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By Simone Short

THE Victorian Governor will offi cially open the Leongatha Secondary College centenary celebrations during his tour of the region this week.

The Honourable Alex Chernov AC QC and his wife Elizabeth will visit the school for an hour-and-a-half this Friday.

College assistant principal Greg Elt said it was an honour for the school to host the Governor.

“It’s the only school he’s visiting in

the area,” he said.“We’re honoured that he’s coming

down to the area and has chosen to help us celebrate our centenary.”

Mr Elt said a ceremonial tree plant-ing will be held as part of the offi cial opening, with Mr Chernov planting a seedling from the original oak tree planted on the West Campus of the for-mer high school around the same time the school was opened.

“After the tree planting we’ll have a morning tea and a tour around the site for the new school buildings,” he said.

Continued on page 4.

Governor to openschool party

• The Honourable Alex Chernov AC QC.

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shoesFOR Jessica Allenby, taking part in the Re-lay for Life at Dumbalk on Saturday was a way of spreading hope.

The youngster (pictured centre) has survived cancer, and celebrated with her sister Rachel (left) and friend Jessica Hyde by joining 380 people in walking around the recreation reserve.

This year’s relay raised more than $33,000 for the Cancer Council and while participant numbers were down slightly compared to 2011, spirits were still high.

Seventeen teams took part, including new teams from Lang Lang and Sale. Turn to page 2 for full coverage.

PAGE 2 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012

By Sarah Vella

THE weekend’s Relay for Life, held at the Dumbalk Recreation Reserve, was another successful event, raising much needed funds for the Cancer Council.

Walter Aich from the Relay for Life organisa-tional team was happy with the way the weekend went.

“It went really well. Including the survivor and carers, we had 380 registrations. Numbers were a little down on last year, but up on the fi rst year,” he said.

“There was a total 17 teams, including two new teams, the Gippsland Grammar team from Sale and another team from Lang Lang.

“Many teams did extra fundraising on the day, such as selling cakes and other bits and pieces.”

Over the three years the relay has been held in Dumbalk, a total of $104,000 has been raised.

“The relay on the weekend raised over $33,000. This amount was down on last year, but more than the fi rst year. We had similar numbers attend as we did in our fi rst year, so it is a good

effort,” Mr Aich said. The Mexican Hat team, whose team captain

is from the Dumbalk area, put forward quite a large team and held a number of fundraising events leading up to the relay, including a trivia night at the Dumbalk Hall.

This year the team raised over $5000, which saw them crowned as the most successful fund-raisers for the event.

The Dumbalk Demons team received an award for their dedication to the event, as they ended the relay with the highest lap count.

They completed around 100km during the relay, which equated to walking an average of 6.5km per hour.

The spirit of the relay award, which is given to the team that encapsulates the spirit of the re-lay, was presented to the Gippsland Grammar team, the Gladiators and Geckos.

The Year 11 students from the school were dressed in their fi nest green and gladiator related outfi ts and continually uplifted the spirit of the whole event.

Their dedication and enthusiasm encouraged the committee to declare them deserving winners of the award.

The evening ceremony, also known as the remembrance or candlelight ceremony, involves the lighting of candles in paper bags placed around the track in order to commemorate and remember those who had lost their battle with cancer.

“The evening ceremony was absolutely ter-rifi c, rain and wind free. At one stage we dimmed the lights, which created a really emotional at-mosphere,” Mr Aich said.

“Many people commented on the effect that the ceremony had on them afterwards, which was great.”

The event was also very well attended by the younger community groups such as the Scouts and Girl Guides.

“It was great to see the Scouts and the Guides there, contributing to the atmosphere. The ab-seiling wall, provided by the Scouts is also a fun thing for participants to enjoy,” Mr Aich said.

“Overall, the general positive attitude that people bring with them makes it an enjoyable weekend for all involved.”

More photos in next week’s • Star.

Guides go: Jennifer Bals, Tara Pryor and Alysia Clark from Girl Guides got in to the spirit of the relay on the weekend.

Left: Family affair: Jaime Findlay, Krys-tal Arnason (front), Freya Arnason (front), Ella Findlay, Jesseme Arnason, Tara Swan, Tahlia Arnason, Alahna Ar-nason and Alex Swan (back) all took part in the Relay for Life at the weekend.

Happy walkers: Kate Brown and Melissa McRae from Leongatha were happy to be at the relay.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 3

Waking up with Today: the Today Show weatherman Steve Jacobs met Coal Creek co-ordinator Rowena Ashley, when the television show fi lmed at the Korumburra park last Thursday. The Today crew continued on to Inverloch on Friday. Turn to page 26 to read more.

By Jacob de Kunder

SOUTH Gippsland Shire Council is almost out of debt after a long history of fi nancial trouble.

Long-term planning has lowered the fi gure of debt from $13.5million in 2003-04 to a projected $135,000 in 2012-13.

This was revealed in the draft 2012-13 Annual Budget passed by council on Wednesday.

Cr Jim Fawcett is more than happy with council’s fi nancial state.

“I’m excited for a new council and what they can do under such strong fi nancial conditions,” he said.

Cr David Lewis was concerned by how the extra money would be spent.

“This council’s been through a lot of pain but not as much as the people of South Gippsland, and now the money should be used for new capital and all those things the people have been without, but no, it’s going to staff costs,” he said.

Council’s fi nance manager Tom Lovass said the cost savings from paying less debt had progressively been diverted into increased funding for capital works, each and every year.

“Council’s fi nancial strategies allow it to borrow if it satisfi es certain criteria, the main one being that full life-cycle costs of projects, including

the repayment of loan and associated interest costs, are quantifi ed in the long term fi nancial plan,” he said.

“This ensures that the integrity of the plan is not fi nancially compromised. Currently there are no projects identifi ed in the fi nancial plan that will require borrowings.”

A 4.85 per cent rise in rates and charges (fi ve per cent general rates and 2.5 per cent waste services) is also included in the budget.

The average residential rate payment will be $1425, up from $1359 last year – a rise of $66.

The increase is low compared to other large rural councils, according to Cr Fawcett.

“This is a double edged sword I understand. We don’t waste money when we get it; well, we aim not to and compared to our cousins (other rural councils), we have signifi cantly been drawing from the community less than they have,” he said.

“That has a cost in terms of what we can do, but if you have a look at where we are trending, we are still going to be consistently equal to or below our peer group, so it’s safe to say we’re not putting undue rate pressure on the community.”

The proposed 2012-13 capital works program includes $5.63 million to upgrade roads, including: the notorious Dollar Road near Dumbalk, Stony Creek Road in Stony Creek and a number of residential streets in

Korumburra.The budget also states that up to

150 km of rural roadside table drains will be cleared.

Cr Fawcett said the current council has committed greatly to capital works in the past.

“In comparison I’ll point you back to the start of our term when we spent 17 per cent of our budget (on capital works), 16 per cent the next year, 21 per cent last year and 24 per cent this year,” he said.

“It shows that this council, over the last four years, have been prepared to commit more to capital works than in the past.”

Cr Kieran Kennedy was not so happy with the capital works predicted in the budget.

“In regards to the capital works program going out for the next 10 years, I would be lying if I didn’t say it was a sad day for the Coastal Promontory Ward in capital projects,” he said.

Aquatic master plans for Mirboo North and Korumburra swimming pools are included in the budget, as well as implementation of the diversity plan for aged and disability services, and the economic and tourism development strategy.

Council’s proposed annual plan for 2012-13 was also passed on Wednesday.

Council reins in debt burden

SOUTH Gippsland Shire Council’s tree crew has recently discovered tree poisoning incidents in at Leongatha, Mirboo North and Foster.

The trees affected were at:• corner of Brown Street and Hilton Court, Leongatha.

A white cedar has been poisoned. The tree was part of an avenue of trees along Brown Street;

• corner of Ellen and Balding streets, Mirboo North. Three eucalypts aged around 30 were poisoned and died as a result; and

• Hall Road, Foster. A magnifi cent 30-year-old fl ower-ing gum has been poisoned and has died.

Parks and gardens co-ordinator Steven Missen is a man frustrated and disappointed.

“The culprits would be wise to realise that if they are caught they could be prosecuted with heavy fi nes. We would prefer to not go down that path as we believe that community education is a better option,” he said.

“Individual selfi sh acts by a few affect the whole com-munity and environment and it is extremely disappointing to our team who take such pride in their work.”

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Continued from page 1.Students will also have the opportunity to

chat to the Governor despite his quick visit.“He’ll be talking to the whole student body

and to some of our student leaders,” Mr Elt said.

According to Leongatha historian Lyn Skillern, who has compiled the 100 year his-tory of the secondary college into a book for the event, it will be the second time the Victo-rian Governor has visited the school.

“Sir Rohan Delacombe opened a new build-ing at the high school in 1966,” she said.

“There have been other buildings opened at other times, but the Minister for Education opened them and I believe the Governor has only been once before.”

Ms Skillern said it would be “wonderful”

to have the Governor visit the school and plant a tree to celebrate the school’s milestone.

“We’ll have another oak that will hopefully be around for 100 years like the original,” she said.

South Gippsland Council mayor Cr Warren Raabe said he was delighted to be hosting the Governor’s visit.

“It’s amazing what can be packed into a 24 hour visit!” he said.

“The Governor’s visit coincides with the Leongatha Secondary College’s centenary cel-ebrations, so he and Mrs Chernov will attend the celebrations and plant a commemorative tree. The party will also tour the Murray Goul-burn factory, and be guests of honour at a civic reception and dinner in Leongatha.”

Cr Raabe said Mr and Mrs Chernov will

Governor to open school party

ongatha Secondary College’s time capsule buried in 1972.

There is no argument the tools and techniques used in the CFA some 40 years later have developed and improved far beyond the imaginations of past members.

Photographs included in the time capsule show a 1963 Austin front mounted fi rst aid pumper and a 1972 Dodge panel van used to fi ght fi res; the vehicles are no comparison to the trucks we now see racing through the streets to emergencies every week.

A hand cart fi rst issued in 1907 was still housed in the station, however no lon-ger used.

The Anderson Street station still stands however, with a number of extensions added on to try and keep up with the expanding fi re bri-gade over the years.

Originally built in 1940, current brigade captain Andy Kay said the two trucks used in the 1960s and ’70s had to be parked end-to-end in order to fi t them inside the station.

“We have a similar prob-lem today, with not enough room to park our new trucks; we still have to park a tanker in a carport beside the station,” he said.

The original fi re station was fi rst built on the cor-ner of Michael Place and

Leongatha CFA: from past to presentBy Simone Short

“NO doubt when this is being read, many changes will have tak-en place, techniques

improved and equip-ment used which we of today cannot even visualise”, reads the Leongatha CFA docu-ment pulled from Le-

McNamara’s Lane before it was “moved to a site in Bair Street opposite Church Street”; coincidentally, the brigade is hoping to build a brand new station near this very location in Bair Street in the near future.

The document also de-tails a number of fi res at-tended to by the brigade since its formation in 1907.

The fi rst fi re ever at-tended to was on December 9, 1907 when a building owned and occupied by James W. Sutherland was

considerably damaged.“The small attendance

of fi remen was due to the fact that we do not possess a fi re bell, therefore making it impossible to notify the men,” it reads.

A bell was acquired 12 months later, however in 1972 there were no pagers issued to members; instead a fi re reporting system was installed.

When a fi re was called into the brigade, six mem-bers were called on their private phones.

A member had to “inter-cept” the call to then acti-vate the siren and intercom-munication facilities.

Another signifi cant event occurred on New Year’s Day in 1913 when several fi remen and their families were attending a demonstration in Korum-burra when buildings in McCartin Street caught fi re.

“Brigade members were summoned by telegraph and with members of the Koru-mburra brigade, arrived by special train.”

The document reports four shops and a boarding house were demolished in the blaze.

Perhaps the most devas-tating was a fi re thought to be lit when children playing with matches ignited a hay-stack in Leongatha South on October 21, 1951.

The memoir reads “at 12 noon...the charred body of a child was removed from the debris”.

From the list of mem-bers included in the 1972 document, Peter Atkins is the sole member still in the brigade today, having fi rst joined in 1956.

If there’s one aspect of fi re-fi ghting that remains the same, it is perhaps the volunteers who dedicate their time to protecting the community from disaster, as the document included below.

“Many other fi re calls and incidents have been an-swered by the brigade and although some losses were inevitable, there were many occasions where good saves have been effected or where damage would have been far greater had it not been for the prompt action to bring the situation under control.”

A new document detail-ing the current details of the brigade has been included in the secondary college’s new time capsule, to be re-buried this weekend.

Trucks of the past: the Dodge panel van auxiliary unit and Austin front mounted fi rst aid pumper owned by the Leongatha CFA in 1972.

THE Department of Education and Early Childhood Develop-ment (DEECD) re-fused to say when it was told that the Dumbalk Primary School had been with-drawn from sale.

A story in last week’s Star revealed that Deputy Premier Peter Ryan had halted the auction of the site, with State Government offi cials seemingly unaware of the decision.

Members of the Dumbalk and District Progress Association have been actively campaigning

to have the site maintained as a community asset.

Mr Ryan said the decision to withdraw the site from sale had been made soon after signage went up around Wednesday, April 4.

But selling agent Michael Wrigley was unaware of the decision until Friday, April 13 – when he received a phone call from a DEECD offi cial. He had been working closely with the DEECD on the sale.

On Thursday, April 12, DEECD was also seemingly unaware of the decision, issuing a statement to say that the property’s auction,

scheduled for Friday, April 27, would go ahead as planned.

This week the department ignored a series of questions from The Star, which included: Will the property eventually be sold? Was this an error by the department? When was it informed of the minister’s decision?

A spokesman said: “The Victorian Government requested that the former Tarwin Valley Primary School (Dumbalk campus) be withdrawn from the sale process to allow for further community consultation on the future of the site.”

School questions ignored

also be shown the sights of South Gippsland during their visit.

“It would be remiss of us not to showcase the natural attractions and produce of the re-gion, so they will stay overnight in the Corner Inlet area, enjoy a luncheon with local produc-ers, visit the Celia Rosser Gallery in Fish Creek and enjoy a tour of the Prom,” he said.

“All we need now is perfect autumn weath-er!”

About 100 representatives of local commu-nities are being invited to the civic reception at the council chambers in Leongatha.

“We’re extremely pleased to provide oppor-tunities for the Governor and Mrs Chernov to meet some of our leading citizens and famil-iarise them with what South Gippsland has to offer,” Cr Raabe said.

The Governor will then move on to the Bass Coast on Friday afternoon, with the visit in re-sponse to an invitation by the Member for Bass, Ken Smith MP.

Shire council mayor, Cr Veronica Dowman, said it was an honour to host the Governor for two days.

“Our visit begins with a civic reception at the State Coal Mine with members of our com-munity including councillors, staff and repre-sentatives from local Rotary clubs and busi-nesses,” she said.

“Our Bass Coast Young Leaders will also have a chance to offi cially meet the Governor and Mrs Chernov at the civic reception.

“This will be followed by a tour of the State Coal Mine, a visit to the Victorian De-salination Plant and a trip along the Bunurong Coastal Drive. On Saturday, The Governor and Mrs Chernov will visit Churchill Island and the Grand Prix Circuit on Phillip Island, before trav-elling to Corinella for a community lunch.”

The last time Bass Coast hosted the Victo-rian Governor was in 2005, when John Landy AC MBE visited the shire.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 5

By Jane Ross

IT has taken a large group of people thousands of hours to prepare for this weekend’s Le-ongatha High, tech and second-ary college centenary.

And thousands – including the de-scendants of Arthur Mesley who found-ed the original Leongatha Agricultural High School – are expected to attend.

Accommodation in the area is booked out.

Leongatha, Opal and Coal Creak motels, with a total of 67 rooms, are booked.

Fascinating displays and a host of activities are planned for the centenary.

The message from organisers is: be early!

While events start at 11am on Sat-urday, the school will be open for regis-trations from 9.30am.

There will be many highlights. One is the collection of memorabilia from the time capsule buried during the 1972 diamond jubilee.

A treasured letter from the late Dr Ron Eagger was hand delivered to The Star offi ce recently.

In a manila envelope with a $1 Le-ongatha High School diamond jubilee stamp, was a missive addressed to: The Editor of The Leongatha Star.

Penned on both sides of a lined foolscap sheet in a hand that’s reason-

ably legible for a medico, Dr Eagger began: “When you receive this I have no doubt that I will be dead; you will not know me as only a few people re-member me.”

The good doctor has indeed returned to “stoking coals” (his expression) but he is fondly remembered by many.

These include Star former propri-etor and friend of the Eagger family, Dorothy Giles. She was both touched and thrilled to see the letter, written fi ve years before she and her late husband Bill took over this newspaper from Frank Gannon. Current editor Brad Lester said, “The letter came as quite a

surprise. It offers insight into the devel-opment of medical and other services in the South Gippsland community.

“Dr Eagger was a well known and respected fi gure in Leongatha and ev-ery resident still benefi ts in some way from his foresight.”

The rest of the letter says:

“I expect some children I have de-livered will still be your readers. FrankGannon was the owner and editor whenthis was written but I expect he will bestoking coals with me.

“I came from England in 1957, set-tled in Leongatha in 1959 with wife andthen three children – having fought inBurma and Malaya; then to medicine atSt Thomas’ in England.

“To escape the National HealthScheme of England, we came to Aus-tralia and life here has been good, freeand with a sense of fulfi lment. We haveprogressed here in the past 13 years –with pathology, radiology, physiothera-py and a Blood Bank all coming withinsurance (this last word is speculativebecause it’s too hard to decipher).

“As Director of Blood Bank, Com-missioner of the Water Trust and mem-ber of the Ambulance Committee,I serve in a small way helped (sic) tocontribute to this community, which hasaccepted me and offered me friendship.

“I started ‘Little Athletics’ in thedistrict and hope it is still in existence.

“Doctors are meant to be well off – Iam in a sense; I have no wealth and noassets except a lot of friends and this isworth more than all the money in theworld.

“To those that are still alive, I sendmy greetings and with the hope thatLeongatha is still a happy and friendlyplace as it is today.

“Yours sincerely Ronald J. EaggerMBBS.”

By

T eorepare for this weekend’s Le-ngatha High tech and second-

stoking coals with me.“I came from England in 1957, set-

tled in Leongatha in 1959 with wife and

Jane Ross

has taken a large group of ople thousands of hours to

“I expect some children I have de-livered will still be your readers. Frank Gannon was the owner and editor when this was written but I expect he will be stoking coals with me.

Out of the past: Star editor Brad Lester and former proprietor Dorothy Giles with a letter written by the late Dr Ron Eagger that came out of the Leongatha High School capsule buried in 1972 during diamond jubilee celebrations. (Inset) The late Dr Ron Eagger.

PAGE 6 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012

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By Jane Ross

HISTORICAL directives may save most of Wonthaggi from coal or coal seam gas mining.

This is because most of the town is in a state protected area.

“Only the state has the right to mine coal here, at the discretion of the minister.”

Bass Coast Shire’s environment and planning director Hannah Dun-can-Jones said this during the April open council meeting last week.

Her comment came during dis-

cussion about a proposed planning scheme amendment to rezone land in South Dudley Road and immediately after gallery habitue Maurice Schin-kel asked whether council planned to declare the whole shire a national park.

That could occur.Council is against the push for coal

seam gas and coal mining. Leichhardt Resources is seeking an application to explore for both in an area south of Wonthaggi and through to Tarwin Lower.

Municipal authorities have no say in such matters because the Depart-

ment of Primary Industry holds sway over mining licences.

Nevertheless, council has called for a report on what its future advo-cacy might be in relation to coal and coal seam gas mining.

“If it’s considered to advocate for a national park, that could be an outcome,” CEO Allan Bawden explained.

The planning scheme amendment has been sought by a group wanting to develop land in South Dudley Road. It’s in a farm zone and is the subject of an environmental signifi cance overlay because of land subsidence issues.

The area was mined during the 60 or so years when Wonthaggi was a coal town.

A council offi cer’s report on the planning scheme amendment appli-cation concluded that “appropriately designed” houses could be built on the land.

Cr John Duscher said all the de-velopment group wanted at this stage was for council to seek authorisation from the State Minister for Planning Matthew Guy to prepare an amend-ment to the planning scheme.

“This will give the full picture – not far from this site is South Dudley

which has signifi cant undermining aswell. I don’t see much difference be-tween the two areas. It’s close to town,you can walk to town, ride bikes, it’sthe sort of development we should beencouraging.”

While lamenting the developmentof land which has “a pretty nice vista”,Cr Gareth Barlow commented that themine tunnels are “not inches under theearth; they’re a long way down”.

If Mr Guy gives the nod to theplanning scheme amendment, it willbe exhibited publicly.

Wonthaggi “safe” from mining

IT’S AMAZING to consid-er what a person has lived through by the time they cel-ebrate their 99th birthday.

Two world wars, the Great De-pression, 21 summer Olympics and the fi rst man to walk on the moon are just a few.

Woorayl Lodge resident Evelyn Nunn has lived through all this and more, however by looking at her, you wouldn’t believe she were a day over 75.

She celebrated her 99th birthday at the lodge last Thursday surround-ed by family, friends, staff and fel-low residents.

When asked what her secret was to reaching the milestone, Evelyn put it down to her parents.

“There were seven children in

our family and fi ve of us have gotten to over 90,” she said.

Born in Shepparton, Evelyn moved to Foster with her family when she was seven-years-old, how-ever the family moved on to Mel-bourne only three years later, and there she stayed for the following 50 years.

She married Douglas Fairbairn and gave birth to a daughter after he left for war in1941, and they had a son after he returned safe and well.

When Douglas died in his early 60s, Evelyn moved to Sydney with her daughter and son-in-law for two decades, and eventually returned to South Gippsland in the past few years when her family relocated.

She is now settled into Woorayl Lodge and is a popular character around the lodge.

“She is a delight to have around,” staff member Di Farrell said.

“She’s always encouraging to ev-eryone, staff and residents, and is a real asset to the lodge.”

Di said she was supposed to paint Evelyn’s nails for the party but they ran out of time.

“So she’s made sure I’ve book her in for next year already,” Di laughed.

Lodge manager Jo White said Evelyn is a wonderful resident.

“She’s always happy and a joy to have around. She came here as a respite patient and we loved her so much she became a permanent resi-dent,” she said.

“She’s such a great spirit and is so switched on.

“We’d all want to live to 99 if we could be like Evelyn!”

99 reasons to celebrate

Happy birthday: Evelyn Nunn cel-ebrates her 99th birthday with her daughter Patricia at Woorayl Lodge last Thursday.

Walk for MSHELP raise money for multiple sclerosis by taking part in the MS Walk and Family Day on May 5.

Meet at Leongatha’s McIndoe Park in Turner Street at noon and walk 3km around town.

Entry fee is $20 for adults and children are free.

RSVP for the barbecue catering by tomorrow (Wednesday) to Nat on 0417 058 684, Rory 0407 093 801 or Vicki 0417 316 233.

Please wear red in support of MS. All proceeds to MS research.

DEPUTY Premier Peter Ryan announced late yesterday a grant of $10,000 to update the Leongatha cenotaph.

The Leongatha RSL will oversee the project.Mr Ryan said the money would be used to add all

post-World War Two confl icts to the memorial. Pol-ished granite and stainless steel plaques will be used.

“Places like the Leongatha cenotaph play an impor-tant role in remembering the stories of our local ser-vice men and women, ensuring their stories of courage and mateship are never forgotten,” Mr Ryan said.

Meeniyan RSL will receive $1640 to renew the hon-our roll at Dumbalk, which has become blackened and corroded. Loch and District Historical Group gained $390 to add the name of Sergeant Brett Wood to the Loch memorial. Sgt Wood was killed in Afghanistan in May last year.

The grants are part of the Victorian Government’s Restoring Community War Memorial Grants pro-gram.

SMALL businesses in the Ko-rumburra and South Gippsland will be able to access relevant, reliable and affordable informa-tion on fi nancial management.

A seminar was yesterday (Monday) announced by Deputy Premier and Member for Gippsland South Peter Ryan.

Mr Ryan said the Improving Cash Flow and Profi tability seminar would be held at Milpara Community House in Korumburra at 7pm on Thursday, May 3.

“Last year more than 3,000 busi-nesses throughout the state participated in Small Business Victoria’s workshops and seminars, including many in the Gippsland region,” he said.

“Through the Improving Cash Flow and Profi tability program, businesses

and prospective business owners willreceive advice on starting up, fi nancialmanagement, employing people andmarketing.”

Mr Ryan said all workshops andseminars are delivered by private sectorbusiness specialists who are well-qual-ifi ed and experienced in small business.

Innovation, Services and Small Busi-ness Minister Louise Asher said the Co-alition Government recognised the vitalrole Victoria’s 495,000 small businessesplayed in the economy of the state.

“We are committed to encouragingsmall business and individual initiative,and to creating an environment that re-wards those who work hard, save, investand create employment,” she said.

For more information about otherworkshops and seminars that are avail-able please go to: www.business.vic.gov.au/workshops.

Business boost

$10,000 updates cenotaph

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 7

By Matt Dunn

MORE than a year after the devastating 2011 fl oods, Wilsons Promontory is still recovering – along with the Foster shop owners who rely so heavily upon its tourists.

Foster Traders Association president Karen Pulham, from Pulham’s Furniture and Carpets, said business had been brisk during the school holidays and Easter, which was “really positive”.

“The Prom being open, even though it’s not to capacity has been benefi cial – and obviously they can only do what they can do. We’ve been busy and there’s been a lot of tourists around. As to whether they’re spending any money, well that’s another thing,” she said.

“I think that may be a general retail complaint, though. The people are coming in to the town. It’s been good but it probably could be better.”

Pauline Angwin from Glenn’s Sports and Gifts said the business had been doing it tough for a while, since the Prom’s devastating 2009 fi re and 2011 fl ood.

“This holiday seems to be busier. They seem to be around, but they’re only buying the necessities. They’re coming into the shop, but they’re not really buying,” she said.

“The Prom not being fully open has affected our trade here. We need for the tourists to come back, because it’s killing us. We’re a big store.”

Parks Victoria spokeswoman Melanie McVey-DiLazzaro said the fl ood was a rare event that had caused massive damage to the Prom.

“The fl ood event that hit Wilsons Promontory National Park was a one-in-300 year event with over 370mm of rainfall in a 24 hour period,” she said.

“There was signifi cant damage incurred in the southern section of the park, Tidal River and areas within the northern section of the park. The program of works has been extensive with numerous engineers and contractors engaged working alongside Parks Victoria staff.

“Recently we reopened access to the majority of the southern hikes including Sealers Cove and the Lighthouse, as many of these areas required substantial track realignments.”

Ms McVey-DiLazzaro

Tourists return to Fostersaid State Government funding has been provided to repair and restore the park, including major road repairs, bridges where signifi cant landslides occurred, as well as funding to rebuild walking tracks and infrastructure including the visitor centre.

She said the park’s recovery program “is completely separate and non-related...to the current protected action being undertaken by unions as part of the

ongoing Parks Victoria EBA negotiations with the Victorian State Government”.

“Works are still continuing on Mount Oberon, Telegraph Saddle Track and the Loo-Errn boardwalk. The majority of the southern hikes have reopened for visitors with only a few walking tracks still inaccessible due to major works continuing,” she said.

By Jacob de Kunder

COUNCILLOR Da-vid Lewis continues to slam South Gippsland Shire Council’s spend-ing on employee costs.

He told other councillors at a special council meeting last week there had been a 48.4 per cent increase in employee costs since 2007-08 when the current council was voted in.

Then, $13.2 million was spent on employee costs whereas in 2011-12 that fi gure was $19.6 million.

“I understand that we need people on the ground for jobs like in the parks and gardens, but the fact is that the bulk of the increase in staff (in that time) is for offi ce and administration employees and the bulk of the increase has been for management-type people,” he said.

“These positions are not for people who interact with people out in the towns or in rural areas or who put safety boots on, but administration people and mainly manage-ment administration.”

Council’s 2012-13 draft budget suggested an in-crease in effective full-time employees from the cur-rent number of 253 and Cr Lewis believes more staff will come.

“We’ve had a lot of in-formation coming in from staff that we’ve got to do more jobs and more people have to be employed to do stuff,” he said.

“This is not shown in this budget but this is what happens.

“All these administra-tion people, they work hard and are good people and

Too many staff: Cr Lewisthen they look for stuff to do and that leads to more costs.”

Cr Jim Fawcett dis-agreed with Cr Lewis and said increased employment had been the foundation for the council’s good work.

“The strategy over the past three years has been to ‘repair our house’ and to get our foundations right,” he said.

“If we were to not have that foundation in place,

which the staff are a funda-mental part of, we would be forever reacting rather than being proactive.”

Cr Fawcett also believes the fi gure of a 48.4 per cent increase in staffi ng costs over the term is exaggerat-ed because it includes wage increases each year and a one off $800,000 superan-nuation payout.

The proposed budget was passed by council on Wednesday.

John Butler wows Meeniyan: one of the biggest names in the Australian music industry left a packed out Meeniyan Hall in awe last Sunday night. Performing an acoustic solo set as part of his Tin Shed Tales tour, Butler’s fi nal song received a standing ovation. He sang with Felicity Groom.

PAGE 8 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Man arrestedINVERLOCH Police arrested a man

yesterday (Monday) morning after being called to the medical centre in Reilly Street.

A staff member found the man on the premises and rang police, who allege he gained entry by forcing a side door.

Sergeant Glenn Parke said the man they arrested is a 41-year-old from Inverloch. He is in custody and is helping police with enquiries into two other incidents in the town overnight on Sunday.

One occurred at the Red Elk Café in A’Beckett Street, where offenders forced a rear door, damaging it and stealing a quantity of cash.

The other incident was an attempted burglary at the Inverloch Newsagency, also in A’Beckett Street, where offenders attempted to get in via a back door.

That was discovered at 6.30 yesterday morning.

Sgt Parke said there had been a number of thefts from motor vehicles in Inverloch and he appealed to the public

to ensure cars are locked, and cash and items of value are out of view.

A quantity of power tools valued at a total of $3000 was stolen from a vehicle in Bruce Street early on Sunday morning.

Small quantities of cash were taken from two unlocked vehicles in Golf Street overnight on April 19. On the same night, petrol was stolen from vehicles in Phillip Street, Pier Road, Grandview Grove and Pymble Avenue.

Fishing rods worth a total of $500 were taken from a boat at the Pymble Avenue site.

Then on Saturday night, a garage in Surf Parade was entered and items stolen from an unlocked vehicle, as well as from the garage. All up, the stolen goods were valued at about $1000.

“We’ve been experiencing a high number of burglaries and thefts from vehicles, many of them attributable to vehicles being unlocked,” Sgt Parke said.

He asked anyone with information relating to any of the above incidents,

to ring Inverloch Police. Sgt Parke said police would also like to hear from anyone who had had property stolen recently.

“We have recovered property,” the sergeant said, and owners are sought.

The Inverloch Police phone number is 5674 1202.

Criminal damageA MOBILE traffi c light chained to a

trailer being used to highlight a landslip has been damaged.

Wonthaggi CIU is investigating the incident during which an offender cut the chain and pushed the traffi c light down a hill, causing about $10,000 damage.

The offence occurred between 5pm last Monday and 6.30 the following morning on the Dalyston-Glen Forbes Road, Glen Forbes.

Tools theftWONTHAGGI police are looking

into the theft of two chain saws from an unlocked machinery shed on a rural property in Rowes Road, Ranceby.

The theft occurred between Sunday,

April 15 and Thursday, April 19.Wombat crash

FOSTER Police have reported a single vehicle accident on the South Gippsland Highway, Foster resulting from a driver swerving to miss a wombat.

The car veered off the side of the highway east of Falls Road around 9pm on Saturday and is a write off. There were two people in the vehicle at the time, and the passenger was taken to hospital with minor injuries and released soon afterwards.

The wombat wasn’t hurt.Hotel damage

FOSTER Police are investigating the smashing of windows at the front of the Pier Port Hotel, Port Welshpool.

The damage occurred over Easter, amounting to a couple of thousand dollars’ worth.

Speed zonesWITH back to school comes school

safety zones, and police once again remind motorists to obey road signs and

slow down.Senior Constable Rohan Michaels

said congestion around the school zonesin Leongatha continues to be an issue.

“When traffi c is coming out ofMcDonald Street, there is a stop sign andtraffi c needs to stop,” he said.

“Traffi c coming out of Horn Street isonly facing a give way sign, so if peopledon’t stop coming out of McDonaldStreet, it becomes backed up veryquickly.”

S/C Michaels said he has been issuinga number of tickets for speeding duringthe morning school hours.

“Be aware and stay under the 40zone,” he said.

Unlicensed driverPOLICE caught an unlicensed driver

in Leongatha yesterday (Monday).The 24-year-old Leongatha man

was pulled over in Turner Street duringa routine intercept and was found to bedriving without a licence.

He will be summonsed to court at alater date.

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THE 29th annual Great Victo-rian Bike Ride will wind its way through Gippsland this year, with an overnight stop planned for Mir-boo North.

With a possible 5000 entrants, plus support staff, the stop-over could prove to be a large economic boost for the small town.

Up to $170,000 could be spent in the town in a single day.

A preliminary planning meeting was held at the Walter Tuck Recreation Re-serve in Mirboo North last Tuesday.

Presented by Adam Renn and Darren Allen from Bicycle Network Victoria, and South Gippsland Shire Council, the meet-ing was aimed at promoting the ride to the town and to get the ball rolling with plan-ning for the event.

Danielle Todaro, council’s acting tourism co-ordinator, said the meeting was aimed at creating awareness of the ride and the opportunities it can bring to town.

“It was a starting point, a meeting aimed at informing the community about the bike ride, and how they can become involved,” Ms Todaro said.

“We will convene again several times throughout the planning process.

“Council will work with the commu-nity to go through ideas and formulate a working committee.

“It was great to see a lot of interest and enthusiasm form the town at the meeting. It is an opportunity for people to get in-volved, build relationships and to help the exposure of Mirboo North.”

Council has contributed fi nancially to the ride.

“It is a chance to showcase Mirboo North and the South Gippsland region, and encourage repeat visitation as a key outcome,” Ms Todaro said.

Statistics from the last Gippsland ride in 2007 showed 77 per cent of riders sur-veyed were likely to re-visit an area, and almost 40 per cent said they would bring three or more people with them.

The ride will start in Lakes Entrance on Saturday, November 24, and over nine

days, work its way through to Phillip Island.

The ride will stop in Mirboo North be-tween days seven and eight of the ride.

One major benefi t of Mirboo North’s position on the ride is that it will receive extra riders who start the ride on day sev-en, possibly boosting numbers by 300 to 600.

Darren Allen, events manager for Bicycle Network Victoria, shared ideas about effective activities and entertain-ment the town could provide to the visi-tors, even on a limited budget.

“If the town gives the riders something to look at, or something to do, something to buy, activities, something to hold their attention, they will start spending mon-ey,” he said.

“The one thing I would really like you to take away from this is you don’t have to spend big money to get their attention and to entertain them, to get them to spend their money.

“It can be really simple, but effective.”

On average, each person on the ride spends $35 a day when on a stopover.

With the possible headcount getting up around the 5000 mark, this could mean over $170,000 spent in the town in one day.

“We encourage the whole community to get behind the event and have regular meetings to discuss progress and ideas,” Mr Allen said.

“It will be a great opportunity for the town to showcase what it has on of-fer, what is unique about the town, why people are proud to live there and what the town stands for.”

John Zabiegala, from the Strzelecki Newsagency in Mirboo North said that although they hadn’t thought too much about what they will do when the riders come through the town, he knew they would be welcomed.

“We will put signs up and welcome them in to the town,” Mr Zabiegala said.

“When people are in town, sales do grow so we will expect a fi nancial benefi t from the visit.

“Hopefully the event drives local tour-ism and we can get some of them to come back once the ride is over.”

Bike ride to boost tourismVincenza and Doug Alexander,

from Cafe Escargot in Mirboo North, attended the meeting and were in-terested in the possibilities the ride might pose for their business.

“Our business is a tourist destina-tion,” Mrs Alexander said.

“We are hoping that a shuttle bus can bring people down and then pick them up. We have a licensed restau-

rant and guided tours that we hope will attract visitors.

“It should bring a lot of exposure to the town; it is an untapped tourist area.”

Tourism boost: South Gippsland Shire Council acting tourism co-ordinator, Danielle Todaro, president of the Mirboo North Cricket Club, Ang Cannizzo and Bicycle Network Victoria events manager, Darren Allen discuss the op-portunities and benefi ts the ride could bring.

MINOR changes will be made to ward boundaries in South Gippsland Shire Council, as a re-sult of a review by the Victorian Electoral Commission.

The localities of Boolarong, Gunyah, Mount Best, Toora North and Wonga have been shifted into Coastal-Promon-tory Ward, given these communities’ ties to the Corner Inlet community.

The VEC believed increasing the number of councillors was not war-ranted, given South Gippsland has a low

number of voters compared with other rural municipalities in Victoria.

Also, council’s moderate population growth anticipated for the next 10 years is below the median for non-metropoli-tan municipalities.

None of the submissions made throughout the review process high-lighted an issue with the current number of councillors.

Council will continue to have nine councillors from three three-councillor wards.

Council ward boundaries changed

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A PLAY reading is an ideal way for someone wanting to give theatre a go but too shy to audi-tion, or for an old hand who would like to try reading new roles with-out the pressure of audi-tions on their shoulders.

FAMDA is holding a play reading combined with a social night for anyone interested in the-atre at 7.30pm this Fri-day, April 27, at Linda and Larry Giddy’s home, 245 O’Grady’s Ridge Road, Foster North.

On the night, FAMDA will be looking at short plays that may be suit-able for the forthcoming Bendigo Bank Foster One Act Play Festival to be hosted by FAMDA on the weekend of August 11 and 12.

You don’t have to be a FAMDA member to come to the play reading and everyone interested is warmly invited to enjoy a night of do-it-yourself theatre with no rehears-als, no lines to learn and no need to read unless you choose to volunteer.

There is no charge but you are asked to bring drinks and a plate for a shared supper.

FROM May 2 to 14, Le-

ongatha Gallery is proud to welcome Embroider-ers Victoria—Leongatha Country Group which is celebrating its 25th anni-versary with a two-week exhibition of fi ne pieces.

This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to see these embroiderers’ sensa-tional stitchery.

Leongatha Gallery is opposite the Leongatha Post Offi ce and is open weekdays 10am to 5pm (closed Tuesdays) and Sat-

urday 10am to 2pm. Phone 5662 5370.

FORMER Leongatha footballer Dyson Heppell was critical to Essend-on’s victory over Carlton in the AFL on the week-end. Heppell made six marks, 12 kicks and 10 handballs, and laid fi ve tackles, and he looks set for another successful year with the Bombers.

WILDLIFE Rescuers are

hosting an Introduction to Wildlife Rescue at the Bunurong Environment Centre in Inverloch on Sunday, May 6, from 2pm to 5pm. The cost is $10 and bookings are essen-tial. Call Rachael Boler on 0418 591 571.

BIRTHDAY wishes go to Chloe Adkins of Leon-gatha who turned 12 on Friday.

THE BASS Coast Artists’

Society’s new photogra-phy group continues to grow in popularity. The camera enthusiasts meet at The Goods Shed in Wont-haggi (via Big W car-park) at 2pm on the third Satur-day of the month to discuss photos and technology.

Members receive proj-ects to photograph for the month and the group is a great way to share infor-mation. The Star editor Brad Lester spoke about news photography at last

Saturday’s gathering. To fi nd out more, contact president Hazel Zander on 5672 5300 or Ken Rowe on 5672 3626.

IF you have any items for Column 7, please email these to news@thestar.com.au or drop into TheStar offi ce at 36 McCa-rtin Street, Leongatha or phone 5662 2294. The Star also welcomeswedding reports for publication.

THE staff at Nagel’s (Amcal) Pharmacy in Leongatha have told pharmacist Brett Nagel that if they can raise $1000 for Relay for Life in the next month, he has to shave his head.

Pharmacy assistant Pam said if the team raises less than $1000, it will just be a number one.

“We weren’t able to have a team participating in the relay on the weekend, so we decided that we would do some in store fundraising. We wanted to contribute to a good cause,” Pam said.

“People can come in to the pharmacy and do-nate. All money raised will be going to the Cancer Council.

“We have four weeks to get to the target of $1000. We will be shaving Brett’s head on May 18.”

If you would like to help make sure that Brett’s head is shaved, drop in to the pharmacy to make a donation. Every contribution is welcomed.

A collection will be held around Leongatha on Friday.

Off with his hair

Ready to shave: staff from Nagel’s Pharmacy, Pam, Hannah and Lauren, are getting ready to chop off Brett Nagel’s locks next month. He will have his head shaved if more than $1000 is raised for the Cancer Council by May 18.

A NEW symphony orchestra is starting to take shape in Gippsland, following a preliminary get-together at Korumburra.

To help develop the concept further, an inaugural symphonic workshop will be held at Coal Creek Heritage Village on Tuesday evening, May 1 at 7.30pm.

“Although there are many excellent musical groups in West and South Gippsland, we don’t have a fully-fl edged symphony orchestra in this region – and we’d love to get one going,” said Ben Stein, who will conduct the orchestra.

String players from throughout Gippsland are most welcome to attend this free event, together with an invited group of woodwind, brass and percussion players. The program will include selections from Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto, and symphonies by Beethoven and Haydn.

The orchestra will be led by Dayna Roberts, who has played in many community orchestras and also speaks highly of the benefi ts they bring to people’s musical education.

“We are encouraging string players who are interested to contact us ahead of the May 1 workshop, so that we can send out music, “ Dayna said.

Dayna can be contacted on 5662 2885 or mobile 0458 060 025.

New orchestra formed

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 11

By Jane Ross

WHEN Susan Bayer came home with a banana plant, her husband Marcus chortled, “You’re never going to get bananas on that!”

Well, he was wrong.The Bayers now have about 100 ba-

nanas on a 12 foot tall plant in their Leon-gatha garden.

Susan said when she chose the plant, she did so because she thought its palm-like fronds would look attractive beside the deck at the back of their home.

She has had diffi culty fi nding out in-formation about growing banana plants, but dug hers in with plenty of compost in front of two large camellias that shield it from the wind.

Gradually, a large deep maroon pen-dulous fl ower emerged, apparently one of the largest fl owers of any plant on earth.

Marcus and Susan watched as its pet-als fell away, revealing hands of green bananas underneath.

Marcus was fascinated to see that each fruit had its own fl ower and that the ba-nanas were growing downwards rather than upwards. He thought there might be something wrong with them.

As they grew in size, the hands changed direction and now arc towards the sun, rather than the ground.

Marcus is greatly amused that the ba-nanas are bending in Bent Street!

He and Susan live in an original tim-ber farm house that they are gradually renovating.

They’re eagerly awaiting the ripening of their fruit and are keen to know whether any other South Gippslanders have grown bananas. The one in their garden is a cool climate variety known as a sugar banana.

Susan said bananas need lots of water and our wet summer has been ideal.

The plant has also produced suckers which Susan has transplanted so the host can thrive.

She and Marcus are a bit taken aback at the number of fruit on their tree and ex-pect in the weeks ahead to be living on banana fritters and banana splits.

Once the fruit is picked, Marcus will cut the plant down to allow a sucker to grow. He has just the necessary instru-ment for the task.

“I found it recently,” he declared, hold-ing a fl at, lethal looking “weapon” with a very wide blade, “I picked it up 26 years ago - it’s a banana cutter!”

Yes! We have bananas

Banana benders: Marcus and Susan Bayer with the bananas growing happily in their Leongathagarden.

By Jane Ross

BASS Coast Shire Council will have to spend $2 million to bring its IT – information tech-nology - up to scratch.

Corporate services director Danny Luna is proposing $400,000 a year for fi ve years.

He warned councillors at their April meeting the current system “won’t serve the needs of this organi-sation for much longer”.

“There are serious issues with fl ex-ibility and integration.

“We really need a stronger focus on customers and a more rigorous ap-proach on the governance of IT.”

Ongoing population growth and a 17-year-old IT system are the problem.

Mr Luna and his colleagues have developed a fi ve-year IT strategy, which councillors adopted.

Despite seconding a motion (moved by Cr Gareth Barlow) to that effect, Cr Jane Daly confessed when it comes to IT “I just go blank”.

“It’s just boring Danny,” she told Mr Luna, adding, to his mortifi cation, “but you’re beautifully dressed!”

Cr Daly said she’d rather spend the money on youth services, but recog-nised “you need to have things that work”.

The IT strategy includes 25

initiatives. Mr Luna said most of the cost

would be in the replacement of core operating systems, the improvement of infrastructure, replacement of bill-ing and rostering for home care and implementation of an asset manage-ment system.

He also said the two latter items may not need replacing, so the overall cost will be less.

Cr Barlow congratulated Mr Luna on the report.

He said the fi rst laptop he received on becoming a councillor six years ago was “as useful as a wheel chock or house brick”.

“The point is, we can’t deliver services to the community without a proper IT system. It isn’t a luxury item. We need decent information technology to deliver services.

“This is not about an ivory palace or people’s fondness for gadgets.”

Cr Peter Paul said with 37,000 ratepayers, “it’s fundamental we have an IT system that works”.

“This just has to be done – you hope over time ratepayers will appre-ciate a better response.”

Cr John Duscher agreed, saying council didn’t have a choice.

“We need to keep up with the pro-vision of the high level of services ex-pected from us.”

Bass Coast’s $2m IT bill

By Jane Ross

REX Thorn has farmed all his life on land in South Gippsland’s Blackwood Forest.

He is, in fact, the third generation of his family to do so and he’s raised sheep and cattle on the farm on the Loch-Wonthaggi Road.

Mr Thorn is also a former Bass Shire councillor and he’s most un-happy with that council’s successor Bass Coast Shire.

So much so, he couldn’t bear to attend the April meeting where a let-ter he had written was presented dur-ing public question time by his wife Carol.

Mrs Thorn was furious herself.Their problem is twofold and it’s

a line ball decision as to which angers them the most. The weeds are the main issue, but council intractability isn’t far behind.

The Thorns have been battling weeds on their property for a long time. Mr Thorn told The Star the neighbour’s paddocks look fi ne, but blackberries and ragwort grow along Wests Creek which runs through neighbouring land and into the Thorn’s farm.

Noxious weed seeds come along for the ride and Mr Thorn spends time and money dealing with the result.

He said he has long dealt with the Department of Sustainability and Environment in relation to the weeds issue and was surprised to receive a letter from Bass Coast Shire at the end of January last year, telling him to comply with a notice to clean up weeds on his property.

His response advised the council, “This letter should have gone to a property some 2kms up the road.”

Mr Thorn was then sent an apol-ogy and a meeting was arranged with Cr Veronica Dowman and a represen-tative of Landcare.

Out of that meeting came an agreement that Mr Thorn would ring the Landcare representative some time in November last year to have him look at the properties whose owners Mr Thorn felt, were reluctant to control weeds.

That’s when the merry-go-round started. Mr Thorn left calls on an-swering machines, rang mobile num-bers, spoke to someone at the shire offi ces early in January this year, ap-pointments were made and not kept and Mr Thorn fi nally lost patience.

In his own letter of complaint read out at the recent open council meet-ing, Mr Thorn said he could only as-sume “that the shire has no interest in helping to control weeds on private properties”.

He wonders if the matter has been placed “in the too hard in tray”.

Mr Thorn told The Star yesterday that two council offi cers would visit him in the morning and he is hoping for action.

Oh, the frustration of weeds

SOUTH Gippsland Shire Council wants more information about gambling in the shire before becoming partners in a gambling awareness campaign.

South Gippsland Shire Council social planning offi cer Vicki Bradley pre-sented to council an invita-tion from Bass Coast Shire Council to partner them at a Gambling Awareness Week

event. Bass Coast wanted the two councils to work to-gether to develop health and social impact assessments for the region.

South Gippsland coun-cil was wary of joining the campaign without fi rst knowing more about the problem.

Mayor Cr Warren Raabe said: “Our biggest problem is not knowing how big a problem it is.”

Cr Jennie Deane agreed.

“The need for data is im-portant with the assessment of the problem,” she said.

“We need to know how many people are doing it and where they’re doing it. Are they gambling within the shire or travelling to establishments outside our shire?”

Cr David Lewis was unsure if it was some-thing that council should concern themselves with and suggested this was

the role of another level of government.

Cr Lewis also ques-tioned the effectiveness of such an initiative.

“How do we know if it’s working?” he said.

“How will it be differ-ent from every other state and nationwide campaign to battle gambling?”

There are no fi nancial implications for the council to be involved with the gam-bling awareness project.

Council demands gambling stats

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Letters guidelinesALL letters should be kept to 400 words or less.The Star reserves the right to edit all letters for length and style. Writer’s details, including full name, address and phone number (not for publication), must be included.

VOXVOXPOP!

E D I T O R I A L

I NOTE with grave concern, the Vicroads proposal for a new slow lane to be con-structed along the Strzelecki Highway - West of Mirboo North between Stubbers Lane and Cropley Road. Certainly a new overtaking lane is es-sential and well overdue, par-ticularly given the high usage by heavy vehicles along this route and the limited opportu-nities for safe passing on this road between Leongatha and Mirboo North.

What dismays me is the proposal to remove several gum trees, including.....”six scattered indigenous trees comprising two very large old trees, three large old trees and one medium old tree”.....I have measured one of these trees, which appears very healthy, and has a circumference of 7.6 metres, which I am advised by an arborist makes this an exceptionally mature tree of possibly 150 - 200 years old. Surely this tree is signifi cant enough to be retained, and the road engineering works devi-ated slightly to avoid destruc-tion of this “giant” from our past historical native vegeta-tion landscape.

If anyone else wants to save these trees please advise / contact the Vi-cRoads regional offi ce in Traralgon and express your concerns.

Fred Boreham,Narracan.

(daily Strzelecki High-way commuter).

addicts, so that they can en-joy fully being part of society rather than seeking to escape life through drugs. Rehabili-tation can help addicts free themselves from drug depen-dence, and reduce the demand for drugs.

However, I cannot agree with his stance on legalisation. We have ample experience to show that once something harmful is made legal, its use mushrooms. Whether it is poker machines, prostitution or pornography, once a social evil is declared to be legal, many more people are sucked into it who would otherwise avoid it.

Often, the illegal activities keep going anyway (such as il-legal brothels). If drugs were legalised, many more people would try drugs and become addicted to them. Legalisation would simply fl ood our society with the harmful drugs identi-fi ed by Father Riley, and create new legions of drug addicts.

The only sensible course is to press ahead with the war on drugs. As better enforcement ends in more drug traffi ckers and importers ending up in jail and greater drug seizures, the supply of drugs will dry up.

Coupled with increased re-habilitation to help drug users reduce demand, we can look forward to fewer people’s lives being ruined by drugs.

Suryan Chandrasegaran,Nerrena.

LAST week my daughter had an accident on the very notori-ous Loves Lane.

It was a wet Easter Monday and she was travelling down Loves Lane to collect some chil-dren from a scout camp when she lost control of the car and ended about 50 metres down the bank, having hit one tree and fi nally stopping between two other trees (see photo).

Miraculously she was able to get out of the car and crawl up a steep bank through long wet grass to the road above. She tried to wave down some help but three cars drove on by, ignoring a distressed young mother, who was injured, and wet by the side of the road.

Then along came a local truck driver/angel, named Pat Burns (I hope the spelling is right).

Pat stopped and offered assistance then called an am-bulance and her husband. He stayed with her until the ambu-lance and police arrived. Thank you so much Pat.

To add insult to injury the police who attended decided they would have to charge her. Apparently that is what hap-pens if the police are called to an accident. It seems there is no such thing as a pure acci-dent. It can’t possibly be put down to wet roads or dangerous conditions; it must be either the car or the driver.

What appalled me though, more than that was the peo-ple who failed to stop. Thus my question “What is wrong

I WAS surprised at your report (The Star, April 17) of the Bass Coast Shire Council meeting with Groundswell Bass Coast; not just Groundswell’s claims “that fi res have been attributable to climate change” and “possible expand-ing seas threatening 23 per cent of the world’s population”, but the council’s concessions to the group.

Council’s “noble” conces-sions include waiving town hall hire fees, considering employ-ing a climate change offi cer and sponsoring a Groundswell mem-ber to attend a Sea Change Task Force meeting while ignoring the bulk of ratepayers who are either uninterested in, uncon-vinced or downright opposed to Groundswell’s position on cli-mate change. Our Federal Gov-ernment already wastes enough money on green schemes, local government does not need to get involved too!

Steve Finlay,Leongatha.

Save the trees! Where’s help when needed?

Frightening experience: the accident scene on Love’sLane.

Ban drugsI AGREE with Father Chris Riley’s letter (The Star, April 11 2012) insofar as he points out the great harm caused by drug use, particularly for youth (where it can be life-chang-ing).

In my work in the local area over the past 13 years, I some-times do come across people who suffer the effects of drug abuse.

I agree with Father Riley that it is wrong to call marijua-na a “soft drug”. Some people who have used it over a long period of time do suffer from severe schizophrenia and men-tal health problems.

I also agree with Father Riley that more needs to be done to help rehabilitate drug

Money wasting

with us?” Are people afraid to get in-

volved or is it they don’t wantto risk getting wet or perhapsthey are just in too much of ahurry?

This is not the fi rst time Ihave seen this and it is appall-ing every time. In Melbournerecently, an old man came offhis scooter on the footpath as Iwas driving along a busy road.I watched him in my mirror andas nobody stopped I continuedto the fi rst space in the dividedroad where I could turn, andwent back to assist.

Several minutes would haveelapsed while this poor manwas lying on the footpath withnobody taking the time to help.

Another incident was my84-year-old step father whofell in the middle of the streetwhen returning some dishes toa kindly neighbour.

Several cars went rightaround him, refusing to stopand make sure he was okay.Another neighbour happenedto see him from her windowand called an ambulance. Hewas very traumatised and badlygrazed on his face and hands.

What is wrong with a soci-ety that can behave in such away?

Perhaps we need to getover all our fears and pride andwhatever else it is and stop for amoment and think beyond our-selves. This is the country, notthe city. I thought we were bet-ter than that.

I am most thankful to Patfor taking the time to stop andespecially thankful to God thatmy daughter was not badlyinjured.

Judy Edwards,Fish Creek.

Please save: Fred Boreham wants trees to be preserved.

Budget on markSOUTH Gippsland Shire Council’s fi nance manager Tom Lovass would be smiling.

And so should ratepayers, after council last week revealed a draft budget indicating council will owe just $135,000 by the end of the 2012-13 fi nancial year.

Back in 2003-04, council owed $13.5 million and paying back the debt restricted spending on infrastructure - the ‘on the ground works’ where ratepayers can see a result for their money.

With a lower debt, council will save $188,000 in interest and is therefore in a better position to spend on the projects and services that matter. The draft budget includes a capital works program valued at $14.61 million, just below the $14.99 million spent in 2011-12.

While council does not plan to borrow any new funds this fi nancial year, no doubt further loans will be sought in the future to enable council to advance its capital works program even further.

The general rate rise of fi ve per cent is to be expected and while many other councils are yet to declare their hand, this fi gure should be comparable.

South Gippsland’s rate rises are expected to remain similar over the next 14 years, with peaks of around 5.25 per cent between 2015-16 and 2017-18 (inclusive).

Next fi nancial year, rate revenue will nearly offset the impact of nearly $2.3 million less grants expected.

Pleasingly, $5.63 million will be spent on roads that continue to be peppered with potholes.

Older people will no doubt be concerned by the rate rise, especially given that 13 per cent of ratepayers are eligible for a pensioner rebate, according to the draft budget.

Council therefore must fast-track its ageing strategy and give senior residents extra value for their money.

The solid fi nancial position will help council – to some extent – cope with the added cost of the carbon tax, expected to be anywhere from 0.7 to 3 per cent of rates, according to the Municipal Association of Victoria. For South Gippsland, that would equate to $221,200 to $948,000.

While the budget will please some and dissatisfy others, overall council has a substantial budget to fulfi l.

I AM writing to clarify the situa-tion relating to dogs on beaches, which has been the subject of much debate in recent times.

There is currently a requirement that dogs must be on a lead on all council managed beaches except for Graydens Road in Ventnor.

There are also time restrictions during the busier months which limit the times when dogs are able to be on beaches at all.

We understand that there is a demand from dog owners to have greater access to beaches including increased off leash areas.

Council will be working with Phillip Island Nature Parks and other relevant organisations to increase access to beaches for dog owners.

This will however need to be done in such a way that the environment is protected, and that the amenity of other beach

Dog matter goers is considered.There are clearly passionate

views on both sides of this debateand council will work with localcommunities to try to fi nd anoutcome that satisfi es everyone.

This process is part of thereview of our Domestic AnimalManagement Plan (DAMP). Adraft of the new plan will go tothe May council meeting. TheDAMP will go on exhibition andthe community will be able toprovide feedback.

In the meantime, we willcontinue to promote responsiblepet ownership. Please come andenjoy a great day for pet loversat the Pet Expo at San Remo onMay 5.

In closing, I would alsoremind dog owners there arecurrently two other designatedoff leash areas in the shire, atBlue Gum Reserve in DunsmoreRoad, Cowes and StricklandStreet Reserve, Wonthaggi.

Philippa O’Halloran,community safety manager,

Bass Coast Shire Council.

It’s a day to remember our diggers and our past, and sa-lute them and say thank you.

Heather Poletti, Fish Creek (with grand-

daughter Isla Burge from Leongatha)

What does Anzac Day mean to you?

It’s when we remember the soldiers who fought and died in the war.

Kasey Thorson, Dumbalk

It’s a day to remember the sol-diers we have lost to war, and to honour those who still fi ght for our country today.

Jordy Ralph, Leongatha

Anzac Day is a day to refl ect on the wonderful sacrifi ces sol-diers made in all wars.

Malcolm McKenzie, Kongwak

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 13

WORKS have been continuing on the South Gippsland Highway as part of VicRoads’ $7.13 million upgrade.

The Silkstone Straight just out of Ko-rumburra has been the focus for the latest works.

VicRoads regional director Patricia Liew said the works will improve the safety of the road.

“The part of the project currently un-der construction includes road widening, road shoulder sealing and safety barrier installation,” she said.

Drivers are encouraged to take note of the changes in speed limits along this stretch of road and make additions to

predicted travel time because delays may occur.

“Works along Silkstone Straight are expected to be completed in coming months, weather permitting,” Ms Liew said.

The project, which began early last year, includes the widening of the South Gippsland Highway’s shoulders, installa-tion of wire rope barriers and removal of hazardous roadside objects such as trees and shrubbery.

The works on the Silkstone Straight are the last major component of the $7.13 million upgrade, however there may be some more minor works occurring in coming months.

Roadworks enter fi nal stage

Safe driving: drivers are warned to expect delays on the South Gippsland Highway’s Silkstone Straightas works continue.

RESIDENTS are more than happy with upgrades made to the intersection of Gw-ythers Siding/Beilby’s Road and South Gippsland High-way at Leongatha South.

The intersection has now “im-proved it by 100 per cent” ac-cording to Beilby’s Road resident Bruce Douglas.

“We’ve got a nice little pass-ing lane and we can pull off and come around the corner without any worries now,” he said.

Beilby’s Road is a school bus route and home to a trucking com-pany so the upgrade was welcomed

by all local road users.Russel Hind owns the trucking

company and has lived on Beilby’s Road his whole life. He is over-joyed with the upgrades.

“It’s a big improvement on what it was,” he said.

“I’ve got trucks pulling out on the highway there and they can ac-tually see now.”

VicRoads acting regional di-rector Sebastian Motta said the up-grade was part of a wider scheme.

“The recent road safety im-provements at the Gwythers Sid-ing/Beilby’s Road intersection are part of the wider $7.13 mil-lion road safety upgrade along the South Gippsland Highway from

Bena to Meeniyan,” he said. “The works at this intersection

aim to improve sight distance and allow drivers to make safer turning movements into and out of side roads.

“The entire intersection has been widened by trimming back the roadside embankments and extending the road shoulders. This allows drivers turning from the side roads to see vehicles travel-ling along the highway much more easily and vice versa. Sealed and widened shoulders will allow vehi-cles to turn from the highway into both Gwythers Siding Road and Beilby’s Road more safely.”

Intersection gets thumbs up

By Jane Ross

CONSTRUCTION is expected to begin on the Bald Hills Wind Farm early in the sec-ond half of this year.

Bald Hills Wind Farm Development Pty Ltd general manager Matthew Croome said this.

“We are working fe-verishly and we are much closer than at any stage in the past four years.”

The 52-turbine wind farm will be built as the one project, which should take two years.

Uncertainties in the electricity industry and de-pressions in the renewable energy certifi cate off-take market have resulted in unexpected delays. But re-

cent positive movement in those off-take markets has meant construction can now go ahead.

He admitted there had been a protracted develop-ment period, adding the wind farm had undergone an active planning period of four years.

“But we are well ad-vanced in negotiations with the main contractor and in planning for the project.”

Mr Croome said com-mercial in confi dence ar-rangements meant he could not reveal the name of the main contractor. While that contractor will be em-ploying the workforce, Mr Croome said he was sure there would be work for local sub contractors.

“We’ve had quite a

large expression of inter-est from local companies and individuals. Local as in Victoria and South Gippsland. There is a mix of companies with differ-ent capabilities.”

The wind farm has been controversial since its inception and created fur-ther furore early in 2010, when it became appar-ent the State Government had allowed the height of the wind farm’s turbines to increase from 110m to 135m, 35m taller than the turbines at Toora.

Tim Le Roy of the Tar-win Valley Coastal Guard-ians said the group is “keeping a watching brief” on wind farm parent com-pany Mitsui and Co (Aus-tralia) Ltd over its power line route dealings.

Wind farm will start soon

PAGE 14 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012

MOTORCYCLISTS continue to feature in motor accidents.

Despite accounting for only 3.8 per cent of all registered vehicles, injuries to motorcyclists account for 20 per cent of the Transport Accident Com-mission’s (TAC) no-fault costs, latest TAC statistics show.

Riders make up the second high-est proportion of TAC no-fault costs compared to other road users, with drivers making up about 40 per cent and pedestrians accounting for about 15 per cent.

The statistics were released follow-ing the death of a rider in Horsham last week, taking this year’s tally of riders killed to 17, one more than the five-year average and equal to the same time last year.

Fortunately in South Gippsland and Bass Coast shires, no motorcy-clists were killed in 2011 and so far this year.

But the high representation of mo-torcyclists in road accidents worried Brian Rintoule, president of the South Gippsland branch of Ulysses motorcy-cling club.

“We are much more vulnerable on a motorbike and we are not as visible as we could be,” he said.

“Fortunately with all motorbikes these days, their headlight automati-cally comes on but a lot of it is just inattentiveness from drivers.”

Ulysses riders focus on safety dur-ing their rides, ensuring members fol-low road rules.

“We try not to ride bunched up in a group so that if anyone wants to pass us, they can,” Mr Rintoule said.

“In any group ride, we will have a tailing rider who makes sure everyone gets to their destination on time.”

While no members have had acci-dents, Mr Rintoule said potholes on local roads pose a risk.

“We have had a fair few close calls. The beauty of riding in a group is that the guy riding in front will spot a pot-hole and take evasive action. But there is a risk of tourists being unfamiliar with the roads and coming to grief,” he said.

In 2010-11, the TAC accepted 947 acute hospitalised claims from motor-

cyclists, up from the five-year average of 942. Acute hospitalisation refers to hospitalisation within seven days of a collision.

Riders account for 17 per cent of all acute hospitalised claims in 2010-11 and represented 17 per cent of fa-talities in 2011.

TAC chief executive officer Ja-net Dore said the findings were concerning.

“Our claims data shows that mo-torcyclists are more likely to have a longer hospital stay as a result of in-juries caused by a transport accident compared to other road groups,” she said.

“Because of the more serious na-ture of the injuries, the overall no-fault cost to the TAC is in the order of four to six times higher (per registered motorcycles >125cc) than for passen-ger vehicles.”

The data release comes after Vic-toria Police detected 118 disqualified and unregistered riders during the Easter long weekend.

The police operation also detected 240 rider speeding offences and 29 riders not wearing a helmet.

“With so many injured riders need-ing support from the TAC, it is frus-trating to see others deliberately put-ting themselves at risk by speeding or not wearing a helmet,” Ms Dore said.

“We hope these statistics remind riders how important it is to take safe-ty into their own hands and stay safe on the road.”

TAC research into rider attitudes has revealed that 15 per cent of mo-torcycle riders admit they speed all or most of the time.

“The research also showed that 24 per cent of motorcyclists will speed if they’re sure they won’t get caught, with 10 per cent having been caught speeding in the last two years,” Ms Dore said.

The TAC is working to reduce rider deaths and injuries with a new campaign to be launched in coming weeks.

Riders feature in road trauma

So quick: motorbike accidents can result in devastating injuries that take a long time to heal.

A regional partnership with the TAC and the Victorian Government.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 15

EVER dreamed of a white Christmas? Or strolling through Paris in the spring sunshine?

The sights of Europe are stunning no matter the season, and there is no bet-ter way to experience them than with Trafalgar.

With their autumn, winter and spring program offering a wide selection of fantastic European getaways, now is the time to drop in and see Jill Carmody and the team at Jetset in Leongatha to book your dream holiday.

Jill highly recommends travelling with Trafalgar, having recently returned from one of their spring holidays.

“It is a travel company we use widely; they are a very professional or-ganisation and they offer fantastic trips, rather than tours,” she said, adding your holiday can be designed to suit your own interests.

Trafalgar have incorporated more balance into their itineraries, so they give a very good overview of a destina-tion and allow free time to pursue your own interests.

Europe is rich in art and history, and for those with a love for one or both, the opportunities to visit art museums and Catholic basilica cathedrals with mag-nifi cent sculptures, paintings and lead light windows are endless.

If food and wine are more your call-ing, it is all too easy to fi t fi ne dining and plenty of local cuisine experiences into your schedule.

So when choosing your holiday, whether your passion is shopping, visit-ing museums or simply sitting in cafes and watching the world go by, Trafalgar

has a program to suit you.With a fi rst class program and plenty

of cost savings, you can choose to expe-rience one country in detail, or take part in a discovery tour and cross borders into a number of different cultures.

Why not treat yourself to a European getaway during the festive season?

Jill said many of their clients don’t have family to spend Christmas with and fi nd it a great time to travel, with Trafalgar offering Christmas tours be-ginning late autumn.

“These tours incorporate some en-chanting European cities, with Christ-mas markets and opportunities to see and experience traditions of Europe, with all their decorations, customs, and food and wine,” Jill said.

“Many of our own traditions are ad-opted from the colder climates despite celebrating during a hot summer, and it’s fantastic to see them fi rsthand.”

Having travelled with Trafalgar on a number of occasions, Jill said she found their tour directors to certainly live up to their reputation of the best in the industry.

With travel directors located through-out all of Europe, Trafalgar pride them-selves on giving you a true insider’s perspective of each destination and create a holiday experience you simply could not have on your own.

If the cold is the only thing putting you off travelling outside the summer months, Jill said there is no such thing as inappropriate weather, just inappro-priate clothing.

“Lots of people want fi ne weather when they travel, but of course that is never guaranteed,” she said.

Experience Europe all year roundExperience Europe all year round“Both the accommodation and

transport is always hospitable, warm and cosy.”

Seeing the breathtaking sights of the Czech Republic with snow

on the ground or ice skating in Lon-don on Christmas Eve make travel-ling in the colder months worth all the scarves and gloves.

So pull out your winter woollies

and forget waiting for the summer – drop into Jetset in Leongatha or give them a call on 5662 3601and book that European holiday you’ve always dreamed of.

An itinerary to suit everyone: for those with an interest in history, the Ro-man Baths are just one of the many European icons you can visit during your Trafalgar holiday.

See the sights of Europe: Jill Carmody from Jetset in Leongatha witnessed the marvel of Stonehenge whilst travelling with Trafalgar in March this year.

PAGE 16 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012

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The Department of Sustainability and Environment and Parks Victoria are conducting planned burns as part of an integrated plan to reduce the bushfire risk to people, property and communities.

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BASS Coast Shire Council statutory planning staff have been recognised with an award for halving the times of some of their processes.

Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) president Cr Bill McArthur presented them with a framed commendation at a planning improvement forum earlier this month.

The team was congratulated by Bass Coast mayor Cr Veronica Dowman during last Wednesday evening’s monthly council meeting.

“Now we can speed up the process and meet the community’s needs,” she said.

Award for planners

Well done: Bass Coast’s statutory planning team from left, Francis Wong, John Ciavarella, Wen Wang, Nick Carey, Danielle Butler, Gilly William-son and Helen Bowes are congratulated on their MAV commendation by mayor Cr Veronica Dowman.

By Sarah Vella

NUMBERS were down for the annual Raw Vibes Music Festi-val held at Leongatha Memorial Hall on Saturday, but the spirits of the organisers remained high.

Sophie Dixon, from South Gippsland Shire Council, had nothing but praise for the youth council members who or-ganised the event.

“The kids who ran it did an amazing job; the hall looked great, the sound was fantastic, and the bands were great too,” Ms Dixon said.

“They are a group of young people, dedicated to doing things for other young people and even when things don’t work out, they are cheerful about it.”

Unfortunately, due to the low num-bers, Raw Vibes will now be put on hold for a while, while the youth coun-

cil pursues other avenues.“It’s just not what the young people

of South Gippsland are after at the mo-ment. That’s okay; the youth council will concentrate on other things, maybe some smaller opportunities,” Ms Dixon said.

“On the upside, the organisers

gained excellent event management skills, promotional skills and people skills, which will be invaluable to them in the future.”

Acts that featured at the festival included Hyfrydol, 8 Bit Love, Them Swoops, Exoscipt, Salubrious and M-Phazes.

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Small crowd feels Raw Vibes

Couch dwellers: Michael Dixon and Darcy O’Connor chill out at the Raw Vibes Festival, lis-tening to 8 Bit Love on Saturday.

Comfy viewing: Louis Wheeler and Tom Lindsay relax on the bean bags during the Raw Vibes Festival at the weekend.

Big sound: 8 Bit Love carved up the stage at the Raw Vibes Festival on Saturday.

Side of stage: Evelyn Lay and Shaelee Richmond were checking out the bands during Saturday’s mu-sic festival.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 17

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Everyone should have awill… do you? ACT NOW!

TWO Inverloch per-sonal trainers recently returned from a busi-ness trip with a dif-ference to the United States of America.

I Choose Awesome’s Kallum Fidoe and Ben-jamin Selby-Hele ran a lifestyle and leadership workshop for a group of managers from one of the world’s largest internet companies, eBay.

At the end of February, Hugh Williams, vice presi-dent of search, experience, and platforms at eBay, contacted I Choose Awe-some, inviting the team to run a lifestyle and lead-ership workshop for his leadership team, at their off-site quarterly meeting in San Francisco.

Mr Williams had pre-viously experienced the profound benefi ts of I Choose Awesome’s on-line 12 Week Challenge and wanted to share these benefi ts with his team. As I Choose Awesome of-fer a range of corporate health programs, they jumped at the opportunity. The trip was a whirlwind

visit, as Kallum and Ben-jamin were only in the USA for three nights.

“The response and feedback received from the group was phenom-enal,” Benjamin said.

“We were confronted with individuals who very seldom exercise and who really weren’t aware of what healthy nutrition consisted of.

“They were a real credit to themselves as they took on board all the informa-tion we presented and ap-plied it accordingly.”

The I Choose Awe-some team ran two half day instalments, speaking about mindset, nutrition and exercise in relation to lifestyle and leadership.

All the participants took part in various tasks and activities that they found extremely engaging.

Hugh Williams was thrilled with his team’s response.

“The I Choose Awe-some team were awesome in every sense of the word. The response from my leadership team was over-whelmingly positive,” Mr Williams said.

“Some of my team members expressed that this was the best personal development program they had ever taken part in and they have been in the industry for 15-20 years.”

eBay’s use of I Choose Awesome’s corporate health programs has sparked additional inter-est from other companies within the Silicon Valley region, where the likes of Google, Microsoft and Fa-cebook are all based.

With such unprecedent-ed international interest in I Choose Awesome’s cor-porate offerings, directors Nikki Croft, Benjamin and Kallum are fi nding them-selves extremely busy.

While managing their training studio in Inver-loch, they are now putting together various corporate health packages for clients abroad and locally.

“It’s a great position to be in. We love being busy and really look forward to the next few months. They will be awesome.” the team said.

eBay chooses awesome

Awesome inspiration: Kallum Fidoe (left) with Benjamin Selby-Hele went to America recently to run a lifestyle and leadership workshop for a group of managers from one of the world’s biggest internet com-panies. They are with Hugh Williams, eBay’s vice president of search, experience and platforms.

GARETH Barlow, who chairs the West Gippsland Regional Library Corporation, is a history buff who loves to read.

His favourite books are novels set in the Napole-onic era, but he’s just as thrilled with the corpora-tion’s new e-audiobook download service.

“I read a lot but no-where near as much as I’d like to,” he said.

Authors Bernard Corn-well and Alexander Kent are top of his list.

Called OneClickdigital, new e-audiobook service from Wavesound Pty Ltd is offered in the corpora-tion’s libraries – and from home and it’s available 24 hours a day. Because

of unlimited availability, borrowers can download the latest bestsellers at the same time and waiting lists are a thing of the past.

Borrowers can down-load bestsellers such as Stieg Larsson, David Nicholls and Dan Brown among many others, to play on their MP3, iPad, iPod or computer from home or anywhere in the

New way to enjoy reading

Testing: West Gippsland Regional Library Corporation chairman Gareth Bar-low tests new e-audiobooks using library wi-fi .

world. All that is required is a PC with broadband internet access and your li-brary membership details.

There are more than 600 titles in the OneClick-digital collection. The download process is sim-ple and friendly for listen-ers of all ages.

More information about the range of OneClick-digital titles is available at www.wgrlc.vic.gov.au or your nearest library.

PAGE 18 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012

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A TEAM of marine biologists from Museum Victoria have just completed a snapshot sur-vey for Parks Victoria of the marine life of Bunurong Ma-rine National Park near Cape Paterson.

Over fi ve days, 18 scientists surveyed both the intertidal rock platforms and adjacent seas of the Bunurong Marine National Park.

A focus of this snapshot survey was to photograph the marine plants and animals within the area as part of the development of a mobile device app on the life of the Bunurong Ma-rine National Park.

Funding for the snapshot survey and marine life app has been pro-vided by Parks Victoria in order to develop a greater understanding of what life exists along and within the Bunurong coastline.

Parks Victoria chief ranger for West Gippsland and project initiator Roger Fenwick said: “The learnings add to our research programs for our special marine protected areas and the app will be a great way for visitors to the park to identify the creatures they are seeing and hearing about in a contemporary way. We work closely with our DPI colleagues to protect these special places.”

The snapshot survey uncovered some interesting highlights of the Bunurong Marine National Park in-cluding an abundance of fi sh, large crayfi sh, healthy abalone popula-tions and a dazzling array of colour-ful invertebrate animals and plants.

Dr Julian Finn, senior curator of marine invertebrates at Museum Victoria who participated in the div-ing sessions said: “The weather gods were kind to us and put on perfect weather, which enabled the team to

photograph over 200 species of fi sh, invertebrates, seaweeds and birds, so it was a fantastic outcome for this project.”

Dr Jacqui Pocklington, a marine ecologist working with Museum Victoria on the project, said the highlight for her was the bountiful seaweed within the area.

“The sheer range of seaweeds off this coastline is amazing; it’s like a botanical garden under the sea,” she said.

“These plants in turn form criti-cal food and homes for a huge range of animals.”

The Bunurong Marine National Park app will be available for down-load from October 2012

For information, please contact Parks Victoria Information Centre on 13 19 63 or visit www.parks.vic.gov.au

Deep look into coastal life

Beautiful: a focus of this snapshot survey was to photograph the marine plants and animals within the area.

SOUTH Gippsland Shire Council is urgently seeking more volunteers for the delivery of its community service programs.

“Last year our army of around 600 volunteers contributed a staggering 10,300 hours of community transport and delivered almost 18,000 meals to people within their homes,” Louise Brydon, council’s man-ager of aged and disability services said.

“But inevitably our volunteer resources ebb and fl ow as people go on holidays and have changes in their lifestyles, so right now we are urgently seeking some more volunteers to help us carry out these vital services for our clients.”

Council provides community transport for clients to attend medical appointments within the local area and Melbourne from Monday to Friday.

A council car and petrol is provided for the volun-teer, and there are currently four cars and three buses allocated to the program throughout the shire.

“Naturally we must ascertain the driving skills and suitability of our volunteers. A Community Transport volunteer driver would need to have a current full Vic-torian Driver’s Licence with no restrictions, at least fi ve years driving experience and be willing to under-take a driving assessment,” Ms Brydon said.

“Your sensitivity would also come to the fore, re-specting the confi dences and privacy of passengers, as-

sisting them in and out of the car and helping with their seatbelts etc. We are very fl exible to accommodate your availability and preferences – for example, if you weren’t comfortable driving in the city, there would be no pressure to do so – you would be allotted regional or local trips.”

Volunteers are also required for the Meals on Wheels service which delivers meals Monday to Fri-day from 11.30am in Toora, Foster, Leongatha, Koru-mburra and Mirboo North.

The daily commitment is usually about an hour and you would be expected to collect the meals from ei-ther the hospital or nursing home (depending on the township), deliver them to our clients, and return the containers back to the meal provider.

“You might choose to do one day a week, a full week once a month or specifi c time blocks that suit your lifestyle. We fi nd that a lot of people volunteer with a friend, a ‘buddy’ who can assist and provide some friendly company along the way. It’s a great way to catch up with friends and get a ‘feel good’ feeling at the same time!”

If you are interested in volunteering your time, please contact Bernadette Hulls or Virginia Hall on 5662 9200 or email communityprograms@south-gippsland.vic.gov.au. For further information go to www.southgippsland.vic.gov.au.

Have time to volunteer?

Working hard: the team of 18 scientists in action at the Bunurong MarineNational Park.

I’M pleased to have been part of a meeting last week where it was announced that Aged Care Nurse Practitioner Clinics will be estab-lished at Corinella and Grantville.

These clinics will service the Water-line communities and provide a registered nurse who is trained and able to func-tion on their own, and collaboratively, in a comprehensive clinical role. This is a much needed addition to medical services for this region and gives more support to the aged in our community.

Through their training and expertise, nurse practitioners will be able to assist people with many clinical health services such as advanced physical assessments, diagnosis and treatment of minor illnesses and injuries.

The nurses are also able to order di-agnostic tests and interpret the results of these tests. They are trained to initiate referrals to relevant healthcare providers and to prescribe appropriate medications and other therapies, including preventative health interventions as needed.

The aim of these clinics is to improve access to health care for people in the Wa-terline communities who may have dif-fi culty in accessing medical centres and services. The focus is on assisting older

people; however the nurse practitioner is able to see patients of any age.

Bass Coast Community Health Service (BCCHS) received funding to develop this new service from the Department of Health and Ageing.

I’m very pleased to know that the clinics are likely to be established by June. There will be a community forum in Grantville about the nurse practitioner clinics held on Thursday, May 10 at 1.30pm-3pm in the Grantville Transaction Centre. For further information please contact BCCHS San Remo reception on 5671 9200.

I also want to remind everyone to come along to the Bass Coast Pet Expo on Sat-urday, May 5 at the San Remo Foreshore starting at 10am.

The expo is a lot of fun and promotes responsible pet ownership and the benefi ts of living with animals.

There will be discounted microchip-ping, market stalls, dog demonstrations, and the highly entertaining pet parade.

If you would like to hold a stall at the expo there is still time to register, by con-tacting Jantje Jackson, council’s ranger-animal management offi cer, on 1300 BCOAST (226 278).

Cr Veronica Dowman, mayor.

Mayor’s messageCr Veronica Dowman

MIKAYLA Grace Jef-fries was born on April 12 at Leongatha Memo-rial Hospital. She’s an-other daughter for Dave and Belinda of Kong-wak and a little sister for Tahlia, 3.

Breaking down autism barriersI N T E R C H A N G E Central Gippsland is raising awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

The group is seeking volunteer host matches for its host program while raising awareness of the disorder.

Interchange Central Gippsland operates across South Gippsland, Bass Coast, Latrobe City and Baw Baw shires, providing support and assistance to children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder as well as intellectual, physical or

sensory disabilities. Interchange general

manager Debbie Knight said: “Children diagnosed with autism have interests and needs in common with all other children and can be engaging and social, however they are unfortunately often forced to live with common misrepresentations and media stereotypes.”

Interchange Central Gippsland’s Host Program provides regular planned respite where a volunteer host cares for or ‘hosts’ a child with a disability on a monthly basis on a

weekend for one or two days (depending on the arrangement).

It works by matching the needs and interests of the volunteer with that of a family and their child who is registered with the organisation. Most people over the age of 18 can apply to become a host volunteer.

If you would like to learn more about becoming a host volunteer with Interchange Central Gippsland, please contact Heidi Kennedy, host program worker at Interchange Central Gippsland on 5127 7979 during business hours.

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MORE than 280 people supported the Waratah Red Cross’ annual Red Cross Calling project recently.

A barbecue, picnic lunch and walk was held at Rob and Joan Liley’s property Mt Lavinia.

Bushwalks to the beach and onto the farm offered spectacular scenic views.

Sumptuous food and a lovely sunny day com-bined to make a success-ful fundraiser, with more than $5505 raised for Red Cross.

Red Cross thanks prize donors and musi-cian George Gabriel from Venus Bay, who accompa-nied the lunch with back-ground music.

Thanks were also given to the Lileys for offering their property and fi nally to all those members who gave untiring support.

Hundreds back Red Cross

Top right: Days out: Barry and Glenys Day of Inverloch with ven-ue hostess Joan Liley (middle) at the Red Cross barbecue.

A SERIES of local gatherings will be held during National Vol-unteers Week (14-18 May) to say thank you to the hundreds of vol-unteers who help South Gippsland Shire Council to deliver services.

Morning teas will be held in Mirboo North and Welshpool, afternoon teas in Nyora, Meeniyan and Foster and there’ll be an evening event in Leongatha. Per-sonal invitations have been mailed to all current council volunteers

“How can we adequately thank peo-ple who regularly give of their time, skills and great attitudes to make life better for others?” said council volunteer co-ordinator Dana Hughes.

“There are over 700 council volun-teers and these events are just a small tangible way we can show our great appreciation.”

There are many ways that people can engage in volunteerism in South Gippsland. Opportunities include work-ing at the visitor information centres, park maintenance and tree planting, de-livering Meals on Wheels and driving eligible clients to medical appointments – locally, regionally and sometimes to the city (council cars and petrol are provided.)

“We also warmly invite new residents to make contact and introduce them-selves,” Dana said.

“Volunteering is one of the most expe-dient ways of becoming involved in your community and making new friends, and that sense of belonging is often what draws people to live in our region.”

If you are interested in offering some time to volunteer, call Dana on 5662 9384 (or danahughes@southgippsland.vic.gov.au) to discuss what opportunities would fi t in with your lifestyle and suit your interests.

“We are extremely fl exible and can work around your other commitments, as well as accommodating those periods when you might take holidays or have family priorities,” Dana said.

“The pressure on councils to deliver more services with associated cost shift-ing is relentless, and at times we struggle to maintain these services despite the large army of council volunteers that we have.”

Mayor Cr Warren Raabe also paid tribute to the many volunteer hours put in by almost every resident, through en-gagement in their schools, churches and sporting and service clubs, plus emergen-cy services such as the CFA and SES.

“South Gippslanders take pride in their strong and inclusive community ethic, a factor that shines through par-ticularly during emergencies when lo-cal forces are mobilised within hours and magic happens,” he said. “When we receive nominations for Australia Day Awards each year, the nominees mostly are surprised and humbled that their ac-tions have been recognised – they just see it as part and parcel of community life. Their efforts certainly enrich our quality of life enormously and we thank them also.”

Information on council volunteer-ing can also be found on www.south-gippsland.vic.gov.au

Thank you volunteers

Right: Superb condi-tion: Kym Clifford and Valerio Nica from Mel-bourne admired the 89-year-old 3098 Vauxhall car.

Sounding fi ne: musi-cian George Gabriel from Venus Bay kept the audience entertained.

On deck: tea and coffee ‘girls’ Margaret Win-disch, Sue Svenson and Margaret Robertson from Walkerville.

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MEMBERS of the Koonwar-ra CFA have been going door to door to check on smoke detectors in residences.

Armed with a bag of replace-ment batteries, the CFA is offering a free check and replacement of batteries.

Wayne Walker and Harry For-rester were two of the CFA volun-teers who were helping visit some 70 houses in Koonwarra these past

three weeks.Mr Forrester told The Star some

older residents really appreciated the visit but it was good community service for all residents.

“Smoke detector batteries are meant to be changed every six months,” he said.

As mentioned in a previous pro-motional campaign: “When you change your clock you change your battery”.

Two of the main problems the

CFA came across are people either forgetting to replace their batteries or removing a fl at battery and not replacing it.

Many homes now have wired in detectors but it was still important to have a back-up power source when there is a power failure due to a fi re.

“The main thing is we need to constantly get the message out there so complacency doesn’t creep in,” Mr Forrester said.

Inspection: Wayne Walker inspects a smoke detector in a Koonwarra house.

Don’t be complacent about smoke detectors

30 years ago, April 27, 1982

THURSDAY, April 29 is an important day for Leongatha. Two members from the judg-ing panel of the Victo-rian Premier Smaller Town Contest will be visiting the town on that day. They will be taking a long, hard and objec-tive look at the town. Shire secretary Mr Ron Stanley said the judges’ visit was important.

10 years ago, April 23, 2002

AFTER a three-day committal hearing in the Moe Magistrates Court last week, Vicki Wyhoon, 33, of Shell-

cotts Road, Korumburra was ordered to stand trial for the murder of Korumburra publican Michael Lowry in the Melbourne Supreme Court on July 15, 2002.

****A CAR was burnt in

the skate bowl in Baro-mi Park, Mirboo North early on Saturday. Mir-boo North Police said the unregistered car was stolen from a laneway in the town, towed to the park, pushed into the skate bowl and set alight. Three men from Mirboo North will be charged on summons to appear at the Korumbur-ra Magistrate’s Court at

a later date.5 years ago,

April 24, 2007SOUTH Gippsland

Water is investigating the Poowong Football Club for illegally piping water from the town’s reservoir. The club, which has strongly de-nied any wrongdoing, told South Gippsland Water the dam it was using was spring-fed. Tests revealed that the dam was chlorinated, suggesting the club is accessing town water supplies.

****A 35-year-old Won-

thaggi woman is in a serious but stable condi-

tion in Royal Melbourne Hospital after the mo-torbike she was riding crashed into a station wagon on Sunday. The accident occurred around 4.20pm on the coast road between Inverloch and Cape Paterson.

1 year ago, April 27, 2011

DREAMS could be-come reality if South Gippsland Shire Council changes planning rules that have thrown futures into disarray. More peo-ple could include a coun-try lifestyle and farmers could subdivide land to raise capital or retire if council introduces new planning guidelines.

From pages past

, Korumburra red to stand he murder of

a later date.5 years ago,

April 24 2007

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Historical snippets from The Star

MORE and more businesses are now using door-to-door sales to market and sell products and services.

Under Australian Consumer Law, consum-ers now have extra rights and protections when dealing with uninvited salespeople who ap-proach them at home.

These rights apply when you buy goods or services that cost over $100 or if the price is uncertain.

The only times salespeople can visit you are

between 9am and 6pm on weekdays and 9am and 5pm on Saturdays. They cannot visit on Sundays or public holidays.

You have the right to ask a salesperson to leave at any time. After you do this, they must leave straight away and not come back for 30 days.

You don’t have to buy goods or services that you did not ask for and you have the right to say no – your signature is valuable. You don’t have to agree to anything on the spot and should

never sign up for anything if you feel pressured or don’t fully understand the offer or costs in-volved.

The salesperson must explain that if you sign a contract you have the right to cancel it for any reason, without penalty, within 10 busi-ness days. During this cooling off period, busi-nesses cannot take any payments from you.

You can cancel the contract even if you have already received the goods. All you need to do is notify the business.

To fi nd out more about your rights when dealing with door-to-door salespeople, visit www.accc.gov.au/doortodoor or call 1300 302 502.

A “Do Not Knock” sticker is available for free for people to put on their front door if they do not want any door to door salespeople (does exclude charities and politicians). The link to the site is http://donotknock.org.au/

Information courtesy of South Gippsland Shire Council.

People have door-to-door sales rights

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 21

Ca

tholic Education

Celebrating Catholic EducationCatholic schools offer

MARY MACKILLOP COLLEGELEONGATHA

ST JOSEPH’SWONTHAGGI

ST JOSEPH’SKORUMBURRA

ST LAURENCE’SLEONGATHA

PAGE 22 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012

MARY MacKillop Catholic College principal Michael Dela-ney believes Catholic Education Week is a time to celebrate.

“We’re proud of what we do in Cath-olic education. It needs to be acknowl-edged and it needs to be celebrated,” he said.

A diocesan leadership mass and dinner will be held in Pakenham this week, with awards and acknowledge-ments presented to high achievers with-in the diocese.

Among those on the list are two well loved people from the school – Berna-dette Grainger and Mary Barrance.

“Bernadette retired at the end of last year after 45 years of service in Catho-lic education. Obviously that’s a signifi -cant contribution,” Mr Delaney said.

“All schools get the opportunity to nominate people from their commu-nity for A Spirit of Catholic Education award. The diocese operates on the three pillars of Catholic education. We want the students to grow in faith, we want them to grow in learning and we want them to grow in well-being.

“The idea of these awards is: how

does that spirit of Catholic education appear in your school? And are there any people who are exemplars of that? Mary Barrance is receiving one of these awards.”

Mr Delaney said the idea of the awards is to celebrate “the exceptional people we have in our schools, particu-larly in the way they enhance the Catho-lic ethos”.

“They show the students in our schools what it means to put our faith in to practice,” he said.

“If you’re trying to live up to be-ing Jesus you may fall short. There’s only one God and there’s only been one time that God became human. Re-ally it’s what we’re striving for, but you’ve got to acknowledge that no one’s ever going to reach that level of perfection.

“People like Mary MacKillop may be revered. But the average person in the street may look at her and say I can’t be that good or I can’t be that holy. The Spirit of Catholic Educa-tion awards are about acknowledging people who really are just the spirit of Catholic education.”

MARY MacKillop Catholic College principal Michael Dela-ney believes Catholic Education

does that spirit of Catholic education appear in your school? And are there any people who are exemplars of that?

Spirit of learning: Kelly Price, Hannah Brailsford, Nathan Hardacre, Xavier Pellin, principal Michael Delaney, Jessica Thomas, Casey Bradbury and Ben Mahomed.

Cooking up a storm: Mary MacKillop has a broad range of subjects on offer.

Right: Scientifi c endeavours: Mary MacKillop students get acquainted with the lab.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 23

Love in action

Well read: junior students Gemma, Bhavani, Sebastian and Patrick love nothing better than reading a good book together.

Hanging out: Tony and Chloe spend some quality time in St Laurence’s well equipped gym.

BASS Coast Shire Council CEO Allan Bawden expects lots of in-novative ideas in the community when the carbon tax is introduced on July 1.

Council staff are a jump ahead. They

are already placing their organic waste ina compost bin at the back of the Wont-haggi offi ces.

Once the waste is broken down, theresulting compost is employed on a veg-etable patch next to the bin.

The CEO believes it’s a great idea.

Great idea

We were pleased to approve the draft Annual Plan and Budget in principle last Wednesday and to place these guiding documents on public exhibition for your examination and comment. As you would realise, they represent an intensive and complex process starting with the public consultation sessions held around the Shire last October and will culminate in the fi nal versions being presented for adoption on June 27. They are now on display at Council, on our website and at local libraries and submissions can be lodged up to May 23.

Council’s proposed general rate rise of 5 per cent is one of the lowest in the state, and Council’s debt level is expected to reduce to just $135,000 by June 2013 as the result of a disciplined campaign to resolve the $13.5 million debt that we held in 2003/04.

The 2012-2013 Capital Works Program has set aside $5.63 m for road resealing; $.92m for bridge repairs; $1.17 for footpaths and recreation and $0.5m for aquatic facilities which will see the design of a hydrotherapy pool at SPLASH and some replacement works at the Foster and Toora pools.

Many residents will have the opportunity to meet the new Governor of Victoria, the Honourable Alex Chernov AO QC and Mrs Chernov when they visit South Gippsland on Thursday and Friday this week. The offi cial party will visit the

Prom, tour the Murray Goulburn factory, attend a Civic Reception and dinner in Leongatha, and plant a commemorative tree at the Leongatha Secondary College to mark their centenary celebrations. They will also visit the Celia Rosser Gallery and enjoy a luncheon with local food producers and tourism industry representatives, so they are in for a busy time during their short stay, following straight on from the Anzac Day holiday. I hope you will take the opportunity to join in the Anzac Day services to remember those who have served our country in times of confl ict.

Simultaneously our Economic Development Offi cers will be promoting the advantages of living, working and investing in South Gippsland for three days at the State Government’s Regional Living Expo at the Melbourne Convention Centre. With rising costs of city living, the Government is keen to encourage decentralisation and support the resident attraction campaigns of rural and regional councils. If you have friends considering a move, this is an excellent opportunity for them to do research into the viability of such a move. Offi cers will have on hand information on real estate, health and educational facilities, plus business and career opportunities in our region.

Cr Warren RaabeMayor

Mayor’s messageCr Warren Raabe

Our state government funding body (the Adult, Community and Further Education Board) has sub-sidised eight International Computer Driving Licences (ICDL) for people seeking work, a better job or fur-ther education. We have two courses to teach ICDL which will be run over nine weeks. The fi rst course is from Monday April 23 un-til June 25 from 9.30am to 12.30pm and the second course on Fridays from 1pm to 4pm April 27 until June 22. For further information contact Sandra or Belinda on 5655 2524.

****Local artist Lance Rog-

ers will teach beginners or those with some experi-ence how to use a range of mediums in the Painting and Drawing class over six

Mondays starting on April 30 from 1pm to 4pm.

****We have vacancies in

our adult literacy course on a Monday and if English is your second language in Migrant English on Tues-days and Thursdays.

****A beginners Tai Chi

class on Tuesdays at 10.30am and Yoga for pain relief and stress runs on Mondays at 10.30am com-mencing April 30.

****In conjunction with

Small Business Victoria, Milpara will be hosting a workshop on Improving Cashfl ow and Profi tability on Thursday May 3 from 7pm to 9pm

****Improve your sewing

skills commences on Mon-

day April 30 for fi ve weeks from 6.30pm to 9pm week-ly. Come along and learn how to confi dently use your sewing machine and in the process make a simple gar-ment using basic sewing skills.

****Quickbooks course

commences on Tuesday May 8 from 10am to 1pm. Learn how to set up your business books, step by step with the Quickbooks ac-counting program.

****Meet other people and

learn about the district at a Newcomer’s Luncheon on Monday May 14 from 12.30pm at Milpara Com-munity House, 21 Shell-cott’s Road, Korumburra. Bookings essential, call Belinda or Sandra on 5655 2524.

Milpara Community House News

ST LAURENCE O’Toole Catholic Primary School has a simple but power-ful philosophy on education.

“At the centre of our school is the Gospel of Jesus – which is compassion, tolerance, love, kindness. Our motto is love in action,” RE co-ordinator Liz O’Louglin said.

“Everything we do as part of our school is centred from that.”

It’s a view shared by principal Chris Dortmans.

“Our love in action program looks at the way we talk to each other, the way we treat each other, even the way we use our body language. It’s all to do with showing love in action,” he said.

“It’s all right to say you love someone, but students can only appreciate what that means by putting it in to action – not just within the school but out in the community. People can recognise by the way the students treat each other and treat others, that they fully understand love in action.”

Ms O’Loughlin said that students were taught that they were “living to serve, and not that other people are living to serve you”.

“Your vocation is living to serve others, but in a really healthy way. That’s really important. We’re asking kids to aspire to really be the best possible person, based on the teachings of Jesus,” she said.

“And to always think in terms of: how do I need to behave here to show that I’m a disciple of Jesus?”

New growth: Bass Coast Shire staff from left, Antoinette Mitchell, CEO Allan Bawden and Jenny Milkins keep their eye on the council’s vegetable patch.

PAGE 24 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012

By Jane Ross

THE Byng family will be out in force at Meeniyan on Anzac Day to cheer on their men.

Marching proudly together will be Vietnam veteran Jeff Byng and his son Keagan, who is a combat engineer in the Aus-tralian Army.

The two have marched to-gether as father and son before, with Keagan wearing his grand-father’s medals. Keagan always laid a wreath on behalf of MDU Football Club, for whom he played.

But this will be the fi rst time they have marched together with Keagan in his Army uniform.

Watching on bursting with

pride – and apprehension, will be Keagan’s mother Annie. Her son leaves for his second tour of duty to Afghanistan later this year. As a sapper, he’s the one who goes ahead looking for home-made bombs or improvised explosive devices.

Jeff was overseas as a nation-al serviceman with 4RAR Anzac Battalion, seeing out the last six months of the Vietnam War.

He and Annie moved to Meeniyan from Melbourne 12 years ago because they wanted to give Keagan a country upbring-ing. He was handy on the footy fi eld and made the Gippsland Power Under 16s side.

“He always likes to be on the move,” his mother said.

One day, he came home from secondary school announcing

to his mother, “I’m joining theArmy.”

“No you’re bloody not!” washer heated response.

His father wasn’t too keeneither.

But their son had made up hismind.

“Keagan turned 17 on Febru-ary 17 that year and was gone onMarch 18, leaving Melbournefor Kapooka.”

That was four years ago.Keagan has since had a

stint in Sumatra and one inAfghanistan.

Family friend Steve McKen-zie, who usually represents theLighthorse in the Fish Creek An-zac parade, is hoping to be ableto do so at Meeniyan too, as aspecial honour for Keagan.

Special day for the Byng family

So proud: Vietnam veteran Jeff Byng with his son Keagan, a sapper in the Australian Army.

By Jane Ross

THERE’S a fam-ily dynasty within the Meeniyan RSL.

Harry Prosser was sec-retary for more than 40 years and his service was recognised in 2007 by RSL headquarters with the presentation of a meritori-ous medal.

Harry, who was in the Air Force during World War Two, hates any fuss and publicity, but he’s blowed if age and compro-mised health are going to stop him from selling An-

zac badges.His grandson Mark

Coulter has taken over as RSL secretary and he, his mother Bev Coulter or other family representa-tives are busy driving Har-ry around so he can fulfi ll his Anzac badge selling duties. There are those liv-ing locally who won’t buy a badge from anyone else.

“I went knocking on doors,” Mark explained, “and one person said they wouldn’t buy a badge from me, they were waiting for Harry. I told them he was in the car, so they came out

to see him.”Doing his rounds in his

home town of Koonwarra, Harry usually raises more than $1000 for the Meeni-yan RSL Anzac pool.

Bev is vice president of the Meeniyan RSL, Harry’s grandson Bradley Prosser is a member and another grandson Justin Prosser is a rifl eman in the Australian Army. He’s due to go to Afghanistan soon.

Bev said the Meeniyan Anzac march is a major community event. Mem-bers of the CFA close the road so the marchers, who

must assemble at 9.15am, can wend their way down the main street, returning to the cenotaph for a guest speaker from HMAS Cer-berus, which is also pro-viding this year’s guards.

The Leongatha Sec-ondary College Band will play, including the New Zealand national anthem.

“They’re part of Anzac too,” Bev explained.

There will be an oppor-tunity following the march for people to lay wreaths at the cenotaph. Bev said it’s not unusual for there to be 40 or more.

Get together: Justin Prosser (right) spent Easter with his family while on leavefrom the Australian Army. He’s off to Afghanistan soon. Next to him is his grandfather Harry Prosser who still sells Anzac badges on behalf of the Meeni-yan RSL. Behind Harry is his grandson Mark, next to him another grandson Bradley and Harry’s daughter Bev Coulter. Most of the family belongs to the Meeniyan RSL.

All in the family

THERE’LL be a youthful aspect to the Anzac commemorations this year.

A young woman is the guest speaker at Leongatha, a school student the speaker at Inverloch and Scouts and Cubs will once again cook and serve breakfast following the dawn service in Korumburra.

Beth Winterhalter, ex-Royal Australian Navy, will be the guest speaker at Leon-gatha. She will also play the bugle for the traditional Last Post and Reveille, a task she has also performed at Gallipoli.

Hundreds are expected at the dawn wreath laying service at the McCartin Street cenotaph, to be followed by break-fast at the RSL.

Marchers are asked to gather at 10.30am outside the Smith Street entrance of the RSL before stepping off at 10.45 to the strains of the South Gippsland Shire Brass Band.

Guards will be provided by HMAS Cerberus and there will be a wreath laying at the cenotaph before the service in the Memorial Hall. After that, late morning tea will be served at the RSL.

InverlochA STUDENT from Wonthaggi Sec-

ondary College is scheduled to speak at the 10am commemoration in Inverloch.

This follows a dawn service at 6am that is conducted in the RSL Hall, fol-lowed by breakfast served courtesy of the town’s Lions Club.

The 10am service is held inside at The Hub and is followed by a march at 10.45. Refreshments will be served at the RSL Hall from noon.

Korumburra

EVERY year, more and more people come to the dawn service at the memorial in Coleman Park.

RSL sub branch president Kevin Moon said people start to form up beside the Scout Hall from 5.45am and he con-ducts a service at 6. The Second Korum-burra Scouts and Cubs will prepare a hot breakfast.

At 10.30am, Kevin will conduct an-other service in the same location. He and some of his RSL colleagues support the Korumburra Primary School and St Jo-seph’s Primary School in Anzac services at the start of this week.

WonthaggiTHE Wonthaggi Sub Branch of the

RSL will serve a gunfi re breakfast in the RSL rooms in Graham Street following a dawn service at the cenotaph, which is opposite St George’s Anglican Church in Hagelthorne Street.

Veterans march at 9.45am from the RSL rooms to the cenotaph where Wont-haggi historian Sam Gatto will speak.

Wreath laying ceremonies are held at both commemorations.

Mirboo NorthMIRBOO North RSL Sub-Branch has

adopted a wet weather program for Anzac Day on Wednesday, April 25 due to rain predictions.

Branch secretary Peter Fraser said the weather forecast is for rain and the deci-sion was made to have the march for all those who would like, at 10.55am from the IGA car park to the RSL Hall next to the Anglican Church.

Local member Commander Max Speedy DSC will be guest speaker.

Anzac focus on youth

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 25

THE Moss Vale Park Advisory Commit-tee hopes to plant a Lone Pine seedling at the park.

A request has been submitted to South Gippsland Shire Council.

Cr David Lewis is council’s representative on the park committee.

He said its members thought the park would be an appropriate setting for a Lone Pine seedling to grow in recognition of all veterans.

Lone Pine trees have

been planted all over Australia from pine cones brought back after the Battle of Lone Pine in August 1915. The clash was between Turkish and Australian troops, seven of whom were subse-quently awarded a VC. The pine cones came from the one single tree that overlooked the battle which resulted in a total of up to 8000 casualties.

Cr Lewis said he did not yet know when the Moss Vale Lone Pine might be planted.

Lone Pine plan for Moss Vale

ANZAC Day is a time of great importance to Mick Crofts, for more than one reason.

Tomorrow (Wednes-day) he will celebrate his 90th birthday surrounded by family and friends at his home at Domain Seahaven in Inverloch.

But it is also the day Mick will remember the many Australians who left our shores to serve their country and never returned; especially his fallen com-rades and own his brother, Les.

He may also, for a mo-ment, refl ect upon his own story of incredible survival.

Born and raised in Koo Wee Rup, Mick joined the army in 1941 at the age of 18, alongside his brother Les, who was 18 months older than him.

By this stage, World War Two had been raging across Europe for two years and many young Australian men were enlisting in the armed services.

As troops in the 2/3rd Light Anti Aircraft Regi-ment, Mick and Les were fi rst sent to the Middle East for training.

“It was extensive train-ing in the Middle East once we got there, naturally, as we were going into com-bat,” Mick said.

“We were then sent to Crete; the reason being they were going to evacuate Greece and they wanted a jumping off point.”

When Crete was evacu-ated, the regiment was be-ing shipped back to Egypt to then go home, when di-saster struck – the ship the brothers were onboard, the Hereward, was sunk.

Sadly, Les was lost at sea.

“I was in the water for 10 hours; it was a long time to be in the water,” Mick said.

“I got picked up by the Italians in the Mediterra-nean and I was a prisoner of war for three-and-a-half years in Italy.

“When I got dragged onto the boat, an Italian sail-or gave his big coat to put around me and by this time we were suffering exposure and dehydration – we were buggered in other words. This young fellow thought he was doing the right thing and said “aqua fresco, aqua fresco”. I said “stick your aqua fresco, I want water!” He was trying to give me water all along!” Mick said.

“I didn’t laugh then, but I laughed afterwards.”

Mick was moved be-tween small working camps in Italy and said each day they’d walk the distance from Inverloch to Wonthag-gi, with soldiers dropped off at various farms along the way and picked up again at the end of the day.

Mick said he found the Italian farmers they worked

THE Moss Vale Park Advisory Commit-tee hopes to plant aLone Pine seedlingat the park.

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ANZAC Day is a time of great importance to Mick Crofts, for more than one reason.

Tomorrow (Wednes-

A day for Mick

for to be kind.He eventually ended up

at Campo 57 in Gruppig-nano, as many Australian and New Zealand POWs did.

“There were 96 in our huts and there were 10 huts to a compound, so around 1000 in each,” he said.

“Immediately we got there, one of the offi cers had escape committees or-ganised straight away.”

In an incredible coin-cidence, Mick ran into his own cousin from Leongatha in the camp, who also sur-vived to live a long life.

Of course, food was a problem for all POWs in the camp; Mick recalls the men grinding acorns to make coffee during their time there; however freedom was not too far away.

“When we got recalled to the concentration camp, things were not going well for the Germans and the Italians,” he said.

“We knew it wouldn’t be long before we would be able to wander around.”

After being drafted out to a working camp near Vercelli at the surrender of Italy, Mick managed to es-cape with two other men and headed for the border to safety.

“It was a long walk for 100 days. We were up in the European Alps between Ita-ly and Switzerland and we had to get through them all. It’s a long way to go with-out a hot shower!” Mick laughed.

While it wasn’t too dif-fi cult for the men to escape, fi nding somewhere to go without being recaptured was a different story.

“There were still a lot of Germans about; we had to dodge them, and we had to dodge the Italian fascists – but not the royalists,” Mick said.

“If you could fi nd the royalists you got a meal and if you didn’t get a meal there because you weren’t a Roman Catholic, you’d change to one!”

On December 1, 1943,

Department of Veterans’ Affairs and eventually run-ning his own nursery until his retirement. The team at The Star wishes Mick a very happy birthday tomor-row (Wednesday), and join him in paying our respects on Anzac Day.

in the freezing winter con-ditions, Mick swam the River Po to Pontresina in Switzerland.

“We were fortunate when we got through to go to an Italian-Swiss fam-ily and they took us in,” he said.

“When we got there into this house, they had a big fi re going and Mama brought out a blanket for each of us – I can still see it – and wrapped it around us. She said she’d make us a cup of cocoa and Papa said “I’ll give them a drink fi rst!”

“He came out with a glass of grappa and you could fl y an airplane on it, you really could! We didn’t know, so threw it down the hatch. I reckon my toenails turned up!” Mick laughed.

The men were checked off by the International Red Cross who contacted their families to let them know their sons, brothers and hus-bands were alive; for almost four years, the POWs’ fami-lies had no idea what had happened to them.

Mick recalls how lucky he was at the time; out of the 288 soldiers in his unit to go to Crete, only 43 made it to the safety of Switzerland.

Known as an ‘evade’, Mick was given a job at a nursery, and soon caught

the eye of his boss’s eldest daughter, Margrit Dietz.

“Marg spoke German and some French, and I spoke English and some Italian. Four languages and we couldn’t understand a word! Life has its funny sides doesn’t it?” Mick laughed.

Nevertheless, their love quickly blossomed.

“We used to go for a walk after tea at night and look over Lake Constance into Germany and you could see the search lights and the airplanes going across; we’d be hoping the eggs wouldn’t drop on us!” Mick said.

After 12 months in Swit-zerland, the soldiers fi nally began their journey home on December 17, 1943.

Mick said he can still remember Margrit wav-ing goodbye as the train pulled away, but luckily it was a happy ending for the young couple; she arrived in Australia exactly two years to the day later; they were wed in Koo Wee Rup in 1946 and had a son and a daughter.

Mick was made unfi t for service after returning home from war, and spent two months contacting the relatives of the men he knew that remained over-seas before working for the

Brothers in uniform: an 18-year-old Mick Crofts and his brother Les soon after enlisting in the Australian Army in 1941.

A long and happy life: Mick Crofts and his wife of almost 66 years, Margrit, whom he met after escaping to Swit-zerland from Italy in 1943.

PAGE 26 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012

LOCAL ladies, fear not.

Andrew Dallinger, a ranger at Phillip Island Na-ture Parks, was named one of Cleo magazine’s Top 50 Bachelors of 2012.

Andrew appears in the magazine’s April edition alongside Collingwood star Sharrod Wellingham and Masterchef’s Hayden Quinn.

Andrew, a keen surfer and familiar face at lo-cal community sporting events, admits to surprise at reaching the top 50 af-ter his nomination by na-ture parks’ colleagues in December.

“My fi rst reaction was ‘Are you serious?’ I origi-nally thought it may just be a bit of a joke around the offi ce,” he said.

“It’s not something that I would have otherwise done, but there is certainly a bit of excitement.

“I’m fi nding myself saying yes to a lot of op-portunities.”

Andrew is a born and bred islander. After completing his Bachelor (pardon the pun) of Tech-nology degree in Coastal Resource Management in 2003, he then became a qualifi ed carpenter.

He returned to the environment fi eld with the nature parks in 2010,

Ranger named top bachelor

Single honour: Andrew Dallinger is among the top 50 bachelors in Australia, according to a magazine.

working primarily on the regeneration of Summer-land Peninsula. Brother Chris Dallinger runs Island Healing in Newhaven.

As far as his bachelor status goes, Andrew ad-

mits it has its perks: “You can eat cereal any time of the day and no one tells you that’s strange.”

The competition was won by Sydney’s Hayden Quinn last week.

Bus service remains

A BUS service be-tween Foster and Tidal River remains, despite a holiday ser-vice ending.

The V/Line bus linking Fish Creek, Foster and Tidal River continues, despite the trial Transport Connections service provided over holidays being cancelled due to poor patronage.

Moon’s Buslines operates the V/Line service on Fridays and Sundays.

THE SPOTLIGHT was on South Gippsland this week with Channel Nine’s the Today Show broadcasting live from Korumburra and Inverloch.

Thanks to Experience-CaravanningandCamp-ing.com.au, weatherman Steve Jacobs stopped by Coal Creek and Anderson Inlet as part of his two week road trip from Mel-bourne to Sydney.

One of Coal Creek’s favourite residents, Edward the emu, was up bright and early on Thursday morning for his 15 minutes of fame when Steve stopped by the tourist attraction.

Staff members and Korumburra Primary School students were also in character for the cam-era, dressing up in period costumes and sharing an early 20th century class-room experience with the viewers at home.

The park defi nitely had a new fan after the fi nal weather, with Steve fi lled with nothing but praise for the historic site.

“It’s just been mag-nifi cent. I reckon this is the friendliest town we’ve been to in our trip so far in Victoria. I’ve got to say, this is one of the

best weeks I’ve had in a long time,” he said.

“This is amazing. We didn’t even know this was here and that’s one of the great things about caravanning and camp-ing, just hitting the road and the country. There are so many things in Australia – these amaz-ing, little hidden gems and unexplored places and things that maybe not everyone knows about – and the great thing for us is to show these to the country.”

“We had the most spectacular drive to here yesterday from Phillip Island up through the mountains; I’ve never been through there before and it was one of the most beautiful drives I’ve ever seen. Just rolling hills as far as the eye can see, and little farm houses.”

It was then to Inver-loch on Friday morning when Steve pulled up in his Winnebago.

There, he and the crew enjoyed a lovely sunrise over Anderson Inlet, jazz music from musicians involved with the Inver-loch Jazz Festival and a cooking demonstration by chef Tony Richardson from Vela Nine Restau-rant.

Inverloch Primary School children were also out in force, enjoying all the action and waving for

the camera.Steve said the Today

Show was a big fan of the region after visiting Toora late last year and Wilsons Promontory in February.

“It’s a really big, popular tourist destina-tion for a lot of people, not only in Victoria but around the country, so for us in particular, we’re always looking for inter-esting visual things for the weather and there’s so much to offer,” Steve said.

“Not only is it a great place and the scenery is spectacular, but there are so many things to do along the way, so it really is the ultimate vacation destination.”

ExperienceCaravan-ningandCamping.com.au marketing executive, Keelan Howard, said he included Coal Creek and Anderson Inlet in the road trip as they were unique holiday destinations.

“We wanted to show-case interesting things to do on the road while caravanning and camp-ing that not many people know of,” he said.

“We wanted to give them something different from the better known tourist attractions people can see and do.”

South Gippy wakes up with Today

Meeting the locals: Today Show weatherman Steve Jacobs posed for a shot with a group of locals out early to see the live crosses.

Coal Creek on national television: the Today Show weatherman Steve Jacobs,his wife Rose and daughter Isabelle join Korumburra locals at Coal Creek for a live weather update.

Blast from the past: Korumburra Primary School students dressed in period clothing and joined SteveJacobs for an early morning school lesson during the Today Show weather.

TV chef: Steve Jacobs and chef Tony Richardson from Vela Nine Restaurant with a lovely dish that Tony whipped up.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 27

THIS four bedroom home offering lifestyle with convenience is set to inspire potential buyers and is available through Alex Scott and Staff, Leongatha. For details, see page 29.

THIS four bedroom home offering lifestylewith convenience is set to inspire potentialbuyers and is available through Alex Scott andStaff Leongatha For details see page 29

Set your sights higherSet your sights higher

PAGE 28 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012

THIS centrally located, three bedroom home is beautifully

presented and on a corner allot-ment with loads of character and a sunny northerly aspect.

It overlooks bushland and is located close to the swimming pool.

The neat and cosy weatherboard home has an en suite to the main bedroom and a large bright open living area, which also features a modern kitchen with near new

stainless gas and electric stove and pol-ished fl oors.

Undercover decked pergola areas atthe entrance and balcony off the loungemake for two lovely outdoor areas to sitand enjoy the perfect surrounds.

A superb double lockup Colorbondgarage with power, remote roller doorsand additional work area is a real high-light and together with neat well main-tained gardens this compact package of-fers plenty to the would-be purchaser.

Centrally located family home

MIRBOO NORTHLocation: 42 Baths RoadBedrooms: 3Bathrooms: 2Price Reduced: $259,000Agent: Stockdale and Leggo, Mirboo NorthContact: 5668 1300

ing area and spacious light fi lled north facing lounge, with fl oating timber fl oors, reverse cycle air-con and Coonara wood heater to keep you warm on these cold winter days.

The property is well fenced into two paddocks, suitable for horses, with a new horse stable recently built.

The garden area has been fenced off to keep kids and pets in.

Other features include a 10,000 gallon tank, town water, cubby house, fox proof chicken run, garden shed, stock yards and ga-zebo with amazing views you can relax and admire while you enjoy a nice quiet beverage at the end of a hard day.

Only minutes to shops and the local primary school it’s a short 20 minute drive from the coast.

Inspection is highly rec-ommended.

Ultimate tree change property

MEENIYANLocation: 26 Welsford StreetBedrooms: 3Bathrooms: 2Car spaces: 1Price: $389,000Agent: Stockdale and Leggo, LeongathaContact: 5662 5800

THIS beautiful 3.5 acre lifestyle

property is situated in the ever increas-ingly popular town of Meeniyan.

Well known for its arts and crafts it is often host to local and international musicians.

With arguably some of the best views in Meeniyan, this modern home features

three to four bedrooms with the garage partly fi tted out as an extra bedroom, easily re-convertible, master with en suite, modern kitchen including dishwasher and electric cooking, large din-

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 29

LIKE a giant arrow pointing skywards, this home will in-

spire you to lift your sights higher.Set on approximately 2.5 acres, and lo-

cated less than 7kms from Leongatha, this property offers lifestyle with convenience.

Timber is a feature of this four bed-room home.

Downstairs accesses two of the bed-rooms, and also the large country style kitchen with black granite bench tops, dining area and lounge with combustion heater.

A master bedroom with en suite is up-stairs, along with a fourth bedroom and an upstairs lounge (or parents retreat) which opens out onto the balcony.

A large undercover deck provides plen-ty of extra entertaining space.

Outside, the manicured lawns are graced by mature trees, both English and native.

Lock up shed, carport, cubby house, chook pen, wood shed, plus a paddock for the horse or livestock are also features of this property.

LEONGATHALocation: 675 Nerrena RoadBedrooms: 4Bathrooms: 2Price: $450,000 Agent: Alex Scott and Staff, LeongathaContact: 5662 0922

The only way is up

PAGE 30 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012

HOLIDAY

INVERLOCH OFFICE 7 a’Beckett Street 5674 1111

INVERLOCH10 THE CRESCENT

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS - ELEVATED POSITION

AUCTION SATURDAY APRIL 28 @12.00 NOON

Dennis Ginn 0412 317 360

First time offered in 80 years!• Massive 5617 sq.m development site• Quiet dress circle location with water views• Dual street frontages, situated in the heart of town• Comfortable 3 bedroom brick residence + older style cottage• Development potential for subdivision/townhouses or resort complex (STCA)

PROUDLY we of-fer a very attractive

property.It is located within walking

distance to the shops, it is well presented on the outside and absolutely spectacular on the inside.

The kitchen is brand new and will delight all who see it, beautiful CaesarStone bench tops, new electric oven and cook top, all on a fl oor of fash-ionable ceramic tiles.

The beautiful bathroom is also new and is very fashionable.

Two front rooms are avail-able, the present owners use one as bedroom, the other as a living room.

The hallway and front rooms are all on a fl oating vi-nyl fl oor.

For your comfort in all seasons the kitchen/dining has split system air conditioning while the lounge has electric heating.

The land is also attractive;

it is 546 square metres with a 13 metre frontage and rear lane access.

A large carport approxi-mately 11x7 metres features on the property.

The property also has a sec-ond toilet (outside) and a gar-den shed.

There is a nice verandah at the front of the cottage; just the place to sit back, relax and watch the world go by.

Another verandah exists at the rear of the property, just the place for a barbecue with your friends.

The renovation of this gem commenced with restumping of the cottage, then rewiring and new plumbing; no short-cuts here, a quality renovation.

This property can be a per-manent residence, it could also be the perfect holiday home, an opportunity to join a country community and acquire a great cottage at an attractive price. Your inspection invited.

This is a rare opportunity.

Unique miner’s cottage

KORUMBURRALocation: 65 Princes StreetBedrooms: 1Bathrooms: 1Price: $166,000Agent: Stockdale and Leggo, KorumburraContact: 5658 1500

WHAT a wonder-ful opportunity

this old world prop-erty presents.

Filled with charm and character, it is well situ-ated in close proximity to Leongatha’s extensive rec-reational facilities.

The front entrance leads directly into a cosy

lounge, complete with gas log fi re.

A feature leadlight win-dow and door add colour and charm to the room, as does the dado-edging and feature wall.

The leadlight theme continues into the main bedroom and kitchen.

A bright country-style kitchen creates a central

hub, where friends and family can choose to con-gregate around the break-fast bar, dining table or even head out through double-glass doors to a barbecue area.

Complete with fernery, this area is a private little green oasis.

The bright country style kitchen/dining room

Olde worlde charm and character

LEONGATHALocation: 77 Roughead StreetBedrooms: 3Bathrooms: 1SOLE AGENTPrice: $295,000Agent: Insight Real EstateContact: 5662 2220

is fully equipped with gas stove, dishwasher and a split system air conditioner for heating and cooling.

A large room to the rear of the house (currently used as an offi ce) would make an ideal rumpus room/family area.

It is central to the third bedroom, a family bathroom and concealed laundry.

Sunny front and side verandahs of this home are an ideal spot to sit and en-joy autumn afternoons.

With side access to a large lock-up workshop/garage, a separate carport and three other smaller sheds, this property would also suit a tradesman.

Parking space is plentiful.

All of this on a large block of over 1000 sq metres, fully fenced with double lockup gates for children and pets.

This home has poten-tial - live in as is, renovate further or develop STCA.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 31

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GIPPSLAND: STRATFORD

TENDERS CLOSE: FRIDAY 4TH MAY AT 5PM CONTACT: CHRIS MORRISON 0419 381 832

FOR SALE BY TENDERSTRATFORD CARWASH

www.chalmer.com.au

237-239 RAYMOND ST, SALE TEL: 5144 4333

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Heart of Traralgon shopping precinct High exposure to Seymour Street 420.85m2 block with rear access 373m2 building Sound tenant, current rent $52,500 plus GST p.a 5%fixed incremental increases annually Further two five year options Perfect Investment for super fund

Thursday, 17th May, 12.30pmRSL CLUB, 109 GREY STREET, TRARALGON

CHOICE INVESTMENT PROPERTY FREEHOLDAUCTION

236 Raymond St, Sale. Phone 5144 4575; Tony Baillie 0412 244 442

Terms: 10% deposit, balance 60 days

THE house is neat and sweet and brick, with a modern kitchen and

bathroom, three bedrooms and sunny elevated aspects.

The parking is fantastic, with a covered carport plus a double lock up garage and even space to spare.

The block is generous and secure, fenced for kids or pets, and easy to care for; so com-pletely designed for young families or retirees, with something in it for the investor too.

In more detail: there is a separate entrance hallway, with a light and airy lounge that has outlooks over the neighbourhood. The kitchen, in timber-look detail has stainless steel dish-washer and walk-in pantry, on a timber fl oor.

An adjoining meals area also has plenty of light with outlooks, so you will never feel hemmed in.

Three bedrooms with built-ins, including a good looking main with all-glass outlook to the rear deck, jazzy mirrored wardrobe doors and an en suite-effect direct bathroom access.

The bathroom is updated and fresh with stunning white cabinet, separate shower re-cess and bath.

Outside there’s a whole extra world! Shel-tered, brick paved barbecue area on the west-ern side, and expansive timber deck at the rear all overlooking the big grassy block with cubby, paving and landscaping.

Behind the double garage is the biggest surprise, with a lined, painted and powered space currently used as a theatre/games room, plus a low mezzanine level currently used as a fourth bedroom.

Ideal as is, or for hobby, work from home, or teenage retreat.

In all a fabulous value property, all within walking distance of schools.

Go Griffo! Double garage and big block

LEONGATHALocation: 2 Griffi n RoadBedrooms: 4Bathrooms: 1Price: $270,000-$285,000Agent: Prom Country First NationalContact: Kaz Hughes on 0417 516 998

JUST out of the Mirboo North township, on a

sealed country road, this pristine property exudes a feeling of relaxation and contentment.

With meticulously planned and planted gardens, fl owing lush lawns, and inspirational views to both the north and the south, your tranquillity begins.

Indoors, a modern, peaceful dé-cor has been recently introduced, and fresh, quality fl oor coverings

complement the décor. Though the home is quite young, the current owner’s desire for a particular level of appointment has seen them in-stall a sparkling new kitchen, com-plete with stainless steel appliances and abundant storage.

Compact though the home might be, the living room is spacious, with aspects across the gardens to the rolling hills beyond. With three bedrooms, including a main with walk-in robe, and an en suite-style bathroom, the residence may suit young families, and is especially

suitable for professional couples and ideal for empty-nesters.

Seamlessly designed to en-hance indoor/outdoor living, a multi-layered timber deck extends on the northern side, complete with covered area with café blinds for all-year al fresco enjoyment.

A garage, workshop, garden shed, chook run and vegie garden are provided, and solar hot water is installed.

All is well...

MIRBOO NORTHLocation: 167 Baromi RoadBedrooms: 3Bathrooms: 1Price: $285,000-$310,000Agent: Prom Coun-try First NationalContact: Allen Bartlett on 0417 276 624

When all is well with the world

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 33

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THIS property will be of-fered to the market place

for the fi rst time in over 80 years.

One family has owned it for over 80 years and it is arguably the largest development site avail-able in the central location of Inverloch.

Number 10 The Crescent is a massive 5617 square metres with frontage to Freda Street at the rear and The Crescent, just off Sandymount Avenue in Inverloch.

The site has the potential to be

developed as either a 10 lot subdi-vision or a 14 to 16 luxury unit site, subject to council approval.

Or alternatively you could util-ise the three bedroom brick veneer home and adjoining older style cot-tage in the meantime, whilst you decide how to develop the site.

The property would also lend itself to a luxury residential com-pound incorporating swimming pool/tennis court.

It will be auctioned on site at 12 noon on Saturday, April 28 at 10 The Crescent, Inverloch.

Opportunity knocks elevated position

INVERLOCHLocation: 10 The CrescentBedrooms: 3Bathrooms: 1Land size: 5617sqmAuction: 12 noon, Saturday April 28Agent: Alex Scott and Staff, InverlochContact: 5674 1111

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 35

ANGLICAN: Wednesday, April 25: 11am St Peter’s Mid-Week HC.Sunday, April 29: 8am St Peter’s HC; 10am St Peter’s Contempo-rary Worship with HC; 10.30am Union Church, Tarwin Lower MP.ST MARY’S ANGLICAN CHURCH: Mirboo North. Phone 5668 1346. Holy Communion 8.30am: Worship and Sunday School 10am.ST PAUL’S ANGLICAN CHURCH: Korumburra: Sunday 9.30am and Wednesday 11.30am. Poowong: Second and fourth Sundays, 11am.ST GEORGE’S ANGLICAN CHURCH: McBride Avenue, Won-thaggi. Sunday, 9.30am Eucharist, 11am Family Service, Wednesday 10am Eucharist.Anglican Church of the Ascen-sion: The Crescent, Inverloch. Sunday 9am Eucharist, Tuesday 10am Eucharist. For details of Community Meal, Youth Group, Bible Studies & Kids Club, contact Rev. Graeme Peters 5672 4590 or visit www.basscoastanglican.org.auAUSTRALIAN CHRISTIAN CHURCHES (AOG): Prom Coast Community Church Inc. - Foster Community House, Station Street, 10am: Sunday. Sunday School and Creche operates. Pastor Bill Watson 5686 2248.A.O.G. Inverloch - Cnr Bear and McIntosh Street, Inverloch. Sun-day Service 10am; Imagine Christ-mas Day Service 9am. Contact: Jeff Robertson, 0418 125 832 or Imagine Burwood 9888 7466.Korumburra Southern Hills A.O.G. - 4 Mine Rd, 10am: Sun-day. Also Children’s Church and Creche. Contact: Pastor Rob Dav-ey 5625 3226. Youth: Neville Stuart ph. 0407 343 219.Equip Church - 17 Michael Place, Leongatha. Sunday service 10am. Contact: John 0408 305 880.Wonthaggi A.O.G. - Billson Street, 10am: Sunday. Contact: Pastor Barry Smith 5672 3984.CHRISTIAN REVIVAL CRUSADE: 40 Hughes Street, Leongatha. Sunday, Morning Service 10.30 am: Inspirational Service, 6.30pm: Children’s Church 10.30am: Home cells weekly. For all enqui-ries contact 5664 5455.THE CHURCH AT ARCHIES CREEK: Every first Sunday of the month. Sunday morning 11am - 12.30pm. Fun and games, all ages, all are welcome. Phone: Ps. Chris Chetland 5678 7692, 0447 724 989.SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST: Saturdays, Church service 10am., Leongatha Sabbath School - 11.30am.

CATHOLIC: St Laurence’s Parish Leon-gatha: 5 pm Mass Saturday, 11am Mass Sunday.Tarwin Lower: In St Andrew’s Union Church, 5pm winter, 6pm summer Mass Saturday. Meeniyan: 9.30am Mass, 1st, 3rd, 5th Sundays and 11am, 2nd and 4th Sundays.Mirboo North: 11am Mass, 1st, 3rd, 5th Sundays and 9.30am Mass, 2nd and 4th Sundays.St. Joseph’s Parish Korumburra: 9.30am Sunday Mass.Loch: 5pm/6pm Daylight saving Sunday Mass. Wonthaggi: Saturday evening 6.30pm: Evening Mass; Sunday, 10.30am: Mass. Inverloch: Sun-day 9 am: Mass.KORUMBURRA’S AGLOW: First Monday every month at Korum-burra Day Centre, Korumburra Hospital, Bridge St., Korumburra at 7.45pm. Inquiries phone 5657 2214.GIPPSLAND CHRISTIAN FEL-LOWSHIP: Strongly family ori-ented church meets at The Grain Store, Mirboo North, Sundays: 4-5.10pm Communion, 5.15-6pm Bible Studies for Adults, Youth and Children. Friday evenings: Home Fellowships 7.30pm; Youth Ac-tivities. Enquiries: 5668 2226 Bob Stevens.SALVATION ARMY LEONGATHA COMMUNITY CHURCH meets at 52 Anderson Street (South Gippsland Highway) - Sunday: Family Worship at 10am: Sagala - Tuesday, 4 - 5.30pm; mainly mu-sic, Thursday 10am. All welcome. Please contact Captain Martyn and Heather Scrimshaw, ph. 5662 5122.SALVATION ARMY WONTHAGGI COMMUNITY CHURCH meets at 149 McKenzie Street every Sun-day at 11am for Family Worship. Kids' Club - every Tuesday at 4 pm, Women's Group - Wednes-day at 1.30pm, and Playgroup - Friday 9.30am. Evening Ladies' Fellowship - First Monday each month and Youth Groups held monthly. All welcome. Please con-tact Lt. Robyn and Max Lean. Ph. 5672 1228.PRESBYTERIAN: Sunday Ser-vice 10am, corner Bent and Turner Streets, Leongatha. Moderator Rev. Mark Smith 5625 4112.

CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH: Reformed Church meeting at the corner of Peart and Brown Streets. Sunday family ser-vice at 10.30am. (10am daylight saving time), creche and Sunday School available. All Sunday eve-ning services at 5pm. Fortnightly youth activities. Home Bible Fel-lowship groups. Contact 5662 2527. UNITING CHURCH: Leongatha: Sunday, April 29, 10am. Mirboo North: 9.30am. Meeniyan: 10am. Wonthaggi: Sunday 9.30am, Family Service, all welcome. In-verloch: Sunday 11am: Korum-burra: Sunday, 9.30am: Rev. Pas-tors Gavin and Sue Sharp, 5655 1997. Arawata: 11.30am 1st & 3rd Sundays. Kongwak: 11.30am 4th Sunday.BAPTIST CHURCH KORUM-BURRA: 39 Mine Rd, Korum-burra. Service and Sunday School 10.30am. Pastor Ian Wilkinson. Phone 5658 1366.BAPTIST CHURCH WONTHAGGI: Cnr McBride & Broome Crescent, Wonthaggi. Morning Service & Children’s Activities, Sunday 10am. Weekly activities see www.wonbaptist.org.au, Pastor Geoff Pegler 5672 4769.MEENIYAN CHRISTIAN FEL-LOWSHIP: Sunday, 10am: Meeni-yan Youth Club Hall. COMBINED CHURCHES WONT-HAGGI / INVERLOCH: 4th Sun-day each month at 7pm.SCOTS PIONEER CHURCH: Mardan South. Pleasant Sunday Afternoons on the last Sunday of each month at 2pm. See occasion-al ad in this paper for details. For enquiries phone 5664 9306.FISH CREEK UNION CHURCH: 1st & 3rd Sundays, 9am; 2nd & 4th Sundays, 7pm. Contacts: Fran Grimes 5683 2650, Sue Poletti 5663 6325.

Church TimesQUICK PUZZLE NO. 8322

ACROSS6. Painting (5-6)7. Zone (4)8. Bird (8)9. Pleaded (6)

10. Christian festival (6)12. Rivulet (6)15. Firm (6)17. Captive (8)19. Door (4)20. Vegetables (6,5)

DOWN1. Throttle (8)2. Stand (6)3. Rough (6)4. Toil (4)5. Wind (6)6. Less good (5)

11. Press-gang (8)13. Economy (6)14. Threat (6)15. Writer (6)16. Plant (5)18. Outhouse (4)

CRYPTIC PUZZLE NO. 8322ACROSS

6. What the wheeze that got you into the money was? (7,4).7. Is the note about a girl? (4). 8. Are they the perfectsetting for pearly teeth? (4,4). 9. By Saturday morning, anally? (6). 10. Time to lend support to (6). 12. One put itback with a note saying “Acid” (6). 15. Given a bang, gotjammed right inside (6). 17. Food for the man I hold dear(Italian) (8). 19. A red vehicle following one (4). 20. Whatthe ferryman makes one pay? (4,7).

DOWN1. Pop back with a close relation, to make it clear (8). 2.Looked at the treads, in a terrible state (6). 3. Obliges oneto drop and break the lamp glasses (6). 4. See the girlstanding up - a very popular figure (4). 5. Come about avery gentle bird, caged (6). 6. A loud-voiced newsreader!(5). 11. How one stands the cost of the transport (8). 13.Like the ill-tempered fishmonger? (6). 14. “A very goodnote,” I echo, foolishly (6). 15. Winding up with tears overthe boy (6). 16. That’s what you get for not wearing gloves,fellows! (5). 18. Not a name of note! (4).

ARIES - March 21 - April 20Romance accents its whimsical side, but in business related matters a serious approach brings results. Creative writing is highlighted. Get on that computer and express your special philosophy.TAURUS - April 21 - May 22You may have to be fi rmer than usual in dealing with a highly assertive individual. Arranging parties is a present strength - you lend a magic touch. Business plans require research.GEMINI - May 23 - June 21A work project may be temporarily stalled, but in personal relation-ships you progress with renewed determination. Resolutions may be put to the test.CANCER - June 22 - July 22This week is favourable for new areas of study or recreation. An up in the air relationship seems headed down to earth. Financial growth is favoured. Being realistic is all important.LEO - July 23 - August 22Variety is the theme of the week as you mingle with people from diverse backgrounds and enjoy opportunities for travel. Financial favours are returned.VIRGO - August 23 - September 22In professional circles, it’s important to maintain a higher profi le. Platonic relationships are highlighted. A fl ighty friend is more practical. A relative is willing to lend an ear.LIBRA - September 23 - October 22Romance plays a major role. Friends become closer and more trust-worthy. In fi nancial dealings, examine details but don’t ignore the larger picture either.SCORPIO - October 23 - November 21Building on current relationships is the focus this week. Be more realistic in business dealings. A volunteer assignment is highlighted and offers a fringe benefi t.SAGITTARIUS - November 22 - December 22Partnership ventures are favoured, provided you know your partners very well. This is a good week for fi lling in applications and attending interviews. A family member is unexpectedly supportive.CAPRICORN - December 23 - January 20It’s best to tackle one important job than to experiment with sundry tasks. Visitors may arrive ahead of schedule. Romance favours a traditional approach right now.AQUARIUS - January 21 - February 19This is a good time for quiet refl ection. You gain new insights into a present relationship. A friend’s good fortune makes you feel like a winner too. Career decisions are long lasting.PISCES - February 20 - March 20Your partner is more open. This is the time to discuss shared goals. Be wary of slick salespeople. Don’t postpone health related activities.BIRTHDAY THIS WEEKYou are creative and compassionate and you tend to get carried away when you take on a project or a cause. Intuition is uncommonly sharp. A more realistic approach to your career and fi nance can lead to steady gains. The emphasis is on becoming more decisive.

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THE refurbishment of the RSL Toora Sub-Branch clubrooms is nearing completion.

The secretary of the RSL, John Milroy is pleased with how the re-freshed building looks.

“Improvements include a new roof, relining of the interior, installa-tion of new windows, installation of new toilets, including a disabled toilet and a new access ramp,” Mr Milroy said.

“All that we are waiting on now is the new carpet.”

The Department of Veterans’ Af-fairs has helped to fund the major overhaul.

“We are just waiting on the confi r-mation of a fi nal grant from the De-partment of Veterans’ Affairs to help us with the fi nal stages,” Mr Milroy

said.The RSL Sub-Branch in Toora

was originally established in 1921 and has been in the current building since around 1946, which is a former army barracks that was brought in to the town.

The clubrooms are used nearly every night of the week, for activities such as darts and pool competitions and social gatherings. Everyone is welcome at the RSL and new mem-bers are always encouraged.

The RSL will host its annual An-zac Day celebrations, beginning with a Dawn Service at the Toora Ceno-taph, at 6am, followed by the ‘Gun-fi re’ breakfast at the RSL clubrooms. A gold coin donation is appreciated for breakfast and everyone is wel-come.

At 9.30am, a service and wreath

laying ceremony will be held at the Welshpool Cenotaph, followed by a brief service at the Welshpool Memo-rial Hall. Light refreshments will be served at the hall.

At 11am, a service and wreath laying ceremony will be held at the Toora Cenotaph, followed by a march to the Toora Hall for the service.

At midday, a luncheon will be served at the Toora RSL clubrooms and will cost $5 per person.

After lunch at 2pm, Two Up will be played at the clubrooms.

Celebrate Anzac Day at Toora

Toora remembers: Toora RSL Sub-Branch secretary, John Milroy encourages everyone to attend an Anzac Day service at Toora or Welshpool on Wednes-day, April 25.

By Sarah Vella

PROM View Lodge in Toora is undergoing change, with the in-troduction of Eden Alternative principles.

Brenda Thompson, the staff mem-ber in charge of recreation and leisure at the aged care facility is positive that the introduction of the new principles and philosophies are a step in the right direction for the home.

“A few months ago, staff members from Prom View Lodge attended an Eden Alternative training course. It was all about aged care, with a resi-dent, or elder, focus,” Ms Thompson said.

“We work where the elders live; they don’t live where we work.

“It is about trying to remove the clinical aspect of aged care. This is not a hospital, it is a home. Our residents just need some help.

“Statistically, staff who work in Eden Homes are happier, have less sick days and experience lower staff turnover rates, which in turn increases the consistency of care for the elders.

“The new strategies are great for

the elders as they empower them and aim to remove some of the loneliness, helplessness and boredom they may be suffering.”

The Eden Alternative’s principle-based philosophy helps the staff, or care partners, to transform institution-al approaches to care into the creation of a community where life is worth living.

Some ways that the Toora home is attempting to do this include inviting church leaders to come in on a regu-lar basis to visit, pray, bless and give services to the elders who would like to take part.

A toy box has been put together, to provide entertainment for children of visiting family members.

“The elders enjoy watching the spontaneity of the playing children, all of the toys in the toy box have been donated by the staff,” Ms Thompson said.

The facility has recently become the home of Hokey and Pokey, two young Macquarie turtles, provided by the CEO of the Prom Country Aged Care Group, Claire Schmierer, who provide important interaction opportu-nities for the elders.

Claire also has a Spoodle puppy named Honey, who regularly pays a visit to the Toora home and spends time with the elders.

Other activities the elders are able to participate in include garden walks, singing groups, bingo and games, such as scuds and cards.

A Men’s Shed program has been running since November, and gives the male elders an opportunity for some ‘bloke time’, where they can have a beer if they wish and have a discussion about the topic of the month.

The Toora Primary School sends students once a month to entertain the elders and to share their causes, such as recycling.

The home is always looking for volunteers who would be willing to spend some time with the elders and to be a part of their lives.

People are encouraged to come in and read, discuss current affairs, play cards, go for walks, give hand mas-sages, or just listen to what the elders have to say.

“It is important for the elders to know that there are no walls between them and the community,” Ms Thomp-son said.

A new concept in care

Music therapy: residents of Prom View Lodge in Toora enjoy a music therapy session, where they are encouraged to sing, dance or to just listen and enjoy the songs. Prom Country Aged Care Group CEO Claire Schimerer, recreation and leisure co-ordinator Brenda Thompson and musical therapist, Jenny Lake with some of the residents, from left, Golda McCormick, Kath Morris, Jerry Lake and Helen Brickle.

ON Tuesday, March 27, students from the Welshpool Primary School travelled to South Gippsland Secondary College in Foster to compete in the Prom Coast athletics carnival.

The students competed against other schools in the Prom Coast cluster, includ-ing Darby, Oberon, Waratah and Toora, and placed second overall, a fantastic effort from the students.

Seven students will move on to compete at the district athletics carnival, where schools from the Prom Coast cluster will compete against students from the Waratah cluster.

The event is on Friday and will be held at the South Gippsland Secondary Col-lege in Foster.

The students from Welshpool who will be competing at the carnival include Kea-lee Hamilton, Ebony Hendrie, Fergus Cashmore, Eryn James, Chloe Macphail, Josh Albrecht and Brandon Lawrence.

The sports that will be represented by the students include high jump, shot put, discus, running, hurdles and triple jump.

Athletics carnival

ON the last day of term one, the students at Welshpool Pri-mary School held a fundraising morning and tree planting, in memory of Grandma Joanna.

Grandma Joanna was one of two volunteer gar-

deners who came to the school on a regular basis to work with the students in the gardening program.

Joanna passed away in 2011 after a long battle with leukaemia, which was a sad time for the school.

The students decided that in memoriam to her commitment to the school,

her kind and happy spirit and to pay tribute to her efforts, they would like to plant a tree on the school grounds.

The school’s young-est student, Kaitlyn Doran planted the tree, while the school captains, Ebony Hendrie and Joseph Platt gave speeches in Joanna’s

honour.The students also man-

aged to raise $116 for the Cancer Council, through activities on the day such as an Easter hat parade, a rabbit coin line, and Eas-ter egg guessing competi-tion and a make and create competition.

On your marks: Welshpool Primary School students from left, Brandon Lawrence, Jacob Albrecht, Chloe Macphail, Ebony Hendrie, Kealee Ham-ilton, Fergus Cashmore and Eryn James are set to take on the district athlet-ics carnival on Friday

Grandma Joanna memorial day

In memoriam: school captains, Joseph Platt and Ebony Hendrie gave speeches at the tree planting ceremony on the last day of term one.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 37

Meals roster

(Leongatha)Mary MacKillop College (Mon, Wed, Thur, Fri), Yooralla (Tues), J. Hay-ward (Mon, Tues, Thur, Fri), SG Specialist School (Wed) and Leongatha Secondary College (all week) will be responsible for the delivery of meals on wheels, the week be-ginning April 30, 2012.

By Jane Ross

WHEN South Gippsland artist John Koenders was offered a commission by con-struction company Thiess Degremont to paint the desalination plant at Wonthaggi, he thought about it for a long time.

Was he selling his soul to the devil?

He was repelled by the thought of painting an in-dustrial site, but the more he went to look at what was being constructed at Williamsons Beach, the more he realised how much work had gone into blending the facility into its surroundings.

“And,” he explained, “every artist in the world likes to do something historical.”

For John, like it or not, the desalination plant pro-vided that opportunity.

In the end, he decided that if he didn’t take the commission, someone else would, so he set about the task with a combination of long experience, artistic cre-ativity and considered care.

The result is a pleasing canvas with a certain light-ness that takes almost an aerial view. Grass-tufted sand dunes and seagulls

make up the foreground and there is a construction hel-met tucked into the coastal grasses on the right.

The latter, said the artist, represents the many work-ers who have laboured on the plant’s construction and also evokes the sentiment that man has been there and the dunes restored.

“I spent many hours out there,” John said. “The over-all project is 39 hectares.”

As John continued to visit, he said the indus-trial site gave way to one that was blending in to the environment.

He tried his best to incor-porate that into the painting.

Plants are growing on the roof of part of the plant and John said his wife Di, a wildlife artist, was interested to see terns and other birds among those plants.

John took drawings from a hill on the site and said he spent a very long time cre-ating the fi nal work. He’s happy with the result.

Framed in gold, the painting was presented to Bass Coast Shire Council at its monthly meeting last Wednesday evening by de-salination project director John Barraclough.

Despite the fact that councillors were once so in-censed by the previous State Government’s handling of the desalination project they voted to have nothing to do

Now it’s desal on canvas

Here you are: Wonthaggi desalination project director John Barraclough pres-ents a painting of the plant to Bass Coast Shire mayor Cr Veronica Dowman.

with it, mayor Cr Veronica Dowman received the gift with her customary grace and aplomb.

But not everyone in the council chamber shared her sensibilities.

When John Barraclough rose to hand over the paint-ing, Cr Gareth Barlow left the chamber.

A vociferous desalina-tion opponent, he said later the presentation appalled him.

The council has a large collection of art and long ago ran out of walls on which to display it.

When The Star asked shire CEO Allan Bawden where he planned to hang this latest acquisition, he re-plied, “I don’t know.”

“I suggest the Rhyll Transfer Station!” declared Cr Barlow.

He wasn’t the only one to leave the council chamber during the presentation.

Six members of desali-nation protest group Wa-tershed Victoria had seated themselves in the front row of the gallery, right next to Mr Barraclough and his col-league Karen Lee. The six walked out too.

Asked by The Star if he led the mass exit, Cr Bar-low said he had had no idea that’s what the Watershed members were going to do.

Watershed’s vice presi-dent Jessica Harrison told The Star the next day that group members believed it was far more important for desalination consortium AquaSure to focus on moni-toring the marine environ-ment rather than commis-sioning paintings.

Her colleague Stella Hitchins said given Aqua-Sure isn’t paying rates to the council, she wondered if she gifted a painting to the shire, would that absolve her from rates?

MARGARET Fisher welcomed everyone to the April meeting, followed by the pledge.

Our unit and the Tarwin Lower United Church had a very successful jumble sale at the local market, from books, knick-knacks, even the kitchen sink.

This was well attended, raising $530 to be divided between both organisations.

Our money collected is to go to Red Cross Calling as well as Neil and Marie McIntosh running a raffl e at the Fish Creek Hotel, and collection tins at Tarwin Lower store, Tarwin Lower post offi ce, Tarwin Lower hotel and collection at the Venus Bay caravan park. Many thanks to those who collected, as well as the public who gave so generously.

With the business dealt with, Margaret welcomed our guest speakers, Jenny Hibbit and Anne McIntyre from CERT at Venus Bay. Jenny said that CERT started in 2007 and has 13 trained CERT members. When 000 is rung the ambulance notifi es CERT which attends to the patient before the ambulance arrives.

Last year they attended 129 calls, two very special cases; one was the delivery of a baby and the second, the resuscitation rescue for a drowning.

CERT are very passionate about their work and train-ing they do, and it is very rewarding when they are able to assist in emergencies, reassuring the patient and fam-ily before the ambulance gets there.

They stressed that everyone should know how to do CPR and this was demonstrated to us on the doll.

Margaret thanked Jenny and Anne for their informa-tive talk and presented them with fl owers and gift, also the CERT teams that attend these emergencies.

The raffl e of an Easter rabbit and eggs was won by Glenda Arbuthnot, donated by Trudy McColl.

The enjoyable day fi nished with a cuppa and chat.

Tarwin Lower Red Cross

GIPPSLAND Ports is working with Gippsland Water Po-lice to improve water safety around Inver-loch’s Anderson Inlet following complaints from the community about repeated inci-dents involving jet skis.

While Gippsland Ports highlights the laws around boating, including the need for jet skis and motorboats to abide by the fi ve-knot zones, Gippsland Water Po-lice will enforce them.

The Gippsland Ports Harbour Master, Tim Hungerford-Morgan, says many boat operators who use Anderson Inlet are weekend or occasional visitors who do not under-stand the waterway.

“This is a very dynamic waterway that keeps on changing. Sand bars move, channels shift and there has

been signifi cant erosion and vegetation in the water,” Mr Hungerford-Morgan said.

“The existing channel is relatively new. These changes all infl uence how you should operate a boat safely.

“Gippsland Ports is working to ensure that the zoning marks and informa-tion are quite clear so that the boating public is aware of the attributes and dangers of this waterway.”

Mr Hungerford-Morgan said there have been numer-ous complaints from the community about jet skis ignoring the fi ve-knot zone, which extends 100 metres from the high-water mark and stretches the full length of the Inverloch shoreline.

The zone is clearly marked with regular yellow fi ve-knot buoys.

Under Victorian regula-tions, vessel operators must study the map and zoning rules before they enter the water.

Jet ski focus at InverlochThere is a zoning map at

the Inverloch jetty and boat ramp and Gippsland Ports has recently installed an information board display-ing all relevant maps and notices to mariners.

All boat operators, in-cluding jet skis, must drop their speed to below fi ve knots when they pass within 50 metres of a swimmer, re-gardless of where the swim-mer is.

Zoning map: all water craft operators are required to study the zoning map before entering the water, to ensure the safety of the entire community. A cur-rent map is located at the Inverloch jetty and boat ramp.

PAGE 38 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012

LEONGATHA South Primary School is still a place of learning for a small group of ladies.

Eight ladies have been getting in touch with their artistic side in the school for the past 10 years and have enjoyed every minute.

The group meets once a week and works on their art skills together as well as their own pieces, while constantly sharing ideas and tips.

“We all work on our art individually and keep each other motivated with new works,” group member Pat Dempsey said.

“We all work in different ways with different mediums, but we still fi nd ways to always help each other out.”

The group used to have a teacher but now they just learn from their experiences and what knowledge each member brings to the session.

There is defi nitely an arty vibe from the moment you step into the work place, because a number sketches line the pin boards inside the old school house.

Art may be the focus of the session butit is also a great chance for the ladies tochat and have a coffee.

“It’s a very noisy place sometimes, be-cause we all like to chat away while wework,” Nola Sieh-Brown said.

“We talk about lots of different thingsbut try and keep the conversation happy.”

The group will be holding an exhi-bition at the Meeniyan Art Gallery fromApril 27 through to May 9.

The exhibition of mixed media, titledThe Art of Friends, will show off theplethora of talent that the group has inmany different styles of art.

This is not the group’s fi rst exhibitionin the local area, having held several ingalleries in Fish Creek and Inverloch inthe past.

“We have been in exhibitions asa group and individually before,” MsDempsey said.

“But we encourage people to get downand view the work that is created in thecompany of friends.”

Friend fuelled art down south

Top art: making up the friendly group of artists who use the old Leongatha South Primary School are Ma-rie Werrett, Nola Sieh-Brown, Chezz Bradshaw, Alayne McKenzie, Pat Dempsey and June Rahn. Absent are Di Campbell and Jane Ziebell.

EILEEN Thurgood and Dineke McLean have been announced as the judges in the Liberated Books art-ist’s book competi-tion, held at the Leon-gatha Gallery.

The competition cel-ebrates 40 years of art and craft in South Gippsland.

Eileen Thurgood is director of the East Gippsland Art Gallery in Bairnsdale.

Eileen was the guest speaker at the launch of Liberated Books last No-

Artist’s book competition open

vember, where she gave a fascinating insight into the concept of the artist’s book and how it has evolved.

Dineke McLean said “obsession with the book arts is in my blood.”

Her work can be found in private and public col-lections and she is a tutor in book arts at adult educa-tion centres.

Leongatha Art and Craft Society president Patricia Hill said that in-terest in Liberated Books is building towards the extended closing date of June 15.

She said that all eligible and winning entries will be exhibited at Meeniyan Art Gallery after an offi cial opening on September 2.

“The link with Meeni-yan Art Gallery came about because our gal-lery in Leongatha doesn’t have the space or facilities for an exhibition of this scale,” Patricia said.

“The great thing about our competition is that it is open to all artists, any-where in Australia and even overseas, not just lo-cal people. It is certainly not limited to members of the two galleries.

“This is a perfect op-portunity not only for established book artists but also for up-and-com-ing artists to try some-thing new and showcase their work in a dedicated exhibition.

“For many of the people entering the com-petition, this will be the fi rst time they’ve created an artist’s book and that’s something we want to en-courage. We say to them, have a go, as they stand to win a cash prize from a pool of $1750.”

For example: miniature book Fishing by Dineke McLean, created from hand-made paper, paper string, acrylic mediums and found objects.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 39

AN extraordinary exhibition of early Australian fi ne art, Austra-lian Artists of Infl uence, will be unveiled at an offi cial opening night at the Coal Creek Commu-nity Art Gallery on Friday, May 4 at 7pm.

Entry is free and all are welcome, par-ticularly those interested in developing a fi ne art collection.

Cathie Stocky MA, of Kew’s Cotham Gallery, has put together this stunning ar-ray of art pieces sought by art historians and collectors of fi ne art, and will present an outline of their importance and value.

“Through these artists’ works you can see the defi ning steps in the evolvement in our unique Australian art style,” she said.

“Many of these artists trained in Aus-tralia, extended their knowledge abroad, and shared it with others when they re-turned.

“Some are associated with art groups while others worked independently. Many taught while others critiqued or governed institutions that encouraged and promoted Australian art.

“Painters from the late Heidelberg School, the Heidi circle, Max Meldrum and the George Bell School are included. Although these artists have all passed away, many will continue to infl uence Australian art practice for decades to come.”

Signifi cant teachers include Kenneth Jack, who mentored hundreds of stu-dents throughout a distinguished teaching career.

Scarecrow: by Kenneth Jack.

Trail blazing art on show at Coal CreekTogether he and Jack Courier

pioneered printmaking at Caulfi eld Institute, now part of the Monash, until both retired to extend their own art practice.

Lionel Lindsay, Robert Campbell and Allan McCulloch forged repu-tations as art connoisseurs, writers, critics and gallery directors. Charles Bush established the Leveson Gal-lery and was a mentor to many.

“Tom Garrett and Mathew MacNally belong to that small group of exquisite watercolour painters whose work became known through gallery exhibitions from the 1920s,” Ms Stocky said.

“Hal Waugh, Nora Gurdon and Stewart Handasyde, were associated with the Heidelberg School.

“Jack Courier and Bernard Law-son were associated with the pre-war

George Bell School. Post war Bell associates included Bill Coleman, Mary MacQueen, Valerie Albiston and Yvonne Cohen. Len Thompson, Meldrum’s son-in-law, represents the tonalists.”

All pieces are available for sale and Djinta Djinta Winery is a proud sponsor of the exhibition. The exhi-bition will continue until May 31.

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WHEN you mention delivering electronically, most people would assume you’re talking about email, however this is not the case for Grow Lightly.

Senator David Feeney launched the company’s electric powered delivery van at the Korumburra Sustainability Festival held at Coal Creek, on Saturday, April 14.

The converted van is owned by the South Gippsland based fresh fruit and vegetable network.

The electric conversion was completed by a team from the Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies (CERES).

CERES has been involved in the de-sign and conversion of VicRoads compli-ant electric vehicles since 2007.

The fully electric van will be used for produce collection for Grow Lightly as part of its supply to around 50 local households in the South Gippsland area.

With the number plate PLUGIN and the Grow Lightly logo, the van will be a visible example of technological innova-tion in South Gippsland.

Senator Feeney congratulated produc-tion team members Rhys Freeman and Bryce Gaton who were at the launch.

He also congratulated Gil and Mer-edith Freeman, Grow Lightly’s organisers whose investment in the vehicle made the development possible.

“The Gillard Government strongly supports the transition of Australia to a low carbon economy,” he said.

“We applaud community efforts to show the way towards sustainable living.”

Senator Feeney said the government’s Clean Energy Future Package will bring increased investment to clean technolo-gies. The package will also provide assis-tance to ordinary householders to ensure they do not get left behind.

“In this seat of McMillan for example, 46,000 out of 52,000 taxpayers will re-ceive a tax cut; more than 47,200 people will receive household assistance and more than 12,600 families will receive extra cash through their family assistance payments,” he said.

The Senator took a ride in the electric van, assisted Councilor Mohya Davies with the launch of the festival and walked around the festival and farmers’ market.

“South Gippsland Shire’s initiative to hold the Korumburra Sustainability Festi-val is highly commendable. Festivals like this stimulate and encourage community involvement in this vital issue.”

Senator launches electric van

Electronically in action: Senator David Feeney launches Grow Lightly’s electric van at the Korumburra Sustainability Festival recently, which will be used to deliver produce to around 50 local households.

Students from the region will have the op-portunity to learn vital fi rst aid and resus-citation skills, as Life Saving Victoria’s ‘Resuscitate a Mate’ program tours the state next month.

The ‘Resuscitate a Mate’ tour will visit schools from May 28 to June 1, equipping students with the knowledge to potentially save a life in an emergency situation.

Life Saving Victoria Co-ordinator of Community Education Services, Michael Ericson, said the ses-sions provide students with an introduction to emer-gency response management.

“By introducing lifesaving concepts at an early age, students are more likely to foresee danger and know how to respond in emergency situations,” Mr Ericson said.

“Schools have a fantastic opportunity to have trained LSV staff visit their school and engage stu-dents with potential lifesaving skills.

“The ‘Resuscitate a Mate’ program is a very popu-lar one, and we urge all schools interested in partici-pating to book their place promptly.”

For more information or to book a program, con-tact LSV Education Services on (03) 9676 6940 or visit www.lifesavingvictoria.com.au/resuscitateamate

Students learn lifesaving concepts

MEMBER for Eastern Victoria, Philip Davis has congratulated local authorities and com-munity groups on their nominations in the upcoming annual Victorian Coastal Awards for Excellence.

Mr Davis said eight projects in Bass Coast will be among the 35 in the running to win the prestigious awards during a ceremony on April 26, at Melbourne Museum.

Projects include a program to eradicate the threat of foxes to Phillip Island’s penguins and the protection of the picturesque Bunurong Coast.

“These awards recognise the signifi cant work being done by coastal communities across the state to look after and improve their environment,” Mr Davis said.

“The Fox Free Phillip Island program, for example, has signifi cantly reduced fox numbers and in the last two years there have been no penguins killed.

“Whether it is councils, ratepayers, rangers and researchers or grassroots community groups, these volunteers and organisations are being acknowledged for protecting our coast and coastal environment for generations to come.”

Nominees from the Bass Coast region include the Bass Coast Shire Council, the Big Wave Complex, Cape Paterson’s Ratepayers Association, Bunurong Coast Education, Two Bays Saltwater Project and Phil-lip Island Nature Parks.

Locals nominated for Victorian Coast Awards

THIESS Degremont Nacap con-tinues to restore roads damaged during Wonthaggi desalination plant construction.

Gurdies-St Heliers Road in The Gur-dies and Stewart Road Kernot are next on the list.

Work on both should have started last week and is expected to take three

weeks to complete.Reinstatement works mean Gurdies/

St Heliers Road between Stewart Road and the Bass Highway, will be closed during working hours.

The section of Stewart Road be-tween where the pipeline crosses it, to Gurdies-St Heliers Road, will also be closed during working hours.

Desal road restoration

AUTUMN conditions have created ideal growing conditions for poisonous mush-rooms, Victoria’s acting chief health offi cer, Dr Michael Ackland, warned.

“People should avoid gathering wild mushrooms around Melbourne, in ru-ral Victoria and from their own gardens because of the risk of collecting poisonous

varieties which may appear very similar to edible vari-eties,” Dr Ackland said.

He identifi ed the dan-gers of two of the state’s most dangerous variet-ies, the Death Cap fungus, Amanita phalloides and the Yellow Staining mush-room, Agaricus xanthoder-mus.

The warning coin-cides with the arrival of the mushrooming season, spawned when rain encour-ages growth of the fungi in

the still warm earth.“Anyone who becomes

ill after eating mushrooms should seek urgent medi-cal advice and, if possible, take samples of the whole mushroom for identifi ca-tion,” he said.

More information about this species can be found on the Better Health Chan-nel website and a chief health offi cer’s alert is at: http://www.health.vic.gov.au/chiefhealthofficer/in-dex.htm

Poison mushroom warning

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DAIRY farmers in Gippsland are well placed to experience another solid year with a profi table end to the 2011-12 season, according to the ANZ Bank.

ANZ’s head of agribusiness, Mark Bennett, commented on the positive outlook for the local dairy industry recently.

“The 2011-12 season has been a particularly good one for the local dairy industry, with farmers

benefi ting from low feed prices, good early rains and reasonable milk prices at just over $5,” Mr Bennett said.

“Local dairy farms escaped any major impact from fl ooding that affected parts of Gippsland last year, which gives them a chance to fi nish the season on a high.

“Farmers have generally experienced better fi nancial conditions in the last couple of years that has aided consolidation, so we’re anticipating that the bulk of

any 2011-2012 surplus will be used to invest in their farming operations to increase productivity levels.

“The strong fi nish to the season would also help set up a sound start to the 2012-13 season. Farms should start the new season with good feed cover, the cows in good order and other feed input costs down. If these conditions stay on track and international prices stabilise, then the region’s dairy farmers can look forward to a further strong fi nancial result.”

Dairy profi ts on horizon

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VLE LEONGATHAKOONWARRA

1. David Phelan & Co 2. Rodwells 3. Elders 4. Alex Scott 5. Landmark 6. SEJ

Sale Draw

Upcoming SalesLEONGATHA

Prime: April 25 - No Sale

Store: May 3 - 10amSheep: April 25 -

No Sale

PAKENHAMStore: April 26 - 10am Prime: May 7 - 8am

Export: May 8 - 8.30am

May 2 & 3

FRIESIAN and FRIESIAN X

HEIFERSAll beef breeds

Phone 0427 871 268

BOBBY CALVES WANTED

• VLE LEONGATHA

Cheaper market across board

Thursday April 19Total yarding: 2261.Steers: Davard Nom

P/L, Meeniyan, 11 x $975; H.P. & J.E. Burton, Mir-boo North, 21 x $970; D.C. & F.M. Alexander, Mardan, 4 x $960; T. & C. Hibma, Mirboo North, 1 x

$955; Beverly Farms P/L, Poowong, 3 x $935; Nala-jule Nom, Leongatha, 17 x $905.

Heifers: Beverly Farms P/L, Poowong, 2 x $900; G. & M. Barker Family Trust, Stony Creek, 12 x $885; D. Thompson, Ner-rena, 1 x $765; G.D. &

VLE store sale

THERE was an increase in the total numbers penned, but down on the original draw.

There were 1000 bullocks offered and their qual-ity was good. There were around 550 trade cattle also penned and these were of mixed quality, with only a small selection of vealers.

There was a large number of grass fi nished cattle available. The 750 very mixed quality cows were offered to a smaller group of buyers in a cheaper market.

The vealers ranged from 200c to 231c/kg for the bet-ter lines purchased for slaughter. Yearling steers, medi-um and heavy weight made from 170c to 205c, as heavy trade heifers sold from 180c to 202c/kg. This was 7c/kg cheaper. The grown steers eased 10c to 15c/kg and more in places. The heavy steers ranged mostly from 187c to 193c with sales to 197.2c/kg. The bullocks, in large num-bers, averaged 182c after reaching 196.2c/kg.

Cows were 5c to 15c/kg cheaper for both dairy and beef breeds. The one score medium and heavy dairy cows ranged from 110c to 126c, as the two and three scores made 122 to 144c/kg. Heavy beef cows ranged from 135c to 159c as the over conditioned lines sold mainly from 120c to 135c/kg.

Wednesday, April 18 BULLOCKS8 A. & C. Ball, Korumburra 606kg 197.2 $119620 Horsfi eld Farms, Thorpdale 557kg 195.2 $10872 G. & L. Jennings, Korumburra 580kg 194.0 $1125

6 R. & W. Davey, Hazelwood 583kg 194.0 $113114 R.J. & R.H. Findlay, Leongatha 573kg 193.6 $110910 Condolucci Produce, Leongatha 582kg 193.0 $1123STEERS1 B.A. & I.M. Ross, Poowong 365kg 225.6 $8234 K.A. & S.I. Gilliland, Won Wron 386kg 225.0 $8461 Farm Ex P/L, Trafalgar South 355kg 223.6 $7931 B.G. & J.M. Taylor, Mardan 425kg 222.0 $9431 P. & C. Body, Jeeralang 375kg 220.0 $8251 K.A. & S.I. Gilliland, Won Wron 330kg 220.0 $726COWS1 Northside Pastoral, Inverloch 540kg 168.6 $9101 D. Jelbart, Tarwin Lower 430kg 159.6 $6861 Hinchcliffe Holding P/L, Glengarry 510kg 156.6 $7981 C. & L. Daley, Leongatha 735kg 150.0 $11022 Couins Holding, Giffard 522kg 148.6 $7761 G. Abrahamson, Wonthaggi 600kg 148.6 $891HEIFERS1 A.R. & S.J. Browne, Drumdlemara 360kg 231.6 $8331 K.A. & S.I. Gilliland, Won Wron 365kg 229.0 $8351 Farm Ex P/L, Trafalgar South 340kg 223.6 $7601 P. & C. Body, Jeeralang 445kg 220.0 $9791 Glendarra Past Co, Dumbalk 365kg 218.6 $7971 N.A.J. Toward, Woorayl 330kg 215.0 $709BULLS1 D. & K. Clark, Nerrena 480kg 170.0 $8161 A. Stollery, Mirboo North 855kg 165.0 $14101 Elkenbrae, Beaconsfi eld 965kg 165.0 $15921 G. & L. Jennings, Korumburra 1140kg 165.0 $18811 J. & S. Kelly, Korumburra 1040kg 160.6 $16701 E.J. & A. Opray, Dumbalk 960kg 158.6 $1522

R.L. Trease, Mardan, 4 x $765; H. Staben, Poowong East, 8 x $715; G.B. & J.L. Hill, Poowong, 7 x $700.

Cows: D.W. & M.L. Taylor, Mirboo North, 7 x $1510; W.F. & A.R. Walk-er, Leongatha, 7 x $860; T.J. & H.D. Robb, Leon-gatha, 6 x $775.

Cows and calves: T.S. & M.P.C. McConnell, Korumburra, 5 x $1790; R.J. Harris, Korumburra South, 5 x $1785; Aeek Nominees, Mt Waverly, 6 x $1420; G. Jakschik, Mir-boo, 4 x $1290; A. Mc-Namara, Poowong North, 2 x $1275; G.J. & J.M. McGrath, 2 x $1270.

Having a look: Sid and Cheryl Jones of Kernot were enjoying their morning out at the sale at Koonwarra on Thursday.

A NEW Landcare group will be established ser-vicing Kongwak and Lance Creek.

Bass Coast Landcare Network held a meeting at the Kongwak Hall recently to gauge the public’s interest.

The creation of the group is in motion.“We are very pleased with the turn out and enthusiasm

of the community members that attended,” said Sarah Van Stokrom, Bass Coast Landcare Network Group facilitator.

Twenty-one people attended the meeting where Ms Van Stokrom provided an overview of the Bass Coast Landcare Network and what being a Landcare group member means.

The inaugural meeting for the Lance Creek/Kongwak Group has been scheduled for Sunday, April 29 at the Butter Factory in Kongwak at noon.

During the meeting, the executive committee will be elected and some priority issues that were discussed at the public meeting further explored.

“Some priority issues that the community members were interested in pursuing were erosion control, weeds and the protection and enhancement of riparian areas, in particular Foster Creek,” Ms Van Stokrom said.

The start up of this group is being funded by the Lance Creek/Candowie Group which is winding down its operation which has achieved a lot in its 20 years of operation.

The group is donating $5000 to the Lance Creek/Kongwak Group to give them a helping hand to start up.

Landholders that were in the Lance Creek/Candowie Group will now either fall into the still very active Bass Valley Landcare Group or the new Kongwak Group.

“I’m looking forward to watching new Landcarers and old Landcarers work together in the Kongwak area and can’t wait to assist them to get funding for the group to start tackling its priority issues,” Ms Van Stokrom said.

If you would like some further information about the Lance Creek/Kongwak Landcare Group, please call Ms Van Stokrom on 0417 392 745.

BEEF producers will have the opportunity to hear from experts and learn how to get the most from their herds at the inaugural Gippsland Beef School next month.

The school will be held on Fri-day, May 11 at Lardner Park, near Warragul.

Guest speakers include Tim McRae speaking on the market outlook and Rod Manning talking about managing a highly profi table beef herd.

Following morning tea, partici-pants will attend four classes. There will be multiple classes run at the same time; participants will need to

choose the topics that best fi t their business needs.

Subjects to select from are stock assessment (steers in morning ses-sion, bulls/cows in afternoon ses-sion), genetics, getting the best from your grazing, heifer manage-ment, minimising the impacts of pestivirus, ruminant nutrition and what you can do regarding carbon/emissions.

The cost of the Gippsland Beef School is $60 per person or $110 if you choose to attend the industry dinner the prior evening.

The dinner will be a three course meal, with drinks at bar prices.

Tim O’Connor will outline how you can supply O’Connors at Pak-

enham. Find out how the Lardner Park’s steer trial can benefi t your business. Learn how you could be a part of Gippsland Natural/Enviromeat and hear from a local producer why they chose to direct market their beef.

The Gippsland Beef School is delivered by the Department of Pri-mary Industries’ Better Beef Net-work in conjunction with Meat and Livestock Australia’s More Beef from Pastures program.

Be quick, registrations for the school are limited to 120 people. Registration forms are available from Fiona Baker, DPI Ellinbank, 5624 2234 or fi ona.baker@dpi.vic.gov.au

Landcare group evolves

Beef farmers go back to school

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 45

Above: For sale: CliveHollins and Sally Lowe of Kilcunda both had some cattle up for sale on Thursday.

Left: Selling: Richardand Lynette Rhodes from Alberton had a pen of cattle to sell at the store sale in Koon-warra on Thursday.

Below: Big sale: DickClose (left) from Lang Lang and Lloyd Hum-phreys of Koo Wee Rup were impressed by the large yarding of cattle.

FISH Creek egg producer Meg Parkinson has missed out on her latest bid to be-come president of the Victo-rian Farmers Federation.

Pyramid Hill grain grower Peter Tuohey was named president at the VFF’s Annual Conference in Ben-digo on Friday. Orbost livestock producer Chris Nixon also stood.

Mr Tuohey said: “I’m very proud to be the next president of the VFF. I intend to deliver on ev-erything promised and roll up my sleeves and work hard.”

He has a long association with

the VFF, having been the VFF vice president, chair of the Farm Business and Regional Develop-ment Committee and grains vice president.

Mr Tuohey runs a 3000ha cereal and canola property with his wife Kaye and his son Daniel.

The family also runs a wool growing and prime lamb produc-tion system, with 1000 breeding ewes.

Mr Tuohey has said he wants to drive membership by encouraging more involvement from young peo-ple and women in the organisation.

A new vice president has

also been appointed, with David Jochinke from Murra Warra taking the mantle.

“I’ll be sure to back Peter up as best I can, and if there’s anything that members need then let us know, because we’re here for you,” Mr Jochinke said.

Mr Jochinke is a young, third generation grains farmer who has served on the VFF board as treasurer.

The new leaders will both serve a two-year term with the VFF be-fore the positions go back to re-election.

Presidential bid unsuccessful

DAIRY Australia launched the Cows Create Careers – Man-ufacturing project in Leongatha recently.

Seven Gippsland schools will be participating in the project this year: Leongatha Secondary College, Koru-mburra Secondary College, Yarram Secondary Col-lege, Wonthaggi Secondary College, Mary MacKillop Catholic Regional College, Newhaven College and Marist Sion Regional Col-lege. These schools will all undertake the project over the course of this current school term.

The project was fi rst pi-loted in 2010, to encourage food and technology sec-ondary school students to examine the possible career and education pathways that are available within the dairy manufacturing indus-try.

The project involves student teams working together to create an in-novative “dairy creation”, presenting a “dairy spread” – an informative magazine article profi ling what they have learnt about their re-search topic and submitting a school recipe book.

The aims of the project

are to: • Introduce students to

dairy manufacturing career and education pathways;

• provide a platform to introduce students to the Australian dairy industry and its products;

• involve dairy manu-facturing industry advo-cates who have vision and dairy industry knowledge to encourage and support stu-dents with the project; and

• reward successful students and schools at the presentation and awards ceremony.

Industry advocates from Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co Ltd, Fonterra Australia and Burra Foods will generously donate their time to visit students from the participating schools and talk about dairy manu-facturing career pathways.

These students will then have an opportunity to visit a manufacturing site to see some of these pathways fi rst hand.

In 2011, the Cows Cre-ate Careers - Manufactur-ing Module included 25 schools across the regions of Gippsland, northern Vic-toria, north west Tasmania, west Sydney NSW, and south west Victoria.

In 2012, it will be run-

Cooking up a storm

Talking futures: Colleen Herbert (left) and Imo-gin Davis of Mary MacKillop College, Leongatha, hope to promote the benefi t of dairy manufacturing careers.

ning in six regions across Australia, including Gippsland.

The Gippsland Presenta-tion and Awards Ceremony will be held on Friday, June

15 in Leongatha. The win-ning school prize of $500 and winning team prize of $50 a student will be an-nounced on this day.

A NUMBER of inci-dents have recently oc-curred on the CityLink toll road and tunnels in-volving livestock strik-ing road infrastructure.

CityLink road operations manager Peter Doran was concerned.

“Unsecured livestock striking overhead objects obviously presents a number of issues for truck drivers as well as concerns for the animals’ wellbeing and safety; it can also have wide-reaching impacts on safety for other motorists using the road,” he said.

“In February, a cow being transported in a cattle

CityLink reminds truck drivers truck hit the MacRobertson’s Bridge overpass and was subsequently thrown from the truck onto the road. The cow sustained severe injuries and required euthanising by the Department of Primary Industries (DPI).”

When transporting livestock, drivers should plan their journey to avoid

the CityLink tunnels unless the top deck of the trailer is empty or it is covered/ enclosed. See the Victorian Livestock Transport

Association website for maps of alternative routes inbound and outbound, with exits before the tunnels outlined.

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DECLARATION OF SERVICED AREASIn accordance with Section 144 of the Water Act 1989, notice is hereby given that the lots listed below have been provided with water and/or sewer services and are now liable to be rated as serviced properties from the dates also given below.

31 Jumbunna Road, Korumburra PS632800R as from 9th September 2011

9-15 Lower Gordon Street, Korumburra PS625105B as from 13th March 2012

28 Epsom Street, South DudleyPS648691E as from 14th March 2012

Philippe du PlessisManaging Director

public notices public notices

Yarram Country Club

Expressions of InterestExpressions of interest are sought for a contract catering opportunity in the Yarram Country Club, a dynamic sporting and not for profi t community club in the Wellington Shire.The operator would have catering rights in the club’s premises and provide: • a popular bistro style menu to attract members

and visitors; • a light lunch menu for bowlers; • catering for special events, group bookings and

private functions.This is a fabulous business opportunity for an ener-getic applicant who has a good knowledge of clubs and is customer driven. Favourable contract terms will be offered to the successful applicant.

Offers close Friday 25 May 2012

For further informationplease contact the Manager,

Rod Coughran-Lane on(03) 5182 5399

www.yarramcountryclub.com.au

AGED CARE FINANCE INFORMATION EVENING

Prom Country Aged Care Inc. will be hosting an infor-mation session about fi nances related to Residential Aged Care and Respite Care.

Martin Jones from ipac will be discussing different fees and charges including rates and Accommodation Bonds.

The information night will be held on WEDNESDAY 9 MAY 2012

at the South Gippsland Hospital Community Health Centre, 83-87 Station Road, Foster

between 6pm and 8pmThe evening will conclude with a

wine and cheese supper

Please RSVP to Kerry Bright by close of business Monday 30 April 2012 on 5683 9600.

Prom Country Aged Care Inc

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BIG MORNING

TEA51 Parr Street

Leongatha11am

Wednesday May 2Please come along and enjoy the morning, and help us raise money for

cancer.

Mirboo NorthCOUNTRY MARKETBAROMI PARK

Saturday, April 28 (Morning)

Stalls may be set up from 7.30amPlants, toys, bric-a-brac,

books, crafts, flowersContact Maxine 5668 2465

CHIROPRACTORNORMAN G.

VRADENBURG“NON-FORCE

PRACTITIONER”28 Reilly Street,

INVERLOCHHOURS - Monday, Tuesday,

Thursday and Friday by appointment

Phone and fax 5674 3666South Gippsland

Chiropractic Services & Adjunctive Therapies P/L

CHIROPRACTORGarry Harrison19 Moonah Street

Cape PatersonMondayTuesdayThursday

FridayBy appointment

Ph: 5674 8290TATTOOISTSwapping Services

with Farm FencerHallston area

Materials suppliedCameron

0419 119 613

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MAN shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. Deuteronomy 8:3.

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“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 47

Administration Offi cer – OperationsTemporary Full time up to 12 months$53,800 incl superWork with our roads and parks & gardens teams

Based at Leongatha Depot

Casual Teachers – Coal Creek$34.37 per hourShare your passion for education in a historical setting

Flexible work hours

Casual Tour Guides – Coal Creek$27.67 per hourBe the front face of our guided tours

Flexible work hours

Previous applicants for the Coal Creek positions do not need to apply.

For more information go to our website or contact us on (03) 5662 9200.

All applicants must submit an Application Form and address the selection criteria outlined in the position description, by 5pm Wednesday 9 May 2012.

South GippslandShire Council

www.southgippsland.vic.gov.au

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERBass Coast Community Health Services Inc• Innovative health organisation• Enviable rural lifestyle• Attractive salary package

Our client, Bass Coast Community Health Service Inc (BCCHS), provides a comprehensive range of health services for its community. This is an excellent opportunity for a high calibre health professional to lead this unique and innovative organisation. The Board of BCCHS is seeking a dynamic executive to develop and maintain strategic connections and productive relationships with key external stakeholders whilst building the internal capabilities of the organisation.

As the Chief Executive Officer you will be responsible to the Board of Directors for the provision of high quality, f lexible and innovative health services for all age-groups in the Bass Coast region. The CEO is responsible for the leadership and management of BCCHS, including planning, operations, f inance, human resources and administration; and promoting and expanding the organisationís operations.

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced health executive. The role offers the challenge to manage a dynamic and community-based health organisation and the opportunity to enjoy the enviable lifestyle of a coastal community within easy reach of the CBD.

To meet the requirements of the role you will have relevant tertiary qualif ications in management or a health related field, proven financial and management experience and excellent communication skills. Knowledge of relevant funding streams and the primary care policy environment are also required for this position.

An attractive remuneration package will be negotiated with the successful applicant.

Full position details can be obtained from our website at:

www.hrsa.com.auEnquiries should be made in the first instance to Peter McGregor on 0407 139 257 or applications can be forwarded to: hrsa@hrsa.com.au

ZO240690

Operations and Maintenance OperatorA vacancy exists in the Central Western region based in Wonthaggi for an Operations and Maintenance Operator. This role involves carrying out all aspects of the operation and maintenance of South Gippsland Water’s water and wastewater systems.The Corporation is committed to staff development and training and provides ample opportunity to gain skills and experience in a wide range of operations. Salary package is band 3/4:Starting salary ranges between $42,139.24 - $45,185.92Commuter use of a vehicle is provided.The successful applicant will need to be available to work outside of ordinary hours, and require a current manual driver’s licence. Knowledge of the water industry and the ability to use computers are advantageous. Applicants should read the position description which is available with further information at www.sgwater.com.au or phone Paula Smith for a confi dential conversation on 03 5682 0403.

Applications close on Friday 4th May, 2012 email: psmith@sgwater.com.auAtt: HR & Payroll Coordinator, South Gippsland Water, P.O. Box 102, Foster Vic. 3960

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QUALIFIED HAIRDRESSER

FOR BUSY CUTTING-ONLY

SALONFull time / permanent

part time position Cuttin-In

33 Murray Street Wonthaggi

Phone 5672 3533AH: 5672 3696

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BOOKKEEPER WANTED

In Koonwarra Leongatha South area

We need the services of a part time bookkeeper for one

day per week 6 to 8 hrs.Duties will include fi ling,

clerical work, wages, computer input.

Applicant must be Quickbooks familiarVacancy may suit a

mother between school hours or retiree.Phone John on

0419 622 200 or email bestdc@dcsi.net.au

The successful applicant will need to demonstrate the following requirements:• Strong focus on customer service• Excellent communication skills • Excellent organisational skills• Ability to work unsupervised• A sound knowledge of computers and Microsoft

Offi ce software. Experience with MYOB accounting program would be an advantage but not essential.

• Highly motivated• Honest, trustworthy and reliable• Maintain stock control and inventory/data entry

Applicants must hold a current driver’s licence, Medium Rigid licence and forklift licence.

The position is 3 days a week with the fl exibility to in-crease upon experience.

Applications must include a handwritten cover letter with resumé and send to:

The Offi ce Manager62 Old Waratah RoadFish Creek, Vic 3959

Applications Close: Friday 11th May 2012

A long established family business is seeking a

SALES REPRESENTATIVE/TRUCK DRIVERfor On Farm Delivery of Farm Chemicals

and Consumables

situations vacant situations vacant

The Salvation Army Leongatha Community Support Centre seeks someone for the following position

WELFARE CO-ORDINATOR(20hrs per week)

Based at our Leongatha Centre at 52 Anderson Street

The Salvation Army Leongatha assists individuals and families who require help with food and other needs when they are in distress. We also operate a No Interest Loans scheme and provide case management services for those who feel trapped by the welfare system. These services are provided throughout the South Gippsland shire.An exciting opportunity exists for an enthusiastic and highly motivated professional to join our team. This part time position provides the co-ordination of volunteers and one other staff member to provide access for people seeking assistance. It also has hands on interviewing and working with clients.Applicants must be experienced in working with volunteers and have sound written and communication skills. The successful applicant will have an ability to develop ways of engaging people at risk and an understanding of complex systems.A qualifi cation in Social Welfare would be highly desirable.Applicants should address the Job Competencies in the position description.The following criteria are applicable:• Applicants must be willing to work within the Mission

and Values of The Salvation Army.• A current Driver’s licence is essential• A satisfactory Police Check is essential• A Working With Children Check is essential• Proof of eligibility to work in Australia is essential• All applicants are required to cite the name of three (3)

referees.• Applications are to be received no later than close of

business Monday 30th April 2012A position description and application for appointment

can be obtained by contacting: Captain Martyn Scrimshaw (03) 5662 4670

or email: martyn.scrimshaw@aus.salvationarmy.orgThe Salvation Army Leongatha Community Centre

is a Child Safe Organisation

The Salvation Army Leongatha Community CentrePOSITION VACANT

Williams, Edwards & Findlay are one of the largest locally owned Certifi ed Practising Accountancy busi-nesses in South Gippsland. Williams, Edwards & Find-lay have offi ces situated in Korumburra and Wonthaggi that service a clientele base throughout Victoria and Interstate.

A full time, Assistant Accountant/Bookkeeper position has become available in our Wonthaggi Offi ce. This position will involve assistance with the preparation of business activity statements, processing of income tax returns, general accounting and bookkeeping duties.

We are looking to employ a career minded, team orien-tated person that is willing to develop their accounting knowledge within a practical hands on environment.

Experience with Microsoft Offi ce programs, Quickbooks, MYOB and Handisoft and Banklink programs are desirable but not essential.

Send your written applications attention to: Shahana Cowan, C/- Williams, Edwards & Findlay

PO Box 246, Wonthaggi, 3995 or email shahanac@wef.com.au

Applications close: Friday 4th May, 2012www.wef.com.au

ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT/BOOKKEEPER

FULL TIME

WILLIAMS, EDWARDS & FINDLAY

CERTIFIED PRACTISING ACCOUNTANTS

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Applications close 2 May 2012

To apply visit: www.victoria.ymca.org.au/careers

Go online for PD’s and other careers available with YMCA.

WEEKEND MILKER350 COWS

Leongatha SouthPhone Mark 0427 643 241

situations vacant

10 milkings per weekModern shed

Automatic cup removersExperience preferred

but not essentialDriver’s licence requiredContact 0411 869 854

MILKER WANTED

IN FISH CREEK

situations vacant

FULLY Qualifi ed Painter. No job too small. Good rates. Call Drew on 5662-4238 or 0418-517443.

work wanted

DUST IT AWAY CLEANING SERVICE

Family business DOMESTIC AND

COMMERCIAL CLEANINGPensioner ratesCOVERING SOUTH GIPPSLAND AREA

Phone 0400 614 056 or 0409 547 461

wanted14 ACRES Meeniyan area, 0427-647404.

AGISTMENT availableLeongatha, 109 acres. 5662-2578, 0430-767950.

agistment

Email your storieseditorial@thestar.com.au

Catering/Housekeeping PositionsCasual

Enthusiastic and motivated persons are invited to apply for the above positions. Applicants must be willing to work in both areas.

These are casual positions to cover roster vacancies and annual leave. Shifts vary from 3 to 8 hours and include day, late afternoons and weekends.

Applicants are required to provide a current satisfactory police record check and Food Handling qualifi cation. Applicants who hold a current Victorian driver’s licence will be viewed favourably.

Application kit and position descriptions are available to download from the GSHS website www.gshs.com.au or by contacting Lynne Burgess – Hotel Services Man-ager on 5667 5518.

Please forward a completed application kit by the 11th May 2012 to:Janet Arrott-Watt, Personnel ManagerGippsland Southern Health ServicePrivate Bag 13LEONGATHA 3953

PAGE 48 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Caring for our Community,personal dignifi ed service

to all areas

5662 2717Pre-need Funeral Plans available

Offi ce and Chapel: 24 Anderson Street, Leongathahfs1@vic.australis.com.au

MEMBER OFAUSTRALIAN FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION

Paul & Margaret Beck proprietors

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CRYPTIC PUZZLE NO. 8322 - SOLUTIONSAcross - 6, Capital idea. 7, L-is-a. 8, Ruby lips. 9, Fri-end. 10, Second. 12, Ace-ti-C. 15, St-r-uck. 17, Ma-caro-n-I . 19, I-van. 20, Bank charges.Down - 1, Ap-parent. 2, Stared (anag.). 3, Globes (anag.).4, ID-ol (rev.). 5, H-a-pp-en. 6, Crier. 11, Carriage. 13,Crabby. 14, C-hoice. 15, Spir-Al. 16, Chaps. 18, Anna.

QUICK PUZZLE NO. 8322 - SOLUTIONSAcross - 6, Water-colour. 7, Area. 8, Parakeet. 9, Begged.10, Easter. 12, Stream. 15, Stable. 17, Prisoner. 19, Gate.20, French beans.Down - 1, Strangle. 2, Tripod. 3, Coarse. 4, Work. 5,Breeze. 6, Worse. 11, Shanghai. 13, Thrift. 14, Menace.15, Scribe. 16, Lotus. 18, Shed.

WOORAYL GOLF CLUB would like to thank the following businesses for

supporting our Fundraising Auction:Anthony Clemann, A.W. Smith & Sons, B. & J. Fiek, Bendigo Bank, Craig Young Butchery, D. & C. Perrett, D. & J. Lim, Dyson Heppell, Eco Lab, Ej Hair Design, Esplanade Hotel Inverloch, F. & J. Dekker, F. & L. Schwarz, Fluid Beverages P/L, G. & H. Winkler, G.R. & T. Plastering, Hartley Wells, Hays Leading Edge Jewellers, Hickey & Son Landscaping, Holcim Australia P/L, I. & J. Atcheson, Inlet Hotel Inverloch, J. & F. Maynard, Jarryd Roughead, Jim Newton Concret-ing, JSL Light Engine Repairs, K. & J. Riseley, L. & S. Wakefi eld, Leongatha Car Detailing, Leongatha Photographics & Electronics, Matt Johnston Painting & Decorating, McCartins Hotel, Melbourne Football Club, Michael Grist, Murray Goulburn, Nagel’s Pharmacy, Nick’s Clothing, On Course Traralgon, Perrett & Associates, RACV Resort Inverloch, Rainbow Palace Restaurant Korumburra, Rebel Sport Greensborough, Rich River Golf Resort Moama, Riseley’s Transport, Ryans Buildpro, South Gippsland Therapy Centre, Squizzys Golf Balls, T. & L. Martin, Terry White Chemist, T. Scoble, Thorntons Bakery, Westaway Ford.

Thanks to the generous support of the donors, we had a very successful evening and the money raised will be used

to improve facilities at the club.

thanks thanks

Joyce Ryan recently celebrated her 90th birthday with family and friends at the Dakers Centre.

Included amongst the guests were Joyce’s seven children, 19 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren.

Some of her family travelled from Queensland and New Zealand to join in the celebrations.

Joyce’s family prepared a light luncheon for the guests and her daughter-in-law Jill made and decorated

the beautiful birthday cake.

birthdays birthdaysCorporate Services Executive Offi cer• Permanent full time with option of 9 day fortnight • $72k total salary packageThis newly created role will allow you to put your executive and strategic planning skills to the test; you will be responsible for coordinating the administrative and executive functions for the Director Corporate Services.

The key focus of this role will be across but not limited to;• Corporate Services Office Coordination• Corporate Planning & Reporting• Project Management• Organisational Change• Providing direct assistance to the Director and Management team

If you have a demonstrated ability to manage confidential and sensitive issues, can exercise discretion in managing corporate and personal information, and be resilient as the organisation’s culture changes, then take this opportunity to work alongside our committed Corporate Services Directorate while having the opportunity to grow and learn.

Enquiries to June Ernst, Director Corporate Services on (03) 5662 9200.

All applicants must submit an Application Form and address the selection criteria outlined in the position description, by 5pm 2 May 2012. Further information and a position description is available from our website.

South GippslandShire Council

www.southgippsland.vic.gov.au

professional professional

Advertising SalesConsultant

An exciting opportunity exists for an energetic, enthusiastic and creative person to work with The Star’s advertising sales team.The successful applicant will be a well presented person with good communication skills, enjoy meeting new clients and have the ability to work with others in a busy work environment.Experience in advertising sales and customer service is preferred.Duties include consulting with business clients and helping with newspaper catalogue pick up and deliveries.On the job training will be providedApplicants who have recently completed their VCE are encouraged to apply.

Please apply with covering letter and resumé to: Manager Tony Giles on email tony@thestar.com.au

Applications close on Friday, May 4.For further information call 56622294.

situations vacant situations vacant

Joyce Ryan would like to

thank everyone for their lovely cards and best wishes on the occasion of her 90th birthday.

thanks

5 ACRES land with 7m shed for a few animals. Dollar Road, Dumbalk. $60 per week. Phone Jaganat 9699-5122.

for rent

SEWING

MACHINEREPAIRS& SALES

FREE QUOTES

WONTHAGGI SEWING CENTRE

167 Graham StreetWonthaggi

5672 3127

for sale

CHIHUAHUA pups, 8 weeks old, immunised and microchipped, 2 female, 1 male, $300 each. Ph: 0448-906491.

FIREWOOD, redgum & local wood, Ph 0408-980-711, A/H 5662-5175.

FIREWOOD Local wood split. Pick up or delivered. Ph: 0437-176187.

HAY for sale, Kardella, 5x4 netwrapped, shedded. Good quality, this season, $45 each. Ph: 0418-514518.

HAY CLEARANCE 1,000 small square bales, ex quality, suitable for horses. Must go $5 each. Can deliver 50 or more, conditions apply. 5664-1320, 0428-999691.

HAY ROLLS 5x4, all shedded, $20 + GST. 5662-3425, 0427-623425.

REPTILE ENCLOSURE 1500H, 900W, 600D, 12 mths old, in new condition, light brown, comes with extras, $450 ONO. Kawasaki Ninja 600, 98, needs tidy up. Sold as is $1,700 ONO. vin/chassis JKAZX4G14WA006258. Large Pennzoil oil drum, 200lt, air compressor type. Advertising collectable or shed piece, $150 ONO.

Phone 0400-052015.

SLEEPERS, treated pine, 200x50x2.4 $12.10 each, 200x75x2.4 $16.75 each. Free delivery for pack lots. Phone Joe 0417-530662.

TIMBER Kiln dried blackwood, silver wattle, cypress, celery top pine, most sizes for furniture and craft, also slabs and structural pine. Ph: 5681-2261.

for sale

FREEPick-up and delivery in

Leongatha/Meeniyan areas

for MOTOR MOWERS,

CHAINSAWS AND

STATIONARY

ENGINES ETC.Repairs and services

Phone JOHN GOULD

5664 0012

free

CYPRESS LOGS suitable for milling. Free. 0408-333041 Leongatha North.

livestock

LOSTMOBILE PHONE

IN BLACK ZIP CASE

Buffalo area on Meeniyan Fish Creek

Rail Trail Saturday April 21

Phone 5662 2706 0438 647260

lost

FREE CAR REMOVALWill pay up to $300

for complete carBuyers of scrap metal

All machineryBins provided

Bass Coast Metal Recyclers5672 2946

0417 556 593

used vehicles

GARAGESALE

The “STAR” can help you promote your

event with our

ADVERTISE by calling 5662 5555 or emailing

classifi eds@thestar.com.auor call in to

36 McCartin Street LEONGATHA

to pick up your kit when you place your advertisement

GARAGESALE KIT$25

KIT INCLUDES5cm x S/C advert (valued at $31.90)

• 2 x A4 Garage Sale Signs

• Garage Sale Tips (dos and don’ts)

• Sheet of Price Stickers • Star Carry Bag

Total package valued at $39

garage sales

Friesian, Jersey, Angus, Hereford

and LimoAll tested

Phone 0447 331 762

BULLS FOR HIRE OR SALE

CASH REGISTER small National, up to 10 shillings. Ph: 5674-6543.

OLD FARM four wheelers, ag bikes, machinery, to do up. Call and let me know what you have. Will pay cash. Phone Matt 0401-194601.

wanted to buy

Jenny MilkinsAll areas - 5672 3123

jenny_milkins@hotmail.com

marriage celebrant

CAM ABOODLeongatha5662 4191

PAM HERRALD5662 2553

0438 097 181

DOROTHY STORRWe would like to thank everyone who shared Mum’s fi nal tribute

at Dakers Centre, for phone calls, fl owers, cards and memories.

It has been a wonderful comfort to us all, while

coping with our sudden loss.

Stuart and Sue Storr, Marion Pollock, Bolam family, Dianne Jenkins

and families.

bereavement thanks

SLANEY - Iris. 22.4.10 To our beautiful Mum and Nana. How we miss you, your presence, your love and your kindness. We speak of you always in our home and in our hearts. They say time heals all, but nothing heals the loss of our Mum. Miss you so much.

All our love Alan, Helen, Joy, Vic, Pam, Sue, Sam and families.

in memoriamHuge GARAGE SALESATURDAY 28TH &

SUNDAY 29TH APRIL8am to 4pm

Closing down market stallAll stock must go

Toys, bric-a-brac, games, household goods,

ornaments, a great range to choose from.

42 Hassett StreetCnr of 42 Hassett &

Owen Streets

‘Lamont House’MONSTER GARAGE

SALESaturday April 28

8amNo earlybirds

Cnr Long & Jeffrey StsLeongatha

Antiques, bric-a-brac, books, toys, clothes,

furniture

garage salesCOOTE - John Charles. Passed away peacefully at Leongatha on April 21, 2012. Loved brother of Doreen and Gordon McKean. Loved Uncle Jack of Lyn and Lynton, Matt, Jacki and Pat Griffi n, Ian and Carolyn McKean and Leonie and Craig Deayton and their families.VAN DEN BOGAART -Adrianus (Bill) Of Lakes Entrance, formerly of Leongatha. Passed away on April 22, 2012. Loved husband of Margaret (dec), much loved dad of Adrienne and David, Gary and Jan, and Mary-Anne and Neil. Loved pa of Robert, Peter, Stephen and Kathryn, Jacinta and Anthony, Shannon and Amy, and Opa of ten great grandchildren. Finally returning home.WISDOM - Gail Sharon. Passed away peacefully at Leongatha Hospital on April 19, 2012 aged 58 years. Devoted mother of Alys, Emily and Matthew, loving grandmother of Jade, Trenton, Blake, Holly and Aiden. Gail loved life and didn’t suffer fools lightly. At peace. Loving daughter of Eileen and Sus (dec). Sister of Jenny Fullerton, Sandra and Linsay Younghusband, Colleen Wisdom, Stephen and Mel, Colin and Lyndon, Shane and Cathy. ‘Shalom’ my darling girl - Mum.WISDOM - Gail. Much loved sister and friend. Sunday dinners will never be the same without your smile and company. Sadly missed. Steve and Melanie.WISDOM - Gail. A best friend lost, can never be replaced. Sadly missed, daily thinking of those left behind. Sharyn, Tony, Yoni and James.

deaths

Most photos that appear in The Star can be purchased

by calling 5662 2294.BEARD - Douglas Richard. Youngest surviving son of Jessie and Lloyd Beard of Pound Creek. 80 years old. Late of Miles, Queensland.COOTE - John Charles (Jack). 14.5.24 - 21.4.12 Late of Leongatha. Dearly loved only son of Florrie and Jack Coote (both dec). Loved brother and brother-in-law of Annie and Joe Duggan (both dec), Mabel and Joe Koogan (both dec), Lorna (dec) and Ron Morris, Doreen and Gordon McKean, George (dec) and Zelma Fawcett. Uncle Jack to all their families. Correct weight jack!!

deaths

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 49

VAN DEN BOGAART - A Graveside Funeral Service for Mr Adrianus Van Den Bogaart (Bill) of Lakes Entrance will be held at the Lakes Entrance Lawn Cemetery on Friday April 27, 2012 at 2pm.

Peter Murray Lakes Entrance

5155-5795

funeralsCOOTE - The Funeral Service for the late John Charles (Jack) Coote will be held at our Leongatha Chapel (cnr South Gippsland Hwy and Bellingham St) on Friday April 27, 2012 commencing at 11.30am.

Private cremation.

No fl owers by request. Donations in lieu to Woorayl Lodge, Leongatha please. Envelopes will be available at the service.

WISDOM - A Service of Thanksgiving to celebrate the life of Gail Sharon Wisdom will be held at St Peter’s Anglican Church, Leongatha on Thursday April 26, 2012 commencing at 2pm. A private cremation will precede the above service.

STUDENTS from St Laurence O’Toole Pri-mary School, St Joseph’s School and South Coast Christian College all competed on Fri-day in the Combined Registered Schools ath-letics carnival at Mary MacKillop College.

The Star was there to capture all the action of the day.

Combined athletics action

WONTHAGGI crick-eters are looking for-ward to the start of drainage and irrigation works on Wonthaggi Recreation Reserve No. 2 Oval.

Ashley Sartori, one of the volunteers who maintain the turf wicket at the reserve, said the upgrade will make a big difference to the cricket season.

The work, costing $200,000 will allow volun-teers onto the oval much ear-lier in the year to prepare the turf wicket and start playing in October.

Better drainage should also allow the oval to be used in winter for school sports, junior football and agricultural events.

Mr Sartori said the oval doesn’t cope with winter rainfall and the ground is too wet, so the cricket season can’t start until December. Bass Coast Shire Council is putting $105,000 towards the cost, with the rest made up of a Sports and Recreation Vic-toria Grant of $60,000 and $35,000 from the Wonthag-gi Workmen’s Cricket Club, Glen Alvie Cricket Club and Turf Wicket Committee.

The work is expected to take eight weeks.

Drainage boost

for cricketers

Go ahead jump: Eli from St Laurence Primary School in Leongatha lines up the high jump.

Good times: from left, Grant from St Laurence Primary, Kelsyn from St Joseph’s School in Korumburra, Harry from South Coast Christian College, Thomas, Lockie, Caleb and Connor (front), all from St Laurence Primary were enjoying the spirit of the competition.

Fun and games: Meaghan, Jesseme, Zara and Jessie from St Laurence Primary had a fun and successful day at the athletics on Friday.

Friends: Keona, Hayley and Cassie from SouthCoast Christian College in Leongatha were excited to be competing in the athletics carnival.

Go blue: Meg, Jessica and Emily were jumping forjoy at the sports day.

Athletics in Wonthaggi: Andrew Marks and Liam Wall helped out at the matshalls table at the school sports.

Wonthaggi Secondary athletics sports

Under 16 high jump: Sandra Plumb attempts 1.34 metres at the Wonthaggi Secondary College athletics carnival at the Dudley Road campus last Thursday.

Ready to race: Locki Clark, Aaron Edwards, Tanika McCaughan and Tilly Sandbach prepare for the 100 metre sprints.

Sports supporters: Glenda Smith, Sally Macdonald, Jemma Jolly-Bordonaro, Maddie Wilson, Kaitlyn Chello and Jaya Dalmau cheered on their friends from the sidelines.

PAGE 50 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012

THE winner of the Leongatha Swimming Club’s club champi-onship, the Murray Leitch Award, was Thomas Bouquet.

At the annual presen-tation night and annual general meeting held for the second year running at the Town Cricket Clu-brooms last Friday night, April 18 Peter Bellingham was re-elected as the club’s president. The club enjoyed another successful season, being runners-up to Phil-lip Island in the aggregate shield.

Winner of the Rhonda Shambrook Award for best clubperson was Mel Bennett.

Age champions for 2011/12 season, Under 8 girls Natasha Hibma,

runner-up Tahlia Amason; Under 10 boys Thomas Bouquet, runner-up Kyle Brown; Under 10 girls, Lani Bellingham, runner-up Merrin Giles, Under 12 boys Locke Degaris, run-ner-up, Oscar Harry; Under 12 girls Kate Abbey, runner-up Ingrid Nunn, Under 14 boys Lochie Nunn, runner-up Jack Dunn; Under 14 girls Imogen Kaye-Helmot, runner-up Mikaela Corne-lissen; Under 16 boys, Jor-dan Pickersgill, runner-up Brayden Pickersgill; Under 16 girls, Ella Clark, Over 16 girls, Georgia Kaye-Helmot.

Medals were awarded to swimmers who com-peted in every event at every carnival this season. They went to Hugh Collins, Emma Paterson, Ben Ab-bey, Jessica Harry, Amelia Dunn, Merrin Giles, Kate

Thomas Bouquet wins club championship• LEONGATHA SWIMMING CLUB

Abbey, Claire Wylie, Geor-gia Deenan, Kiera Brown, Charli Fixter, Oscar Harry and Maddy Birrell.

All events for two year medals went to Jack Dunn, Tom Barker, Madelaine Brew, Ella Clarke, Thomas Bouquet, Sarah Paterson, and Locke DeGaris.

Two all events at all car-nivals for three year medals were received by Tom and Di Brew. And one awe-some swimmer who has competed at all events for fi ve years, Anna Bennett, received her medal.

The Nunn family won the shield for being the most successful family

at carnivals.Coach’s awards went

to Georgia Deenen, Tay-lah Brown, Niamh Martin, Amelia Dunn, Charli Fixter, Hugh Collins, Madeleine Birrell, Ben Abbey, Emma Patterson.

The club is looking for-ward to an exciting year ahead, with a new train-ing regime and two new coaches.

Training will resume in June with some new coach-es to be appointed. The club is very much on the lookout for new swimmers, espe-cially boys in the Under 8, 10 and 12 categories.

The Phillip Island Swim Club recently held its presentation night for the 2011- 2012 season at the Cowes Golf Club.

Club members cele-brated their overall com-petition success, happily displaying the Interclub Shield which was pre-sented to club captains earlier that day for win-ning the overall aggre-gate points competition. Swimmers were also commended for their in-dividual results and ef-forts in both training and competition throughout the season.

Club champion for 2011-2012 is Mayson Vanderkolk. This award is for accumulating the largest number of points in the competition sea-son. Runner-up Club Champion is Bridget Turner.

Age group champi-ons, also determined by

the point system are: Un-der 8: Ky Kleeven and Jordi Vanderkolk. U10: Jude Grace and Mayson Vanderkolk. U12: Na-than Foote and Amber Taylor. Under 14: Kai Lumsden and Jessica Ki-ley. U16: Surrey Fisher and Bridget Turner. U25: Beau Van Agtmaal. Over 25: Pete Turner and Ra-chel Stafford.

This season, the presti-gious Anne Leach Award went to Kyle Murdoch, for demonstrating loyal-ty, commitment, sports-manship, encouragement and being a positive role model. Lily Robinson and Emily Carlson were awarded for being Most Determined. Encour-agement awards went to Jazmin Petrusch and Tex Broadbear and Most Improved went to Fin-ley Dempsey and Henry McKay. Hayley Moxey, Jorgie-May Thompson, Sarah Larkin, Chloe Re-itsmsa and Stevie Ryan

gained Coaches Awards. The Spirit awards went to Keith Robinson, Max Newman, Sunny Lums-den and Sam Taylor.

Head coach, Bernard Lumsden congratulated swimmers for their ef-forts in the pool both at training and when racing; and thanked captains for the leadership skills they demonstrated through-out the season. Bernard commended swimmers for setting new personal standards this season, many of them setting new club records; and fin-ished to thank committee members and parents for their contributions and efforts.

President, Don Turner congratulated swimmers for their enthusiastic training all year, which was portrayed in their success in winning the Inter Club Shield, new club records achieved and outstanding per-sonal best times gained.

Club Champion: Mayson Vanderkolk and runner-up Bridget Turner.

Phillip Island Swim Club presentation

Don went on to thank the coaching team and added, success can only be achieved if there are highly skilled and mo-tivated coaches to train and develop swimmers. Parents, committee mem-bers and officials were all thanked for a great team

effort and an overall successful season.

The club has now commenced training on Monday, Thursday and Friday nights at Wont-haggi for term 2. Visit the swim club website @ www.phillipislandswim-mingclub.com.au.

A MEMBER of the Leon-gatha and Traralgon Swim-ming Clubs, Mikaela Cor-nelissen won gold in the Australian Age Swimming Championships in Brisbane recently.

Nineteen Traralgon swimmers returned from the Australian Age Group Swimming Championships in Brisbane with the impressive total of one gold, one silver and one bronze medal.

The standout for the Traralgon

club was the girls 14 years and Under, 4 x 50 medley relay team of Annie Pepper (back - 31.05), Erin Roberts (breast - 34.26), Mikaela Cornelissen (fl y - 27.99) and Taylah Da Ros (free - 26.48) who won the gold medal, beating Australia’s best teams by nearly a second in a Victorian, Country and Gippsland record time of 1.59.78.

This is the fi rst Victorian country team to win a gold medal at this level and according to Traralgon Swimming Club senior head coach, Brian Ford, should be recognised as one of the club’s

best achievements in its 55 year history.

“This is truly an unbelievable and outstanding performance. It is the second fastest time ever swum by a 14 years and under team in Australia, the fastest by any Victorian team and certainly the youngest combination with three of the girls only 13 years of age,” Mr Ford said.

Mikaela was also praised during the Leongatha Swimming Club’s presentation night on Friday night.

Mikaela also made the fi nal of the 100 metre butterfl y in a new

Country record time (1.04.59).A number of the Traralgon

club’s relays also had top 10 fi nishes with the girls 16 years 4 x 100 medley team of Annie Pepper, Lily Collins, Mikaela Cornelissen and Maggie O’Keefe fi nishing fourth.

Gold medal for Mikaela

Gold medal: Mikaela Corne-lissen displays the gold medal she received as part of the girls 14 and Under medley relay team.

Under 14 girls: from left, Imogen Kaye-Helmot and Mikaela Cornelissen.

Under 10 boys: from left, Kyle Brown and Thom-as Bouquet.Left: Under 16 boys: Brayden Pickersgill (AbsentJordan Pickersgill).

Over 16 girls: Georgia Kaye-Helmot.

Murray Leitch Award: Thomas Bouquet.

Under 10 girls: trophy winners, from left, Mer-rin Giles, Lani Bellingham and Under 8 runner-up Tahlia Amason (absent Natasha Hibma).

Under 12 girls: from left, Kate Abbey and Ingrid Nunn.

Under 12 boys: from left, Locke DeGaris and Os-car Harry.

Under 14 boys: from left, Lochie Nunn and Jack Dunn.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 51

Life member: Kristian Gray receiving his Life Membership with other Imperials C.C. life members who were in attendance. (from left) Ivor McLennan, Rowen McLennan, Kristian Gray, Geof Forrester, Greg Fennell, Gary Sauvarin and Rob Fennell.

Imperials presentation nightTHE Imperials Cricket Club held its presentation night recently with over 60 people

attending. The night was fully catered, with

the meal being enjoyed by all. The

highlight was Kristian Gray receiv-ing a life membership for his servic-es to the club for over 20 years.

Clubman: Rob Fennell and Greg Fennell present Andrew Meyer (middle) with the Nellie Fennell Best Clubman Award.

C Grade winners: (from left) Glenn Wright (best in fi nals), Tim Cashin (bat-ting and COTY) and Ben Maskell (bowling).

B Grade winners: (from left) Zac Price (duck award), Geof Forrester (bowl-ing and COTY), Dale Johnson (batting) and James Forrester (bowling).

A Grade winners: (from left) Kristian Gray (bowling), Jackson Bloom (batting), Brok Davidson (club champion), and Luke Rogers (batting and COTY).

Senior MenFirst half: Great fi rst half effort with

the Knights opening its account with a superb left foot volley from Pete Sar-banis, Knights played all the football on Island half for 30 minutes but let Phillip Island back on with 10 to 90 with another goal to Phillip Island right on the whistle.

Half time scores were 2-1 to Phillip Island.

Second half: Phillip Island out fi rst and got themselves a handy lead. Leon-gatha worked hard to keep them out when a break saw Leongatha in front of Phillip Island goals through a cross from Darcy O’Conner to fi nd Andrew Angwin who sank it home.

Summary: Phillip Island kept the ball well in the second half, putting pressure on Leongatha’s defence who worked hard to keep Phillip Island out but, they prevailed with a fi nal score 3-2 to Phillip Island.

Player of the day: Darcy O’Conner.Women

First half: Leongatha started strong playing with the wind with only nine players. Leongatha made some good breaks with fi rst time players Tash Ried, Jess Burrows linking well up front to score only to have it disallowed for off-side. Leongatha defended well and a fan-tastic penalty save by keeper Danika Dent saw half-time in at 0 -0.

Second half: Playing into the wind in second half saw Phillip Island take full advantage of their numbers but fan-tastic defence from Leongatha and fi rst time player Loren McLennan saw them frustrate the Phillip Island attackers time after time.

Summary: Great team effort, defend-ing well and taking advantage of fast

breaks up front with a full squad the teamwill do well.

Player of the day: Maddie Gate-house.

Under 16First half: Tom Ryks some solid de-

fending under pressure. Kept his compo-sure to hold out Phillip Island. Ball wasturned over in the ninth minute feedingLeongatha striker Ryan K who workedpast the keeper for an open fi nish. A greatcorner from Fergus high of the cross baron Michael’s clear strike. A penalty in thefi nal minutes saw Tom get it to 2 – 0.

Second half: Phillip Island workedpast the solid defence in a moment ofhope of connection to a beautiful placedgoal to get past the Leongatha keeper.Two minutes later Leongatha was straightback with a great score to Fergus.

With six minutes to go Leongathastruck again with a perfect grand strikeby Fergus.

Summary: Overall a great game offootball. Both teams contested hard. Pos-session football was the aim of the day.

Player of the day: Dean Peterson.Under 13

First half: Two goals to Tom Barkerput the Knights in front at the half timebreak, strong defensive pressure by theKnights, led by Scott Hill, kept PhillipIsland goalless.

Second half: A stronger attacking halffrom Leongatha Knights saw four moregoals. Amazing goal keeping by ElijahTracanelli saw Phillip Island again heldgoalless.

Summary: fi nal score Knights 6 –Phillip Island 0, goal scorers Tom Barker4, Jarrod Ross 2.

Player of the day: Elijah Tracanelli.

PERFECT weather conditions saw the fi rst round of the Gippsland Soccer Division being played out all over South Gippsland.

Korumburra travelled to Mirboo North for their fi rst game.

The enthusiasm of the small sided players was great to see with the U7s, 9s and 11s having their fi rst kick around. The U13s with the bare 11 players played a well drilled game, winning 6-0. Goals to Zac Allman (2), Harry McNeil, Aidan Richards and Olivia Methven.

Korumburra U16s lost 3-2 in a hard fought match. Both teams were evenly matched throughout the game. Half time score 1-1. The second half saw both teams attacking the goal but to Mirboo North’s

credit they snuck in two goals to Korum-burra’s one. Goals for Korumburra Kaleb Pettie and Andrew Methven.

The women’s game was hard work, with both teams having only one sub. The hot weather and evenly matched sides kept all players running for the full 90 minutes. First half saw all the goals scored, with Korumburra’s Olivia Methven and Shelley Reeves scoring. Mirboo North forwards were too quick for the Korumburra defence and scored three goals in the fi rst half. The second half saw both teams pushing the ball around and having several shots at goal each but to no avail. Both sides were glad when the fi nal whistle sounded. Mir-boo North 3, Korumburra 2.

In the seniors game Mirboo North de-feated Korumburra 3-2. The fi rst half was

Knights narrow loss• LEONGATHA SOCCERKorumburra City concedes to Mirboo North

a tussle, with great runs from Korumburra down the wings and Mirboo North through the middle leaving the score 0-0 at half time.

In the second half with a changed forma-tion from Korumburra, Mirboo North scored fi rst blood with a quick reply from Keanu Miller through into Rory Cull, scores even. Mirboo North kept attacking and with a free kick scored again off Korumburra’s backman Daniel Vanderzwart. Korumburra would not lay down, fi ghting back and scoring again with a penalty. Mirboo North would not be denied and under extreme pressure Korum-burra conceded a third goal. Next week we look forward to hosting Leongatha for our fi rst home match.

Big air: Greg Walker gets plenty of air when going for a header on the weekend.

Bend it: Jake Allman puts in a stand out effort against Mirboo North on the weekend.

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TIDESAt Port Phillip Heads

APRIL / MAYTime height

(metres)

0600 1.301135 0.481844 1.43

0207 1.420813 0.301500 1.622040 0.63

0243 1.430848 0.301532 1.622114 0.62

0318 1.420921 0.321606 1.602148 0.63

0356 1.400953 0.341642 1.572222 0.64

0514 1.331056 0.421800 1.482331 0.65

1TUE

25WED

26THUR

27FRI

28SAT

29SUN

30MON

All times shown in24 hour clock

0001 - 1200..................AM1201 - 2400..................PM

Here is an easy guide to tides in your area.To determine tides for a partic-ular area, add or subtract peri-ods of times as shown below.

Earlier MinutesApollo Bay ...........................25King Island (Grassy) ...........10King Island (Surprise Bay) ....40King Island (Franklin) ...........40Lakes Entrance .................... 170Lorne ...................................... 20Mallacoota Inlet .................... 158Rip Bank ................................ 15Snowy River Entrance ......... 170_______________________ Cape Schanck, Flinders, Morn-ington Ocean Beaches, Seal Rocks, Venus Bay, Waratah Bay, Woolamai ....... nil_________________________Later MinutesAltona ................................... 195Barwon Heads Bridge ........... 15Carrum ................................. 195Corinella ................................. 68Cowes Pier ............................. 50Dromana .............................. 195Frankston ............................. 195Geelong ............................... 210Hastings ................................. 66Hovell Pile ............................ 195Inverloch Pier ......................... 15Melbourne ............................ 200Mornington ........................... 195Newhaven Jetty ..................... 30No. 1 West Channel (Annulus) ........................... 50No. 2 South Channel Light .... 70No. 8 South Channel Light .. 150Port Albert Pier ...................... 90Portarlington Pier ................. 190Portsea Pier ........................... 80Port Welshpool (Rabbit Island .................... 10Queenscliffe Pier ................... 30Rhyll ....................................... 60Rosebud ............................... 195Rye Pier ............................... 170St. Leonards Pier ................. 190Sandringham ....................... 195Sorrento Pier ........................ 130Stony Point ............................. 40South Channel Pile Light ..... 190Swan Island Dock ................ 120Tooradin ............................... 105Warneet.................................. 84Williamstown ........................ 200Welshpool Pier ....................... 90

0433 1.371024 0.381719 1.522256 0.65

Leongatha netball drawLDNA fi rst round draw to commence April 28:

11 & Under12 noon: Court 4 Mirboo

North Purple v Meeniyan & District; Court 5 Mirboo North Gold v St Laurence Gold; Court 6 Mt Eccles Aqua v St Laurence Blue; Court 7 Mt Eccles White v Town Black; Court 8 Mt Eccles Pink v Town Tangerine; Mt Eccles Navy - bye.

13 & Under11am: Court 3 Mirboo

North v St Laurence Blue; Court 4 Meeniyan & District v Town Green; Court 5 Mt Eccles Aqua v Town Black; Court 6 Mt Eccles Pink v Town Tangerine; St Laurence Gold - bye.

15 & Under12 noon: Court 1 Mt

Eccles Purple v St Laurence Gold; Court 2 Meeniyan

& District5 v Town Green;Court 3 Mt Eccles Aqua vTown Black.

1pm: Court 2 Mt EcclesPink v Town Tangerine; Court3 Mirboo North v St LaurenceBlue.

17 & Under / C Grade1pm: Court 6 Meeniyan

& District Blue v Town Tan-gerine; Court 7 Mt Eccles vTown Green.

2.15pm: Court 6 Meeni-yan & District Yellow v TownBlack; Court 7 Mirboo Northv St Laurence.

B Grade1pm: Court 4 Mt Eccles

Aqua v Mt Eccles White.2.15pm: Court 3 Mt Ec-

cles Navy v Mt Eccles Pink;Court 4 St Laurence v TownBlack.

A Grade1pm: Court 5 Mt Eccles

Navy v Mt Eccles White.2.15pm: Court 5 St Lau-

rence v Town.

OUR final monthly triples for the season was held last Thursday.

Only 22 teams competed compared to our usual 30 teams.

Four games of 12 ends of two bowl triples were played on a day that pro-duced a very interesting fi-nal result.

There were no four game winners but the unusually large number of eight by three winners. The winners on the day were the Wont-haggi team of D. Marsh sk, F. Kellow 2nd, and M. Oe-hms ld with 64 points.

Runners-up had to be decided on shots up, and taking the runners-up prize were M. Cargill sk, K. Per-rett 2nd and J. Arnold ld with 57 points and 9 shots up.

The lucky drawn card prize went to the local team of P. Shaw, K. McIntosh and A. Baines. Receiving club mugs for being the best last game winners, were the Wonthaggi Team of A. Mc-Fayden, F. Cimino and K. Barnes.

Our sponsor for the day was Alex Scott and Staff to whom the club expresses their sincere thanks.

One of their local agents Doug Muir presented all of the prizes. The previ-ous Thursday April 12 16 played pairs.

After two games of 12 ends the winner with 36 points was B. Griffin sk and D. Pease ld. Runners-up on 33 points were B. Growse sk and K. Peterson ld.

Last Saturday was our clubs annual Skirts v Shirts day when 54 players took part.

A good day of bowling was enjoyed by all players, but the shirts (men) had a very comfortable win. Play-ing two games of 10 ends of three bowl triples, the men

won on six rinks and ladies on three.

The best men’s win-ning rink was D. Muir sk, J. Turner 2nd and N. West ld with 28 shots up.

Best wining ladies rink was R. Dennis sk, D. Pater-son 2nd and E. Perrett ld on seven shots up.

Last Wednesday evening the men’s section held their AGM which had a very poor attendance with less than 30 members present.

This was the last AGM of the men’s section, be-cause our new constitution adopted recently sees some changes in the club’s man-agement structure.

With these changes the election of a men’s section president and secretary was not necessary.

Despite the small atten-dance all necessary appoint-ments for the men’s section were quite easily filled.

The Saturday pennnat selectors elected were Ron Burge, Ray Gostling, Tre-veor Scott, N.West and Ron Kee.

Those elected to the match committee were Rob Howard, Brian Growse, Brian Griffin, Graeme Dun-lop and Bert Bain.

Club delegate to the association is Nic Van Grunsven. It was unani-mously decided only to field four pennant teams next season.

There will be one in first division two in third divi-sion. Due to relegation of our division 2 team and one team in fourth division.

There has been talk of one of our clubs putting a proposal to the association that division teams consist of four teams instead of three as at present.

If this proposal comes up at the association AGM our club agreed to support the move.

Buffalo indoorWEDNESDAY, April 18: after a very enjoyable night of bowl-ing at Dumbalk’s open night with mixed results.The fi rst game was played in pennnant formation with Toni Heldens (s), Alex Thompson, An-drew Hanks and Graeme Tobias competing against Ian Benson (s), Glenys Pilkington, Carolyn Benson and Bill Wolswinkel. It was good to see Graeme back and after a few ends soon back to his best and good contest with Bill also leading well. With skippers giving bowlers various options and some shots replayed,Toni’s team took out the fi nal game. The second game saw four teams of pairs for ten ends (six bowls). Toni and Peter out played Glenys and Carolyn in a very tight con-test 10/8.Alex and Bill against Ian Graeme in another close game 10/9 with Rod and Andrew scorers.Reminder of mid Gippsland visit Sunday May 6 and pennnant start Tuesday May 1 and availability of players. See you all next Wednes-day 7.30pm at Buffalo.

MEMBERS and readers will recall that in late 2011 I reported on the great success of two of our club’s ladies and their great achievement in winning a place in the top 16 Vic-torian state champion of champions pairs final which was to take place in mid April 2012 at Bendigo.

These two ladies, Fay Turner and Pam Kennedy, journeyed to Ben-digo and drew Queenscliffe ladies pair first round but were unsuccess-ful and as the final was a knockout round were unable to proceed any further.

Never the less the club and our community congratulates the two ladies on their efforts and their rep-resentation of our club and the South Gippsland bowls division at the fi-nals at Bendigo.

I understand that on April 27 these two ladies will attend a presen-tation night to receive a reward from the South Gippsland Bowls district for their achievements.

Wednesday April 18 saw only 17 players take to the greens in a mid week mixed social bowls afternoon. Winners on two wins plus 2 Fred Sauvarin (s), Carol Harry and Gary

Van Sinderen while the runners-up were Robert Young (s) with Ollie Crouch 1 win, a draw/loss plus 1.

Saturday April 21 saw 15 players take to the greens again in a mixed social bowls afternoon with the win-ners being that dynamic pair of Bar-ry Davidson and Frank Filomino on 2 wins plus 22.

The runners up were J. Kuiper (s) with Glenda Trotman and Ann Lye also two wins plus 11. Sponsor for both days was the club.

Reminder next monthly affiliated triples will be held Tuesday April 24 commencing 9.30am not Wednesday as this will be Anzac day.

The cleaning rosters for the months of June and July have been issued for Leongatha members. If you are listed then there is an enve-lope with your name on the board room table, please make sure you take your envelope and Mark the dates in your diary or calendar.

Leongatha members, remember our AGM meeting is scheduled for Thursday night May 3 at 7.30pm at the club room.

Until next report. Good bowling. Jack high.

THE Leongatha Bad-minton Club will commence its 2012 season on Tuesday April 24.

All teams have been selected as evenly as pos-sible, however the com-mittee does reserve the right to alter teams, should imbalances appear.

The quality of players this season appears quite strong, with numerous players returning to the game after a break.

Team sheets and draws will be available on the fi rst night of play. The bye team is Kookaburras for the fi rst week and all players are requested to provide a plate of supper to enjoy at the conclusion of play.

Teams are as follows:A Grade

Honeyeaters: Steve Johnson, Gary McGrath, Jose Shelton, Rhonda Newton.

Kookaburras: Neil Jeremiah, Arthur Grab-ham, Joel Langstaff, Bren-dan Eaton.

Rosellas: Greg Marsh-man, Neil Langstaff, Mat-thew Oomann, J.T. New-ton.

Lorrikeets: Steve Turner, Alan McEachern,

Maurice Simpson, Nigel Grimes.

Cockatoos: Steve Boag, Ryan Jeremiah, Roger Callister, Paris Buckley.

Bowerbirds: Jason Richards, Paul Sokhom, Ian Coles, Leonie Degnan.

Parrots: Frank Dekker, Tim Bright, Phil Munro / Jason Comrie, Keinen Hemming.

B GradeMakita: Bev Porter,

Steve Holmes, Guilia Joyce, Kathy Smith / Tra-cy Miles.

Bosch: Glen O’Neill, Mat Howard, Tracey Ryan, Emma Smith.

De Walt: Kylie Buck-land, Brayden Krohn, Bar-bara Jenkins, Brett Hamp-shire.

Ryobi: Suriyan Chan-drasegaran, Jo Parsons, Melanie Plunkett, Adam Cochrane.

G.M.C: Davis Loo, Paul Plunkett, Trish Ber-ryman, Katrina Hodges.

All B Grade sides are requested to be available for the fi rst week and the team with the bye can play some practice matches on the spare court.

For further enquiries regarding teams contact Frank Dekker on 5668 5285.

Badminton begins tonight LDNA umpires

April 2811am: Brittany Ten-

nyenhuis, Hannah En-gel, Stephanie Wylie, Kate Norton, Rebecca Wylie, Maria Evison, Mariah Grant, Julie Grant.

12 noon: Amy Smith, Phil Smith, Belinda Dyke, Anita Gourloy, Jessica Beck-ham, Kellie Walker, Lauren Baudinette, Ju-lie Grant, Holly Hurst, Beth Forrester, Amy Egan, Erin Baudinette, Emalie Gordon, Jenny Goss, Angelique Dun-levie, Jamie Gourlay.

1pm: Narelle Hanily, Maria Evision, Robyn Kenny, Lori McKenzie, Anita Gourlay, Danielle Jones, Jackie Foreman, Emma Smith, Gabrielle Patterson, Kerrie Bent-velzen, Kelly Walker, Anna Patterson.

2.15pm: Sue Ritchie, Janice Sing, Mitch Price, Barb Challis, Sa-mantha Anderson, Kate Gourlay.

Any queries phone Julie Grant 5662 2695 or 0407 076 425

Inverloch ladies

WINE and chocolates were the raffl e prizes for our last ladies so-cial day on Wednesday which was attended by 24 ladies.

Winners were Maureen Paynt-ing, Gloria Growse and Carol Wa-ters.

Runners-up were Cynthia Hensley, Joan Clark and Nell V. Grunsven

Raffl e winners were Marg Flett, Gloria Growse, Chris Gillman and Bev Kurlle.

The annual shirts and skirts and presentation night was held on Sat-urday. It was ladies versus men with the men being victorious.

Don’t forget to enter the wine and dine in your social calendar. This event, always a winner, will be held on May 1, also the Friday night dinner is on May 4.

As ladies bowls is fi nished for this season I will not be writing this column until next summer season.

Carpet bowls commences in May and for everyone who is going away for winter, safe travelling.

TUESDAY, April 17 was our annual two bowls triples event sponsored by Murray Goulburn and Brown Wigg.

With three wins the spoils went to Russell Trotman with John and Elaine White (Leon-gatha). Runners up with two wins and a draw were Marco and Giulia Giacchorini and June Paynting (Toora). Peter and Glenda Williams with lo-cal Russ Thorson were third.

On Friday evening 58 people attended our presenta-tion night with Meeniyan Red Cross providing their usual high standard of catering.

Ladies awards were as follows: Singles. Marj Pear-son (4th time) r/u Barbara Grant, Hundred up. Leonie Hanks, r/u Barbara Dyke, Club Pairs. Leonie Hanks and Clare Loughrey r/u Shir-ley Heywood and Rene Gil-lett, Champion of Champion Pairs . Leonie Hanks and Fae

Taylor runner-up Annie Mar-uzza and Barbara Dyke.

Men’s awards: Singles. Max Brown r/u Wes Logan, Hundred up. Kevin McMillan, runner-up Rod Jackson, President’s Handicap. Trevor Bidwell runner-up. Paul Hol-mes, Pairs. Alan Hanks and Paul Holmes runner-up. Rod Jackson and John Cocking. Russ and Marie Thorsons sponsored B Grade event win-ner was Kim King. runner-up Kevin McMillan.

It was pleasing to see some of our newer bowlers featur-ing in the men’s awards.

Our major raffl e was also drawn. El Sierra Motel Ba-rooga prize - Robert Hanks, bowls bag donated by Peter Shaw- Gary Gillett, Tupper-ware - Grace Kuhne, clock radio donated by Trevor and Helen Bidwell - Dianne But-terworth, Meeniyan Hotel meal voucher - Rene Gillett,

pedestal fan donated by Clare and George Loughrey - Mar-garet Jans.

Saturday, April 21 was the fi nal event of our sum-mer program - Bev and Gor-don Young Memorial Day. Twenty-two people played two games of 12 ends in ideal conditions. From four teams the winners were Paul Hol-mes and Kim King. Lucky draws went to Ron Gloster and Kim King.

There is no social bowls this Wednesday (An-zac Day), but social bowls continues with a 10.30am start the following week.

A short special meet-ing to ratify our new con-stitution followed by our AGM is on Wednesday, May 2 at 2.30pm. All members are urged to attend.

The ladies section AGM is on Tuesday, May 8.

ANOTHER week has passed and another so-cial night of bowls has sustained the thirst for competition at Mardan.

This week saw the return of pretty much the same regular faces and therefore a chance for some to seek revenge for previous weeks of disappointment, but then there are always going to be those who are disappointed on the night.

We had 19 bowlers take to the mats and the selectors decided to mix it up a wee bit. Since we had an odd number of players a team skippered by Jeanette Grady and consisting of Margaret Campbell and Theresa Bate-man (a bunch of roses) was separated by a thorn, in the shape of Ian Hastie and the remaining teams consisted three in each.

As is usual at this gath-ering dedicated men and women the night went off with some great and at times amazing bowls being played and by the end of the night it was clear that one team was worthy above the rest to be the winners. Selectors should take note that there’s a new skip in the house.

Runners-up: with two wins and 14 ends were Ann Plowman, Sebastian Terranova and Cliff Smith (skip).

Winners: with three wins were Margaret Camp-bell, Theresa Bateman, Ian Hastie and Jeanette Grady (skip).

Next week we host our old friends from Wonthaggi in the home leg of our an-nual get together and we’re all looking to seeing them and having a good night of bowls.

ResultsMeeniyan – Monday

evening: 1st Jean Barbour, Greg Nicholson; 2nd Kath-leen Dowd, John Cocking; 3rd Faye Rowlands, Frank Arndt; 4th Clive Hope, Susan Ruffi n.

Tarwin Lower – Tuesday afternoon: 1st Frank Arndt, Clive Hope; 2nd Kathryn Smith, Colin Cameron; 3rd Faye Rowlands, Pat West; 4th Jean Barbour, Greg Nichol-

son; 5th Maureen Stiles, Viv-ian Westaway; 6th John Sul-livan, Alan Johnston.

Inverloch – Friday (fi nal week of Inverloch teams): winners were Dina Drury, John Sullivan, Anne Williams and John Farr.

Runners-up: Jack Kuiper, Jean Barbour, Kaye Doug-las, John Sutton and Yvonne Mears.

The return match with Tr-aralgon is on May 1 at Meeni-yan Bowls Club.

South Gippsland bridge

Inverloch Leongatha

Mardan indoor Meeniyan

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 53

Foster THE Foster greens were heavily sanded and scarifi ed on April 16 and will take a while to return to peak condi-tion, this is just a part of life and we will reap the benefi ts. The fairways are excellent.

Tuesday saw Kevin With-eridge(10) who has been in very good form return 36 pts to win from Robert Ful-ton(10) on 32 pts. Fred Tyers won the NTP.

On Thursday ex-banker John Stone(25) was on fi re to have the great round of 42 pts and won easily from Peter Wright (18) on 39 pts and George Draegar (24) on 37 pts. The NTP went to Peter Wright.

It was good to welcome home Randy Reusch who showed glimpses of his old form with 36 pts.

Friday was the Chicken Run and Rae Knee had 20 pts to get the chook, narrowly beating her Mum Isobel Dean who had 19 pts. Lloyd McK-enzie got the other DTL ball with 18 pts. Kevin Flett was the accurate one winning both NTP’s.

Saturday we played a two Ball Ambrose for trophies provided by Phil Schofi eld. It was great to see Thommo back and fi ring on all cylin-ders. He immediately showed he had lost none of his old touch by chipping in on the second hole.

Winners were Fred Tyers and Kevin Witheridge with 67 - 5 ½ - 61 ½ net, from Greg Paine and Colin Pulham 71 – 8 ¼ - 62 ¾ net, and Neville

Thompson and Lloyd McK-enzie 67 – 4 – 63 net.

The NTP’s were won by Noel Black, John Mathers, Kevin Witheridge, Don Cripps and David Knee.

The encouragement award went to Clark Gray and John Mathers with 71 ¼ net.

The ladies event was won by Isobel Dean with -5.

In Pennant Division 2 played Korumburra at Leon-gatha. They won 7/0, with in-dividual results - Norm Coo-per won 6/5, Lloyd McKenzie won 5/4, Paul Robertson won 2 up, Kevin Flett won 3/2, Tony Vanin won 4/3, Noel Black won 7/5 and James Freeman won 4/3. The team is going well and the next match is a big one against ladder leaders Leongatha.

Division 3 played Aussie Golf Ranch at Phillip Island. They lost 5/2. The winners were Kane Esler and Greg Cox. It will be now be dif-fi cult for them to reach the fi nal.

Val Soderlund was the winner of the $300 in the members cash draw. The prize is again $250 next week. You need to be in the clubhouse between 7pm and 8 pm when the draw is made to be eligible to win the cash.

Coming Events include Thursdays Stableford, Fridays Chicken Run, Saturdays Tony Vanin Trophy/F McKenzie Trophy stableford. While the pennant team play on Sunday. Division 2 vs Leongatha at Lang Lang with the hitoff at 10.30am, and Division 3 vs Leongatha at Wonthaggi with the hitoff at 9.45am.

The weather could not have been more perfect, and could best be described as an ‘Indian Summer’ day. Whilst the fi eld was a little disappointing, it was still a fi eld of rather high quality. The Lang Lang course was presented in its usual magnifi cent condition, and is a credit to the superintendent and his staff, along with the volunteers who assist, that it is always presented in such pris-tine condition.

As the morning fi eld teed off, it was with much an-ticipation that the organiser’s watched young Karl Vilips (Yarra Yarra) smash his drive from the 1st tee, splitting the fairway and knocking it around 240 metres. Whilst one may think, that is nothing special, Karl is only 10 years of age and already plays from a handicap of 7, and stands only (145cm) 4’ 10” tall.

He has ‘Tiger Woods’ writ-ten all over him. He won his fi rst tournament at age 7 fol-lowed by an under 9 ever in the USA. He is currently in the under 14 Golf Victoria training

squad. He is certainly going to be exciting to watch as he grows through his teens. Karl fi nished 3rd overall after never having seen the course before.

The morning round sawa number of players return close to par round. Nick Mills (Metropolitan) and Kenz Su-vanwattanasuk (Sandhurst) both returned 2 over 72’s with Karl Vilips (Yarra Yarra) 4 strokes back on 76 and Har-rison Whykes (Settlers Run) and Aaron Bamroong (Yarra Yarra) 4 strokes back on 76 with Karl Vilips (Yarra Yarra) a further 1 stroke back on 77.

The afternoon round sawNick Mills easily pull away from the fi eld when he re-turned a par equaling 70 to win by 8 strokes from Kenz Suvanwattanasuk. Karl Vilips (Yarra Yarra) improved on his morning round returning a 76 to fi nish on 153. The B Grade scratch was won by Marcus Foote (Trafalgar) 81 – 40 = 121, with the ‘C’ Grade scratch won by Lachlan Jor-dan (Bairnsdale) 98 – 43 = 141.

MeeniyanSATURDAY was the Col Stewart plate and a singles stableford event with the sponsor for the day being Panthers Men-sland which is much appreciated.

The plate winners team of Nev Wil-liams, Ian Inglis, Henry Mueller and Gavin Zerbe scored a combined total of 101.

The A Grade winner was Col Graeme with 37 points.

The B Grade winner was Ian Warman with 38 points.

Balls down the line went to Russ Ev-ans 36pts, Jeff Stoiljkovic 35pts, John Walker 35pts and Nev Williams with 35 points.

The pro pin on the 8th was won by Reg Hannay. Nearest the pin on the 14th was won by Alan Kuhne.

The raffl e winners were Col Graeme and Brian Dewar.

The members draw was won by Brad Hutchinson who was not there so it jack-pots to next week.

Next week is a 4BBB Stableford event.

Sundays pennant saw Division one have a very good 4/3 win over Wonthag-gi at Korumburra.

Tuesdays was a singles stableford event with the winner being Anthony Clement with 40 points.

Balls down the line went to John Mortensen 39pts, Lloyd Hemphill 38pts and Frank Peile with 35 points.

Best nine was Tony McHarg with 19 points.

Nearest the pin on the 14th was not won.

Thursday’s single stableford winner was Bill Pratt with 37 points on a count back.

Balls down the line went to Adrian Murphy 37pts, Lloyd Hemphill 34pts, Bob McGeary 34pts and Reg Hannay

with 34 points.Nearest the pin on the 2nd was won

by Bill Pratt. Best nine was won by Daryle Gregg with 18 points.

LadiesWEDNESDAY, April 18 had 22 ladies play single Stableford thanks to trophy donor Joyce Symmons.

Section 1 winner was Faye LePage with 38 points, section 2 winner was Linda Brown with 36 points and section 3 went to Lyn Jennison on 33 points.

Best 9 was Dot Christie with 17 points.

Down the line balls: Irene Holm 29, Sue Hoskin 29, Rita Wells 29 and Nan-cye Hammet 28 points.

Nearest the pin 2nd Nancye Hammet and 14th Andrea Thorson.

March Foster’s Little Bookshop voucher was won by Veronica Park.

On Friday, April 20 Meeniyan held its Ladies Day with Nutrimetics as the spon-sor. There were 42 players for the three person Stableford Medley.

Winners were Nancye Hammet, Mer-le Barham and Val Gow on 83 points.

Runners up were Trish Latch, Fran McPherson and R Brown with 79 points.

Balls down the line: Irene Holm, Libby Seebeck and Helen McKenzie 74 points, Veronica Park, Shirley Thomas and Bec Thomas 74 points.

Nearest the pin 2nd Helen McKenzie, 8th Dot Stubbs, 11th Fran McPherson and 14th Trish Owen.

The Meeniyan Ladies would like to thank everyone who supported our re-cent events and welcome you to join in our Farm Traders Day on Thursday, May 4; this event is also open to non handi-capped players.

Please contact Meeniyan Golf Club if you are interested in playing in the Men’s or Women’s four person Ambrose.

WooraylAPART from having our auction we also had a two man aggregate stablefored event sponsored by ‘The Shed’. The winners were Ross and Graeme Winkler with 84 points. They won from the pair of Tom Ryan and Rod Goodwin. The ball distribution was T and B Hogan, J. Barton ,John Maynard;T. Walters,K. Riseley; O. Van Dervorm, Bo Fiek; D. Berrett, L. Lancaster.

Our Thursday compe-tition was won by Daryl Hunt with 37 points and a ball going to Evan Young.

Next week is our monthly medal sponsored by MTD.

LadiesLAST Wednesday the 4BBB was generously sponsored by Hartley Wells, with some very good scores coming in.

The winners on the day were Sue Symmons and Min Dwyer with 46 points, on a countback from runners up Dot Jarvis

and Jenny Riseley with 46 points. Balls down the line went to Marg Hig-gins and Fay Maynard 44 points, Lois Young and Anne Patterson 42 points and Melinda Martin and Janet Thompson 41 points. Nearest the pin on the 8th was Dot Jarvis, on the 11th was Lois Young and on the 17th was Marg Higgins.

Sue Symmons and Min Dwyer will represent Woorayl at the district playoff of the Royal Wo-mens Hospital event, to be played on Monday, May 21 at Woorayl.

This was the qualify-ing round of the Dianne and John O’Connor 4BBB and advancing to the next round are Sue and Min, Dot and Jenny, Marg and Fay and Melinda and Ja-net.

This week being An-zac Day, is a mixed event with a 12pm assembly for a 12.30pm start. On Wednesday, May 2 we will play for the Monthly Medal.

South Gippsland Pennant

Results April 22Division 1 (at Korum-

burra Golf Club): Korum-burra 5 d Lang Lang 2, Phillip Island 6 d Woorayl 1, Meeni-yan 4 d Wonthaggi 3.

Division 2 (at Leongatha Golf Club): Leongatha 4 d Lang Lang 3, Foster 7 d Ko-rumburra 0, Phillip Island 6 d Wonthaggi 1.

Division 3 (at Phillip Island): Woorayl 6 d Ko-rumburra 1, Aussie Golf 5 d Foster 2, Phillip Island 56 d

Wonthaggi 1, Lang Lang 4 d Leognatha 3.

Division 4 (at Lang Lang Golf Club): Meeniyan 5 d Aussie Golf 2, Leongatha 5 d Korumburra 2, Lang Lang 6 d Woorayl 1, Wonthaggi 6 d Welshpool.

LaddersDivision 1

Phillip Island......................3 - 17Wonthaggi ..........................2 - 13Korumburra .................. 2 - 12Lang Lang ............(47.72) 1 - 8Meeniyan .............................1 - 8Woorayl ...............................0 - 7

Division 2Foster ..................................3 - 17Leongatha ...........................3- 15Phillip Island....................2 - 13

Lang Lang ........................1 - 11Wonthaggi .......................... 0 - 4Korumburra ....................... 0 - 3

Division 3Phillip Island......................4 - 24Woorayl ............................ 3 - 20Leongatha ..........................3 - 20Lang Lang ...........................3 - 18Foster................................. 2 - 16Wonthaggi ......................... 2 - 15Aussie Golf .........................2 - 16Korumburra .........................1 - 12

Division 4Wonthaggi ..........................4 - 26Leongatha ...........................4 -24Lang Lang ........................ 3 - 22Woorayl ............................ 3 - 20Meeniyan .............................3 - 16 Korumburra ....................... 2 - 17Welshpool..........................1 - 10Aussie Golf .........................0 - 6

KorumburraFIFTY- SIX players attended the second round 4BBB championships on Saturday April 21. Trophies David and Viv Enbom. The CCR was 70. The winner was P. Vanagt-maal 34 points. Goyne handicapp: P. Johnson and R. Young 124 handicap. Parry Scratch: N. Perks and T. O’Neill 143.

A. Grade: N. Ladgrove 12 and D. Brock-lbank 14 (63).

B Grade: J. Wilson 18 and L. Goad 20 60 net.

Runners-up A Grade: T. Jones, B. New-ton 64; T O’Neill, N. Perks 64.

Runners-up B. Grade. R. Freene, D. Child 62; L. Adkins, S. Rodda 63; P. Vanagt-maal, P. Broady 64; K. Pope, P. Hosking 65, S. Rodda, G. Wilson 65.

Putting: 1st P. Johnson, 7th R. Ludenia, 10th B. Thomson, 13th P. Vanagtmaal.

Tuesday winner was Jim Alger 37 points.

LeongathaTHE latest board event was decided on Saturday when the Herb Dearricott fourball was contested. Winning with a very tidy +9 were Ian Watson and John Fraser who got over the line from Craig Hams and Ron Paice on +8.

Doug Berry won pro-pin, Ryan Jacka took nearest the pin on the 16th and balls went to the following pairs: Ryan and Rob Jacka +7, L. Cerny, A. Cocoris +6; B. Hughes, G. Sharrock +6; A. Edney, R. Power +6; R. Martin, R. Rees +6; D. Hanna, G. McDonald +5; G. Carcour, H. Sedelies +5; C. Sperling, B. Cathie +5; B. Page, L. Page +6; L. Page, P. Warry +6.

TuesdayIan Barlow is our inau-

gural Tuesday champion. A very good 38 points boosted his two week tally to 70 and that was good enough. Bert Bary was the days runner-up with 38 points but losing on a countback.

Down the line balls: M. Lafferty, P . Walsh 36, D. Clemann 33, T. Lincoln 32, A. Smith 31, M. Oliver, D. Mc-Donald, G. McDonald 30.

Mick Oliver and Denis McDonald were nearest the pin winners.

ThursdayThe annual J.P Malone

‘Diggers Day’ ambrose was played with 76 competing The winning team was Chris and Maryanne Leaver, Kevin Scott and Peter Hartigan who scored 65 - 10 1/2 - 54 1/2.

Runners up on 55 5/8 were Peter Horman, Ross McRobert, Tony Gedye and Bill Howson. Paul Wilson and Col Sperling were nearest the pin winners.

Down the line balls: I. Barlow, R. Davies, F. Debono, R. Bride 561/4, J. Cumins, R. Paice, A. Gostelow, P. Wilson 56 1/8, I. Caine, I. Watson, J. Arnott, B. Birrell 571/2, B. Burrows, G. Pope, K. Pap-worth, V. Worrell 58 1/2, M. Stubbs, M. Oliver, P. Waters, P. Walsh 58 5/8.

All the pennant teams re-main in contention to reach the fi nal. Division 2 took ad-vantage of a home game to

defeat Lang Lang 4-3. Our winners were Doug Clemann, Rob Bride, Peter Hart and Jon Smith. Division 3 lost 4-3 to Lang Lang at Phillip Island where Steve Fisher, John Del-ton and Grant McRitchie were successful. Division 4 had a strong 5-2 win over Korum-burra at Lang Lang. Shane Moncur, Gene Vandergalm, Dean Brown, Sam Nasreddin and Robert Rumian all won.

Saturday’s event is a stabl-eford with the monthly medal the following week.

Ladies The Golf Victoria Royal Women’s Hospital 4BBB Stableford club qualifying event was held on Wednes-day, April 18 with 51 la-dies contesting the event sponsored by L J Hooker.Winners were Ann Blundy (16) and Julie McMicking (45) 46 pts countback.

Runners-up were Jan Paice (27) and Ev-elyn Indian (29) 46 ptsNTP 14th Coral Gray, 16th Isobel Sutherland.

Down the line balls: Pam Mullarvey and Barb Fleming 44 pts, Maria Bell and Marea Ma-her 42 pts, Glenyce McRobert and Jocelyn Howson 42 pts, Julie Howard and Georgina Mitchell 41 pts, Nancy Sperling and Leslie Renwick 41 pts, Dot Stubbs and Di Williams 41 pts.Nine hole comp winner was Glenys Day 21 pts, down the line ball Hannah Martin 19 pts.

Jan and Evelyn will rep-resent our club at the district qualifying day.

Saturday’s 4BBB par had 16 players take the course.Winners were Barb Flem-ing (45) and Rebecca Wilson (15) +9. Nearest the pin: 16th Mary Brewis. Down the line balls: Jean Chaplin and Wen-dy Parker +8, Linda Shannon and Deb Miller +7.

We are looking forward to hosting the Golf Victo-ria Country Tournament next Tuesday and Wednesday, May 1 and 2. Over 120 play-ers from all over Victoria will enjoy the hospitality of our club and the well maintained Santa Anna fairways on our picturesque course.

Winners: Ladies Day Sponsor Veronica Park, Nutrimetics Consultant (back) with winners (front from left) Nancye Hammet, Merle Barham and Val Gow.

Winner: district secretary Denis Stanes presents winner Nick Mills (Metropolitan) winner with the shield.

South Gippsland Junior Classic

A TOTAL of 39 players competed in the 2012 South Gippsland Junior Classic, which was conducted at Lang Lang Golf Club recently.

PAGE 54 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012

A Grade: Leongatha 36 d Traralgon 34

Awards: Kasie Rump (RSL)

A great start to a very competitive game. The girls gave it their all and really fought hard until the end. A very good win for the Parrots. Bring on next week!

B Grade: Leongatha 50 d Traralgon 35

Awards: Kate McCa-rthy (BP)

It was a tussle between last year’s grand fi nalists and Gatha whooped the pants off them. The girls pushed hard and many intercepts were taken in what was a hard contested game.

C Grade: Leongatha 25 lost to Traralgon 28

Awards: Ruth Craw-

ford (Leongatha Skin Therapy)

A close game, just couldn’t pull it off. Well done team on the talk and encouragement down the court. Let’s look to next week to get back to play-ing a strong Parrots game and achieving all our in-dividual goals. Watch out Morwell.

Under 17: Leongatha 25 lost to Traralgon 50

Awards: Rachel O’Loughlin

There were some really great passages of play and nice turnovers but Traral-gon proved to be consis-tently better throughout. The versatility of this new team was tested as girls were able to demonstrate their abilities in a number of different positions. We

were beaten but did not give up.

Under 15: Leongatha 15 lost to Traralgon 53

Awards: Jess Clark (Paradise Pizza)

A great start to the game with impressive skills shown around the court. A quick paced game saw Traralgon’s lead grad-ually increase each quarter. Need to make use of the skills learnt at training.

Under 13: Leongatha 2 lost to Traralgon 70

Awards: Sara Riseley (Sportsfi rst)

Beaten by a much bet-ter team on the day. Girls worked hard as a team with some good passages down the court but with no result. Bad luck girls let’s work hard again next week.

• LEONGATHA PARROTS NETBALL

Parrots take Traralgon

RONALD Purtle had a hard-earned and overdue win riding off scratch in the two lap road race of 38km at Korrine last Saturday.

Will Lumby, also riding off scratch, repeated the feat in the juniors road race.

The weather was perfect for cycling, being warm, not raining and the air al-most still.

Seventeen senior riders were sent away in fi ve groups in the handicapped event. David Bennett, with a fi ve minute start, had his work cut out riding alone. A bunch of fi ve riders next to start caught him soon after the fi rst lap. David did stay with them for a while. None of the next bunch of four riders another three minutes back caught the second bunch but Chris Rowe came the closest, being only 22 seconds short at the fi nish.

The fourth bunch of fi ve riders, another two minutes back struggled also to catch the third bunch but Tony Smith came clos-est, just failing to catch Chris by a second. Ronald Purtle and Jessie Boyd, on scratch, set off another one minute back. A fi ne ef-fort by Ronald saw him drop Jessie then move right through the fi eld to catch the leading bunch just before the top of the last hill, called Gows, and race away to

win alone by eight seconds in the time of56min29sec at an average speed of over38km/hr. Second was Kerry Pritchard,third David Barker, fourth Steve Wilsonand fi fth Rod Cheyne in a tight sprint forsecond place. Rod was welcomed backfor his fi rst ride with our group after anabsence of about a year. Sixth was ChrisRowe just pipping Tony Smith, followedby Phil Hanley and Ben Meadley doinghis fi rst ride with us and rounding out thetop 10 was Anthony Mitchell.

The juniors sported a fi eld of fi ve rid-ers over 17km. Will Lumby and Matt Mi-nogue started off scratch and gave awayfi ve minutes to Alex Bennett, four min-utes to Simon Thomas and three minutesto Austin Timmins.

In the race to the line Will caught Alexto win by two seconds in a time of 32min-26sec, third Simon, fourth Austin andfi fth Matt.

Next weekend riders are desperatelyneeded to help out at Wonthaggi on theSaturday and Outtrim on the Sunday forthe Junior Experience. This is a big eventand attracts riders from across Victo-ria. Helpers are needed for marshalling,timekeeping, judging and in the canteen.Please contact Judy or Lindsay Love withhow you can help.

Winners group: (from left) second Kerry Pritchard, fi rst Ron Purtle, third David Barker with junior winner Will Lumby.

Scratchies triumph at Korrine

Mount Eccles netball teams

JUNIOR team alloca-tions will be read out on Thursday April 26 during training at the LDNA netball courts.

All juniors please attend.A Grade

Aqua: Nicole Lomas (c), Brooke Jones, Barb Challis, Tegan Brammar, Mel Nich-olls, Rebecca Murray, Bess Goodwin.

White: Emma Winkler, Julia Lomas (c), Kristy Lee Jones, Sue Ritchie, Emma Harrison, Ebony Collins, Kate Gourlay.

B GradeWhite: Melinda Price (c),

Kirby Mileto, Kirsten Her-rald, Camille Shaw, Bronwyn Pearson, Kellie Matthews, Jacqui Bowler.

Aqua: Rachael Frassenei, Kate Norton (c), Sheree Mur-ray, Kate Lewton, Cindy Mu-nro, Carly O’Malley, Sarah Perry, Lani Turner.

Navy: Stephani Thoonen, Caitlin Goodwin (c), Claire Anderson, Kylie Kenzi, Bron-wyn Kalos, Melody Martin, Tara Peace.

Pink: Ali Edwards, Sam Anderson, Susie Moon, Al-yssa Knox, Narelle Routley, Georgina Kibble, Sharon Spencer (c).

Results - Round 2A Grade: Drouin 45 lt

Maffra 47, Morwell 40 d Warragul 33, Traralgon 34 lt Leongatha 36, Wonthag-gi 47 drew Bairnsdale 47.

B Grade: Drouin 46 lt Maffra 49, Morwell 46 d Warragul 19, Sale 45 d Moe 32, Traralgon 35 lt Leongatha 50, Wonthaggi 53 d Bairnsdale 36.

C Grade: Drouin 39 d Maffra 26, Morwell 36 d Warragul 11, Sale 26 lt Moe 30, Traralgon 29 d Leongatha 26, Wonthaggi 28 lt Bairnsdale 36.

17 & Under: Drouin 13 lt Maffra 51, Morwell 37 d Warragul 21, Sale 65 d Moe 6, Traralgon 50 d Leongatha 25, Wonthaggi 33 d Bairnsdale 32.

15 & Under: Drouin 19 lt Maffra 25, Morwell 17 lt Warragul 19, Sale 57 d Moe 16, Traralgon 53 d Leongatha 15, Wonthaggi 48 d Bairnsdale 10.

13 & Under: Drouin 12 lt Maffra 20, Morwell 4 lt Warragul 48, Sale 45 d Moe 13, Traralgon 70 d Leongatha 2, Wonthaggi 28 d Bairnsdale 22.

LaddersA Grade

Leongatha ....................153.03 8Maffra ..........................105.88 8Traralgon .....................124.56 4Morwell ........................105.26 4Sale ...............................104.76 4Bairnsdale .......................97.80 2Wonthaggi .......................70.54 2Drouin .............................95.74 0Warragul ..........................70.13 0

Gippsland netball

Results - Round 4April 21

A Grade: Yarram 60 d Tarwin 28, DWWWW v, MDU no play, Toora v Phillip Island no play, Fos-ter 50 d Korumburra-Bena 45, Fish Creek 33 d Daly-ston 21, Stony Creek 64 d Kilcunda-Bass 33.

B Grade: Dalyston 42 d Fish Creek 25, DW-WWW 60 d MDU 43, Foster 55 d Korumburra-Bena 32, Stony Creek 49 d Kilcunda-Bass 24, Tarwin 52 d Yarram 39, Phillip Is-land 41 d Toora 28.

C Grade: Dalyston 46 d Fish Creek 10, MDU 41 d DWWWW 21, Koru-mburra-Bena 36 d Foster 32, Stony Creek 52 d Kil-cunda-Bass 8, Yarram 44 d Tarwin 35, Phillip Island 20 d Toora 18.

17 & Under: Fish Creek 32 d Dalyston 24, DWWWW 39 d MDU 33, Korumburra-Bena 50 d Foster 7, Stony Creek 57 d Kilcunda-Bass 15, Tarwin 33 d Yarram 17, Toora 28 d Phillip Island 27.

15 & Under: Dalyston 39 d Fish Creek 18, MDU 13 d DWWWW 7, Koru-mburra-Bena 21 d Foster 15, Kilcunda-Bass 21 d Stony Creek 16, Yarram

52 d Tarwin 20, Toora v Phillip Island no play.

13 & Under: Dalyston 17 d Fish Creek 15, MDU 12 d DWWWW 5, Foster 25 d Korumburra-Bena 15, Kilcunda-Bass 47 d Stony Creek 12, Tarwin 8 d Yarram 7, Toora v Phillip Island no play.

LaddersA Grade

Foster ..........................217.89 16Korumburra-Bena......189.43 12Fish Creek ...................189.29 12Dalyston ........................106.90 8Yarram ...........................94.19 8Phillip Island.....................0.00 8Toora .............................131.67 4 Stony Creek ......................97.67 4 Inverloch-Kongwak........67.67 4MDU ...............................57.00 4Tarwin ..............................41.21 0Kilcunda-Bass .................25.32 0DWWWW .........................0.00 0

B GradeFoster ...........................257.89 16Kor-Bena ....................152.21 12Dalyston ......................143.96 12DWWWW ...................120.92 10Phillip Island................97.09 8 Fish Creek ....................109.87 6Tarwin ............................100.85 6 Toora ...............................90.83 4Inv-Kongwak ..................89.23 4 MDU ...............................89.13 4Stony Creek ......................64.00 4 Yarram ..............................55.23 2Kil-Bass............................37.04 0

C GradeKor-Bena ....................148.04 16 Foster ...........................202.67 12Dalyston .......................175.86 8 MDU .............................131.17 8Yarram .........................123.40 8 Inv-Kongwak ...............122.73 8

Phillip Island ....................72.73 6 Stony Creek ....................112.20 4Toora ................................86.67 4Tarwin .............................81.63 4DWWWW .......................73.08 4 Fish Creek .......................65.04 4

17 & UnderKor-Bena .....................344.19 16Fish Creek ...................237.50 16DWWWW ...................132.71 16Stony Creek ..............246.43 12Tarwin ............................93.62 6Toora ...............................84.04 6Phillip Island ....................92.63 4Inv-K’wak .......................88.46 4Dalyston ..........................85.39 4Kil-Bass ...........................61.73 4MDU ...............................70.00 0Yarram ..............................41.75 0Foster.................................31.76 0

15 & UnderKor-Bena ....................222.22 16Dalyston ...................... 411.11 12Foster ...........................176.36 12Phillip Island.................359.09 8Yarram ..........................196.36 8Fish Creek .....................132.14 8Toora ..............................240.00 4Stony Creek .....................88.71 4Inv-Kongwak ...................56.00 4MDU ................................46.99 4Kil-Bass ............................45.45 4Tarwin ..............................23.24 0DWWWW ........................15.82 0

13 & UnderFoster ..........................520.00 16Dalyston ......................347.62 12Kor-Bena .....................291.67 12Phillip Island...............1000.00 8Fish Creek .....................163.41 8MDU .............................100.00 8Toora ..............................133.33 4Inv-Kongwak ..................72.09 4Kilcunda-Bass ..................67.39 4Tarwin ..............................26.53 4DWWWW ........................25.00 4Yarram .............................31.40 0Stony Creek ......................12.50 0

Alberton netball

Aim, shoot: Wonthaggi Power’s Kristy Bryden shoots a goal in the fi rst quarter of the B grade game on Saturday. The Wonthaggi side went on to win the match.

Intercept: Jade Cashin aims to get in between the ball and a Kilcunda-Bass player during their clash on the weekend. Photo courtesy Ge-rard Bruning@www.fourcornersframing.biz.

B GradeLeongatha ....................161.97 8Maffra .......................... 113.79 8Drouin ..........................171.21 4Traralgon .....................126.39 4Morwell ........................126.09 4Sale ................................100.00 4Bairnsdale .......................95.18 4Wonthaggi .......................88.12 4Moe .................................43.75 0Warragul ..........................40.20 0

C GradeTraralgon .....................244.44 8Morwell ........................236.36 8Drouin ..........................194.87 8Bairnsdale ....................148.15 8Leongatha ....................130.61 4Moe .................................68.25 4Sale ..................................70.27 0Wonthaggi .......................64.86 0Maffra..............................59.26 0Warragul ..........................22.11 0

17 & UnderSale ...............................358.06 8Traralgon .....................348.48 8Maffra ..........................316.67 8Wonthaggi ......................93.94 4Morwell ..........................83.08 4Leongatha ........................74.68 4Drouin .............................66.67 4Bairnsdale .......................72.15 0Warragul ..........................28.43 0Moe .................................24.49 0

15 & UnderTraralgon .....................452.17 8Sale ...............................408.00 8Wonthaggi ....................318.18 8Maffra ..........................197.14 8Drouin ..........................107.84 4Warragul ..........................39.71 4Morwell ...........................52.38 0Moe .................................45.16 0Leongatha ........................34.55 0Bairnsdale .......................20.43 0

13 & UnderTraralgon ...................1200.00 8Maffra ..........................764.29 8 Wonthaggi ....................217.24 8Sale ...............................156.41 4Bairnsdale ....................109.09 4Warragul ........................103.70 4Drouin .............................85.29 4Moe .................................43.55 0Leongatha ..........................8.57 0Morwell .............................4.44 0

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 55

TOORA welcomed Phillip Island on a great day for football, the oval in perfect condition, fi ne with a slight south westerly wind. Toora won the toss and kicked with the wind.

Toora were fi rst into attack but the ball was

quickly down the visitors end and a goal resulted from a free in the goal square. From the bounce Toora were in attack again and Proud goaled from a long shot as it seemed a high scoring game could eventuate. The sides settled down and most of the play for the quarter was between the half forward lines, the Bulldogs using the ball

better when they did go forward and at quarter time sat 13 points ahead.

The Island began the second with a goal to Price from a free and once again it was a pretty even quar-ter, the difference being that the visitors had focal points up forward, particu-larly Ben Van Brummelen who kicked an exceptional eight goals for the day

Bulldogs take down pieswhereas Toora lacked a dominant forward, which has been their downfall for some time.

The Bulldogs were well served around the ground by Stock, Holland and Cook who were well rewarded by their forwards, particularly Van Brummelen and Rior-dan and they found scoring relatively easy.

Toora’s good players were Dyson around the ground, Grant in defence, Allott in the ruck and Sparkes on a wing but they found scoring diffi cult.

The third was a good quarter for Phillip Island as they really got on top of Toora. The visitors were beginning to win around the ground but once again the big difference was their ability to mark on the forward line and convert. Toora, however, found most of their forward moves did not get past the half forward line. At three quarter time the Bulldogs sat almost nine goals ahead.

The last quarter saw the Bulldogs go on to score a comfortable win. Toora fought the game out but they are severely under-manned this season and it looks like a long one for the Magpies.

They travel to Meeniyan next Saturday and it would be hard to pick them on present form. Phillip Island are at home to Stony Creek and they should get home in what could be a close game, as the Creek do not seem to be travelling as well this year as they have in recent years.

Phillip Island 18.12.120Toora & District 6.2.38Phillip Island Goals: B. Van Brummelen 8, D. Hinkley 2, M. Price 2, S. Riordan 2, C. Andersen-Blundy 1, J. Turner 1, M. Wright 1, J. Youle 1Toora Goals: B. Doran 2, J. Maurili-Pullin 2, B. McGrath 1, V. Proud 1Phillip Island Best: B. Van Brummelen, M. Price, D. Holland, A. Cook, M. Wright, T. CleelandToora Best: L. Dyson, P. Grant, K Sparkes, T. Allott, J. Toner, M. RobertsRESERVESPhillip Island 21.17.143Toora & District 0.0.0Leading Goalkicker: T. Cole (PI) 4Phillip Island Best: B. Hamilton, T. Cole, H. Pearce, B. Richardson, H. Harrison, D. GartonToora & District Best: Z. Clavarino, M. Hilder, R. Whit-

tle, H. Need, R. EastTHIRDSToora & District 12.4.76Phillip Island 11.9.75Leading Goalkicker: B. Doran (Too) 6Toora & District Best: J. Toner, C. Hanratty, B. Doran, S. Fischer, W. StoitsePhillip Island Best: C. Porter, E. Richards, J. Van Zanen, G. Powles, S. Taylor, J. BlackFOURTHSPhillip Island 10.8.68Toora & District 3.1.19Leading Goalkicker: A. Edwards (PI) 3Phillip Island Best: C. Pollard-Virtue, M. Coghlan, D. Wilson-Browne, B. Redmond, D. Ryan, J. MarksToora & District Best: P. Doran, M. Edwards, S. Argen-to, B. East, L. Chatfi eld, K. Morgan

THE Leongatha Lightning Rep-resentative Under 14 team com-peted recently at Ballarat in the Victorian Country Junior Cham-pionships.

The boys were competitive against strong competition from around the state and man-aged a great win against Korumburra, who

went on to be the eventual winners. Congratulations to them all for a won-

derful effort and exemplary behaviour dur-ing the competition.

The team continues to improve under the guidance of their wonderful coach, Dan Monaghan.

Thanks to all parents who supported the children by travelling to Ballarat for the 3 day tournament.

Lightning take on tournament

Basketball boys: (back, from left) Dan Monaghan (coach) George Batten, Jack Stockdale, Nicholas Battersby, Sam McGannon, Trent Westaway, Michael Westaway (Team manager), (front, from left) Cameron Olden, Vincent Monaghan and Joel Norton.

by Rover

A HARDER-EDGED Mirboo North bounced back from its surprise fi rst round loss against Hill End, to outclass Morwell East by 52 points at Tigerland on Saturday.

With sunshine on their shoulders, and a smooth green grassy surface on which to play, these were excellent conditions for speedy, high-marking foot-ballers.

Both teams moved the ball quickly and skillfully in a competitive opening term, which saw Mirboo North leading by fi ve points at the fi rst break.

The mighty Tigers gradually took control after quarter-time; they ruthlessly strangled Morwell East’s running game by hunting down the Hawks’ ball car-riers.

A transition was tak-ing place: the Hawks’ en-gine room was spluttering as the benefi ts of Mirboo North’s confi ned space train-ing kicked in.

The Tigers were crisp and creatively weaved their way through heavy traffi c, but Morwell East appeared fl ustered, fl at-footed and cumbersome under pressure.

Morwell East stars, Chris Smogavec, Paul Henry, Robbie Shelton and Eddie Lithgow were tamed by the Tigers and unable to exert their normal destructive in-fl uences on the game.

Mirboo North showed intensity at the contests, was relentless in its ferocious at-tacks on the footy, decisive in possession and tackled mercilessly.

Mercurial left-footer, Anthony Bence, turned his opponents inside out, upside down and every which way but loose, on his way to fi ve magnifi cent goals.

Kris Berchtold was an-other Tiger who seemed to bob up everywhere, scoring four majors as well as mark-ing superbly in defence and bursting through the mid-fi eld.

The brilliant Berchtold’s fourth goal came after se-curing a near-impossible contested mark in the goal square, where he fearlessly sprinted 20 metres in the same direction as the ball.

The brothers Nash, Ja-cob, Kallum and Liam, to-gether with Matt Holland, Damien Turner, Brian Wa-ters and Tim Traill (three goals) were also terrifi c in-stigators for the Tigers.

As the match wore on and the pressure mounted, Morwell East’s structures, zones and processes com-pletely fell apart and became as ineffective as an ashtray

on a motor bike. It was full steam ahead

for Mirboo North, as it kept the train moving on down the lines and proved famil-iarity with the footy breeds respect.

The Tigers collectively banged on four goals in the second, third and fi nal quar-ters, compared to only one by Morwell East in each term after quarter-time.

Too often, the Hawks found themselves in no man’s land and out of touch with the Sherrin.

The Tigers successfully employed guerilla problem-solving tactics and method-ologies to keep focused, on track and in control.

As the late Louis Pasteur once said, “Chance favors the prepared mind.”

The Hawks’ tally of four goals for the match, which included two from Brendan Marks and singles by burly ruckman, Mark Van Dyke and Mathew Brown, was de-cidedly miserable.

Drew Gardener, Stu-art Keel and Dom Pinneri, turned back countless Mor-well East inside-50 entries.

Some of Mirboo North’s link-up and overlap footy moved the Sherrin from one end of the ground to the other, without an opponent touching it.

One such example was Mirboo North’s ninth goal involving Pinneri, Daniel Taylor, Jacob Nash and fi -

Mirboo North keeps moving

OTHER MATCHESSENIORSNewborough 13.10.88 d Hill End 8.4.52Yallourn-Yall Nth 26.23.179 d Thorpdale 1.3.9Trafalgar 28.18.186 d Yarragon 9.5.59RESERVESHill End 9.8.62 d Newborough 7.15.57Yallourn-Yall Nth 14.10.94 d Thorpdale 6.3.39Trafalgar 16.10.106 d Yarragon 4.6.30THIRDSNewborough 19.10.124 d Hill End 3.7.25Thorpdale 10.7.67 d Yallourn-Yall Nth 8.10.58Trafalgar 9.16.70 d Yarragon 8.7.55FOURTHSNewborough 27.13.175 d Hill end 0.4.4Thorpdale 10.6.66 d Yallourn-Yall Nth 4.3.27Yarragon 5.6.36 d Trafalgar 3.8.26

SENIORSLADDER

Yall-Yall North......... 380.52 8Newborough ........... 373.61 8Trafalgar ................. 245.63 8Mirboo North .......... 148.00 4Yinnar ..................... 113.64 4Hill End ...................... 78.52 4Morwell East .............. 73.86 4Boolarra ..................... 64.90 0Yarragon .................... 42.33 0Thorpdale .................... 8.06 0

THIRDSLADDER

Newborough ........... 653.33 8Mirboo North .......... 376.25 8Yinnar ..................... 271.25 8Trafalgar ................. 208.57 8Yarragon ................. 190.82 4Thorpdale .................. 38.16 4 Boolarra ..................... 43.50 0Yall-Yall North ............ 43.22 0Hill End ...................... 24.73 0Morwell East .............. 23.89 0

FOURTHSLADDER

Newborough ........... 870.00 8Mirboo North .......... 397.56 8Yarragon ................. 191.67 8Yinnar ......................... 0.00 8Thorpdale ................. 81.42 4Trafalgar ..................... 72.22 4Yall-Yall North ............ 42.07 0Morwell East .............. 16.25 0 Hill End ...................... 12.40 0

RESERVESLADDER

Yall-Yall North......... 249.28 8Boolarra .................. 142.15 8Hill End ................... 128.00 8Trafalgar ................. 157.27 4Newborough ........... 141.60 4Mirboo North .............. 98.52 4Yinnar ........................ 82.81 4Morwell East .............. 62.39 0Thorpdale .................. 47.66 0Yarragon .................... 32.61 0

Mid Gippsland

League

SENIORSYinnar 13.6.84 dBoolarra 8.6.54Yinnar goals: N. Scurrah 5, T. Stan-istreet 4, R. Gooding 1, J. Winters 1, G. Richards 1, S. Mills 1.Boolarra goals: M. Dyer 2, K. Towt 2, C. Riseley 1, D. Metcalf 1, B. Ap-pleby 1, T. Leys 1.Yinnar best: S. McCulloch, J. Em-bry, L. Clarke, B. Chapman, J. Win-ters, S. Mills.Boolarra best: C. Riseley, S. Fox, T. Leys, J. Dyer, T, Salerno, J. Cargill.

RESERVESBoolarra 14.8.92 dYinnar 8.6.54Yinnar goals: T. Spiteri 3, J. Ken-nedy 2, D. Burke 1, A. Shepherd 1, J. Garth 1.Boolarra goals: S. Cooper 4, B. Dodd 3, A. Burgess 2, D. Leys 2,

L. Haustorfer 1, C. Blackberry 1, A. Fievez 1.Yinnar best: D. Burke, R. Webb, J. Kennedy, J. Garth, D. Young, D. Yeates.Boolarra best: D. Leys, T. Beamish, S. Cooper, R. Beamish, C. Black-berry, C. Sykes.

THIRDSYinnar 11.8.74 dBoolarra 7.5.47Yinnar goals: C. Alexander 3, J. Embry 3, T. Sewell 2, D. Linton 1, R. Van Rooy 1, G. Olver 1.Boolarra goals: S. Mazou 4, J. Francis 1, B. Brand 1, D. Brand 1.Yinnar best: L. Alexander, T. Hillier, M. Dyke, J. Embry, J. Rendell, R. Van Rooy.Boolarra best: J. Anderson, N. Nikodemski, S. Mazou, J. Batters-by, M. Dodds, J. Robinson.

SENIORSMirboo North 14.3.87 dMorwell East 4.11.35Mirboo North goals: A. Bence 5, K. Berchtold 4, T. Traill 3, P. Spurling 1, P. Taylor 1.Morwell East goals: B. Marks 2, M. Brown 1, M. Van Dyke 1.Mirboo North best: J. Nash, K. Ber-chtold, D. Gardener, A. Bence, K. Nash, D. Turner.Morwell East best: M. Van Dyke, A. Makepeace, B. Evans, A. Jaensch, F. Marks, M. Cunningham.

RESERVESMirboo North 10.5.65 dMorwell East 5.7.37Mirboo North goals: B. Van Heurck 4, J. Brooks 3, A. Soplakow 2, B. Wilson 1.Morwell East goals: A. Duncan 3, E. Ruseler 1, G. Stanlake 1.Mirboo North best: J. Brooks, B. Harriage, B. Van Heurck, M. Taylor, A. McCarthy, C. Dalliston.Morwell East best: A. Duncan, D. Tatterson, E. Ruseler, T. Willis, G. Stanlake, S. Glass.

THIRDS

Mirboo North 24.6.150 dMorwell East 6.1.37Mirboo North goals: M. Hinkley 7, L. Smit 5, P. Hinkley 3, S. Pratt 2, R. Thomas 1, D. O’Keefe 1, B. Rich-ards 1, C. Irwin 1, J. Salinger 1, J. Abbey 1, J. Redmond 1.Morwell East goals: D. Field 1, T. Milner 1, Z. Dowdell 1, J. Cook 1.Mirboo North best: M. Hinkley, N. Gervasi, L. Smit, M. Wightman, J. Abbey, C. Irwin.Morwell East best: D. Field, E. Semmler, B. Mills, B. Aitken, C. Cowen.FOURTHSMirboo North 12.8.80 dMorwell East 2.1.13Mirboo North goals: T. Taylor 4, S. Kelzke 2, A. Miller 1, C. Noy 1, J. Moro 1, P. Hinkley 1, M. Sanders 1, Z. Porter 1.Morwell East goals: J. Kendall 1, C. Politis 1.Mirboo North best: J. Salinger, S. Pratt, T. Taylor, P. Hinkley, S. Kelz-ke, M. Sanders.Morwell East best: J. Brewer, M. Brewer, B. Aitken, J. Ferguson, J. Kendall, J. McCubbin.

nally, Berchtold, who con-verted after a strong mark.

Down back, the Hawks were fumbling and stum-bling, kicking short and struggling to hit a target, whether going inboard, up the middle, or out wide, to a teammate.

Van Dyke, Aaron Make-peace, Brendan Evans, Adam Jaensch and Frank Marks all battled hard for Morwell East, but they lacked suffi -cient back-up support for the Hawks to mount a serious challenge on the scoreboard.

Crash: Toora and Island players show desperation for the ball.

Kormburra domestic basketballResults April 16

16 Boys: Celtics 49 (J. Patullo 34) d Spurs 49 (J. Stockdale 15); Jazz 56 (Kyle Materia 23) d Bulls 36 L. Thomas 16.

18 Boys: Rodwell 50 (J. Swezzen 21) d Maskell 48 (C. Trewin 10), Olden 55 (A. O’Neill 22) d Mortimer 52 (D. Hately 12).

B Women: Old Cats 36 (K. Sorrell 20) d Av-erage Janes 18 (T. Findlay 6), Bunch of Grapes 23 (K. Shelling 5) d Heat 16 (C. Herbert 6).

A Women: Flames 71 (M. Lumby 20) d Bird 23 (B. Maskell 8), Mirboo 45 (J. Hillier 12) d Daly 33 (E. Angarane 16).

10 Girls: Donohue 17 (M. Findlay 9) d Blair 11 (T. Angwin 7), Dowel 18 (E. Nicholas 10) d Fitzgerald 2 (G. Master 2).

12 Girls: Harrower 30 (C. Lane 5) d Jackson 25 (T. Roffey 11), Snell 30 (M. Smith 2) d Taylor 20 (A. McQueen 10).

14/16 Girls: Spirit 35 (K. Baido 4) d Boom-

ers 30 (C. Chilla 6); Rangers 33 (A. Holmes 12) drew Capitals 33 (C. Hogg 19).

Masters: Milk Drinkers 47 (S. Burgess 18) d Trav. Gilmores 33 (B. Clarke 15); BSC 39 (M. Fawcett 11) d Witches Hats 17 (D. Nicholas 5); Mixtures 42 (Johny Farnham 6) d Local Blokes 36 (M. Whiteside 17).

A Men: Wildcats 65 (J. Winderlich 20) d Hacks 38 (D. McMeekin 19); Molten 59 (A. Zuidema 26) d Blood 39 (D. Muir 12).

10 Boys: Tiapans 19 (R. McQueen 10) d Blaze 10 (T. Crocker 7); Tigers 31 (A. Blackmore 11) d Crocs 6 (M. Slattery 3).

12 Boys: Wizards 45 (J. Newcome 29) d Heat 19 (T. Harkin 8); Magic 42 (J. Grabham 20) d Knicks 21 (T. Kelly 12); Wildcats 37 (I. Fox 2) d Hawks 13 (R. Treacy 9).

14 Boys: Jazz 46 (E. Zubic 6) d Kings 37 (T. Whiteside 11); Lakers 20 (A. Walker 5) d Suns 16 (M. Bentvelzen).

PAGE 56 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012

WITH the Bass ground in perfect con-dition and a beautiful day, there was go-ing to be some great, entertaining footy played.

The fi rst quarter was an even battle and both sides could not get a break. The footy was hard and fi erce and could not open up and at the quarter time break scores were even at seven points apiece.

The second saw the Bass boys lift their work rate, again with the hard work from Ryan Fitzger-ald and Damian Holmes in the midfi eld and the de-fence was standing up to

some pressure from Stony with Bronson Interlandi and Adam Miller up for the challenge and the Pan-thers leading going into the half time break. The fi ve goal defi cit for the Lions was off-putting and they couldn’t quite regain their feet after half time.

The game started to open up in the third and the home side started to run all over the ground and spear the ball forward down to Luke James and Jason Wells, giving them opportunities to goal.

The Stony Creek de-fence, although putting in the efforts just were not quick enough to the contests.

Kilcunda-Bass led go-

ing into the third com-fortably by more than 10 goals.

The last quarter was an even contest like the fi rst and again hard contests all over the ground with Kilcunda-Bass little men Danny Wells and Benny Emberson standing tall like the ever reliable ruck-man (Pistol) Paul Lang and hard man Tim Smith.

The ever persistent Li-ons couldn’t get back up after the commanding lead and the Panthers walked away with the four points.

Stony Creek faces up against Phillip Island while Kilcunda-Bass takes a break with the bye.

WITH the Bass ground in perfect con-dition and a beautiful d th

some pressure from Stony with Bronson Interlandi and Adam Miller up for the challenge and the Pan-

ing into the third com-fortably by more than 10 goals.

The last quarter was an

Panthers smash Stony

Kilcunda Bass 17.1.114Stony Creek 7.5.47Kilcunda Bass Goals: L. JAMES 5, J. Wells 4, P. Lange 2, B. Anthony 1, T. Smith 1, J. Goewie 1, J. Evans 1, M. Hendry 1, R. Fitzgerald 1Stony Creek Goals: L. Byrnes 2, R. Hillis 1, B. Langley 1, L. Bowman 1, C. Langley 1, K. Van Der Pluym 1Kilcunda Bass Goals: D. Holmes, D. Wells, B. In-terlandi, R. Fitzgerald, L. JAMES, P. LangeStony Creek Goals: M. Linke, R. Harmes, R. Hillis, t. Lonsdale, D. Zuidema, J. ByrnesRESERVES

Kilcunda Bass 16.17.113Stony Creek 1.1.7Leading Goalkicker: M. Dickason (KB) 5Kilcunda Bass Best: S. Guilmartin, L. Smith, S. Fairthorne, M. Dickason, J. FAOFVA, L. ODono-ghueStony Creek Best: J. Accardi, W. Verboon, B. Ko-etsveld, E. Taylor, A. Byrne, M. DyerTHIRDSKilcunda Bass 25.9.159Stony Creek 1.2.8Leading Goalkicker: T. Bone (KB) 8Kilcunda Bass Best: J. Homer, D. Clay, T. Bone,

D. Wake, K. Salama, D. CrawfordStony Creek Best: E. Taylor, J. Wilson, j. zuide-ma, J. Densley, T. Stone, S. Wilson

FOURTHSKilcunda Bass 15.13.103Stony Creek 0.7.7Leading Goalkicker: M. Homer (KB) 7Kilcunda Bass Best: M. Homer, S. Watson, A. Brown, D. Ferguson, T. Geale, R. CousinsStony Creek Best: L. Harrington, T. Sinclair, A. Veale, Z. Fiddelaers, J. Tiziani, R. Harrington

FOSTER hosted the Koru-mburra-Bena Bulldogs in a great game on Saturday as the Alberton season gets settled in.

The round four clash had both teams pushing hard from the fi rst bounce and lots of tight compe-titions and good football being played.

The visitors were using some good tactics but couldn’t seem to hit the majors in the fi rst, handing Foster a handy eight point lead at the fi rst break.

Foster took off in the sec-ond using quick plays and solid marks to move the ball up the fi eld quickly.

The Bulldogs’ defence couldn’t stop the smooth Tigers as they slotted through fi ve goals.

Korumburra-Bena only man-aged three for the term and were trailing by 23 as the teams headed to the rooms.

The third was even playing

from the two teams, with the smell of a comeback in the air.

The Bulldogs were looking good, showcasing some excellent forward work from Ilan Osman and Cade Maskell.

Foster however didn’t let off and had Luke Jones and Dylan Vandyke working hard.

The home side led by 21 at three quarter time but the crowd were expecting a showdown and race to the line in the fourth.

Foster jumped out of the blocks and shut the game down, not giv-ing the visitors a chance.

Jack Weston was starring up forward for the Tigers as they in-creased their lead.

The goals came too late for Kourmburra-Bena in the quarter and the damage had already been done as the fi nal siren sounded to the tune of a 52 point margin.

Round fi ve will see Foster travel to Tarwin and Korumburra-Bena take on the Allies.

FISH Creek has moved to the top of the table after defeating Daly-ston by 32 points on Saturday in a topsy-turvy contest.

The Creekers stay at the top may only be temporary as they face an undefeated Inverloch-Kongwak at the Kangaroos’ home ground this Saturday.

I-K moved down one place in view of its bye but will look to regain its suprem-acy in the match of the round.

Dalyston gave Fish Creek a real run for its money, leading the Kangaroos at the fi rst two changes.

A six goal haul to the Creek to Daly-ston’s two in the third quarter set up the victory.

Fishy went on with it in the last quar-ter with fi ve goals to the Magpies’ three.

Sam Sperling bagged seven goals for the Creek in a fi ne performance.

The Kangas got the ball rolling, with an opportunistic goal from Ireland 30 me-tres out directly in front and he followed this up with a screw over his shoulder to make it two in a minute. The match tightened up as the term progressed. Tait for Dalyston was mopping things up off half back and driving them forward to the scoring end. The fi rst quarter a bit of an arm wrestle. In the second Wylie

was getting busy for Dalyston along with Brosnan and Schrape. The Creek defenders were rock solid, repelling the constant attacks from the Magpies. Pratt was doing a huge job on the big Daly-ston forward Pemm. Fish Creek seemed a little fl at in the fi rst half and Dalyston with a four point lead at the major break could easily have been three goals clear.Too many jelly beans at half time and the second half took a while to get crank-ing, but when it did Fish Creek piled on fi ve quick goals, four of them unan-swered. The lead to Fish Creek pushed out to four goals until a late one to Da-lyston made the margin at the last break three goals in the Kanga’s favour.

Livingstone, who was injured in the fi rst quarter and was to take no further part in the match, asked for more from the Roos and they provided. Manne start-ed getting on top and little fellas Hosk-in, Bilney and the two Park boys started to run amok.

At one stage Fish Creek pushed the margin out to a 44 point lead, the largest in the match. A couple of cheeky goals from Sperling and Law iced the game for the Kangaroos. Dalyston added a bit of respectability to the score with a big bomb from Brosnan and big unit Pemm.

Tigers outrun DogsFoster 21.11.137Korumburra-Bena 12.13.85Foster Goals: J. Weston 6, D. Granger 4, D. Waser 3, N. Grylls 3, S. Hawking 2, J. Stevenson 1, J. Northam 1, C. VanDyke 1Korumburra-Bena Goals: I. Osman 4, C. Maskell 4, B. Fitzpatrick 2, S. Bray 1, J. Smith 1Foster Best: S. Hawking, C. VanDyke, S. Condon, D. Vandyke, J. Weston, L. JonesKorumburra-Bena Best: S. Bray, I. Osman, B. An-thony, L. Carpenter, C. Woods, L. EarlRESERVESKorumburra-Bena 20.18.138Foster 2.2.14Leading Goalkicker: T. Sorrell (K-B) 6Korumburra-Bena Best: B. Harris, L. Williams, L. Palmer, T. Sorrell, A. Alger, B. WightFoster Best: E. Davies, L. Cripps, W. Davy, R. Johnston, J. Haye, S. DaviesTHIRDSKorumburra-Bena 24.18.162Foster 2.3.15Leading Goalkickers: B. Dorling 6, M. Edwards 6 (K-B)Korumburra-Bena Best: M. Boyd, D. Hateley, J. Harris, T. Wyatt, B. Dorling, R. StewartFoster Best: J. Moore, S. Allott, M. Brickle, G. Rerden, B. Hateley, M. AllottFOURTHSFoster 7.5.47Korumburra-Bena 3.3.21Leading Goalkicker: B. Cripps (Fos) 4Foster Best: B. Cripps, B. Green, O. Price, A. Turn-er, B. Cripps, X. DuursmaKorumburra-Bena Best: S. Anderson, H. Anthony, J. Harris, P. Ahokava, M. Snooks, L. O’Brien

Fish Creek hits top

Fish Creek 14.10.94Dalyston 9.8.62Fish Creek Goals: S. Sperling 7, L. Park 2, A. Ireland 2, J. Rouda 1, J. Law 1, B. Cooper 1Dalyston Goals: S. Pimm 4, M. Rosendale 2, P. Brosnan 2, R. Birnie 1Fish Creek Best: T. Gordon, N. Barry, S. Sperling, A. Ireland, J. Shaw, L. PrattDalyston Best: D. Kelly, M. Howell, D. Brown, P. Brosnan, C. Tait, J. BrookerRESERVESDalyston 15.13.103

Fish Creek 4.6.30Leading Goalkicker: C. Bowman (Dal) 4Dalyston Best: L. Wall, W. Luke, A. Wallis, C. Bowman, J. Alexander, L. WilkinsonFish Creek Best: P. Mueller, J. Payne, B. Mitchell, D. Devonshire, J. Bell, C. MoonTHIRDSDalyston 12.9.81Fish Creek 3.5.23Leading Goalkickers: T. Davey 3, J. Legione 3 (Dal)Dalyston Best: J. Ray-Angarane, K. Thomas, L. McRae, M. Schreck,

T. McNish, T. DaveyFish Creek Best: J. O’Sullivan, D. Gordon, D. Mulholland, T. Smith, K.

Hemming, Z. Redpath

FOURTHSFish Creek 11.3.69Dalyston 3.5.23Leading Goalkickers: G. Staley 4, G. Park 4 (FC)Fish Creek Best: G. Park, T. Red-path, D. Walker, K. Jacobson, R. PridhamDalyston Best: M. Davey, J. Magro, H. Mannington, J. Wilson, C. Kilgour, Z. Higgins

Team player: Luke Bowman put an unorthodox shepherd up against Tim Smith to protect team mate Ryan Hutchinson. Photo courtesy Gerard Bruning @ fourcornersframing.biz

Going hard: Jack Hughes puts his body on the line when going for the ball between to Panther players. Photo courtesy Gerard Bruning @ fourcornersframing.biz

Flying high: Luke James takes a solid mark for the Panthers on Saturday. Photo courtesy Gerard Bruning @ fourcornersframing.biz

Tackle time: A Fish Creek player is taken down by a fast moving magpie.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 57

THE round four clash be-tween Tarwin and Yarram saw the Sharks set the pace, getting out to a 13 point lead early in the fi rst quarter.

Yarram settled and notched up two early majors, one from a free kick deep in attack and the other a centre clearance to Justin Staley who marked and goaled.

Tarwin responded, winning the ball and converting on the scoreboard, kicking three goals to lead by 19 points.

Yarram stemmed the fl ow and controlled play to take the lead late in the quarter.

A late rally forward saw Al-bert Russell goal and the Sharks regained the lead heading in to quarter time, in front by fi ve points.

Tarwin went forward for a point from the kick in at the start of the second quarter. Yarram re-sponded by moving the ball the length of the ground for a goal, which levelled the scores.

Yarram were looking good and two more goals saw them move out to a 12 point lead.

Mark Garnham snapped a much needed goal for the Sharks, with one more being put through, to once again draw the scores level.

The momentum of the game changed again, with Albert Rus-sell and Josh Chalmers kicking a goal each, helping the Sharks out to a 12 point lead.

Russell, after some close at-tention was yellow carded, which seemed to lift the Tarwin team.

They managed to get out to a 25 point lead, with Christopher Pettitt of Yarram yellow carded entering time on.

Yarram, with a clean break-

away kicked long to Justin Staley on a lead, who marked, but went to ground injuring his leg. He was assisted from the fi eld by two trainers and warmed the bench for the second half.

The goal was kicked, to re-duce the margin back to 19 points at half time, with Tarwin leading 83 to 64.

After a fast fl owing, high scoring fi rst half, the third quarter became a much tighter and defen-sive affair.

Two goals to Joshua Swift and one to Corbin Sutherland saw Yarram within a point midway through the quarter.

A goal to Paul McRae enter-ing time on and a boundary line snap goal on three quarter time had Tarwin in front by 14 points at three quarter time.

The last quarter saw the Sharks win the vital fi rst clearance and send it forward enabling Albert Russell to snap an important early goal.

Tarwin were up and running and shot through two more goals in quick succession, seeing their lead extended to 32 points.

Yarram were tiring and could not respond. As the quarter pro-gressed and their discipline broke down, two players were yellow carded.

After three quarters of fast, open football, with each team dominating periods of the game, it was Tarwin who ran away in the last quarter, kicking seven goals to Yarram’s one.

The Sharks fi nished the game on top, with a 53 point win over the tired Yarram side.

Tarwin take on Foster at home this week, with Yarram set to face Dalyston.

to take on the Allies.The visitors got off to a

fantastic start, getting some clean possessions and get-ting points on the board. The Allies were putting in the hard yards but a 13 point lead at quarter time was in MDU’s favour.

The Allies couldn’t keep up in the second as the Demons took the lead further with six goals, but wayward kicking in front of the sticks could’ve meant a larger lead.

Coming out after half time the Allies were look-ing good, but the visitors were looking better.

Great work from big man Michael Smith

was making plays fl ow smoothly out of the centre bounce.

A 69 point lead at three quarter time had the game’s fate almost sealed.

In the fourth quarter the fi nal nails were placed in the Allies’ coffi n in the form of four solid goals.

The home side put in a fair effort in the fi nal as well getting six scoring shots before the fi nal siren sounded.

The 88 point win was a good feather in the MDU cap as they go up against Toora next week, while the Allies host Korumburra-Bena this weekend.

SENIORSLADDER

W L D % Pts Fish Creek ..... 3 0 1 118.21 14Inv-K’wak...... 3 0 0 203.74 12Kil-Bass ....... 3 1 0 156.85 12 Foster .......... 2 1 1 102.89 10Tarwin ......... 2 1 0 249.07 8 MDU............ 2 1 0 186.39 8Phillip Island ... 2 1 0 160.11 8 Kor-Bena ......... 2 2 0 90.30 8Dalyston .......... 1 2 0 103.61 4Yarram ............ 1 2 0 89.69 4Stony Creek ..... 0 3 0 56.65 0 DWWWW ........ 0 4 0 41.31 0Toora ............... 0 3 0 19.33 0

UNDER 18LADDER

W L D % Pts Kor-Bena ....... 4 0 0 705.48 16Dalyston ........ 3 0 0 540.62 12Kil-Bass ........ 3 1 0 237.70 12 Toora ............ 3 0 0 113.17 12Phillip Island .. 2 1 0 232.37 8MDU............. 2 1 0 227.87 8Fish Creek .........2 2 0 129.44 8Yarram ..............2 1 0 73.30 8Stony Creek .......1 2 0 28.47 4Tarwin ...............0 3 0 30.58 0Foster ................0 4 0 24.19 0 Inv-K’wak ..........0 3 0 22.70 0DWWWW ..........0 4 0 18.79 0

GOALKICKERSS. Sperling (Fish Creek) .... (7) 19S. Pimm (Dalyston) ............ (4) 17C. Maskell (Kor-Bena) ........ (4) 14 A. Russell (Tarwin) ............. (9) 14L. James (Kil-Bass) ............ (5) 14J. Swift (Yarram) ................ (4) 13J. Cann (Tarwin) .................. (4) 13D. Klipatrick (Inv-Kongwak) (0) 13C. Sutherland(Yarram) ....... (4) 12L. Reddie (Inv-Kongwak) ... (0) 11

RESERVESLADDER

W L D % Pts Kor-Bena ..... 4 0 0 662.86 16Tarwin ........ 3 0 0 1062.16 12Phillip Island 3 0 0 570.59 1 2 Dalyston ...... 3 0 0 400.00 12Kil-Bass ...... 3 1 0 323.19 12Inv-K’wak..... 1 2 0 99.45 4MDU ...............1 1 0 66.92 4Stony Creek ....1 2 0 45.05 4Foster .............1 3 0 39.58 4DWWWW .......1 3 0 34.10 4Fish Creek ......0 4 0 32.20 0Yarram ...........0 3 0 21.84 0Toora... ...........0 3 0 1.68 0

GOALKICKERSS. McRae (Tarwin) ............ (10) 19R. Birnie (Dalyston) ............ (0) 14K. Taylor (Phillip Island) ...... (3) 10L. Wilson (Kor-Bena) ............ (4) 9L. Wilkinson (Dalyston) ........ (3) 9M. Holm (Tarwin) .................. (1) 8D. Smith (Foster) ................. (0) 8J. Fowles(Kor-Bena) .............. (0) 8F. DeRubenis (Kil-Bass) ........ (2) 8A. Guymer(Tarwin) ............... (4) 7

UNDER 15LADDER

W L D % Pts Fish Creek .... 4 0 0 801.85 16Phillip Is ...... 3 0 0 719.57 12Kor-Bena ..... 2 2 0 190.30 8Dalyston ...... 2 1 0 171.67 8Yarram ...........2 1 0 134.59 8Foster .............2 2 0 94.09 8MDU ...............2 1 0 68.35 8Kil-Bass ..........2 2 0 61.28 8Inv-K’wak .......1 2 0 103.97 4Tarwin ............1 2 0 50.56 4DWWWW .......1 3 0 33.86 4Toora ..............0 3 0 13.04 0Stony-Creek ...0 3 0 10.25 0

GOALKICKERSB. Doran (Toora) ................. (6) 14B. Dorling (Kor-Bena) ......... (6) 12T. Wyatt (Kor-Bena) ............ (4) 12T. Davey (Dalyston) ............ (3) 11K. Salama (Kil-Bass) .......... (3) 10 M. Schreck (Dalyston) ......... (2) 9 D. Crawford (Kil-Bass) ......... (4) 9T. Bone (Kil-Bass) ................ (8) 9J. Krohn(MDU) ..................... (6) 9J. Dakin (Kil-Bass) ............... (3) 9

UNDER 13LADDER

W L D % Pts Inv-K’wak..... 1 0 0 1783.33 4Corner Inlet .. 1 0 0 512.50 4Dalyston ...... 1 0 0 236.36 4Won ........... 1 0 0 200.00 4Kil-Bass ..........0 1 0 50.00 0Phillip Is .........0 1 0 42.31 0Kor-Bena ........0 1 0 19.51 0L’gatha Jnr .....0 1 0 5.61 0

GOALKICKERSG. Staley (Fish Creek) ......... (4) 12M. Homer (Kil-Bass) ............ (7) 9G. Park (Fish Creek) ............. (4) 9A. Edwards (Phillip Island) ... (3) 9O. Toussaint (Inv-K’Wak) ..... (0) 8B. Rogers (Fish Creek) ......... (1) 8T. Hamilton (Foster) ............. (0) 8J. Black (Phillip Island) ........ (0) 7B. Harfi eld/Park (Fish Creek) (1) 7D. Crook (Kor-Bena) ............. (1) 7

GOALKICKERSB. Best (Inv-K’wak) ......... (4) 4S. Bent (Won Power) ...... (3) 3B. Smith (Corner In) ........ (3) 3C. Mckenzie (Inv-K’wak) . (3) 3A. Honeysett (Won) ......... (2) 2B. Rogers (Corner In) ..... (2) 2J. Roylance (Inv-K’wak) .. (2) 2F. Anderson (Won) .......... (2) 2E. Cousins(Inv-K’wak)..... (2) 2K. Reid(Inv-K’wak) .......... (2) 2

UNDER 11LADDER

W L D % Pts Won ............ 1 0 0 1000.00 4Corner Inlet ... 1 0 0 1000.00 4Inv-K’wak...... 1 0 0 442.86 4Dalyston ....... 1 0 0 220.00 4Phillip Is .......... 0 1 0 45.45 0L’gatha Jnr ...... 0 1 0 22.58 0Kil-Bass ........... 0 1 0 0.00 0Kor-Bena ......... 0 1 0 0.00 0

GOALKICKERSN. Anderson(Won) ............... (4) 4R. Angwin (Corner In) .......... (4) 4 S. Flanders (Corner In) ......... (3) 3J. Thornell (Corner In) ......... (3) 3J. Henry (Won) .................... (3) 3B. Mitchell (Corner In) ......... (3) 3L. Gheller(Dalyston) ............. (2) 2C. Scott (Won) ..................... (2) 2B. Prain(Corner In) ............... (1) 1M.Kennedy-Mifsud(I K’wak) . (1) 1

Sharks shake Demons

Tarwin 22.11.143Yarram 14.6.90Tarwin Goals: A. Rus-sell 9, J. Cann 4, P. McRae 2, J. Stewart 2, T. Williamson 1, M. Garnham 1, J. Chal-mers 1, N. Browne 1, J. Barnett 1Yarram Goals: J. Swift 4, C. Sutherland 4, B. Lynch 2, C. Strobel 2, J. Staley 1, C. Pet-titt 1Tarwin Best: J. Cann, T. Williamson, A. Rus-sell, J. McMicking, J. McKenzie-Edwards, P. McRaeYarram Best: A. Lynch, D. Rash, D. Clavarino, C. Bruns, B. Lynch, J. MooreRESERVESTarwin 21.15.141Yarram 3.1.19Leading Goalkicker: S. McRae (Tar) 10Tarwin Best: S. McRae, L. Barnett, D. Wilson, J. Dowie, N. McRaeYarram Best: L. Borne, M. O’Loughlin, j. Northey, W. Jenkins, M. Leggett, M. Small-

wood

THIRDSYarram 11.3.69Tarwin 4.2.26Leading Goalkicker: H. Moore (Yar) 5Yarram Best: L. Le Blanc, H. Moore, D. Chaiphon, L. Rodaughan, P. Shrubb, J. Le BlancTarwin Best: M. Chal-mers, C. Ginkel, L. Thwaites, E. Charles, L. Anderson, W. Ry-cks

FOURTHSYarram 14.9.93Tarwin 1.1.7Leading Goalkickers: T. Jeffs 2, J. McDon-ald 2 (Yar)Yarram Best: T. Ch-isholm, J. McDonald, J. Mitchell, T. Jeffs, W. BodmanTarwin Best: C. Brown, N. Johnstone,

H. Krause, B. Ellen

MDU success against AlliesIT was all about the Demons on Saturday as they travelled west

M.D.U. 17.13.115DWWWW 4.8.32M.D.U. Goals: T. Tohiariki 6, B. Ped-low 2, K. Gowers 2, C. DeLuca 2, A. Harris 2, N. Johnson 1, B. Heppell 1, C. Johnston 1DWWWW Goals: T. Sparkes 1, M. Poland 1, B. Tillack 1, C. Van-nes 1M.D.U. Best: T. T Tohiariki, C. John-ston, M. Doyle, S. Peters, D. Ad-kins, M. SmithDWWWW Best: M. O’Sullivan, B. Hidgcock, N. Graeske, S. Kilgower, G. Riley, S. BeckerRESERVESM.D.U. 12.10.82DWWWW 4.6.30Leading Goalkicker: T. Trotman (MDU) 4M.D.U. Best: T. Trotman, M. Olden, B. Densley, m. East, T. Davison, Y. ZorzosDWWWW Best: J. Poland, A. Un-mack, S. Raspin, W. Colbert, O.

Henderson, A. GarlandTHIRDSM.D.U. 26.7.163DWWWW 1.1.7Leading Goalkicker: J. Broadway (MDU) 7M.D.U. Best: J. Broadway, J. Krohn, L. Findlay, J. Hoy, R. Olden, B. Thomas (Jnr)DWWWW Best: J. Pintus, S. Tillack, R. Benis, D. McKeane, A. Moore, B. CoffeyFOURTHSM.D.U. 6.11.47DWWWW 1.1.7Leading Goalkicker: D. Cole (MDU) 2M.D.U. Best: B. Pickersgill, D. Thor-son, J. Hoy, L. Harris, D. Cole, M. TrottoDWWWW Best: J. Saliakos, B. Askew, K. Hanning, J. Vening, C. Weston, S. Hunter

DWWWW vs MDU: Shaun Becker attempts to get control of the ball for the Allies on the weekend.

Smack out: a high jumping Tarwin player goes up against Dylan Rash of Yarram in the ruck, in the week-end’s game.

Shaken off: Yarram player, Keifer Sutherland slips a tackle from Tarwin’s Mark Garnham and gets the disposal.

On the run: Tremaine To-hiariki, who kicked six goals for the Demons, chases the ball with a number of Allies players hot on his heels.

PAGE 58 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012

WONTHAGGI welcomed the visitors from the other end of the Gippsland League to per-fect conditions.

From the start the game was fast and furious. Bairnsdale were raising the ball well with good handball, maintaining possession and pre-pared to switch the attack from one side of the ground to the other. The power backline was under pressure immediately and a turnover from a kick out gave the Redlegs their fi rst goal. Jason Waddell, James Gibbs and Cameron Streeter were gather-ing telling possessions and drawing errors in Power delivery.

However Lucas White, Chris Wylie and Lee Warnett were still giving the Power fi rst use of the ball. Phil Young was doing a lot of hard work down back from Power and the side was starting to settle. The bigger Bairnsdale side now had the pressure back on them.

The attack on the ball had lifted the Power’s intensity and the big crowd was enjoying the contest. Now it was the Power who were

dominating. Krause delivered well to White for a goal and then helped himself to one, putting the Power in a strong position. However Bairns-dale were not about to roll over and came back for a couple of late ma-jors to be down by three goals at the fi rst break.

The intensity of the match lifted again as the second quarter got under way. Rooney for the Redlegs goaled but the opposition popped up again for a quick answer. Two more goals to Bairnsdale and they were back in the game and the confi dence of their youngster was growing. Gitland, Young and Gilliland were strong down back for the Power as they withstood the pressure.

Ware scored another goal in a terrifi c performance but a late goal to the Redlegs saw them narrow the gap to just three points at half-time. The entertaining game was there to be won.

This fi t, young Redlegs side hit the front with another goal to give them the lead at the start of the third quarter. This seemed to sting the Power into action, giving them the

urgency they had been looking for all day and all over the ground they began to lift.

Young to Ware for another goal was terrifi c and then a quick goal to O’Connor saw the game swing back in favour of the Power. Nathan Jones, who had worked hard all day around the ground, found space to deliver the ball and Ware kicked his sixth. Another to Ware and a telling goal to Andrew Seccull gave the quarter clearly to the surging Power. With a 29 point buffer the Power looked safe but the RedLegs had other ideas.

Three quick goals saw the score narrow to 11 points and it was game on. With the result in the balance Bairnsdale were pleased with the ef-forts of youngsters Jamieson, Storer and Ashwood brothers. But as had already happened several times dur-ing the match, when the pressure was on and the intensity lifted so did the Power - a very positive sign. With goals to Ware (8) Krause, Blair and McDonald it was Wonthaggi who were fi nishing the strongest and they ran out victors by 31 points.

Power surges to victory

Wonthaggi Power 18.11.119Bairnsdale 13.10.88Wonthaggi Goals: A.Ware 8, L.McDonald 3, D.O’Connor 2, T.Krause 2, J.Blair 1, L.White 1, A.Seccull 1Bairnsdale Goals: N.Storer 3, S.Ryan 2, S.Jamieson 2, B.Ashwood 1, K.Ashwood 1, A.Rooney 1, L.Dyer 1, J.Waters 1, D.Waddell 1Wonthaggi Best: A.Ware, N.Jones, C.Wylie, P.Young, D.O’Connor, T.Gilliland Bairnsdale Best: C.Streeter, J.Gibbs, B.Ashwood, K.Ashwood, S.Jamieson, P.BillsRESERVESNo results submittedTHIRDSBairnsdale 8.18.66

Wonthaggi Power 3.4.22Leading Goalkicker: C.McPhan 3Bairnsdale Best: T.Bryan, B.Trinder, L.Buck, B.Mitchell, N.George, C.McPhanWonthaggi Best: J.Membrey, A.Ferreira-Neto, M.Combridge, R.Lindsay, A.Murray

FOURTHSBairnsdale 26.19.175Wonthaggi Power 2.0.12Leading Goalkicker: N.Dennison (Bai) 8Bairnsdale Best: N.Dennison, B.Ingram, B.Mitchell, J.Sabell, C.Nettleton, B.ComminsWonthaggi Best: P.Dunlevie, J.Graham, D.Tiziani, T.Tack, T.Huther, J.Thomas

A 57 POINT win by Le-ongatha over Traralgon on Saturday is their biggest margin against the side in a match played at Traral-gon, since 1937.

The Parrots chalked up the win against last year’s premiers, even with the Traralgon side having their youngsters from the Gippsland Power squad avail-able, of which three made the fi eld.

For the fi rst three quarters of the match, it was a really tight game. The Maroons were play-ing really defensive football. Leongatha managed to get three goals through the defence, to Traralgon’s two.

Colin Sanbrook was a domi-nant player for the Parrots in the fi rst quarter.

The Traralgon forward line always looked threatening, with Dan McKenna kicking a couple of early goals, and looking set

for a great game.The Parrots made some de-

fensive changes at the fi rst break; with Rhett McLennan sent to cover McKenna and changed match ups to account for the small Traralgon forward line.

Traralgon continued to push the numbers back behind the ball throughout the rest of the fi rst half, which clogged up the Le-ongatha forward line, making it hard to score. This pressure con-tinued throughout the match, to the third quarter.

Leongatha made a few more changes at the major break, Beau Vernon moved out on to the wing and played a very strong second half.

Tas Clingan, Colin Sanbrook, Zak Vernon, David Gourdis came into the mid fi eld, continu-ally driving the ball down to the forward line.

The Parrots defence, led by coach Will Thursfi eld and Sean Westaway, held Traralgon at bay,

only allowing a couple of goals through for each quarter of the second half.

It was during the last quar-ter that Leongatha really ran on strong and hard and broke the game open, kicking nine goals to Traralgon’s two.

Dwayne Holt, who returned to the side this season after a break, ended the game on six goals, while Matthew Willcocks provided another strong presence up forward, ending the game on three.

It was a terrifi c last quarter by the Parrots and a great team ef-fort, marred only by the felling of Jason Tomada, who had put in a really great effort in the ruck all day, in a pretty ordinary in-cident in the last fi ve minutes of the game.

The Traralgon player in-volved was reported for the hit and was made to leave the fi eld.

The Parrots look forward to facing up against Morwell.

Parrots silence premiersLeongatha 18.15.123Traralgon 9.12.66Leongatha Goals: D.Holt 6, M.Willcocks 3, C.Stone 3, J.Best 2, C.Sanbrook 2, D.Gourdis 1, B.Vernon 1Traralgon Goals: D.McKenna 2, T.Northe 2, M.Geary 1, A.Thorton 1, S.Dunbar 1, N.Quenault 1, J.Hall 1Leongatha Best: C.Sanbrook, T.Clingan, S.Westaway, J.Stone, B.Vernon, R.McLennanTraralgon Best: T.Northe, J.Bird, S.Dunbar, J.Doderico, M.Geary, A.Thorton

RESERVESLeongatha 18.6.114Traralgon 7.5.47Leading Goalkicker: M.Davies (Leo) 4Leongatha Best: M.Cook, T.Pellicano, J.Mackie, J.Hickey, M.Davies, C.RougheadTraralgon Best: A.Slottje, P.Brady, Z.Gray, G.Stevenson, C.Pollard, S.Gray

THIRDSTraralgon 15.12.102Leongatha 4.4.28Leading Goalkicker: J.Gray (Tra) 4Traralgon Best: R.Hildebrand, Z.Guttridge, J.Rogan, S.Goddard, C.NickelsLeongatha Best: D.Tuckett, W.Curtis, J.Bolge, T.Goss, J.O’Loughlin, A.Taranto

FOURTHSTraralgon 20.19.139Leongatha 0.3.3Leading Goalkicker: J.Allan (Tra) 3Traralgon Best: J.Cunico, J.Allan, M.Jacobsen, J.Vucenovic, A.Salerno, T.Forrest Leongatha Best: L.Wright, M.Dennison, M.Olden, L.Moore, D.Tuckett, N.Argento

THIS WEEKENDALBERTON

Round 5 - April 28 Yarram v Dalyston

DWWWW v Kor-BenaMDU v Toora

Tarwin v FosterFish Creek v I-K

Phillip Island v Stony CreekKil-Bass - bye

MID GIPPSLANDRound 3 - April 28

Boolarra v Mirboo NorthHill End v Yallourn-Yall NthMorwell East v Newborough

Thorpdale v YarragonYinnar v Trafalgar

GIPPSLANDRound 3 - April 28Moe v Wonthaggi

Bairnsdale v Traralgon (Night)Leongatha v Morwell

Warragul v Maffra (Twilight)Sale v Drouin

ELLINBANKRound 4 - April 28Bunyip v Longwarry

Catani v Neerim SouthEllinbank v Garfi eld

Koo Wee Rup v NyoraNar Nar Goon v Cora Lynn

Nilma-Darnum v Warragul IndPoowong v Buln Buln

Lang Lang - bye

FOOTYDRAWS

SENIORSLADDER

W L D % Pts Sale ............ 2 0 0 378.02 8Leongatha ..... 2 0 0 203.67 8Maffra ......... 2 0 0 175.93 8Traralgon ...... 1 1 0 110.92 4Drouin.......... 1 1 0 108.65 4Won Power ......1 1 0 86.63 4Morwell ............1 1 0 68.68 4Warragul ..........0 2 0 63.80 0Moe ..................0 2 0 44.63 0Bairnsdale ........0 2 0 41.44 0

UNDER 18LADDER

W L D % Pts Bairnsdale .... 2 0 0 302.27 8Traralgon ...... 2 0 0 284.38 8Maffra ......... 2 0 0 165.98 8Sale ............ 1 1 0 233.77 4Drouin.......... 1 1 0 161.04 4Won Power ......1 1 0 151.58 4Warragul ..........1 1 0 106.32 4Morwell ............0 2 0 35.40 0Leongatha ........0 2 0 25.45 0Moe ..................0 2 0 9.69 0

GOALKICKERSM. Ferguson (Sale) ............. (6) 17D. Stubbe (Maffra) .............. (6) 10B. Hughes (Warragul) ......... (7) 10A. Burgiel (Maffra) .............. (3) 10K. Fraser (Sale) ................... (6) 8J. Tatterson (Maffra) ........... (2) 8D. Holt (Leongatha) ............. (6) 8B. Martin (Sale) ................... (3) 8A. Ware (Won Power) ......... (8) 8D. Seri (Drouin) ................... (3) 7

RESERVESLADDER W L D % Pts

Leongatha .....2 0 0 224.05 8Maffra .........2 0 0 134.18 8Sale ............1 0 0 1261.54 4Morwell .......1 1 0 153.66 4Drouin..........1 1 0 89.22 4Traralgon .........1 1 0 68.42 4Won Power .....0 1 0 50.79 0 Warragul ........0 2 0 49.64 0Moe .................0 2 0 27.48 0

GOALKICKERS

K. O’Dwyer (Sale) ................. (9) 9M. Davies (Leongatha) ......... (4) 8S. Snr Tobin (Morwell) ......... (2) 6M. Fowler (Sale) ................... (5) 5M. Davis (Sale) .................... (5) 5A. Slottje (Traralgon) ............ (2) 4R. Tack (Won Power) ........... (0) 4J. Kilsby (Leongatha) ........... (3) 4M. Cook (Leongatha) ........... (2) 3J. Hickey (Leongatha) .......... (3) 3J. Lambourne (Maffra) ......... (2) 3T. Porter (Maffra) ................. (1) 3S. Vagg (Leongatha) ............ (2) 3B. Langshaw (Maffra) .......... (1) 3

GOALKICKERSJ. Weatherley (Maffra) ......... (0) 6P. Ryan (Won Power) ........... (2) 6E. Johnson (Sale) ................. (5) 6N. Campbell (Sale) ............... (4) 5J. Brown (Warragul)............. (1) 5R. Jacobsen (Traralgon) ....... (1) 4J. Gray (Traralgon) ............... (4) 4R. Buttner (Warragul)........... (4) 4T. Goss (Leongatha) ............. (2) 4J. Hall (Drouin) .................... (3) 4W. Russell (Maffra) .............. (2) 4J. Rippon (Drouin) ............... (1) 4

UNDER 16LADDERW L D % Pts

Traralgon .....2 0 0 2420.00 8Maffra ........2 0 0 450.00 8Sale ...........2 0 0 446.55 8Bairnsdale ...1 1 0 230.69 4Leongatha ....1 1 0 101.80 4Drouin ............1 1 0 79.31 4Morwell ..........1 1 0 42.76 4Warragul ........0 2 0 32.64 0 Won Power ....0 2 0 11.70 0Moe ................0 2 0 8.75 0

GOALKICKERS

L. Ronchi (Sale) ................... (8) 9N. Dennison (Bairnsdale) ..... (8) 8B. Connelly (Maffra) ............. (3) 8B. Smith (Leongatha) ........... (0) 5B. Ingram (Bairnsdale) ......... (5) 5B. Regan (Maffra) ................ (2) 5

ROUND 2

OTHER MATCHESSENIORSSale 26.15.171 d Moe 9.4.58Morwell 14.10.94 d Warragul 13.12.90Maffra 15.20.110 d Drouin 10.14.74RESERVESSale 24.20.164 d Moe 2.1.13Morwell 11.14.80 d Warragul 3.12.30Maffra 8.6.54 d Drouin 4.9.33

UNDER 18

Sale 23.20.158 d Moe 1.4.10

Warragul 10.5.65 d Morwell

2.3.15

Maffra 10.5.65 d Drouin

8.7.55

UNDER 16

Sale 25.20.170 d Moe 0.0.0

Morwell 5.11.41 d Warragul

5.10.40

Maffra 13.17.95 d Drouin

3.4.22

Ball chase: Bairnsdale players chase down a loose ball during the Seniors match on Saturday, which was won by the Wonthaggi side.

Good hands: a Bairnsdale player gets ready to of-fl oad a handball as Power’s Aaron Ware defends.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - PAGE 59

STONY Creek Racing Club hosted the fi rst of three qualifying Speed to Safety days for pony club riders in the West Gippsland Zone last Saturday.

Riding to a given speed is an important skill for pony club riders participating in cross country events or show jumping. At the Speed to Safety days riders have the opportunity to be trained by racing pro-fessionals on the skills of riding at speed in a controlled and safe manner.

Lisa Coffey of Racing Victoria talked with riders, in Stony Creek’s commit-tee room, about the racing industry and diverse job opportunities. Her story was quite inspirational, having grown up in Ireland and representing an Irish Pony Club in eventing.

The love of the track and riding track work drew her to a career with race-horses. She is now the Racing Victoria’s workforce development offi cer. In Lisa’s spare time she rides track work for Peter Moody.

At the event riders have to ride at a pre-determined speed. Grade 1 and 2 rid-ers at 550m/min and Grade 3 and 4 rid-ers at 500 m/min. After the briefi ng from Lisa Coffey and Ralph Gallagher, Stony Creek Racing Club CEO, riders warmed up on the sand track and then individu-

ally galloped from the 1000m mark to thefi nish post. They were given feedback ontheir times and riding before another at-tempt where the closest to the given time,after completing the respective distancewere heralded the winners of the Speed to Safety event.

There will be two more days at StonyCreek racetrack where riders can practiceand develop their skills of ring at a givenspeed on Saturdays, May 26 and June 30.The riders with the best results over thethree days will be given the opportunityto represent our region at championshipsheld at Mooney Valley on August 25.

Results for this fi rst event for Grade 1and 2 were fi rst to Alex O’Sullivan fromTarwin Lower, second to Adeline Collinsfrom Corner Inlet and third to Emily Clif-ford from Loch Nyora. For Grade 3 and4 riders fi rst was Tegan McKenzie fromUpper Beaconsfi eld, second to EbonyClavarino and third to Ellie Clavarino,both from Corner Inlet.

Riders learnt a lot from Lisa’s greatcoaching but also the wonderful oppor-tunity to gallop in a controlled and safeenvironment. Thanks to Stony Creek forallowing our young riders to use theirbeautiful facilities. To register for futuresessions contact Deb Collins on 0429 093671or Jenny O’Sullivan 0419 153 377.

WHEN the Monster Energy MX Nationals travel to Won-thaggi for round three of the Australian Motocross Cham-pionship on April 28-29, the event will mark a special oc-casion for event promoter Williams Event Management (WEM).

Based out of Loch in Victoria, the Wonthaggi round is WEM’s lo-cal venue on the world class series’ schedule, and managing director Kevin Williams is proud to take the elite level of the sport back home where it all began for him.

With a truly international line-up of 20 overseas riders from as many as seven separate countries in Aus-tralia to take on our domestic best, Australian motocross is recognised worldwide as one of the premier se-ries on a national level.

“It’s great to have a venue of an international standard in our back-yard,” Williams said.

“We travel all around Australia, so to bring one of the premier prod-ucts in Australian motorsport to our local area is a delight.

“After travelling 30,000km so far this year to host the series, with an opportunity to run a round and sleep in my own bed, why wouldn’t I want to? This is one of the rounds I have

really been anticipating as a great one on the calendar.”

Williams has a bit of a soft spot for the Wonthaggi track.

“The Wonthaggi track and club have been going for years down here and it’s where I learnt the sport my-self,” he said.

“Back in the day I rode at Wont-haggi a lot, so it’s like coming back to home soil for me and I’m excited to bring it back to the region.”

New Zealand’s former world number two Josh Coppins will lead the premier MX1 category into Won-thaggi for CDR Yamaha, coming off a pivotal victory at Coonabarabran’s second round last weekend.

Coppins has proven Mr Consis-tent to date in the 2012 title chase, currently heading red-hot Campbell Mining/TLD/Maxima/Honda priva-teer Jake Moss and Monster Energy Kawasaki’s defending four-time champion Jay Marmont.

In the Motul MX2 class it will be Serco Yamaha Metal Mulisha Racing’s Luke Styke who holds the series leader’s red plate into Wont-haggi, winning in dominant fashion at round two with a clean-sweep. Styke currently heads teammate Kirk Gibbs and Carlton Dry Honda Thor Racing’s Ford Dale in the points chase.

Victorian rising star Dylan Long

leads the Pirelli MX Development class into Wonthaggi after winning round one earlier this month, fol-lowed closely by round two winner Dylan Long on another KTM and Axis Motorsports Kawasaki’s Mitch Norris.

Round three will also include a Mini Cup for 85cc two-stroke and 150cc four-stroke big-wheel machines, as well as the MotoOn-line.com.au Rookie Lites class for 13-U16 100-150cc two-stroke and 250cc four-stroke models.

The series will continue at Won-thaggi in Victoria on April 28-29, marking round three of 10 for the 2012 season.

Spectator admission for adults is $30 for one day or $50 for the weekend with children (aged 5-15 years) $15 for one day or $20 for the weekend and a family special (two adults and two children aged 5-15 years) $70 for one day or $100 for the weekend.

Visit www.mxnationals.com.au for further information on the Mon-ster Energy MX Nationals series.

Wonthaggi set for MX Nationals

Right: Fast action: the world class racing of the Monster En-ergy MX Nationals is coming to Wonthaggi.

Safe speed at Stony Creek racecourse

Trotting out: the riders venture out on the Stony Creek Racecourse be-fore setting their speed times.

Series leader: Josh Coppins leads the Monster Energy MX Nationals and will be racing at Wonthaggi this weekend.

Grade 1 and 2 winners: Alex O’Sullivan from Tarwin Lower; Adeline Collins from Corner Inlet and Emily Clifford from Loch/Nyora with Lisa Coffey and Ralph Gallagher.

Grade 3 and 4 winners: Tegan McKenzie from Upper Beaconsfi eld and Ebony and Ellie Clavarino, both from Corner Inlet with Lisa Coffey and Ralph Gallagher.

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