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Ms Hennessey, above, who holds the stop sign outside Mornington Park Primary School, is one of 11 Mornington Peninsula-based lollypop people in the running to win the award run by Schools Crossing Victoria to promote safety.

The award is presented to a childrens crossing supervisor who has shown outstanding commitment and dedication.

The 11 supervisors nominated by the shire are Bob Barrett (Bentons Junior College), Geoff Blount (Kunyung Primary School), Rod Brown (Mt Martha primary), Carole Dellar (Somers primary), Nancy

Gorrie (Western Port Secondary College), Sue Hennessey (Mornington Park primary), Keith Humphreys (Peninsula School), Pauline Keast (Benton Junior College),Terry Lovekin (Eastbourne primary), Margaret Ormond (Mornington primary) and Faye Cox (Rye primary).

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By Mike HastMORNINGTON Peninsula Youth Enterprises founder Russell Ardley has resigned after nearly two decades helping disadvantaged young people.

MPYE board chairman Steve Wright said Mr Ardley (pictured) resigned on 1 June and has taken stress leave for the fi ve-week notice period.

Mr Wright, CEO of Peninsula Train-ing and Employment Program, said he and Mr Ardley had a meeting last week and the MPYE founder said he was burnt out and should have re-signed two years ago.

Mr Wright said Russell has devoted his whole life to assisting disadvan-taged young people on the peninsula and had worked from dawn to dusk.

I cant praise his work highly enough, he said.

The genesis of MPYE was when Mr Ardleys 13-year-old son got into a bit of trouble and his father set up a hands-on program in his shed to help the boy and other young people learn workshop skills such as welding, met-alwork and woodwork.

With the help of a shire youth work-er, Mr Ardley rented a building at the former South East Water sewerage plant at Mitchell St, Mornington, and MPYE was born.

Mr Ardley set up programs in weld-ing, carpentry, horticulture and hospi-tality as well as an indigenous plant nursery. In recent times a gardening and mowing service was started.

Disadvantaged young people are referred to MPYE by the Department of Juvenile Justice, Department of Corrections, other government depart-ments and job providers.

Mr Wright said Mr Ardleys key skill was hands-on help for young people but MPYE had grown to a certain level where greater corporate governance was required.

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Mr Wright said Mr Ardley was irre-placeable and the board would not be jumping in to fi nd a new manager, but rather would become more involved at the operational level.

The board has fi ve members and is taking on three new members later this month, Mr Wright said.

One of Mr Ardley and MPYEs key supporters was Dunkley MP Bruce Bill-son, who helped the group when it lost federal government Work For the Dole funding in 2009, half of its income, and the long drought cut plant sales and re-vegetation work.

On Wednesday, Mr Billson told The News he was extremely sad Mr Ard-ley had quit.

Russell has been the inspiration and heart and soul of MPYE, he said.

He has made enormous personal sac-rifi ces to create and nurture an impor-tant community organisation.

Mr Billson said the reasons for Mr Ar-dleys departure werent entirely clear. I hope the board members know what theyre doing.

Mr Ardley has received awards for his work including being named Morn-ington Peninsula Shires citizen of the year and an international Rotary award but has been quoted saying the great-est award was helping young people get back on track.


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By Mike HastSHIRE councillors on Tuesday night approved a larger version of the con-troversial Southern Peninsula Aquatic Centre (SPA).

A slim majority of councillors voted for a revised functional brief that will see the multimillion dollar SPA on the foreshore at Rosebud enlarged from 4800 square metres to 6800.

The move came on the eve of the federal government announcing $13.5 million for Frankston Councils $46.35 million Regional Aquatic Health and Wellbeing Centre at Samuel Sherlock Reserve in Cranbourne Rd next to Ch-isholm Institute of TAFE.

The federal funding comes from the Regional Development Australia Fund. Frankston also has $12.5 million for its pool (pictured) from the state government.

On Tuesday night, Mornington Pe-ninsula Shires sustainable infrastruc-ture director Alex Atkins said approval of the functional brief was needed to facilitate the architectural design phase of the project.

The project was costed at $28.5 mil-lion in March, but is expected to rise to $36 million compared to the original estimate of $15 million made in 2004.

The shire has no money from either state or federal government.

It has taken the shire more than six years to gain so-called coastal consent from the state government to build the aquatic centre on the foreshore. SPA will be built on the Rosebud Carnival Park and Rosebud Memorial Hall sites, with the hall part of the centre.

Mr Atkins said the revised brief takes into account recent industry trends and standards as well as the ex-

perience the shire has gained from the nine years of operation of the Pelican Park Recreation Centre at Hastings.

He said SPA should have: Two extra lanes in the main 25-metre long pool, up from eight to 10, which would provide room for a wide range of programs, especially during peak periods, for example, lap swimmers, aquarobics, learn to swim, external hire groups and schools. A separate program pool to ca-ter for high demand activities such as learn to swim school, birthday parties, and fun days. To accommodate this change, it is proposed that the inter-active/splash pad will now be located outside the building.n adults, exercise therapy and infant learn to swim programs. A larger gymnasium to allow the centre to cater for the expected higher

level of memberships at SPA. A cycle room for fi tness classes. Front of house. Mr Atkins said it was now proposed to incorporate the foreshore camping offi ce as part of the centres activities. Separate health and fi tness areas. Mechanical services. Consistent with councils environmentally sus-tainable design policy, [it] will incor-porate best practice ESD design princi-ples [for] operating and maintenance.

Mr Atkins said the fi nal footprint required to meet needs would be de-termined at a later date through the de-tailed design process.

The shire will now appoint a project manager and an architect at a cost of between 2-7 per cent of the total pro-ject cost, that is, $600,000 to $2.1 mil-lion.

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JOB losses and course cuts at Rosebud campus of Chisholm TAFE will have a devastating impact on the entire Mornington Peninsula community, says MP Johan Scheffer.

The Eastern Victoria Region MP in the upper house said funding cuts to the TAFE sector would have a wider im-pact than just on students and teachers.

Mr Scheffer said he had received hundreds of messages from constitu-ents expressing anger and disappoint-ment at the Baillieu governments $300 million funding cut.

In the nearly 10 years that I have been in this job I have never received so many messages from constituents expressing their anger, fury and pro-found disappointment over a single budget measure, Mr Scheffer said.

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By Mike HastTHE Solomon Lew pool saga is near the end after the Department of Sus-tainability and Environment last week approved plans for the pools removal.The works will also see remediation of Crown land on which the horizon pool, a retaining wall, fence and landscaping had been placed.

The $400,000 pool was built on the foreshore adjoining the Lew fam-ily holiday property in Osprey Ave, Mt Eliza, in 2010 and 2011 with near neighbours being told by workmen

they were installing water tanks.The pool area has a spectacular view

of Port Phillip and Mornington har-bour in the distance.

In late May the existence of the pool was revealed by the Sunday Age, which reported Mr Lew and his daugh-ter Jacqueline Lew, through a family company called Shuttlehall Pty Ltd, had been given 14 days to explain to Mornington Peninsula Shire why the horizon pool had been built on Crown land without a planning permit.

Last August, the shire ordered the

demolition of the pool within 21 days under the Building Act. It was drained on Friday 12 August.

Then followed months of negotia-tions, with Mr Lew fi rst trying to buy the Crown land from DSE, which was refused after lobbying by Mornington MP David Morris among others, and then offering to lease the land from the shire, which manages it on behalf of DSE.

The land along the cliff tops of Moondah and Sunnyside beaches was rezoned by the shire council in 2006

to public use and residential.It was reported that Mr Lews law-

yers, Schetzer Brott and Appel, offered the shire an initial lease payment of $250,000 with annual instalments of $50,000 for 19 years.

Last September, the Building Ap-peals Board refused a retrospective building permit for the pool after cracks were discovered in the retaining wall. The shire closed parts of Moon-dah Beach over fears the land would subside.

Last week DSE approved plans for

Lew pool removal plan gets OKLew pool removal plan gets OK

Empty feeling: The Lew familys $400,000 horizon pool built without a planning permit on Crown land above Moondah Beach in Mt Eliza will be demolished and the land remediated. Picture: Keith Platt

the pools removal that had been sub-mitted by Mr Lews engineers.

Mt Eliza Ward councillor Leigh Eu-stace said it was a win for rate payers, the shire and the people of Victoria who own Crown land.

The work will be done at no cost to ratepayers, he said.

Cr Eustace confi rmed reports the Lew family would pay the shires legal fees of about $150,000 and $50,000 to a registered charity of the shires choosing.

The matter was due to go to Frankston Magistrates Court on 14 December, but a deal was struck be-forehand.

It has taken since then for the shire, DSE and the Lew family to agree terms on the pools removal and reme-diation of the land.

Last Thursday, David Morris issued a coy press release headed Mt Eliza foreshore. In it he stated: Morning-ton MP David Morris has welcomed the decision of the Department of Sustainability and Environment to pro vide Coastal Management Act con-sent to the land manager (Morn ington Peninsula Shire Council) in relation to Moondah Reserve.

The decision brings to a conclusion an unfortunate episode, and ensures that the construction of a private build-ing or other asset on public land does not provide an excuse for alienation of that land for private purposes.

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THE differences of opinion surround the drinking and appreciating of wine were highlighted again last week when judges at the International Cool Cli-mate Wine Show gave the thumbs up to a New Zea-land drop, but drinkers went for the Adelaide Hills.

The only Mornington Peninsula entries to win major accolades this year were the 2007 chardon-nay from Wynnton Estate in Shoreham and Bail-lieu Vineyard of Merricks Norths 2009 shiraz.

Wynnton won the Best Mornington Peninsula White and Baillieu the Best Mornington Penin-sula Red.

Chairman of judges Mike DeGaris said penin-sula wines had given good results over the past two years and he looked forward to seeing more entries next year.

The trophy for best wine of the show went to a New Zealand winery, Matua Valley, for its 2010 shiraz while the Peoples Choice Award went to Stable Hill of the Adelaide Hills for its 2010 shiraz.

About 20 per cent of the 645 entries in the show each came from the peninsula, New Zealand or Tas-mania. A panel of 15 judges at the Mornington Race-course venue handed out 26 gold medals, 58 silver and 238 bronze. Half the entries received medals.

Trophies went to: Best Wine of the Show, Ma-tua Valley shiraz 2010, New Zealand; Peoples Choice Award, Adelaide Hills Stable Hills shiraz 2010; Best Red Wine of the Show, Matua Val-ley shiraz 2010; Best White Wine of the Show, Barwang chardonnay 2011, a McWilliams Wine Group brand near Young in NSW; Best Pinot Noir 2011, Sharmans, Tasmania; Best Pinot Noir 2010, Babich Winemakers Reserve, New Zea-land; Best Pinot Noir 2009, New Zealand Ra-paura Springs Vineyard Reserve Central Otago Pinot Noir, New Zealand; Best Riesling, Forrest, The Doctors Riesling 2011, New Zealand; Best Chardonnay, Barwang chardonnay 2011; Best Pi-not Gris, Tasmanian Estates Tamar Ridge 2011; Best Sauvignon Blanc, Babich, Black Label 2011; Best Mornington Peninsula White, Wyn-nton Ridge chardonnay 2007; Best Mornington Peninsula Red, Baillieu shiraz 2009; Best Spar-kling Wine, Tasmanian Estates Pirie non vin-tage 2011; Judges Best New Release, Barwang chardonnay 2011; Judges Best Vintage Wine, Matua Valley shiraz 2010; Best Cool Climate Shiraz, Matua Valley shiraz 2010.For all results www.coolclimatewine show.org.au

Judges and people tastes differJudges and people tastes differNotable: Judges at this years International Cool Climate Wine Show spent two days at Mornington Racecourse tasting and evaluating 654 entries. Picture: Yanni

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THEY came, they saw and then they left.The seasons fi rst reports of whales entering

Port Phillip came in early Monday, but by mid-afternoon mariners were reporting the whales go-ing back out through The Heads.

The Department of Sustainability and Environ-ment welcomed the arrival of the two hump-backs, which it identifi ed as being an adult and sub-adult.

DSE wildlife offi cer Michael Woods also issued a warning for sightseers to keep their distance.

It is great to see these amazing mammals in their natural environment, but important to re-member there are rules and regulations in place to protect them, Mr Woods said.

The whale sighting was confi rmed by the Hastings-based Dolphin Research Institute. Di-rector Jeff Weir said the two whales were spotted near Ticonderoga Bay heading toward Portsea at about 8.30am.

Its almost like clockwork to have whales entering the bay on the Queens Birthday long

weekend, Mr Weir said. In previous years the whales would stick their nose in the bay then dis-appear, but we are now fi nding that they are hang-ing around for a lot longer.

DSE says recreational vessels must stay 200 metres away from whales and 100 metres from dolphins; jet skies must be 300 metres away from whales and dolphins; swimmers must not ap-proach within 50 metres of a whale or 30 metres of a dolphin; and aircraft must fl y at least 500 me-tres above a whale or dolphin.

Licensed tour operators can approach up to 100 metres of a whale and 50 metres of a dolphin.

The Wildlife Act carries a maximum $100,000 fi ne for interference with a whale and anyone found breaching the minimum prescribed dis-tance can face a maximum penalty of $2440.

For more information on the regulations visit DSEs website www.dse.vic.gov.au or call 136 186.

Keith Platt

Whales make seasonal arrivalWhales make seasonal arrivalReturn performance: This time last year whales were spotted by dolphin researchers off Mt Martha, although this weeks visitors did not come as far north in Port Phillip.


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KEEN members of the public and ob-servers from the Mornington Peninsu-la Astronomical Society had a stellar view of the transit of Venus across the face of the sun last Wednesday.

Victoria was regarded as being in a perfect position to witness the entire rare phenomenon, while many places on Earth missed out.

You could say we were lucky enough to watch a goddess on the mountain top, society secretary Peter Skilton said.

Mr Skilton and other members of the society watched the event from Mt Martha through a battery of solar telescopes.

In Roman mythology, Venus was the goddess of love and is usually a planet that most people know as be-ing a very bright object shining in the dawn or dusk sky, he said.

This time it was in broad daylight and over a period of almost seven hours, with the dark silhouette of Ve-nus silently creeping across the sun.

At the societys observatory at The Briars Park in Mt Martha, specialised solar telescopes watched and photo-graphed the phenomenon.

From the crack of dawn, members eagerly awaited Venus taking its fi rst tiny bite out of the side of the sun, Mr Skilton said.

This unmistakeable fi rst contact soon after 8am was clearly visible and sparked a fl urry of activity as the sun was merely a few fi nger widths above the east horizon.

Half an hour later, Venus reached the point of being fully immersed. Un-

Up close: Peter Skilton, above, observing the transit of Venus across the sun at The Briars in Mt Martha. Picture: Brett BajadaAs Venus began exiting the bottom left side of the sun, left, it was captured in this image by Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society member Paula Ritchens at Cranbourne as the planet just kissed the side of the sun, leading to theso-called tear drop effect in the tiny gap. Her close-up photograph also shows a group of smaller sunspots.

Sightseers drawn to VenusSightseers drawn to Venus

fortunately cloud and even drizzle en-croached around this point of second contact, although members in Frank-ston, Cranbourne and Dandenong re-ported seeing it unimpeded.

Good views of Venus were had throughout the morning from The Bri-ars site, until heavy cloud interfered around midday, preventing witness-ing Venus leaving the face of the sun before 3pm, not to return again for an-other 105 years.

Mr Skilton said some members of the society went to the NSW border

just to increase their chances of get-ting clearer skies.

Historically, transits of Venus are well known. James Cook sailed to Tahiti in the Endeavour in June 1769 to witness the one predicted that year, then after that opened Admiralty orders that set him on a voyage of discovery to Australia, he said.

His observations of Venus crossing the sun were vital for scientists to cal-culate the size of the solar system for the fi rst time.

In our region there has been a long

association with Venus transits. In 1874, Professor William Parkinson Wilson of the University of Melbourne led a small team that observed the event from near his home in Morning-ton.

It was recognised that the weather on the Mornington Peninsula was of-ten very different to that experienced at the observatory in Melbourne, so a far-fl ung output in the distant country-side was a precaution against missing the event altogether if cloud or rain in-terfered in the city.

Whether he was a casualty or not of witnessing a Venus transit with all its excitement and danger, sadly he sud-denly died two days later.

Mr Skilton said that as far as I know, all of our observing members were safely accounted for after wit-nessing this particular Venus transit.

The societys next public telescope night will be from 8pm at The Briars on Friday 6 July. Bookings: 0419 253 252 or [email protected]


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COMMENTBy David HarrisonTHIS is a tale of two ratepayers, one doing it hard in Rosebud, the other on a bit of land in the hinterland. For per-spective, two other ratepayers stand in the shadows to provide balance one observing from the very top of the pen-insula property tree, the other from the very bottom.

The top property owner will pay $41,771 rates on a $22.5 million Portsea estate, according to the shires draft bud-get. This includes the municipal charge (MC) of $160, up $10 from last year.

The bottom one lives in Truemans Ward, which covers Rosebud, Rose-bud West and Tootgarook, in a prop-erty valued at $136,000. Its value has risen 13.3 per cent since 2010. The proposed rate rise this year is $10 to $242, or 4.3 per cent. The $242 in-cludes the $160 MC.

Next character in the tale is the typi-cal Rosebud ratepayer, a low income earner or pensioner scraping by. Rates bill last year: $550, up 6.7 per cent

from the previous year (according to the shire) or 9.1 per cent (independent experts fi gure).

You may wish to believe the shires smoke and mirrors fi gure: many dont. This year it is claiming the rate rise will be 3.9 per cent. Experts say it is 5.63 per cent, when all relevant factors and charges the MC among them are included.

The shire actually concedes the mu-nicipal charge must be included. Its draft 2012-13 budget document states (page 8):

Councils rate increase for 2012-13 will average 3.9%. All rateable property will also pay $160 municipal charge, an increase of $10. This will raise rates and charges of $119.770 million and raise the average rate-payers bill above 3.9 per cent.

Back to our typical Rosebud rate-payers bill. It comprises the residen-tial improved sum of $590 plus the MC of $150. Total to pay: $740.

Our last ratepayer is the comfortably off hinterland resident. Rates: about $1850, including the $150 municipal charge.

THE RATES BILL: HOW OUR POOR AND NEEDY ARE DISADVANTAGED

Ratepayer Rate Municipal Percentage Tip Percentage Total fl at Total % bill charge of rates vouchers of rates charge of rates Top $41,771 $150 0.36% $90 0.21% $240 0.57%Bottom $242 $150 61.9% $90 37.2% $240 99.2%Rosebud $740 $150 20.27% $90 12.0% $240 32.27%Hinterland $1850 $150 8.11% $90 4.79% $240 12.90%

Rates need fine-tuning, for equitys sakeRates need fine-tuning, for equitys sake

Note that the MC is a constant $150 for each ratepayer, whether their property is valued at $22.5 million or $136,000.

Your rates contain another hidden, fl at fi gure about $90, the cost of your three tip vouchers. The vouchers were originally free, courtesy of a campaign by the Mornington Peninsula Resi-dents and Ratepayers Association. Many people think they are still free.

If you dont use them you are effec-tively paying a penalty of $90. Many cant use them, or have no need for them. They are not transferable, mean-ing you cant (or shouldnt) give them away, or sell them to recover some of their cost to you.

These fl at amounts follow the GST tax argument that fl at taxes are simpler than a sliding scale. Simpler and in-equitable.

The accompanying table tells the story. The municipal charge is stan-dardised at last years $150 for sim-plicity.

Mornington Peninsula Shire appears to have the second-highest MC of any similar council on Melbournes fringe. Macedon Ranges charges more: its MC

is proposed to rise to $177 in 2012-13.Here are some others: Nillumbiks

municipal charge will rise to $97.85, Caseys rate remains at nil, Whittlesea and Yarra Ranges dont specify a rate in their draft budgets, Wyndhams is $39.95. Frankstons rose last year to $120.65 its 2012-13 draft budget has not yet been released.

Of urban councils, wealthy Bayside plans to charge $126.60. Maroondah, in the outer east, is dropping its MC from $19.90 to $17.30.

Councils with no or low MCs seem to take the equitable approach of fi ne-tuning rates to collect the revenue they need. This spreading of the burden is both more equitable and more open and transparent than the sleight of hand Mornington Peninsula Shire uses keeping the rate in the dollar down then gouging ratepayers with the MC.

Rates are levied at a sliding scale, based on property valuation. No gov-ernment, or council, would dream of introducing a fl at rate on all properties using the same argument they employ to justify the fl at-rate MC.

Even the most insane economic ra-tionalists and fl at-raters some of

whom are wild-eyed enough to give the idea a few moments thought know they could never sell it to the electorate.

Fervid GST supporters had to con-cede it would be inequitable to put a fl at rate tax on Lamborghinis and Rollers, so some luxury goods taxes were retained. They knew it would be impossible to argue that economy car buyers should subsidise fanciers of Bugattis and Beemers.

What is needed is a sensible balance. If a fl at municipal charge is to be im-posed, it should be partly symbolic, intended to signify to ratepayers that every property is entitled to such ser-vices as rubbish collection, libraries and road repair and that we are all re-quired to contribute towards them.

But it should be kept low, to ensure that the peninsulas poor, elderly and disadvantaged are not unfairly bur-dened. Would well-off Portsea and hinterland ratepayers begrudge paying slightly more to ease their load?

Or the municipal charge could be abolished, as was done in City of Casey. Something for our councillors to ponder.

PENINSULA Link freeway builder Abigroup is closing Mornington-Tyabb Rd at Moorooduc this weekend to complete the bridge over the under-construction freeway.

The east-west road will be closed from 7pm Friday 15 June to 6am Mon-day 18 June between Derril and Coolart roads. Detour signs will direct motor-ists via Moorooduc Hwy to Bungower

Rd or Bentons/Loders/Graydens roads. Access will be permitted for local resi-dents and businesses.

Abigroup said it was the fi nal local road bridge over the freeeway in the Moorooduc area to be opened.

For more information, visit www.peninsulalink.com.au, call the hotline on 1300 453 035 or email [email protected]

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GROWING opposite Hastings foreshore, this unusual looking fungus could easily be mistaken for an octopus.

However, Vicki Davis knew better. The holder of a Certifi cate 3 in horticulture and a keen home gardener, Ms Davis in-vestigated and discovered that what ap-peared to be a decomposing sea dweller was, in fact, Anthurus archeri, or octopus stinkhorn.

It was growing among tanbark next to a power substation near High St.

However, its resemblance to rotting fl esh is not lost on the fl ies, which are at-tracted by its smell of rotting fl esh.

Offi cially a mushroom, the eggs of the fungus are said to taste and smell like rad-ish but is recommended eating only in a wilderness survival circumstance when no other food is available. In other cases, it is considered inedible.

The unwitting fl ies carry and spread its spores, helping spread the octopus stinkhorn and ensure its survival.

The fungus is indigenous to Australia and has been introduced to Europe and the United States.

Its fi rst appearance in France was at-tributed to spores carried in bales of wool from Australia.

Ms Davis, raised on a farm in New South Wales, said she had not previously seen the fungus although she was familiar with different plant species.

She sells several kinds of potted native plants including grevilleas, correas and calistamons and can be contacted on 0405 547 860.

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Mushroom mystery: Vicki Davis with the octopus-like fungus she spotted in High St, Hastings. Picture: Keith Platt

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Pool queries remainPool queries remainMORNINGTON Peninsula Shire Coun cil continues to press on with its largest infrastructure project to date, the Southern Peninsula Aquatic Cen-tre (SPA).

A functional brief was approved by the council on Tuesday 12 June. It scopes the project, but did not contain any costings. However it did ex-pand the fl oor area by 2000 square metres and councillors voted to appoint a project management company, even though they do not have a project.

The functional brief will be given to a planning architect and then returned to the council for approval. This work will cost between 2-7 per cent of the total project cost, that is, $600,000 to $2.1 million.

This could well be wasted money as by the time it is presented, we could have a different council after the October elections.

Questions remain as to the fi nancial viability and impact of the largest infrastructure project undertaken by the shire as well as its location on a treasured foreshore.

The project originated from the shires 1999 three-pool strategy, which was approved by different councillors from those now in offi ce, six of whom were unelected unopposed in 2008.

It is only three months until the care taker period begins prior to the October council election. No major policy decisions can be made after late September.

The council has already declined, by a 6-5 vote, to inform the wider community about SPA. A public meeting attended by 250 plus people largely approved of SPA, but not all the add-ons such as gymnasium, cafe, etc, and certainly not on the foreshore.

Why after some 13 years of gestation do only Rosebud residents know the size of the baby, but not its sex or if its twins?

I am not keen on the induced labour to encourage the birth although twins might be preferable two 25-metre pools convertible to a 50-metre pool.

The wider peninsula community is being denied the information on which to make a judgement just like having a majority of councillors unelected.

Sadly it has become increasingly obvious to this council observer that six of the 11 councillors, who continually force these matters through on a divided vote, are no longer acting in the best long-term interests of the whole community.

One of the six has already stated he will not stand at the election and yet he is helping to steamroll through a pro ject that will not only affect this generation of ratepayers, but also the next.

The continual 6-5 split of council on this matter cannot claim to answer Environment Minister Ryan Smiths requested criterion that SPA have broad community support.

Mornington Peninsula ratepayers do not need their own version of Myki or the desalination plant.

Roger Lambert, Mornington

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THE Emus are aghast. Emu has rarely seen his bride aghaster. It is an emotion to which he himself has never previ-ously been martyr.

Phlegmatic, stiff upper beak; thats more his mtier. But now he is aghast, because Mrs Emu told him he is.

They have just read the shire coun-cil plan to ban backyard burning, as well as proposing enormous fi nes on people who light up anyway, as well as to heavily fi ne dog owners who dont pick up after their pets, or fail to report a loose wheel on their shire waste bins.

Mrs Emu is reduced to a strangled squawk. So much for our nest egg, she wheezes heavily. She knows she will fall foul of these laws. And she knows he knows.

Emu calculates the possible fallout from her cavalier approach to walkies with the two retrievers. Fallout indeed. She routinely ignores her duty to re-trieve on the retrievers behalves.

At $1250 per dog per bodily func-tion, thats $2500 for a start, he thinks, and shes barely left the property. Good thing Fido and Frou-Frou wont be fi ned for peeing on posts.

A faulty bin, at $2500 an offence, doubles the dog fi ne, and her pyro-maniacal penchant for a nice little au-

tumn leaf blaze (another $2500) brings the total to $7500. Thats just the fi rst morning of the fi rst day.

Emu plunges into a deep gloom. Shes right about the nest egg. His blushing bride will obliterate it in mere weeks.

There is probably a bright side to the bin fi ne, though. If the thing is stolen it would probably be cheaper to buy a new one without troubling the shire. But then, not telling the shire is prob-ably an offence, too, attracting an even bigger penalty.

Councillors apparently have also endorsed a $2500 fi ne for failing to destroy nests of European wasps, Emu notes, and for the heinous crime of videoing or recording a council com-

mittee at work youll have to cough up another $1250. And, whatever you do, abstain from taking alcohol to the beach.

Emu wonders if the shire will fi ne itself in the case of wasps found nest-ing on its land and trespassing on to private land.

These fi nes are stiffer than being convicted of causing an affray or driv-ing dangerously, Mrs Emu huffs in-dignantly, just for a faulty council bin. You can start a punch-up at the MCG and be fi ned less. Have they gone mad down at the council?

Emu nods sadly. He can only con-clude that the shire, in its desperate search for money, has found several new rich veins of revenue pooches

have become cash cows and a single unroadworthy bin will reap more than a glovebox full of parking fi nes.

So be warned: stay alert for suspi-cious idlers eyeing off your rubbish receptacles or searching the air around your house for wasps and plumes of smoke. Soon theyll be lurking every-where.

You might ask the shire if it is sell-ing pooper-scoopers to help save you money (unlikely).

Also ask for information on where it is locating doggie doo receptacles in which to deposit doggie deposits. And ask if they can recommend a mechanic to roadworthy your wheelie bins.

If all that fails, ask for time to pay.

Unroadworthy bin? Thats a Unroadworthy bin? Thats a $$2500 fine, thanks2500 fine, thanks

Digital art to light up a citys nightDigital art to light up a citys nightBUILDINGS in Frankston are about to take on a new, transforming light.

Each night from Saturday 23 June to Saturday 7 July digital artworks will be projected onto the outside of some struc-tures while others will be transformed from within.

Other digital images will be visible from smart phones through a special app.

Free guided tours will be available for the exUrbanScreens exhibition or viewers can make their way along the route to see the art for themselves.

This will be an extraordinary experi-ence that all the community will enjoy and be proud of a fi rst for Frankston. exUr-banScreens is an opportunity for families

and people of all ages to experience and enjoy our great city at night, the mayor Cr Brian Cunial said.

The exhibition curated by Vince Dziekan and Matthew Perkins is a collaboration by Frankston Arts Centre, the council and Monash University, and produced by Mer-ryn Tinkler.

The digital galleries at the arts centres Cube 37 are the hub of the exhibition (Is there) Light in outer space? with other locations across the city centre, including along Young and Wells streets.

A major projection by Ian de Gruchy will transform the east and north sides of the Peninsula Centre, turning what is gener-ally seen as an ugly building into a three-

dimensional work of art.Other works are by international artists

who have exhibited at the Venice Biennale as well as younger artists who have been participating in Saturday workshops dur-ing the year.

The free guided tours that start from Cube 37 (next to the arts centre in Davey St) are at at 6pm on Saturday 23 June, Thursday 28 June, Thursday 5 July and Saturday 7 July. For bookings call 9784 1060.

Light waves: Digital art depicting the tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011 by British artist Kit Wise uses images taken by the American military to explore the relationship between disaster, spectacle and the viewer.

BUSINESSMAN Joe McDonald is making life more comfortable for patients at Frankston Hos-pitals emergency department.

After several visits to the hospital with his eld-erly mother, Mr McDonald returned with fl uffy pillows.

Frankston Hospital has really fantastic staff, who are fl at out caring for patients and doing a great job. I just thought that a few extra pillows here and there would really help out, said Mr

McDonald, managing director of Frankston-based Market Metrics.

Clinical director of emergency ser vices Dr Helen Hewitt said the pillows would help in busy times.

There will be many purposes for the pillows and the more we have the better.

The donation by Joe McDonald and his staff is a heartfelt one. Their enthusiasm to make a differ-ence is inspiring.

Comfort comes from donationComfort comes from donationBringing comfort: Joe McDonald with some of the pillows he has donated to Frankston Hospital.

NOMINATIONS FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS

TO ASSIST WITH THE ORGANISING OF THE AUSTRALIA DAY FESTIVITIES IN HASTINGS &

MOUNT ELIZA FOR 2013 & 2014

Mornington Peninsula Shire is seeking nominations from community members in Hastings and Mount Eliza to join the

Australia Day 2013 & 2014 Committee.

Council is committed to providing a quality $XVWUDOLD'D\)HVWLYDOZKLFKFRQWLQXHVWREHUHHFWLYHRI

community needs and invites interested members to plan activities in each township

Nominations can be submitted to Lisa Wilson, Team Leader Community & Special Events, Private Bag 1000 Rosebud

3939, no later than Wednesday 22 June 2012.

A nomination form and the Terms of Reference can be obtained by contacting Community & Special Events Unit

on 5950 1736.


By Keith PlattSAND may not sound like the best material on which to build a business. Analyse the word and there are many connotations: sand shifts; runs out of time; gets abrasive; is used to draw a line. But to Sharon and Peter Red-mond the pliability of sand provides a fi rm base for a business that runs on a continually changing product sand sculptures.

Their Frankston-based Sandstorm Events grew from a not-for-profi ts fundraiser into a company that is in demand at home and overseas. Now its a company that sponsors are liter-ally asking to be allowed on board.

Bookings for sand sculpting events next year include Western Australia, Singapore, Dubai and Columbia. The annual showcase event is Sand Sculpt-ing Australia, held on Frankstons Waterfront. After being lured by Frankston Council from neighbour-ing Mornington Peninsula Shire fi ve years ago, Sharon Redmond believes the event has brought more than 320,000 visitors to the city. She esti-mates this equates to spending of more than $32.5 million and marketing for Frankston both locally, interstate and internationally worth in excess of $2.5 million.

The fi gures are calculated on a for-mula used by Tourism Victoria based on the address of each visitor to the sand sculpting exhibition.

In regards to the media, we keep track of every piece of PR and market-ing material for each event and place a dollar value on it [as if] if we had to buy it. These fi gures are then all checked by Frankston Councils mar-keting team, Sharon said.

This years event, which ended on 30 April, was on track to break our record and achieve 100,000 visitors in a four-month period.

Husband Peter, with a background in graphic design and illustration, started as a junior sculptor at the 2006 event at Rye, but is now a senior member of the Sandstorms Australian team. He stays on site long after invited sculp-tors have left, maintaining the works, teaching the art of sand sculpting to children and demonstrating speed carving.

Taking sand back to the beachTaking sand back to the beachTeam effort: Sandstorm Events Sharon and Peter Redmond at the sand sculp-ture exhibition on Frankston foreshore. By the end of April more than 100,000 people had visited the site which has now been cleared until next seasons event.

As the demand for Sandstorms product has grown, Peter has found himself carving sand in Darwin, Mackay, Perth and Lakes Entrance, at large public events and smaller corpo-rate jobs. Sharons sand carving mo-ment came in 2002 when confronted by a 30-tonne sculpture of a castle on the Rye foreshore.

The hairs on my arms rose up and I was simply in awe of what I was looking at. I had spent many years as a child on the beach trying to create a sandcastle with a moat around it and l could not conceive how they had cre-ated what I was looking at.

I immediately saw an opportunity for Vision Australia to develop an

event that could provide brand aware-ness and be a fundraising opportu-nity.

Research and development included going to Canada for the world cham-pionships to sign up 14 sand sculptors as in 2003 there were just two in Aus-tralia.

I knew nothing about how to build a sculpture what was required, what would be needed all I was focused on was getting this started. Along with this no one really knew what a sand sculpture was.

Buoyed by her own faith in the pro-duct and support of the CEO at Vision Australias George Vowell Centre in Mt Eliza, months of work fi nally saw the opening of an event in Cronulla, NSW.

Being crazy, I had talked my board into holding two events one in NSW and one in Victoria. After all, if you were bringing out international sculp-tors you needed to make the most of it.

Sharons business hunch was spot on: 65,000 people paid $2 at Cronulla and 50,000 did the same at Rye.

Along the way we developed spon-sorships and relationships that are to-day still with the event.

Sharon sees the concept of the busi-ness being a partnership with spon-sors as the backbone of its success. I would have to say that it is the partner-ships and sponsorships that we have formed that has been the real power behind our past (and future) growth. My working life has always been about fi nding partnerships and ways to work with people to achieve my goals.

The fi rst 21 years of my life were spent working in the not-for-profi t world and in this environment, as resources are always tight and ideas large, you quickly learn to hone your skills in developing partnerships and sourcing support to achieve your goals.

TRADITIONAL breadmaking has been brought back to Flinders.

David Allan and Margaret Carey are baking bread in the oven made in the 1930s for the Draper family.

It took six months to restore the oven, which is now being used to bake traditional sourdough loaves using only organic fl our, water and Victorian pink lake salt, Ms Carey said.

True sourdough bread is naturally leavened, which means that a local wild culture of organisms is used to slowly develop and rise the doughs over an eight-hour period.

The bread develops greater fl avour and nutritional benefi ts such as the breaking down of gluten and natural sugars, great for gluten intolerant and low GI diets.

Ms Carey and Mr Allan hold degrees in winemaking and see a synergy be-tween the processes of making wine and bread.

As there is a large crossover with the microbiology of the two processes, much of our wine knowledge is of great use managing the many variables of sourdough, Ms Carey said.

We made the big decision to leave

the winery [at Heathcote] and then vol-unteered at Redbeard Bakery under the guidance of John and Alan Reid and their great team of bakers. We learnt a lot in three months and fell in love with using a Scotch oven; there was no turning back.

The couple spent a year searching Victoria for a Scotch oven, fi nally fi nd-ing one at Flinders.

We found many ovens, but most were in poor condition. David knew of the oven in Flinders due to memories of visiting the bakery as a child; he also drove through Flinders daily while working at nearby Stonier Wines.

We visited the Flinders Bakery out of interest and what we found was a hidden treasure, a great oven and matching vintage dough mixer in fabu-lous condition.

The couple spent many long days and nights crouched inside the oven fi xing the fl oor and rebuilding the fi re-box.

Missing fi re bars were replaced with new ones recast at an historic foundry in Castlemaine, which still had the original moulds.

A twin-arm mixer from the 1940s

Baking tradition returns to FlindersBaking tradition returns to Flinders

All fi red up: David Allan and Margaret Carey at their Flinders sourdough bakery. Picture: Yanni

Sand entrepreneurs: Sharon and Peter Redmond are credited with attracting thousands of visitors to Frankston with their annual sands sculpture show.Picture: Keith Platt

Ongoing sponsor partnerships for the Frankston event are Aidan J Graham Quarries and Rocla Quarries (sand), Leader Newspaper Group and Mix FM (publicity) and Quest Apart-ments (accommodation).

The interesting fact within all of this is that my entire marketing budget annually is less than $45,000, Sharon says. I have a part-time admin as-sistant, a part-time graphic designer and an operations manager. When the event is running we employ a casual workforce in excess of 70. What is really interesting is that we are now being approached by partners want-ing to align with us and the partners are proving to be a further impetus for growth for our company and fl agship event.

Sharon says Sandstorm was this year approached by Channel 9, Metro Trains, Qantas in-fl ight media, OMD and Village Roadshow, all wanting to align with the event.

Channel 9 provided us with ex-posure on TV that we cant afford, Metro Trains had posters and fl yers on stations throughout Melbourne, and Qantas shows incoming passengers a three-minute video. Existing partners are willing to pay for more involve-ment, such as family days, corporate team building, sculptures for product launches, passes and on-site product placement.

Sharon has simple rules for these enduring sponsor partnerships, which include aligning with compa-nies that have values that align with mine; no over-selling; honesty; fi nd out what the win-win is; ongo-ing communication; deliver more than you have committed to; help them feel ownership and that they are part of the family; your successes are their successes, so celebrate together and share; always follow up and report on the successes and failures of the re-lationship; and plan carefully and be well resourced.

If you can bring into your business active partnerships that have a win-win for both, and you make them feel like they are part of something special, great things can happen.

Reprinted courtesy BusinessTimeswww.businesstimes.net.au

is used to prepare dough being baked in the restored oven. The mixer has a slow and gentle action that replicates hand kneading.

Traditional hand-shaping and cut-ting techniques are used, reducing the

need to power excess machinery, Ms Carey said. Any energy used on site is replaced to the grid via renewable hydro-electricity, helping to achieve a sustainable community.

Flinders Sourdough, 50 Cook St,

Flinders, opens 9am-4pm Friday to Sunday, and sells its bread at several markets, including Mornington Craft Market, Boneo, Mt Eliza, Tootgarook and Red Hill farmers markets.

Keith Platt


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By Tony DuboudinSOMERS Yacht Club was turned into a full-blown command post for the national Sea Dragon 2 pollution pre-paredness exercise on Tuesday and Wednesday last week.

The exercise involved about 200 people from Victoria, New South Wales, Canberra and South Australia and was designed to test national read-iness to deal with major oil and other pollution spills.

Sea Dragon was conducted by the Australian Maritime Safety Author-ity and the Victorian Department of Transport with support from the Aus-tralian Marine Oil Spills Centre.

A mock marine pollution scenario saw wooden replicas of penguins and other marine birds placed on the beach in front of the yacht club before being treated to a clean-up process.

A helicopter tracked an imaginary oil spill and dropped dispersant. Boats were also involved and they were brought in from their base at Stony Point.

The yacht club boatyard had an in-fl atable hospital set up complete with its own generator to drive the air-conditioning while nearby was a ani-mal cleaning station.

The cleaning station a converted shipping container purpose-built in New Zealand and the only one of its kind in Australia was driven on its special crane-equipped truck from Sydney. It is owned by the NSW De-partment of Transport and operated by Sydney Port Corporation.

It is equipped with special tables and overhead water hoses that disperse a

mix of warm water, heated by the sta-tions own self-contained equipment, and cleaning agent that is used to clean affected animals, which are then moved to another section of the sta-tion to be dried off. The station retains all its own waste liquid, which is then properly disposed of after an operation is completed.

The yacht club provided volunteers to assist in the running of the exercise while the clubs chef, Vic Crust, feed participants with breakfast each morn-ing from 7am as well as lunch.

Somers Yacht Clubs safety offi cer and former commodore Norm Dewar said the exercise was an eye-opener for many people.

The amount of equipment and the skills of the various organisations tak-ing part was impressive. I also think that they learned a lot from the ex-ercise and members of the club were able to provide the organisers with a wealth of local knowledge, he said.

The Federal Minister for Infrastruc-ture and Transport, Anthony Albanese, said that vigilance and preparedness was the best protection against any pollution threat.

Australia has some of the most pristine coastal waters on the planet and oil spillage from damaged ships has the capacity to wreak massive en-vironmental damage, he said.

Exercise Sea Dragon is a great ex-ample of cross-agency collaboration as we test our ability to handle a pollution spill.

Ports Minister Denis Napthine said: It allows us to test our preparedness and identify areas for improvement.

Pollution in the bay its all exercisePollution in the bay its all exercise

Beach emergency: Above, participants in the Sea Dragon 2

exercise to combat a pollution spill in Western Port rig a temporary

pollution restraining boom on Somers beach. (Picture: John Copeland)

Right, Somers Yacht Clubs Norm Dewar and Dave Pulling of Somers

CFA inspect the inside of the animal cleaning station. (Picture: Rod Nuske)

Similar exercises are regularly conducted by the Australian Maritime

Safety Authority, state and territory authorities and industry as part of

the national plan to combat pollution of the sea by oil and other hazardous

and noxious substances.

14 June 2012

Mornington

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