16th Hussars) of which Churchill was later a member. In the meantime a good brigade of fighting troops kept the peace. In December the puppet ruler was assassinated as opposition to the British occupation grew. The British were compelled to withdraw via the Khyber Pass where they were___ massacred; only one man out of 20,000 reached Jellalabad although some prisoners were later released. The Afghan forces were commanded by Akbar Khan, whose father, Dost Mohammad, regained the throne. Did you still have your own horse in 1942? Yes I had several horses: my own horse which I bought and a spare provided by the remount section. The horses were generally Walers (from NSW) and the cost (100 rupees) would have been about 7 pounds 10 shillings. We had to pay for fodder for our horses and also our own food: these were deducted from our pay. The Indian army had always been popular with the aristocracy and many of their traditions were still evident. A fellow officer told me on one occasion how his great, great, grandfather had gone to Barings bank (the bank for the aristocracy) one day to draw out some money and said, “Do you know what? They have paid us a salary. I didn’t expect to be paid a salary.” Where to next? By now the war was heating up and I was posted to Burma. There I soon developed an appreciation for jungle warfare, particularly moving without being noticed. Because of the thickness of the jungle it was rather easy to get lost and the solution was to climb a tree and attempt to get a bearing. On one occasion this practice had unusual consequences. I had climbed a tree this particular day , the branch broke and I fell rather heavily. Although I was not hurt I landed on our radio and virtually destroyed it. Shortly after we had an encounter with a Japanese

patrol; we only realized they were in the area when some shots rang out. We were two days late getting back to base and, because of our inability to communicate, we were posted as “missing, believed killed.”When we finally emerged I had some explaining to do. It so happened that the divisional commander, General Davis, was visiting our unit and fortunately he found my account rather amusing. He laughed and said, “Come and have dinner with us at the Divisional mess. Don’t worry about spic and span; just come as you are.” Si I went wearing my jungle greens. My attitude in Burma was that we never got into a scrape unless we were certain of winning so we had to be tight and use our jungle craft. What came after Burma? Eventually I was evacuated from Burma-I was in a pretty poor state-and landed a staff job in Bombay. I was the liaison officer between the police and the army and towards the end of the war there were riots as well as a naval mutiny. Gandhi, who was against violence, had a lovely line: “Why don’t they send them all out fishing?”In fact the mutinies were handled very well. The police would just give a rioter a crack with the large sticks that they carried, although at times the British troops would get a little bit toey. On one occasion there was a Hindu/Moslem riot in the Hindu quarter of Bombay; there were thousands of them and I was talking to the Hindu leaders, trying to quieten them down. I only had a Colt revolver that the Americans had given me. Unbeknown to me an armoured car had moved in behind me. Next thing this subaltern said, “Open fire Sir?Over their heads, Sir?” I said, “Never. Who are you going to kill? Someone two miles down the road? In the meantime they will tear you to pieces. That bloody gun should not even be loaded so unload it now.” I got to know this young subaltern who had in fact gone to Harrow. However to avoid any pretensions he told people that he had been a public lavatory attendant before the war. Coincidentally both Churchill and Nehru were at Harrow together. Nehru was in fact a wealthy, well-educated Kashmiri with an upper class English accent and Gandhi had to tell him to talk like an Indian. Gandhi had enormous control over the people but Nehru was more realistic; he wanted to get industry going whereas Gandhi wanted them to make all their own clothes. I met Gandhi on several occasions and also Mahommed Ali Jinnah, the first President of Pakistan. The handover was a very complex matter and was handled very well by the British. How did you finish up? I was a captain, acting major, when the war finished. I had the opportunity to sign on again as a substantive major but decided against it.I had a good end to the war being based in Bombay and travelling around. *****

Part 2 Australia and the ABC When did you come to Australia? I actually came to Australia twice. My first trip was in 1948, more or less to catch up with friends, but I was very disappointed. I went to Flinders St. station and all these men who were getting off the train were dressed alike: they had gladstone bags, gaberdine overcoats, and akubra hats. They all looked like accountants. I thought, “The war is over and they are so bloody respectable. Where are the bronzed Anzacs?” A lot of blokes were like me: we didn’t have a bad war but were a bit unsettled. We remembered the good things. For instance on one occasion I was waiting at Chittagong for transport back to my unit when Vera Lynn came. I was made her liaison officer, much to the envy of the troops, and had to drive her back to the Chittagong Club after her performance. When I returned to England I obtained a job in journalism and one person that I interviewed was the comedian, Tommy Trinder. Many years later when I had left the ABC and joined 3DB he came into the studio. He was talking to the receptionist and as I walked past I said, “You lucky people.” which was his call sign. We chatted about our earlier meeting. During this time back in England I even applied for a job as Assistant Education Officer in Norfolk and became a bureaucrat but found it very dull. It was time for another move. And so back to Australia? By 1950 I had returned, intent on finding work in journalism. Someone suggested that I might try radio and this led to a stint with3TR in Sale. Much later it dawned on me that there was a strange connection between Sale and Afghanistan. During the First Afghan War when some 16,000 British and Indian troops were either massacred or were frozen to death as the mountain passes were frozen, one of the few survivors was Florentia Sale, the wife of General Sale. She was a formidable Victorian woman and was held back by the rebels as she was the general’s wife. She later wrote a book about her experiences. I enjoyed my time at Sale. It was very rural: a pet cow grazed in the yard behind the station. However I wanted a bit more adventure so decided to go oil prospecting in Papua. The company was successful in finding oil along this particular river but the conditions were dreadful: it was blue mud and pandanus swamp! In the end the holes were plugged with 30 feet of concrete which, strangely enough, was easier to drill through than the the mud should they ever want to reopen a hole. I was on my way back to Australia and met a friend in Port Moresby who was a big planter on Manus Island to the north. He offered me a job running a plantation to which I replied, “I don’t know anything about coconuts”. He said, “Who does?” In fact it was just a matter of picking up the coconuts which

Famous faces: Gerald interviews Sterling Moss on “People”.

were taken to the wharf and shipped to Australia by that old colonial company, Burns Phillp. I did that for two years and had a few scrapes, particularly when swimming as the sea snakes were plentiful. On the way home I flew to Rabaul in a small plane which I shared with a pig and piglets, not to mention chooks wandering about under the seats. Rabaul is perched on the rim of a volcano and during the night there was this huge shudder. I jumped out of bed looking for the light switch but the harbour-master, with whom I was staying,shouted, “It’s nothing to worry about. We get them all the time.” After returning from the islands I spent some time in Sydney where I met and married Noreen; she has dementia and was admitted to nursing care early in 2009. I miss her very much. From Sydney we moved to Launceston and I joined the Tasmanian Education Authority and went on to teach in Sandy Bay. Then I joined United Press, which provided news to provincial papers throughout Australia, and finally I worked for Reuters. By this time we were back in Melbourne and the hours were ideal:I would be finished by lunchtime, Noreen would pick me up, and we would head for the beach. The ABC must have come next? Yes. My first job there was as radio talks officer, organising talks and editing them. Everyone wanted to get into television-it was the new medium-but I wasn’t interested. However a committee was attempting to select interviewers and I was asked to help by acting out the role of the person being interviewed. Each interview I would take on a different personna and this impressed the panel so much that I was offered the job. So I more or less fell into TV. I started with a program called “People” where I interviewed people once a week, both in Sydney and Melbourne. I also worked on panel programs, was a reporter on Bill Peach’s “This Day Tonight” and did documentaries. In 1963 I got into “Four Corners”. One morning I was reading The Age and I discovered that I was in fact part of the news: I had been appointed to the staff of “Four Corners.”Soon after the Manager of the ABC in Melbourne rang me and said, “You might have told me, Gerry, that you were going up to Sydney.”I said, “Look. I didn’t know myself until I read it in the paper this morning.” The explanation was that the producer, Michael Charlton, had left to join the BBC and a replacement had to be found at short notice. I went up to Sydney to have an interview with the General Manager, Sir Charles Moses, and stunned him by saying that three days notice to produce a program was not enough and I wasn’t sure that I would take it on. He wouldn’t hear of it being taken off. He had this big office with his special mug and blue blotting paper. I took a fancy to the latter, and when I went to the Stationery Department a little later on I informed the old bloke in charge that, amongst other things, I wanted some blue blotting paper. He looked aghast and said I couldn’t have it. When I enquired why not, he replied, “Because the boss has it.”In the end he said,”You can have some but I don’t want to see you taking it.”It was like a scene from a British comedy. Today when you look at the credits for “Four Corners” there is a long list; at that time ther was myself, John Penlington, John Moore, and a small news camera. Yet we turned out quality programs. I think you can have too many people and too much money but if you are really hard pressed you become more selective. However “Four Corners” is still a quality program and the ABC can be justifiably proud. “Four Corners” was produced in Sydney and I flew up and down each week. Eventually I returned to my Melbourne base doing “People” and docu-

On assignment: Gerald exits a plane.

mentaries. These took me all around the world including Hong Kong where I interviewed the Governor. I also spent time in Vietnam during the war and had a scoop when there was a revolt against President Ngo Diem who was arrested. The Americans, knowing what was about to happen made a plane available to take the whole press corps to Hong Kong for the weekend. Only a CBS reporter and I were left in Saigon when the coup occurred. Of the many hundreds of interviews which you have carried out, which ones stand out? Well I was the only person to get an interview with the Beatles when they came here. I didn’t go to the press conference: I always considered them a waste of time. There was this awful woman who was their publicist and she was horrified to discover that we had set up in their room and waited for them to come up. I got my own show! They were terrific. I spoke to John Lennon, Paul McCartney, who was the easiest one to interview, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They were delightful to interview because they told the truth. They were kids enjoying themselves and down-to-earth. John Lennon gave me a signed copy of his book, “John Lennon in his Own Write.” The most impressive person that I ever interviewed was the American economist, John Kenneth Galbraith. We got talking about the famous British economist John Maynard Keynes and I said I found him hard to follow. Galbraith said, “Don’t you worry, my boy. I have read all his books and there are only a couple of sentences that I have been able to understand myself.” However we agreed that Keynes was correct in saying that where the British Government got it wrong was that it became very mean during the Depression. What they should have done was lend money to private business and create demand. Of the show business celebrities that I interviewed, I found Noel Coward delightful and down-to earth and I enjoyed meeting Henry Fonda who was very well read and had a high intellect. Dame Margot Fonteyn was a lovely person who I had lunch with at the old Scott’s Hotel. We both had chops and I choked on one; she had to get up, come round, and whack me on the back. It was rather embarrassing1 Eartha Kitt I got to know very well. I went up to Sydney where she was

performing. I met her in her suite and she asked me if I would do her a favour and take her little girl (Kit) out for a walk. I agreed and when we were walking through King’s Cross the little blighter ran away from me. I knew her mother had a hell of a temper and I didn’t know whether to call the police, call security at the hotel, or front the mother. I returned to the hotel, went in and said, “Now,about Kit...”and she said, “Yes. She’s just gone out onto the balcony.’ I didn’t say anything more but I wondered what the headlines would have said if she hadn’t found her way back. I also met Judy Garland who had a boyfriend with her and during the interview he insisted on sitting next to her on the couch. I asked him to move but he thought it would be fun to be in on the interview. She was a sick woman who should never have made the tour but she was in trouble financially in the States. I felt really sorry for her. Apart from the showbiz celebrities I also interviewed other interesting people such as Archbishop Mannix, Frank Hardy and Prime Ministers Whitlam, Fraser, Hawke and Keating. I even interviewed Lord Bruce when he made a trip out here. He asked me where I got my suit and I said, “England, before I came out. Where did you get your suit?”He said, “America before the war. Yours looks as if it could have been before the war as well.”I said, “Hold on a minute. It’s not that old.” And post-ABC? I did quite a bit of free-lance work and for a time was a talkback host on 3DB.I also wrote an award-winning book called “Breakthroughs” which I am proud of. Each chapter was sent back to the appropriate scientist to ensure that the scientific details were correct : they were Nobel prize winners and other experts. My task was to produce an accurate description of their work and achievements. Finally, your thoughts on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd? (Remember this was recorded in 2009!) Didn’t he write “Dad and Dave”? Perhaps it was a relative! Seriously, I think he is on the ball-he reads the papers a lot-but I don’t think he is the world leader he thinks he is. He is a typical bureaucrat and an opportunist. In many ways he is a weak man when compared to Howard.

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Let’s get ready to rumble Ballet and Blur going at it with Oasis. Mostly it was good, clean, harmless fun. Rappers took it to another level in the 1990s by introducing firearms, but left it to the black metal bands of Norway to perfect with a combination of both homicide and church burning. This, however, is as nothing compared to the wrath currently being aimed at Kings of Leon. First things first: exactly how did Kings of Leon manage to get themselves on the wrong side of Glee? Did they run over a cast member in the band bus? Refuse to participate in a lamington drive? Sadly, no. Instead, they exhibited the temerity of those who think they have brass for bollocks by refusing permission to use one of their songs. The sheer nerve. The band was diplomatic in it’s refusal, citing concerns of ‘over-exposure’. They should have been more worried that their song would be ‘Glee-efied’, a process by which every sharp edge is shorn off and the hardiest of rock anthems is swiftly placed on the express train to Naffville. The band even went so far as to emphasise that it wasn’t personal and that they turn down heaps of licensing requests. It was to no avail. Ryan Murphy accused them of missing the ‘bigger picture’ which was that “a seven-year-old kid can see someone close to their age singing a Kings of Leon song, which will maybe make them want to join a glee club or

pick up a musical instrument. It’s like, OK, hate on arts education.� That’s right. A simple refusal was elevated to the status of hate crime. As the band themselves put it, the whole thing had gotten ‘out of hand.’ Whilst Kings of Leon avoided criticising the show, that doesn’t mean others can’t sink the boots in. If ever there was a television program that was cruisin’ for a bruisin’, it’s the toned pop moppets on Glee. Consider the numbers: more than five million in album sales. Terrifyingly, in 2009 the cast of Glee had 25 singles on the Billboard Hot 100. Twenty five! That leaves them second only to The Beatles for most entries in any calendar year. In terms of all-time hits, they’re now second only to Elvis Presley. This is not so much disturbing as it is an affront to humanity. There’s just no way that the list of greatest musical acts should read The Beatles, followed by ‘the cast of Glee’. Let me be honest: I can’t stand what Glee does to music. It is, in essence, a sober kind of karaoke and has the same air of artificiality that turns junior beauty pageants from cute to creepy. If I had to describe it, I’d say it’s like regular music, only placed on a severe regimen of anti-depressants. It’s a shiny, glossy, sugary confection that may well be fine in small doses but, like fairy floss, should not be considered a substitute for a proper meal. If

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Glee was a food, the list of ingredients on the back would include things like hydrolysed protein, flavour enhancer 621 and stacks of trans fats. It would have no nutritional value whatsoever. They must be stopped. It’s my belief that this air-brushed approach to music is forcing more traditional acts to take extreme measures in a desperate attempt to get attention. Just the other week saw Jimmy Buffet’s disastrous attempt to crowd surf go horribly wrong. What could possibly be next? Will Crosby, Stills and Nash end their show by forming a human pyramid? Will hard rock bands other than AC/ DC start dressing as schoolkids? It’s time for action. Glee’s creator can say all the nasty things he likes; he just better make sure he can cash the cheque his mouth is writing. If Glee wants to rumble, then so be it. The war begins here. If Kings of Leon are reading this, it’s time to man up. The hour has come in which you must throw down the gauntlet and prepare for battle. The cast of Glee ought to be invited around to the back of the shelter shed where any differences of opinion can be sorted out. Normally, such invitations to violence would be abhorrent, but these are exceptional circumstances. The survival of music as we know and love it now depends on you. Who’d have thunk it? www.stuartmccullough.com

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By Stuart McCullough IT’S ON. The trash talking has started with a flourish and it’s time to brace yourself for a good, old-fashioned, bare-knuckled slap down. The creator of the TV program ‘Glee’, Ryan Murphy, has let rip at Kings of Leon, accusing them of more or less trying to destroy musical education and crushing the hopes and dreams of children everywhere. The term ‘traditional rivals’ is no more meaningful than when the combatants in question are a rock band and a teenage musical comedy show. Clearly, there is no love lost between them. Music thrives on competition. Lennon and McCartney. The Captain and Tennille. Eminem and his mother - there are rivalries everywhere in music. That the protagonists operate in very different worlds may lead you to think this battle might be onesided. All things being equal, a television musical has no business picking a fight with a rock band. That’s like the Cast of The Sound of Music challenging Cradle of Filth to a duel. Or the Munchkins from the Wizard of Oz saying to Metallica, ‘you, me, car park, now’, albeit in a very high voice. Leaving aside the difference in genre, feuds between musical acts are a tradition stretching right back to Mozart and Salieri. In recent decades we’ve seen The Beatles verses The Stones, Duran Duran up against Spandau

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THE Go!! Show, the television show that created so many local stars and made Melbourne the pop music centre of Australia, is 45 years old and to celebrate, the original stars of the show are coming together for a special concert at the Palais Theatre on Friday 11 March.

The show will feature every living major artist from the 1960s and the guest list reads like a Who’s Who of Australian pop music: Normie Rowe, Ronnie Burns, Bobby Bright, Colin Cook, Buddy England, Ronnie Charles, Marcie Jones, Terry Dean and

Bev Harrell plus the original members of The Twilights, Glenn Shorrock on lead vocals and Terry Britten on guitar performing together for the first time in 40 years. Johnny Young and Ian Turpie, who compered The Go!! Show during its five years on air, will host the concert. Normie Rowe, a former King of Pop, had three singles in the Top 40 at the same time in October 1965 and Que Sera Sera was the biggest selling single in 1965. Normie’s 1966 hit Ooh La La featured Jimmy Page on guitar and John Paul Jones on bass. Both session musicians went on to form Led Zeppelin. Normie also starred in the stage production of Les Miserables. Normie has now settled on the Gold Coast and does a lot of club and cabaret work. www.normierowe.com. au The Go!! Show gold tickets are available 136 100 or www. ticketmaster.com.au * * * COUNTDOWN The Musical is a comedy musical send up of Countdown featuring 40 smash hits from the 1970s and 1980s at The Palms Crown, 10-19

A Grain Of Salt IT’S the second day of the heatwave, Monday, January 31st and very hot. The wireless advises to take care of the oldies in the heat. My darlings are into their 40’s and not a sound from them. Perhaps they’re hoping? I’m bracing myself for a Woolworths visit after days as a hermit. I drive past the carnival and they’re packing to depart. A big plus. I approach Woolies with trepidation. A car spot! Right up the front! I’m in shock. In I stagger and amazingly “real” specials are to be had after weeks of useless Coca Cola. Life is returning to normal. All is serene. What heat? And so, as we move lazily into February and contemplate the disappearance of those charming little kiddies, many of which were very fat (not that there’s anything wrong with it) and look at the streets devoid of broken bottles, empty cans, empty pizza packages and lots of parking spaces, tears come into both my eyes. I miss them already and gaze wistfully towards late December when they will all return to reap the benefits of the ice cream shops, the takeaways, the monstrous carnivals and literally wallow

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with Cliff Ellen in their late night screaming (mainly females-why do they scream?) as a result of the effects of lots of designer (?) drinks. I fervently hope they relax in the coming months up there in the big smoke and return full of energy for a repeat performance. And please, don’t forget to bring lots of fireworks with you. And jet skis; we adore them. Live and let live is my motto. I’ve often pondered the advantages of being born beautiful, male or female. A tall male with traditional good looks and a good head of hair is starting at the mile post in a two mile Melbourne Cup of life, or in the straight if he also has a good voice. Ditto females. Some live up to these advantages and some fall at an invisible hurdle. For some unknown reason, with not the slightest hint of insight, I’ve almost always been able to pick the shonkies early in the piece. Perhaps God gave me this advantage as a counter to my handicaps? Mind you, a very pleasant looking person asked me along for a beer in a downstairs bar in Athens years ago and that one beer cost me over $50, and a good lesson. It was Lord Byron who said “I can

recognize anyone by the teeth, with whom I have talked. I always watch the lips and the mouth: they tell what the tongue and eyes try to conceal.” Byron spent a lot of time in Greece, so he may have adopted this procedure as a necessity. I tried it; didn’t work. Others say “If they turn their head to the right and look away, they’re lying”. Hmnn. Either way I would not know. I leave the beautiful people to frolic with themselves. Another “Australian of the year” has been announced and I’ve missed out, again; likewise overlooked for “Senior Australian of the year”. My grief was seemingly implacable, as it had been in previous years. As Job said in the Old Testament “Woe unto me”. Suddenly I remembered myself as a boy, watching Dad and our next door neighbour cutting the heads off two chooks for Christmas dinner (that was lunchtime back then), and the headless chooks running in all directions. Of course! I’m the chook. Still running, ever headless, with plenty of mates. Let’s imagine that I went away overnight and on returning discover

that my house had burnt down due to some electrical fault or the pipes burst causing severe flooding. Assume that I was not insured and only received my fortnightly pension. People may well come to my rescue, the strength and endurance of the human spirit etc. But would the Federal Government come to my aid other than whatever is covered by Centrelink? So why the flood levy? I’ve already given money. My choice. I have no problem with State and Federal Governments meeting associated flood costs. That’s what they’re there for, despite the propoganda of maintaining a fantasy budget surplus. I do have a problem with feeling a need to help people who build on flood risk areas and yet do not insure for flood damage, in spite of crooked developers. Still, a levy on jet skis ($50) condoms ($5) Aussie flags on cars ($5) Australia Day Award recipients ($500) non smokers in smoking areas ($10) financial advisers ($1000) and Andrew Bolt & Terry McCrann ($5000 each) would help. A previous suggestion that bald people should have special dispensation

to wear hats in the dedicated smoking zone of RSL Clubs to offset nudity on very cold days was met with an icy shoulder. C’est la vie. It occurs to me that at any one time there would be some 6 to 10 ladies on the machines with wigs on their beautiful heads. Aha! All I need is to buy a wig (in the shape of a hat) by next June. Voila! Music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is. [Pepyrs] What are three words a woman never wants to hear when she’s making love? “Honey, I’m home!” cliffie9@bigpond.com

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Name change and new outlook for Tyabb

PRE-SEASON is in full swing and things are looking positive for the Tyabb Football Netball Club as they prepare for season 2011. Undergoing a name change, a new coaching leadership, a good summer of recruitment and retaining our all-important core players, the club is ready for the challenge that waits. It is exciting to embark on this season as a united club of both footballers and netballers. It seemed only logical to make the change to the name after the success of netball’s inception last year, as we enjoyed training nights, selection dinners, game day and social events together. The club is pleased to announce this year’s coaching leadership. Scott Pickersgill, two time club best and fairest winner and life member, takes the reigns as First XVIII coach and is excited that season 2011 “represents an opportunity to push

for a finals spot as well as continuing to develop and mentor our young side to keep striving to reach their full potential.” Barry Smeeton in his second year at the club steps up to the job of Assistant Coach. His enthusiasm and rapport with the boys cannot be understated. Ray Hallal was a popular choice as Second XVIII coach and his focus over the summer has been on fitness and conditioning. Brendan Caldwell as a senior member of the club takes the responsibility of working with the U/18s, the future of the club. The boys have had excellent numbers at training since November and have participated in a variety of training nights since then. From a netball perspective, the club continues to progress. The club is excited to announce the appointment of A grade coach, Letetia Herbert. As a player-coach Letetia, comes to the club with outstanding credentials including two premierships at Cora Lyn Netball Club as well as success as a player at Knox Netball Club. Robyn Heinrich returns to pick up where the B grade side left off in 2010 and continue coaching our B grade side, hopefully taking the next step this season with a fantastic group of committed girls. After enjoying success in 2010, we are excited to announce we will also be fielding a C grade side in the MPNFL competition. It is great to see that Netball is being embraced by the entire Tyabb community with extremely strong numbers showing up since the first week of pre-season training. The girls are hungry for success and have been working really hard to ensure

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we are ready for Round 1 on 9th April. The girls haven’t just been working hard on the field; they have also been working hard off the field, holding a number of fundraisers such as Bunning’s BBQs and participating in the Westernport Festival on the 19th and 20th of February to ensure the financial stability of the club moving forward. The girls have been outstanding in contributing to the success of their club on the field and off the field and should be very proud of their efforts. The club is kicking off the year with our season launch on Saturday 2nd April. The new playing jumper will be unveiled and the captains for football and netball announced. For tickets please contact Kat Bell. You can also find us online at www. tyabbfc.vcfl.com.au or join our Facebook group to keep up with the clubs latest news. The Footballers and Netballers are looking forward to giving this season a real shake. We encourage all sponsors, supporters, family members, friends and community members to get behind the 6 teams this year and join in the journey of season 2011 with the players. Go Yabbies! New netball coaches: (l to r) Letetia Herbert (A grade coach) and Robyn Heinrich (B grade coach). Footy coaches: (l to r) Barry Smeeton (Assistant First XVIII Coach) Brendan Caldwell (Under 18’s Coach) Scott Pickersgill (First XVIII Coach) Ray Hallal (Second XVIII Coach) Snagging some funds: (l to r) Tyabb netballers Kat Bell & Keira Beswick @ Bunnings Mornington.

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Devilbend Golf Club remembers their founders

ON Labour Day, Monday March 14th the golf club is running a GALA Day to remember three prominent members who have sadly passed away over the last 12 months. Gary Adkin was a member of the club for over 36 years, but succumbed to his illness after a long battle. Gary, up to 3 weeks before he died was still working his way around the course clearing the grass from the thousands of sprinklers so that the irrigation water could be most effective. Beryl Gorton, a foundation member died suddenly and left a legacy from her involvement in the early days of the club. Beryl gave years to the ladies committee and ran the catering and bar for the club.

In December we lost our life member Dave Robinson in a motor accident. Dave was Devilbend and was known throughout the peninsula for his Dr Bob Cat business. Dave spent years on committee and donated his time, experience and machinery to the club at every opportunity. Most holes on the course have in some way been touched by Dave Robinson The Devilbend Golf Club is running a Gala Day played over 18 playing holes and a few more fun holes that is open to all golfers, including those without official handicaps. As the club has said “These lost members were known far and wide and all their friends and companies who knew them should be able to join in and have a great social day of golf in the memory of such fine people”. The cost of golf for the day will be $25 dollars and players can either enter a team of 5 players or the club will make up teams. Individual holes can also be sponsored if you are unable to make it on the day. Non-handicap players will be given a handicap for the day. Play will be Stableford and in teams of 5 with the best 3 scores counting. To be involved in the day contact the club on 59788470 or visit the website www.devilbendgolf.com.au

Sporting a Smile Small boy comes to the aid of Fitzroy The following item appeared in the Melbourne press on June 30th, 1930: “The new Governor of Victoria, Baron Huntingfield, witnessing his first Australian Football contest, saw an incident unlikely ever to be repeated. Colin Benham, Fitzroy ruckman, marked the ball just as the final bell rang. He was in range of goal, but as his kick would have no effect on South Melbourne’s win, other players ran for the pavilion while boys jumped the fence in their usual excited way. Bentham’s kick was destined to be a behind, but struck one running boy and was deflected between the goalposts. As the ball had not hit another player, the field umpire had no alternative but to award the goal. South Melbourne, 13.19 (97) defeated Fitzroy, 13.10 (88).”

If you don’t mind umpire! In 1914 Essendon’s captain was Alan Belcher, a vigorous but fair ruckman. In an extraordinary scene in a match against South Melbourne on July 25, a spectator ran onto the ground un-noticed by the players. He ran up behind Belcher and hit him on the ear, knocking him to the ground. Belcher sprang to his feet, chased the spectator, and gave him one to go on with. And fair enough too, most fair-minded football followers would be inclined to suggest. Not so the umpire: he reported Belcher for unseemly conduct! Belcher’s only consolation was that Essendon beat South 15.14(104) to 4.8(32).

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WHAT’S ON Womens pre-loved Fashion Market Mornington Racecourse Loved it Market is a unique event with over 65 indoor stalls selling quality womens pre-loved fashion & accessories. Come along & pick up current fashion, a vintage piece, or a designer handbag. Sunday February 20th 2011 Mornington Racecourse Dining Room 9.30 – 1.30 pm $3 Entry & free parking. Enquiries 0417 138 125 or email loveditmarket@yahoo.com.au Racecourse Road access from Bungower Rd Closed

The NEPEAN CAMERA CLUB has been formed. It will meet on the on 1st and 3rd Tuesdays in the Rosebud Library Community Room at 7:30p.m. First meeting on March 1st. Come along and enjoy workshops, competitions and interesting speakers. Our aim is to further our photographic skill and knowledge by meeting others with like minded passion for photography. Enquires 5986 2365, or nepeancameraclub.3939@gmail. com NEW indoor COMMUNITY MARKET opening in Carrum Downs. Interest is sought from people that would like to book a casual or permanent stall. Please include brief description of the goods you want to sell, name and telephone number. Apply now before it books out! You will be contacted by phone with dates, availability etc. Please send details to PO Box 8251 , Carrum Downs 3201

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CHICKS TO BOILERS LUNCHEON. “New Beginnings” - Come and hear local woman speaker Sandra Clack tell her story. Sandra is a breast cancer survivor, living a very full and productive life. Tuesday 1st March - Noon 2.30pm. Brooklnads of Mornington 99 Tanti Road. $25.00 each covers a two course lunch and a glass of Wine. Bookings essential by 24th Feb. - Merrilyn 59744072.

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.

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 A Pleasant Sunday Arvo of Jazz Sunday 20th February 2011 (12.30pm to 3.30pm). Mornington RSL Virginia Street Mornington (Mel 145 G2). With “THE RED HOT JIGGLERS” A seven piece band playing west coast dixieland and New Orleans. Bookings/enquires on 03 5975 2106. Over 50’s American Clogging New beginner classes for adults wanting to get fit have fun and meet new people whilst learning Clogging, cross between Country Tap Dancing, Irish Dancing and American Folk Dancing, will commence February. No dance experience or partner needed. Contact: Mornington Cloggers Lee : 59776985 04129777898 Cancer Support Group meets every second Tuesday of the month. All welcome. Community Health. 185 High Street, Hastings, or ring 0419 020 543.

The Celestial Teapot Skeptics meet from 6.30pm on Thursday the 17th of February at the ECO House, The Briars. Guest speaker will be Dr. Stuart Batten whose area of expertise is Crystallography, which is the experimental science of the arrangement of atoms in solids. The real world, properly understood in the scientific way, is deeply beautiful and unfailingly interesting. For illustration, we need look no further than crystals themselves. Please RSVP to Graeme Hanigan on 0438 359 600. 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

Bluegrass/Country Music Club If you like to sing, play banjo, guitar, concertina, fiddle, mandolin, spoons, harmonica, or just tap ya feet, we want to see you at Mahogany Bluegrass. Jack Verity Hall - Frankston. Cost is $5. Coffee and Tea Provided. 9-786,1445 Your event here? Email team@ mpnews.com.au to have your community group’s event listed in the ‘What’s On Around The Peninsula’ section’. Mornington View will be holding their luncheon & meeting @ the Mornington Golf Club @ 12 noon on Friday,February 25th.Guest Speaker will be Bev Patterson- International Red Cross. Bookings for luncheon meeting phone Thea 97500400 by February 21st.

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