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By Keith PlattSOME people record their travels with souvenir spoons, tea towels, snow domes or postcards.
Hampton couple John and Noeleen Williamson trace their travels with flags.
The flags are flown daily from a regulation-height flag-pole in front of their Sargood St home.
Flags of nations and states are flown on national days or to mark the birthdays or im-portant events of friends liv-ing there.
The couple sometimes fol-low the calendar of flag days, flying the appropriate one if it is in their collection.
The Utah flag from the Unit-ed States was flying when The Citizen visited, but Mr Williamson said it was “up by chance”.
Now retired, Mr Williamson ended his career in general practice as an anaesthetist.
His profession saw him and Noeleen live in several Aus-tralian states, Canada and Wales. Along with countries
they have visited, all great sources of flags.
Flags have also come from friends who know about their collection.
According to Noeleen, her husband “considers himself a citizen of the world” and is happy to fly flags commemo-rating national days of other countries.
Mr Williamson says his in-terest in other countries and international affairs dates back to his days growing up in Caloundra, when it was an isolated, sleepy hamlet on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
“It was always a thrill when someone from somewhere else showed up,” he said.
“I can remember when a boy from London started at school, it was like someone had arrived from another planet.
“The design of flags tells you a lot about the history of a country.
“Competitions are often held for the design of a flag and it’s my impression that
very ordinary folk can influ-ence flag design.”
As an example, Mr William-son holds up the simple de-sign of the stars on a blue background of the Alaskan flag adopted in 1959 from the design of a schoolboy.
“The blue field represents the sky, the sea and moun-tain lakes, as well as Alaska’s wildflowers. Emblazoned on the flag are eight gold stars: seven in the constellation Ursa Major, or the Big Dipper. The eighth is the North Star, representing the northern-most state.”
Their flagpole is an 8.5-me-tre telescopic one, which means they have been able to take it with them whenever they have moved home.
Mr Williamson follows flag etiquette, which decrees a flag should never be flown at night unless it is illumi-nated; the flag should never touch the ground when being raised or lowered; and flags should be lowered before sunset.
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Collectors: John and Noeleen Williamson flying the flag for friends, family and countries.
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Flag collecting, or vexillol-ogy, has proved an interest and a way of meeting people wherever the Williamsons have lived.
However, the flags can also be a statement. A protest Jol-ly Roger was flown under the Tricolour during the French atomic tests in the Pacific in the early 1990s.
Despite their opposition to the tests, the Williamsons still followed protocol and flew the pirate flag under the French national flag.
Dates can also prove a problem for flag flyers if several events occur on the same day.
Every 30 November can be confusing, as the William-sons must choose between flying flags of Scotland, Greece and Russia or the Eureka stockade rebellion. It was also the day on which the “modern” flag of Afghani-stan was chosen).
“But I chose the Greek flag because the people living across the street come from Greece.
“We normally fly the Scot-tich flag because Noeleen and I are of Scottish descent.”
Days later the appropriate flag would commemorate the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. The day before that was the national day of Fin-land.
Raising the flag daily
Trader Talk
Staying on top with style and fashionMICHELLE Anthony sees her work as “walking art”. The hairstyles she creates portray a woman’s individuality, “her look”.
Michelle, right, who started Hampton’s johnanthony salon 25 years ago, counts herself lucky to have the gift for hairdressing.
“You either have it or you don’t, and it came easy to me,” she says.
The winner of a string of state, national and inter-national awards, Michelle believes hair dressing has “changed for the better, with women now wanting a lot more – individual looks – not just the same perms”.
“Most women want to look, fresher, younger and sexier. A hairstyle is a lot cheaper, and more natural, than a facelift.
“I feel I was born with a passion and see my work as a walking art. It’s out there
for everyone to see.”Her interest in hair and
styles led to competitions where the hairdresser is responsible for creating a look, that can include the hairstyle, cut, clothing and make-up.
“It takes a lot of hard work to be in competitions. You’re cutting models to see how it works and then going back to the drawing board to do it again.”
Once a winning style and cut is achieved, Michelle says they become fashionable and filter down to clients in the salon.
“You work with someone’s hair and texture, see what works for their lifestyle.”
Some clients have been returning to johnanthony for 25 years while Michelle clocked up the miles over-seas, keeping up with trends and fashions.
This year alone her hair-
styles have featured on the front pages of six magazines in New York as well as ap-pearing in Who magazine,
Marie Claire and Women’s Weekly.
“I’ve been lucky to go over-seas for my work, including New York, Los Angeles and Paris. It’s been a pretty good life so far, with hairdressing.”
Michelle also believes it is important to be involved in her chosen industry and for the past five years has been chairperson of the Hairdressing and Beauty Association of Australia fol-lowing on from seven years as head of the International Hairdressers’ Society.
One of the changes she has welcomed in the industry has been the trend to use more natural products.
“We cater for all styles and keep up with what’s going on, what’s out there to make our clients look good.”
The johnanthony salon is at 491A Hampton St, Hampton, call 9598 8802.
THERE’S an ancient African proverb that says “It takes a village to raise a child”. Its meaning is that no man, woman or family is an island.
Rather, many aspects of a child’s up-bringing rely on inter-connectedness in our village – at their most basic sup-plying food, clothing and necessities. True villages, however, are different. The storekeeper knows your name, the annual festival is anticipated for a year, local business supports local sporting teams, the local accountant is team coach, people gather around cen-tral hubs to socialise and every week features another silent auction sup-ported by local donations.
These ‘people’ aspects are the heart and soul of a true village, and the phys-ical layout of the village can play a crit-ical role in enhancing them.
Bayside Council is developing a new masterplan for the Hampton St village.
This is a big deal as the last major works were 17 years ago.
For Hampton, however, getting the design right is especially important because, while we are as large as Westfield’s Southland, we are spread along a 1.5km strip that is straight and has no genuine community gathering hubs.
Nevertheless, an internal draft of the masterplan takes the ‘island’ concept built outside Selvedge Clothing Store (472 Hampton St) and largely repli-cates it at intervals along the length of the street.
The problem with this is that few, if any, people actually use the ‘island’ or its seat.
A key risk now, if we don’t make our collective views known, is that a lot of money will be spent over a number of years delivering ‘landscape design’ rather than ‘design that serves people’.
The council’s consultation process with the community will shortly offer the opportunity to create a design that puts people first; a design that reflects people’s actual behaviour and prefer-ences; a design that encourages a bus-tling, energising village; and a design that attracts more people more often and encourages them to stay longer.
The role of the Hampton Retailers & Professionals Business Association
is to seek your views, listen and then work with the council to ensure that those views are incorporated as much as possible into the new plan.
There are many different groups that need to work together, but we’d espe-cially like to hear from landlords in Hampton St (who have more than $300 million invested there), shop owners and businesses (which generate $60-80 million annually in economic activ-ity), shoppers, residents and commu-nity groups.
In the lead-up to Christmas, take the time for a leisurely walk through Hampton St village (remember Monday 20 December is late shopping till 9pm) and take note of what you like and don’t like, where you shop and why, where you park your car, how far you walk, where you eat, where you can take your shoes off and relax, what is missing and what you would like to see – and then email the HRPBA with your views and ideas. If it really does take a village, then let’s make sure it’s the Hampton St village.
Justin Hilford, president, Hampton Retailers & Professionals Business Association:[email protected]
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VERE Apothecary ArtsHub was launched in Hampton St on 2 December with the foreign influences of local sculptors Keren Zamir, Ve-ronique Ferrandon and Ana Cristina Jorge-Moore.
It is a space for group, mixed or solo exhibitions by artists at all career stages.
The hub is staffed Monday to Thurday 9am–5pm, Friday 9am–4.30pm and Saturday 9am–1pm.
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HIGHLY strung. Back hand-ers. Balance. Hand grips. Sweet spot. Type of game played. Swing. Day or night. Balance and weight.
“Serves you right” can be a compliment and a re com-mendation rather than an admonishment.
Welcome to the world of Phil Lyons, who has just opened his latest Reynolds Racquets store in Hampton St, Hampton.
“People don’t realise how complex it is to fit a tennis racquet to a player,” Lyons said. “It even involves the type of string and tension for each individual.
“It can depend on the type of game they play, whether it’s during the day or night.”
Customising a racquet to an individual can involve adding weighted tape to the frame to achieve the correct balance and deciding the best shape and size hand grip.
String tension depends on the type of player, backspin or topspin. Some strings
have a surface that actually grips the ball, forcing it to spin when hit.
Lyons explains that the strings of a racquet balloon out by up to eight centimetres, virtually catapulting the ball back to an opponent.
“If you play once a week, your racquet should be re-strung at least once a year; play twice a week, re-string twice a year and so on.”
Lyons took over Reynolds Racquets three years ago when its owner, Bruce Rey-nolds, retired.
The company’s Mont Albert shop has been running for 48 years and Lyons already plans to open new stores at Docklands in Melbourne and on the Gold Coast.
Another shop operates un-der licence at Sale.
Lyons formerly ran a cor-porate marketing and sales promotions company and bought Reynolds Racquets because of the service he received.
“It’s a seachange for me.
A friend asked me to play tennis on a Wednesday night; I was placed in a team and bought a racquet from Bruce Reynolds. “I was so impressed by the service that I bought the company.”
Lyons was also impressed by coaches’ reports about Reynolds being “one of the icons of the industry”.
In fact Reynolds was so well known among such visiting tennis stars as Pete Sampras, Boris Becker, Bjorn Borg and Ivan Lendl, that they would ask him to string their racquets while competing in Australia.
Lyons wants to retain the “beyond gold standard” of service level at his Reynolds Racquets stores.
“I treat customers the way I’d like to be treated. I want to known for sales and service. I persuade someone not to buy a racquet if they don’t need one.”Reynolds Racquets, 470 Hampton St, Hampton, call 9598 1009.
Impressed: Phil Lyons was so impressed with the service at Reynolds Racquets that he bought the company.
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ALEX Del Porto has been elected City of Bayside mayor for the third time.
Cr Del Porto held the top job in 1998, following inau-gural Bayside mayor Graeme Disney, and again in 2004. His deputy is Louise Cooper-Shaw.
Cr Del Porto lives in East Brighton, is married and has four adult children. He has been a teacher at Padua College in Mornington since 2003, but will be taking a
year off to concentrate on his mayoral duties.
Among his key themes for the year are improving lines of communication between councillors and between coun cillors and officers; tackling Bayside’s infrastruc-ture renewal gap; and a hous-ing strategy to guide develop-ment that will include ‘no go’ zones, ‘go slow’ zones and development zones.
Outgoing mayor Clifford Hayes said he had met thou-
sands of Bayside residents and visitors during his term.
“Meeting so many wonder-ful people and having the op-portunity to appreciate, first-hand, how many of them give their time behind the scenes as volunteers has been an enriching experience,” he said.
First among equals: Three-time mayor Alex Porto.
Mayor Del Porto’s third term
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THE Bridget McDonnell Gallery has launched its Christmas exhibition of 60 artworks by 30 artists.
The artists include such known names as Boyd, Brack, Cole-Adams, Dickins, Dunlop, Olsen, Perceval, and Warne.
About 50 people attended the exhibition opening on Friday 3 December, includ-ing several of the exhibiting artists.
The gallery is at 392 Hampton St, Hampton, and opens 10am-5pm Tuesday to Saturday and midday-5pm Sunday.
Seasonalart show
Artist Brigid Cole-Adams.
Frank Burden, artist Cecie Cairns, Lesley and Dirk der Hartog.
Lisa Fielding, John Chesterfield, Des Fielding, Caroline Chesterfield and Bernie McNamara.
Lizzie Crozbie and Joy Warring. John Chesterfield and Allison Witton. Rita Gereviseva.