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Laughter the key to 65 happy years NGAIRE and William Domon of Hastings celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary last Thursday. Both turned 90 in September and celebrated their birthdays with family at Hastings Seniors Citizens Club. The couple met at Blackpool in the United Kingdom and married in Nottingham on 1 November 1947. William, a Canadian, was working in a cafe when they met, and had retired from the army. Ngaire, who was born in New Zealand, got a job in the same cafe. They met in March and married in November. Ngaire and William retired to Australia in 1984 after living in England for 16 years and Canada for nearly 36 years. They say the key to a long marriage is enjoying each other’s company and finding the amusing side to life, quite obvious when you see how much they laugh. Happy days: Ngaire and William in their garden. Picture: Yanni
Different dredge rules By Mike Hast THE Department of Sustainability and Environment says it authorised dredged spoil from the Tooradin boat launching ramp to be pumped into the channel as it had the potential to become acid sulfate soil. More than 1000 cubic metres of silt and sediment was pumped into the Tooradin Channel last month, bring-
ing a chorus of complaints from both anglers and environmentalists. A cutter suction dredge took a week to pump spoil 1000 metres downstream on outgoing tides, making the popular fishing area waters turbid and putting a whitish grey plume down the channel and into Western Port. Fishing experts say whiting will not be caught in the Tooradin Channel, a
popular destination for Western Port fishers, for at least three months. The previous two times the boat ramp was dredged saw spoil pumped onto land and placed in a coffer dam. The decision to allow so-called outflow dredging at Tooradin is curious given DSE is making the Crib Point Stony Point foreshore committee of management’s contractor pump spoil
from the Stony Point ramp onto land (see box Page 3). A DSE spokesperson said the Tooradin dredging had been authorised under the Coastal Management Act 1995 “Parks Victoria also granted the [foreshore committee] a works authority permit,” they said. “Several conditions were attached to the consent including measures to
minimise turbidity and close monitoring of spoil disposal. At any time during the dredging operations, EPA may direct the operator to suspend or modify the operations. “The dredge spoil at Tooradin is fine silt and has the potential to become acid sulfate soil, which can be harmful when oxidised. Continued Page 3
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