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Bottler of a win for rafters WESTERN Port Festival’s annual raft race off Hastings Yacht Club didn’t attract as many spectators as the motorboat races further up in Hastings Bight, but was definitely more entertaining. There were only four crews, but what the race lacked in numbers was made up in shenanigans. The SES crew with their sleek Styrofoam raft had won many races in the past and were leading on the now-modified raft that included a sophisticated rudder mechanism. They were seen moving the course marker to enable them to get around it and a protest was later lodged by the yacht club’s raft crew. TS Tingira, the Navy raft crew, didn’t have as much luck this year as last, being slow to keep up with SES and HYC’s almost all-girl crew. Halfway around, they began sinking, while the fourth raft, manned by a church group, The Real Life, got stuck between the two arms of the jetty. With The Real Life immobile and the Navy sinking, the race was now between the SES crew – said to be throwing solid flour bombs at their competitors – and the HYC crew, who were handicapped by an uneven number of rowers, which made it difficult to paddle in a straight line. On account of their misdeeds, SES conceded first place to the HYC crew and extended their oars into the water to the Navy crew who by now were swimming towards the finishing line at the pontoon. The Real Life was towed in by the rescue boat. The HYC team with its raft of recycled bottles proudly rowed away with this year’s trophy.
A raft of energy: The Real Life crew work hard to get up a “head of steam” during the raft race at Western Port Festival. Photo: Snez Plunkett.
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New moves for car ferry By Mike Hast GOVERNMENT authorities continue to plan for the proposed Western Port car ferry despite Bass Coast Shire and a majority of Phillip Island residents rejecting terminal plans for the island’s “capital” of Cowes last July. The so-called “missing link” ferry was revived by the Victorian Employers Chamber of Commerce and Industry in November 2007 at a meeting of business and political leaders at Parliament House. VECCI wants a “Great Southern
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with the most likely place being west of Cowes pier near where Cowes Yacht Club is located. The car ferry terminal needs to be close to town to be financial viable, a source told The News. On the peninsula side, plans are progressing for the transformation of Stony Point. Draft plans seen by The News show the ferry access road, parking area and ticket office would take one-third of the land leased by Patrick Ports. Continued Page 10
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Cheap housing Thaied to imports By Keith Platt LOWER labour costs in Thailand and the availability of container port facilities at Hastings may help provide cheaper housing on the Mornington Peninsula. A draft report on ways to provide more “affordable” housing now on public exhibition sees Mornington Peninsula Shire and private developers providing land for lower cost housing. The report describes how ever-increasing property prices on the peninsula are forcing low income earners out of the market or into spiralling debt. Crib Point man David Tootell believes one solution may be to bring prefabricated houses to the peninsula from Thailand. He says the houses could be built in a Bangkok factory, shipped in containers to Western Port and erected within days on pre-prepared building blocks. A marketing consultant for Ezy Build Australia, Mr Tootell said a two bedroom “country-style” house would sell for about $110,000, plus land or lease costs. A four bedroom version would be $185,000. He said Ezy Build was already supplying houses to Papua New Guinea and there was virtually no limit to the types of structures that could be made from the prefab modular method. “The simplest one can be built in seven days,” he said. The ultimate cost would depend on the number required. “It’s volume dependent, but we
ian made and came complete with a 110mm concrete base. Walls were clad with maglite oxide fireproof boards, and the houses had double-glazed windows and came already wired and plumbed. He preferred to describe them as “modular” rather than “kit homes”. “I really want to just import the houses and hand them over, but we could put a team together to erect them if necessary,” Mr Tootell said. The houses could be erected on private or council-owned land, which would be either sold or leased to the house owners. “The land can be prepared and all permits issued before the houses get here.” Mr Tootell said he had proposed importing the houses as part of the Black Housing imports: David Tootell believes cheap, quality housing can be brought rto the peninsula from Thailand.
could bring in 30 houses a month,” he said. Mooring fees were expensive and a crane capable of lifting 60 to 100 tonnes would be needed to unload containers from the ship and from trucks arriving at the building site. He said discussions had been held with Swire Shipping about bringing the houses from Thailand to Western Port and preliminary talks had been held with BlueScope to use its wharf at Hastings. Mr Tootell said the steel-framed houses complied with regulations requiring them to be 60 per cent Austral-
Saturday bushfire recovery effort, but “was given the runaround by state government departments”. An Ezy Build brochure shows the prefabricated designs being adapted for houses, apartments, townhouses, schools, showrooms and motels. It has an artist’s drawing of accommodation for 3500 in a barracks-like building at a mining project in Western Australia. The draft Mornington Peninsula Shire Social Housing and Affordable Housing Policy lists the towns of Baxter, Somerville, Tyabb, Hastings, Crib Point, Balnarring, Mt Eliza, Mornington, Mt Martha, Dromana, Rosebud, Rosebud West, Tootgarook, Rye and Sorrento as fitting the criteria for public housing. If adopted, the plan would see public
$9.4b for Hastings port By Mike Hast INTERNAL state government costings leaked to a Melbourne newspaper put the price of building a container port at Hastings at $9.4 billion. The Department of Transport and Major Projects Victoria costings were done in June 2010 and obtained by the newspaper last week. But the price of developing the port has been rubbery since 2006 when it was first proposed. This was when Ralph Kenyon, then CEO of the port, released the draft Port Land Use & Transport Strategy,
with an estimate that $3 billion would be needed for the three-stage development. In September 2009, the cost was put at $5.7 billion. In January, The News reported the cost would be $11 billion when Transport Minister Dennis Napthine promised the Baillieu government would fast-track Hastings port development and within 10 years turn it into “a moderate sized working container port”. The News’s figure was based on sources within the port industry.
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HASTINGS artist Fran Henke and Seaford artist Tony Sowersby are finalists in this year’s Bald Archy Awards, the art contest parody of the Archibald Prize, an important portraiture award. Mrs Henke has two entries. One is a portrait of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange entitled Leak Inquiry, created with acrylics and collaged newsprint, which shows a pallid Assange being swamped in a W-shape by newspaper stories based on his organisation’s leaks. Her second entry is an acrylic painting of the late Australian opera singer Dame Joan Sutherland entitled Our Joan. The life of “La Stupenda”, who died last October aged 83, was celebrated in London last week at a memorial service in Westminster Abbey. Another tribute will be held in New York on 17 May. This is the second year Mrs Henke’s work has been accepted, the first being a portrait of controversial photographer Bill Henson. Tony Sowersby won the award in 2005 with The Cardinal With His Abbott, which featured Cardinal George Pell and now-Opposition leader Tony Abbott. This year he has two works vying for the $5000 prize: a portrait of retailer Gerry Harvey, Support Your Local Billionaire, and A Tale of Two Jules. Mr Sowersby says this about his two entries: “Australians have recently shown that they will take to the streets to protest against the government victimising our billionaires. Witness the backlash to the mining tax. “However an essential element in gaining
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the public’s support was a slick advertising campaign that highlighted the billionaires’ plight. Gerry Harvey shot himself in the foot with his ill-timed and poorly conceived pitch aimed at his new on-line rivals who may send him broke. But he is one of our own Aussie billionaires. He desperately needs our support. So from now on, buy your stuff from a shop, not on a computer. “Ah, in what strange directions life can take us. Julia Gillard and Julian Assange were both young radicals, but they have taken very different paths. Julia was quick to brand WikiLeaks ‘illegal’ and has remained mute in response to calls by prominent Americans (such as Sarah Palin) for Julian’s rendition and worse. “I have set this painting in the French Revolution era, not only because of the similarities in rhetoric, but also because with his tall, slim figure and tied-back silver hair, Julian could have been standing behind Leslie Howard or Ronald Coleman in a Hollywood version of the revolution. “I must apologise to Julia though, I am sure she has never knitted.” The Bald Archy usually includes cartoons or humorous works making fun of Australian celebrities. The award is supposedly judged by Bald Archy founder Peter Batey’s white cockatoo, Maud. The winner will be announced in Sydney in March. More information look up: www.baldarchy. com.au Mike Hast
Nepean benefit to repair historic Charlton theatre THE southern peninsula community is again coming to the aid of Victorians affected by disaster. Two years ago a benefit concert at Sorrento football ground raised more than $70,000 to help devastated communities after the tragic Black Saturday fires. January’s floods affected 51 communities, inundated more than 1700 properties, devastated 52,000 hectares of pasture and 41,000 hectares of field crops flooded and killed 6000. The Nepean Flood Benefit Concert will be held on Sunday 13 March, Labour Day long weekend. The organisers are aiming to raise $120,000 for the town of Charlton, one of the first towns to be flooded, the second flood within four months. Co-organiser John Prentice said the town “really needs assistance and we’ve decided to help contribute to the rebuilding of the Rex Theatre, an historic Art Deco building that is more a community meeting place”. The not-for-profit theatre is a hub for the town of just over 1000 people on the Avoca River. It is almost halfway between Melbourne and Mildura, and a popular stop for tourists. “The theatre is a prized showpiece of the town, the only one for 100km and services surrounding towns. It is a place to congregate. “The rebuilding will be a great boost to morale for the area. It is run by the community for the community.” He said support for the flood benefit had been outstanding. “Almost all parties involved in the bushfire concert have joined forces again.” They included the Portsea Camp,
Flood of tears: Two views of the historic Rex Theatre inundated in January when the Avioca River burst its banks. Carpets have been removed but much work is still to be done.
Sorrento-Portsea RSL, Hotel Sorrento, Sorrento Football Club, Sorrento Golf Club, Sorrento police and Rotary. “Event planning is continuing but already performers such as Russell Morris, Wendy Stapleton and Paul Norton, Tony Byrne, The Love Stars featuring Lisa Bade, Coxy, Mick Pealing, Ron Martini and band, and Big and Horny
(a 13-piece high energy band) had signed up. “Young groups Stray Love and San Fran Disco are on board and popular peninsula rock band Munster Terrace would perform. Chris Doe, an X Factor finalist, is joining with his brother Peter.” MC will be Molly Meldrum, and
bands will play from 2- 8pm. There will be children’s activities run by Portsea Camp staff. “Bring your own picnic rugs, chairs and food but no alcohol. Alcohol, soft drinks and food will be available at the oval. Tickets at the gate, but pre-purchasing at Hotel Sorrento or the Rye and Blairgowrie newsagencies will
help our catering arrangements,” Mr Prentice said. Donations are tax deductible. “To Charlton With Love” is at David MacFarlan Reserve, Hotham Rd, Sorrento. Ground opens 1pm. Tickets: $30 adults, $10 teenagers and under12s free. Details: Hotel Sorrento, call 5984 8000.
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When the sailor met the secretary 60 years of Valentines for Merricks couple By Mike Hast THE second mate of the cargo ship that had just tied up in Sydney to refuel was disembarking for shore leave. He was about to walk down the gangplank when the ship’s third mate, Keith Elford, who was rostered to remain aboard, asked Colin Randall to drop in on his little sister and wish her happy birthday. She was private secretary to the managing director of a home lighting business, a smart girl all of 17 who had walked into a good job straight out of business school. Second mate Randall walked into the city office, took one look at Dawn Elford and the couple have been together ever since, sea voyages notwithstanding. They celebrated their 60th anniversary at a party with family and friends in Balnarring Hall the day before St Valentine’s Day. On the actual day of their wedding, 17 February, they strolled down memory lane at the church where they married, St Stephen’s in Chatswood. The couple share an obvious deep love and during an interview with The News made each other smile and laugh when remembering amusing incidents. Colin recalled their first date was at the cinema: “The first movie was a Boston Blackie, but Dawn slept through the feature.” Dawn: “You probably thought ‘this will be a cheap night; I won’t have to buy her supper’.” (Boston Blackie was a reformed jewel thief who solved crimes after being accused of them himself. A series of silent movies was made 191827 and the action/detective series was revived 1941-49.) They courted for about two years and were engaged on Dawn’s 19th birthday after Colin fronted up to Thomas Goulburn Elford and sought permission to marry his only daughter. They married on 17 February 1951 and moved to Queensland where Colin was working for a shipping company that would become Australian National Line. They lived in Love St, Northgate, a Brisbane suburb. During this time Dawn worked as private secretary to accountant and politician Sir Thomas Hiley. They returned to Sydney and lived in a rented flat in Manly then built their first house in East Lindfield in 1956. Their first son, Rodney, now a
Melbourne barrister, was born in 1953 and Scott, now a doctor in Geelong, followed in 1957. Dawn said: “When the boys were young and Colin would return from sea, they’d come running to me when he arrived home and say ‘Mum, that man is back again’.” It became a family joke told many times down the years as the boys married and had their own children. The Randalls have led colourful lives that would fill a book. Dawn, who turns 80 this month and looks many years younger, grew up in East Willoughby with an older and younger brother. She was a child performer, playing the mandolin-banjo on radio 2GB during a children’s program and later at concerts for the army during the war. An A grade cricketer, her club was unbeaten for several years (“We had four international players”) and she also played for NSW. One of her coaches was the legendary Test fast bowler Ray Lindwall, the driver for prominent NSW politician and lawyer Clive Evatt whose daughter Elizabeth was on the team. Elizabeth later became the first woman Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia. Colin joined the British Merchant Navy and went to sea in 1941, a dangerous time to be afloat. He sailed in ships criss-crossing the Atlantic as the United States supplied Britain during the darkest days of World War 2. “We lost 2500 ships and more than 50,000 men,” he said. “The ship I was on was better armed than a navy destroyer.” On one voyage they lost 39 ships out of 72 to the dreaded U-boats, the German submarines. “I remember how bitterly cold it was. You’d do four hours on and four off, and learning to sleep like this has served me well over the years.” Between 1941-44 Colin sailed the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Pacific and to and from Japan after VJ Day in 1945, supplying the occupation forces. After 18 years sailing the seven seas (or most of them), Colin joined the Port Phillip Sea Pilots in 1959 and the couple moved from Sydney to Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, building a second house, in North Balwyn. Colin has a deep knowledge of the sea pilots service: “George Tobin started guiding ships in to Port Phillip not
Lifelong love: Colin and Dawn Randall in their Merricks garden.
long after the colony was established in 1835 and the service was formalised in 1839 when the Governor of NSW, George Gipps, granted Tobin the first pilot service licence on condition it would cost the government nothing.” (Victoria was under the control of NSW until independence was granted in 1851.) The service is unique in Australia as it is fully owned and operated by its pilots. “It’s the oldest continuously operating private company in Victoria,” he said. “Tobin and his fellow pilots camped on the beach at Queenscliff and were taken out to ships in 30-foot whaleboats mostly crewed by convicts.” (Earlier, in 1791, a young Tobin sailed with William Bligh on his second voyage to the Pacific. The first voyage is infamous for the 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty when Bligh and 18 loyal crew were forced into a sevenmetre boat by Christian Fletcher and his cohorts, and miraculously sailed 6700 kilometres from Tahiti to Timor with the loss of just one man, killed by warriors on Tonga. Bligh later became Governor of NSW, in 1806.) Two walls of his rumpus room in Merricks are a history of the sea pilots, all experienced former ships’ masters.
Pride of place is occupied by a brass sign: “Nobody’s perfect – except the Captain.” Colin Randall belongs to an exclusive club. He was one of three Port Phillip Sea Pilots to start work in Western Port when the first tankers arrived at Crib Point in 1966. “It was June when Jack Barkly, Derek Howard and I arrived; Jack brought the first BP oil tanker in and I took it out three days later.” Their boats were kept in Hanns Inlet, the entrance to HMAS Cerberus between Stony Point and Somers. “We stayed at the motel near Tyabb airfield and used two pre-war tugs to get to and from the huge oil and gas tankers; not the best arrangement. It was pretty hairy clambering 30 or 40 foot up onto a gassy.” Dawn comments: “Colin was very athletic.” In 1970 BP opened Long Island jetty, just north of Hastings. He says it is extraordinary the Port of Hastings has gone backwards. “In the mid-1970s, 16 ships arrived every week. We were sending gas to Japan, oil to America and exporting pipes from Lysaghts [now BlueScope]. Now there are two a week.” Sheep from Flinders Island were
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offloaded at Stony Point from smaller ships. “Hastings should have been Melbourne’s deepwater port,” he said. “You’re getting into controversial ground there, Colin,” Dawn said with a laugh. He retired in 1987 after 48 years at sea and more than 28 year as a pilot. Dawn worked as a volunteer at her sons’ school, president of the mothers’ club and in other roles, and then returned to paid work in 1969, as a student counsellor with Stotts College, inspired by a talk given by Baroness Maie Casey, wife of Richard Casey, who as Lord Casey was GovernorGeneral of Australia 1969-74. “Baroness Casey told a gathering that women not returning to the workforce after having children was a waste of talent,” she recalled. “I went home and told my boys I was thinking about going back to work and they pooh-poohed the idea. That really got me going and I found a job at Stotts, and spent 10 years advising young students, senior citizens, migrants and people upgrading their skills.” In 1988 the couple sold North Balwyn and moved to Merricks, building another house. They transformed a two-hectare cow paddock with two poplars into a showpiece garden designed by Dawn. It was fed by tank water. It’s a big house with room for their six grandchildren – indoor pool, one-hole golf fairway and green, and a meditation room at the bottom of the hill. They joined Balnarring Red Cross, with Dawn serving as secretary, and she joined Somers Ladies Probus Club and he Balnarring Men’s Probus Club, which celebrated its 25th birthday last year. They are life members of their respective clubs. They’ve collected donations for good causes, organised lunches, card days and stalls. An annual fund-raiser on their patio near the pool attracts 80 people each year. “It’s been wonderful to become a member of this community,” Dawn said, Colin nodding in agreement. “This is where we’ve felt most at home and made the best friends.” There’s no sign of the Randalls slowing. They’re both still sharpminded and sprightly, although Colin had a limp on the day of the interview: “It’s nothing; probably wear and tear from climbing all those ladders.” And the obvious question: the secret of their long marriage? They say they hardly ever argue. Dawn says: “Colin’s the captain; what he says goes.” He looks at her a bit quizzically; she gives a little smile.
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Warning: Clean Ocean’s James Clark-Kennedy alerted Melbourne media to sewage going into waterways after the deluge in early February that swamped large parts of Melbourne south-east.
It was the term “waste water” that rang the alarm bells for Mr ClarkKennedy, a veteran of the long-running campaign to stop class C treated water being pumped into Bass Strait at Boags Rocks near popular Gunnamatta surf beach on the Mornington Peninsula. He briefed Melbourne journalists and next day a page three report in The Age saw every major television and radio news service pick up the story. Melbourne Water spokesman Chris Chesterfield was forced into making embarrassing apologies on air, saying the government authority had failed and would have to do better next time. Mr Clark-Kennedy said the EPA had failed its duties, too.
“On 10 February, six days after the floods, the EPA website stated: ‘Water quality testing has shown unacceptable water quality due to elevated bacterial levels at Carrum, Aspendale North, Mordialloc, Mentone, St Kilda, Middle Park, Port Melbourne, Altona and Werribee South beaches. As a result of these levels, EPA advises against swimming at these beaches until further notice’.” The Clean Ocean boss said this was unacceptable: “The public should have been told about this pollution. It’s not good enough for the EPA to say people should avoid swimming in Port Phillip for 48 hours after heavy rain. “Beaches should be closed to swim-
ming and warning signs in multiple languages erected.” He said more than 300 stormwater drains empty into Port Phillip and the EPA should have teams testing the water every day when such big rain events occurred. Melbourne Water was “quite happy in recent years to spend sizeable budgets on half page ads in newspapers telling us all how to be water wise while they’ve wasted billions of litres” by not treating waste water to class A. The EPA on 15 February released a report of an internal review that found it had been inadequate in its performance as a regulator. “Clean Ocean Foundation wholeheartedly agrees,” Mr Clark-Kennedy said. “The EPA would appear to be writing more get-out-of-jail free tickets to industrial polluters to discharge chemicals and heavy metals into the sewerage system than playing any real ‘watchdog role’ for the environment. “At lieutenant level, the EPA would appear far too cosy with Melbourne Water in particular, as evidenced by their quiet surrounding discharge of millions of litres of raw sewage into drains, waterways and the bay. “The Baillieu government would do well to take the cane to both Melbourne Water and the EPA, directing both to give up corporatestyle window dressing and focus on providing real answers and real solutions to Melbourne’s inadequate sewerage system.” Mike Hast
Going green as the shire’s garden waste collection service starts THE shire’s garden material collection service started on Monday 28 February. The service is for residents in urban parts of the shire only. It costs about $130 a year and is for grass clippings and weeds, garden prunings, small branches, bark, untreated timber sawdust, leaves and flowers, but no plastic bags, general rubbish, soil, bricks, food waste or plant pots will be accepted. The shire reserves the right to not collect the 240-litre bins if they contain rubbish. It did two audits of general waste that showed 6-14 per cent of waste going to landfill was green waste and many residents wanted the service. To find out if your property is classified as urban, call the shire’s customer service on 1300 850 600 or go to the shire website www. mornpen.vic.gov.au and look under: “Your Property: Rubbish, Recycling & Waste” then “Green Waste Collection Service”. Residents can still take green waste for a fee or voucher to Rye landfill in Truemans Rd, Tyabb transfer station in McKirdys Rd and Mornington transfer station in Watt Rd.
Frankston first stop for state’s latest top lawman PENINSULA Community Legal Centre was first community legal centre visited by Attorney-General and Finance Minister Robert Clark since being appointed in December 2010. “The justice system couldn’t function properly without the work of community legal centres in supporting those who are most vulnerable in our society,” Mr Clark said. He said those work in community legal centres do so to help the public and not personal gain. “We are grateful for the Attorney’s support of Peninsula Community Legal Centre, and appreciate the opportunity to draw to his attention to the growing demand for free legal services in our community,” the legal centre’s CEO Helen Constas said.
The centre serves about one million people in the municipalities of Glen Eira, Kingston, Frankston, Casey, Cardinia and Mornington Peninsula. Last year it received 25,000 phone inquiries, provided 13,282 information and referral activities and undertook 9704 client activities, including free legal advice, ongoing casework and representation. “In the past year, we have experienced further increases in demand for help with family law matters, family violence, criminal law and many civil law matters, including credit and debt,” Ms Constas said. For information about free legal services call Peninsula Community Legal Centre on 9783 3600 or www. pclc.org.au.
Government visitors: At Peninsula Community Legal Centre during a visit by state Attorney-General Robert Clark, second from right, are Jackie Galloway, the centre’s deputy CEO and senior advocate, Lesley Dillon, centre management committee, CEO Helen Constas and Geoff Shaw MP for Frankston (who stood for Labor in the August 2010 election won by Mr Shaw).
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Peninsula mourns textile artist Pamela Farmer THE art and wider peninsula community is mourning the loss of textile artist Pamela Farmer of Shoreham, who died last Thursday after a long illness. Pamela, 62, exhibited her unique creations of wool, silk and other materials, described as self-expressive masterpieces, in Melbourne and on the peninsula. In 2006 she exhibited at Antipodes Gallery in Sorrento and at the Flinders Art Show where she received an award for lino printing. Pamela’s artwork won many prizes at art shows, wool shows and was exhibited at the former Meat Market Craft Centre near Victoria Market, now known as Arts House. Her work was sold at the Art Shed Gallery in Red Hill and the Lumina Gallery in Malvern East among other venues.
Pamela gained national attention when she won the Wool Quilt Prize, hosted by Geelong’s National Wool Museum. She conducted workshops on felting, painting and embellishing with stitchery on the peninsula. At the 2009 Peninsula Festival of Arts and Ideas, she conducted textile art workshops and later that year, indigenous community blanket workshops in Rosebud and Frankston. Pamela told Carol Heath of Ozquilt Network, a national organisation for art quilters, that she used her sewing machine to create undulations on her quilts. One of them was constructed from an old woollen blanket, dyed with eucalyptus leaves, layered with merino and alpaca felting and stitched
together by hand and machine using applique, quilting and embroidery techniques. “Pamela says that when she is working in this manner, something takes over and she is often surprised at what comes out. She feels she doesn’t always have much control over it, seeing the work as it develops,” Ms Heath wrote. “Her unusual stitching technique is explained when Pamela reveals she originally trained as a printmaker. She uses her stitching lines as she would have originally scratched details and fine lines into copper.” Pamela Farmer (nee Vary) is survived by her husband, environmentalist Wolf Passauer, her children Chloe, Matthew and Thomas, and her sister Margaret Jean. Mike Hast
Master quilter: Pamela Farmer with some of her unique work.
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Earth moves: An excavator clears the Westerfield dam last Thursday.
Historic Westerfield dam busted CONTRACTORS working for Peninsula Link freeway building consortium Southern Way excavated most of the historic dam on the heritage-listed Westerfield property at Frankston South last Thursday. The dam was built for original property owner Sir Russell Grimwade in the 1920s and had become a bush-rimmed small lake supporting abundant wildlife. Sir Russell, an eminent Melbourne scientist, industrialist and philanthropist, was considered ahead of his time in terms of conservation and land
management and advocated the need for industry and the environment to coexist. Watching the destruction on Thursday were property owners Joyce and Simon Welsh, who claimed just 2 per cent of the existing water volume of about 2.5 million litres would remain after it was pumped recently prior to the excavation work. “Tragically, the dam had filled for the first time in 14 years following the good rains of winter and spring,” Mr Welsh said. Heritage Victoria stated at a
recent court challenge to the permit conditions for the freeway construction that the “dam is considered to have historical significance and the bushland is considered to have historical and scientific (botanical) significance”. Last September, Southern Way general manager David Clements stated the consortium had revised its design around the edges of the dam to meet the requirements of the revised permit issued by the Heritage Council of Victoria. Mike Hast
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THE Red Hill community is celebrating after its opportunity shop was granted a permit to operate from its historic wooden house opposite the recreation reserve. The Red Hill Opportunity Shop was at risk of becoming homeless after Mornington Peninsula Shire last July told the new owner of its building that it could not operate there after January due to strict green wedge zone rules for retail outlets. The shire has given the op shop a permit to operate until 2015 in the house formerly known as “Glenbower”. The house is next door to the Red Hill Church of Christ, which was sold to David May more than 18 months ago for an estimated $800,000. Mr May applied to convert the church into a residence for his family, but when the shire issued a planning permit last July, one of the key conditions was the op shop building had to be removed or converted for use as an outbuilding. The news caused widespread angst in the community, which the op shop has supported for more than 25 years. It has donated about $500,000 to Peninsula Hospice Service, Red Hill CFA and other causes, and is run by 52 volunteers. The op shop had rented the house since 2004 and has a five-year lease with Mr May.
Last year shire planners said the op shop could not operate in a green wedge zone following the sale of the church. In July a spokesman for Red Hill Community Action said it was a deplorable decision. “It seems unthinkable that the shire would watch a young couple buy the Church of Christ property with a view to converting it to a family home, and say nothing about its intention to force closure of the op shop until now,” the spokesman said. “Not only has it deprived the May family of rent income from the op shop, but also has possibly put the op shop out of business as there is little hope it will find suitable premises in the area.” Two weeks later, at the end of July, the shire said councillors would consider the matter at development assessments committee meeting. Seven months later, the op shop’s future is assured. The op shop is seen by many people as more of a community recycling operation. All goods are donated, it is run by 52 volunteers and all proceeds go to charity. On Friday, op shop committee president Marion Trevellyan told The News: “We are delighted to have our permit, which will allow us to operate in the house for the next four years.”
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From apples to motocross thrills THE hardworking farmers and orchardists of Red Hill who organised the area’s first agricultural show in 1922 would surely stare in amazement if they could time travel to this month’s event. Flying over their heads would be the gravity-defying daredevils of Empire FMX, the freestyle motocross team, one of the main drawcards of the 83rd annual show, nowadays the only event of its kind on the peninsula. In the 1920s, life was lived at a more sedate pace – drawcards included local people exhibiting their best eating apples, flowers and vegetables along with the best butter, cooking and preserves from their farm kitchens. Many took their produce to the showgrounds on Arthurs Seat Rd by horse and cart. Show day was declared a local holiday by the Shire of Flinders and a special train ran from Melbourne to bring spectators to Red Hill, a journey of more than three hours. The holiday is gone, the train is gone and the shire is now part of a “megashire”, but the crowds continue to come, and there will be something for everyone on Saturday 26 March. Over the years, horses, sheep, cattle and alpacas were included to the show, reflecting the changing face of farming on the peninsula. Wine, avocados, olives, berries and cheese have joined the list of produce, with some
of the best available for tasting and buying. Red Hill Agricultural and Horticultural Society secretary Alison Dougherty said this year’s event will be a “wonderful mixture of animals, arena events, woodchopping, entertainment, competitions and demonstrations”. The Empire motocross riders would do two shows as well as sign posters and autographs. “They’ll add a wow factor to the show,” she said. Also new this year is the Australian Fishing Show, which demonstrates fishing techniques using live fish in a 21-metre long tank as well as providing information on 4WDs, eye and boat safety, knife sharpening, motor maintenance, holiday destinations and lure fishing. “We also have Tubby the Robot, roving entertainer Super Weirdo, Daisy the Clown and her stiltwalking friends, free pony rides and free face painting,” Ms Dougherty said. Animal stars will include beef cattle; horses, especially Clydesdales; alpacas; stud, black and coloured sheep; poultry; rats, ferrets and pigs. There will be petting paddocks full of animals for youngsters. Demonstrations will include shearing, spinning, working dogs, woodwork, heritage machinery, craft and cake decorating. A perennial favourite is the wood-
chopping, with eight-time world champion Lawrence O’Toole Junior leading the musclemen and making the chips fly. Chainsaw racing is also popular. The showground’s pavilions display craft, cooking, fruit, flowers, vegetables, art and photography. In 2008, the show celebrated the 150th anniversary of agricultural and horticultural shows on the Mornington Peninsula, and a history, “A Show of our Own”, will be with the historical display in the Pioneers Produce Pavilion. The showjumping will be held at Boneo Park on Boneo Rd this year on Saturday and Sunday 2 and 3 April, and will include eight showjumping events for A, B, C and D grade horses as well as events for junior riders. Tickets cost $40 for a family (two adults, three children 6-18 years), adults $15, children $10, students and pensioners $10, children five and under free. Free parking. Details and entry forms: Society office 5989 2357, email: redhillshow@ hotkey.net.au and on the internet at: www.redhillshow.org The society’s 12th annual International Cool Climate Wine Show, which includes judging, public tastings and awards dinner, is from 23-27 May at the showgrounds.
Showtime: An Empire FMX rider defies gravity (above). The team is new to the Red Hill Show this year. Woodchopping contests (left) have been a mainstay since the first show and still draw the crowds. Below: Tubby the Robot delights the children.
Authorities still want car ferry Continued from page 1 The government could be asked to compensate Patrick, which has a lease until 2012 with a further five-year option. The car ferry jetty would be 230 metres long with a two-lane road and covered walkway for pedestrians. It would be built north of the existing jetty, which is used by Patrick tugs, the existing passenger-only ferry operated by Inter Island Ferries, Royal Australian Navy contractor vessels and others. The ferry jetty would be built over an existing deep channel, necessitating extensive dredging to create a new one. Critics of the car ferry, including the Mornington Peninsula Ratepayers and Residents Association, say the plan is flawed as insufficient cars will use it. Association member and retired engineer Alan Nelsen claims the government would have to subsidise each vehicle by at least $250 a trip and this could cost the government $2 million a year.
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“It would be a white elephant,” he said. Frank Denvir of Inter Island Ferries, who has run the Stony Point-Phillip Island passenger ferry service for 15 years, queried the number of drivers who would use the car ferry. “The Sorrento-Queenscliff car ferry is viable as it connects the west coast with the peninsula and saves drivers having to battle traffic through central Melbourne. But I question the economic viability of a Western Port car ferry,” he said. This latest car ferry proposal follows a long line of similar proposals, including two failed attempts to link the peninsula with Tasmania, and a proposal by Peninsula Searoad Transport, which operates the car ferry between Sorrento and Queenscliff, to use a superseded Port Phillip ferry to link Stony Point and Cowes. Ferry story: A craft the size of the former Sorrento ferry Peninsula Princess would likely be used in Western Port.
Facing down a cruel disease By Mike Hast IAN Aitken had experienced problems with his eyes for several years. Amazingly, it did not stop him playing cricket, even though he had what you might call tunnel vision courtesy of what turned out to be advancing glaucoma; his captain put him in the slips where the ball comes straight toward you. He was still making runs, as he had been for more than 50 years since starting out as a teenager in Bendigo. In the end it was his legs rather than poor vision that made him pull up stumps. “I turned 60 and was too slow to run the singles; batting with young blokes in C grade, well, I’d always be looking for fours and you really need to be turning the strike over with those quick singles,” he said. He said farewell to Red Hill Cricket Club where he’d had an illustrious career, playing and coaching since 1980, and before that with Rye CC after moving from Kyneton to the peninsula with his family in 1977. At home in Rosebud West, the retired primary school teacher – who arrived at Rye Primary School in 1978, moved to Eastbourne primary in the late 1980s and retired from teaching in 1996 – started falling over furniture. He was 62. His wife Juanita, who was awarded Mornington Peninsula Shire’s citizen of the year on Australia Day, was puzzled. “Ian doesn’t fall. He was a good sportsman who had played football for South Bendigo as well as competition basketball, tennis and, of course, cricket. He had great balance and was a fit man. I was very concerned,” she said. A visit to the doctor confirmed Ian had advancing glaucoma, damage to the optic nerve. The doctor asked: “You didn’t drive here, did you?” When Ian said yes, the doctor said: “Well, I’m afraid you won’t be doing that anymore” and told him he needed urgent treatment. Juanita took over driving duties. They went to Vision Australia in Mt Eliza, at the George Vowell Centre, now an aged care centre. A surgeon drained his eye and he was put on medication.
He continued to take tumbles; it was getting worse. Their doctor continued to insist it was because of his eyes. Juanita knew it must be something else. “Ian’s father had Parkinson’s and maybe Ian was getting it, too.” After five frustrating years of doctors, tests, eye checks and more doctors, Ian was diagnosed with motor neurone disease – almost a year ago this month.
With no nerves to activate them, muscles gradually weaken and waste, and paralysis ensues. Like many MND sufferers, Ian has good and bad days. Walking is becoming very difficult so he’s in a wheelchair now. The Aitkens have spent thousands of dollars to adapt parts of their home – a new main bathroom that required changing the adjacent toilet and laundry, hand rails in the couple’s
Battling on: Ian and Juanita Aitken in their Rosebud West garden. It has been a bitter– sweet 12 months for the couple with Ian being diagnosed with motor neurone disease and Juanita being named the shire’s citizen of the year 2010.
Ian, his family and friends were devastated – there’s no cure for MND. Well, not yet anyway. He’s going public and bravely talking about his condition to raise public awareness of the disease and call for financial support for MND research. It’s a cruel disease. Motor neurones are nerve cells that control the muscles of the torso, arms and legs as well as muscles that enable us to speak, swallow and breathe.
en suite, and ramps at front and back doors for the wheelchair. Their daughter Vikki’s partner Mark Goodrem, son of Rye area shire councillor Bill, built the big bathroom with some of his mates, saving the Aitkens thousands. They’ve had help from the shire council via the HACC program (Health and Community Care, which enables frail older people and those with disabilities to stay at home) and
Brotherhood Community Care, a division of the Brotherhood of St Laurence, which pays for physio, podiatry and lawn mowing. Juanita, a retired nurse, is Ian’s fulltime carer. Somehow she manages to combine this with her 30-year plus career as an active member of the Rosebud and Rosebud West communities – the community renewal project, the shire’s Communities That Care program, raising money for Cancer Council Victoria and her Probus club. Great support has come from MND Australia. Over cups of tea and sandwiches in the Aitkens’ garden last week, the organisation’s regional adviser for outer southern and Gippsland, Jenny Waites, talked about how they help sufferers. “We look after about 250 people in Victoria. I look after 40 people in my region, including 10 in Frankston and on the peninsula,” she said. “It’s a rare disease; a GP might come across only one case in their career.” Juanita said Jenny had been a lifesaver. “She liaises with many agencies to help us get services. MND supplied Ian’s $2500 electric lift chair in the family room and a $1000 wheelchair that I can dismantle when we travel. It has moveable armrests so Ian can use it at tables.” Juanita says Ian’s MND may have been triggered by exposure to heavy metals. “As a child, he played on gold mining mullock heaps in Bendigo, which contain mercury, cadmium, lead and other metals. So did many other children, but Ian might have a gene that is affected by heavy metals.” The scientific community is beginning to unravel some of the molecular events that occur during MND. Motor neurones are not lost gradually, but in a sudden cascade of events. It is likely that environmental factors play a role in triggering the disease. It has long been suspected that complex interactions between genetic and environmental risk factors cause MND. Much work is still to be done. Ian gave blood this month for an MND Australia research program. Juanita is optimistic a cure will be found one day.
Ian’s former “boss” at Rye primary appears at the Aitkens’ garden gate. Bill Williamson was principal at Rye 1976-82 and later at Eastbourne Primary School 1983-87. “Ian and I became great mates when teaching and I drop in on Nita and Ian as often as possible, usually about every three weeks,” he said. “Another mate of mine, Gus North, had MND. He was in the navy, including in Japan when they surrendered in August 1945. Gus and his son came to our club Rye Probus before he passed away about two years ago. He told our members about this awful disease.” Bill told a few stories about Ian’s cricketing prowess with Ian providing the statistical details. “He played in a Victorian country team against the Poms in 1963,” Bill said. “He was a very good cricketer.” Bill is talking about the touring England Test cricket team, which often played matches in the bush in those days. “Ian was a top fast bowler and claimed the wickets of offspinner Ray Illingworth and their keeper John Murray.” Ian says with a broad smile: “Then I made seven runs. We lost but gave them a good workout.” Bill says his mate has always been a positive person. “At school, if we had any kind of problem, Ian always had a solution. ‘Let’s do this and then get on with it’, he’d say.” Bill asked Ian how he coped. Ian said: “It’s a frustrating disease; you lose the abilities you’ve always taken for granted. Sometimes I feel very sad when I see couples our age walking down the street holding hands. “But you get on with life. My family and especially Juanita are wonderful support.” Juanita has enough positive energy to light a town and an unbridled optimism that’s inspiring. “Perhaps there’s a millionaire out there who will call MND Australia and say: ‘Take this and find a cure’.” Information: MND Victoria, PO Box 23, Canterbury 3126, free call 1800 777 175. Email: info@mnd.asn.au and on the internet: www.mnd.asn.au
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Attracting more doctors to the region is a priority and I have worked closely with the directors of Kumar Medicals to help establish new medical clinics at Crib Point, Tooradin and now Baxter. While these new clinics have helped ease the doctor shortage on the Peninsula, there is still more work to be done. I am hopeful that we will see a new medical centre up and running at Rosebud within the next few months and I will continue to push the Federal Government for greater incentives to attract doctors to the region.
I am acutely aware that a significant number of Peninsula residents are struggling to find a doctor who can take on new patients and that many of those who do have a local doctor find it difficult to secure an appointment within a reasonable timeframe. There is also significant unmet demand for the services of bulk-billing GPs on the Peninsula. I will continue to do what I can to improve access to good quality medical care for local residents.
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realestate The people to call for your real estate needs... Nigel Evans Mobile: 0439 540 055
Sid Ferguson Mobile: 0418 321 963
Tallon First National 35 High Street, HASTINGS
Satchwells 1/97 High Street, HASTINGS PHONE: 03 5979 1888
PHONE: 03 5979 3000 EMAIL: info@tallon.com.au
EMAIL: RealEstate@satchwells.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
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
Michael Curry Mobile: 0409 410 456
Craig Mann Mobile: 0412 559 816
MC Real Estate 4/82 High St, HASTINGS PHONE: (03) 5979 8833
First National Craig Mann
EMAIL: sales@mcrealestate.com.au
EMAIL: craig@craigmann.com.au
Jordon Hendrix Mobile: 0415 346 866 Zentori Real Estate 1549 F/Flinders Rd, TYABB PHONE: 03 5977 3747 EMAIL: jhendrix@zentori.com.au
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Crib Point
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$559,000
Luxurious living on 1/4 acre Sick of looking for that right property on a large block, in the quiet streets of Crib Point? You can rest assured that when you move into this home you can instantly enjoy the lifestyle, as you will have nothing to do but make the most of what this amazing property offers which includes: 31sqs under roof, a grand entrance with rich timber floating floors, study with Internet, enormous master bedroom with walk-inrobe, ensuite with his and hers vanity, 2 further large bedrooms with built in robes, formal living room, open plan kitchen with caesar stone bench tops, 900 gas stainless
Chefs oven, adjoining dining area with doors to outdoor alfresco area, family room for a large family, rumpus room that may be converted to a 4th bedroom if needed, evaporative cooling, ducted gas heating, 11 seater outdoor spa with outdoor television, all operated by solar, large yard for the kids spacious enough for a pool, 10,000 litre water tank, workshop at the rear of block, double garage with internal and rear access, side access from the front to rear of yard ideal for storing a boat,caravan or machinery, 14 x 2.1kw solar panels, solar hot water and tropical landscaped gardens.
Agency: Satchwells Hastings. 1/97 High Street, HASTINGS Phone: (03) 5979 1888 Agent: Lisa Roberts 0488 910 368
Hastings
$385,000
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$485,000 - $525,000
Luxury & distinction
Perfect Villa Not often do you find a home with so much to offer just a few minutes stroll from town, close to shops, schools and public transport. This well-kept property boasts more rooms than you can fill! Featuring 4 bedrooms (main with full ensuite + walk in robe) and a large study. A sunken rumpus/family room provides plenty of space to wind down, and 2x air cons + gas ducted heating ensures all-year comfort.
Outside has a fully self-contained granny flat perfect for a teenagers retreat, relatives accommodation or perhaps a separate rental. Well-kept gardens provide an outside escape with room for a veggie patch for the keen gardener. A home that can suit anyone!
Agency: Tallon First National - 35 High Street, HASTINGS. Phone: 5979 3000 Agent: Nigel Evans 0439 540 055
4 bedroom home or 3 bedroom plus study Master suite with large WIR through to the ensuite with spa 3 Living plus dining areas Bay views from second storey
Second storey decking on east and west side of the home 3 car garage Established gardens This home has to be seen to be believed!
Agency: Baywest Real Estate - 87 High Street, HASTINGS Phone: 5979 4412 Agent: Sean Crimmins 0411 734 814
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Craig Mann
AUCTION: Saturday 26th March at 1.30pm
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SOMERVILLE OFFERS OVER $395,000
Split Level Living
Style and Elegance
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• 3 bedroom unit • Double remote garage • Current rental return is $320 per week
• 3 bedrooms, master with full ensuite and WIR • With ducted heating, air conditioning • Walking distance to Schools, transport and shops.
Sat 5 March: 2:00PM - 2:30PM 6/27 Ruby Joy Drive, Somerville Craig Mann 0412 559 816
SOMERVILLE
$220,000
Sat 5 March: 11:00AM - 11:30AM 1 Rex Court Lesley Yates 0401 643 413
SOMERVILLE
$320,000 - $350,000
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Fully Renovated Home
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Our vendor has purchased elsewhere and must sell this very well kept three bedroom home. Offering two en-suites from two of the three bedrooms and good sized separate living zones, the home is set well back on the allotment. Ideal for investors, first home buyers or empty nesters this is a great opportunity for the right buyer. With a very realistic reserve and high motivation to sell, we are very keen to get a result sooner rather than later. Sat 5 March: 1:00PM - 1:30PM 21 Lady Beverley Circuit, Somerville Craig Mann 0412 559 816
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• New kitchen including new appliances • 2 bedroom unit • Located close to schools, shops and transport Sat 5 March: 12:00PM - 12:30PM 6/2 Blacks Camp Road Craig Mann 0412 559 816
MORNINGTON
This beautifully renovated home is in one of the most sought after streets in Somerville, walking distance to shops, schools and transport. Consisting of three bedrooms, master bedroom with ensuite, other bedrooms with BIR’s. Sat 5 March: 1:00PM - 1:30PM 1 George Street Craig Mann 0412 559 816
Rainbow Lodge
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This beautiful home situated on 10 acres within close proximity to the Mornington Racecourse, it is the perfect home for all horse lovers. Consisting of three bedrooms all with BIR’s plus study, two large living areas, wet bar and kitchen overlooking backyard with adjoining dining area. New quality carpets throughout and also ducted heating and cooling. Divided into eight paddocks with four looseboxes, troughs, two stables, wash bay, riding arena in main paddock and plenty of sheds for storage of machinery and equipment.
Buy Off The Plan
Sweet Valencia
There is a current income stream should the future owner choose to continue with the existing agistment arrangements.
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This soon to be built brand new unit is in a prime location in Somerville walking distance to shops, transport and schools. Consisting of three bedrooms, two bathrooms and double lock up garage. Inspect by appointment 1c George Street Craig Mann 0412 559 816
MOUNT MARTHA
• 2695m2 (approx ¾ acre) corner allotment • 3 bedrooms plus study with delightful rural views • Tranquil gardens Inspect by appointment 2 Valencia rise Craig Mann 0412 559 816
$450,000
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$430,000
Green Island
Immaculate Presentation
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Quality upon entry is apparent here in this single level three bedroom unit. Just a few years young and offering full ensuite from the main bedroom, a double remote garage, Caesar stone bench top in the kitchen and S/S appliances, this is the ideal investment or down sized living for the empty nesters. Should you wish to utilise as a rental property the potential return would be in the vicinity of $365 per week. Sat 5 March: 12:00PM - 12:30PM 4/26 Green Island Avenue Craig Mann 0412 559 816
4/1085 Frankston-Flinders Rd, Somerville
Sat 5 March: 1:00PM - 1:30PM 270 Bungower Road Craig Mann 0412 559 816
This beautifully presented three bedroom plus study home is ready to move into straight away. Exceptionally low maintenance gardens this will suit empty nesters, investors or the professional couple with a busy lifestyle. Boasting Media or rumpus room, and features such as GDH, Evap cooling, undercover entertaining area and DLUG. Located within a stones throw to schools, shop and transport this is fantastic buying in a great location. Inspect by appointment 1 Orchard Grove Craig Mann 0412 559 816
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Let the kids run on this large block of 1901m2 set close to the heart of Balnarring village. A well presented 3 bedroom b/v home, with tiled roof and single garage. With good sized bedrooms + BIRs a lounge with gas column heater everything you need is here. A bright + airy kitchen overlooking the rear pergola + extensive gardens that backs onto a reserve. Plenty of room if needed to extend the home.
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. Tastefully decorated with duct heating & air conditioning for all year comfort. Outside comprises verandahs on both sides, a barbecue area with pergola and water tank with pump for the garden.
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Just a block from the town centre and a short hop to the station, this spotless home hides in an easy care native garden. An inviting path leads to the front door which opens on a bright and sunny lounge (gas heating), an open kitchen/meals has gas cooking. There are 3 bedrooms with robes and it has just been freshly painted. Outside a great back yard with pergola and garden shed and single remote garage - perfect retirement or investment with position!
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Drive up the long driveway to a quiet country homestead with shady verandahs that overlook 7.25 Acres. Walk into a large living area with raked ceilings + coonara heating to keep you cosy on a cold winters night. A large country timber kitchen with modern s/s appliances + walk in pantry is awaiting the next master chef. 4 large bedrooms main with FES + WIR. A separate dining + study or 5th bedroom. Outside a large 6m x 12m shed, separate meditation bungalow & water tank. This is the ideal property for a large family.
Step into private gardens and discover a beautifully presented 3 bedroom + study home. You are greeted by SROLVKHG Ă RRUV WKH JOLVWHQ XQGHU WKH GRZQOLJKWV D ODUJH VWHS GRZQ ORXQJH IRU WKH ODUJHVW RI IDPLOLHV DQG D PRGHUQ kitchen with s/s appliances + dishwasher. It features a separate dining or second reading area. You walk through the billiard room (or parents retreat) to the main bedroom which of course has a WIR + FES. With a split system aircon + gas coonara you are guaranteed for all year round comfort. Outside a triple carport, water tank and shedding. Last but not least the meticulously presented outside entertainment deck area with built in outback pub style bar + coonara for winter months, an entertainers delight! This home will not disappoint.
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35 HIGH STREET, HASTINGS
$529,000
www.tallon.com.au
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Bittern Living The Dream On Over An Acre!
Offers expected over $695,000 Hastings Price by Negotiation over $320,000 Attention Buyers! Great Value - Great Location
This fabulous executive style home is located in the very sought after and spacious Kinfauns Estate with the convenience to every amenity plus the Hastings Marina. Set on approximately 1.1 acres of land, this young home delivers the ultimate indoor/outdoor family lifestyle. The property is immaculate with a generous master bedroom, ensuite and WIR, further 2 bedrooms both with BIR, study, separate living areas and remote controlled double garage. The kitchen overlooks an open lounge room which flows onto the large decked/pergola area aside your very own playground and large child friendly secure rear yard, a perfect ‘blank canvas’ for you to do as you wish. Harcourts Hastings OPEN HOME: Saturday 10:30 - 11:00am ADDRESS: 3 Peppermint Place 3 2 1 2 AUCTION: Saturday 5 March 2011 at 11:00am
Bringing you this inviting neat 3 bedroom home, sitting on approx. 810m2 and presenting all buyers with a great opportunity, I would say stop looking. Situated in a quiet convenient location this property will impress those looking for a great home to live in or an investment for the future. Featuring 3 spacious bedrooms, large living/dining area, modern kitchen with separate laundry with outside access, ducted heating, and split system heating/air-conditioning. Outside offers an entertaining area, a single covered carport with drive through access to the backyard, and a single lock up garage. Harcourts Hastings OPEN HOME: Saturday 10:30 - 11:00am ADDRESS: 18 Michelle Drive
Jason Dowler 0403 598 754 E: jason.dowler@harcourts.com.au Lauren Dunsford 0422 385 869 E: lauren.dunsford@harcourts.com
Tim Hughes 0410 470 515 E: tim.hughes@harcourts.com.au
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Design, build then enjoy your dream lifestyle property just walking distance to Balnarring Village. A large 800msq block with a great aspect and surrounded by quality homes might just be the one you have been waiting for. The owner has recently spent thousands designing their tasteful dream home and getting it approved through council. If your happy with the design... save and start construction straight away. A gentle slope... a great outlook... this block will impress AND SELL QUICKLY!
Andrea Hannah 0417 400 660 E: andrea.hannah@harcourts.com.au
Jason Dowler 0403 598 754 E: jason.dowler@harcourts.com.au Lauren Dunsford 0422 385 869 E: lauren.dunsford@harcourts.com
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Wake up to views over Westernport Bay from your own private deck! Comprising of two bedrooms, this appealing open plan villa with vaulted ceilings includes a two way bathroom, separate laundry and practically designed timber kitchen. This property also has its own private court yard, garden shed, single carport and ceiling fans and split system to suit all year round. Not often do opportunities arise where villas of such generous size are available in a quiet park setting so close to the Marina, foreshore board walks and our fantastic waterfront facilities. Cabin title only. Harcourts Hastings OPEN HOME: Saturday 11:30 - 12:00pm ADDRESS: 5/38 Salmon Street
Inspection is a must on this beautifully presented 4 bedroom home. Homes of this quality don’t last long! From the moment you step inside you will be impressed with the fantastic floor plan and spacious living. Featuring a modern open plan kitchen & dining with stainless steel appliances. Separate formal lounge, master with ensuite and WIR three additional rooms have BIR. Great for entertaining with a large undercover entertaining area. Nothing has been forgotten with ducted heating, evaporative cooling and a double garage. This beautifully landscaped property comes on a large block with hard to find rear yard access. Harcourts Hastings OPEN HOME: Saturday 5 Mar 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM ADDRESS: 5 Brandary Place
Tim Hughes 0410 470 515 E: tim.hughes@harcourts.com.au
Malcolm Parkinson 0421 704 246 E: malcolm.parkinson@harcourts.com.au Lauren Wild 0413 487 179 E: lauren.wild@harcourts.com
Hastings As New Townhouse
Shoreham Forth coming AUCTION!!
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Shop 10, 14 High St
5970 7333
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What a perfect location! Close to the beach for those summer days and great bay views from the balcony for entertaining! This beautifully designed modern, split level home offers four bedrooms with BIR’s and master with both WIR and ensuite. Featuring a modern, open plan kitchen and dining with beautiful timber floors and a coonarra heater for those long winter nights. This home is perfect for a home office or studio as there is separate side entrance to a down stairs room. What more could you want? Other features of this property include a large undercover outside entertaining area, air-conditioning, rear yard access, carport and formal lounge. Harcourts Hastings OPEN HOME: Saturday 2:30 - 3:00pm and Sunday 12:15 - 12:45pm ADDRESS: 12 Hilltop Court
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Satchwells
Local Agents with Local Knowledge For Over 50 Years HASTINGS
HASTINGS
Asking $405,000
Negotiable over $700,000
Asking $259,000
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Enjoy all that superb Merricks Beach coastal village has to offer at this modern four bedroom quality brick home. In almost new condition the KRPH FRPSULVHV RSHQ SODQ OLYLQJ ZLWK Ă RDWLQJ WLPEHU Ă RRUV NLWFKHQ ZLWK island bench, four good sized bedrooms, master with WIR and ensuite.
Positioned in a quiet part of Hastings is this immaculate 3 or 4brm property, main with semi ensuite, remainder brms with BIRs, offering a separate kitchen leading to meals and open living area. Gas heating & evaporative cooling keeps you comfortable all year round.
This property is situated in the highly soughtafter estate on the water side of hastings and is within walking distance to shops,the picturesque 3.5 km boardwalk and Hastings marina. The impressive home features: Approx 22 squares of living. An approx 700sqm low maintenance block with side gates.
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Asking $335,000
Asking $259,000
Asking $449,000
Asking $559,000
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4 bedroom, 2 bathroom brick home let at $255.00 per week with lease expiring 19/11/2011. Always easy to rent with 4 bedroom accommodation especially being so close to High Street shopping and the water front. Or alternatively buy now and wait until lease ends and occupy after 19th November.
Solid, low maintenance home and good returns are what the astute investor should be looking for and what we have an offer. Property comprises 3 bedrooms, galley kitchen, lounge with gas wall furnace, good size back yard. Current lease to excellent tenants until 21/05/2011 at $225.00 per week.
Only short stroll to foreshore & boardwalk. Ideally situated in a quiet court this spacious family home situated in one of the most prestigious areas of Hastings. Comprising 4 bedrooms, master with ensuite and WIR, 3 bedrooms with double robes, central kitchen with dishwasher and pantry.
This amazing property offers: 31sqs Under Roof, a grand entrance with rich WLPEHU Ă RDWLQJ Ă RRUV VWXG\ HQRUPRXV PDVWHU EHGURRP ZLWK ZDON LQ UREH ensuite with his and hers vanity, 2 further bedrooms king in size with built in robes, formal living room, open plan kitchen with caesar stone bech tops.
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Only a short stroll the foreshore and High Street this desirably positioned 2 bedroom unit is in absolutely pristine condition. Ideal for retirement with no lawn to worry about, low maintenance interior and exterior. Kitchen with dishwasher, lounge with split system heat & cooling and single garage.
Low maintenance and family living come together to offer more than the usual space. Consisting of 4 bedrooms, main with double shower and walk in robe, or 5th bedroom/study, you enter the home to a large formal living area which leads you to a modern designed kitchen.
This affordable 3 bedroom home on an approx spacious 665sqms will appeal to all types of buyers. Recently renovated tastefully in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s modern designs is this brick home that is solid as a rock and offers, polished timber boards, robes to all bedrooms, neat bathroom, gas heating and brand new kitchen.
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HASTINGS
HASTINGS
HASTINGS
Neg over $890,000
Asking $499,000 - $529,000
Asking $440,000
Asking $290,000
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REALISATION SALE Inspect Saturdays 12.00 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 12.30pm - 41 Warranqite Crescent
Inspect Saturdays 12.00 - 12.30pm - 25 Rosemary Drive
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Situated in a prime court location this 4yr young home offers everything, comprising 4 bedrooms, main with ensuite and WIR, separate spacious lounge, large open plan meals area and rumpus room both opening onto a large undercover pergola area.
Stylish and Sophisticated this Parkside 4 bedroom sensation is a credit to the owners for creating a sought after designer edge property in the highly desirable Balnarring area. Adjacent to a park and walking distance to schools shops and public transport this property is a must see for all families.
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Built to standards of perfection by Waterfront Homes this quality residence offers two (2) separate living areas and a total of four (4) bedrooms. The under roof-line Merbau front entry deck shelters and welcomes you to the Red front door.
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Featuring fastidious presentation throughout, this family home is situated within an easy walk of schools, shopping centre and everything else that Hastings has to offer. In a popular area, surrounded by other good quality homes, this home is worthy of your inspection.
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BALNARRING Expressions of Interest close 4th Mar 2011, 4.00pm
SOLD Inspect by Appointment
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Tucked away behind this native garden is a piece of Crib Point history WITHOUT the Heritage overlay. This gorgeous weatherboard full of charm and character will ideally suit someone looking for a delightful home to renovate, a 3 unit site or a 2 lot subdivision STCA, there are endless options to choose from. Offering a large 1000sqm (approx) block with a 2 bedroom weatherboard , 12 ft ceilings, upstairs attic that maybe used as a 3rd bedroom, neat bathroom separate living and dining area, a workable kitchen with gas upright oven with dishwasher and a veranda at the rear for shade.
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14 Balnarring Village Cnr Cook and Wood Streets 1/97 High Street
03 5983 5509 03 5989 0744 03 5979 1888
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Hastings
$554,000
Make A Splash! â&#x20AC;&#x153;Go on, you deserve it...â&#x20AC;? And what a home to reward the hard efforts of your toil...try a soak in the hot tub followed by a cooling float in this beautiful pool...and a couple of drinks on the deck. Sold on it yet? As for the stylish home - what a canvass for your home decor with big open-living areas; lounge, dining and family rooms, central kitchen with spotless stainless steel appliances & dishwasher. Entertain in style overlooking the pool and
drift out to the 8 square covered terrace with the hot tub, canopy fire and a real resort feel. There are 3 bedrooms, large hex shaped main (FES & WIR) and there is gas ducted heating and air conditioning. The pool is salt chlorinated and is plumbed for solar heating. A double garage with rear access completes the picture with the land size being 700m2... just move in and enjoy the easy life...
Agency: BTRE. 1/34 High Street, HASTINGS Phone: 5979 8003 Agent: Ben Tallon 0419 339 489
Hastings
Hastings
Neg. Over $300,000
Winning Combination - Great Position, Great Value! This young and modern home will make a great first home or a fantastic investment property for the astute purchaser. Features include 3 bedrooms, master with full ensuite, double lock up garage, 2 living zones, ducted heating and the perfect outdoor entertaining area for those family gatherings. The home is located in a very central position close to schools, shops and bus stops. Be quick!
Agency: Harcourts Hastings. Shop 10, 14 High Street. Phone: 5970 7333 Agent: Jason Dowler 0403 598 754
$263,000
Somerville
Auction: Sat 26-Mar-11 1:30PM
Great investment - return of $1127 per month As-new two bedroom villa units offering open plan living, gourmet kitchen, gas stainless steel appliances & dishwasher. Two bedrooms with built-in robes, semi ensuite, quality fixtures and fittings, heating & cooling, private rear courtyards and lock
up garage. Still under builders warranty, and three to choose from on the block. Two are currently tenanted and one vacant. Buy one or buy the complex of three.
Agency: MC Real Estate - 4/82 High St, HASTINGS Phone: 5979 8833 Agent: Michael Curry 0409 410 456
For sale or auction Our vendor has purchased elsewhere and must sell this very well kept three bedroom home. Offering two en-suites from two of the three bedrooms and good sized separate living zones, the home is set well back on the allotment. Ideal for investors, first home buyers or empty nesters this is a great opportunity for the right buyer. With a very realistic reserve and high motivation to sell, we are very keen to get a result sooner rather than later.
Agency: Craig Mann First National. 4/1085 F/Flinders Rd SOMERVILLE Phone: (03) 5978 0955 Agent: Craig Mann 0412 559 816
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BTRE YOUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;LL SOON BE HOME
374 Stony Point Road, Crib Point
$359,000
(03) 5979 8003 www.btre.com.au
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13 Warranqite Crescent, Hastings
$554,000
29 Kathleen Crescent, Tyabb
$369,500
Classical Meets Modern...790m2
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Brand New House at this Price?
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33 Sandstone Island Circle, Bittern
$385,000
$1,150,000
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Eileen and Norm Eileen Elizabeth Clarke was born in Somerville on 5th January, 1916 at the private hospital run by Sister Hodgins. In 1940 she married a Hastings fisherman, Norman Herbert Francis, who died in 1999. Eileen still lives in the house Norm and she built in Tyabb in 1953. This is their story. Eileen has an interesting collection of old photographs and, as our readers always enjoy them, we have included as many as possible; this means that the story will run over three editions of The News. *************** It would seem that all of the district’s older identities were born in Somerville? Yes. All of the locals, including my family, were born there. There was no hospital in Hastings and I’m not sure whether even Frankston had one. However there was a hospital in Mornington and that’s where I had my tonsils out when I was six years old. Who were your parents?
Above: Eileen with the tray presented to Norm on completion of 50 years of service to the Hastings Football Club
They were Leonard and Daisy Clarke who were orchardists in McKirdys Road. It had
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originally been part of Thornell’s property but that had been subdivided and given to family members. The girls sold their blocks and Dad bought one of those. He had about 25 acres of fruit and about 10 acres of paddocks. The main orchard had apples and pears, but there was also a smaller orchard in one corner of the paddocks where Dad grew plums and apricots. The paddocks were for the horse and cows although there was also a large dam in that part. As well as the “orchard” trees, Dad always had extras-a fig tree, a cherry tree, and two mulberry trees-so that Mum could make jams and pies with plenty of variety. The pantry was always stacked with preserves. We got extra cherries from Dad’s brother who had a cherry orchard at Red Hill. So all year round you had these preserves, and in the summer you would have them with blanc mange or custard. My mother (Daisy) was a Denham. Her grandfather (Henry) came from England and was the first settler in Denham Road; in fact it was all Denhams there until the Youngs came from South Australia and then the Grants moved in. My mother’s father was George Denham and one of her brothers (Harry) managed the Tyabb Cool Store. He was an excellent cricketer and was captain of the Tyabb team which won the premiership in 1938-39. Also in that team were one of my mother’s nephews (Ray Denham) and one of my brothers (Wes Clarke). Old Grandpa Clarke (George) came to Somerville in the late 1880’s and they lived in The Tower House on the main road. Although it has been rumoured that the tower was removed during the second world war as it might have been a landmark for enemy aircraft, in fact it was removed by a later owner (Richie Philbrick) as it had deteriorated badly. The tower was 8 sided and of glass and dad said that when they were naughty they were locked up in the tower but he didn’t mind as he could see everything that was going on in the area. Dad’s mother (Elizabeth) had 9 children, including dad, and they were all born in The Tower House. This was before the hospital was built and midwives carried out the necessary duties. How many were in your family? I was one of five: Wesley George (the George after Grandpa Denham) was the eldest; I came next (Eileen Elizabeth after the two grandmothers); then Phyllis Alli-
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son; Maurice Leonard (with the Leonard after Dad) and Madge Isobel (who was supposedly named after Auntie Maude Hodgins at the hospital). Only Phyllis and I are still alive although Phyllis has been in a nursing home in Melbourne for 7 years. All of us except Phyllis, who lived in Moorabbin, remained in the district: Wes bought the block next to the original farm and put in more orchard before retiring into Tyabb; I have lived in Tyabb all my life; Maurice stayed on the home farm until he retired into Tyabb with my mother; and Madge lived in Somerville. Incidentally, Maurice got big money for the home farm from a German firm which was going to establish an industry there but that all changed when the Liberals went out of office.
Where did you go to school? We all went to Tyabb Railway Station school, although my mother went to the other Tyabb school on the corner of Jones Road and MorningtonTyabb Road. It would have been a long walk each day from Denham Road but all the children in that area-the Denhams and the Thornells-attended that school as the Railway Station school had not been built. By a co-incidence some of my great grandchildren now attend Tyabb P.S. which my mother attended. What did you do after school? As soon as I obtained my Merit Certificate, which was Grade 8, I had to go home and work on the farm. It was standard practice in those days: you left school to work
Above: Grandpa George Clarke Below: Elizabeth Clarke (nee Murray), Leonard Clarke’s mother.
for your parents. So I helped Dad on the orchard, picking and packing, as well as helping Mum with the housework. I went packing at the Tyabb Packing Shed at the same time as I helped Dad. I did this until I got married. What was Tyabb like in those days? It was a small town where everyone knew everyone else. There were the local dances on a Saturday night in the hall on the corner; we also went to dances in Hastings, Somerville, Langwarrin and Pearcedale. Those people came to our dances and we went to theirs. However every ball was held in the Hastings hall. Balls were generally held on a Thursday night and were big dress-up affairs where women wore their best evening dresses. What about sport? I wasn’t that interested although Madge was a good tennis player. Maurice (or “Modge” as he was known) was a very good cricketer even though he only had one arm. In fact they named the oval here in Tyabb after him. When he was 17 he went out in a dingy with a friend duck shooting-out of season-and they were drifting towards some ducks. He reached down for the gun which was loaded, it discharged and virtually blew his arm off. It was just hanging by a thread. His friend rowed back to The Cutting and they walked a mile up to my grandmother’s house. She sent them through the orchard to her son’s house, and Dolly rang the doctors at Hastings and Somerville but both were out. When he eventually got to hospital they couldn’t work out how he didn’t bleed to death; to make matters worse, because he had a rare type of blood, they had to put a call over the radio for a blood donor. We heard the call over the radio and that was what alerted us to the accident. In spite of his disability Modge still played both football and
cricket:he could bat and bowl and at football he could run bouncing the ball. On the farm the loss of an arm made no difference; he could still plough, pick, pack, whatever. He wouldn’t let anyone else do the work for him.He had a prosthetic arm which he never wore except to dances when he covered it with a glove Wes also played cricket and football with Tyabb and Somerville but he was never as good as Modge. Dad made sure that all of us could swim. Dad and Uncle Lou (Cole) built a hut at the end of Denham Road which is now fenced off. It was used for storing picnic items, sails, nets and other fishing gear to save carting them home. Of course when the tide was out it was mud as far as the Channel. We would try to get oysters from the rocks but you would sink up to your knees in mud. If the tide was in it was OK for swimming as there were these little sandy patches between the mangroves. As many as 70 would get down there on a warm summer’s day. However the tide only seemed to be in every second week and so Dad built a jetty for us to swim in the big dam.
Above: Harry Denham. Manager of the Tyabb Cool Store and captain of Tyabb premiership XI of 1938-39.
with it. She later played at concerts and dances and accompanied the Tyabb Minstrels one year.
Did you learn to play a musical instrument?
Did church play a part in your lives?
All three girls learned the piano but only Madge went on
Not really. Mum was a Methodist and attended that church;
Dad was an Anglican and we kids went to Sunday School there. Later we sometimes would attend the Methodist church with Mum. I was married in the Tyabb Church of England. To be continued...
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Top: Daisy Clarke (nee Denham). Christmas 1907. Middle: Len Clarke when aged 80. Below: Tyabb Railway Station State School. Wes second from left, front row. Phyllis first on left, third row. Eileen, third from right, third row.
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product spa. Spas are easy to maintain. There are a few systems that can be used such as Bromine, Poppits or Ozone. All of these are used to sanitize your spa because warm water needs basic treatments. An easy way to look after your spa is this – use Bromine or Lithiaum in a dispenser. Also, shock your spa once a week with Oxy-Shock and always check Ph and alkalinity of the water. You can do this with a quick check strip or bring your water sample in to
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GIANT bears, dinosaurs, trilobites and an octopus in the sky over Rosebud? Yes, it’s myriad colourful kites of the annual kite festival. The family event will be held beside the pier at Jetty Rd 11am-5pm on Sunday 13 March from. This year sees professional kite-flyers from Tasmania, NSW and South Australia flying some of the country’s biggest kites, some stretching up to 27 metres in length. “The sight will be magnificent,” says Rosebud Chamber of Commerce’s Alison Doherty. “Together with the demonstrations by members of the Australian Kite Association, spectators are in for a real
treat.” Kites, originally made from silk and bamboo, have evolved over the centuries and are now made from a variety of materials, styles and shapes. The festival will showcase many of these, including threedimensional forms, rotating wind socks and massive inflatable designs, while encouraging children to learn the art and skill of kite flying. Bring your own kite or go to the kite-making workshop and then head to the family flying area to test your skills, all ages encouraged. Other activities during the day will include crafts, kids’ karaoke, dance and circus skills, zumba, carnival rides, face
Two old men had been best friends for years, and they both live to their early 90’s, when one of them suddenly falls deathly ill. His friend comes to visit him on his deathbed, and they’re reminiscing about their long friendship, when the dying man’s friend asks, “Listen, when you die, do me a favor. I want to know if there’s cricket in heaven.” The dying man said, “We’ve been friends for years, this I’ll do for you.” And then he dies. A couple days later, his surviving friend is sleeping when he hears his friend’s voice. The voice says, “I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that there is cricket in heaven.” “What’s the bad news?” “The bad news is that you’re opening batsman on Wednesday.”
painting, animal farm, Scouts and Guides activities, and a vintage car display. Roving clowns, musicians and characters will keep the family entertained, while on stage the music will include local musos – 11am Bonnie Georgia, 12pm Nowra, 1pm The Vincents and at 3pm Wooly Dog. There will be hot food, ice cream and coffee stalls, and people are invited bring a chair or rug and relax for a few hours in the spectacular colourful surroundings. Admission free and the event is organised by the chamber of commerce. For information call Alison Doherty, 0403 889 559.
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Pet Sounds By Stuart McCullough SOMETIMES you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how much you need something until itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offered to you. Take pet insurance. To say that I was surprised to receive an email offering discounted insurance for my dog and/or cat is an understatement on a par with â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Hindenburg disaster was a bit of a setback for the zeppelin industryâ&#x20AC;?. But I receive ridiculous, unsolicited emails every day, most of which I simply ignore. In fact, this seemingly cavalier approach has ensured that I am not currently married to every other trollop in the broader Russian tundra with a desire to travel and why I am yet to invest in the Nigerian banking industry, despite being consistently invited to do so. But this was no mere piece of technological spam. No siree. Unlike those emails that seek to lure you to a link that then unloads a virus worse than the one the monkey in Outbreak had, this email concluded with: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Please do not reply to this email.â&#x20AC;? I considered it an invitation. At the risk of offending the insurance industry, while I appreciate your entreaty not to respond, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no dice. Indeed, having been asked not to re-
spond, I felt an overwhelming compulsion to do so. Besides, how else can I get answers to my questions? So I sent the following: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dear Sir/Madam/Other. Thank you for your email asking whether I wish to insure a dog or a cat. As loathe as I am to suggest a lack of imagination on the part of the good people at Medibank Private, can I ask whether other, less obvious pets can be insured? For example, although I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t presently own a Mexican fighting fish, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always been attracted to the idea of doing
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as these might attract a surcharge of some kind, or perhaps a higher excess? Now that I think about it, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d understand if you tried to avoid the whole â&#x20AC;&#x153;fishâ&#x20AC;? thing completely. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an old saying in the pet game: never get attached to a fish. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just as likely to go belly up to spite you. For myself, I have never owned a goldfish that outlasted a litre of milk. Much like crack addicts or motorcycle stuntmen, such creatures are, perhaps, uninsurable. Also, can a retrospective policy be obtained? Presently, I am petless but have owned
many over the years. My favourite was a terrier named Jock who, as best I can tell, suffered a coronary after eating an entire rabbit. That the rabbit in question belonged to my sister remains something of a sore point. While insurance can now do little for the dog or the rabbit, I do feel that some kind of coronial process might bring a sense of finality that is long overdue. Thank you, too, for detailing the many wonderful benefits that come with insuring a pet, such as coverage of vet bills including my choice of specialist. With this in mind, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping that such services extend beyond the more obvious: â&#x20AC;&#x153;my dog swallowed a bone larger than his entire intestinal tractâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;my spoodle has herniated his back trying to lick himself somewhere inappropriateâ&#x20AC;? kind of scenarios. For instance, does it include cosmetic surgery? For I have seen some full-on ugly dogs in my time, many of which could well do with the type of nip and tuck that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t involve the wholesale removal of their private parts. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just saying; if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good enough to turn them into eunuchs, we can at least ensure that they feel good about themselves. Finally, I must note with
disappointment the absence of benefits that are broadly considered standard when insuring humans. For example, there is no reference to any kind of rebate for gym classes, sunglasses or a guarantee of a private room if admission to a vet clinic is necessary, to say nothing of dental care. For shame. While itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true that most shi-tzus and labradoodles avoid gymnasiums, this may well be attributable to a lack of support from the insurance industry rather than, say, an absence of opposable thumbs by which to activate the treadmill. Yours, etc.â&#x20AC;? I am yet to receive a response. I am, however, giving serious consideration to getting myself a sausage dog. Whether I take out insurance for my dishlicker will all depend on how accident-prone he is. Rather than get expensive insurance, I might just be extra cautious and insist the animal wear a helmet and elbow pads at all times. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll call him, but I dare say youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll know heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mine if you see him. www.stuartmccullough.com
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What a great pity for the hard-working people that work year round to organize the Western Port Festival that they get attacked so readily. A festival goes for two and a half days, and the lead story in the following weeks Western Port Weekly announces â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drunk teens in festival frenzyâ&#x20AC;?! Whilst The Whisperer realizes there are eggheads, trouble was only for a short period of an otherwise well run and safe event. Why is it that Hastings is always attacked in the media like this? These problems are not unique to Hastings. There was recently a near riot by youths in Mornington on Australia Day, and much more significant troubles have occurred at places such as Rye over the last few years. What a pity that this had to become the focus of the story on page three of the aforementioned newspaper. On other matters, opposition is heating up to the proposed Safeway Fuel outlet near the rail line in High Street. It seems the Chamber of Commerce is opposed to the plan to have retail shops on the site as well as a fuel outlet, as opposed to being against the fuel outlet per se No more word on the $1500 fine for Red Hill Football Club. The whisper, unconfirmed, is that police had decided to target sporting clubs. A strange decision considering that sporting clubs are the organizations that keen youth otherwise occupied and out of trouble! The Whisperer just doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get it! A little poem arrived at Whisperer headquarters inspired by the last Whisperer column. It was too good not to print! thewhisperer@y7mail.com
There I was at the Red Hill show with a thirst that would kill a goat, so I thought Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d mosey on down to yonder beer tent and pour a coldie down me throat. But as I stepped forward to recieve my icecold brew up stepped the cops and said â&#x20AC;&#x153;thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be no beer for you!!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;That can hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been opened, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s against the rules! Who cares about the fundraiser hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a $1500 fine you silly fools! Now the beer tent was run by the local footy club, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rough justice it would seem, but it all makes sense if the hardline cops barrack for the opposition team! Well my thirst was somethin fierce so back to Hastings I would go.....until I hit Graydens Road that is and then I really did me dough! I thought they filled that pothole?! And now my tyre was flat! But at least I was near a servo, so I got down there flat chat. Has someone nicked the air hose? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll go to the register and see. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not a flamin charity mate, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give air away for free!!â&#x20AC;? I had to pull myself together! I needed a great Idea!. Well thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothin for it I said to myself, iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to hitch hike for me beer! So there I was a walkin, using the rhythm of the thumb, when a voice yelled out behind me â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hitch hikingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s illegal you Hastings scum!â&#x20AC;? No, It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the hardware bloke from Balnarring; that would be no surprise, Ah geez itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the cops again, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in for a blue light taxi ride!! So there I was in the lock up staring at the cell wall scrawl. The message kinda summed it up...â&#x20AC;?itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got bad luck mate, or youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have no luck at ALL!!! Banjo Hastings son
Golf charity day continues long tradition The FLINDERS DISTRICT LIONS CLUB invites players to come and join in the fun at their 23rd Annual Charity Golf Day on Monday 21st March 2011 at the award winning Flinders Golf Club. It is an individual stableford event competition for both men and women with or without handicap. Players without a club handicap will be allocated one under the Calloway system. The cost is $50 per player with shotgun hit off at 12.30 preceded by full sit down lunch from 11.30 onwards. For registration purposes it is asked that players arrive at 11.00. It is suggested that players book early as the field is limited. Entry forms are available for download on the Flinders Golf Club site www.flindersgolfclub. com.au or by telephoning Peter Gerdsen on 5989 1071. Last year the club distributed some $24,000 to local charities, schools, community groups and made an immediate donation of $5,000 for flood relief through the Lions organisation. The event is sponsored by the Dromana and Rye Community Banks, The Flinders Golf Club and many other generous supporters. The Flinders District Lions Club have been proudly serving the community for 43 years.
Hang-time: Locals flocked to the skate park during the Western Port Festival to admire the talent on show. Photo: Snez Plunkett
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SPORTS DESK AUSSIE HOOPS The program is an introductory basketball program for children aged between 5-10 years of age who are looking at just getting started with learning the basic skills. Participants - 5-10 years old 4:00-4:45pm Thursdays. Cost: $60 for the 8 week school term (commencing 3rd March 2011) where participants will receive an Aussie Hoops pack for their participation including an Aussie Hoops backpack, water bottle, size 5 basketball and t-shirt.
WANT TO PLAY IN 2011 The WPBA is an inclusive organisation that welcomes any newly-interested players for both junior and senior competition as we continue to grow and develop. Call 5977 7533 today and we will have you on the court for our new season which commences in mid March.
BECOME A BALLER The program is a skills and fundamentals-based program which has been designed to encourage children who may be looking to taste basketball for the first time or are currently competing in the WPBA domestic competition and are looking to build on fundamental skills with Kenny Brunner and Paul Dawson conducting the program. Participants - 8-13 years old 4:30-5:30pm. Commences Wednesday 2nd March. Cost: $3 per session.
PARTNERSHIP AND ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES Western Port Basketball is happy to announce the release of their 2011 Partnership and Advertising opportunities which incorporates a vast range of packages. If you would like to discuss options or create a custom package, call Business Manager Ryan Rogers on 0430 085 912 or email ryan.rogers@ wpba.com.au “We have a fantastic community facility and are in a great position to launch ourselves into a new era with 2011 the beginning of things heating up” said Rogers. One of the fresh new options is the Digital Advertising System which is a great way to capture your audience. Benefits Include Display your ads dynamically mixed with local kids basketball photos. Provide dramatically more eye-catching content for your products and services Deliver your specific messages to your local community and their families The DAS is a unique approach that combines YOUR LOCAL business, LOCAL parents, LOCAL kids playing basketball and best of all a great experience for anyone who watches it! Download the booklet at www.wpba.com.au TODAY!
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Steelers’ Christmases arrive early WHEN your team finishes seventh after a grand final appearance the previous season, the coach hangs up his whiteboard and there are key departures, who is the best person to deliver a gift? Santa comes to mind. Hailing from Los Angeles, California 32-year-old Kenny Brunner arrives at Western Port with outstanding credentials and a reputation superceded by few across the world. At 183cm and with a resume that includes 12 championships and five MVP awards, the journey goes full circle in 2011 when Brunner ditches the asphalt and Santa hat for the hardwood which is sure to have fans flocking to the Steelerdome. Since graduating from Dominquez High School in 1997, where he still holds records to this day, playing alongside Detriot Pistons forward Tayshaun Price and a reputation as the best point guard to never set foot in the NBA, following time spent with powerhouse Georgetown University, Brunner was chosen by ‘AND1’ to be a member of their Mixtape Tour, travelling the world playing streetball. After building a fan base and ‘AND1’ seeking a new direction, Brunner had a plan to change the game and with that he switched from street to elite. Speaking on the signing, business manager Ryan Rogers said: “We identified Kenny as a person who could raise the bar on all fronts
at our club and, having a relationship with Kenny, I know he is going to be perfect for where we are going. “Right from the outset he has been amazing and conducted himself with true professionalism. It is rare that a person with the life experiences of Kenny could be so humble, but beneath the shell lies a man who is the package. “To complement his playing, Kenny will be actively involved in the community to promote basketball and assist both domestic and junior rep players’ development, which will allow him to phase into his post-playing ambitions offering guidance to children within the region.” Since arriving in Melbourne on 9 January Kenny has been hard at work with his teammates, spreading his infectious personality among the group while already showing his leadership qualities to his peers. “This isn’t about me coming in and being above anybody else, I want to win and be a part of the ultimate success, which is a championship. My job will be to follow coach Bourchier’s direction and assist with the development of our guards. As far as the juniors are concerned I believe we have some great talent in our backyard and with more of an emphasis on fundamental skills I believe we can Ready to go: Recent arrival Kenny Brunner is looking forward to making his mark in 2011. make plenty of noise.”
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Black Caviar shows her class AS the autumn carnival gathers momentum, the brilliant Black Caviar has captured all the headlines, but I have managed to identify a few horses who will pay their way in the near future. New Zealand bred 2yo RESCUE MISSION, who is trained on the Mornington Peninsula by Lee Freedman, caught the eye with a fast finishing 2nd to the smart Anevay over 1100m at Flemington. With the benefit of that experience and over a little more ground he should be able to go on and chalk up his first win. An ideal target would be the Group 2 Sires’ Produce Stakes [1400m] at Flemington on March 12. Lightly raced 5yo ANUDJAWIN, who rattled home to finish an unlucky 2nd to in-form King Diamond over 2000m at Flemington. That was only his third run in and should be able to greet the judge at his next start over 2000m or further. Moe trained BELGIETTO is a progressive type, who won four races in succession earlier this season, resumed with pleasing 2nd to quality sprinter Diplomatic Force over 1200m. Effective on all surfaces he will be seen to advantage when he steps out over longer distances. In-form Flemington trainer Danny O’Brien has a coming
Top run: Black Caviar spacing her rivals in the Lightning Stakes. Picture: Slickpix (www.slickpix.com.au)
winner in 4yo ERASET. After a summer break he ran a solid 2nd to the consistent Offenders and will be fitter next time. Look for him over 1600m. Melbourne Cup winning trainer Brian Jenkins who is based a Cranbourne has recently taken over the training of lightly raced STOLE. She was having her third start for the stable when a determined 3rd to outsider Did He Win over 1700m at Flemington and will be suited back in mares’ grade. Mike Moroney – another Melbourne Cup winning trainer – is about to improve the record of the 5yo SPONTANEOUS. So far the gelding has won three of 43 but his two runs this time in have been encouraging and is worth supporting when he gets to 2000m. Mornington trained DELAGO’S LAD is poised to secure victory in group class following his eye-catching 6th to champion juvenile Sepoy
in the Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield on February 26. After a tardy starts he was doing his best work over the final 200m giving the impression he will run a strong 1600m. Classy 5yo WHOBEGOTYOU is worth backing in any race he contests over the next few months. Returning from a spell the chestnut posted a series of outstanding sectionals – including 21.61 for his final 400m – when a fast closing 2nd to gun mare More Joyous in the Group 1 Futurity Stakes [1400m] at Caulfield. Former Sydneysider HINCHINBROOK appears back on track after losing his way earlier this season. Having his first start for leading trainer Peter Moody, the 3yo hit the turf with gusto when 3rd in the 1100m Oakleigh Plate and can be supported with confidence when he steps up to 1200m and 1400m. BEST: WHOBEGOTYOU
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wheel Captiva SX of 9.1 litres/100km (ADR 81/02) makes it the most fuel efficient petrol seven-seater in its class. The torquey 2.2 litre turbo diesel posts 8.1L/100km on two-wheel-drive variants (8.3L/100km for all-wheeldrive), a 5 per cent improvement on the previous diesel, while the V6 delivers a balance of performance and economy at 11.3 litres/100km (ADR81/02). Refinements to chassis dynamics, sound insulation and steering feel contribute to a well-balanced ride quality, quieter cabin and more responsive handling attributes.
Design and Feature Highlights DYNAMIC new front-end styling features a distinctive twin-port grille flanked by prominent fog lamps. The hood surface is re-sculpted; turn signals are integrated into external mirrors; elongated headlamps sweep back to wheel arches which accommodate 19-inch alloys (LX), 18-inch alloys (CX) and 17-inch alloys (SX). A clear lens tail lamp design updates the rear end. Captiva 7 is available in a choice of nine exterior finishes, three of which are new to this range including Moulan Rouge Red (deep red metallic), White Pearl (white metallic) and Desert Sand (soft beige metallic). Inside, additional convenience features include an electric park brake and standard Bluetooth® connectivity plus air conditioning, leather wrap steering wheel and cruise control. The inclusion of the push-button electric park brake also adds elegance to the interior by removing the bulky hand brake lever and creating space for a multi-purpose storage compartment. The CX also receives climate control, driver information display,
Sportec seat bolsters and Rear Park Assist, while the range-topping LX adds leather appointed seat trim, satellite navigation, rear view camera, USB port and a 7-inch multifunction touchscreen. Safety AN impressive array of active and passive safety technology is augmented at Series II with the inclusion of side impact airbags as standard, bringing the airbag total to six. An Electronic Stability Control system incorporates anti-lock braking, electronic brakeforce distribution, brake assist, traction control, active rollover protection and the active allwheel drive system which determines requirements for optimum traction. Series II also introduces Hill Start Assist (HSA) technology across the Captiva 7 range. It holds the vehicle on gradients of 3 per cent or steeper for 1.5 seconds after the brake pedal has been released, to assist in a smoother and safer drive away from standstill. All models are also fitted with a descent control system which maintains a slow speed for driving steep gradients. Captiva 7 CX features rear park assist and Captiva 7 LX combines rear park assist with a standard rear view camera.
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The low-down on bull-bars WHEN choosing a bullbar or winch bar the best by far, from experience, looks and functionality is the ARB Deluxe winch bar. Seeing that the bar is the further-most point of the front of the vehicle, and the most common part to receive initial impact in an incident, your bar is a crucial part of any remote area or high country travel. The ARB bar has a number of great features that were pioneered by ARB some time ago. Features include the 5 fold and upswept wing design which provides maximum strength and does not impact on approach angles. Being the further-most point away from the vehicles chassis it is often the most vulnerable point of a bull bar as it is most likely to be struck when trying to avoid collisions with animals, rocks or other vehicles. The returns from the top bars go down through the top plate and are welded just above the indicator inside the bar. This provides extra strength to the bar rather than on some TJM, Ironman or even some commercial ARB bars, where the top bars are merely welded to the top of the bar. On each ARB Deluxe bullbar the upright is cut from a singular piece of steel. This means that the bar gets the maximum support possible and also helps with strength.
With any ARB bar you will notice the swept back design of the top bar, uprights and also rubber buffers. These are integral in helping limit injury to pedestrians. Rather than force a pedestrian below the vehicle, it will project them onto the bonnet to help limit damage in a slow speed accident. On the front of the bar you will notice the split pan design just under the number plate. This increases airflow to the radiator better than older style bars and also helps improve strength in front of your radiator. Even if you do receive a massive full frontal impact at least your engine and radiator should still be intact enough to get you out of trouble in the outback. ARB have designed their bars so if your vehicle has airbags their bar will be air bag compatible. ARB use a unique crush can system meaning that your bar will still have the same strength and protection but will allow your airbags to deploy at the correct rate to further protect you and your passengers. Unlike alloy or plastic bars, steel bars have a huge amount more strength. Although alloy bars can be attractive they still will never be as strong as steel; some aren’t much lighter and they are expensive. Even
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The perfect shape: The C-Class Coupé
WHAT more dynamic way to celebrate the invention of the automobile? The expressive C-Class Coupé sees Mercedes-Benz, now in its 125th year of corporate history, entering a new market segment and for the first time offering a compact, classic coupé. This youthful, sporty two-door car will be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in early March and making its way to customers from June. The new model deploys the progressive technology featured on the recently launched new generation of the C-Class to deliver an impressive coupé format that combines pure fun at the wheel with exemplary efficiency. In terms of attitude, this debuting model is tailored to a customer group aged 35 to 45 for whom professional success, love of life and a strong sense of responsibility are all important. “By extending the C-Class portfo-
lio, we are consciously targeting new customers,” says Dr Joachim Schmidt, Head of Sales and Marketing at Mercedes-Benz Cars. “The new model is youthful, stylish and dynamic. What we are offering is an exceptionally sporty way to enter the world of the Mercedes-Benz coupé.” The design: dynamic with classic coupé proportions FROM the side, the new coupé beguiles the onlooker with its compact proportions, low silhouette (41 mm flatter than the saloon) with powerful shoulders and a narrow C-pillar in a classic three-box design. Typical coupé features include the short front overhang, long bonnet, steeply raked windscreen and long, stretched out roof. The greenhouse extends far be-
yond the rear axle over the rear window in its flat position to a sportily short tail end. While the wedge-shaped, sloping beltline demonstrates affinity with the C-Class, its strong upsweep into the C-pillar is an entirely distinctive element. The final part of the beltline trim moves sharply upwards to meet the roofline trim. This upsweep not only adds a sporty flourish to the way the side windows look; the shaping at the bottom of the C-pillar also enhances the powerful shoulders. Front and rear: truly a coupé, truly C-Class AT the front, the new coupé shares the same styling as the latest C-Class and yet still has its own twist. The front view is dominated by the prominent radiator grille surround including the
bumper. The centre air intake opens upwards, forming a visual base unit for the radiator grille which has the double-louvre style typical of a coupé. Two chrome louvres extend left and right either side of the central star, tapering off at the outer edges and creating a sporty, arrow-shaped horizontal sweep which gives the front end a pronounced V-shape. This continues into the side sections which extend from beneath the headlamps and blend into the feature lines along the vehicle flanks, thereby linking the front end with the sides. The side air intakes in the bumper featuring integrated, horizontal daytime running lamps are positioned low down, giving the coupé a road-hugging appearance. The shape of the clear-lens headlamps creates a dynamic impression, and acts together with the bonnet, radiator grille and bumper trim to reinforce the pronounced front section. From the rear, the new C-Class Coupé looks sportily short. Because the roof flows beyond the rear axle with the steeply raked rear window and fluid C-pillars, the appearance of length is reduced. A wide chamfer at the top of the boot lid, which is based on the side panel, highlights the rear’s compactness. The interior: highest quality with exclusive colour accents THE dashboard instrument panel features a strong, sporty and high-quality design. Three tube rings with a gal-
vanised finish demonstrate the car’s sporty credentials to the driver. As standard, the coupé comes with the new generation of three-spoke steering wheel with its chromed central spoke that first appeared on the new CLS. The touch surfaces of the controls are finely detailed and galvanised. The stepped top of the instrument cluster also accommodates the central display and continues onto the front passenger side as a discreet light-catching contour. The central, trapezoidal air vents and the round vents on the outside are highlighted in detail by galvanised trim. The control panel of the newgeneration communication and information unit has silver-coloured keys. The combination of matt keys, highgloss areas and a new thumbwheel design underlines the high perceived value of the interior. The drive system: plenty of performance, low fuel consumption THERE is a choice of three petrol engines and two diesel powerplants to power the C-Class Coupé. The top engine variant is the V6 petrol engine. It delivers 225 kW (306 hp) and 370 Nm. Average fuel consumption is 6.8 litres per 100 km. The four-cylinder petrol engines have direct injection and are turbocharged, offering high performance and exemplary economy. The most economical coupé model is the C 220 CDI. It has an average diesel consumption of 4.4 litres per 100 km.
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