June 7th 2011

Page 1

Features inside

Western Port

FINANCE

DEALS

WINTER HOME & GARDEN

PAGES 48–49

ON NOW!

FOOD AND ENTERTAINING

PAGES 50–53 See ads inside i id for f more d details. t il

PAGES 57–63

LMCT5040 *T.A.P.

WINTER MOTORING

Local news for local people

For all your advertising and editorial needs, call us on 1300

HASTINGS 5971 9800 2035 FRANKSTON - FLINDERS ROAD

FREE

Your fortnightly community newspaper covering the entire Western Port region

Since 1979

wignallford.com.au

7 June – 20 June 2011

MPNEWS (1300 676 397) or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au

Fox trap sabotage claim Dog walkers blamed for early end to vermin campaign

Fox not on the run: Soft jaw traps hold feral animals like foxes without breaking legs or cutting into flesh until the trapper returns next day to euthanised them according to strict rules. Trapped dogs are taken to a pound or released, depending on the protocol and location of a trapping program. They limp off with a swollen foot at worst. Picture: Virgil Janko

By Mike Hast DOG walkers are being blamed for sabotaging fox traps in the coastal strip at Crib Point last month, setting back a government-funded feral animal control program. Almost a quarter of about 40 soft jaw traps set in bushland off main walking tracks have been set off with sticks or pulled out of the ground by humans. The sabotage has forced fox trappers to abandon setting more traps after weeks of tracking fox movements. Foxes have become shy of walking through the areas disturbed by humans and have changed their habits. “It’s hard enough catching foxes without this interference,� said professional trapper Virgil Janko. “We’re only in here for a few weeks each year; it’s important work and we’re asking dog walkers to give us a chance to do it. It’s inconvenient when we close off part of a reserve, but you can still walk along the main tracks through the reserve. We’re asking people to stick to the rules, keep their dogs on leads, stay on the main tracks and, obviously, don’t disturb the traps.� Mr Janko said he had detected size 9, 10 and 11 footprints near the disturbed traps as well as dog pawprints. “Most of the footprints are from blokes, but there have

been women in here, too.� He said the tampering had occurred from day two of a twoweek program. “It’s very disappointing. You’re trying to get a fox to stand on a square inch of ground to set off the trap. It’s taken 10 weeks of survey work to decide where to place the traps.� He said foxes became “super suspicious� once they smell the fresh scent of dogs and changed their route. Soft jaw traps do not injure an animal, but hold it until the trapper returns next day. Foxes are euthanised according to strict rules. Dogs are taken to a pound or released, depending on the protocol and location of a trapping program. “It’s not like the bad old days when traps broke and lacerated legs,� Mr Janko said. “I’ve caught many dogs over the years. When you let them out, they just limp off with a swollen foot at worst. Fox control along the Western Port shore is a long-term integrated feral animal control project funded by the federal government’s Caring for our Country program. Cecelia Witton of Crib Point– Stony Point foreshore committee said the sabotage had happened before but was worse this year. “We’re annoyed at the waste of time and money.� Continued Page 4

79,:,5; ;/0: =6<*/,9

Peninsula Solar

clothing MASSIVE POT & GARDEN DECOR SALE

UP TO 80% OFF Seconds, Damaged Goods, Discontinued Stock

2 DAYS ONLY SAT 18TH JUNE 9.30AM – 4.00PM

SUN 19THJUNE 9.30AM – 4.00PM 16 Mornington – Tyabb Rd Tyabb Phone 03 9397 6644 Open Thurs – Sun 9.30am - 4.00pm

www.topez.com.au

alterations Ladies & Menswear aOWered WR ÂżW Repairs - Mending Zips Replaced

SHOP 10, 37-41 VICTORIA STREET, HASTINGS (at rear Westernport Plaza)

PHONE: 5979 8599

Friendly, local expertise Competitive prices Free in- home consultations Guaranteed installation dates

Govt solar incentives reducing July 1st 2011

Ph 1300 013 648 www.homegreen.com.au

4(05 4,(3

)\` VUL THPU TLHS HUK YLJLP]L H ZLJVUK TLHS MVY

SELLING, BUYING, RENTING? TALK TO US 5979 4412

-YVT [OL ZLSLJ[LK TLU\ =HSPK 4VU [V -YP

>,:;,95769; /6;,3 /PNO :[YLL[ /(:;05.: 7OVUL MVY IVVRPUNZ

5V[ ]HSPK W\ISPJ OVSPKH`Z *VUKP[PVUZ HWWS` =HSPK \U[PS [O 1\UL

CNR HIGH & SALMON STREET, HASTINGS. PHONE 5979 1201

87 High St, Hastings

5979 4412

www.baywestrealestate.com.au

NEWS DESK

Western Port

Proudly published by Mornington Peninsula News Group Pty. Ltd

PHONE: 1300 MPNEWS (1300 676 397) Published fortnightly. Circulation: 15,000

Editor: Keith Platt, 0439 394 707 Journalist: Mike Hast, 5979 8564 Advertising Sales: Val Bravo, 0407 396 824 Production and graphic design: Stephanie Loverso Publisher: Cameron McCullough, 0407 027 707 REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS: Barry Irving, Cliff Ellen, Frances Cameron, Peter McCullough, Stuart McCullough, Gary Turner, Peter Ellis, Casey Franklin, Fran Henke. ADDRESS: Mornington Peninsula News Group PO Box 588, Hastings 3915 Email: team@mpnews.com.au Web: www.mpnews.com.au DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE: 1PM ON TUESDAY 14 JUNE NEXT ISSUE PUBLICATION DATE: TUESDAY 21 JUNE

Local news for local people We stand as the only locally owned and operated community newspaper on the Peninsula. We are dedicated to the belief that a strong community newspaper is essential to a strong community. We exist to serve residents, community groups and businesses and ask for their support in return.

To advertise in the next Western Port News please contact Val Bravo on 0407 396 824 Western Port

New committee: Cr Frank Martin, centre, with Shoreham Community Association officers, from left, treasurer Barbara Kelly, president Peter Renkin, vice-president Rob Patrick and secretary Gina Mcinnis.

Flats, shops plan for Shoreham THE latest plans for Shoreham’s general store and post office may include a small shopping centre and holiday units. The shops, including a post office and a cafe, will be proposed for the post office site with holiday units being planned for the general store site. Details of the plans were outlined at a public meeting on Saturday 4 June by Trevor Sammells, a spokesman for the Shoreham Task Force. If approved, the shopping centre would be similar in size to one nearing completion in Frankston-Flinders Rd, Bittern. The meeting at Shoreham CFA was attended by more than 60 Shoreham community members who voted to adopt the objectives and rules of the Shoreham Community Association, to be incorporated later this month. Mr Sammells said a proposal to subdivide each of the two controver-

sial sites into four lots was rejected by Mornington Peninsula Shire last month. He said the developer was scheduled to discuss the latest proposals with the task force and shire representatives. In April, the shire’s heritage planner Simon Lloyd said Shoreham had historical significance because it was a “relatively intact example of a small rural town centre�. “Compared to other townships in the shire, Shoreham’s origins have not been obscured by subsequent development as a tourist destination, or by suburbanisation,� Mr Lloyd stated in a report to council’s 11 April meeting. “Its intactness therefore makes it significant to the shire as a whole. The village centre has maintained its role as the centre of civic life throughout an extended period, evidenced by the adaptive use of the former school as the community hall, the creation of the

Avenue of Honour, and the continued (although evolving) uses of former post offices and stores.� The association’s interim vice-president Rob Patrick said a planting day, including koala-friendly species, would be held at the Shoreham triangle on National Tree Planting Day in August. Red Hill Ward councillor Frank Martin told the meeting the shire would reimburse the association for costs of incorporation and mailouts. Cr Martin said the bus shelter destroyed in a storm in 2009 would be replaced within six weeks and sought community input as to its location. The interim committee elected at the meeting is headed by president Peter Renkin. For information about the association, call Mr Renkin on 5989 8818 or write to Shoreham Community Association, PO Box 73, Shoreham 3916.

GAP FREE Children’s Dental Examinations from the following Health Funds! Does your child belong to any of the following health funds? OTHER HEALTH FUNDS MAY BE ELIGIBLE

If so here at Hastings Family Dental we can provide your child with a comprehensive dental examination for these health funds. Call to discuss an appointment today to see if you’re eligible!

Hastings Family Dental Care

NEW PATIENTS WELCOME

6DOPRQ 6WUHHW +DVWLQJV ‡ 5979 1717

'HQWDO 6XUJHRQV 'U 7RP )HHKHO\ %'6 ‡ 'U $ODQ <HRQJ %'6 ‡ 'U $QGUHZ $EH\VLQJKH %'6 'U 3DXO $PDLOXN %'6 )5$&'6 ‡ 'U -DPHV )HUQDQGR %'6 ‡ 0U 0LFKDHO 3RSS %2+ 'HQWDO 7KHUDSLVW +\JHQLVW PAGE 2

Western Port News 7 June 2011

TEEN DENTAL VOUCHERS ALSO BULK BILLED

Bare bones 2011-12 budget By Mike Hast and Keith Platt MAYOR Graham Pittock described the draft budget released last Wednesday as a “livability budget” even though rates have increased to 6.8 per cent from last financial year’s 6.2 per cent. He said it focused on preserving and enhancing the “look, feel and function” of the peninsula’s towns and villages and protects the amenity of green wedge areas and coastline. “[It] increases opportunities for active and passive recreation, consistent with the peninsula’s relaxed, semi-rural lifestyle, and provides services that respond to the needs of families, the young and the old.” He said the council’s financial position was strong and getting stronger. “This budget will deliver our 11th straight surplus and reduce debt by $3.75 million.” Key commitments include:  Continued response to drainage and flood management ($3 million for a total amount of $30 million over 10 years).  Tripling of funding for new footpaths and shared paths from last year’s $500,000 to $1.5 million).  An increase of $67,000 to the fire prevention budget to $2.2 million. There will be more money for cleaning town centres as well as footpaths, streets and beaches, and money for improving streetscapes with planting of trees, shrubs and grasses. This will include about $400,000 for maintenance of shire (commu-

nity) buildings; $200,000 for crushed rock on unmade roads affected by the wet weather of the last 12 months; $100,000 for footpath cleaning, mainly in shopping centres; $50,000 for beach cleaning; and $50,000 for inspection of trees under electrical lines.

velopment design overlays and mandatory height controls”. “The decision by the state government to put a new planning scheme in place is welcomed by the council and the peninsula community, and the council looks forward to engaging with the state government and

[Mayor Graham Pittock said the budget] focused on preserving and enhancing the “look, feel and function” of the peninsula’s towns and villages and protects the amenity of green wedge areas and coastline. There would be extra money to respond to more frequent and damaging storm events. Cr Pittock said the shire would build nearly 13 kilometres of footpaths and shared paths in the next 12 months. However, this is less than 10 per cent of the 200 kilometres of unmade footpaths in the shire, which could cost more than $35 million to construct. Although the draft budget had tripled footpath spending, 13 kilometres on new paths would fall short of the 80km built between 2004 and 2006. Cr Pittock said the shire’s efforts to protect and enhance the peninsula’s relaxed lifestyle and highly valued coastal and rural amenity remained as strong as ever, “with numerous local planning controls, including de-

our community in its preparation,” he said. CEO Michael Kennedy said shire rate levels were low compared to other municipalities “and will continue to be so into the future”. He said the shire was committed to ensuring rate increases were within the limits of affordability. “We strive to make best use of every dollar through ongoing review processes that focus on efficiency, effectiveness and innovation across everything we do,” Dr Kennedy said. “Even though this is already a very tight budget, the council is committed to delivering $400,000 in savings through efficiency gains and innovation over the next 12 months.” The municipal charge goes up by $10. The council will introduce a differential rate for vacant residential,

commercial and industrial land. The additional 20 per cent on the general rate will generate $826,000 more. “Vacant land should make a more equitable contribution to council facilities and services; a range of council services are clearly relevant to all property, improved or unimproved,” he said. The draft budget is on public exhibition until 28 June. Councillors will vote on the final product on 25 July. The council is legally obliged to consider any written submissions and submitters can speak at a special hearing on 12 July in the council chamber, Besgrove St, Rosebud. Dr Kennedy will lead a council team on a “roadshow” around the peninsula in coming weeks. The shire has offered to explain the budget and answer questions from residents’ action groups, chambers of commerce, service clubs such as Lions and Rotary, Probus clubs and others. Last year Dr Kennedy spoke to about a dozen groups. The budget is at all council offices as well as Mornington, Hastings, Rosebud and Somerville libraries.  Frankston Council is proposing a 6.6 per cent rate increase for its 201112 budget, which translates to an average $79 increase in residential rates. Owners of agricultural land in the green wedge will get a 20 per cent discount.

Briefly Cool top drop THE 2009 chardonnay from Elgee Park vineyard, Merricks North, has been judged the top wine at this year’s Red Hill Show International Cool Climate Wine Show. Red Hill Estate was the People’s Choice winner with its 2007 chardonnay. New Zealand’s Spy Valley 2010 pinot noir was named best red wine and Elgee Park’s chardonnay also took out the best white award. Chairman of judges Mike DeGaris said the light at the Mornington Racing Club made it the best wine judging venue in Australasia. About 20 per cent of the 678 wines entered in the show came from the peninsula.

Lend me your ears BELL Shakespeare Company comes to Frankston Arts Centre on Friday 24 June to hold a workshop and audition young theatre performers. The event is a lead-in to Bell performing Julius Caesar at the arts centre on Tuesday 26 July. Bell’s arts educator James Evans will be at Cube 37 with complimentary workshops for local schools attending the July performance. Robin Batt of the arts centre said the workshop would cover plot, design and characters. “Auditions will be held for a once-in-alifetime opportunity to spend a week with Bell Shakespeare in Sydney,” she said. Auditions run from 4-5pm and students will have to learn a 1-2 minute monologue provided by Bell Shakespeare. Students must be part of a school group and aged 16 or over to audition. For information, phone Amber Foot on 9784 1896 or email amber.foot@frankston. vic.gov.au

Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 3

NEWS DESK

Few animals as cunning as a fox FOXES are opportunistic feeders and eat a wide variety of food including small native mammals, birds and reptiles. They also feed on blackberries and disperse seed in their droppings. Residential areas are an important food source, with foxes foraging around rubbish and compost bins, leftover pet food, and dropped fruit from gardens as well as picnic sites. Foxes generally rest during the day and hunt and forage at night. They live under houses, in sheds, under hollow logs, rock piles in drains and in blackberry patches. They often live in backyards or sheds without a

landowner knowing. They use backyards as regular routes to other food sources. Fox densities range from 6-8 per square kilometre in urban fringe areas to 14 in urban areas. Research says for every fox seen, there may be another 4-10 undetected. How you can help:  Support the efforts of people trying to protect native wildlife and obey signs.  When fox control programs are in progress, keep dogs on a lead at all times when walking in bushland to avoid them being caught in traps.  Keep domestic pets secure at night.  Don’t leave food in the open.

Fox trapping program abandoned Continued from Page 1

EVERYONE’S taxes are paying for this. The sabotage not only impacts on our foreshore area, but also the program on adjoining reserves. Much time and effort goes into tracking fox movements before traps are laid,” she said. Trapping is being done between Warringine Park in Hastings and Pt

Leo, and is a joint venture involving Western Port Biosphere Reserve; Port Phillip and Western Port Catchment Management Authority; Crib Point– Stony Point, Balnarring and Pt Leo foreshore committees of management; Parks Victoria; Mornington Peninsula Shire; and private landholders with properties adjoining coastal reserves.

Foxes prey on a wide variety of native animals and birds, she said, including agile antechinus; southern brown bandicoot; tawny frogmouth; roosting shorebirds such as swans, spoonbills and plovers; and domestic animals such as poultry, guinea pigs, sheep and goats. “Foxes pose a major threat to many

L L A N G I W F JEF

D R O FHASTINGS

IS NOW...

LMCT5040 *T.A.P.

VERY O C E R FOR S GEAR AKE M L L A ANDDELS MO

PAGE 4

Since 1979

HASTINGS 5971 9800

2035 FRANKSTON - FLINDERS RD wignallford.com.au Western Port News 7 June 2011

kinds of native wildlife including threatened species,” Ms Witton said. “Studies of fox diet show that substantial predation on native animals occurs in all environments, and many of our vulnerable native species have low population densities, meaning that even small losses due to foxes are significant.”

Foxes are a declared established pest animal in Victoria under the Catchment and Land Protection Act. Predation of small animals by foxes is listed as a “threatening process” under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act. It is an offence to interfere with traps or release captured foxes.

Auditor slams weakness in freeway planning

Arrest after Telstra raid THIEVES smashed the plate glass front door of the Telstra Shop in High St, Hastings, early on the morning of Wednesday 1 June and fled with goods worth more than $3500. They used two large rocks that they brought with them and a metal mallet to smash the door, setting off a door alarm at 2.15am. Shop owner Brad Bayne was called by a security company and while he was on the phone, an inside alarm was triggered. He called 000 and a High St neighbour phoned Hastings police direct. CCTV cameras in High St captured images of the thieves and their vehicle. “The triple zero operator told me to investigate the scene first with caution, and then call back,� he said. Detective Leading Senior Constable Nick Sweetman said this was standard procedure as police would not attend a break-in at a commercial premise unless someone with a key was in attendance. Mr Bayne said the raiders spent less than five minutes in the shop and took three mobile phones worth $2000, a $1500 laptop and some coins. He was most annoyed that it took 45 minutes for police to arrive. “I drove to the shop and there was no sign of the police. I confirmed the window had been broken and went straight around to the police station. The officer on the desk said they already knew about the breakin and a patrol car was on the way from Frankston.� When he returned to his shop, the police had arrived. “It would be good if there was funding for an extra patrol car for Hastings,� he said. Detectives from Knox inspected the shop the following morning, dusting for fingerprints and collecting blood that had been left on a desk. They also took the mallet that had been left behind. A 21-year-old man of Boronia has been arrested and further investigations are continuing.

Break-in: A glazier repairs the door smashed by thieves when they broke into the Telstra Shop in Hastings in the early hours of Wednesday last week.

T O H D E R NOW FINANCE DEALS..

King of

Cars

FINANCE

AVAIL.

FINANCE

AVAIL.

:7 /; $ ),(67$ 6 1

FROM

19,888

DRIVE AWAY*

21/<

<&&

FINANCE

AVAIL.

AVAIL.

DRIVE * A AWAY

A NCAP

6 1

Rated★★★★★

most

AILL. AVA

30,990

$%1 +2/'(56 21/<

DRIVE AWAY*

6 1

TERRITORY LIMITED EDITION! $

FROM

41,888

)* ;5 FROM 6('$16 $

DRIVE AWAY*

$

DRIVEAWAY

5$1*(5 ;/7 FROM &5(: &$% $

37,888

NOW

ON

DRIVEAWAY

FINANCE

2008 TO T TOYOTA YARIS YR

2006 MITSUBISHI MIT OUTLANDER LS

2008 FOR FO FORD MONDEO ZETEC

2009 XR8 FALCON UTE

SMALL AUTO IN EXCELLENT COND, AIR COND, ABS, POWER STEERING. WHX364

AUTO, AIR AUTO AI CCOND, AIRBAG, CD, CRUISE, ROOF RACKS. UDP579

AUTO, AIRBAG, ALARM, CD, CRUISE, ABS, POWER STEERING. WOZ103

ARB CANOPY, 19’’ ALLOYS, LOW KMS. XCO192

wignallford.com.au

DRIVE * A AWAY

$

DRIVEAWAY

FINANCE

Since 1979

DRIVE AWAY*

$%1 +2/'(56 21/<

AVAIL.

FINANCE

AVAIL.

AVAIL.

N C A P

Rated★★★★★

FINANCE

FINANCE

AVAIL.

LMCT5040 *T.A.P.

$

DRIVEAWAY

A

32,990

HOT FINANCE DEALS USED 14C,A99909R0 S RED 19, 9990 90 22, 9990 90 39, 99 9990 90 $

ON CE NCE AN FINA

TS

FROM

21,990

12 month RACV warranty available on

Some pics for illustration purposes only

FG XR6 $

FINANCE

)2&86 /; 0.,, $

nd out more! Call us today to ďŹ vehic les.

UTES

A NCAP

Rated★★★★★

VICTORIA’S Auditor-General Des Pearson says the promised economic benefits of the Peninsula Link Fwy may have been overstated and its potential negative impacts ignored. His report, Management of Major Roads Projects, is a scathing critique of the freeway, one of the state’s most expensive road projects. Mr Pearson slams VicRoads and Linking Melbourne Authority, which is managing the construction of the $760 million, 27-kilometre road from Carrum Downs to Mt Martha. He said the two authorities failed to take into account the concept that bigger and better roads encourage more traffic, so-called “induced demand�, when deciding whether to build new freeways. “They did not adequately assess the traffic induced by these improvements, communicate the risks, or estimate the impact of the economic benefits,� he said. “These shortcomings create a risk of over-estimating the benefits and giving decision-makers false confidence.� The report calls for induced demand to be factored into all future road decisions, as occurs in the UK and New Zealand. The report says LMA also had weaknesses in the way it had made procurement decisions. The freeway was conceived during the global financial crisis by the Brumby Labor government. In December 2009, LMA with the government’s support awarded the project to Southern Way, a consortium of Royal Bank of Scotland, Bilfinger Berger and Abigroup. LMA chairman David Buckingham, in a response written on his behalf by LMA CEO Ken Mathers, which is included in the Pearson report, said he was confident the project “represents value for money for the state�.

AVAIL.

HASTINGS 5971 9800 2035 FRANKSTON - FLINDERS ROAD

✓

Buy with conďŹ den Selected vehicle ce... Please ask to s RACV inspected view the report

*PIC FOR R ILLUSTRATION PURPOSES S ONLY ONLY. ONLY.

Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 5

NEWS DESK

Carers plan to build protection for disabled By Terri Rew A MORNINGTON Peninsula carers’ group wants to stop unscrupulous landlords preying on people with intellectual disabilities. Community Lifestyle Accommodation is appealing for donations of land or money to build accommodation for adults with disabilities. CLA chairman Paul Lyons said housing was desperately needed for carers and families who were missing out on support and services. Dedicated carers with varying skills, knowledge and expertise in CLA say they are committed to tackling the critical lack of suitable accommodation, combined with the changing needs of adults with intellectual and physical disabilities. The not-for-profit CLA wants

individuals, businesses, private organisations and government organisations to donate land and cash for a new building on the peninsula. In a two-part submission in response to the February 2011 Disability Care and Support Productivity Commission’s draft report, CLA said many people with intellectual disabilities were living in poverty in boarding houses where they were vulnerable to exploitation by landlords and abuse by other residents. The CLA submission stated: “They have no one to monitor their medications or medical appointments and are surrounded by co-residents – typically people with serious mental health issues and drug and alcohol abuse. “CLA is concerned for elderly

carers with adult children suffering with physical or intellectual disabilities … If the parent is incapacitated in any way and can no longer care for their child, the concern is many are vulnerable to financial, physical and sexual abuse and do not have the skills to manage abusive situations. In fact it is highly likely that they would not recognise the dangers or realise that what is happening is indeed, abuse.” “This is an extremely urgent issue to address,” said CLA secretary Marie Hell, who is a carer of her adult son. Mr Lyons and board member Jenny Hopmans told The News they were concerned at the lack of support for carers as well as inadequate aid for people with disabilities aged over 18.

Many caring families were missing out on support and services that were desperately needed for them to enjoy “a simple life, as others do in our community”. According to the Productivity Commission’s draft report “the disability support system is inequitable, underfunded, fragmented, and inefficient and gives people with disabilities little choice”. Mr Lyons said CLA believed people with an intellectual or physical disability deserve entitlements, not charity handouts. The CLA agreed with the commission’s recommendations that the Australian, state and territory governments form a task force to implement the National Disability Insurance Scheme and the reporting

structure to the Council of Australia Governments and Heads of Treasuries meetings. “People have to act now. There are ageing parents caring for their intellectual or physical impaired adult child with hardly any support. Who will care for their children when they are dead?” Mr Lyons asked. He said CLA was committed to providing a flexible, individual service model that would enable adults with an intellectual disability to live independently of their carers. Anyone wanting to help Community Lifestyle Accommodation can call Marie Hell on 5983 8785 or visit www. ommunitylifestyleaccommodation. org.au.

Lines rule at car park THE latest works at the Flinders entrance to the Mornington Peninsula National Park have left visitors scratching their heads. A small, circular car park at the end of King St has now been painted to show 13 parking spaces, with arrows directing traffic in a clockwise direction. The marking of the car park follows the installation of treated pine posts to prevent vehicles being parked off the bitumen, spraying of weeds and planting native trees and shrubs. A grassed “island” that was also used for parking on busy days has been cut in half. “Madness” is how one surfer described the latest effort to manage the car park as he had to reverse his truck before being able to drive out of a parking bay. The previously self-managed car park could accommodate more than 20 vehicles. Cars are now forced to park on nature strips once the allotted 13 spots are taken.

Taking direction: Early morning surfers obediently join the line up for the new parking rules at Flinders.

Roses for Somerville’s problematic roundabout SOMERVILLE’S confusing roundabouts in the centre of town are set for a makeover. But don’t get too excited; Mornington Peninsula Shire is not redesigning the intersection, just replacing the plants growing within the two roundabouts. The four-road intersection where Frankston-Flinders Rd, Eramosa Rd East, Grant Rd and Eramosa Rd West

meet near the railway line is a challenge at the best of times for locals and travellers alike. Plants growing higher have made it even more challenging and they will be ripped out and replaced with red and white carpet roses as well as daffodils. Somerville area councillor Lynn Bowden confirmed the town rumour: “We hope to have the work completed

by the end of July.” Cr Bowden is also pushing to restore Somerville’s famous Avenue of Honour, one of her promises when she ran for election in 2008. Somerville historian Leila Shaw said Eramosa Rd and Station St were planted with plane trees by the Somerville State School Committee on Arbour Day in 1917 to commemorate the soldiers of the First World War.

The trees were cut down replaced with footpaths some years ago. “There was a plaque at the base of each tree for each serviceman. The trees were looked after and pruned in winter by local volunteers,” she said. Mrs Shaw said when the trees were fully grown and new shops built, “the shire council chopped down the trees in Eramosa Rd and lost all the plaques”.

“There are still some trees without plaques in Station St.” Cr Bowden said Station St was a possible location for the avenue and she had asked the Somerville, Tyabb and District Heritage Society to collect the names and service numbers of servicemen. The society can be contacted on 5977 6489 or email somtyheritage@ hotmail.com

To advertise in the next Western Port News please contact Val Bravo on 0407 396 824

PAGE 6

Western Port News 7 June 2011

Advertisement

Busy life of buses and a quiet life at the Cove RICK was born in January 1936 at Bryson Hospital, Canterbury. His younger brother arrived four and a half years later. His parents lived in Wattle Valley Rd, Camberwell, where he and his family resided for the next 28 years. He was educated at Canterbury State School and played cricket there. He then went to Scotch College where he was in a class with Geoff Cork and Justice John Winneke. In 1951 he became an apprentice motor mechanic. He was employed by Ferndale Motors, Glen Iris, for three years before moving to Colliers Bulk Liquid Transport where all the work was on heavy interstate semitrailer trucks. In 1959 he had enough of dirty hands and applied for a position with Driver Bus Lines, owners of the Ferndale Motors garage where he first started work. He knew the Driver brothers well, got the job and drove route buses for two years. Then the company’s mechanic resigned and Rick was asked to replace him. He went back to dirty hands in 1961. Chadstone Shopping Centre opened and the bus route was extended to double the distance. Not only did Rick service the buses, but also it was his job to grab a ladder and fit bus stop signs to lamp posts

for another three miles. Also, it was his job to ensure the route extension was working to the timetable. One day he was inspecting the bus stop at Chadstone, which was a shared stop with Ventura Bus Lines, when a Ventura bus pulled up. The driver was baldheaded, seemed to be on the short side and did not smile.

Forty-seven years later, Rick moved to Hastings Cove and while he was watching carpet bowls, spotted the same man sitting on a blue couch at the far end of the hall. Rick found out his name was Graham Daniels and introducd himself. They exchanged a few old bus stories and Rick learned that Graham did, in-

deed, have a smile and also an infectious laugh. Rick was appointed manager at Driver and over the next six years the bus fleet grew from six to nine vehicles and two more mechanics were appointed. In the early 1960s he purchased a new FB Holden sedan and on Australia Day weekend

H A S T I N G S C O V E & WESTERNPORT GARDENS

for enjoyable retirement

www.mrlc.com.au

went to Cowes to show it off to his friends. On the Saturday night he went to a dance at the Anglican church hall and there met a lovely yound lady named Beverley Bell who was on holidays from Northcote. Four weeks later they became engaged and 12 months later they were married. Bev attended Fitzroy Girls High School and then went to work at the ANZ Bank until 1967 when she left to have their first child, Andrew, and two years later, Ian. After Ian began school, Bev worked in home help for 10 years, which gave her plenty of time to spend with the boys. In 1967 Rick was appointed general manager of McKenzie’s Tourist Services in Kew, a position he was to hold for the next 18 years. The company operated coach services from Melbourne to Healesville, Marysville, Alexandra and Eildon Weir as well as long-distance interstate coach tours under charter. They arranged coaches for the Royal Victorian Bowls Association and Victorian Ladies Bowls Association annual goodwill tours for many years. During the 1980s, the state government took control of the bus route operations and it became difficult to operate these

services. In 1985 Rick decided to get out of buses and applied for a position with VACC Insurance. He was appointed caretaker of a travelling display unit, a 40foot semitrailer van, At this time, Bev got a full-time position with the Victorian branch of the Confederation of Australian Motor Sports, which involved processing racing drivers’ licences and log books. This also included the processing of Mark Skaife and Glenn Seton’s first licences. She was also involved with Peter and Bev Brock. Our Bev is still involved in motorsport and manages the entrance gates at the annual three-day historic car races at Phillip Island. After two years it was decided to discontinue the display unit and Rick moved to the insurance claims department where he remained for the next eight years. He processed a large variety of claims over the years. Bev and Rick retired from their jobs on Rick’s 60th birthday in 1996. They moved to Cowes where they had spend all their Christmas holidays since 1967. In March 2008 they moved into their new home at Hastings Cove.

RETIREMENT LIVING you really can afford! 2 & 3 BR units from $239,500-$269,500 %5 XQLWV IURP &ORVH WR WKH VKRSV DQG WKH 0DULQD +DVWLQJV &RYH DQG :HVWHUQSRUW *DUGHQV RIIHU DQ LG\OOLF OLIHVW\OH LQ D QHZ RU HVWDEOLVKHG EULFN KRPH ZLWK \RXU FKRLFH RI OD\RXW DQG ÀWWLQJV &RPH DQG H[SHULHQFH IRU \RXUVHOI WKH JUHDW FRPPXQLW\ DWPRVSKHUH ZLWK ORDGV RI IDFLOLWLHV IURP LQGRRU ERZOV WR FRPSXWHUV ZLWK IDVW LQWHUQHW FRQQHFWLRQ $QG RI FRXUVH \RXU SHWV DUH ZHOFRPH 9LVLW RXU ZHEVLWH ZZZ PUOF FRP DX RU FDOO QRZ IRU IXOO GHWDLOV

(QTXLULHV +DVWLQJV &RYH In association with 0,&+$(/ '(92/$ $662&,$7(6 Licensed estate agents and auctioneers 630 Hampton St, Brighton 3186 Ph: 9592 2222

)UDQNVWRQ )OLQGHUV 5G +DVWLQJV HQWHU HQG RI 0LFKHOOH 'ULYH

:HVWHUQSRUW *DUGHQV )UDQNVWRQ )OLQGHUV 5G %LWWHUQ HQWHU IURP 0\HUV 5RDG

Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 7

NEWS DESK

Nothing half-baked about spud stall

Trapped finger brings that sinking feeling BITTERN Fire Brigade along with Dromana Fire Brigade’s rescue squad were called out on Thursday 19 May to assist a two-year-old boy with his finger trapped in the kitchen sink drain plug. When fire crews arrived at the Bittern home, the parents of the child had managed to remove the entire metal plug hole from the sink, however the child’s finger was still

firmly trapped in the metal. Officer in charge Andrew Brown said: “It took half an hour to free the boy’s finger from the plug hole. “Rescue crews carefully and slowly used specialised equipment to free the boy’s finger.” Luckily, the boy was not harmed. CFAs are not just there to fight fires. Local fire brigades

respond to many emergencies 24 hours a day, 365 days a year including, car accidents, entrapments, hazardous materials incidents, children locked in cars, gas leaks and many more emergencies. Anyone interested in volunteering with a local fire brigade, can contact brigade support officer Jane Orr on 0419 872 117 or online www. cfa.vic.gov.au.

SENIOR students from Hastings VCAL at Peninsula Training and Employment Programs (PTEP) held their first baked potato stall at the Thursday market on 2 June. The students are undertaking Certificate II in Hospitality and Certificate II in Business Management as part of their studies. The potato cart was donated by Mornington Peninsula Youth Enterprises, which is

based in Mornington. All funds that the students raise go back into their VCAL program and will assist in the purchase of equipment and help pay for excursions and camps during the year. “The stall also helps the VCAL students promote themselves in a positive light within the community,” said Hastings PTEP site manager Tammie Johnstone. “Great feedback was given

Dive in to Mega Swim It only takes 24 hours to Go for Gold Join us for the Peninsula 24 Hour Mega Swim - a fun and rewarding community event for people of all ages and abilities. Teams of swimmers will take to the pool on June 18, swimming in relays over 24 hours, while raising vital funds for MS Australia’s. Go for Gold scholarships – a program that improves the lives of people living with multiple sclerosis. Register your team now at www. megaswim.com. Encourage your friends and family to get involved and show their support. Join us at Pelican Park Recreation Centre on June 18-19. With your support we can reach our fundraising goal of $15,000 and make a difference in the lives of Victorians living with MS.

Where: Pelican Park Recreation Centre Hastings Foreshore, Marine Pde Hastings

In association with:

When: Start: 12 noon, Saturday 18 June 2011 Finish: 12 noon, Sunday 19 June 2011

Register NOW at www.megaswim.com For more information 1300 705 341 PAGE 8

Western Port News 7 June 2011

to them by other stallholders and customers regarding their friendly approach and professionalism. “The feedback gives the students self-esteem and confidence in themselves and develops a sense of belonging within the community. “So next time you are shopping in Hastings at the street market, follow your nose to the delicious baked potato stall.”

thursday

nights

IN THE SPORTSBAR EVERY THURSDAY FROM 8PM $3 BASIC SPIRITS FROM 9PM

friday

nights

$3 POTS FROM 6-8PM $3 BASIC SPIRITS FROM 9-10PM

great food... good times... unbeatable value! g

CNR HIGH & SALMON STREET, HASTINGS. PHONE 5979 1201 Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 9

NEWS DESK

Boat trip to ‘discover’ the bay By Keith Platt MUCH has been written, said and theorised about them, but to some of those involved in deciding their future the waters of Western Port have remained something seen but not experienced. Last month the executive officer of the Western Port Catchment Committee, Ian Stevenson, decided it was time to provide “scientists, agencies and community people with a first-hand look” at the bay’s northern sector. “Going on a boat gave them an opportunity to exchange information and see this part of Western Port,” Mr Stevenson said. “More than half of them had never before been on that part of the bay.”

The group of 35 sailed from Tooradin on the Tidemaster on Thursday 12 May for a half-day trip taking in the shallow marine protected areas around French Island and the deep channels that sweep past Crawfish Rock, Barrallier Island and the areas earmarked for the expansion of the Port of Hastings. Many of those on board spent time watching for birdlife on tide-exposed mudflats while Thiery Rowland of Parks Victoria attempted to show images being transmitted from underwater by a camera attached to a pole. The water was a bit murky for clear images, but Mr Rowland explained that the camera was useful for investigating seagrass beds and the condition of boat moorings and jetty pylons.

He said it had been a “great season” for mangroves, with seedlings taking hold and growing on the mudflats. Since the 2008 ban on professional netting, there had been a noticeable increase in the number of birds in northern Western Port, possibly due to them being disturbed by fewer visitors, Mr Rowland said. There was “far too little data” to say if the declaration of a marine national park had led to an increase in fish numbers although “you would think that it would, as there is nothing being disturbed or taken out of the water”. However, Mr Rowland was “pretty sure” the protected area was fished “after hours”. “Every so often we surprise them

[fishermen],” he said. He said pollution entering Western Port from Watsons Creek near Somerville was being tackled by “working with landowners and market gardeners”. Seagrass specialist Hugh Kirkman described how the bay’s two distinct species of seagrass grew in areas regarded as being fish nurseries. Although the carbohydrate-rich seagrass rhizomes were eaten by swans, “not much else eats it because it doesn’t provide much nutrition”. Small crustaceans, worms and molluscs fed on organisms that lived on seagrass leaves. Mr Kirkman said he had studied seagrass in Western Port as part of the

mid-1970s Shapiro report “when we were losing it”. “It’s very unfortunate seagrass has not been monitored since, even though it is very easy to do.” Mr Kirkman said history provided evidence of Western Port silting up with records of sailing ships being able to anchor near a hotel in Tooradin on Sawtells Inlet. Doris Graham of the Victorian Wader Study Group said there had been a decline in the number of wading birds worldwide “which could be due to land lost to agriculture and industry” along the paths followed by migratory birds. Some annual visitors to Western Port flew up to 13,000 kilometres to and from China and southeast Siberia.

RACV HasƟngs Now Open!

Everything you need to meet your insurance, motoring and touring needs is now available from the RACV Shop located within Travelscene Westernport at 11 High Street, HasƟngs.

Motor insurance ■ Home Insurance ■ InternaƟonal Driving Permits ■ Theme Park and AƩracƟon Tickets ■ Maps and Travel Accessories

■

As your closest RACV Shop we will be here to assist you by providing highly personalised service. Please come in and see us, or if you would prefer contact us on 5979 1589.

PAGE 10

Western Port News 7 June 2011

All aboard: Clockwise from top opposite page, some of the 35 people who took part in Western Port Catchment Authority’s boat trip; Doris Graham; Hugh Kirkman; Thiery Rowland with an underwater camera; disembarking at Tooradin; birds feeding on mudflats; Crawfish Rock; and mangroves on Herring Island.

Fresh, healthy and ϐ Ǧ Ǯ ǯ

/HOOH\V Monday to Wednesday Soup, coffee & cake *Conditions apply

TUESDAY SPECIAL (Near Blockbuster)

Phone: 5979 1255

*Conditions apply

10 $5.00 MEAL DEAL $10 $

Buy one main meal and receive a second meal for $5.00 To the equal or lessor value Valid until 20th June, 2011

Shop 5, 110 High Street, Hastings

NOTHING OVER

PRESENT THIS VOUCHER

SENIORS WINTER SPECIAL

Open: 8am-5pm weekdays, 8.30am-4.30pm weekends

24 High Street, Hastings. Ph 5909 8220 Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 11

NEWS DESK

New president takes the helm at Probus HASTINGS Combined Probus Club recently held its annual meeting and Ada Inch was elected president. The photograph shows pastpresident Don Prout presenting Mrs Inch with the official collar of office. Alan Dewhurts was elected vicepresident, Helen Ure secretary and Barbara Atkinson treasurer. Mrs Ure said the club had many activities. “A special group of women led by Joy Coleman organise knitting of beanies, socks and knee rugs, and

children’s clothing is donated to those in need. “Outings, day trips, morning teas and lunches, and even four- and fiveday tours are organised by Christina Robertson. “Shirley Prout arranges a guest speaker for each meeting, and other helpers make the club the happy place it is.” The club meets on the first Monday each month at 10am at the Hastings Club.

Port control comes back to Hastings AFTER less than a year, the Port of Melbourne is about to lose control of the Port of Hastings. Legislation giving control back to a new Port of Hastings Development Authority was last week introduced into state parliament. Hastings MP Neale Burgess said the move “paves the way for development of the Hastings port”. “Last year the Brumby government gifted the ownership and control of the Port of Hastings to the Port of Melbourne. If that situation had been allowed to continue, not only would it have seriously hindered our state’s future prosperity, it would have also

allowed the Port of Melbourne to continue treating Hastings as a dumping ground for unwanted and unproductive industries that bring no jobs and no value to the local community. “Giving Hastings its independence will allow it to use its many advantages, such as location, natural deep water and available land and workforce, to compete for and win the most desirable industries and job-producing businesses. “Decades of experience from across Australia and around the world have shown that competition provides true economic benefit through the development of operational efficiencies.

“Allowing the development of a monopoly through one port owning and controlling the other would have reduced Victoria’s competitiveness and hampered its economic development.” Mr Burgess said local control was the best way to ensure port development was “sensitive to the needs of the local community and in a way that protects our environment”. “With the number of containers being shipped in Victoria expected to quadruple from just over two million to eight million by 2035, the coalition government has made development of the Port of Hastings a priority.”

:LGH UDQJH RI QHZ DQG VHFRQG KDQG PRGHOV

What we do:

Service %DWWHU\ WHVWV 5HSDLUV 12 &$// 287 )((

NOW NOW COLD COLD DON’T DON’T DON’T DON’T

is the time to have a Winter Service weather can effect the performance of the Batteries be stuck out in the cold wait until it stops FREE PICK UP AND DELIVERY

Where to ¿QG XV

Call for a free home demonstration or to discuss your requirements.

5/1 Bray Street, Hastings Phone: 5979 4722 (Just off Frankston Flinders Road) PAGE 12

Western Port News 7 June 2011

POUND RD BRAY ST WESTERNPORT MOWERPOWER

FRANKSTONFLINDERS RD

We’re local and we come to you!

WINTER SERVICE

EDWARD CT AUTUMN CT

s 2EMOVE LEAVES AND DEBRIS FROM YOUR GUTTERS s .O MORE OVERmOWING GUTTERS s #OLLECT OF RAINWATER s .O BIRDS OR POSSUMS s .O LADDER FALLS WHILE TRYING TO CLEAN YOUR GUTTERS Conditions apply. Valid until 30/6/11

FOUR CALL US FOR A QUOTE

BAYSIDE PENINSULA OFFICE

seasons GUTTER PROTECTION WWW FOURSEASONSGUTTERPRO COM AU Used extensively by government departments, schools, architects, builders & local shires

9502 3365 Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 13

NEWS DESK

‘Widen’ coastal plan

Weather to plant a raingarden By Mike Hast WITH normal rainfall returning to the peninsula, at least for the foreseeable future, it’s time to consider installing a raingarden. They look like an ordinary garden bed, but have layers of rocks, pebbles and sandy soil that allow free drainage and filtration. They also can handle heavy downpours when water rushes off roofs, paved areas, driveways, compacted grass areas and higher parts of a garden. Raingardens are a simple and effective way to treat stormwater, which is filtered and slowed before running into waterways. The heavy rain and subsequent flooding of parts of southeast Melbourne in early February – which saw Melbourne Water forced to release raw sewage into rivers, creeks and waterways to stop it bubbling up into domestic showers – would not have been as bad if we had more rain gardens. Melbourne Water’s Healthy Waterways 10,000 raingardens program is encouraging people to build raingardens at home and aims to see 10,000 such gardens in Melbourne by 2013. Leading the charge at a local council level in the southeast is Kingston Council, which has installed 130 rain gardens since 2001. One of the region’s foremost raingarden specialists, Gail Rossi, is guest speaker at Southern Peninsula Indigenous Flora and Fauna Association’s monthly meeting on Monday 6 June in Rosebud. Founder of Mornington Peninsula-based MayFly raingardens, Ms Rossi is an environmental scientist and garden designer, and will talk about raingardens with indigenous plantings. She says rain gardens can be natural, lowmaintenance environments. “They enhance a property and are a lovely

Rain woman: Gail Rossi, left, and Anton Engelmayer’s raingarden, which was awarded a prize by Melbourne Water.

addition to the garden. You conserve water and reduce pollutants reaching our waterways,” she said. Ms Rossi has a Bachelor of Environmental Science and did her Diploma of Conservation and Land Management at Rosebud TAFE. Along the way she has become a qualified environmentally certified landscaper. “I’m always looking for practical solutions to environmental improvement and sustainability,” she said. “A residential raingarden is placed so it can take stormwater from hard surfaces such as roofs, paved areas and driveways. They slow the rate of contaminant-laden stormwater flowing into stormwater drains and then into creeks, rivers and our two bays. “Raingardens in public places such as streets, parks, shopping centres and schools also filter out oil, chemicals and sediment, excess nutrients and litter that normally build up on hard surfaces such as roads, car parks, footpaths and roofs.” Plants in a raingarden should tolerate both saturated and dry soil. Using native plants is best as they contribute to urban habitats for birds and beneficial insects. Details: SPIFFA meets monthly at Parks Victoria’s office, 44 Hinton St, Rosebud. For more information, email spiffa.secretary@gmail.com or write to SPIFFA, PO Box 480, Rosebud 3939. Information about Melbourne Water’s 10,000 raingardens program is at www.raingardens.melbournewater.com.au

By Keith Platt MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire will be asked to extend its coastal activity plans to include the entire municipality, not just foreshore and beaches between Mt Eliza and Point Nepean. The decision to seek and extension of the CAP area is one of the findings of a five-yearly review required under the Coastal Management Act 1995. However, the future of the CAP could hinge on whether there is support for it being widened to address such issues as climate change. Results of the review showed that nine of 34 actions identified by the shire in partnership with the Central Coast Board had been completed, while another 41 per cent were underway. Eight actions aimed at reducing the impact of Point Nepean Rd on the coastal environment were now classed as “no longer required”. The traffic pressure was to be lessened by “shifting to the use of internal roads and feeder routes and a bus shuttle service to the coast”. Across Port Phillip in Corio Bay, 90 per cent of the 112 actions were complete or in progress. The review found the implementation committee for actions between Mt Eliza and Point Nepean failed to hold regular meetings and that the involvement of other government agencies was “peripheral”. The review found that many of the actions in the Mt Eliza to Point Nepean CAP were “often not well defined” and had not been prioritised. However, the shire had trained key staff and

foreshore advisory groups to increase understanding of the CAP. The Mt Eliza to Point Nepean CAP – gazetted on 9 June 2005 – is seen a “key tool for interpreting and implementing the Victorian Coastal Strategy 2002 … and applying the principle of sustainability”. The latest review is in two parts: assessing the status of the actions in the CAP and evaluating its effectiveness as a sub-regional planning document (“very positive”). The Central Coastal Board recommended that the shire and other key agencies be asked to support:  Completing all actions in the CAP (except “no longer required” actions).  Revising the CAP with a broadened scope to include consideration of the significant coastal issues identified in the Victorian Coastal Strategy 2008.  Changing the geographical boundaries of the CAP, for example, including all of Mornington Peninsula Shire. The review also called for “a review of the role of CAPs in relation to other planning tools to address regional coastal issues (such as climate change) should be undertaken before revising the CAP”. “If there is no support for a revision of the CAP, the ‘not started/in progress’ actions and strategic directions should be assessed again to determine whether it is appropriate to repeal the CAP.”

View for a plan: The coast at Sorrento is included in the coastal action plan being managed by Mornington Peninsula Shire and the Central Coast Board.

SEE US FOR ALL YOUR PLUMBING REQUIREMENTS 2161 FrankstonFlinders Rd Hastings, Vic 3915 Telephone: 5979 2411 PAGE 14

Western Port News 7 June 2011

89 Grant Rd. Somerville, Vic 3912 Telephone: 5977 5887 Fax: 5977 7089

Property valuation information night Have you ever wondered what your home is worth? Perhaps you’ve considered buying another property? Or would like to know what is happening in the local market? A presentation will be made by independent property valuers, Opteon Valuers, they’ll also be on hand to answer all of your questions. Date:

Tuesday 21 June, 2011

Time:

6.00pm to 7.30pm

Location: Balnarring & District Community Bank® Branch, Shop 28, Shopping Village, 3050 Frankston-Flinders Road, Balnarring RSVP:

To Sharon Hawkins by Friday 17 June on 5983 5543

Contact the branch to book your space as limited positions are available. Refreshments will be provided. For more information call into the branch at Shop 28, Shopping Village, 3050 Frankston-Flinders Road, Balnarring or phone 5983 5543.

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited, The Bendigo Centre, Bendigo, VIC 3550. ABN 11 068 049 178. AFSL 237879. (S35180) (06/11)

Balnarring & District Community Bank® Branch Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 15

THE BOOK PAGE

JOIN THE FIRST

features this month a

MONDAY BOOK

great new educational

CLUB...

aid - Kimochis, and

Next Meeting

review of this year’s

Monday July 4th.

Pulitzer Prize Winner

BOOK - to be

for Fiction - A Visit

announced.

from the Goon Squad

Please call in store

by Jennifer Egan.

and ask us.

The Book Page PRESENTED BY PETERSEN’S BOOK STORE

™

toys with feelings inside

HOT OFF THE PRESS POPULATION CRISIS by Dick Smith $19.99

-In 2011 the world’s population exceeded 7 billion. Each year we e add nearly 80 million people, and by mid-century we will require twice as much food and double the energy we use today. These are the staggering facts that confronted Dick Smith.

HEADSTARTS by Dr Cindy Pan & Vanessaa Woods $2 HE $24 $24.99 24.9 4.99 99 -O -Outlines 100 practical tips to help provide your child with major advantages in both the classroom and the playground, including adv WKH EHQHÂżWV RI KXJV RQ EUDLQ GHYHORSPHQW WK

S SMUT

by Alan Bennett $24.99 -2 unseemly storie stories from the master, beautifully presented in a little gift hardcover. Both stories concern women in middle life : Mrs Donaldson, whom sex takes by surprise, and Mrs Forbes, who is not surprised at all. These stories are naughty, honest and very funny

book review A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD

Kimochi means “feelingâ€? in Japanese. Kimochi toys are plush, loveable characters, designed to help children get in touch with and manage their feelings in a fun, comfortable way. 'HVLJQHG DV QRQ JHQGHU VSHFLÂżF and multicultural, they help promote strong parent-child connections. Kimochis help children identify and express emotions, one feeling at a time, while parents are better able to understand what their kids are trying to communicate. Being able to talk about feelings helps EXLOG FRQÂżGHQFH VHOI HVWHHP DQG character.

name of the emotion on the other. These emotions range from angry, jealous, hurt, left out, happy, brave, loved etc.....there are 24 emotions available. Come in for a look – the large characters are $49.95 and come with three emotions pillows. The new mini characters are $29.99 and come with one emotion each. There are also packs of mixed emotions available.

See the full range Each Kimochi pillow has a facial on our website expression that represents an www.teachersresource.com. emotion on one side and the au or come in and talk to us.

by Jennifer Egan $24.99

From Africa to Naples, New York to San Fransisco, record producers to genocidal generals, Jennifer Egan tears through h the lives of her characters with verve and guile. From the 1970s to our not too distant future, we follow Bennie Salazar, an aging music mogul, and Sasha, his young PA, on n their journeys through childhood, parties, careers and lovers. A Visit from the Goon Squad captures the moments where lives interact. 7KLV LV D GLI¿FXOW ERRN WR VXPPDULVH EXW D GHOLJKW WR UHDG 1HLWKHU D QRYHO QRU a collection of short stories, but something in between, it is an utterly unique ZRUN RI ¿FWLRQ (DFK FKDSWHU KDV LWV RZQ GLVWLQFW YRLFH DQG PRRG PRGXODWLQJ from satire to farce, from melancholy to tragedy. (One of the most moving chapters in the book is done as a PowerPoint presentation.) It mixes style and WRQH VKXIÀHV EHWZHHQ QDUUDWRUV DQG VKLIWV IURP ¿UVW WR VHFRQG WR WKLUG SHUVRQ The world changes around the characters but the spotlight never leaves their faces, and you the reader are always the observer of something intimate. Yet Egan manages to pull it all together not just neatly, but coherently and cleverly. And this is part of why the book is such a great book and deserved winner of the Pulitzer Prize (for Fiction for 2011) and the National Book Critic Circle Award (for Fiction for 2010). Other honours it has reaped include the Los Angeles Book Prize for Fiction 2010, New York Times Best Books of the Year 2010 and Time Magazine’s Best Books of the Year 2010. And rightly so. I loved this book. It is so alive, the writing is beautiful, and the stories of the various characters, whether funny, sad or bizarre had me hooked. This book was so good and so enjoyable, that I found myself comparing the ones I’d read before it, and realizing what had been missing from them. Life is too short to waste on so-so books. Especially when there DUH ERRNV WKLV JRRG MXVW ZDLWLQJ WR EH UHDG

Join the First Monday Book Club! Petersen’s Book Store hosts a local book club meeting once a month. Interested? Email: hastingsbookclub@gmail.com or call Neil on 0448 021 734 for full details. Next Meeting: Monday, July 4th at 6pm at the shop Book for next month to be announced

PAGE 16

Western Port News 7 June 2011

CHILDREN’S BOOK SALE

June 1st to 15th ĹżPicture StoryĹż ĹżBoard BooksĹż ĹżInformation BooksĹż ĹżPop ups and Novelty booksĹż ĹżActivity booksĹż

NEWS DESK

Self-employment – it’s a snap CAPTURING a job in the photography world can be a hard task so Adam Richmond is employing himself. The 26-year-old has been wearing out shoe leather looking for a job “in an extremely competitive industry, so I’ve decided working for myself is the way to go”. “I’ll have total control over the input and output of my work. I enjoy the process of interacting with a client, shooting a subject and post-production of the files; it provides a real sense of achievement,” he said. Adam, a former Mt Eliza Secondary College student, gained a Diploma in Applied Photography and is doing a business course at Chisholm Institute.

“With the knowledge I’ve gained from the diploma plus marketing and finance segments in my current course, I’m now in a position to put it to use.” He got his first break as a commercial photographer working for Mornington On Tanti Hotel. “They used my images for advertising and they are in the dining area.” He’s continued the theme, shooting images of restaurants, cafes and bars for promotional and advertising use. Like many commercial photographers, he keeps an eye out for artistic shots. “My personal portfolio consisting mainly of street photographs. I get my inspiration by walking the city streets, camera in hand.” He’s had

photos published in magazines and newspapers, and snagged the St Kilda Photography Prize in 2009. “I’m always looking to improve and developing a signature style. I’m getting requests for an array of different jobs, so things are looking up.” To contact Adam, call 0401 936 745 or email arphoto@live.com.au. Creative impulse: A self-portrait of Adam Richmond. “I used my iPhone 4 with the Hipstamatic app and created the blur effect with an app called Tilt shift generator. I composed the shot on my Nikon D300 first by taking a pic of my sister in a similar pose then gave her the camera to shoot the pic of me. It was taken in Degraves St, Melbourne.”

Three times the choice, Celebrity Century to sail Australasian waters Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. has announced it is bringing a third superliner to Australia and New Zealand for the 2011-12 summer cruise season, offering a wider choice in cruising for Australians and delivering even more international tourists down under. The announcement will see the return of the premium cruise line Celebrity Cruises to Australia after a two-year hiatus and will see not one but three superior ships from Royal Caribbean Cruises based in Australasia. Celebrity Century will make her debut in Australasian waters in November 2011. She will also be joined by two Royal Caribbean International superliners – Rhapsody of the Seas

(returning for her fifth season down under) and Radiance of the Seas (her maiden Australasian deployment) – effectively tripling capacity from RCCL in the region. Celebrity Century is a 1,800 guest cruise ship that underwent an extensive US$55 million revitalisation in 2006 and will be the highest rated cruise ship to be based in the region. Her Australia and New Zealand season will offer a range of 12 to 18 night cruises departing from Honolulu, Auckland, Sydney and Fremantle. A range of brand new itineraries will showcase some of the finest destinations in the region – including 12 and 13 night New Zealand voyages sailing between Sydney and Auckland, and Celebrity’s maiden circumnaviga-

tion of Australia available in two 18 night segments. According to Gavin Smith, managing director, Royal Caribbean Cruises Australia, the addition of a third ship is largely in response to Australians’ increasing appetite for cruising. “As more Australians take to the seas, the more discerning they are becoming about different styles of cruising. There is a growing appreciation that not all cruise ships are the same and we are excited to be able to invite Australians to discover what makes our ships so different, and our itineraries so special. “Celebrity Cruises is a favourite around the world with cruise guests and travel industry alike – and consistently wins multiple awards and ac-

colades for its contemporary design, personal service and incredible dining options,” he said. “With a high proportion of international guests, as well as many local tourists, we’re confident these new destinations will help boost the local economy as our visitors stop and shop, and enjoy the many and varied local amenities,” said Smith. Offering 900 cabins, 45 per cent of which have balconies, the stylish ship features great restaurants and bars, including the “cool” ice-topped Martini Bar; the massive 9,000 square foot AquaSpa offering almost every imaginable beauty and wellness treatment; a spectacular 1,000 seat theatre, and the wonderful X-Club kids

program, for children aged three to 17. Guests can also opt to stay in one of the 174 new Concierge Class balcony staterooms that come complete with fresh-cut flowers, a luxurious pillow menu, and even personalized stationery. Celebrity Century is currently sailing in the Mediterranean, Caribbean and Alaska. Detailed Australia and New Zealand itineraries will be released in the coming weeks and are due to go on sale on Friday 30 July with an exclusive early booking offer. For information, contact Somerville Travel & Cruise, Shop 22, 17 Eramosa Road West, Somerville. Phone 5977 5433.

r e p Su k l u b ! y u b

$4.75 a ream

@ Hastings Newsagency Be quick. Two weeks only!

Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 17

NEWS DESK

Last journey: Captain John Dowling sought permission from his bosses to delay the journey back from Warrnambool due to bad weather. They ordered him to set sail on schedule. About 33 hours later, his ship went down with all hands and lay hidden for 76 years off Phillip Island. Mystery solved: This painting of TSS Coramba by Nick Morton was a gift to Des Williams from his business partners Geoff and Mark Miller and is based on a contemporary photo of the coastal freighter.

Preserved: One of the steamship’s two screws, or propellers, lying on the seafloor 63 metres deep in a still taken off the video shot by Mark Ryan of Southern Ocean Exploration.

Diving deep for the fun of the find All hands lost: Three crewman of the Coramba during a visit to port with the daughter of one of the ill-fated crew.

Flotsam: One of the ship’s lifeboats, found washed up on a Phillip Island beach along with part of the ship’s bridge, the ship’s bell, a clock stopped at 10.30pm and four bodies.

PAGE 18

Western Port News 7 June 2011

SOUTHERN Ocean Exploration is group of Victorian non-professional maritime archaeologists, self-confessed “shipwreck nuts”, who fund their own expeditions. SOE has built a reputation for solving numerous shipwreck mysteries with a combination of high-tech equipment, clever research and dogged persistence. In recent years the group has discovered the TSS Cumberland, TSS Kanowna, SS Queensland and SS Glenelg, many of them deep below the surface and requiring special diving apparatus. One of their discoveries was the three-masted screwed barque SS Alert, which foundered in stormy seas near Cape Schanck on 28 December 1893 with the loss of 15 lives. The sole survivor, Robert Ponting, clung to part of a cabin door for 16 hours before staggering on to a Sorrento back beach about 15 kilometres from where the ship went down. He was found unconscious and half buried in the sand by four young women, and later a man and his St Bernard dog, which kept him warm until a rescue party arrived. A memorial plaque for the Alert is at Sorrento cemetery, unveiled in November 2010. Mark Ryan and his fellow divers are committed to preserving shipwrecks for posterity and make full reports about their discoveries for the state government body Heritage Victoria. SOE now turns its attention to finding the SS

Federal and the paddle steamer Reliance. Heritage Victoria last June released online a catalogue of 2000 images of shipwrecks taken over the past 30 years, many by SOE. Mr Ryan said the catalogue was an important historical record. “The catalogue allows the non-diver to see some of the wonderful treasures that are part of the state’s rich maritime history,” he said. “It doesn’t replace the excitement of viewing the actual items live, so there will always be a place to showcase relics in museums and displays, but the online catalogue is a fantastic tool for researchers, historians and amateur archaeologists.” More than 600 ships have sunk in Victorian waters since 1835, but only 239 wrecks have been found and surveyed. Many were deliberately scuttled in Victoria’s ship graveyard southwest of Port Phillip’s entrance.  The Heritage Victoria catalogue is at http:// www.flickr.com/photos/heritage_victoria/  For more information about SOE, go to www.southernoceanexploration.com  A video of SOE diving on Coramba can be downloaded (it’s a large file) at https://www.yousendit.com/download/ dkJveUNGSWhuSlR2Wmc9PQ  The search for Coramba and other SOE expeditions is being filmed for a documentary, Ghost Divers, by Mornington-based Terry Cantwell of White Water Documentaries. Details: www.whitewaterdocumentaries.com

The sea gives up a secret as Depression-era shipwreck found off Phillip Island By Mike Hast FOR maritime historian and veteran diver Des Williams and shipwreck hunter Mark Ryan, solving the 76-year mystery of the ill-fated cargo steamer TSS Coramba mid-May was a bitter– sweet experience. Sweet because the two men had spent a combined 23 years looking for the steamer; bitter because the discovery bought back memories for ageing relatives of the captain and crew who perished when the 530ton, twin-propeller steamer sank off Phillip Island on a stormy night on 30 November 1934. Coramba should not have been in Bass Strait as her 47-year-old skipper, Captain John Dowling, had requested permission to delay the 30-hour return journey from Warrnambool to Melbourne due to bad weather, which closed in at lunchtime on 29 November. But competition from rail freight and pressure of business during the Great Depression saw the steamer ordered to sail as scheduled. The next night, when Coramba was close to the entrance to Port Phillip, Captain Dowling made the fateful decision to steam further east and

shelter in Western Port. He and his ship never made it. In one of Victoria’s worst maritime disasters, the 50-metre long Coramba capsized and all 17 seamen on board perished. Washed ashore on Phillip Island beaches days later was part of the ship’s bridge, its bell, a clock stopped at 10.30pm and just four bodies. Like any good maritime historian, Mr Williams knew the story of the steamer and in the early 1980s started diving off Phillip Island, searching for Coramba where the marine board of inquiry said she had gone down, based on information from legendary diver Johnno Johnstone who had confirmed her sinking for the insurer of the ship’s owner, the Belfast and Koroit Steamship Company. Mr Williams also started research for a book, Coramba: The Ship the Sea Swallowed, which was published in 1985. “I was obsessed with that damn ship and spent 15 years looking for her,” he told The News on Sunday. “Johnno Johnstone told the insurance company the ship went down about two miles off Kitty Miller Bay and

that’s where I looked.” Kitty Miller Bay is next to Summerland Bay where the island’s worldfamous fairy penguins waddle up the beach at dusk every day. Mr Williams gave up the search in the early 1990s, but eight years ago joined forces with Mark Ryan, Peter Taylor and Martin Tozer of the not-forprofit Southern Ocean Exploration (see panel). Mr Ryan, who lives in Mt Martha, and his colleagues restarted the search for Coramba with Des Williams in 2003. Using sophisticated sounding equipment, they went further out into Bass Strait, but found nothing. “Perhaps we had misinterpreted the historical information,” Mr Ryan said, “so we searched grids further to the west, but again came up empty-handed. “Peter Taylor and Martin Tozer suggested we look east of Kitty Miller Bay, but I was sceptical.” He reckons they searched about 80 square kilometres with the sounder, more than 20 trips into Bass Strait before finding Coramba, spending about $30,000 of their own money. Luck played a part. On Sunday 15 May, Mr Ryan was on his own, looking

for the ketch Kermandie, which went down while carrying granite from Cape Woolamai to Melbourne, when the sounder picked up a much larger vessel. “It was a eureka moment. The second I saw the size, a huge rush of adrenalin hit me; it had to be the Coramba,” he said. “This is why we search for shipwrecks; it’s not the thrill of the chase, but the thrill of the find.” Des Williams takes up the story: “I got a text message from Mark saying he’d found what looked like our ship, but it was too rough to dive on it. Even if it had been calm, Mark wanted the entire team there. “The following weekend we all went out and Mark and other SOE members dived on the wreck. The clincher was if the vessel had twin screws. “I waited on the surface and watched for the red buoy to surface, the signal that it was our target. When that buoy popped up, there was an incredible sense of joy and achievement. If I was any happier, I’d have been twins.” Mr Williams says Peter Taylor played a major part in the discovery. “He’s done a power of research and we might have been looking for another eight

years without his detective work.” Coramba is lying on her port side in 63 metres (205ft) of water 15 kilometres southeast of Phillip Island, nowhere near where she was thought to be. Mr Ryan said the Coramba was the most looked-for ship in Victoria. “It’s a very significant shipwreck and diving on it to confirm it was her was an amazing experience.” He said the stern is in reasonably good condition, with the twin screws intact, but the front section is shattered, probably from sinking bow first. For Des Williams the discovery has a poignant human element. While writing the book, he met relatives of the lost crew including the daughter and son of Captain Dowling, Audrey O’Callaghan and Jack Dowling. They were 12 and nine when their father and the ship and crew under his command disappeared. Mr Williams says the loss of her father had a profound effect on Audrey, now aged 88, and nearly 20 years ago he promised her he would find the Coramba. Sadly, Jack died last December, aged 85.

Celebration: Southern Ocean Exploration members and Des Williams (white jumper) celebrate the discovery last month.

Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 19

NEWS DESK

Triple celebration for Tuerong couple Tuerong residents Bob and Jan Davies are celebrating a triple anniversary this month – their 60th wedding anniversary and their 80th birthdays. They have lived a long and happy life and are looking forward to celebrating with family and friends. Here is their story written by eldest daughter Susan Davies: *** ONCE upon a time a little boy grew up in Colchester Road, Kilsyth, Victoria, out in the wild Australian bush. The little red-headed boy was really a cowboy and a bushranger who loved comics and books. He lived for a while with an aunt, who made lovely cakes when he went to Hartwell State School. The boy mastered various bushcrafts while working on his block back home. When he was still young, his mother died. His father lived and worked in the city during the week, so the boy looked after himself in the country at Kilsyth. He was a clever boy and won a certificate to attend Box Hill Boys’ Technical School where he learnt practical woodwork and other professional skills. Later he grew tomatoes for sale. He was also given some roosters. He became an adaptable, capable skilled carpenter, builder, inventor, gardener and poultry farmer. *** ONCE upon a time, a little girl grew up in East Melbourne, with all the mod cons, shops and trams. The little girl attended Yarra Park State School. One Christmas she was given a big beautiful real-life doll called “Shirley” (Temple). She often walked through the stately elm tree-lined avenues of the nearby Fitzroy Gardens, past Captain Cook’s Cottage and the Conservatory, and even saw Ola Cohn who carved the ‘Fairies Tree’. The young girl absorbed and acquired valuable marketing skills from the family antique business. She was a clever girl and won a certificate to attend Melbourne High School but it was not to be so she attend Presbyterian Ladies College. It was difficult time with rations and blackouts during the Second World War, 1939-1945, but a wonderful day in Melbourne when war ended, when

PAGE 20

Happy couple: Jan and Bob on their wedding day in 1951. 50 years on: The couple hold letters they have received from the Governor-General and Queen Elizabeth to mark their 60th wedding anniversary.

she was aged 14. The now young woman completed a course at Zercho’s Business College at the Paris end of Collins Street. The studies enabled her to work for a Melbourne solicitor as a top secretary. Bob and Jan met in 1949 at a Scottish dance in Melbourne. In December 1949 the couple became engaged at the age of 18. They married two years later on Saturday 16 June 1951 at Cairns Memorial Presbyterian Church in East Melbourne. They lived first in Kilsyth between 1951-52. It could not have been easy for the young couple. There were many hardships, especially for Jan having moved from refined city life to the bush. They endured the coldest winter in a house with few creature comforts. They bought a cow with their only money and Bob managed his flock of chickens.

Western Port News 7 June 2011

Their first child, Susan, was born in Kilsyth. They had the ability to adapt and be resourceful and persevered. They moved to Ringwood where they lived for two years, 1953-54 , and their second child, Keryn, was born. A highlight was seeing the train that Queen Elizabeth travelled on her way to Warburton. They moved to Blackburn and lived there in 1955 and 1956. They settled into family life with Jan telling nursery rhymes to the kids, making jam and cooking vegetables while Bob was at work. In 1956 they moved to Cheltenham and lived on a farmlet near Dingley on Centre Dandenong Rd. Jan grew tiger lilies, snowdrops, jonquils, daffodils, snapdragons and pansies. Bob had a vegetable garden and milked the family cow. He also hatched chickens in the incubator. Bob’s other skills included making household furniture and toys.

In Cheltenham, their third child, Derek, arrived. A highlight of this period was the purchase of their first fridge. Then there were the holidays in a caravan at McCrae beach, driving to the Queen Vic Market for supplies and listening to Eartha Kitt, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and Harry Belafonte on the wireless. They moved again, to Emerald, in 1958 with frosty freezing winters offset by roast dinners and steamed pudding. Bob worked at the Monbulk Jam factory. Between 1958 and 1966, Bob and Jan lived at Queenscliff where they established Happy Hens’ farm with egg room, egg deliveries and happy customers. Signs out the front of their farm said it all: “Eggs fresh as a daisy, sweet as a kiss” and “Fresh eggs with that extra something”. Jan showed great entrepreneurial spirit and made fresh lamingtons and sweets for 3/6d a dozen. Eggs were collected twice daily in wire baskets, graded into cartons or fillers and boxed. Bob milked cows, while Jan whipped cream into butter. Jan’s cooking skills made this period memorable with baked puddings – all with custard and cream: apple pies, apple sponges, egg custards, peach pies, apricot and raspberry tarts, trifles, blackberry pies, fruit and ice cream. Lamingtons, sponges, biscuits, vanilla slices, coconut and date slices, scones, patty cakes, marshmallows, chocolate icing cakes, meringues, nut loaf, fruit cakes and jam roly-polies. The family enjoyed eating lots of thick custard where the spoon would stand up and lots of happy family meals were shared around the table. The kids were given daily jobs – collecting sticks, setting the table, collecting eggs, catching chooks. Many friends and relatives would visit and stay for a home-cooked meal. Jan sewed and knitted many quality clothes admired by all. It was during this time that their fourth child, Brett, arrived. The household made big advances, too, with the purchase of a bread slicer, Mixmaster, stereogram and a Fler lounge suite.

The family went to the Geelong drive-in on a Saturday after a hard week’s work. In 1966, Bob and Jan were asked to run Clarinda Poultry Farm, a renowned chicken breeding farm. It had an incubator room, chicken sheds, egg room and feed shed. The kids remember the house for its 10-metre long billiard room and for the luxury of town water, which meant the garden sprinkler ran all day in summer. There were fun times with many picnics, outings and parties. In 1970, the family moved to Mornington where they built a Craig Davis dream home with garden and farm buildings all from scratch. Jan established a lovely garden around the new house with a melaleuca border. The chicken farm they established was rated most efficient and profitable per hen by the Department of Agriculture. They won lots of first prizes for eggs at the Royal Melbourne Show over the years. In 1990 they moved to Tuerong where they built a house on a big block with views across Western Port. They established a state-of-the-art poultry farm – and the biggest shed in the world for Bob’s workshop. Colourful display of agapanthus and pokers fringe the tree-lined driveway and they’ve created a beautiful, designer-styled garden with hundreds of plants and trees. The extensive garden includes a stretch of natives and a magnificent spring–summer rose display. Jan’s glasshouse houses a collection of exotic and unusual cacti. Bob has two huge vegetable patches. Bob and Jan have made three overseas voyages – to China and Japan, Europe, and on a world tour. Times are good for Jan and Bob. Jan bakes the best roast dinners, fluffiest cream sponges and hot scones. They run a herd of fattened cattle on excellent pasture and golden hay. They work hard, enjoy life and are generous and helpful to all their family and friends. Nowadays, Bob, along with his dog Gemma, walks six kilometres most days around Hastings foreshore with his buddies.

ADVERTORIAL

LEAVES IN YOUR GUTTER? Protect your home against fire and flooding The Allclear Leafguard made from Colorbond® steel has many benefits, including protecting and prolonging the life of your gutters. The problem of bushfires is always upon us and there is a pressing need for home owners to protect their properties as best they can in the event of fire. One of the ways home owners can be prepared is by ensuring their gutters are free of leaves and debris that could easily catch on fire, leading the flames to the body of your home. There is a Colorbond product on the market at the moment that can save you all the hassles regarding leaves blocking your gutters and creating a fire hazard. It is called the Allclear Leafguard and was developed by Ron Lienert after he spent 20 years in the home improvement business, including many years using other leafguard products. “I saw a need for a good leafguard and was able to evolve a successful formula,” Ron Lienert said.

The Allclear Leafguard is made of Colorbond steel, the same material as your gutters - so it wont melt in fire or perish and become brittle. It stops embers and burning leaves getting under the roof as happened in the Canberra fires. It is for this reason that the Allclear Leafguard can safely give you an amazing 20 - year warranty. The Leafguard is secured under your tile or iron roof and to the front of your guttering. “With it’s unique design, it stops leaves laying flat and also circulates air to blow the leaves away eliminating cleaning problems” Ron Lienert said. “When the leafguard is in place it cannot be seen from the ground, so it does not ruin the appearance of your roof.” Gone are the days of spending hours of your valuable weekend time up on a ladder clearing your gutters by hand! The Allclear Leafguard will do the job for you. The Allclear Leafguard is also an important barrier against potentially devastating fire.

In fire prone areas, keeping leaves out of gutters using the leafguard means no swirling lighted leaves in the event of a house fire, which could be devastating to your home. “Because there is no leaf build up in the gutters, there isn’t the added problem of them catching on fire and the rest of the house burning with it” Ron Lienert said. By keeping your gutters clear of leaves, it will stop any overflowing which causes water damage to your home and will ensure gutters last years longer. “The Allclear Leafguard can also be used to convert box gutters into normal guttering to help solve problems of flooding” Ron Lienert said. “The system is versatile and can be custom made, if required.” It is also an excellent product for tankwater. The Australian made Allclear Leafguard has proved extremely successful in the past couple of years being recognised as the more superior leafguards on the market in NSW, QLD and Victoria.

Allclear staff have been trained in all aspects of leaf and gutter problems to help bring this amazing product to you. We are available to give obligation free quotes and good advice by calling Allclear Leafguard and Gutter on freecall 1800 426 607.

Scott Maxwell from the eastern Victoria area Stephen from the Victoria East branch ofCrettenden Allclear Leafguard and GutterSouth can help branch of AllClear Leafguard and Gutter can help you with any information by calling you with information by calling 1800 426 607 1800 426any 607 .

SAVE 15% ... NOW! SAVE 20%... NOW!

**

' Made from Colorbond® steel

' No fire hazard

' Wind blows leaves away

' Will not melt

' No unsightly appearance

' Local service

' Seniors discount

COLORBONDTM GUTTERGUARD

AllClear

LEAFGUARD & GUTTER

FITS MOST GUTTERS

FREECALL FREECALL1800 1800426 426607 607OR Call Steve 0438 389 707 Call for a local representative to give a Free Quote! Call for a local representative to give a Free Quote!

* OFF MATERIAL ONLY Valid till 31/7/2011

LIMITED TIME! Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 21

Wedding Expo

MORNINGTON RACECOURSE - JUNE 19, 2011

Mornington Wedding Extravaganza returns JUNE is here again and that means the Annual Mornington Wedding Extravaganza is on our doorstep. The locally operated wedding expo is a proud supporter of SIDSandKIDS and will feature more than 40 quality wedding suppliers based in and around the peninsula. Couples planning their big day can source everything they need from venues and cars to make-up and bombonieres at this year’s expo. Peter de Wever, expo organiser and owner of Peninsula Expos, said a number of exhibitors were finalists or winners in this year’s Australian Bridal Industry Academy Awards. “We like to provide brides and grooms with highquality, reliable suppliers.” he said. “Wedding planning can be hard work and we like to make it as easy as possible.” Mr de Wever is also a founding member of Mornington Peninsula Weddings Inc, a group dedicated to promoting the Mornington Peninsula and the excellent wedding suppliers it has to offer. There will be a number of MPW members exhibiting at the expo as well as a stand dedicated to the group. The Annual Mornington Wedding Extravaganza will be held on Sunday 19 June at the Mornington Racecourse from 10am to 3pm with entry a gold coin donation to SIDSandKIDS. Also at the racecourse on Sunday 19 June is the Bumble Bee Baby & Children’s Market, so it’s a great family day out for all. Peninsula Expos is holding other bridal expos in Frankston and Cranbourne later in the year. The Frankston Wedding Expo will be on 24 July at the Frankston RSL and the Cranbourne Wedding Expo will be held on 28 August at the Cranbourne Racecourse. For more information on the expos, visit www.peninsulaexpos.com.au

PAGE 22

Western Port News 7 June 2011

Toasting a successful five years of publishing RAISE a glass to TOAST Mornington Peninsula, your local one-stop guide to weddings on the peninsula. Our fifth annual edition and web directory is out on 19 June at the Annual Mornington Wedding Extravaganza at Mornington Racecourse. However you choose to celebrate your wedding, we hope you can draw some inspiration from this issue of TOAST and create the day of your dreams. From well-spoken celebrants to lavish gowns, professional photographers to cakes, caters and party hire, stunning scenic locations and exceptional entertainers, it’s all here on the Mornington Peninsula – why go anywhere else? At TOAST our focus has always been on creating a wedding using the many local suppliers based here on the peninsula – now, in these days of reducing our carbon footprint (we are proudly a carbon neutral publication), going local has never seemed so important. In 2011 we present you with options, tips, trends and ideas for weddings from the smallest to the most outrageous, each with one common factor – they can all be found here on our beautiful Mornington Peninsula. We also feature ‘The Real Deal’ – a new section on real life weddings, to see just how beautiful a coastal or hinterland wedding can be. So whether you’re a visitor or a local, happy planning! Pick up your free copy at selected outlets, see our website at www.toastmorningtonpeninsula.com.au for more details. Here’s cheers, from the team at TOAST.

PROUD SPONSOR

donations accepted at expos

,SWOMRKW .I[IPPIVW 'IRXVS 1SVRMRKXSR 4L Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 23

Wendy Beynon Civil Marriage Celebrant

Roger Sanders is an authorised Civil Marriage Celebrant servicing the Mornington Peninsula and located in Mount Martha, Victoria, Australia.

' Civil Marriages ' Funerals ' Naming Ceremonies ' Renewal of Vows ' Commitment Ceremonies ' House Blessings

SPECIALIZING IN ‡ Weddings ‡ Namings ‡ Renewal of vows ‡ Anniversaries

139 Warrandyte Rd Langwarrin 3910 m. 0400 949 776 e. wendycmc@iinet.net.au

All other enquiries are welcome about other ceremonies and rites of passage. ‡ Birthdays ‡ Retirement ‡ Funerals ‡ Pet funerals ‡ Step/blended family ceremonies

Hummers4Hire Weddings Hen’s Nights Winery Tours Child Seats Provided Fridge & iPod Stereo 8 Seats in Luxury

Member of: Australian Federation of Civil Celebrants Inc. Association of Civil Marriage Celebrants of Victoria Inc. 24 Barrow Street, Mt. Martha,Victoria, 3934 (Mel. 150 F4)

Phone: (61) 3 5974 4333 Mobile: 0419 744 333

0417 HUMMER

Email: rsanders@melbpc.org.au www.rogersanders.id.au

Jason@Hummerweddingcars.com.au

weddings formals special events debutantes

massage, beauty & makeup

clothing

for

men

info@sista-bliss.com.au www.sista-bliss.com.au 0417 378 101

MAIN STREET, MORNINGTON 5975 6695

Catering for your wedding at your

venue our

speciality Finalists in the Victorian ABIA Independent Catering Category 2010 and 2011 & Independent Wedding Planners 2011 2/4 Industrial Drive, Somerville 3912

Tel 5977 8889 / 0439 985 749 www.goldenroast.com.au (SouthernMelbourne) email SouthMelbourne@goldenroast.com.au

Add fun and laughter to your event with a photobooth from iƕle lack ooth Perfect for your wedding, birthday bash, corporate event, business promotion, engagement or party.

Capture the intimate, hilarious & unexpected

eNNie uMtiN ~ MiĆ?thN Ph: 0433 208 411 iIAoxliĆ•leblackbooth.com.au

www.littleblackbooth.com.au

6LPSO\ %RPERQLHUHV 6LPSO\ %RPERQLHUHV

%RPERQLHUHV DQG *LIWV IRU $OO 6SHFLDO 2FFDVLRQV

%RPERQLHUH %RPERQLHUH

♼ /ROOLSRSV &KRFRODWHV ♼ 3KRWR )UDPHV &DQGOHV ♼ 7XOOH &LUFOHV )XQN\ %R[HV

:HGGLQJ $FFHVVRULHV :HGGLQJ $FFHVVRULHV

♼ ,QYLWDWLRQV ♼ +DQG 3DLQWHG *ODVVHV ♼ *XHVW %RRNV WR *DUWHUV PRUH

6HH RXU IDEXORXV UDQJH 6HH RXU IDEXORXV UDQJH RXV UDQJH DW WKH H[SR DW WKH H[SR

Jewellery to make every occasion sparkle.

Proudly sponsored by

+R\ODNH *URYH 'DYD 'ULYH 6KRSV 0RUQLQJWRQ 3KRQH ZZZ VLPSO\ERPERQLHUHV FRP DX

PAGE 24

Western Port News 7 June 2011

www.hoskings.com.au

Wedding Expo

MORNINGTON RACECOURSE - JUNE 19, 2011

Make your hens night one to remember

HENS Night Party is the ultimate hens party specialists. Providing cocktail hens party packages to celebrate your last night of single life. With our ever popular $59 hens party package, Hens Night Party is a mobile cocktail catering service who will provide you with unlimited cocktails, finger food, games, prizes and free gifts for each girl attending. Karaoke and pamper packages are available along with our newest Makeuptini package – Cocktails plus your own personal stylist or makeup artist

for the party duration! Travelling throughout all of Melbourne, so popular are these packages that we book 6 months in advance! Founded by Nicole George originally from the peninsula, Hens Night Party caters for women wanting a hens party at home. Nicole understands what a girl wants for her last night of single life, and so in demand are the Hens Party Packages, that HNP is currently selling franchises. From the moment you enquire with HNP, you will be given personalised

service all the way, with invitations also provided for your party. Catering for over 260 Hens Night Parties last year alone, Nicole believes the secret to a great Hens Night is not only gourmet, tastebud tingling cocktails, but also great service, with a fun and glamorous atmosphere. With professional event coordinators, HNP will assist you with whatever requirements you need for your great girls night in. So don’t delay book your hens party today! 0409 115 775.

Frankston Wedding Expo Sunday, 24th July – 10am-3pm Frankston RSL, 183 Cranbourne Rd, Frankston

Cranbourne Wedding Expo Sunday, 28th August – 11am-2.00pm Cranbourne Racecourse, Grant St, Cranbourne Gold coin donation to SIDSandKIDS on entry. All brides will receive a show bag with free bridal magazines. All expos are proudly sponsored by HOSKINGS Jewellers with a prize giveaway at every expo. Featuring local, quality suppliers.

+(16 1,*+7 3$57< ĞůĞďƌĂƚĞ LJŽƵƌ >ĂƐƚ EŝŐŚƚ KĨ ^ŝŶŐůĞ >ŝĨĞ ŝŶ ^ƚLJůĞ ǁŝƚŚ Ă ,ĞŶƐ EŝŐŚƚ WĂƌƚLJ͊

Specialising in bridal and formal styling and hair up

ϰ ,ŽƵƌ WĂƌƚLJ WĂĐŬĂŐĞ͙

• In salon and mobile service available for hair and make up. • Will be present at Mornington Bridal Expo Sun 19th June & Frankston Bridal Expo Sun 24th July.

&ŝŶŐĞƌ &ŽŽĚ

hŶůŝŵŝƚĞĚ ŽĐŬƚĂŝůƐ

'ĂŵĞƐ͕ 'ŝŌƐ ĂŶĚ WƌŝnjĞƐ͊

+13 +13

Ψϱϵ͘ϬϬ ƉĞƌ Őŝƌů͘ ŽŽŬŝŶŐ ŶŽǁ ĨŽƌ ƵŐ͕ ^ĞƉƚ ĂŶĚ KĐƚŽďĞƌ ƚŚŝƐ LJĞĂƌ͘

ϬϰϬϵ ϭϭϱ ϳϳϱ www.bellarosehairandbeauty.com bellarosehair@yahoo.com.au

ǁǁǁ͘ŚĞŶƐŶŝŐŚƚƉĂƌƚLJ͘ĐŽŵ ƉĂƌƚLJΛŚĞŶƐŶŝŐŚƚƉĂƌƚLJ͘ĐŽŵ Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 25

NEWS DESK

The Western Port Whisperer A COUPLE of editions ago, The Whisperer gave his two cents worth about all those cooking shows that seem to be gracing the television at the moment. It seems like he wasn’t alone, as Whisperer HQ got this little poem written by one “Banjo-Hastings-son” slipped under the door. Composed entirely of letters cut out of newspapers to hide the bard’s identity, the work was too good to ignore and it’s run with The Whisperer’s blessing in this here column. A whispered word from a local bistro was of a heightened level of food critics sending plates back with complaints never heard before. It seems everyone wants to be the next overweight cravat-wearing food critic! The Whisperer wants to make a statement: food isn’t always art. Sometimes it’s for simply enjoyment and sustenence. *** EVERYBODY knows that The Whisperer has a long list of dislikes when it comes to driving. He wants to highlight just a few of those that have been annoying him lately: 1. Mister cut out in front of you at an intersection and then

PAGE 26

proceed to drive at half the speed limit. 2. Mister my phone is ringing so I’ll stop right here with three-quarters of our car still on the road and traffic backing up behind me (usually tradies). 3. Mister I don’t need to use turn signals at the roundabout. It only puts everyone else out, and not me, so why bother (four-wheel drives more often than not). That’ll do for today’s venting. *** OH, hang on, what about the local tourism magazine that had a special section on Western Port? The Whisperer sat down with a couple of shortbread creams and a cup of steaming tea to have a good read. Imagine his dismay when he realised the section talked at length about towns like Tyabb, Balnarring, Red Hill and Flinders, but failed to even mention Hastings. It was as if the town didn’t even exist. What is a visit to Western Port without going to Hastings and patting a pelican or two, a walk along the boardwalk and a bit of food or wine at the gateway to the peninsula’s food and wine region. *** THE good people of Rosebud

Western Port News 7 June 2011

and the southern peninsula, we hear, are getting hot under the collar about their pool still unbuilt after five long years. The shire council has been trying to get permission from the state government to build in on the foreshore at Rosebud, but the government’s not budging. The issue has even more heat in it following the news Frankston councillors have approved a $32 million aquatic centre with a 50-metre Olympic pool as its centrepiece near Chisholm TAFE and the railway station. Frankston received $12.5 million from the state government in the run-up to last year’s election. Geelong got a similar amount for its aquatic centre. A Rosebudian told The Whisperer: “We could have had our bloody pool by now if the shire had shown commonsense and put the pool inland. Not only that, but we could have $12.5 million from the government.” Steady on, folks, pop across to Hastings and have a dip in our pool. There’s plenty of room for everyone and you can grab a coffee at the cafe. thewhisperer@y7mail.com

We are what we eat... I’m headin down to Hastings mate, it’s a culinary delight. With that many chow houses on High Street I’m bound to do alright. But aghast I’ve got no money! Me pension’s all well spent, it’s left me down right skint, what, between the electricity and the rent. So before I fade away to nothin’ I’d better hatch a plan. I know. I’ll pretend to be a food critic. What a clever man! They eat and pay for nothing, what a shifty mob. I’ve seen ’em on them cookin’ shows, now there’s my kind of job. but I’d better do some study, to learn the lingo like. I’ll go home and watch some cookin’ shows, I’ll be qualified in just one night. So here I am in said establishment about to hatch my plot, “er ... I’m the Western Port News food critic, mate, you’d better give me one with the lot.” Well the young buck behind the counter jumped-to just a treat. He said “what would you like, sir, six inches or a footlong” as he showed me to me seat. Well, I said with much aplomb, “I’ll take the biggest that you’ve got. A footlong will be just dandy; sounds like that’ll hit the spot.” I sure picked the right establishment, this joint has got real class. Mind you they need to clean their windows, mate, what with all them pickles on the glass. And thus I consumed the offerings of this significant repast and I was about to go out the front door when the chef gave me a blast. Oops, I almost forgot me self, they must need my critique. I’ll baffle ’em with bulldust, culinary language smooth and sleek. “The borshalay of mustard was great, mate, not to mention the pate de foi grass.” “That’ll be $15 dollars, pal; food critic my flamin ....”. Anyway, upon reflection in my jail cell, while chowing down on prison stew, I thought, well these chefs can’t be all that bad, mate, after all the bloke who discovered the country he was a Cook too. So if you’re gonna be a food critic watching one night’s worth of cooking shows just won’t do. No I think if you’re gonna do it right, you might wanna make it two! Banjo-Hastings-son

realestate WESTERN

PORT

When it comes to lifestyle... > Page 3

7 June 2011

FREE

Page 2

Western Port Real Estate 7 June 2011

WESTERN PORT

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

Sid Ferguson Mobile: 0418 321 963

Rob Pryzler Mobile: 0408 808 698

Tallon First National 35 High Street, HASTINGS

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

Stockdale & Leggo Hastings 1/109 High Street, HASTINGS

EMAIL: RealEstate@satchwells.com.au

EMAIL: rpryzler@stockdaleleggo.com.au

Ben Tallon Mobile: 0419 339 489

David Nelli Mobile: 0403 111 234

Jason Dowler Mobile: 0403 598 754

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

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

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

EMAIL: dnelli@baywestrealestate.com.au

EMAIL: jason.dowler@harcourts.com.au

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

MC REAL

Western Port

PHONE: 03 5979 2288

At your service

ESTATE

Don Campbell Mobile: 0419 533 786

Michael Curry Mobile: 0409 410 456

Craig Mann Mobile: 0412 559 816

Prestige Properties 69 High Street, HASTINGS

First National Craig Mann

PHONE: (03) 5979 4177

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

prestigerealtyhastings@bigpond.com

EMAIL: sales@mcrealestate.com.au

Suite 4, 1085 Frankston Flinders Road, SOMERVILLE

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

These agents support your local newspaper. Support agents that support your local community!

Western Port Real Estate 7 June 2011

Hastings

Page 3

$399,000

Dreams come true IMAGINE the most beautiful home, finished with a keen eye for detail and a flair for modern decor. Add gleaming porcelain tiles, open, north-facing living areas and pristine landscaped surrounds and you know this is one not to miss. It features three generous bedrooms, zoned for a family, full ensuite, central kitchen with long bench tops and

spotless appliances including dishwasher. There are many extras including gas ducted heat, security system with CCTV, paved outdoor entertaining area adjoining a double garage with internal access, garden shed and two-way drive – all a close walk to town. Dreams do come true.

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

Hastings

Auction: Sat 02-Jul-11 3:30pm

Brand new home in sought-after estate SET in one of Hastings’ newest estates is a grand opportunity for someone to acquire a brand-new property built by local tradesmen supporting Somerville Football Club. Currently under construction and surrounded by new properties, it is finished to the highest standard and will be the envy of Hastings. It features three great-sized bedrooms, including children’s rooms with built-in wardrobes and the master bedroom with full ensuite and walk-in wardrobe.

Crib Point

Endless options, subdivision potential

THIS fantastic corner allotment zoned Residential 1 is on approximately 1619 It has open plan kitchen/meal and living square metres and offers dual street area, stainless steel appliances, double frontage with many different possibilities. lock-up garage with room at the back for a work bench or storage, and an outstanding The weatherboard home features four bedrooms; three comfy living areas with alfresco area for year-round entertaining. With local schools, public transport and all wood heating; neat, open-plan timber other amenities in close proximity, living kitchen that adjoins dining and living area; here will be a breeze as you enjoy the and a beautifully renovated bathroom features of this property and amazing new with twin vanity and walk-in shower. estate. Call for an inspection or to look at the Outside is accommodation for teenagers plans. The property will be sold at auction. with a quaint bungalow perfect for extra

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

Auction: Sat 25-Jun-11 12:30PM

income and the makings of a 2 car garage workshop. The options to consider when looking at this property are to renovate the gorgeous four-bedroom cottage, remove the house and do a 6-5 lot strata subdivision or keep the home and do a 3-5 lot subdivision all on separate titles. This property offers a great return. The vendor is realistic and may sell prior to auction. All of the above options are subject to council approval.

Agency: Satchwells Hastings, 1/97 High Street, Hastings. Phone: (03) 5979 1888. Agents: Lisa Roberts, 0488 910 368.

Page 4

Western Port Real Estate 7 June 2011

BTRE

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

� t r e p x E l a c o L r u o Y “

YOU’LL SOON BE HOME

Balnarring

$635,000

Balnarring

“By Public tender� Closing Date – Friday 24th June

R UNDEA CT R T N CO UNDER CONTRACT IN 1 WEEK!!! Call Chris Jonker - 0404299854

2 Acres - Residential 1 ~ 5 Lots

Enjoy the tranquility of this peaceful semi-rural location & the convenience of a short stroll to the village. With a sweeping 2-way drive, trim native gardens & a pristine executive home you will marvel at your good fortune...26 squares, EHGURRPV )(6 VWXG\ EULFN JDUDJHV RQH ÀWWHG RXW DV D KRPH J\P

A rare opportunity to subdivide land in this sought after location...Planning is under way for approval of 4 x 1/4 acre (approx) blocks leaving the striking mud brick home set on around 3/4 acre of gardens...or move in now and land bank for your future... The Home - Built for passive energy use and a low carbon footprint this 22 square (32 URL) mud brick beauty has a wall of easterly windows to capture morning sun and overlooks pretty courtyard gardens, open design with 2 huge living zones, 3 bedrooms (main with FES), timber kitchen with wood stove and gas cooking. Slow combustion heater in a feature mantle - a warm and inviting family home with double carport + 6m x 7.5m garage. The Land - Prior planning has granted 2 x 1/3 acre (approx) blocks + the house on remainder but it would suit 4 x 1/4 acre blocks (S.T.C.A.) Each block should achieve mid to high 300’s - so you do the maths! - House on 3/4 would still achieve a great price - Live now and retire later!!

Bittern

Hastings

$869,000

$289,000

Frankston

POA

R UNDEA CT R T N CO

LDNTED! SO ER WA

ANOTH

1.5 Acres - ‘Cedar Rose Heights’

“Meet Prince Phillip�

“PRICE REDUCED� - Offers Invited...

You will have to pinch yourself to know your not dreaming as you enjoy a scenic stroll through a park like native streetscape. Featuring beautifully kept acreage properties with a backdrop of the bay to the East and integrated with Warrangine Park, ‘Kinfauns’ Estate is an absolute rarity and you won’t want to leave! This stunning property speaks for itself as you meander down a paved circular drive through manicured lawns to the gracious limestone home.

You could be forgiven for thinking you’re royalty when you sit back in your private home unit set in a great central position in town. Truly one with the ORW ZLWK FRXQWU\ GHFRU à RDWLQJ WLPEHU à RRUV WKURXJKRXW D VSDFLRXV RSHQ design, all kept comfy with gas ducted heating & ducted cooling. There’s a modern kitchen with gas appliances & meals area opening on an inviting covered patio & courtyard area.

You can almost hear the tee-off shots from this beautifully located unit set LQ D SHDFHIXO $YHQXH RQO\ PLQXWHV ZDON IURP WKH )UDQNVWRQ *ROI &OXE DQG Towerhill shops. It features a spacious open design with clean neutral tones and new carpets throughout, timber kitchen with gas cooking, gas heating, 2 bedrooms (BIR’s) and spotless bathroom. Outside, a private courtyard and lockup garage complete the perfect retirement home or rental investment.

Hastings

Hastings

$237,500

$750,000

Town Central Unit

1/2 Acre ~ “Queen Anne� – Land Suitable To Subdivide

Just a short hop to the centre of town, station & foreshore, this is the ideal place to put down roots, or invest in a growing area...Sunny open plan GHVLJQ ZLWK RULJLQDO ¡V Ă DLU ODUJH ORXQJH GLQLQJ FKHHU\ OLWWOH NLWFKHQ ZLWK electric cooking & pantry. 2 good sized bedrooms, (built-in’s) & split system heating/cooling. Outside there’s an L-shaped yard with access to the single garage. A quite life awaits...or good rental return at about $250/wk.

You will instantly fall for the timeless beauty of this stunning home set on a glorious ½ acre block. Lovingly restored and extended, this home has vast living areas DQG FOHYHUO\ EOHQGV ROG ZRUOG FKDUDFWHU ZLWK GHFRU LQ NHHSLQJ ZLWK QHZ PLOOHQQLXP +LJK RUQDWH FHLOLQJV VXSHUE SROLVKHG EODFNZRRG Ă RRULQJ DQG D GHVLJQ IRU entertaining that spills out to the amazing brick paved terrace and pool area beyond. 25 squares with period formal lounge, coonara, beautiful solid granite kitchen with walk in pantry and quality stainless steel appliances, meals and step down to the huge family/rumpus area with gas coonara. 3 bedrooms + study, IXOO HQVXLWH EDWKURRP Ă€WWHG ODXQGU\ DQG GXFWHG HYDS FRROLQJ /DQGVFDSHG JURXQGV ZLWK VKHGGLQJ WR GUHDP RI P [ P KLJK VSDQ ERDW YDQ SRUW P [ P workshop & 6m x6m storage shed. Combine this with the salt water inground pool and shade sail covered terrace with pizza oven & mains gas bbq.

Bittern

Balnarring

$410,000

$468,000

Balnarring

$569,000

Simply Stunning - 18 Squares

“At Home In The Heights� - 846m2

´3DFLĂ€F +HLJKWVÂľ P

Like a blank canvas for your decorating ideas this designer home has been barely lived in since new (around 18mths). Enjoy an open, airy GHVLJQ ¡ VTXDUH VHW FHLOLQJV TXDOLW\ à RDWLQJ à RRUV DQG IXOO\ LQVXODWHG walls & ceilings for a small carbon footprint. 3 big bedrooms, full ensuite, gleaming granite kitchen with dishwasher and a family room adjoining the roof-line alfresco - this is living!!

You will certainly feel at home in this beautiful established property. Set at the end of a no through road it features an elevated outlook over treetops to the distant bay. An elegant interior features a bright northerly aspect with lounge & a dining room where you can gaze out at & enjoy the view. Separate kitchen/meals - electric cooking & big glass slider to the top sun-deck.

You will feel at home as soon as you see this perfect family property set in a private established garden at the top of a pretty no through road. With a modern touch to a country theme featuring stunning spotted gum à RRULQJ WKURXJKRXW WKH OLYLQJ DUHDV WKLV KRPH KDV KDG D WRS WR ERWWRP makeover. Entry, formal lounge, meals and a separate family room with D IHDWXUH JDV ORJ ÀUH DQG JDUGHQ RXWORRN

Hastings

Hastings

Tyabb

$335,000

$319,950

$1,070,000

4 Beds By The Foreshore...

Position Perfect!!

“Astley Park� ~ 15 Acre Farm

Just the best location you could imagine only a stones throw from the beautiful Foreshore Reserve and Marina. Set in a shady established garden on around 750m2, this tidy 4 bedroom brick home has recently been renovated and ZRXOG PDNH WKH LGHDO ÀUVW KRPH LQYHVWPHQW RU UHWLUHPHQW SURSHUW\ *UHDW VL]HG ORXQJH ZLWK SROLVKHG KDUGZRRG à RRULQJ PHDOV VSOLW V\VWHP DQG JDV heating with ducting through to bedrooms.

You couldn’t hope for a better place to live or invest only a block from Safeway & Kmart. Featuring a sunny Northerly aspect and solid hardwood à RRULQJ WKLV VSDFLRXV EHGURRP KRPH IHHOV MXVW ULJKW *DV KHDWLQJ split system cooling, great sized kitchen with gas cooking and adjoining meals area. All bedrooms have built in robes and easily accommodate a double bed. Set in a trim garden with fenced backyard.

You will love coming home to scenic rural surrounds & this stunning sand stock brick homestead overlooking a glistening ornamental lake. Approached by a wide private driveway past stands of native trees, you will be struck by the beauty of this property as it opens on rolling lawns, colourful gardens & a home with shady verandahs to enjoy the tranquility.

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

Page 5

Western Port Real Estate 7 June 2011

Satchwells

Local Agents with Local Knowledge For Over 50 Years HASTINGS

TYABB

CRIB POINT

Asking $449,000 - $459,000

Asking $349,000

Auction: Saturday 25 June at 12:30pm

LI NE ST W IN G

C

LI NE ST W IN G

O U UN N N IT ST D S RU ER C TI O N

CRIB POINT Asking $279,000/$289,000

Inspect by Appointment

Inspect Sat 11-11.30am - 290 High Street

Inspect by Appointment

Inspect Saturday 12-12.30pm - 124 Disney Street

3 UNITS FOR SALE IN CRIB POINT

6 STYLISH VILLAS IN LIFESTYLE LOCATION

$ 7,'< 75($685( 72 :25. <285 0$*,&

ENDLESS OPTIONS! SUBDIVISION POTENTIAL

An opportunity to buy off the plan and save stamp duty has become available in Crib Point. These three 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom units will be constructed in the coming months. Close to transport, schools, shops and medical centre, this is a prime location and perfect for investors and occupiers.

7DNH D ORRN DW WKH SODQV DQG \RX ZLOO EH DPD]HG DW WKHVH YLOODV WR EH EXLOW FORVH WR WKH +DVWLQJV WRZQ FHQWUH ,PPHUVHG LQ TXDOLW\ À[WXUHV DQG ÀWWLQJV these 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, separate lounge, family and dining rooms offer HYHU\WKLQJ \RX ZDQW LQ OX[XU\ IW FHLOLQJV RSHQ NLWFKHQ DUHD ZLWK GLVKZDVKHU

This engaging 3 or 4 bedrooms home yearns for a fairytale ending. The SHUIHFW SODFH IRU D JUHHQ ÀQJHU WKLV LG\OOLF KDYHQ KDV EHHQ SDUWLDOO\ UHQRYDWHG and enjoys 4 bedrooms, 3 with Built in robes, new carpet throughout, SROLVKHG à RRUERDUGV DQG ODUJH VSDFLRXV OLYLQJ URRP DW WKH UHDU

BITTERN

TYABB

HASTINGS

CRIB POINT

Asking $369,000

Asking $345,000+

Asking $400,000+

Asking $165,000

Inspect by Appointment

Inspect by Appointment

Inspect by Appointment

Inspect by Appointment

INVESTMENT OR LIVE IN

A GEM IN TYABB

&217(0325$5< %50 %5,&. +20(

TITLED LAND AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE

/LVD 5REHUWV +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH

/LVD 5REHUWV +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH

LI NE ST W IN G

RE TO DU SE CE LL D

'RQ 0F.HQ]LH +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH 'RQ 0F.HQ]LH +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH

This fantastic Corner allotment Zoned Res 1......is on approx 1619 Sqms and offers dual street frontage with many different possibilities.. The weatherboard home on the property affords 4 bedrooms, 3 comfy living DUHDV ZLWK ZRRG KHDWLQJ DQG QHDW RSHQ SODQ WLPEHU NLWFKHQ

Positioned in the heart of Bittern opposite a reserve, this neat home offers HYHU\WKLQJ IRU DQ LQYHVWRU RU D ÀUVW KRPH EX\HU )HDWXUHV LQFOXGH EUPV PDVWHU ZLWK :,5 DQG VHPL HQVXLWH à RDWLQJ à RRUV WKURXJKRXW GLVKZDVKHU JDV heating. Outside features covered pergola area, large shed and carport.

A short stroll to the heart of Tyabb, transport at your front door and schools close by is this affordable 3brm home. Tastefully presented with %,5¡V WR EHGURRPV SROLVKHG WLPEHU à RRUV WKURXJKRXW PRGHUQ NLWFKHQ ZLWK quality appliances including dishwasher and loads of cupboard space.

2QO\ VKRUW VWUROO WR IRUHVKRUH ERDUGZDON ,GHDOO\ VLWXDWHG LQ D TXLHW FRXUW this spacious family home situated in one of the most prestigious areas of Hastings. Comprising 4 bedrooms, master with ensuite and WIR, EHGURRPV ZLWK GRXEOH UREHV FHQWUDO NLWFKHQ ZLWK GLVKZDVKHU DQG SDQWU\

$UH \RX ORRNLQJ IRU D WLWOHG EORFN" 7KHQ ZH KDYH MXVW ZKDW \RXU ORRNLQJ IRU 7KLV VTP EORFN LV WXFNHG DZD\ IURP WKH URDG DQG LV UHDG\ IRU \RX WR immediately build your Dream Home on. The owners have had preliminary drawings done by Rod Hannah and Assoc of a suitable spacious home.

HASTINGS

HASTINGS

CRIB POINT

HASTINGS

Neg Over $315,000

Asking $382,000

Neg over $310,000

Asking $382,000

/LVD 5REHUWV +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH

LI NE ST W IN G

'RQ 0F.HQ]LH +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH 'RQ 0F.HQ]LH +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH 'RQ 0F.HQ]LH +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH

ER D N U R OFFE Inspect by Appointment

Inspect by Appointment

Inspect by Appointment

Inspect by Appointment

HIGH STREET AT YOUR DOOR

BAY LOCATION

RENOVATED AND READY FOR YOU

PEACE & QUIET LIFE STYLE

2 bedrooms, SLUG, gas ducted heating, 100m to main street, private yard, great tenant.

/LVD 5REHUWV +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH

Set a short distance from the Marina, this 3brm home is set on approx 750sqm. Features include bedrooms with BIRs. On entry you are greeted by SROLVKHG Ă RRU ERDUGV D JRRG VL]H ORXQJH DUHD DQG D TXDOLW\ KRVWHVV NLWFKHQ with gas appliances, dishwasher available. Ducted heating & R/C split system.

'RQ 0F.HQ]LH +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH

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 LV WKLV EULFN KRPH WKDW LV VROLG DV D URFN DQG RIIHUV SROLVKHG WLPEHU ERDUGV UREHV WR DOO EHGURRPV QHDW EDWKURRP JDV KHDWLQJ DQG EUDQG QHZ NLWFKHQ

/LVD 5REHUWV +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH

6LWXDWHG LQ +DVWLQJV PRVW H[FOXVLYH HVWDWH LV WKLV EHGURRP EULFN YHQHHU KRPH DOO ZLWK %,56 &RPSULVLQJ SROLVKHG Ă RRU ERDUGV WKURXJKRXW JRRG VL]H ORXQJH PHDOV DQG RSHQ NLWFKHQ DUHD RYHUORRNLQJ GHFNLQJ DUHD 'XFWHG KHDWLQJ NHHSV \RX FRPIRUWDEOH IRU WKRVH FROGHU PRQWKV

'RQ 0F.HQ]LH +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH

TYABB

HASTINGS

HASTINGS

Asking $375,000

Asking $360,000-$395,000

Asking $279,000

Asking $350,000+

LI NE ST W IN G

LI NE ST W IN G

CRIB POINT

Inspect by Appointment

Inspect by Appointment

Inspect by Appointment

GREAT INVESTMENT WITH SMALL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY

PERFECT FOR THE LIFESTYLE CONSCIOUS

VALUE FOR MONEY SO CLOSE TO TOWN

Inspect Saturday 1-1.30pm - 192 High Street

LOCATION SURE TO IMPRESS

Hidden behind a native garden and situated on a corner allotment this newly renovated 3 bedroom home with double car carport ZRXOG EH D JUHDW VWDUW IRU VRPHRQH ORRNLQJ IRU D VPDOO VXEGLYLGDEOH property to begin their investment portfolio.

:LWK D IDEXORXV Ă RRU SODQ DQG SULYDWH VHWWLQJ WKLV TXDOLW\ EXLOW \HDU ROG townhouse is truly for the lifestyle conscious. Greeted by contemporary RSHQ SODQ OD\RXW ZKLFK HPEUDFHV WKH GHFNHG FRXUW\DUG WKLV SURSHUW\ ERDVWV EHGURRPV ZLWK EXLOW LQ UREHV PDVWHU ZLWK (QVXLWH DQG ZDON LQ UREH

/RFDWLRQ /RFDWLRQ /RFDWLRQ WKDW¡V ZKDW PDNHV WKLV XQLW VR DSSHDOLQJ WR ,QYHVWRUV DQG WKH HOGHUO\ \RX FDQ WKURZ DZD\ WKH NH\V DQG VDYH RQ SHWURO as everything is at your doorstep. The Unit offers 2 bedrooms and is in very neat condition, with a gas wall furnace and a duct to main bedroom.

BITTERN

HASTINGS

CRIB POINT

HASTINGS

Contact Agent

Asking $329,900

Asking $260,000

Set sale date - 25th June 2011

'RQ 0F.HQ]LH +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH

LI NE ST W IN G

/LVD 5REHUWV +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH

LI NE ST W IN G

/LVD 5REHUWV +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH

LI NE ST W IN G

/LVD 5REHUWV +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH

6LWXDWHG LQ D SULPH ORFDWLRQ RI +DVWLQJV DQG D VKRUW ZDON WR WKH ED\ KHDUW of town, is this immaculate 3 bedroom home all with robes, gas heating, fans, open plan area, and lounge & dining area. Outside features 2 or 4 car FDUSRUW OLWUH ZDWHU WDQN DQG DZQLQJV IRU VHFXULW\ DQG SURWHFWLRQ

Inspect by Appointment

Inspect by Appointment

Inspect by Appointment

Inspect by Appointment

“Stormont� A Tradesmans Delight

Neat and Sweet

GREAT BUYING

THE BEST OF SMALL ACERAGE

Stormont occupies a secluded 5.2 acres of land opposite Lornas 7ULDQJOH 'HVLJQHG DQG EXLOW E\ WKH FXUUHQW RZQHU WKLV PDJQLĂ€FHQW family residence is ideal for a growing family/ tradesman and is being offered for sale for the 1st time.

/LVD 5REHUWV +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH

Extremly tidy and structually sound home. Three bedrooms with VHPL ZDON WKUX HVXLWH JDV KHDWLQJ JDV FRRNLQJ TXLHW FRXUW ORFDWLRQ central to main shopping precinct, schools and public transport, currently tenanted by the same tenant from the past 20yrs.

/LVD 5REHUWV +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH

/LYH LQ RU OHDVH WKLV WZR EHGURRP EULFN YHQHHU KRPH ERDVWV GXDO DFFHVV HQVXLWH JDV KHDWLQJ VLQJOH ORFN XS JDUDJH SULYDWH UHDU DUHD DQG ORYHO\ garden setting for impressive street appeal. Quiet area, arrange inspection with some urgency.

/LVD 5REHUWV +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH

This most desirable small acreage with northerly aspect and sheltered from DOO WKH SUHYDLOLQJ ZLQGV %XLOG \RXU GUHDP KRPH RYHUORRNLQJ EHDXWLIXO VSULQJ IHG ODNH (QMR\ WKH QDWLYH ERXQGDU\ OLQH RI HVWDEOLVKHG WUHHV DQG VKUXEV Power, mains water and phone available.

/LVD 5REHUWV +DVWLQJV 2IĂ€FH

www.satchwells.com.au HASTINGS BALNARRING FLINDERS

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

03 5979 1888 03 5983 5509 03 5989 0744

Page 6

Western Port Real Estate 7 June 2011

Hastings

$368,000

A four-bedroom beauty FIVE minutes’ walk from the centre of town, but still in a secluded and quiet location, this big four-bedroom home is on a 762 square metre block. Well-kept gardens frame the family home with a large backyard for the dog and plenty of room for the kids to enjoy. The open plan kitchen and dining overlooks the yard and a large family/lounge room. Features include a large double garage with plenty of room for two cars as well as

storage, gas heating and split system airconditioning to ensure all year comfort. Tenanted until mid-September, the property can be purchased as an investment (tenant willing to renew lease) or with vacant possession at the end of the lease. Homes of this size don’t last long at this price. Returning $340 a week. Vendor willing to meet market.

Agency: Tallon First National, 35 High Street, Hastings. Phone: 5979 3000. Agent: Dominic Tallon, 0408 528 857.

Bittern

$390,000

heating and cooling. There are verandahs on all four sides, a two-car garage and twocar carport. The garden is well established and has mature trees.

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

$340,000 -$375,000

Stylish townhouse just 200 metres to the water THIS immaculately presented three-bedroom free-standing villa unit is in a block of only two. It is in central Hastings, a short walk to the marina, main street shops, parkland and restaurants. The home is only three years young and features a modern, designer kitchen with gas stainless steel appliances and a spacious loungeroom and meals area opening onto a private rear courtyard. The main bedroom has walk-in robe and ensuite and the other two bedrooms have built-in

robes and share a central family bathroom. The property also includes a gas hot water service, ducted heating, double lock-up garage (with internal access) and rear roller door access to the backyard, plus additional space, ideal for boat/caravan storage. It is leased until June 2011 and would be a great investment with capital growth assured. Still covered under the builders’ warranty. Move straight in or renew the lease: what’s your preference?

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

Log cabin-style home on about 1180 square metres THIS log cabin-style home has three bedrooms with a master with walk-in-robes and ensuite. It has an expansive lounge/dining area with cathedral ceilings, a study area, central heating, fireplace and split systems for

Hastings

Hastings

Neg. Over $440,000

Light-filled and spacious THE location is ideal, the quality is impressive and the vendor is motivated. This 27-square showpiece offers three large bedrooms (master with ensuite and walk-in robes) plus a large spacious study, two bathrooms, comfortable living areas

and designer kitchen with stainless steel appliances and dishwasher finished off with Caesar stone bench tops. Outside there is a great alfresco area, a drive-through double lock-up garage with remote control and landscaped gardens.

Agency: Harcourts Hastings, Shop 10, 14 High Street. Phone: 5970 7333. Agent: Bree Coburn, 0401 398 503.

Western Port Real Estate 7 June 2011

MC REAL

WWW.

Page 7

MCREALESTATE .COM.AU

ESTATE

At your service

As New Villas Hastings Offers over $280,000 considered

LY ON

FT E L 1

As new two bedroom villa unit offering open plan living, gourmet kitchen, gas stainless steel appliances & dishwasher. Two bedrooms with built LQ UREHV VHPL HQVXLWH TXDOLW\ ¿[WXUHV DQG ¿WWLQJV KHDWLQJ FRROLQJ SULYDWH UHDU FRXUW\DUGV DQG ORFN XS JDUDJH 6WLOO XQGHU %XLOGHUV ZDUUDQW\ &XUUHQWO\ leased to excellent tenants, a valuable addition to \RXU UHQWDO SRUWIROLR %X\ RQH RU EX\ WKH FRPSOH[ of three.

Contemporary Townhouse Hastings $450,000

Att: Retiree - Investor - First Home Buyer Hastings From $239,500

%UDQG 1HZ /RZ 0DLQWHQDQFH /LYLQJ EH SDUW RI VRPHWKLQJ XQLTXH KHUH LI \RX DFW QRZ WR VDYH XS WR DSSUR[ RI 67$03 '87< GROODUV IRU ($5/< %,5' SXUFKDVLQJ RII WKH SODQ %UDQG 1HZ 2QH %HGURRP 8QLW ZLWK QG EHGURRP RU VWXG\ ORFDWHG ZLWKLQ HDV\ DFFHVV WR DOO DPHQLWLHV $OO XQLWV ZLOO FRPSULVH TXDOLW\ ¿[WXUHV DQG ¿WWLQJV WKURXJKRXW WLOHG ZHW DUHDV VWDLQOHVV VWHHO DSSOLDQFHV TXDOLW\ FDUSHWV HWF %XLOGLQJ QRZ XQGHU ZD\ WDNH \RXU SLFN EXW EH TXLFN WR VHFXUH \RXUV

Location Plus! Hastings Offers over $340,000

Ah...just imagine...the sun is peeping over the KRUL]RQ FU\VWDO FOHDU EOXH VN\¶V D OLJKW VHD EUHH]H DV \RX VWUROO IURP \RXU 6W\OLVK 7RZQKRXVH 50metres to the waterfront and meander along the boardwalk, the sun is now glistening on the FDOP ZDWHUV +DYLQJ WKH WLPH RI \RXU OLIH \RX GHVHUYH LW 0RGHUQ VW\OLVK OLYLQJ D 6XSHUE GHVLJQ DQG TXDOLW\ FRQVWUXFWHG 7KUHH %HGURRP KRPH ZLWK north facing orientation.

,PPDFXODWHO\ SUHVHQWHG WKUHH EHGURRP IUHHVWDQGLQJ 9LOOD 8QLW LQ D EORFN RI RQO\ WZR /RFDWHG LQ FHQWUDO Hastings a short walk to the Marina, main st shops, SDUNODQG DQG UHVWDXUDQWV 7KH KRPH LV RQO\ WKUHH \HDUV \RXQJ DQG FRPSULVHV RI D PRGHUQ GHVLJQHU kitchen with gas stainless steel appliances, spacious loungeroom and meals area opening out to the SULYDWH UHDU FRXUW\DUG 0DLQ EHGURRP ZLWK ZDON LQ robe and ensuite plus a further two bedrooms with EXLOW LQ UREHV DQG FHQWUDO IDPLO\ EDWKURRP $OVR including gas hws, ducted heating, double lock up garage (with internal access) & rear roller door DFFHVV WR WKH EDFN \DUG LGHDO IRU ERDW VWRUDJH

Investor/ Developer Special

Great Family Home With Potential Plus

Hastings $315,000

Crib Point Offers Over $640,000 considered

$ JUHDW IDPLO\ KRPH ZLWK DQ DEXQGDQFH RI potential on a large 762 m2 (approx) allotment. The home includes spacious loungeroom with gas KHDWLQJ VXQ ¿OOHG NLWFKHQ ZLWK JDV FRRNLQJ DQG meals area. Three good size bedrooms and central IDPLO\ EDWKURRP 2XWVLGH LV FRPSOHWH ZLWK 'RXEOH /RFN XS *DUDJH JDUGHQ VKHG DQG FKLFNHQ SHQ 7KLV SURSHUW\ LV LGHDO IRU VW KRPH EX\HUV ORRNLQJ WR VHFXUH DQ HQWU\ OHYHO KRPH UHWLUHH¶V RU DV D GHYHORSPHQW RSSRUWXQLW\ ZLWK VLPLODU DOORWPHQWV LQ WKH DUHD UHDOL]LQJ WR XQLWV

An abundance of space, natural light and warmth ¿OOV WKLV VWXQQLQJ EHGURRP IDPLO\ KRPH ORFDWHG on a picture perfect 2700m2 allotment (approx). :LWK DQ DSSHDOLQJ IRUPDO ORXQJH GLQLQJ IDPLO\ room and meals area. Main bedroom with walk in robe and ensuite. A further three bedrooms ZLWK EXLOW LQ UREHV DOO VHUYLFHG E\ D ODUJH IDPLO\ EDWKURRP 7KH FRXQWU\ VW\OH NLWFKHQ LV FRPSOHWH with gas cooking, large oven & dishwasher. The home also includes the comfort of ducted heating and evaporative cooling.

Stylish Living Hastings $375,000 6W\OLVK &RQWHPSRUDU\ 7KUHH EHGURRP KRPH ZLWK ZDUPLQJ HDUWK\ WRQHV $V \RX HQWHU WKH KRPH \RX DUH JUHHWHG E\ D URRP\ ORXQJHURRP ZKLFK ÀRZV through to the gourmet kitchen with stainless steel appliances and functional dining area which leads to the outdoor entertaining area. Master bedroom with walk in robe, full ensuite, a further WZR EHGURRPV ZLWK EXLOW LQ UREHV FHQWUDO IDPLO\ EDWKURRP GXFWHG KHDWLQJ GLVKZDVKHU 2XWVLGH is complete with well landscaped gardens on a low maintenance allotment, double remote lock up garage with internal access & water tank.

Spacious Townhouse ~ close to all amenities Crib Point $315,000

6SDFLRXV 7RZQKRXVH ZLWK URRP\ OLJKW ¿OOHG ORXQJH DQG VHSDUDWH GLQLQJ DUHD 9DVW PDLQ bedroom with walk in robe, semi ensuite, good VL]H QG EHGURRP ZLWK EXLOW LQ UREHV *RXUPHW kitchen with dishwasher, breakfast bar, stainless steel cooking and ample cupboard space. Also including high ceilings, heating & cooling, large SULYDWH UHDU FRXUW\DUG UHPRWH ORFN XS JDUDJH A stones throw to shops, parkland, transport, schools etc.

4/82 high street, hastings

5979 8833

Prime 4000m2 Residential 1 parcel Crib Point $895,000

:HOO WKLV EHDXW\ LV MXVW VFUHDPLQJ RXW WR EH 'HYHORSHG RQH RI WKH IHZ UHPDLQLQJ SDUFHOV LQ this area, a stones throw to the pristine waters HGJH RI :RROOH\V EHDFK 7KH 'HYHORSPHQW VLWH RI P DSSUR[ FRPHV ZLWK DQ H[LVWLQJ three bedroom home situated at the front of the EORFN 6XEGLYLGH ZLWK WKH SRVVLELOLW\ RI EXLOGLQJ 8 units (stca). Ideal position, walking distance to all amenities.

Page 8

Western Port Real Estate 7 June 2011

www.hastings.harcourts.com.au

Crib Point 10 Quality Units only 6 Left!

Starting at $279,950 Hastings Light filled and spacious!

Your future success depends on timely investments and you can’t beat a beautifully packaged property, well located in this high growth area! Choose from 2 and 3 bedroom designs with a quality fit-out and a federation facade to make them stand out from the crowd! Smart designs feature internal doors to your garage, dual access bathrooms and Energy efficient layouts with stone bench-tops adding that extra touch of class.....Fully fitted inside and out, these great properties will be ready to rent out or move in to on handover day! Harcourts Hastings ADDRESS: 288-290 Stony Point Road

2+

1

Neg. Over $440,000

The location is ideal, the quality is impressive and the vendor is motivated... This 27 square showpiece offers 3 large bedrooms (master with ensuite and WIR) plus a large spacious study, 2 bathrooms, comfortable living areas and designer kitchen with stainless steel appliances and dishwasher finished off with caesar stone bench tops. Outside presents a great alfresco area, a drive through DLUG with remote and landscaped gardens. ADDRESS: 29 Lantons Way

Harcourts Hastings

1+

Bree Coburn 0401 398 503 Jason Dowler 0403 598 754

3

2

2

Bree Coburn 0401 398 503 Tim Hughes 0410 470 515

Hastings Pristine & Spacious!

$334,950 Hastings Charm, Space & Style!

Here we have it! A brilliant comfortable home consisting of 3 spacious bedrooms, master with semi ensuite and walk in robe. The well-equipped central kitchen offers, plenty of space, stainless steel appliances and dishwasher, which overlooks meals area/ living area and separate lounge. With ducted heating, air-conditioning, alarm system, outside entertaining area, garden shed, and double enclosed carport with rear access to backyard this home just awaits you. ADDRESS: 12 Hilltop Rise

Harcourts Hastings

3

1

Neg. Over $437,000

Situated within easy access to Hastings main street shopping strip, local schools and public transport you’ll find this very spacious family home with that modern open plan feel. Immaculately presented it offers large living areas comprising a formal lounge, a large family area leading to a fantastic, huge covered entertaining area with a spa, 4 large bedrooms, main with en-suite and WIR, BIR’s in other bedrooms, modern kitchen with stainless steel quality appliances including dishwasher, a family bathroom, separate toilet and laundry. There’s ducted heating and evaporative cooling and ceiling fans. Harcourts Hastings ADDRESS: 7 Forbes Place

2

Bree Coburn 0401 398 503 Tim Hughes 0410 470 515

4

2

2

Bree Coburn 0401 398 503 Tim Hughes 0410 470 515

Crib Point Winning Combination!

Lot 1: $289,950 - Lot 2: $159,950

An opportunity awaits to buy either a 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom home to the front of the property or a generous (632msq approx) vacant allotment to the rear. The home available includes a master with BIR’s, walk through bathroom, gas heating & two separate living spaces. The block for sale to the rear is flat & private. The choice is yours as to potential subdivid (STCA) or build an affordable home on a generous allotment. Located close to schools, shops & public transport it offers an outstanding central position. Harcourts Hastings ADDRESS: Lot 1 & 2, 280 Stony Point Road

3

1

1

Jason Dowler 0403 598 754 Lauren Dunsford 0422 385 869

Balnarring A Quiet Achiever

$559,000

Situated on a quiet rear allotment and within walking distance to all Balnarring has to offer, this established near-new home boasts four bedrooms and large open plan living, making it a pleasure for families craving space or retirees wanting to be close to everything. Behind a superbly designed facade, you’re dazzled by high ceilings and modern finishes. Two living zones are separated by a large designer kitchen and meals area with stainless steel appliances and granite style bench-tops. The master bedroom features an ensuite and walk in robe, two other bedroom have built in robes and the fourth another walk in robe. A centrally located bathroom services the three other bedrooms. An alfresco entertaining deck overlooks a low maintenance private rear yard. Standout features: Double lockup garage, solar hot water, gas ducted heating and water tanks.

ADDRESS: 4/2986 Frankston Flinders Road

Harcourts Hastings

4 Richard Smith 0433 669 112

HASTINGS

Shop 10, 14 High St

5970 7333

2

Somers Bigger & Better! – Motivated Vendor!

$625,000-$675,000

Superbly renovated, this ‘as new’ four bedroom, three bathroom residence offers light filled stylish interiors and landscaped 1402m2 approx easy-care gardens in a brilliant central location only a short stroll to the beach. Immaculately presented and distinctively large family home appointed, the free flowing floor plan provides wonderful living spaces of impressive proportions. A wonderful entertainer, it comprises main bedroom with fitted robes and ensuite; the large second bedroom also has an ensuite; a very generous free flowing lounge; meals and large family room overlooking a delightful private rear yard. Harcourts Hastings ADDRESS: 36 South Beach Road

2

4 Jason Dowler 0403 598 754 Lauren Dunsford 0422 385 869

Photo ID required for all Inspections

3

2

Western Port Real Estate 7 June 2011

Tallon

:H SXW \RX ÀUVW

BITTERN

HASTINGS

CRIB POINT

BITTERN

Westernport Retirement Village

Neat & Tidy

A Touch Of Class

Builder’s Own

For Sale:

For Sale:

For Sale:

For Sale:

This retirement unit comprises separate lounge & dining, a good size kitchen with gas cooking & wall oven, 3 bedrooms of good size with built in robes, duct heating & air conditioning and separate single garage with remote and rear entry to garden. There is still some furniture in the unit which you have the option to buy.

$250,000

This well presented home will appeal to Àrst home buyers, wanting to make that Àrst step on the property ladder. Located in a quiet part of this growing suburb with everything within walking distance, this property aims to please. Upon entry you are greeted by a large lounge room set on beautiful Áoating Áoors with gas heating.The rest of the home features master bedroom with ensuite & walk in robe, 2nd & 3rd bedrooms have built in robes. $360,000

Page 9

:alk through this modern 3 bedroom home to Ànd main bedroom with walk in robe & full ensuite, the other 2 bedrooms are of good size with built in robes. The state of the art kitchen features island bench, s/s 900 cooker, dishwasher, vinyl clad doors, granite tops & glass splash backs. $n open plan lounge with gas log Àre inserted in the wall overlooks the dining area. $385,000

Nestled between quality homes this as new 3 bedroom + study home with builder’s warranty features open plan living, separate dining, a state of the art kitchen overlooking the rear garden & covered deck area, zoned bedrooms main with walk in robe & full ensuite, internal access from the double remote garage, lined pine Áooring throughout with quality carpets, duct heating & split system for all year comfort. $465,000

BITTERN

BITTERN

HASTINGS

Better Than a Unit

Westernport Retirement Village

4 Bedroom Beauty

Located 5 minutes walk from the centre of town, but still in a secluded and quiet location you will Ànd this big 4 bedroom home on a big 762m2 approx block. Well kept gardens frame this family home with a large backyard for the dog and plenty of room for the kids to enjoy. Open plan kitchen and dining overlooks the yard and a large family/lounge room. Featuring a large double garage there’s plenty of room for 2 cars + storage.

Modern contemporary 3 year old, 5 star energy rating home set on a 640m2 block of land.Walk up the central paved path surrounded by landscaped gardens to the well zoned family home with neutral decor, 4 large bedrooms - main with walk in robe & full ensuite, 2 living areas (formal & family), a modern well equipped kitchen with 900 s/s gas cooktop, w/o, d/w and double door pantry, separate meals/dining area which has access to the double remote garage.

For Sale:

For Sale:

For Sale:

For Sale:

This as new home is situated at the front of the block with rear home to be built (no body corporate). Featuring 3 bedrooms with dual access bathroom from main bedroom, good size kitchen with gas cooktop & u/b oven, open plan dining & lounge, duct heating & evaporative cooling to cater for all seasons. There is possible room to build a carport at the front with separate driveway. This property is ideal for the Àrst home buyer, retirees or investment rental. $335,000

This unit is surrounded by hedges which tells you the previous was a keen garden and features a good size lounge with air conditioning, 2 bedrooms with built in robes, large kitchen with gas cooking & wall oven, duct heating, a single garage and rose bushes at the rear.

$250,000

HASTINGS

$368,000

Your Dream Come True

$395,000

BITTERN

HASTINGS

BITTERN

HASTINGS

Westernport Retirement Village

Beautifully Presented PRICE REDUCED TO SELL...

Sweeping Verandahs

“Martin Heights” - Unit 2

This larger than usual retirement unit with 3 bedrooms or 2 + study features open plan lounge with sliding door to the paved pergola area & garden, large kitchen with gas cooktop, w/o & d/w which leads to the laundry. The home also has 2 water closets, duct heating & air conditioning and a single garage with remote.

For Sale:

$259,500

If your looking for space this home has it featuring 4 bedrooms - main with walk in robe & full ensuite, formal lounge, separate formal dining, open plan kitchen/family & rumpus room. The modern kitchen with s/steel appliances including dishwasher & walk in pantry has access to laundry and the double remote garage.

What an opportunity to live a lifestyle of peace & quiet. 360° of sweeping verandahs overlooking a tranquil bush setting from your country homestead with 30 squares of living. (nter the spacious entry to a lounge with open Àre and formal dining. A large country style kitchen with gas cooking overlooks the family area with split system air-con. 5 bedrooms main with WIR & full ensuite, plus a large laundry and Áoor boards throughout.

Privacy & position & brand spanking new this soon to be completed unit (one of only two) is on the rise in Martin Street & only a short walk to the foreshore. This low volume, hands on builder takes pride in his Ànished product. Details like glass splash backs, earth tone tiles, stainless steel appliances incl. d/w, blinds & downlights will make this a complete & luxurious home. 3 bedrooms + full ensuite, bright North facing living plus double remote garage.

For Sale:

For Sale:

For Sale:

$465,000

$735,000

HASTINGS

HASTINGS

Land For Sale

Developers Don’t Waste Time, Act Now! An Open Canvas Awaits... Positioned in a prime location of this growing suburb, this property will appeal to investors wanting to make their mark in +astings. This original renovated Àshermans cottage set on approx 907m2 block has a lot on offer, with open plan living, kitchen comes with gas hobs & electric oven, master bedroom with full ensuite & walk in robe, second bedroom has built in robes, large family bathroom, gas ducted heating and reverse cycle air conditioning.

Build your dream home with room to spare on this 1000m2 block surrounded by quality homes in a sought after part of town! <ou won’t Ànd opportunities like this come up very often. Be quick as this will not last!

“Off The Plan” - Unit 2

For Sale:

For Sale:

For Sale:

For Sale:

Pick your own builder and design your dream home on the largest block in the estate. Situated at the end of the court, it’s an ideal position for family safety. Be quick as this won’t last!

$295,000

35 High Street, Hastings

$385,000

HASTINGS

$369,000

$299,000

tallon.com.au

HASTINGS

Brand new 3 bedroom b/v home. Main bedroom with FES + WIR, modern kitchen with s/s appliances and open plan living/dining. Selected tiles + carpets (builders range) and paved entertainment area. Concrete drive + single garage in roof line. Walking distance to shops + foreshore!

$379,000

5979 3000

Page 10

Western Port Real Estate 7 June 2011

first national R E A L

E S T A T E

Craig Mann

:H SXW \RX ÀUVW

SOMERVILLE

AUCTION – 25TH JUNE AT 2:30PM

+LGGHQ WUHDVXUH RQ VTP

Tucked away in the corner of one of Somerville’s most prestige estates is this impeccably presented property waiting for a mature family to arrive. With developers chopping blocks to sizes around 400sqm the days of having a big back yard are on the way out.Featuring 4 great size bedrooms, 3 with BIR, the master has a full ensuite and a good size WIR, 2 separate living areas at each end of the house, down lights throughout property, gas ducted heating and stainless steel appliances to kitchen. A decked outdoor area, double carport, side access for the trailer, boat or even the caravan on a great size block of 882sqm (approx). Privacy is assured as you back onto acreage properties so kicking the footy or having a game of backyard cricket will be a breeze. If you desire a location within close proximity to local schools, the bustling Somerville shopping complexes, sporting facilities and public transport this is it as it’s all within walking distance. Do not miss this golden opportunity as this hidden treasure will be sold at auction. INSPECT: ADDRESS: CONTACT:

11/06/11 – 2:00-2:30pm, 18/06/11 – 2:00-2:30pm 26 Petalnina Close Craig Mann 0412 559 816

SOMERVILLE

AUCTION – 2ND JULY AT 2:30PM

1HDW VZHHW DQG FRPSOHWH

This stunning property in a very highly regarded area in Somerville is sure to appeal to many buyers looking for an established well maintained, neat and tidy family home. Comprising of 3 Bedrooms, the master features a WIR and full ensuite, the 2 kids rooms are great size and feature BIR’S, there is also a study with the option a 4th bedroom as it has BIR. Other inclusions are evaporative cooling, gas heating, 2 separate living areas and double garage which has been converted to a games room which includes a split system. The street appeal is immaculate and is ideally located within close proximity to the ever growing Somerville complexes, public transport, local sporting facilities and schools. Be the envy of your friends with an amazing outdoor entertainment area surrounded by landscaped gardens including beautiful water features. Do not miss the grand opportunity as this property WILL BE SOLD prior or at auction. INSPECT: ADDRESS: CONTACT:

11/06/11 – 1:00-1:30pm, 18/06/11 – 1:00-1:30pm, 25/06/11 – 1:00-1:30pm 24 Somerville Crescent Craig Mann 0412 559 816

4/1085 Frankston-Flinders Rd, Somerville

FUDLJPDQQ FRP DX

5978 0955

Western Port Real Estate 7 June 2011

first national R E A L

E S T A T E

Craig Mann

:H SXW \RX ÀUVW

SOMERVILLE FOOTBALL CLUB FUNDRAISING AUCTION SATURDAY 2QG -8/< SP ‡ 2/,9,$ :$< +$67,1*6 ‡ EHGURRP EDWKURRP GRXEOH JDUDJH ‡ % XLOW WKURXJK WKH HIIRUWV RI ORFDO WUDGHV SHRSOH LQ VXSSRUW RI WKH 6RPHUYLOOH )RRWEDOO &OXE ‡ 6XUURXQGHG E\ ÀUVW FODVV SURSHUWLHV ‡ / RFDWHG ZLWKLQ ZDONLQJ GLVWDQFH WR ORFDO VFKRROV SXEOLF WUDQVSRUW VKRSV DQG VSRUWLQJ IDFLOLWLHV INSPECT: 11/06/11 – 3:00-3:30pm, 18/06/11 – 3:00-3:30pm, 25/06/11 – 3:00-3:30pm CONTACT: Craig Mann 0412 559 816

4/1085 Frankston-Flinders Rd, Somerville

Page 11

FUDLJPDQQ FRP DX

5978 0955

Page 12

Western Port Real Estate 7 June 2011

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

Hastings

$350,000 – $370,000

Hastings

Sales David Nelli 0403 111 234

$225,000 - $235,000

Sales Rentals Sean Crimmins Peter Lamshed 0411 734 814 5979 4412

Hastings

Admin.

Admin.

Dayle Wilcox 5979 4412

Sally Wilcox 5979 4412

$320,000 - $345,000

D G OL ININ 2 S MA E 2R

OCCUPY OR LEASE? THE OPPORTUNITY IS YOURS!

‡ %HGURRP EDWKURRP KRPH ‡ 0DVWHU EHGURRP ZLWK :,5 DQG HQVXLWH ‡ /DUJH OLYLQJ DUHDV SOXV GLQLQJ DQG VWXG\ ‡ 'RXEOH JDUDJH DW UHDU ZKLFK KDV EHHQ FRQYHUWHG LQWR D IXOO\ VHOI contained unit.

Hastings

$395,000

7:2 ,19(670(17 3523(57,(6 ,1 21(

‡ %HGURRP KRPH ‡ ODUJH OLYLQJ DUHDV GLQLQJ DUHD ‡ 6SDFLRXV IDPLO\ EDWKURRP ‡ )XOO\ VHOI FRQWDLQHG EHGURRP FRWWDJH ORFDWHG DW UHDU ‡ +RXVH OHDVHG IRU S Z XQWLO 7KH FRWWDJH LV OHDVHG DW S Z 8QWLO ‡ &RPELQHG UHQW RI S Z ‡ 4XLHW FRXUW ORFDWLRQ FORVH WR 6FKRROV VKRSV WUDQVSRUW

Crib Point

$329,000

:+$7 $ %8<

‡ EHGURRPV DOO ZLWK %,5 ‡ 6HSHUDWH OLYLQJ DQG GLQLQJ DUHDV ‡ &HQWUDO EDWKURRP ‡ 'RXEOH FDUSRUW &XUUHQWO\ /HDVHG IRU S Z XQWLO WKH

Crib Point

$225,000 - $245,000

&$//,1* $// ,19(67256 ),567 +20( %8<(56 %( 48,&. ‡ %HGURRPV ZLWK %,5 ‡ /LYLQJ DUHD ZLWK JDV KHDWLQJ ‡ *DV FRRNWRS DQG KRW ZDWHU VHUYLFH ‡ 5HDU SULYDWH FRXUW\DUG ‡ 6LQJOH ORFN XS JDUDJH /HDVHG RQ D PRQWK E\ PRQWK EDVLV DW SHU ZHHN

Hastings

$250,000

35,0( /2&$7,21 35,0( 23325781,7<

‡ ODUJH EHGURRPV ‡ EDWKURRP DQG WRLOHWV ‡ 6LQJOH FDUSRUW ‡ VWRUH\ EHGURRPV XSVWDLUV DQG WKH NLWFKHQ OLYLQJ GLQLQJ DUHD down stairs ‡ ,GHDO DGGLWLRQ WR \RXU ,QYHVWPHQW 3RUWIROLR

Hastings

/8;85< ',67,1&7,21

$485,000 - $525,000

‡ EHGURRP KRPH RU EHGURRP SOXV VWXG\ ‡ 0DVWHU VXLWH ZLWK ODUJH :,5 WKURXJK WR WKH HQVXLWH ZLWK VSD ‡ /LYLQJ SOXV GLQLQJ DUHDV ‡ %D\ YLHZV IURP VHFRQG VWRUH\ ‡ 6HFRQG VWRUH\ GHFNLQJ RQ HDVW DQG ZHVW VLGH RI WKH KRPH ‡ FDU JDUDJH ‡ (VWDEOLVKHG JDUGHQV ‡ 7KLV KRPH KDV WR EH VHHQ WR EH EHOLHYHG

EXCLUSIVE UNIT. QUALITY & CLASS!

‡ ODUJH EHGURRPV PDLQ EHGURRP ZLWK %,5 DQG HQVXLWH ‡ )XOO IDPLO\ EDWKURRP ‡ OLYLQJ DUHDV PDLQ GLQLQJ ‡ 1RUWK IDFLQJ NLWFKHQ ‡ 'RXEOH ORFN XS JDUDJH ZLWK DFFHVV WR VLGH KRXVH ‡ (QFORVHG RXWVLGH \DUG DUHD ‡ /HDVHG IRU S Z OHDVH HQGV

Mornington

$1,030,000

(63/$1$'( 0251,1*721

‡ 4XDOLW\ EXLOW OX[XU\ UHVRUW VW\OH KRPH ‡ 3ULPH /RFDWLRQ RSSRVLWH VHFOXGHG EHDFK ‡ EHGURRPV ‡ EDWKURRPV VSD ‡ /DQGVFDSHG SRRO DQG ZDWHU IHDWXUH SDYHG FRXUW \DUG ‡ )DPLO\ OLYLQJ URRP SDUHQWV OLYLQJ DUHD XS VWDLUV ‡ 'RXEOH JDUDJH ´+HDU WKH ZDYHV VPHOO WKH VHD VDOWµ

Hastings

$199,500

9$&$17 /$1'

‡ /RFDWHG LQ XS DQG FRPLQJ HVWDWH ¶2OLYLD :D\· ‡ 1R WKURXJK 5RDG ‡ $GMDFHQW WR UHVHUYH ‡ %XLOG \RXU 'UHDP +RPH

With over 30 years combined property management experience, who else would you trust with your investment property In the westernport region?

%5$1' 1(: 02'(51 81,7

‡ 0RGHUQ EHGURRP XQLW ZLWK %,5 ‡ )DQWDVWLF LQYHVWPHQW RSSRUWXQLW\ ‡ (QVXLWH EDWKURRP ‡ 6LQJOH FDUSRUW

Peter Lamshed

Talk to the best, talk to Baywest

Sue Frankcombe

AROUND THE PENINSULA

New heights: The 13-storey apartment complex approved by Frankston Council dominates the city’s skyline, seen here from the intersection of Davey St and Nepean Hwy in an artist’s drawing.

High rise key to city’s future By Keith Platt WHEN finished, the 13-storey, $50 million Ario apartment block will be the highest building in Frankston. Not only is it higher than the 12-level Peninsula Centre, but also its location in Davey St is on a ridge overlooking the city centre and Port Phillip. Although running contrary to Frankston Council’s precinct policy, the city’s strategic planners say the 89-apartment Denton Corker Marshall-designed building fits with state policy. Urging councillors to approve the project, the planners said they had given the precinct policy “minimal consideration” as it was likely to be deleted from the Frankston Planning Scheme. The 45-metre high building (25m above the precinct policy) will incorporate an 88-seat cafe, residents-only health club and basement car parking as well as 36 one-bedroom, 49 two-bedroom and four three-bedroom apartments. Two heritage buildings – once grand houses – on the site at numbers 10 and 12 Davey St will be incorporated into the design. Plans for the building were approved mid-May and developer Ross Voci says construction will start in February next year. Like other developers, many reputedly standing on the sidelines waiting for someone to make the first move, Mr Voci says the negative perception

Water views: An artist’s impression of the 13-storey apartment building planned for two lots in Davey St, Frankston.

of Frankston “is probably the biggest obstacle” to investment. “I’m hoping that the media take more of a positive interest in Frankston and promote not just the building but all the other up-and-coming infrastructures like the marina, public pool, bypass, and the overall improvement to the central area that has already started with the boardwalk and

the approval of a high-end project like Ario.” “In-depth analysis and comment” from council’s Urban Strategy Department stated that the Davey St decision “has much wider ramifications than just dealing with the local issues of heritage, protection of neighbouring amenity, car parking and building height”.

Ambrolen

The decision would see the city’s civic leadership judged by the broader community, the business sector and the state government. The department’s report said Frankston and other designated activities districts – Maribyrnong, Hume, Whitehorse, Greater Dandenong and Maroondah – would need to absorb much of Melbourne’s projected 2030 population of five million. The department said multi-storey apartments only became economically viable where the cost of typical detached housing lot (vacant land) was above $350,000 to $450,000. “The financial viability challenge is linked to the fact that apartment development entails higher construction costs relative to detached dwellings, unless they are built at a significant scale such as being proposed by the Davey St application.” Council’s governance officer said the apartment’s car parking was “very low”. “Public car parking should only be made available for public use and not used as a substitute for a lack of parking availability in private developments.” Cr Brad Hill told The News that he did not see the lack of on-site car parking as a “huge issue”. He said the city wanted to attract sustainable developments occupied by people without vehicles. “Frankston is a transport hub,” he said.

“Architecturally it’s more pleasing than the Peninsula Centre and could revitalise the city centre. “You can’t keep Frankston as a low key seaside village and attract the kind of economic investment we need from government or the private sector.” Hilary Poad of Friends of Frankston said it was a concern that the council had allowed the developer to construct 79 car parking spaces instead of 231. “The council did not approve the conversion of the Peninsula Centre into a hotel because of lack of parking,” she said. “The original developer of the Peninsula Centre as offices paid for parking on the Beach St side in lieu of providing it on site as it was for day parking only.” She said a hotel would have needed overnight parking for guests, but the shopping centre parking area was closed at night. “How many people will buy a onebedroom apartment in Ario without a place for their car?” she asked. She also questioned the precedent that had been set. “Will owners of neighbouring properties also apply for multi-storey buildings that will block the view of Ario residents, which is one of the main selling points of the complex?” Objectors said the building was an overdevelopment of the site that would dominate Davey St and Bay Lane, obscuring view lines and exceed building height regulations.

Specialty Dairy Products include Handmade Cheeses, Yoghurts and European Delights…

Organic Garden Solutions

Ma Maintenance of vegetable and orn ornamental gardens, weeding, pru pruning, mulching, plant selection

Frankston Blue Bay Deli (Tue-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 9am-2pm)

8 Young Street, Frankson (near Railway Station).

9783 1714

Mornington Factory is open to the public on Thursday & Friday

Co Contact: pengards@gmail.com Fra Frances Cameron 0412 476 088

(9am -5pm and Sat 9am-noon)

1/6 Latham St Mornington (off Bruce St). Melways Ref: 145 J3.

5976 4999

www.bluebaycheese.com.au Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 39

AROUND THE PENINSULA

Long way up but plenty in tank BIRDWATCHERS had a field day at Mornington when a northern giant petrel visited from the Southern Ocean. Wildlife photographer Glenn Ehmke went to the boat launching ramp at Fishermans Beach in Mornington mid-May hoping to spot a few seabirds and was surprised to see a huge dark bird in the distance he did not instantly recognise. He soon realised it was a northern giant petrel, a species known as the “vulture of the Southern Ocean”, and started taking photos. Later he reported the sighting to the Birdline Victoria website and birdwatchers came from far and wide to see and photograph the rare visitor. “They’re rarely seen in Port Phillip, but are regularly spotted at sea off the Victorian coastline,” Mr Ehmke said. Northern giant petrels live in the Antarctic and on sub-Antarctic island such as Macquarie Island, which is about 1500 kilometres from Tasmania, about halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica. “They are almost the size of the albatross and have wingspans of 1.52 metres. They usually feed on dead seals and penguins,” he said. “The bird was at least 2000km from where it was born and probably in its first or second year of life. It was likely having a rest from the stormy weather, probably after being at sea for a long time.” He said the bird appeared fit and healthy, “unlike another giant petrel found at Lakes Entrance last week that

unfortunately died in care after eating plastic”. Because giant petrels live on largely uninhabited islands, they have little fear of people and are naturally inquisitive. Petrels are “tube-nosed” seabirds and have a distinctive beak or bill with openings on top of the upper portion and between seven and nine distinct horny plates. The beak enables them push out a stomach oil for use against predators as well as an energy-rich food source for chicks and for adults during long flights. They also have a salt gland above the nasal passage that helps desalinate their bodies. Petrels take in a high amount of ocean water and the gland enables them to excrete a concentrated saline solution through the nostrils. Adults are grey-brown with lighter coloured forehead, sides of face and chin. Juveniles like the bird in the photos are completely dark brown and get lighter with age. An estimate made in 2001 put their numbers at between 17,000 and 21,000 mature birds. The population has increased over the past 20 years and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has changed their status from “threatened” to “near threatened”. And why are they called “northern” giant petrels? Have they lost their way or been misnamed? Unbelievably, it’s because they live further north than the southern giant petrel. Mike Hast

Long-range tank: This juvenile northern giant petrel visited Mornington mid-May, at least 2000 kilometres from home. Silver gulls kept a respectful distance as the petrel fed on fish scraps. Staying afloat: The juvenile northern giant petrel paddles in shallows at Mornington. Pictures: Glenn Ehmke

Pressure on council over asphalt plant By Mike Hast FRANKSTON councillors on Monday night were expected to approve a controversial asphaltmaking plant in the Aiden Graham sand quarry in McClelland Dve, Langwarrin. Boral Asphalt Victoria wants the council’s permission to erect a plant to make 400,000 tonnes of asphalt over 18 months for the 27-kilometre, $760 million Peninsula Link freeway being built between Carrum Downs and Mt Martha. Boral will bring asphalt-making equipment from Queensland and wanted to have it operating by August. The project is behind schedule as Boral had hoped to start construction of the plant in February and commission it this month. The plan has infuriated residents living in Pindara Estate – a triangle

ww

of homes between McClelland Dve, Cranbourne-Frankston Rd and Quarry Rd – as well as others within or just outside a 500-metre radius of the proposed plant. The council has received 77 objections from residents as well as Defenders of the South East Green Wedge. The quarry is in the green wedge zone, but Boral can avoid the restriction on manufacturing plants in the zone by using sand from the quarry in making the asphalt. By using sand stockpiled at the quarry, about 2.5 per cent of the mixture, the operation would be classified as an extractive industry, a permitted use in green wedges. In a report to council to be considered on Monday, council planners have recommended councillors approve Boral’s planning permit. The report says the equipment

u m. a w. peni ns ulafudge. c o

coming from Queensland comprises a drum mixer, seven-bin feed system, fabric filer and two 135-tonne hotmix storage silos. “The tallest part of the plant … will have a height of 20.5 metres,” the report states. “The plant is proposed to operate primarily Monday to Saturday between 6am and 4pm. The applicant has also advised in order to meet demand the plant will be required to operate at night and Sundays when required. “When the plant is in full operation, it will require up to six trucks every 30 minutes for the delivery of asphalt to Peninsula Link and up to six trucks every 30 minutes for the delivery of raw materials to the site.” Leading the Pindara Estate objectors is mother of five Antje Tanzen, who said residents were

PENINSULA FUDGE

SPRRWK PRXWKZDWHULQJ IXGJH SURGXFHG LQ D ZLGH UDQJH RI GHOLFLRXV ÀDYRXUV Contact us for the name of your nearest stockist

worried about the smell and noise. “Winds from the northwest will bring the stench of asphalt and we’re worried about noise late at night,” she told The News. “This area is full of children and we’re going to be subjected to a plant possibly operating 24/7. There will be trucks and their reversing beepers and the noise of unloading sand and gravel, and the mixing machine.” She said the original permit for the sand quarry restricted work to 6am to 6pm Monday to Saturday with no work on Sunday and public holidays. “We’re concerned Boral will ask for an extension of the plant after Peninsula Link is finished.” Defenders of the South East Green Wedge president Barry Ross said apart from concerns about a manufacturing plant in the green wedge, it was worried about carbon

emissions and the amount of energy used to make the asphalt. “We have been told Boral will power the plant using recycled burner fuel trucked from either Queensland or South Australia.” The Environment Protection Authority approved the plant in May. Councillors will be asked to consider a grey area regarding buffer zones. The EPA says there must be a 500-metre buffer from the plant, but the Victorian planning scheme says the buffer should be measured from the boundary of the property. Mr Ross said if the plant was approved, the Defenders would appeal the decision in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. Mrs Tanzen said residents could join the VCAT action.

The best collection of fashion frames and sunglasses on the Peninsula

John Old Full-time independent optometrist

NEW HOME OF PENINSULA FUDGE: For more information 13 NEWINGTON AVE, ROSEBUD WEST SOease Yisit our ZeE site (INDUSTRIAL ESTATE) ZZZ.SeninsuOafuGJe.com.au or Ey OPEN: TUESDAY & THURSDAY, 10 AM - 2 PM emaiO to: SeninsuOafuGJe#EiJSonG.com Back by popular demand are our delicious freshly roasted cinnamon glazed nuts Tel: 0419 501 001 Fax: 03 5982 1460

John Old Optometrist

SEE US AT ROSEBUD PRIMARY SCHOOL, BONEO, AND TOOTGAROOK MARKETS EVERY MONTH.

Bentons Square Phone: 5975 5720

PAGE 40

Western Port News 7 June 2011

“Your local family Optometrist”

Pollution delays Caltex servo project By Keith Platt CHEMICAL contamination is holding up a $7 million apartment and shop development in Main St, Mornington. The three-storey complex is planned for the former Caltex service station site, but contaminated groundwater has so far been found to have spread at least as far as the Esplanade and Drake St. Mornington Peninsula Shire has granted a two-year extension to the planning permit to allow time for a clean up. Caltex has also sought permission to carry out more work to clean up the site and groundwater. Plans for the land at the corner of Ross St and Main St include 18 apartments, four shops and a basement car park. A Certificate of Environmental Audit or a Statement of Environmental Audit must be presented to the shire council before building begins. Although information about the contamination was given to Mornington Peninsula Shire councillors on 15 September 2008, a Caltex spokesman this week told The News that “no comprehensive information is available to us”. Media adviser Sam Collyer said an environmental assessment was being carried out by independent consultants “to keep Caltex at arm’s length”.

Out of site: Groundwater polluted by chemicals from the former Caltex site in Main St, Mornington, has been traced as far away as the Esplanade and Drake St. Caltex has asked for more time for a clean up.

He said the site, 16-20 Main St, was “in a condition typical of a service station of its age and usage”. Mr Collyer said he was unable to say if contamination had spread beyond the site and “there’s no comprehensive information available to us”. Coffey Environments, the company hired by Caltex to clean up the site, referred The News to Mr Collyer. Mr Collyer said there had been several assessments of contamination on

the Caltex site and neighbouring properties “but the results are not known”. “It would be inappropriate to speculate about contamination on neighbouring sites.” He said remediation would be done on site without digging up the soil using “hi-tech technology”. Information given to The News suggests the contamination may have polluted groundwater all the way to the foreshore.

The assessment of the Caltex site given by Coffey Environments to the council in 2008 stated:  All petroleum-related infrastructure has been excavated and removed;  Soil contamination was identified in the vicinity of the petroleum infrastructure and has been removed to the extent practicable;  Impact on groundwater has been identified on the northern boundary of the site. The extent of groundwater

impact is bounded by the area between the site, Main St, Drake St and the Esplanade; and  Further work is currently being conducted to delineate the extent of groundwater impact. When asked for details, including when the clean up would be completed, Mr Collyer said the service station had closed in 2006 with infrastructure removed by March 2008. “Caltex follows stringent procedures for the closure of service station sites across its network. “Caltex takes its legal obligations very seriously. To this effect, independent environmental assessments are undertaken so as to prepare a comprehensive remediation or clean-up plan for each site. “This remediation work is tailored to the specific circumstances of the site in question and is conducted in accordance with Caltex’s environmental and work health and safety standards, and complies with statutory obligations. “Soil contaminants are removed through the remediation process, which uses technology to assist with the breakdown of contamination. “This entire process is undertaken in situ and is designed to keep disturbance of the site to a minimum.”

Pier piles close to collapse By Mike Hast ENGINEERS have found about 20 per cent of piles on the outside, unrenovated section of Mornington pier are no longer adequately supporting the top deck. Another half are in “average condition” and Parks Victoria could be on the verge of closing the 75-metre outer section of the 185-metre long pier. Locals claim the outer section swayed up to a metre in each direction during strong winds in mid-May. This has been disputed by a Parks Victoria insider who says the sway is no more than half a metre. As The News reported in early May, the outer section is at risk of being pulled down if it is hit by a major storm similar to the three that struck Mornington harbour last year. The pier was closed last April after a storm damaged piles and dislodged

Western Port

dozens of top deck timbers. Two more storms in August and September with winds of about 60 knots further weakened the iconic structure. The inner and middle section of the pier is in no danger of closing, with the inner section constructed of concrete and rocks. The middle section is undergoing a $3.5 million renovation that started last August with the pouring of concrete for the third and final part of about 14 metres on Thursday morning. The Parks Victoria contractor, K V Johnson Constructions, has built two of the three sections of the 53-metre renovation – a 14-metre section last year and a 24-metre section in April. After the concrete work is completed this week, decking will be installed using $200,000 worth of timber from NSW and Queensland. The government needs to find at least $7 million to repair the outer section.

Stability questions: Doubts have been cast on the integrity of about 70 per cent of piles on the old part of Mornington pier (right).

In May, Mornington MP David Morris said the pier was one of the most popular on Port Phillip and “very important to the town”, but had been neglected for many years by successive governments. He has been lobbying Environment Minister Ryan Smith and Parks Victoria to fix the pier as soon as possible. The News believes Parks Victoria has trimmed the budget for the pier, which has seen wave screen panels on

both sides of the pier not installed as originally planned. Bolts to take the screens have been installed, but covered with rubber caps. Parks Victoria has been forced to find about $3 million to repair Wilsons Promontory, damaged by floods in March. Parks Victoria was asked if it was going to release the engineering report about the outer section.

A spokesman said: “Parks Victoria continually monitors the condition of piers across Port Phillip and programs regular maintenance and works to ensure the continued safety and enjoyment of our bays and waterways. “With works to upgrade the middle section of Mornington Pier nearing completion, Parks Victoria is currently reviewing the condition of the outer section in relation to public safety prior to the reopening of the pier.”

Would you like to know how you can support the Western Port News?

Simple. Support our advertisers. They support local news in your community. Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 41

AROUND THE PENINSULA

Billionaire pool row By Mike Hast THE shire council is likely to seek the demolition of an $80,000 swimming pool allegedly built on public foreshore land at Mt Eliza. Mornington Peninsula Shire is investigating the pool built by Solomon Lew and his daughter Jacqueline Lew on the Port Phillip side of their property overlooking Moondah Beach south of Kunyung Rd. Mr Lew is a billionaire retailer whose primary holding company owns brands Just Jeans, Jay Jays, Portmans, Jacqui E, Peter Alexander, Dotti and Smiggle. Council sources told The News the shire had given the Lew family until 10 June to explain why the pool had been built on public land, also called Crown land, which the shire manages on behalf of the state government. The shire’s communications manager Todd Trimble said planning permits had not been issued for the pool and associated works, and an investigation had been launched. “The owners of the property did not apply for a permit to build the pool. The investigation will also focus on whether the pool has been built outside the property boundaries,” he said in a statement. The pool land is believed to be worth about $1 million and is part of the coastal reserve between Moondah

Shire to seek demolition of pool on Crown land and Ranelagh beaches. The land appears to be been built up to take the horizon pool, also called an infinity pool, which produces the visual effect of water extending to the horizon. An aerial image taken in 2008 of the disputed land shows a grassed area with steps from the house. Images on NearMap.com, an Australian supplier of high resolution aerial photos taken every month over capital cities, show the progress of the pool’s construction. The title of the Lew land is a battleaxe shape with a strip allowing access to Osprey Ave, which is connected to Kunyung Rd via Manatee Ave. There are two houses between the Lew property and Osprey Ave that also use the “axe handle” for vehicle and pedestrian access. The property adjoins Melbourne Business School in the green wedge zone. The boundary of private properties in the area and the coastal reserve was described as an anomaly in 2003 when the Department of Sustainability and

Environment’s online map showed the coastal reserve as a farming zone. Port Phillip Conservation Council president Geoffrey Goode uncovered the anomaly and DSE corrected it, changing “farming zone” to “public park and recreation zone”. It has been claimed some online maps were wrong until recently. Mt Eliza Action Group secretary June Horner accused the retail entrepreneur of a “land grab by stealth’’. “Most annoying is that shire ratepayers will have to pay for the council to battle Mr Lew,” she said. She claimed MEAG members who lived near the Lew property had no idea a pool was being built. “The pool builders must have used unmarked vehicles. Usually when a pool is being built you see a sign on the front fence advertising the company but this did not occur at the Lew property.” The pool fracas featured on Channel Seven’s current affairs program Today Tonight on Tuesday night last week.

Eyes in the sky: Top, aerial photo taken in 2008 with the “hatchet”-shaped property boundary in blue. Below, a recent NearMap image of the new pool.

Portsea’s ‘hobbit’ grove ended by the axeman By Mike Hast MOST of us will be well and truly pushing up daisies before the cedars of Lebanon grow to replace the grand old cypress pines chopped down in Portsea mid-May. And most of us alive today will not remember a time when the cypresses did not shelter the main road, their gnarled and huge branches curving over from either side to form an archway. Driving or walking over the rise at Franklin Rd and down into the shopping area of the bayside village near the end of Point Nepean Rd inspired a special feeling. There was nowhere else like this on the peninsula. For those with a vivid imagination, the young and the young at heart perhaps, it felt like entering another world, especially at dusk or on cloudy days. Perhaps there were strange creatures lurking in the shadows; hobbits or even the extraordinary blue na’vi

Timberrr: Down come some of the ancient cypress pines that flanked Point Nepean Rd in Portsea. Picture: Andrew Mackinnon

humanoids from the movie Avatar. Harsh reality kicked in on Thursday 19 May when all the polite discussions between locals and Mornington Peninsula Shire’s contract arborist and planners were replaced by the arrival of mechanised tree harvesting monsters. They rolled into town like aliens in a sci-fi movie and ate up

the trees like they were made of fairy floss. A century of growth was gone in hours. It was slightly frightening for many who witnessed the destruction. Shire councillor Tim Rodgers has tried to reassure residents: the council is spending $350,000 beautifying the street in stage two. There will be new

concrete kerbing, street furniture and “landscaping”. It will be a beautiful streetscape, he said. (Landscaping and footpath works around the pedestrian crossing adjacent to the pier access road was stage one.) Timber from the six trees cut down in mid-May will be made into street furniture and placed around the peninsula. No doubt the chipped smaller branches and foliage will go back into the earth as mulch. The six trees will be replaced by those new cedars of Lebanon (the ones on the Lebanon flag). Eleven for six seems reasonable until you discover they’ve been growing in a shire nursery for just two years and they’re shorter than your back fence (150cm, 5ft). Tree guards will protect the cedars from idiots, hopefully. Cr Rodgers says it’s a 15- or 20-

year project to remove all the iconic cypresses from the end of Point Nepean Rd up the hill to Franklin Rd. Stage three will be putting the power lines underground. That’s going to cost about $1.1 million with the shire having to cough up half. Some may have sympathy for locals like Portsea Hotel manager Andrew Henderson, who must be feeling battered and bruised, psychologically at least, after events of recent times. First the devastating loss of Portsea’s beach to “unexplained forces”, at least according to the state government, the Port of Melbourne Corporation and the Department of Sustainability and Environment. No fault of dredging at The Heads, they insist. Now the loss of the cypresses, which Mr Henderson says could have lasted longer with judicious pruning. “Nothing lasts for ever but the Earth and sky.” (Eric Benet)

To advertise in the next Western Port News please contact Val Bravo on 0407 396 824

PAGE 42

Western Port News 7 June 2011

Call to build aquatic centre at Mornington before Rosebud By Mike Hast MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire’s 2000 Indoor Pool Feasibility Strategy should be reviewed following the revelation of much higher population growth in Mornington and Mt Martha compared with Rosebud and Dromana. Mornington Peninsula Ratepayers and Residents Association secretary Alan Nelsen says Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show that since 2001, Mornington and Mt Martha area population had grown by 30 per cent while Rosebud and Dromana’s growth was 14 per cent. He says the growth rates had implications for the pool strategy, which detailed Mornington Peninsula Shire’s plans to build a pool first in Hastings (Pelican Aquatic and Recreation Centre opened in 2003) followed by Rosebud and Mornington. “Mornington should get a pool before Rosebud,” he told The News. Mr Nelsen has written to Mornington councillor Bev Colomb, who at the opening of the renovated Dromana pier precinct over Easter said the Mornington area was growing faster than the rest of the peninsula.

His letter has been sent to the shire’s manager of recreation and leisure Peter Gore. “The 2000 pool strategy was based on 1996 Census figures, which are now 15 years out of date,” he said. “Also, the strategy uses trends for catchments and patronage based on studies made as far back as 1987 and 1994.” Mr Nelsen wrote to Cr Colomb: “In view of the altered demographics since the report was prepared, with high users of aquatic and leisure facilities such as younger families moving into the Mornington and Mt Martha area, and Mornington becoming the premier township of the peninsula ... it would now appear to make more sense for the shire’s major aquatic centre to be located in Mornington.” He stated that building an aquatic centre in Mornington would be consistent with the argument that had been used to justify the siting of SPA (Southern Peninsula Aquatic centre). “That is, the pool must be located in a prominent position, have access to seven-day-a-week public transport, and must boost a commercial centre with social, cultural and economic benefits.”

He said the criteria meant Mornington offered superior benefits over Rosebud because “there is more public transport, [it] offers much greater visibility to more people, and is a more central location for community services, commercial activity and cultural activities”. “The 2000 SPA report indicates that Mornington East is a secondary catchment [area], suggesting that some of these residents will travel to Rosebud to use the pool. “Similarly it is just as easy for Rosebud residents to travel to Mornington so the travel disadvantage to the Rosebud/Mornington community is six of one and half a dozen of the other.” He said a chart (see right) showed the potential catchment area if the pool was in Mornington was significantly greater than if the pool was in Rosebud. More people lived in the Mornington catchment than Rosebud, and it made more commercial sense to build the shire’s second aquatic centre in Mornington. “It would provide greater net community benefit to the shire as a whole,” Mr Nelsen said.

Pool parties: Primary (black dotted line) and secondary (red) catchment populations for the proposed Rosebud aquatic centre.

Meanwhile, Frankston splashes out By Mike Hast FRANKSTON will get its long-awaited aquatic centre, but councillors are still tossing up whether to build one with “the lot”. The basic model will cost $33 million, with the council spending $20.6 million and the state government $12.5 million. Building will start January 2013 and be ready September 2014. The government money was promised in the lead-up to the state election last year in an attempt to shore up Frankston MP Alistair Harkness’s position. Dr Harkness was beaten by the Liberal Party’s Geoff Shaw. The “super” aquatic centre will cost $42 million and councillors have about 12 months to decide whether to upgrade while design work is underway. The design would allow for the super centre to be added. The pool, to be known as the Frankston Regional Aquatic Health and Wellness Centre, is the biggest single investment ever made by the council. The centre will have a 51.5-metre Olympic pool, children’s pool, cafe, gym and program rooms, administration area and parking for 250 cars. Building of a super centre is dependent on the council receiving federal government funding for a warm water hydrotherapy pool, health and wellness centre and $3-4 million worth of environmentally sustainable design elements. A super centre would also have water slides, splash deck, leisure pool with play area, additional gym space and a creche. Frankston has applied to the federal government for money for environmentally sustainable design elements. It will ask Peninsula Health to “strongly support council in its request for federal funding for the … hydrotherapy pool, health and wellness centre components”.

Full bottle: An artist’s impression of how the super aquatic centre would look in Samuel Sherlock Reserve in Cranbourne Rd, showing the skate park at bottom in pink and grey, and Chisholm TAFE at right. There will be parking for 250 cars. The lake is the artist’s decoration as there is no plan to build one.

Championship pool misses place in the city FRANKSTON councillors have voted to return the city’s FINA pool to Sport and Recreation Victoria. The Bracks Labor government made a song and dance in September 2006 when it promised Frankston one of the portable, 50-metre pools used at the FINA world swimming championships in Melbourne. It was to be installed at Chisholm TAFE on McMahons Rd, but the project lapsed when Chisholm and the council failed to agree on terms. The pool had elements missing when it was delivered and lies in a council storage yard in Seaford.

In 2006, then-Premier Steve Bracks said the pool would be given to Frankston following the event, at an estimated value of $2 million. “The pool will offer local access to a world class aquatic facility for a generation, and perhaps give rise to future stars of the water,” Mr Bracks said. “The Frankston community has shown a need for improved aquatic facilities and the local member Alistair Harkness has been extremely vocal in advocating this pool for the community.” “Frankston needs a regional aquatic centre and this initial contribution by the government is a

significant first step to achieving this goal,” Mr Harkness said. “I now plan to sit down with the Frankston City Council to see how this new pool can be incorporated into the design of the overall project to maximise its value.” The state government is considering an application lodged last week with the Department for Victorian Community’s Better Pools Program for further funding for the Frankston Aquatic Centre. So it only took four years and eight months to finally get an aquatic centre. Mike Hast Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 43

Tyabb Friendly Grocer JUNE SPECIALS

(V AL

ID E

ND

OF

JU N

Johnny Walker Black

VB Cans or Stubbies

Bundaberg Rum

700ml

24pk x 375ml

700ml

$46.99

$39.99

$32.99

Jim Beam Cans

Penfold Rawsons

Omni Varieties

6pk

700ml

700ml

$22.99

$7.99

$8.99

E ‘1

1)

MANY MORE SPECIALS IN STORE

1537-1539 Frankston-Flinders Road, Tyabb

Ph: 5977 3393

LE

P Stua

TRAINING FOR R.A.A. THROUGH TO COMMERCIAL LICENCE

Tyabb

la Aero Club nsu

Pen L F Y O T i N 0 6 4 4 R 7 A H: 59rt7Road, Tyabb

Welcome to

$HUREDWLF LQVWUXFWLRQ 6FHQLF )OLJKWV *URXQG VFKRRO VXEMHFWV &OXE KRXVH IDFLOLWLHV

26 Mornington-Tyabb Road, Tyabb

5977 3560 www.lockandstore.com.au sales@lockandstore.com.au

Boat & Caravan Storage Man with a Van at hourly rate

WE SELL BOXES Short/Long Term Storage 24/7 Access Your Lock & Key Night Security 2I¿ce 2n Site

MASSIVE POT & GARDEN DECOR SALE UP TO 80% off Seconds, Damaged Goods, Discontinued Stock 2 Days only Sat 18th June 9.30am – 4.00pm Sun 19thJune 9.30am – 4.00pm Topez, together with one of Australia’s largest pot importers, Pots Direct is having a massive clearance on the on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th June 2011. Bring your trailer, van or ute and save $$$ on hundreds of seconds, damaged and discontinued items. Select from a range of indoor and outdoor pots, statues, water features, giant urns. Sale is on a first come first serve basis for two days only.

Soda blasting and pressure cleaning Specialists

$IIRUGDEOH 5DWHV $OO 5HVLGHQWLDO ,QGXVWULDO 1HHGV 'ULYHZD\ ([SRVHG $JJUHJDWHV 3RRO 6XUURXQGLQJV (QWHUWDLQPHQW $UHDV $OO &RQFUHWH $UHDV

&KHZLQJ *XP Removal 6DQGVWRQH 5HWDLQLQJ :DOOV 6HDOLQJ $YDLODEOH

5(029( 3DLQW *UDIÀWL $QWL )RXOLQJ %LWXPHQ DQG PXFK PRUH

For prompt service contact: 1RHO Mobile: 0409 651 486 3HWHU Mobile: 0407 473 296 Email: sbe@issg.net.au PO Box 196, Tyabb 3913 PAGE 44

Western Port News 7 June 2011

Terms & Conditions: All items must be paid for and collected on the day of purchase, no layby, cash only, no return

16 Mornington – Tyabb Rd Tyabb Phone 03 9397 6644 Email: enquiries@topez.com.au Open Thurs –Sat 9.30am – 4.00pm Sun 9.30am – 2.00pm www.topez.com.au

Antiques, Gifts, Furniture & Treasures 93 Mornington-Tyabb Road, Tyabb Mob: 0404 332 027 Ph: 5977 4195 Email: vintageshed@bigpond.com www.thevintageshed.com.au Hours: Thursday-Sunday 10am-5pm

THE VINTAGE EMPORIUM Fashion F hi at The Th Vintage Vii S Shed h d

Huge Range of Vintage Clothing, Jewellery, Hats, Shoes and so much more 93 Mornington Tyabb Road, Tyabb Hours: Thursday to Sunday, 10am-5pm Vanessa 0400 126 023

Jewellers

Celebrating

OVER 30 YEARS in jewellery manufacture

Jewellery for all occasions WE WILL BEAT ANY PRICE

'ULYH WKURXJK WR &UDIW YLOODJH ‡ 7UDGLQJ KRXUV 7KXUVGD\ WR 6XQGD\ DP SP

TYABB CRAFT VILLAGE

14 Mornington-Tyabb Road, Tyabb 3913 Phone 5977 3711 Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 45

LOCAL HISTORY

ARTHUR

Part Two

By Peter McCullough

came and said that he thought he could cure her. I was doubtful but she then spent a month in a hospital in Moorabbin. When she came home she was completely changed. After 18 years of illness, she spent the last 15 year cured! In the later years, Bianca became a beacon of hope for others and often spoke to groups, especially in the Italian community. Fortunately we celebrated our golden wedding anniversary (1994) in these good years, and Bianca was thrilled to receive a blessing from the Pope. Unfortunately her health had suffered and she became a diabetic. She lost her lower leg due to complications from the diabeties. She died quite unexpectedly in 2003. Time to celebrate: Arthur with family members at his 90th birthday.

CONTINUED FROM LAST EDITION Would you like to tell us about Bianca? As I said, the early days in Somerville were very hard. As well as looking after the children, Bianca served petrol and did the office work. She often balanced Alan and Anita in her arms while serving petrol. As you will see in the photos, like most garages in those days you

could have a choice of brands of petrol. Unfortunately when the children were still small Bianca had some health problems. We were never sure what caused it. I took her to specialists and she was hospitalised on a number of occasions. Although she was an excellent cook, she was unable to work like she had used to and Alan and Anita would have to fill in, not only in the house but

also in the workshop. I took her overseas for two years and we travelled extensively throughout Canada and Europe – more than 87,000 kilometres – but when we got back she was no better. Then I started building this house here in Frankston (called Villa Nemis) thinking that would give her something to look forward to but there was no change. The family was at its wits’ end and then one day a man

Did the church play a role in your life? I was never a strict Catholic but Bianca was and all the children have been brought up as churchgoing Catholics. In the days when Catholics were not allowed to eat meat on Friday, the priest said to me “Arthur, you work so hard you need red meat. You can have an exemption and eat meat on Friday.” The kids couldn’t work out how I could eat meat on Friday and they had to have fish! All the kids went to Catholic schools and the two older boys, Alan and Johnny, were borders at Assumption College in Kilmore. Alan was doing very well at his religious studies and announced that he wanted to be a priest; I wanted him to take over the business so I pulled him out of college and he started his apprenticeship straight away. Were you strict with the kids? Well I guess I was a typical Italian father. Alan will tell you that I wouldn’t let him play football as he might damage his hands and I banned him from

50th wedding anniversay: Celebrated with a Papal blessing.

playing the piano accordian as he would get stiff fingers and not be able to hold the spanners. I don’t remember these things; perhaps he is exaggerating! Alan also claims that I would impound his car for a week if he was out later than the midnight deadline when he was a young bloke – another exaggeration. What has become of the five children that you brought up so strictly? Alan lives in Mt Eliza and is in the hire car and garage business, Anita (Alderson) is the owner of the Kings Creek Hotel in Hastings, Johnny is a mechanic and lives at Langwarrin, Faye (Bushby) owns and runs a broiler farm in Somerville and Denis is a panel beater who lives in Hastings. With 90 years on the clock,

Prize exhibit: The polar bear shot by Arthur in Alaska. Game hunter: Arthur, second from right, clearing out foxes in Tyabb.

PAGE 46

Western Port News 7 June 2011

you have obviously enjoyed good health. I didn’t have a day’s illness all of my working life but last year I contracted a fungus behind my right eye. It took a while for the specialists to find it, and as a result the optic nerve was damaged. Consequently I am blind in that eye, although the specialists are confident that I will get some sight back. I was in St Vincent’s for about four weeks and it has slowed me down. Before that I was really well and looked well; Alan will tell you that when he and I went up to Queensland early last year, a chap who he knew said to him, “I haven’t met your brother!” The eye problem stopped me going overseas last year so I hope to make up for it this year. Perhaps one of the explanations for my good health has

been the concoction of pulped fruit and vegetables that I have for breakfast each morning. Your favourite pastime has been big-game hunting. How did you get into it? I was doing a lot of shooting around here – quail and ducks mostly – but I was always keen to have a go at the big stuff. Someone told me to get in touch with this chap in Charters Towers and he introduced me to Safari Club International. My first big-game hunting trip would have been in the late 1960s to South Africa. I shot 14 animals using only 15 bullets and the native gun-bearers called me Wun Tun, meaning “one bang”. After that trip I was hooked and I have since gone on many guided hunting safaris to places such as Mongolia, Alaska, South Africa and New Zealand. I generally went every second year and my last trip, when I shot the lion, was when I was 1986.

proper authorities and the appropriate licence obtained. This was sometimes a slow process: I had to wait seven years for the licence for the polar bear. Also, I never shot young animals or females. My only regret is that I never shot a leopard; there are plenty of them over there, but bringing it back to Australia would have been a problem. Where did you do your duck shooting? I am a shareholder of a big property near Oxley in New South Wales and I used to go up there quite regularly. Was fishing another interest?

What do regard as your prize exhibit?

Each year for many years I would drive to north Queensland and fish in the Burdekin area. I would generally stay with my nephew, retired canegrower Gundy Favero. He and his son, Bradley, would take me out as they always seemed to know where the fish were. The photo (right) shows some of the big grunters we caught off Cape Bowling Green when I was there in 2008.

Probably the polar bear, which I have just inside the front door.

How strong are your ties with Italy?

Today, big-game hunting is frowned on by many; do you have any misgivings?

Well, apart from our big trip when we were away for two years, my wife and I went back several times to Italy. Since I retired I have been back every second year. I still have relations back there and go back to the area where I came from.

No. If I had my time over I would do it all again. I never did anything illegal: the trip was always organised with the

As it is today: SAB Motors and the Shell service station on Frankston-Flinders Rd, Somerville.

I have a big camera and have taken many films of my travels. When I get home I enjoy watching the films. Footnote: Regular readers of Mornington Peninsula News Group papers will know that we regularly provide support to the conservation movement. Big-game hunting was an acceptable recreational activity until quite recently. While it may be viewed with displeasure today by most people, the pasttime that Arthur loved was legal and he operated within the boundaries set by the authorities at the time. It is an integral part of his story.

Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 47

KING OF THE MOUNTAIN TREE SERVICES

Phone Craig on 0415 346 227 or 5983 0182

To advertise in the next Home & Garden feature page please contact Val Bravo on 0407 396 824

Winter’s a great time to wallpaper By Ross of Rosco’s Paint Place WINTER is a time to find some inside jobs to do. No point trudging around in the rain and cold when you can stay indoors, not too far from a nice coffee or soup, with the heater blaring and do a little bit of renovating. It is the perfect time to refresh your internal walls. The new ranges of wallpapers are great and at Hastings Paint Place (Hastings Home Decor), we have the largest range of wallpaper on the peninsula, and quite possibly the largest range in Victoria. Often, putting up new wallpaper can require the removal of old wallpaper. Here are some simple steps to get you that blank canvas you require to get started on your winter decorating. Step 1 Remove existing wallpaper. The use of a steam-generating remover is recommended. Ask us about hiring details. If scrapers are used, avoid gouging into the plaster or wallboard underneath. Step 2 Totally remove all residual wallpaper paste with sugar soap in water and a sponge or open mesh cloth. If on wallboard, avoid excessively wetting of the paper surface. Step 3 Treat any mould with one part antimould solution and three parts water. Refer to instructions on how to remove mould. Important: failure to carry out these steps effectively will result in poor appearance and/or adhesion. Step 4 When the wall is thoroughly dry,

ROSCO’S HASTINGS

POOL & SPA SHOWROOM FREE

chemical

start up kit Sapphire spas - davey pumps & heaters - australian made & owned - best in spa technology

REMEMBER WE HAVE MOVED TO

patch and fill as required. If on wallboard, apply one coat of New Look Oil Based Undercoat by brush or roller, and allow to dry as per the manufacturer’s directions. Step 5 Sand any rough spots or raised fibres gently but effectively. Step 6 Apply two coats of New Look Signature or New Look premium quality water-

O CE TS N VI C A ER TR S N O C

based wall paint in sheen level of choice and according to the manufacturer’s instructions. For more information contact Ross at Rosco’s Pool & Spa Showroom and Shop, Unit 3/1907 Frankston-Flinders Rd, Hastings, phone 5979 4597.

;OL ,U]PYVUTLU[HSS` MYPLUKS` ^H` [V WYVJLZZ ZL^HNL ^HZ[L ^H[LY HUK VYNHUPJ ^HZ[L

UNIT 3/1907 FRANKSTON-FLINDERS RD, HASTINGS

LOOK FOR THE YELLOW VANS

INDOOR OR OUTDOOR

4 PERSON SPA

only $1195 4 PERSON SPA

only $1495

&RPSOHWH ZLWK +HDWHU )LOWHU 'LJLWDO &RQWURO 3DQHO /RFNDEOH /LG PRQWK ZDUUDQW\

CHEMICAL UP KIT FREE START

INTRODUCING

S PA H I R E Special Offer Hire price comes off purchase price

Having a party or relax with friends - you’ll love it!!

FULL RANGE OF AUTO & MARINE PAINTS PLUS ALL ACCESSORIES COLOUR MATCHING & ADVICE

UNIT 3/1907 FRANKSTON-FLINDERS RD, HASTINGS - 5979 4597 PAGE 48

Western Port News 7 June 2011

E] XS [ P E V Y X E R I L 8 WI[EKI I K E F V E K W W I G TVS QFIV E L G I R S MR V I X ERH [EWXI [E 5H[\YHS WYVJLZZ 5V ZTLSSZ ,U]PYVUTLU[HSS` -YPLUKS` 3V^ JVZ[ ,_JLSSLU[ U\[YPLU[ MVY [OL NHYKLU

-VYNL[ ZTLSS` ZLW[PJZ VY JOLTPJHS [YLH[TLU[Z ,_WLYPLUJL [OL ILULMP[Z VM UH[\YHS Z`Z[LT \ZPUN L_JP[PUN [LJOUVSVN`

3V^ THPU[LUHUJL ,7( HWWYV]LK =PJ 5:> 8SK :( *HU IL MP[[LK PU[V HU L_PZ[PUN ZLW[PJ [HUR HUK [YLH[TLU[ WSHU[Z

A&A Worm Farm Waste Systems Pty Ltd Unit 5/2135 Frankston/Flinders Rd, Hastings 3915 Ph Vic: 03 5979 1887 NSW: 02 9653 3034 Qld: 07 5522 9686 SA: 03 5979 1887 FAX: 03 5979 1854 Email: enquiries@wormfarm.com.au Web: www.wormfarm.com.au

• Tree Lopping • Shaping/Pruning • Stump Grinding • Block Clearing • Fully Insured MULCH FOR SALE

A peninsula garden... By Frances Cameron ON cold, grey days you don’t often feel like getting out into your garden. They can be a really good excuse to sit inside, take a good look at your garden through the windows and work out what needs to be done. All the leaves from deciduous tree in your neighbourhood that end up in drifts in corners, or any other nooks and crannies, can be gathered up into big gardening bags. Mix through a couple of handfuls of blood and bone, tie up the tops and store them somewhere for the next couple of months. By the time spring comes around, the blood and bone should have helped them to start breaking down into a nice crumbly mixture for you to add to your garden beds. Some deciduous plants can be propagated with hardwood cuttings, a process which can be performed now when they are coming into dormancy. Plants which can be propagated like this are weigela (usually W. florida.), berberis (B. thunbergia), and kerria (K. japonica), along with most hydrangea species. This process involves getting cuttings from the current year’s

growth which are about 15cm long and have at least 3 or 4 healthy buds near the top. Make the bottom cut straight and the top cut on an angle facing away from the closest bud. The cuttings can then be placed either in a trench in the ground which has been dug over so the soil isn’t lumpy, or they can be placed in a pot using a good quality potting mix. If you are planting into the ground, make a trench as long as you need and about 8 to 10 cm deep then put some washed river sand in the bottom to a depth of about 2cm; the sand will aid in the formation of roots. Place the cuttings into the trench and back fill the soil. These cuttings can take up to two months to form roots big enough to allow transferring the cuttings to their own pots. Spring flowering bulbs, corms and tubers like daffodils, grape hyacinth, anemone, brodiaea and tulips should be in the ground or pots by now, and some of the earlier flowering bulbs should be starting to pop their heads up above the surface of the soil. If you neglected to give them some food at planting time you can still sprinkle a bit of blood and bone around them now, but otherwise wait

until they have flowered before feeding them again. Feeding them as their flowers fade gives the bulbs energy to store for their next growing season. Keep the areas around them weed free and mulched with a light covering such as pea straw to protect them over winter. Transplanting can be done now, as long as the soil isn’t too wet. The key to doing this successfully is to prepare well before shifting the plant. Dig and prepare the new hole first, have a good supply of water ready to water it in and cutting tools ready to cut it back at the same time; reducing the leaf surface area will reduce the risk of the plant going into shock through loss of moisture. Remember to prune the top of the plant to about the same size as the root ball. There are plenty of beautiful plants in flower throughout early winter, grevillea such as G. ‘Honey gem’ and G. ‘Jessie Cadwell’ flower most of the year. Other natives such as banksia ericifolia and the pincushion hakea (Hakea laurina), one of my favourites, are flowering now as well, get into your neighbourhood and find them. Happy hunting!

67</,6+ ‡ 6867$,1$%/( ‡ 67521* How is Embelton Bamboo Different to the Rest? 1. Hot press manufacturing – superior to the cold press technique, with higher density, increased structural stability and more uniform moisture content throughout each board. 2. Highest quality raw material – stronger than most bamboo, all raw material comes from the same forest, ensuring consistency in appearance and quality. 3. Superior Klumpp coating system – each board is coated with 10 coats (12 coats for our stained colours) from the world’s leading coatings supplier.

2/2023 Frankston Flinders Rd HASTINGS (HDV\ SDUNLQJ QH[W WR 5HSFR

Ph: 5979 1712 www.independentfloors.com.au

peninsulagardener.blogspot.com

%HQHÀWV RI D %RQDLUH 0% VWDU XQLW ‡ Range of internal and external models available ‡ Unique multi tube heat exchanger GHOLYHULQJ PD[LPXP HQHUJ\ HIÀFLHQF\ up to 84% ‡ Induced draft combustion for improved HQHUJ\ HIÀFLHQF\ ‡ Electronic ignition eliminating the need for a pilot light ‡ Digital thermostat included with unit ‡ Easy installation ‡ State-of-the-art technology ‡ (IÀFLHQW RSHUDWLRQ ‡ Environmentally conscious design ‡ Backed by Bonair’s own National Service Division

‡ External model in ColourbondŽ cabinet FDQ EH ÀWWHG LQWHUQDOO\ LI UHTXLUHG ‡ Engineered for Australian conditions ‡ Compact ‡ Internal units splitable for easy LQVWDOODWLRQ FDQ EH ÀWWHG WKURXJK D man-hole ‡ Designed for small compact roof spaces - 30mm top clearance ‡ Backlit thermostats ‡ Large LCD thermostat displays ‡ Optional accessory - programmable digital thermostat with EMR (Energy Management Recovery) ‡ External unit is ideal for the changeover market

‡DUCTED HEATING‡EVAPORATIVE COOLING ‡ADD ON SYSTEMS‡SPLIT SYSTEMS‡REFRIGERATIVE SYSTEMS

Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 49

F

D& ENTERTAINMENT ʔʦLȫɏ

Recipes are from The Australian Women’s Weekly, Soup. ACP Books. RRP $12.95, available from selected newsagents, supermarkets and online from www.acpbooks.com.au

Confucius says: Those who say they “sleep like a baby” haven‛t got one

Riddle:

Two individuals proceeded towards the apex of a natural geologic protuberance, the purpose of their expedition being the procurement of a sample of fluid hydride of oxygen in a large vessel the exact size of which was unspecified. One member of the team precipitously descended, sustaining severe damage to the upper cranial portion of his anatomical structure; the second member of the team performed a self rotational translation oriented in the same direction taken by the first team member. Answer page 51

What’s on @ The Hastings Club

EARLY BIRD BISTRO SPECIAL ;<,: >,+ 50./;: 653@

)<@ 4(05 4,(3 (5+ .,;

[OL UK MVY 69 JOPSK LH[Z -9,,

*VUKP[PVUZ HWWS` )PZ[YV VWLUZ H[ WT 5V[ PU JVUQ\UJ[PVU ^P[O HU` V[OLY VMMLY VY VU W\ISPJ OVSPKH`Z

BINGO 465+(@ HT ;/<9:+(@ WT

FREE FRIDAY NIGHT

COURTESY BUS

ENTERTAINMENT

Available for Pick up and Drop off Thursday, Friday & Saturday nights

1<5, [O ;OL 2L[[SLZ

,@,: +6>5

-9,, ZLY]PJL MVY V\Y ]HS\LK J\Z[VTLYZ

Presidents Luncheon 2011

MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE and THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA ASSOCIATION

Extends an invitation to you to attend a

CELEBRATION OF COMMUNITY MULTI-FAITH SERVICE Commemorating the 150th year of gazetted history of the townships of Dromana, Rye Mornington and Hastings/Tyabb

Sunday 12 June 2011 Peninsula Community Theatre Wilsons Rd, Mornington

Displays open 1pm and Service 2pm

Saturday, 25th June 2011 at 12pm Tickets: $60 each. Bookings essential 5979 1740 Includes: Two course meal, beer, wine and soft drink, entertainment & entry into the Hastings home football match. Time: 12pm start followed by seniors football at 2pm. The Hastings Club, 155 Marine Parade, Hastings 3915 Ph: 5979 1740 Fax: 5979 4607 www.hastingsclub.com.au PAGE 50

Western Port News 7 June 2011

Guest Speaker PROFESSOR WESTON BATE Renowned Historian and Poet For further information or to register your interest, please contact Brian Stahl OAM on 5979 4343 or 0407 683 525.

The most ridiculous and strange, fresh for you...

55 High Street, Hastings Ph 5979 1071

$15 t h g i N k a te lad Tuesdf aStyeakSwith either chhmipuss&hrsoaom or Choice o sh vegetables wit butter c e or with fr uce, gravy or garli a s pepper

5

t $1with h g i N t s a ay Roesh vegetables & gravy d s e n d e W ts with fr

Joke!!!

A truck driver amused himself by running over lawyers as they walked down the side of the road. Every time he saw a lawyer walking along the road, he would swerve to hit him. There would be a loud “thud�, and then he would swerve back on the road. As the truck driver drove along one day, he saw a priest hitch hiking, he pulled over and asked the priest, “Where are you going, Father?� The priest said he was on his way to his church up the road. “I’ll give you a lift.� The priest climbed into the passenger seat and the truck driver continued down the road. Suddenly, the truck driver saw a lawyer walking down the road and instinctively swerved to hit him. At the last minute, he remembered he had a priest in the truck and swerved back onto the road. Even though he knew he missed the lawyer, he still heard a loud “thud.� Unsure of where the noise came from, he glanced in his mirrors. When he didn’t see anything, he turned to the priest and said, “I’m sorry, Father. I almost hit a lawyer.� The priest replied, “That’s OK, I got him with the door.�

f roas Choice o or cheesecake p FREE sou

RIddle Solution ANSWER: Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after!

Sudoku Solution

15 $ t h g i N i m r ÀVK RU YHJHWDULDQchips a P y a d s r Thu RI FKLFL NHQ EHHI SRvUeWgetables or sald & fresh &KRLFH rved with e s s i’ m r pa ert REE dess PLUS a F

$1 t h g i N d o eafo ÀVK

Frida RyI PSHDOV IURP JULOOHG IUHVK

5

$ UDQJH s d basket to seafoo EE dessert R PLUS a F

All specials available from 5pm. Full menu available every night. We are fully licensed. Parties catered for. Open for breakfast – lunch – dinner 7 days

SHOW TIME 10th September at 9pm

Lady Nelson Function Room

TICKETS

$35.00 each

Weddings, Corporate Functions & Special Occasions

Seniors Specials

2 Course $11.50

3 Course $14.00

Cnr Skinner & Mullet St, Hastings (in the Marina) Phone: 5979 3699 Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 51

FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT

Apocalypse Now ... and then By Stuart McCullough THIS is a disaster. I haven’t felt this flat-out cheated since the whole ‘Y2K’ computer bug turned out to be a complete and utter turkey in 2000. As you may or may not be aware, the world was supposed to end last weekend. Californian minister Harold Camping had boldly predicted that the world as we know it would come to a grinding halt on 21 May 2011. I was ready. Having survived the whole ‘millennium bug’ fiasco, I can honestly say that if there’s one thing I do well, it’s prepare for an imminent apocalypse. As soon as I heard that Armageddon was expected over the weekend, I swung into action. This included digging a suitable shelter – a task made all the more awkward by the fact that we have a first floor apartment – and collecting as much in the way of canned goods as possible. Sadly, nearly all those cans are tomato soup; a flavour I despise as a result of chronic overuse during my childhood. It was as though our parents were genuinely unaware that any other variety of soup existed. I can still recall that magical day in 1994 when I first stumbled across a tin of split pea and ham, and

had to be assured this glorious substance was, in fact, soup. From that moment on, an entire universe of broths, consommĂŠs and soups opened up to me. But I digress. So involved was I in preparing for the approaching worldwide destruction that I

neglected to ring my sisterin-law and wish her a happy birthday. This, frankly, is completely unforgivable. I can only hope that given the world was scheduled to turn into a cinder, she, like me, was distracted by other events. My preparations were as

nothing compared to those of others. The newspapers were full of stories of people who were so convinced that the end was nigh that they spent all their savings. (Incidentally, the term ‘nigh’ really only gets a run when you’re speaking of the end of the world. No one ever describes the end of the third quarter as being ‘nigh’.) Others had decorated their cars with warnings and endured months of abuse for their trouble, some quit their jobs and one fellow drove across the entire continent just so he could be in California when it all went down. Because, I suppose, location really matters when the day of judgement arrives. I’d hate to think that there are some who might have used what they thought were humanity’s last remaining hours to let people know what they really thought of them. How they must have felt on Sunday morning. Suddenly, my shelter and cans of soup don’t seem so silly. Sadly (well, sort of sadly), the world did not come to a grinding halt over the weekend. This, of course, is immensely disappointing. Then I learned the awful truth – this is not the first time that Harold Camping has predicted the end of the world. Previously, he had

said the apocalypse was due to arrive some time in 1994. When that did not come to pass, he blamed a mathematical error. I prefer to think that Judgement Day was postponed to allow for additional seasons of Seinfeld. Poor Harold took the news hard – it’s a big call to predict the end of the world. Sadly it’s one of those things that only really matters if you’re wrong. Apparently he felt so terrible he left home and moved into a motel with his wife, which, as acts of penitence go, doesn’t sound too bad. The following Monday he released a statement. Although I’ve not seen it, I desperately hope that it includes the words ‘missed it by that much‌’ But unlike the last time he predicted the coming of Doomsday, Harold’s not prepared to give it a rest for another 17 years. No, he’s revised his prediction to 21 October. This year. I’m sure that when he went over his notes, it stood out like veritable dog’s bollocks. When revising his calculations, Harold Camping will have slapped himself when he realised that he’d forgotten to carry the one over to the next column or some such thing. Serves him right for insisting

that the computations be performed on an abacus rather than a calculator, I say. The new date of 21 October means several things. Firstly, there will now be enough time to find out who wins this series of Dancing With The Stars. Perhaps, more importantly, it means that life as we know it will come to an end just before my next birthday. This seems fitting. Given that I failed to get in touch with my sister-in-law on her birthday, it’s only fair that the end of the world should be rescheduled to a day closer to my own. It also means that I will be able to avoid all the existential angst that comes with turning 40. Phew. But if the world doesn’t end five months from now, I’m sure I won’t mind too much. Even if it means that I will hit the big ‘4-0’ after all. I’m enjoying the shelter I prepared, which I’m planning to turn into something more like a Mr Brady-style den. If any of you are worried about the end of the world on 21 October or, heck, just find yourself at a loose end, you’d be welcome to come over and join me. I just hope you like tomato soup. I’ll be sure to send a special invitation to Harold. www.stuartmccullough.com

Hastings RSL 26 King Street, Hastings PH 5979 1753 Fax: 5979 2836 Email: hastrsl@tpg.com.au

HOURS: MONDAY TO FRIDAY 1PM TILL LATE SATURDAY TO SUNDAY 3PM TILL CLOSE

BINGO – every Wednesday 12.30pm start, every Sat 2.00pm start

1066 Club – every Thursday 10.00am – 3.00pm

)ULGD\ 1LJKW 5DIĂ€HV 0HDOV 2 course meals $12.00 per person 5DIĂ€HV GUDZQ DW SP

Pick A Card Draw – Thursday (fortnightly) 'UDZQ DW SP Big money to be won.

UPCOMING EVENTS RSL hall for hire Phone us for that special occasion

Xmas in July 16 July, $25.00 per head, LQFOXGHV 0RQVWHU 5DIĂ€H LQ SUL]HV

PAGE 52

Western Port News 7 June 2011

To advertise in the next Western Port News please contact Val Bravo on 0407 396 824

Entertainment OPERA Australia will present the second half of its season in November and December with La Traviata, Of Mice and Men and Don Giovanni. La Traviata is Verdi’s romantic masterpiece about the beautiful courtesan Violetta, who finally succumbs and falls in love with Alfredo. Of Mice and Men comes to Australia for the first time in a new production designed by John Stoddart. He creates rural California during the Great Depression, where the migrant farmhands’ home is a bunkhouse in a barn under a lonely prairie sky. He is back with his leather boots and good looks – Don Giovanni is a shameless womaniser. He loves the thrill of the chase, but his deeds are beginning to catch up with him. Opera is one of the great experiences in life. Give someone tickets to the opera and you give them a special occasion, a night to remember and an experience to cherish. For Opera Australia gift vouchers call 9685 3700 or visit www.opera-australia.org.au. Book on 1300 182 183. *** THE Production Company kicks off its season with six performances of Anything Goes from 20-24 July. Kismet will follow from August 1721 and Nancye Hayes stars in Grey Gardens, 25 November to 4 December. All three productions will be held at

FINALLY what everyone has been waiting for – the new musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber (pictured), Love Never Dies is now showing at the Regent Theatre. The continuing story of The Phantom of the Opera stars Ben Lewis and Anna O’Byrne. It is produced by Tim McFarlane and directed by Melbourne’s Simon Phillips. McFarlane said: “The Phantom of

the Opera has been seen in 149 cities around the world and taken more than $US5 billion at the box office, more than the combined box office takings of the two top grossing films of all time, Avatar and Titanic. “Those who saw Phantom and loved the show will be excited to see how the story continues and those who appreciate musical theatre will be thrilled by Love Never Dies.” Simon Phillips said: “It’s an honour to be working on an Australian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s dazzling new work. “The score of Love Never Dies is truly ravishing, loaded with big lyrical ballads and some taut and unforgettably hummable ensembles.” Book on 1300 111 011. Details: www.loveneverdies.com.au *** WHEN Sean and Jenny Goldrick’s daughter Shannon finally arrived, she weighed only 908 grams and spent more than three months in hospital before being given the all clear to go home. Now aged six, Shannon is still affected by the early birth. Mother Jenny Goldrick said “a support group called the Featherweight Club had been very supportive for the family”. The group started at the old Mercy Hospital for Women in East Melbourne and the group meets on a

regular basis over morning tea. Mr Goldrick, now a committee member of the club, said: “The group is open to all mothers from around Melbourne regardless of which hospital they attended or the age of their child. It’s all about providing support for parents.” Jenny Goldrick said: “When children were getting ready to go to school it was also an important time for parents to have support, as health concerns caused by premature births could surface. “It is important to provide a checklist for parents coming up to school age as even a lot of doctors aren’t aware of problems.”

“Un-Australian” when referring to opposing ideas. Beware of those arguing along the lines of “thinking people” and “Un-Australian”. *** LOVE hurts, as the song goes, more specifically love is blind, sometimes insane, extreme passion married to the loss of rational thinking. It’s gorgeous when it happens; she (and he) can be fat, skinny, ugly, whatever, but it will be purr-fect because the feeling blots out everything else for days, weeks, months even. You’re walking/floating through a dream, unaware of anything, soulmates forever. Any faults? No, they’re cute, you love them anyway. You adore his/her honesty. Friends say things but they don’t understand. One day, somewhere, he or she will say something stupid and you will hear it. This is the beginning of the return to reality. The cracks start to appear. He reads comics, she’s into Tony Abbott. He smokes pot, she thinks Dane Swan is from Denmark. Worse still, both are convinced that they are as purr-fect as the other has told them. “Until the 12th of never, I’ll still be loving you.” Yeah right. Easy for a female to escape; simply be seen with another man. Equally

as easy for a male because they’re generally infused with a lack of sensitivity. (Man sitting at home drinking a cold one on the porch with his wife and he says, “I love you.” She asks, “Is that you or the beer talking?” He replies, “It’s me – talking to the beer”) *** TEDDY Baillieu’s mob announced a budget allocation of $7.9 million to establish an independent Office of the Freedom of Information Commissioner. Greater community access, Ted mate? Leave the comedy to the comedians. If you’re really serious, doubtful at best, give us the drum on the real reason why you’re trying to get rid of Police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland. Gotcha! *** THE great late Ralph Waldo Emerson said: “Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting to the end, it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.” I’m not so sure about this one, Ralph. I look around (and listen) and I see people’s instinctive reactions to the federal budget depending on the “me” factor, political bias and the

News Corporation media. A different type of instinct you say? No doubt. My instinct tells me I’ll never win Powerball and I shall remain invisible and single. My “me” factor (the good news) is that I can earn $73 a week (by co-incidence my weekly beer expenditure) without it affecting my pension, accumulating to $3796 a year. The bad news is that my telephone is deathly quiet. Press on. *** SOMEBODY said to me recently “What type of readers do you get?” I replied that I have no idea. It set me wondering (thinking?) and concluded the following: they would have to be of the older brigade, desperate for the need to fill in time (like me) and so make a habit of picking up all the free newspapers. Leader, Weekly, The Senior, you name it, and obviously this newspaper. Eventually, assuming their patience has not fallen by the wayside due to eye troubles, illness, death or boredom, they would finish up way way down the back of this newspaper to my column, where the editor hides it in embarrassment. But some of us are stayers, or lonely. Some of us even read books! Another frequently

The Playhouse at the Arts Centre. Tickets are on sale from 6 June at The Arts Centre box office or call 1300 182 183. Book at www.theartscentre. com.au. Details: www.theproduction. company .com.au ***

with Gary Turner

Run for the Kids: Sean Goldrick with son Riley and daughter Shannon.

Mrs Goldrick said they hoped to set up another hospital peer support group and also train the group’s volunteers but they need more funding. Mr Goldrick recently set up the Goldrick Family Team to tackle the Run for the Kids supporting the Featherweight Club with son Riley and daughter Shannon completing the run in 1:03:49 just ahead of Father Sean 1:03:50. For more details visit www. featherweightclub.com.au GT’s top 10 albums 1. Band of Joy – Robert Plant 2. Live at Last – The Dingoes 3. Station to Station – David Bowie 4. Stillpoint – Madder Lake 5. 7 Axes – Diesel 6. Ball Power – Coloured Balls 7. The Rough Guide to Paris Lounge – Various 8. Low Country Blues – Gregg Allman 9. Live at Sunbury – Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs 10. Snow – Brendan Radford

A Grain of Salt ASSUMING neuroscientists are correct and the subconcious brain is much larger than the concious, I’m thinking there’s got to be a tiny tunnel joining them, and this tunnel operates in that time between when you first wake (around 5.30am) and when you make that difficult decision to get out of bed. Half-thoughts, in a haze, zipping, flashing, in and out. Like freeing Schapelle, football umpires, the Yankee Osama propaganda, no more cigs, sign up with Ashley Madison, forgotten concupiscence, the dreaded morning glasses of water, Ingrid Bergman, Julio at Rod Laver Arena, who is he? Forgotten in the urgency of the toilet, heating on, coffee. Recalling the details over a ciggy. Alas, the subconcious was teasing. The door is firmly slammed shut, until tomorrow? *** I IMMEDIATELY become suspicious when I hear the comments from Police Association secretary Greg Davies: “Most of the thinking public have become disenchanted with Simon Overland.” Does this mean that if you have nothing against Simon then you are not a thinker? Likewise Danny Frawley, who frequently uses the term

with Cliff Ellen asked question is “What’s your column about?” after reading it! Well, as a once-only explanation, my column is about “instinct” together with saving me to some extent from going ratty. Finally, to those who suggest I write more about local issues, may I suggest that human nature is always a local issue. So, if you happen to be reading this column, desist from asking me ever again, or stop reading it. You can always change to fiction by paying for the daily newspapers or watch A Current Affair. Now kindly turn the page. *** “Thank you for your coffee, seignor. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca.” (Gorgeous Ingrid) “Distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong.” (Johann Goethe) Stay warm. cliffie9@bigpond.com

Did you know... you can now view our papers online at: www.mpnews.com.au Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 53

Warriors fly higher than the Eagles THE mighty Westernport Warriors continued their fantastic start to the season when they dished out a 94-point drubbing to the Outer Eastern Eagles at Crib Point last Wednesday. The challenge for the Warriors now is whether they have the mental capacity to ‘keep a lid on it’ as the highly fancied and also undefeated Sacred Heart Saints eagerly await us in our next, much-anticipated encounter. The Warriors went into the game against the Eagles with some highly credible ‘ins’ with the likes of Jarrod ‘Staggers’ Stoddard, Lee ‘Locky’ Murdoch, Kevin ‘Bubba’ Watson, Brendan ‘Marilyn’ Binny, and Brent ‘Moo’ Cowell all donning the Warriors jumper for the very first time. Add to this the return of former gun Brendan “Government’ Grant and one could sense that the Eagles were in for one tough day at the office.

PAGE 54

The Warriors received a lift prior to the game with the appearance of assistant coach Peter ‘Barrass’ Thompson at the ground. Having suffered horrific injuries at the Avalon Raceway when collected by debris from a vehicle, the mere presence of the big man buoyed the spirits of all connected to the mighty Warriors. The Warriors started the game with Vio ‘The Man’ Vunimasi in the key forward post and surprisingly coach Barton gave the nod to Marty ‘Dobbo’ Dobson in the pocket and relegated club sensation, big ‘Pepsi’ Max Sanderson, to the pine. The Dobster repaid coach Barton’s faith early with a magnificent tap that enabled ‘Jumping’ Joey Robb to goal early. The Warriors were electrifying and slammed on seven goals in the first term to the Eagles’ two solitary points and after 20 minutes of dominant football the fat lady had

Western Port News 7 June 2011

already burst into tune. The Warriors had stars all over the ground with the likes of Steve ‘Armed’ Robb, Matty ‘Fullof’ Hope, Ash ‘Naughty’ Norton and Nathan ‘Flippa’ Phillips doing as they pleased. Chris ‘Head’ Bastin was also having another day out and with another beston-ground performance, he further firmed as the earlyseason favourite to take out the RecLink Player of the Year award. The Warriors dominated proceedings from start to finish and went on to defeat the Eagles 16.22-118 to 2.12-24. The game was again played in fantastic spirit and full credit to both sides for the way that they went about their footy. Our next game is a beauty! The Sacred Heart Saints at the Peanut Farm on Wednesday 8 June in a contest that has already been billed as the ‘Game of the Decade’. After a barbecue breakfast for players and supporters,

the bus will leave opposite the Youth Centre on Marine Pde at 11am. A big thank you to our player award sponsors: Cellarbrations Balnarring, The Beach Hut, La Porchetta Hastings, Wally’s Milk Bar the Sandwich King, Alan and Joanne’s

Hairdressers, and Hastings Camping and Outdoor for getting behind the mighty Warriors. A special thanks also to Hastings Dry Cleaners for their continued support in the cleaning of our jumpers, which they have been doing now since the club’s forma-

tion in 2005. Wow! One can’t help but be excited with where the Warriors are. The Saints await and when this day is done we will be that much closer to knowing if this will be the year of the Warrior. Go the Warriors!

Reclink ladder 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Team Sacred Heart Westernport Warriors Collingwood Knights Odyssey Blues Malmsbury Tigers Middway Cobras Western Storm Living Room Magpies Kardinia Cats Peninsula Swans Outer East Eagles Salvo Hawks Bendigo Victory Wynbay Power

Played 3 3 3 3 2 2 3 3 1 3 3 3 3 3

Won 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0

Lost 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 2 2 3 3 3

Draw 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

Points 12 12 10 8 8 8 4 4 4 4 2 0 0 0

SPORTS DESK

Cats v Hawks should be a cracker, but Queen’s Birthday promises much Round 12 previews Friday 10 June St Kilda v Western Bulldogs, Etihad Stadium, 7.40pm The pressure is mounting on the Bulldogs after losing five of their last six games, and with several substantial injuries something’s got to give. Adam Cooney this year is clearly playing injured and Brian Lake is nothing compared with the all-Australian fullback he was a few years ago. The Saints last weekend were competitive in the first half against the Pies but fell away in the second half. First-gamer Tom Simpkin held Chris Dawes well before being subbed off. The difference between these two teams is the Saints still have belief and that may just get them over the line. St Kilda by 30 points. Saturday 11 June Adelaide v West Coast, AAMI Stadium, 3.10pm Ever since the Crows lost to the

Power in round 4, their season has been a downward spiral that is now out of control. Now they face the Eagles who have been dominating teams all year. Adelaide’s rucks at the moment are vulnerable and they have no hope of beating the Cox–Naitanui combination. West Coast last weekend did what they had to against the Gold Coast. Mark LeCras has fully recovered from a groin injury and is back to his best. West Coast by 51 points. Geelong v Hawthorn, MCG, 7.10pm It’s only been seven rounds since these two teams played each other, and now they meet again under Saturday night lights. The Cats continued their domination at Skilled Stadium, disposing of the Bulldogs easily. The Hawks, however, had to work a lot harder to get the win. They were behind all day and looked terrible, but in the last quarter turned it on and steamrolled Fremantle. Cyril Rioli kicked a personal best five goals and Sam Mitchell was great with 31 disposals. When these two teams are at their best, there isn’t much between them, but this year Geelong have been more

consistent over four quarters and this should be the difference. Geelong by 9 points. Gold Coast v North Melbourne, Metricon Stadium, 7.10pm In game two at Metricon Stadium these two bottom sides fight to keep themselves out of 17th place. The Gold Coast have been around the mark the last few weeks; they played well against West Coast and could have nearly won the points. The Roos on the other hand cruised to an easy win over Adelaide with Drew Petrie in fine form. Last time North Melbourne travelled to Queensland they lost to a winless Brisbane team. I reckon this could happen again. Gold Coast by 2 points. Sunday 12 June Carlton v Brisbane, Etihad Stadium, 1.10pm I think it’s safe to say the Blues have arrived, perhaps two years later than we expected them to, but they’re here to compete for this year’s flag. Last weekend they looked sluggish for two and half quarters before turning it on and playing some inspirational football. The Lions were jumped early by the Swans and could muster only a few goals in junk time. We

Stratcombe ready to shine after a return from injury BLACK CAVIAR’S trainer Peter Moody may have unearthed another star in two-year-old Le Societe. A filly by Anabaa, Le Societe made it two wins from two starts when spacing her rivals over 1200m at Sandown. She gives every indication she will be equally effective over longer distances. Former Kiwi Zoomin won twice on wet tracks earlier this season and is ready to fire following three starts from a spell, working home stoutly when runner-up over 2100m at Sandown. Mornington-trained Charlie’s Queen has reached full maturity this season and is something to bet on over the next few weeks. Following an unlucky second on resumption at Caulfield, she stepped up against males at Lakeside and was a slashing third behind inform Second Effort. Lightly raced five-year-old By The Way worked home strongly when fourth in the same event and is ready to score in similar grade. Darley-owned Chasse had been a tad disappointing this campaign but is obviously better suited going left-handed judging by his third to Midnight Martini at Lakeside. Sale-trained Willysfilly has

put her problems behind her winning three on the trot on her home track and is now ready to tackle metropolitan grade. Sixth-placed Come on Bill (25/1) would have finished second but for striking interference over the final 200m and is one for longshot backers. Adam Bodey-trained Gold Viper had been racing well at the picnics but has gone to a new level since being stepped up in distance, toying with his rivals over 2200m at Sale last Sunday. Cranbourne three-year-old Don’t Wake Me has strengthened this campaign and is ready to break through in the city following excellent efforts in his past two starts at Caulfield. Redoute’s Choice filly Sport Chic is likely to be competitive in stakes grade when she returns in the spring. After catching the eye on debut at Morphettville, she was ridden more positively when successful at Caulfield. Lightly raced colt Stratcombe has impressed in two starts since returning from injury, working home stylishly when placed behind stakesperformer General Truce over 1000m at Caulfield. Sure to relish more ground and roomier track. Cranbourne-trained Venus World hit a purple patch of form last winter and her firstup effort when fifth behind

emerging Mid Summer Music at Caulfield suggests she is going equally as well. Former Murray Bridgetrained mare Moment In Time is nearing peak fitness following three starts for John Thompson. Despite being sent out at 60/1, the six-year-old was doing her best late when sixth in the Group 2 Dane Ripper Stakes (1400m) at Eagle Farm and is sure to take plenty of beating when steeping up to 1600m and beyond. Heidilicious has come a long way since winning a Bendigo maiden in November and with natural progression is capable of winning a decent staying event later in the year. After missing the start badly in the Group 1 Queensland Oaks (2400m) at Eagle Farm, she did a remarkable job to finish fifth to highly regarded Kiwi Scarlett Lady. Benny’s Button (10/1) was the unlucky runner when third in the Daybreak Lover at Eagle Farm on Saturday and should be a good bet the next time he steps out over 1400m or 1600m. Perfect Hostess was caught in a traffic jam when resuming at Morphettville and is worth following, while lightly raced Mr Lowndes was sent an impossible assignment when fifth behind Pitt Street and is also worth keeping tabs on. Best: Stratcombe

can be lenient with them considering they’ve been competitive all year and it just wasn’t their night. Carlton is a quality team and Brisbane should be no match for them. Carlton by 39 points. Sydney v Richmond, SCG, 2.10pm This will be a great clash of two in-form teams. The Tigers will be looking to bounce back from their loss in Darwin two weeks ago and the Swans will want to win at home for only the third time this season. On the weekend the Swans absolutely demolished Brisbane, at one stage leading by 79 points. Jude Bolton and Ryan O’Keefe again were brilliant. The Swans this season are travelling under the radar. They’ve beaten the teams they’re meant to defeat every time, which is a trait that can never be undervalued. Richmond may be rusty coming off the bye and the Swans’ form is too good to ignore. Sydney by 18 points. Fremantle v Essendon, Patersons Stadium, 4.40pm Another disappointing loss for Fremantle last weekend. They played brilliant football for three quarters before they let Hawthorn come from behind and destroy them in the final

term. Essendon also had a bad loss, this time against Melbourne, a team that has been struggling all month. Essendon has lost the last nine games without Jobe Watson. This means their depth can be serioysly questioned. Fremantle should be able to bounce back considering Essendon haven’t won in Perth since 2008. Fremantle by 1 point. Monday 13 June Melbourne v Collingwood, MCG, 2.10pm The Queen’s Birthday holiday has provided several unforgettable games and this year we may get another. Melbourne’s confidence is sky high after their upset victory over Essendon. Their young kids like Jordan Gysberts, Jack Watts and Jordie McKenzie are in fine form. Collingwood have many stars out of the side with Swan, Jolly, Macaffer and Nathan Brown on a recovery camp in Arizona and Ben Johnson battling a back injury, but then again this hasn’t stopped them yet. Last year Melbourne held Collingwood to a point in round 2 and a draw in round 11 so they definitely match up well against them, but it’s hard to see the Pies letting this happen again. Collingwood by 49 points.

CERBERUS GOLF CLUB Invites the public to play the Navy’s premier Golf Course, located on the MORNINGTON PENINSULA

9 Greens and 18 distinctly separate tees and fairways Club house facilities - large undercover BBQ area Low green fees Picturesque views Social Clubs welcome - discount for 20 or more players &ORVHG IRU FRPSHWLWLRQ RU DV QRWLÀHG E\ WKH PDQDJHU as follows: Members 0700 - 1500 Saturdays. Ladies 0830 - 1230 Tuesdays Neat casual dress required: Collared shirts only to be worn slacks, neat jeans or shorts with socks may be worn golf shoes or non ripple style sports shoe to be worn

NO Tracksuits, Stubbies or Football Shorts

COURSE BOOKINGS 5983 6006 – 0414 925 587 Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 55

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

POLIO: Have you or do you know anyone who had polio or is now experiencing after effects of polio? Please come to our support group meeting held at 11am on the second Saturday of each month at the Information Centre, Main St, Mornington. Enquiries: 59743495 Mornington Life Activities Club invites current and prospective members to our Devonshire Tea Meeting at the Information Centre cnr. Main & Elizabeth Sts. Mornington at 2pm on Monday 13 June/Queen’s Birthday. LAC us a self funded, not-for-profit social group of friends who would love to meet you, but please book with Ann re catering on 5975 3113.

LADIES SOCIAL TENNIS is now available, at the hastings tennis club, 54 Marine Parade, Hastings, every monday and wednesday from 10am. Beginners welcome. Please contact Vicki 59794920 for more information. MORNINGTON TOY LIBRARY The Mornington Toy Library is open on Wednesdays between 9.30 am and 12.30 pm, Saturdays between 9.30 am and 11.30 am and Monday afternoons between 1pm and 3pm. Occasional borrowing and party pack are also available. Enquiries: 5975 1847

Mahjong Club plays at Mornington R.S.L. (Virginia Street) on Fridays. 12:30 - 4:00pm. Experienced players made very welcome. Cost is $3.50. Tea & coffee provided. Contact Lucy - 5981 0801. Over 50’s American Clogging New beginner classes learning Clogging, cross between Country Tap Dancing, Irish Dancing and American Folk Dancing. No dance experience or partner needed. Contact: Mornington Cloggers Lee : 59776985 04129777898

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

The “People Place Music Club”- Frankston meet Sundays for Laughs, Fun, AND GOOD TIMES. Bring your instrument and join in if you want or sit back and have a feed and be thoroughly entertained. Sunday afternoons @ 1pm. Cost $5.00 with afternoon tea. Call 9786-1445 0r E-Mail Mahoguitar@Hotmail.com Cancer Support Group meets every second Tuesday of the month. All welcome. Community Health. 185 High Street, Hastings, or ring 0419 020 543. The southern Peninsula 50+ Club is a peninsula based friendship club who meet regularly for outings such as dinners, lunches, walks, games, picnics, bbq’s and bus trips. The club holds general meetings at the West Rosebud Hall, the third Tuesday of each month. For more info ring val on 5985 3045. Crazy Whist. Every Tuesday, 1pm. $2.00. Don’t know how to play? We’ll teach you. Carrington Park Club (bowls section), Elizabeth Avenue, Rosebud. Enquiries, ring Mavis 5988 8298. Your event here! Email us at team@mpnews.com.au

The Great Three Legged Chair Op Shop HALF PRICE SALE is back. Everything half price. Furniture, electrical goods, homewares, toys, brick-a-brac, pictures. Large selection of brand new Japanese crockery from 50c per piece. Books $1 per kilo. All proceeds to Community Caring Inc. 19-27 May. 18 Progress Street, Mornington. Monday-Friday 10am to 4pm. Phone: 5973 5522. St Mark’s Anglican Church, Dromana, playgroup meets Tuesdays at 10.00 a.m. Children enjoy craft, stories and games in a happy, friendly environment. Adults appreciate the company of other parents and carers. Come and meet the coordinator Bernice, and join in the fun!

Hastings View Club. Upcoming events. 17th June, Meeting & Lunch @ The Hastings CLUB. Guest, GIVONI Leisure Wear. 1st July, Lunch & Film @ Karingal. 3rd August, Mornington Market & Lunch @ The Grand Hotel. 15th July, Meeting & Lunch @ Hasting Club. Guest Speaker, Peter Bishop from McDonalds. For information or bookings for club meetings, ring Val on 03 5931 3726. Bookings for outings ring Bel on 5979 2817. New Members are made most welcome. Arthritis Self-help Group meet the last Tuesday of the month in the Baptist Church Hall, Boneo Road, Rosebud, at 1:30pm.New members welcome. Contact Lorna 59822678.

classifieds

Mornington Peninsula News Group

To Place An Ad...

Ads are easy to place. Just fill in the template below with one word per box as you require your ad to read.

Ads are free for private items under $100. Ads are just $5 for private items over $100. Add a photograph to an ad for another $10. Situations vacant ads are $20. Garage sales ads are $20. Once you have your ad or listing completed you can 1. E-mail it to team@mpnews.com.au 2. Fax it to (03) 5979 3509 3. Mail it to Mornington Peninsula News Group, PO Box 588, Hastings, 3915.

We accept Visa and Mastercard or cheque only: Card Number: Expiry:

/ /

/

/

Name on card: ......................................................

All ads must be paid for before publishing. No ads will be taken over the phone. PAGE 56

Western Port News 7 June 2011

General Goods Wanted Kitchen, bathroom or mosaic tiles for Local School Mosiac Project. Please call 0408719550. Super Beville Bread maker. Also makes jam. $50. Portable fridge 240v/12v $99. As new. Electric hot point. 1600w heater. Stands 50cm. White, $20. Phone 0419 103 862. Moving sale. Plush red fabric 2 -1/2 seater designer lounge - excellent condition - $450.00 1 x Queen wooden bed base and bed head. Price neg. 1 x King wooden bed base with stained glass wooden bed head. Price neg. Both in excellent condition. Metal filing cabinet, artwork and prints plus more. Please ring Terri on 0412 858 111. SINGLE ELECTRIC BED IKEA - AS NEW. BARGAIN $99 TEL: 5983 6180 Workbench, folding new B&D assembled for inspection. Adjustable. Ideal for limited space, home & hobby. $50. Safety beach. 5987 1194.

General Goods Single Bed. Good condition. Good clean mattress. Solid light wood head and foot board. 2.1mx1.2m approx. Ideal for spare room, or for teenager or young adult. $50 Phone 0435 442291 Balnarring Deb/Wedding dress Size 8-10. Style niccolina, embroided top with scolloped chiffon overlay. Very elegant, warn once and drycleaned. Ex con - must see. Paid $695 will sell $300. Ph: 0407556204 after 6pm.

Situations Vacant Property Manager Century 21 Hastings, the leaders in property management in the Western Port area, are seeking an agent’s representative with residential property management experience. A current, Victorian driver’s license and a reliable car are all essential. Familiarity with REST software package would be an advantage. The successful candidate will be a mature team player, with excellent communication and customer service skills, seeking a long term career in Property Management. Immediate start available. WE KNOW GOOD PEOPLE COST MONEY! Enquiries in the first instance to Abby Furniss – Senior Property Manager on 5979 3555 or abbyfurniss@century21.com.au

General Goods

Australian made bar table. Stainless steel frame, merbau slats. Height 1050. Length 1800. Width 770. Brand new. Absolute bargain. $1300. Benches if required. Outdoor seating . 2 benches, material as bar, $1350. Brand new. 5973 4449.

Two ‘Lazy Susan’ twin level corner units. Heavy duty 90cms adjustable shelves hold 100 large cans or bottles. Best quality construction, exc. cond. $60 each. More details 59-759692 Dryer, Fisher and Paykel older style. In perfect working condition $60. Phone 0435 074 072. Colour Television x 2. Older style, Panasonic model TC-20S10M in great working order - offers. Also NEC free to good home. Phone 0435 074 072.

General Goods

Motor bike jacket and pants. “X City” brand. Built in armour. Quilted liner. Brand new condition. $120 ono. Ph 5986 1371. Ex large size

Golf clubs. Seven metal woods. Six irons. Two putters and bag. $150. Ken. 59772957. Mornington.

Indoor bowls. Yellow. Set. As new. $400. Hastings. 59791694

TAXI TRUCK SERVICE Storage Available PH: 59 77 3560 or 0419 964 920

Dighams

+$67,1*6 5$',$725 6(59,&( UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE

‡ ALL REPAIRS E E R F p&

Picku Delivery

‡ CLEANOUTS ‡ RECORES

To all car, truck and industrial radiators Large range of new assemblies 0RGLÂżFDWLRQV D VSHFLDOW\

Servicing the Peninsula

)DFWRU\ )UDQNVWRQ )OLQGHUV 5G +DVWLQJV

Auto Electrical & Air Conditioning Specialists

Factory 3/10 Simcock St, Somerville

&RQWDFW XV RQ IRU PRUH LQIRUPDWLRQ

Ph: 5977 7166

Frankston

Gra

nt R

d

t

Somerville

Melways Ref. 107 F11

Scott G

ve

d rs R nde n/Fli ksto n a r F

kS

Storage Space available in Somerville 24 hour / 7 day security Long & Short Term Rental Available

coc

L.E.D. torch with every 80% headlamp upgrade

‡ 6NL %RDWV ‡&DUV ‡&DUDYDQV ‡0RWRUELNHV ‡'RFXPHQWV

Sim

FREE

Safe, Secure, Internal Storage Space for:

Gu elp hS t

GETTING DARKER EARLIER..

Ard uin aS t

Western Port News 7 June 2011

We Are Here

PAGE 57

Winter Motoring

Transmend Tyreright have Panels tyres covered We provide a competitive estimate! Once the work is authorized to us we will repair your vehicle to a high quality standard! (All our repairs carry a lifetime warranty on workmanship!)* *conditions apply

Hastings Tyreright, the new name for Hastings Tyre Service offer a free tyre safety check to make sure that the tyres on your car, 4WD, ute, van or truck are safe for winter driving. As well as ensuring that your vehicle will stop & steer safely, you will also save money by having Tom and his team at Hastings Tyreright check your tyres are inflated to the correct setting. Underinflated tyres use more fuel, and are unsafe because the contact patch where the tread meets the road is distorted meaning less chance to stop or steer away in an emergency. Hastings Tyreright stock all leading tyre brands including Yokohama, GT Radial, Hankook & Continental. GT Radial tyres are the only tyres in Australia with a free 5 year tyre replacement guarantee, which is only possible because GT Radial tyre quality is consistently good.

Continental tyres are the number one tyre brand in Europe, chosen by all leading car manufacturers including Ford, Holden and Nissan, as well as BMW, Mercedes-Benz, VW, Audi, and Volvo. No matter what your budget or what your driving needs are - on, or off, the road - Hastings Tyreright have a wide selection of tyres, and their 35 years experience mean that you can relax that they will select the right tyre for you at the right price. Hastings Tyreright has

joined with fellow local independent tyre service centres, in the national Tyreright retail group, to be able to offer you the best value to compete against the manufacturer owned chains. Tyreright is the right choice for safe winter driving. They can also check your brakes and do mechanical repairs at the same time. Call Tom or Russell and the team at Hastings Tyreright on 5979-7444 or drive in for a free quote at 254 Marine Parade today.

HASTINGS TYRE SERVICE WITH OVER 35 YEARS TYRE EXPERIENCE HASTINGS TYRE SERVICE HAS JOINED AN

EXCITING NEW GROUP OF LOCAL INDEPENDENT TYRES SERVICE CENTRES - TYRERIGHT CURRENT

COMING SOON

SAME GREAT PEOPLE, SAME GREAT LOCATION WITH CONTINUED FOCUS ON YOU AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY

COME IN AND SEE TOM, RUSSELL AND THE TEAM

SHOP HOURS: MON-FRI: 8am-5pm SAT: 8am-12noon PAGE 58

Western Port News 7 June 2011

254 MARINE PARADE, HASTINGS

Winter Motoring

Top 10 tips to help reduce running costs USE less accelerator and use only enough pedal to maintain a constant speed. This reduces tyre wear and mechanical repairs. Keep the battery fully charged. A constantly discharged battery will not see out its full life. Keep your tyres at the recommended pressure. This can reduce your fuel consumption by 10% or more. Keep your engine clean. It makes servicing easier and reduces the risk of grease and grime build-up hampering cables and other moving parts. Fix small mechanical problems before they become larger ones. You can save expensive repairs that way. Run your car air conditioner even in winter. Just a few minutes will prevent seals from drying out. Make sure you check your radiator level regularly and top it up if necessary. Use coolant,

not water, as this will retard corrosion and save later repairs. Make sure your fan belt is tensioned correctly (about 2cm free play only). A slipping belt can deteriorate quickly and cause wear to water pump and alternator bearings. It pays to start winter with

fresh engine oil. Old oil thickens and imposes extra strain on the engine, particularly on cold morning starts. Service your car regularly. A well tuned and maintained vehicle will perform better and more economically.

Becky Lindhe 0410 680 721

Becky’s Car Detailing Hand wash & vacuuming to a full detail Upholstery cleaning & deodorising Machine buff & waxing

Factory 3, 2135 FrankstonFlinders Rd, Hastings Email: Pontiac@live.com.au

June Specials 10% off Terrain Tamer Suspension Kits *4 /LIW OWU

was $1,220 QRZ

Wurth Maintenance Spray was $23.80 QRZ

Lightforce Striker Set 170mm was $349.00 QRZ

License plate lamp Twin Pack was $32.00 QRZ

Bag of Cotton rags 10kg was $22.00 QRZ

Brush Head 10 inch was $19.10 QRZ

0893051

RMDL170HT

30BLM

RAGS

RT206GREY

5979 8522

Black Widow Storage Solutions available now in store!!

Factory 3/250 Marine Parade, Hastings Vic 3915 Email: elicia@peninsuladiesel.com.au All prices inc GST & are valid for the month of June 2011

Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 59

Winter Motoring

WESTERNPORT AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES

Buying a used car IF you’re about to buy a used car, it pays to check the vehicle thoroughly to ensure you are getting value for money. Beneath the car: Uneven tyre wear could mean misaligned steering or suspension. Check for leaks from the engine, transmission, brakes and rear axle.

The bodywork: Variations in paintwork colour, or door panels that don’t line up can indicate previous smash damage. Check around wheelarches for any rust problems. The engine: If the engine oil is grey or milky, it’s a sign of water in the oil. Worse, any sign

of oil in the radiator water, can mean a cracked cylinder head or faulty head gasket. Remember, if the car isn’t fitted with an Australian Compliance Plate, it’s probably best to walk away from the deal, no matter how tempting it might seem.

‡ /3* *DV &RQYHUVLRQ 5HSDLUV ‡ 1HZ &DU %RRN 6HUYLFLQJ ‡ *HQHUDO 6HUYLFH 5HSDLUV

GAS REBATE

$1500 Take advantage now Cnr Coolstore & Wallis Rds, Hastings

Ph: 5979 1127

- All brands - Suspension - Brake repairs - Wheel alignments - Celebrating over 20 years service in Hastings TUCKETT’S TYREPOWER

)UDQNVWRQ )OLQGHUV 5RDG +DVWLQJV ‡ 3K PAGE 60

Western Port News 7 June 2011

Winter Motoring

Brake fluid tips

$// 0(&+$1,&$/ 5(3$,56 (/(&7521,& 781,1* (), 6(59,&,1* 52$':257+< 7(676 %$77(5,(6

ALL MAKES OF CAR, 4WDs & LIGHT COMMERCIALS

P ro

apour

Gas Conversion Centre

Mon-Fri: 8am-5.30pm

FRANKSTON

ERAMOSA ROAD EAST

EET

ET

STR

TRE

CK

HS

CO E

ELP

SIM

GR AN TR OA D

2/23 SIMCOCK ST, SOMERVILLE MELWAY REF: 107 G11

x

GU

Phone: 5977 7112 Phone: 5977 7844

V

fluid causes brake components to corrode internally and these may therefore need replacement earlier than expected. Comparatively, the cost of replacing the fluid is very low. How often should brake fluid be replaced? It is recommended to replace brake fluid every two years. This is in line with most car manufacturer’s recommendations. If there is any doubt as to the fluid age it is recommended it be replaced.

TG

readily. This lowers the boiling point of the fluid and introduces moisture into the components of the brake system. How does this affect safety? With a lower boiling point, the heat generated from normal braking can cause old brake fluid to boil, which in turn causes loss of braking pressure or complete brake failure. Replacement of fluid improves safety and saves you money: The moisture in brake

S C OT

REGULARLY changing the brake fluid in your car allows safe brake operation and can also save money. What is brake fluid? It is the lifeblood of the brake hydraulic system in your car. Brake fluid transfers the pressure you apply on the brake pedal to the brakes on the wheels of your car. What happens as it ages? Brake fluid is very hygroscopic, that is, it absorbs moisture very

',$*126,6 5(3$,5 &203/,$1&( 3/$7( &(57,),&$7,216 $$)5% 9$&& $&&5(',7(' <($56 (;3(5,(1&(

FRANKSTON-FLINDERS RD

HASTINGS 2049 Frankston Flinders Road Ph: 5979 2100 Fax: 5979 4582 Email: sales@hastings.autopro.com.au OPEN 7 DAYS

JOIN US ON

WE’VE GOT ALL THE ANSWERS! Sale ends Sunday 3rd July 2011.

Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 61

Winter Motoring

All-new Ford Focus - Enhanced inside and Out ENHANCED safety for the all-new Ford Focus goes beyond superior crash performance and embraces a comprehensive approach to occupant and pedestrian safety. This commitment to the wellbeing of passengers and pedestrians extends to measures to protect children in the vehicle, a unique approach to eliminating potentially allergenic materials from the interior, and a range of features to improve pedestrian safety. “Optimising the body structure and the restraint systems is just one part of vehicle safety,� said Helmut Reder, Focus Chief Programme Engineer. “We have gone to great lengths to ensure that the all-new Focus is as safe as possible, not only for passengers of all ages riding in the vehicle but for pedestrians too.� Optimised pedestrian protection The front-end design on the allnew Focus has also been carefully engineered to provide optimised pedestrian protection. Pedestrian protection was a key consideration in the detailed design of all elements of the front-end, particularly in the design of the

Sportage adds to the honour roll

bumper and bonnet, the front structure, and the layout of the engine compartment. A notable feature introduced specifically to improve pedestrian protection is a new dual motor windscreen wiper system, which allows the main elements of the motors and wiper mechanism to be moved to a safer position away from the centre of the vehicle. The body structure also incorporates a new ‘soft’ cowl design, which has been carefully engineered to reduce the effect of impacts at the base of the windscreen.

30 Years Experience

Allergy tested interior To safeguard the health and wellbeing of all occupants, the all-new Focus is the latest Ford product to have been developed with a special attention to optimising interior air quality and eliminating any allergenic materials. Since 2004, a succession of Ford vehicles have been awarded the “Allergy Tested Interiorâ€? seal of approval by world-renowned independent test house, TĂœV Rheinland, based in Cologne, Germany, and it is expected that the all-new Ford Focus will receive the same certification.

$%1

SERVICE IS OUR SUCCESS

ER IR A P E R D E V O R P zAVC FLEET AP COME L E W S T E E L F R E zOTH NTS U O C IS D R E N IO S zPEN -RKQ 3KLOOLSV

3+ )$;

*OHQGDOH $YH +DVWLQJV 9LF

SERVICING ALL MAKES & MODELS NEW & USED CARS AND MECHANICAL REPAIRS PAGE 62

Western Port News 7 June 2011

THE multi-award winning Kia Sportage has added another accolade to its growing Honour Roll by winning the OzRoamer 4WD & SUV Guide’s award for Best Small AWD SUV. “The Kia Sportage Platinum has both the design elements of form and function brilliantly executed,� OzRoamer Editor Rob Fraser said. “It just shows how far Kia has come.� After extensive testing the Sportage scored maximum points for Performance, Practicality, Fit for Purpose and Value for Money. The stylish little SUV dropped only a single point in the categories of Comfort and Behind The Wheel feel. Judge Anthony Hood described the Sportage as “the outstanding choice in this price segment� while fellow judge Stephen Lawson said: “That combination of powerful yet economical 2.0L diesel and 6-speed automatic is hard to fault.� In assessing the Sportage, Mr Fraser paid tribute to the work Kia has done in localising the suspension for

optimised performance on Australian roads while finding a pleasing combination of ride comfort and SUV ability. Kia Motors Australia Chief Operating Officer, Tony Barlow, said the recognition of the Sportage’s range of attributes was particularly pleasing. “Our customers and those who review and comment on cars for a living have been telling us how much they like Sportage since it was launched in the middle of last year,� Mr Barlow said. “It is always pleasing to have the work you have done as a company recognised in open forum. This latest award is another example of that recognition.� OzRoamer 4WD and SUV Guide is a bi-annual magazine published as part of the Auto Alliance Group. Mr Fraser said the aim of the publication is to review both 4WDs and SUVs in a manner that helps the reader to understand the concept of “fit for purpose�, a key criteria in the judging process.

t he

f o g n KUSiED CARS

XR8

ARB CANOPY, 19’’ ALLOYS, LOW KMS. XCO192

FINANCE

11, 990

NOW!

ALLOYS SPOILER, DRIVES VERY WELL, IDEAL FIRST CAR. TFO525

FINANCE

2001 FALC FALCON AU II XR8

2008 FO FORD XL RANGER

IN IMMACULATE COND., DUAL A’BAGS, ABS, 17” ALLOYS. YGK213

80,000KS, FLEXI GLASS CANOPY, 4X4 AUTO, LIKE NEW! WIK280

8, 990

AVAIL.

AVAIL.

200 SSUZUKI SWIFT 2007

1998 HO HONDA PRELUDE

1 OWNER, ECONOMICAL, LONG REG. UBW743

20077 FA 200 FALCON

1 OWNER, S/ROOF, ELECTRIC WINDOWS, CD, IMMACULATE. YHN837

AUTO, AIR CON, P/STEERING, CRUISE, FULL ELECTRICS. XYI883

29, 990

FINANCE

2008 NIS NISSAN NAVARA D40 RX WHITE 6 SP. MANUAL, DIESEL, 4X4 EXCELLENT CONDITION. WKY677

2004 MITSUBISHI M VRX MAGNA ALLOYS, BODY KIT, ABS, CRUISE, FULL ELECTRICS. TJR981

28, 500

25, 990

$

$

DRIVEAWAY DRI DR RIV IVEA IVEA EAWA AWA WAY AY

DRIVEAWAY DRI DR RIV IVEA IVEA EAWA WAY WA AY

FINANCE

FINANCE

2009 XR XR6

‘09 COMMODORE VE SV6 5SP AUTO

ALL THE XR6 EXTRA’S, WELL UNDER NEW CAR W’TY. YEZ310

18” ALLOYS, B/TOOTH, AIRBAGS, TRACTION/C, ESC, BRAKE ASSIST. YHR903

AVAIL.

AVAIL.

DRIVEAWAY DRI DR RIV IVEA IVEA EAWA WAY WA AY

DRIVEAWAY DRI DR RIV IVEA IVEA EAWA AWA WAY AY

FINANCE

FINANCE

AVAIL.

23, 990

$

$

DRIVEAWAY DRI DR RIV IVEA IVEA EAWA WAY WA AY

FINANCE

AVAIL.

A/C, PWR STEER, 1 OWNER, VERY EYE CATCHING, AIRBAGS. UXZ250

18, 990

14, 990

$

DRIVEAWAY DRI DR RIV IVEA IVEA EAWA WAY WA AY

DRIVEAWAY DRI DR RIV IVEA IVEA EAWA WAY WA AY

FINANCE

HOLDEN L VVIVA

$

$

DRIVEAWAY DRI DR RIV IVEA IVEA EAWA WAY WA AY

FINANCE

AVAIL.

14, 490

13, 990

$

DRIVEAWAY DRI DR RIV IVEAWA IVEA WAY AY

FINANCE

AVAIL.

DRIVEAWAY DRI DR RIV IVEAWA IVEA WAY AY

AVAIL.

$

DRIVEAWAY DRI DR RIV IVEA IVEA EAWA AWA WAY AY

29, 990

FINANCE

AVAIL.

CCERATO A 6= 7(55,725< KKIAA CERA $ , 11 990

DRIVE D AWAY A

$

DRIVEAWAY DRI DR RIV IVEAWA IVEA WAY AY

FINANCE

AVAIL.

39, 990

$

DRIVEAWAY DRI DR RIV IVEAWA IVEA WAY AY

ON

$

2009 UTE

10, 990

R PRE-ORDE

1(:

SED!

N REFU IO T A IC L P P A NO

$

BEAT THE RUSH!

7+( 7+( $//

T O H D E OW R N . . S L FINANCE DEA

AVAIL.

AVAIL.

2005 TO TOYOTA HILUX

2008 M MIT’S OUTLANDER

V6, 4.0LTR, DUAL CAB, ‘AUTO’, HEAVY DUTY TOW HITCH. TWT052

IM IMMACULATE CONDITION, LONG REG, TOW BAR, TINT. WEG298

28, 990

12 MONTH

R A C WARRANV TY

$

DRIVEAWAY DRI DR RIV IVEA IVEA EAWA AWA WAY AY

FFINANCE

A AVAIL.

available on m ost vehicles.

2008 FFORD TERRITORY IMMACULATE CONDITION, LOW KMS, FULL ELECTRICS. WGM132

OW N ..

LMCT5040 *T.A.P.

ALS FINANCE DE ore! Call us today to find out m Since 1979

wignallford.com.au

ON

HASTINGS 5971 9800 ✓ 2035 FRANKSTON - FLINDERS ROAD AFTER HOURS CALL CLEETON HILL - 0422 260 023 Some pics for illustration purposes only

Buy with confide Selected vehicles nce... Please ask to vie RACV inspected w the report

Western Port News 7 June 2011

PAGE 63

PAGE 64

Western Port News 7 June 2011

Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.