V6 This season’s professional choice ... This season’s professional choice ... 82 - 84 Yarragon Road, LEONGATHA 5662 4044 A/H Kevin Smith 5664 5463 GEN8720209 GENDORE TRACTORS AND MACHINERY All baled up! All baled up! TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 - $1.20 BASS COAST ELECTION FURORE - page 3 TRAGEDY AVERTED DANCERS from a Leongatha studio have been selected by the best academies in Australia. Xavier Pellin has been offered a spot at the Aus- tralian Ballet School and Gemma Richards at the National Theatre Ballet School. Jasmine Susic received an offer from the Victo- rian College of the Arts, and Lucy Hogan and Claudia Bolam were of- fered interstate training programs with the Aus- tralian Ballet School. All dancers are stu- dents of Lisa Pellin Danc- ers in Leongatha. Full story on page 7. Australia’s best Australia’s best By Simone Short A BUS driver saved the lives of his 14 passengers after a bottle filled with cola was thrown through the windscreen last Friday. A passenger in an oncoming vehicle threw the full 1.5 litre bottle at the bus, smashing the driver’s side of the windscreen. The V/Line bus was travelling at 100km/h along the South Gippsland Highway towards Leongatha at around 8.53pm. The driver, Leongatha’s Brett Allan, said he didn’t see the missile hurtling towards the bus until it hit the windscreen. He initially thought it was a bird. The impact was so severe that almost every seat down the length of the bus was showered with shards of glass, as the bus passed through the Ruby straight. “I’m lucky I can still see for a start. It was like a bomb going off,” Mr Allan said, describing the incident as “absurd”. “It was the equivalent of throwing a rock. If the bottle hadn’t have exploded and knocked me in the head full, it would’ve knocked me out.” While Mr Allan denies he is a hero, he said his passengers welcomed his composure behind the wheel. Continued on page 4.
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V6
This season’s professional choice ...This season’s professional choice ...
82 - 84 Yarragon Road, LEONGATHA 5662 4044 A/H Kevin Smith 5664 5463
GEN8
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09GENDORETRACTORS AND MACHINERY
All baled up!All baled up!
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 - $1.20
BASS COAST ELECTION FURORE - page 3
TRAGEDY AVERTED
DANCERS from a Leongatha studio have been selected by the best academies in Australia.
Xavier Pellin has been offered a spot at the Aus-tralian Ballet School and Gemma Richards at the National Theatre Ballet School.
Jasmine Susic received an offer from the Victo-rian College of the Arts, and Lucy Hogan and Claudia Bolam were of-fered interstate training programs with the Aus-tralian Ballet School.
All dancers are stu-dents of Lisa Pellin Danc-ers in Leongatha.
Full story on page 7.
Australia’s best
Australia’s best
By Simone Short
A BUS driver saved the lives of his 14 passengers after a bottle fi lled with cola was thrown through the windscreen last Friday.
A passenger in an oncoming vehicle threw the full 1.5 litre bottle at the bus, smashing the driver’s side of the windscreen.
The V/Line bus was travelling at 100km/h along the South Gippsland Highway towards Leongatha at around 8.53pm.
The driver, Leongatha’s Brett Allan, said he didn’t see the missile hurtling towards the bus until it hit the windscreen. He initially thought it was a bird.
The impact was so severe that almost every seat down the length of the bus was showered with shards of glass, as the bus passed through the Ruby straight.
“I’m lucky I can still see for a start. It was like a bomb going off,” Mr Allan said, describing the incident as “absurd”.
“It was the equivalent of throwing a rock. If the bottle hadn’t have exploded and knocked me in the head full, it would’ve knocked me out.”
While Mr Allan denies he is a hero, he said his passengers welcomed his composure behind the wheel.
Continued on page 4.
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In the modern world – where the medieval archer is recreating history – the danger posed is less real. But it doesn’t make the val-ue of the arrows any less.
For Robert Serafi no, a member of the Leongatha Medieval Society, the loss of eight of these prized possessions was a shot to the heart.
But their return has been a cause for celebra-tion. The valuable missiles dropped from a vehicle on the way to a “shoot” at Mardan recently.
The saddened archer advertised his loss in the Star classifi eds, and found that people in the modern world are less predatory than in those dark days of yore. The arrows found their way back to their target.
Mr Serafi no said it took about four hours to make each arrow. Those heavier ones – designed to kill armoured knights – can take days. Made from authentic goose feathers, English-forged heads, and hardwood shafts, the ar-rows go through a “bit of a process” on their way to completion.
Archer shot to the heart By Matt Dunn
A MEDIEVAL ar-cher is in a vulner-able position without
his arrows, exposed to attack by enemy knights.
Without a ready supply of arrows, the archer has little to defend himself.
Robert Serafi no: the living history enthusiast is over the moon after eight missing medieval arrows were returned to him.
Bartender not so uglyBy Sarah Vella
JUSTINE Camilleri from the Meeniyan Hotel will do anything for a good cause, so she has decided to battle bartenders from around Vic-toria to become Australia’s UGLY bartender of the year.
UGLY, or Understanding, Gen-erous, Likeable You is the Leu-kaemia Foundation’s most quirky fundraising event to date.
“We are in a little town, so it will be challenging to see how much we can raise,” Justine said.
“I will be competing against
bartenders from across the state, including Melbourne, and whoever makes the most from their fundrais-ing efforts will be named Victorian UGLY bartender of the year.”
Justine said she would be thrilled to win, but every donation she received was a win.
“We started last Monday and we have raised over $300 already, which is really positive,” she said.
Justine has set up bar-top games such as guess how many jellybeans in the jar, and fl oat a coin on the lemon.
“We will be running a huge charity auction at the hotel. We have local auctioneer Neil Park running the sale,” she said.
“I am working on sourcing items from local businesses to sell at the auction. So far we have received some great donations in-cluding a fi shing charter from Is-land Charter Boats and a voucher from Moo’s at Meeniyan.
“We have also got a couple of handmade rustic clocks, donated by Garry McCaughan.”
Other items up for grabs in-clude a pressure washer from BrownWigg, a toolbox from the Ute Pod and a full house steam clean from South Gippsland Car-pet Cleaning.
Some other fundraising activi-ties that Justine will be running at the hotel include a Halloween
poker night and the inaugural Fashions on the Floor Boards competition for cup day.
The money raised by UGLY bartenders will help to provide regional families with a fully fur-nished place to call home in the city during treatment.
Leukaemia Foundation Victo-ria’s general manager, Stephanie Hechenberger, said 2500 Victori-ans are expected to be diagnosed with leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma this year.
“Everyone who backs their local UGLY bartender will help keep families together when they need each other most,” Ms Hech-enberger said.
Helping out: Justine Camilleri from the Meeniyan Hotel is raising funds for the Leukaemia Foundation.
“They’re exact replicas of arrows used in the Hun-dred Years’ War (a series of English/French con-fl icts waged between 1337 and 1453). No one would have seen an arrow like it around here. They’re huge. I’d love to get them back,” he said.
Mr Serafi no has been working around the clock to replace the stolen stock-pile, which he believes is unique to Victoria.
“There might be a couple up in Queensland. They made for massive war bows. The biggest bow I’ve got now boasts about 110lb of pressure. There’d be lucky to be fi ve people in Australia who could draw the bow back. It is quite a unique thing we’ve got going down here in Leongatha at the medieval society,” he said.
“I got into it because I really have a love of his-tory. I was really taken with the idea of making my own armour. Safety comes fi rst, but we regu-larly fi ght with axes and all that sort of stuff. It’s just recreating history. That’s probably the best way of putting it.”
Mr Serafi no has been making medieval arrows for about two years.
“You can’t really buy them. You can get some guys in England to make them, but they’re $60 or $70 an arrow. If you want to do them yourself, you’ve just got to put in the time
and effort,” he said. Mr Serafi no said the
medieval society archers meet once a month at Coal Creek, and people who want to have a go are al-ways welcome.
“For kids it’s just really good fun to hit the targets,” he said.
The group, which also has a chapter in Geelong, boasts about 60 archers and more than 130 mem-bers overall.
For details about the society’s activities, call Len Buckland on 0407 056 623.
“THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - PAGE 3
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FURORE has erupted over an election leafl et distributed last week in Bass Coast Shire.
The leafl et, headed “Don’t let them concrete the coast” calls for voters to place Alan Brown and his reform team last on the bal-lot paper.
It has been authorised by the Bass Coast Ratepayers Group, an organisation that appears to be very new and to have close connections with the Australian Services Union (ASU) which repre-sents municipal employees.
The ratepayers’ body was listed on Bass Coast Shire Council’s website as a residents’ and community group, but was taken down last Thursday because of council’s concerns about the group’s representation and membership.
The convenor of the Bass Coast Ratepayers Group is Joan Wilkinson, who works for the Gippsland offi ce of the ASU.
The leafl et, inserted in some issues of two local newspapers (not The Star) says Mr Brown’s “extreme budget cuts will dramati-cally reduce community services, lose 100 council jobs and ruin our family lifestyle”.
It exhorts readers to, “Use your council postal vote to protect Bass Coast Shire” and “Keep Alan Brown Out”.
Mr Brown is furious.He said his enquiries re-
veal people connected with distribution of the brochure “are both connected with the union representing staff
employed by the Bass Coast Shire Council”.
A statement on the ASU website headed: No more Kennett-style job losses in Gippsland begins, “The ASU believes mass job losses at Bass Coast Shire Council could be on the cards if Alan Brown and his ‘Reform Team’ are successful in upcoming elections, which could see Kennett-style sackings and sell-offs.”
The election leafl et, printed on yellow paper with a picture of the beach and a superimposed shadow of a palm tree states, “Alan Brown was the Transport Minister in Kennett’s Gov-ernment – which sold off the SEC”.
The website statement, carrying the name of Rich-ard Duffy assistant secre-tary of the ASU, says “The ASU would like to know what services at the coun-cil Mr Brown and his team consider not important.”
The leafl et shows a how to vote card, putting Mr Brown and his team last. The surname of one of the team candidates is incor-rectly spelt. The how to vote information says to put fi rst Crs John Duscher, Gareth Barlow, Ross Smith, former councillor Miranda Sage and candidates Maurice Schinkel, Gabby Fenech
and Clare Le Serve.But it says “vote fi rst
– tick box no 1”, which could, according to the Victorian Electoral Com-mission (VEC) fl out a rel-evant section of the Local Government Act. Ballot pa-pers must be numbered, not ticked, and it is against the law to publish or distribute any matter that could mis-lead a voter on the casting of a vote. Putting a tick would make the vote informal.
It is also against the leg-islation to print, publish or distribute material contain-ing a representation of a ballot paper advising voters to mark their vote otherwise than on the direction of the ballot paper.
The leafl et says vote fi rst “for your proven Bass Coast councillors” but three of the candidates have never been Bass Coast councillors be-fore. A VEC spokesperson said that could be mislead-ing too.
He said a group does not have to be registered in any way in order to au-thorise election material. All that’s needed is a name and address. The leafl et is authorised by C. Hill of In-verloch.
In order for the VEC to investigate the leafl et, a complaint would have to be lodged.
That could well come
from Mr Brown who has described statements on the leafl et as outrageous and untrue and an attempt to thwart the democratic pro-cess.
“When I have fi nalised inquiries which are being made I will be forwarding a formal complaint to the Victorian Electoral Com-mission.
“I also separately re-serve my rights at law.”
Cr John Duscher said he was appalled by the leaf-let and his name was used without his permission.
“I know nothing of the people involved. I haven’t seen this before in elec-tioneering. I don’t think it’s proper and I’m distancing myself as far as I can. Play-ing the man is not part of my agenda.”
Cr Ross Smith told The Star, “I didn’t know about it, I don’t know about it and I don’t want to know about it.”
Miranda Sage said she hadn’t seen the leafl et but she would not be party to “anything that says any-thing negative” about other candidates.
“I have no support for anything like that; it’s not the way I do business.”
Cr Gareth Barlow re-acted differently.
He said having his name on the material didn’t both-
er him and he had met with Joan Wilkinson and Casey Hill at Ms Hill’s Inverloch home, where they had dis-cussed the formation of a ratepayers’ group, the elec-tion and Ms Hill’s concerns about services in Bass Coast Shire, particularly those for young families.
Cr Barlow said if mem-bers of the Bass Coast Rate-payers Group happened to be organisers of the ASU, “good luck to them”.
“Why should that be outrageous? I think the ASU has an obligation to defend its members. Why wouldn’t the union get involved? I don’t see a conspiracy here. I don’t see reds under the bed.”
Acting Bass Coast Shire CEO Danny Luna said he was aware of the leafl et, adding it has nothing to do with council which is stay-ing away from the election process.
Election tactics outrage Brown
THE near death of a 23-year-old male on a beach in Venus Bay earlier this year only reit-erated how valuable learning CPR is.
Fortunately for the man, someone on the beach knew CPR that day and with the aid of the Venus Bay Com-munity Emergency Response Team (CERT), he survived that day and is now on his way to a full recovery.
This particular incident was one of the reasons CERT have donated three defi brillators to community groups last Sunday.
The Venus Bay Men’s Shed, the Angling Club and the Community Centre all received equipment that could one day save lives.
“We will keep doing this as long as we can, and we want to give back to the community as best as we can,” CERT vice president Mike Hibbit said.
Gift will save lives on coast
Importance of CPR: the Venus Bay Community Emergency Response Team donated three defi brillators to community groups on Sunday. From left: CERT volunteers Brenda Hyett and Teresa L’Huillier; Venus Bay Community Centre manager Alyson Skinner; CERT co-team leader and Angling Club president Anne McIntyre; Angling Club vice president Nick Lujac; South Gippsland Shire Councillor Kieran Kennedy; CERT vice president Mike Hibbit; Venus Bay Men’s Shed vice president Peter McGovan; and CERT co-team leader Jenny Hibbit.
CERT attends 120 emergencies on average every year and currently has the quickest average response time in all of South East Gippsland with 14 minutes.
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Continued from page 1.“They were quite ap-
preciative. It all happened so quickly that you just do what you have to do and luckily enough it was a straight piece of road so that I could just put the brakes on and come to a stop,” he said.
“Once it was all fi n-ished and I pulled up on the side of the road, I sort of worked out I was covered in glass and pieced together what had happened.”
Westernport Road Lines rail replacement manager, Allan Adcock, said Mr Al-lan had done a “fantastic” job to not further endanger his passengers’ lives, and condemned the actions of the culprit.
“The bottle hit the driv-er on the head and show-
ered him in glass and coke, but he managed to pull the bus up and stop on the side of the road near the old Ruby exit,” he said.
“There was no wrench-ing of the steering wheel, there was no quick reac-tion to do something dras-tic, there was no slamming on the brakes; when you’re driving a big vehicle, you have to bring it to a nice stop and that’s exactly what he did.
“It’s absolutely ridicu-lous. Why would anybody throw a projectile at a bus when it’s carrying passen-gers and doing 100km per hour?”
Mr Adcock said the bus had been driving alongside an embankment when the incident occurred.
“It could have easily
killed everybody on board if the driver had not re-acted as calmly as he did,” he said.
“If he had have pulled to the left, the bus would have been down the em-bankment along with all the passengers.”
Mr Allan said the inci-dent was completely avoid-able and unnecessary.
“I know we all do silly things in our lives, but that’s just taking it to a new level,” he said.
“The people respon-sible probably have no idea the damage they’ve caused. They probably just expected the bottle with the coke in it was going to explode on the front of the coach and leave a mess. You’d think that’s what they were
Bus tragedy averted
Like an explosion: V/Line bus driver Brett Allan shows the damage done to the windscreen of the coach he was driving on Friday night.
Missile hit driver: Westernport Road Lines rail re-placement manager, Allan Adcock, and bus driver Brett Allan want the culprit who threw a bottle of softdrink at a V/Line bus, smashing the windscreen, to turn themselves in to police.
thinking.”Mr Allan said he as-
sumed the culprits would have looked behind them to see the bus’ brake lights come on and the bus stop, but most likely had no idea the “bottle came through the windscreen and hit me in the head”.
“The best thing is for them to come forward and take responsibility for their actions because it could have killed a lot of people.”
Leongatha Police at-tended the incident and Mr Allan was taken by ambulance to the Leon-gatha Memorial Hospital suffering from minor cuts around the face and head.
Police are still inves-tigating footage of the in-cident taken from the bus and have identifi ed the on-coming vehicle as a white sedan.
One offi cer said the bottle had been close to full when it was thrown from the oncoming vehicle, and had punched a hole in the windscreen, landing in Mr Allan’s lap.
They also commended him for his ability to main-tain control and stop the bus safely.
Mr Allan thanked his passengers for all their
help on the night.“They were very help-
ful; someone rang triple zero, one passenger that’s a regular called Allan for me, and another passenger got me a bottle of water from the back of the bus so we could try and wash as much glass off me as possible,” he said.
Mr Adcock said Mr Al-lan is still suffering from shock following the ac-cident.
“He’s got to go back to the optometrist today (Tuesday) to have his eyes scanned to make sure there are no fragments of glass in them,” he said.
“He’ll probably be off work the next couple of days at least.”
The cost of replacing the smashed windscreen is approximately $1400 and Mr Adcock said it will take a great deal of time to clean broken glass and coke from the inside of the coach.
The bus had left South-ern Cross Station in Mel-bourne at 7pm and was destined for Yarram at the time of the incident.
Anyone with informa-tion regarding the white sedan or the incident is asked to contact Leongatha Police on 5662 2285.
“THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - PAGE 5
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By Jacob de Kunder
THE Bald Hills Wind Farm can still be stopped, despite con-struction now underway, Sena-tor John Madigan told residents last Wednesday.
Senator Madigan said his visit was not a lost cause.
“You’ve just got to keep fi ghting,” he said.
“Anyone can put up a fence and lay down a bit of gravel. It’s not a real start and we can still make a difference.”
Around 40 people joined Senator Madigan to discuss the impacts of the wind farm and their concerns at the Tarwin Lower Hall.
Before the meeting, the senator explored the Bald Hills Wetlands Re-serve and was amazed by the birdlife living there.
“Today I saw the fl ourishing envi-ronment that this wind farm will not only be disturbing, but potentially de-stroying,” he said.
“The South Gippsland commu-nity has genuine concerns about the construction of turbines in an area they have devoted years cultivating into thriving wetlands brimming with wildlife.”
Senator Madigan questioned the thoroughness of reports detailing how wildlife would be affected.
“I fi nd it interesting that there were no black swans mentioned (in the re-port) and there were two black swans and one had three cygnets with it,” he said.
“This then casts the question of how this report was written and what birds are actually there.
“I met with one of the groups that monitor the birds just by chance at Mahers Landing and saw the exten-
sive work that they do and how thor-ough they are in doing it, so it just does raise questions as to why these things weren’t identifi ed.”
Don Jelbart of Tarwin Lower will be among those affected by the wind farm. He was pleased to receive the support of a federal politician.
“It’s great that we’ve got a politi-cian behind us and that he has actually come down and taken an interest in the issue,” he said.
Mr Jelbart will most likely have to move from his home if the wind farm does go ahead, with the closest turbine being only 1.2km away.
“I’m concerned about the health risks for my family and other locals in the area,” he said.
Mr Jelbart is not giving up though, and said more can be done to stop the project.
“There are still a few other aces in the pack I think,” he said.
Fight not over: senator
Still protesting: Ann Blundy, Don Jelbart and (right) South Gippsland ShireCouncillor Kieran Kennedy welcomed Senator John Madigan to Tarwin Low-er for a community meeting about the Bald Hills Wind Farm.
By Jane Ross
WEST Gippsland Re-gional Library Cor-poration (WGRLC) would have to close a couple of its big librar-ies if it has to pay its next unfunded super-annuation liability bill.
CEO John Murrell told The Star the corporation will be up for $521,952 on July 1 next year.
The amount includes $78,000 federal contribu-
tions tax.Mr Murrell said in
the past, the liability has been met by the corpora-tion’s three member coun-cils which include South Gippsland and Bass Coast shires. But they both have $4 million-plus unfunded super bills themselves.
The councils and WGR-LC all support moves to fi nd a solution to the ongoing im-post which results from the closure of a public service defi ned benefi t fund that still has outgoings but shrinking income.
Bass Coast corporate services director Danny Luna explained the intrica-cies during a briefi ng ses-sion last Wednesday after-noon.
He is a member of a Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) taskforce looking for a solution to an overall shortfall of $450m that has to be paid by em-ployer organisations.
Mr Luna said the MAV is looking at ways of con-vincing Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan to forego the contributions tax involved.
In Bass Coast’s case the 2013 tax amounts to $612,000. Mr Luna said he doesn’t think Mr Swan will be persuaded.
Mr Luna said the MAV is also trying to fi nd a way to circumvent the Work-Cover premiums due on superannuation liabilities which, in Bass Coast’s case, could be $100,000.
Cr Duscher, who is on the MAV State Council, said the liability was plac-ing councils at risk and “a lot of good projects have to be put back on the shelf”.
Mr Luna said options for consideration by the next council include borrowing the $4.2m, setting aside money in the next budget or paying the superannuation company $430,000 a year for the next 15 years, start-ing next July, at an interest rate of 7.5 per cent.
That would chew up one per cent of rates revenue.
He said the MAV has a three-pronged strategy: to have the super fund transi-tion back to a state managed scheme; to approach the Federal Government to set
Library threat from unfunded superup a local government bor-rowing scheme; to persuade the State and Federal gov-
ernments to remove associ-ated contributions tax and WorkCover liabilities.
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WITH plans signed and sealed, all that’s left is for Wonthaggi’s new $2.8 million fi re station to be built.
The CFA announced last week it is in the fi -nal planning stages for the station, while a sign recognising the development has been erected at the site on White Road.
Construction is planned to begin in Feb-ruary next year, with the CFA anticipating a seven to eight month build.
Bass Coast Shire Council has played a ma-jor role in the plans, vacating use of the 1.36 acre site in exchange for ownership of the bri-gade’s current Watt Street location.
Brigade captain Kim O’Connor said the announcement was a big step forward in the development.
“The partnership between Bass Coast Shire Council and Wonthaggi Fire Brigade has been formalised, and the planning approval has been signed off by the shire for the construction of
the new Wonthaggi Fire Station,” he said, add-ing the volunteers had been long awaiting a new station.
“I’m excited...we’re all excited. It’s a great step forward for Wonthaggi Fire Brigade.”
The new station will be a signifi cant change for the brigade, featuring four engine bays, an op-erations offi ce, a meeting room and storeroom.
The building will also incorporate a group offi ce facility.
“It’s a massive improvement as far as in-frastructure; currently our fi re station is very old and very outdated, too small for the larger vehicles being placed into fi re stations today,” he said.
“All CFA vehicles are becoming bigger, and therefore the current station is very restric-tive in what vehicles can fi t into it.”
Mr O’Connor said the site is also located closer to the homes of most volunteers, making response times quicker.
As a result of the new station, CFA Southern Metropolitan regional director Peter Schmidt said the brigade will receive a Type 4 Heavy
Pumper worth around $700,000, which is un-able to fi t in the current station.
“This will make Wonthaggi one of the fi rst volunteer-based brigades, to receive such an appliance. Wonthaggi is a busy station with be-tween 160 to 200 call-outs per year. It’s easy to see why we need to keep them well equipped and further enhance their facilities,” he said.
Mr Schmidt said the station, funded through the CFA’s Capital Works program, would be a state-of-the-art building.
“It will be fi lled with all the modern facili-ties that will enable the Wonthaggi CFA mem-bers to service and protect the community well into the future,” he said.
“It’s great to see this project come to frui-tion and I know the 40 active Wonthaggi CFA members will continue to protect lives and property for many more years to come.”
Mr Schmidt said this project could not have been achieved without the great support of the Bass Coast Shire councillors and staff in work-ing collaboratively with CFA to secure the new station site.
$2.8m safeguard
New station for Wonthaggi: brigade captain Kim O’Connor, CFA Southern Metropolitan regional di-rector Peter Schmidt and Bass Coast Shire Council community and economic development director Steve Piasente, along with the brigade volunteers, are pleased to announce progress in plans for a $2.8 million fi re station.
LORRAINE Brunt has been pref-erenced sixth by three fellow can-didates in the Strzelecki Ward and is wondering why.
Cr Bob Newton, Andrew McEwen and David Amor have all given her their fi nal preference on their voting slips.
Ms Brunt believed that being the sole woman contesting the ward, she could be perceived as a serious contender.
“I’m honoured if they think I’m the toughest competitor at this stage. Everyone has got an equal chance and I do not see the reason for putting me last,” she said.
“We do need women representatives on council to give a different perspective and they have a better understanding of
the issues that impact on families and wellbeing.”
Ms Brunt has allocated her sixth preference to Mr McEwen.
“My preferences have been allocated as to who I feel I could work with on council,” Ms Brunt said.
Mr McEwen said his preferences were “nothing personal”.
“I think Lorraine has got some potential to poll reasonably well. You want to make sure you are maximising your chances,” he said of his decision.
Mr McEwen said he welcomed women on council.
“But at the end of the day, people should be judged on their merits,” he said.
Why last, asks candidate Brunt
Cattle talk: Strzelecki Ward candidate, Lorraine Brunt, chatted with Bernie (left) and Tom O’Hehir, who have a block of land at Kongwak, at the store sale at Koonwarra last Thursday.
BRENDAN Condon and his Cape Paterson Ecovillage have knocked aside some big play-ers to win the design category of the Victorian Premier’s Sustainability Award.
Brendan is the ecovillage project director and he’s thrilled with the win.
He was presented with the award at a black tie dinner in Melbourne last week, by the Minister for Energy and Resources Michael O’Brien.
Describing the award as prestigious, Mr Condon said it recognises the project’s aim of making sustainable de-sign affordable and accessible.
“We are a small team (and) the efforts we have put in to this project have been enormous.”
Other design category contenders included the new Royal Children’s Hospital and a project by Places Victo-ria/Cardinia Shire Council.
Bass MLA Ken Smith congratulated the ecovillage team.
Top honour: project director of Cape Paterson Ecovillage Brendan Condon with the Premier’s Sustainability Award – design category.
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A GROUP of talented local ballet dancers has taken a step closer to stardom after being offered places in the nation’s most prestigious dance academies.
The Lisa Pellin dance students, Xavier Pellin (offered a spot at the Australian Ballet School), Gemma Richards (offered a spot at the National Theatre Ballet School), Jasmine Susic (offered a spot at the Victorian College of the Arts), and Lucy Hogan and Claudia Bolam (both offered interstate training programs with the Australian Ballet School), were celebrating the only way they know how – dancing at the Leongatha studio.
Xavier is the son of head tutor, Lisa. For the talented dance instructor, the
news of her charges’ success is welcome, but not a huge surprise. The youngsters work hard and get the rewards.
“It’s an amazing buzz for the kids and a really great opportunity. We’ve operated the studio for 20 years and we’ve had
quite a few kids go on,” Lisa said. “We’ve had a few kids go through
the interstate training program withthe Australian Ballet School, a few gothrough the National Theatre BalletSchool and a few go through the NationalInstitute of Circus Arts, which is reallygood. That’s what you train them for.”Lisa said “the standard that’s coming outof this school speaks for itself”.
“All the kids that have been offeredplaces are really good workers. They’veall been through our accelerated program,which is developed around the Russianmethod of classical ballet,” she said.
“It’s really put them in good stead togo on to future positions.”
Lisa believes her successful studentsfeel “honoured” in being offered positionsat the esteemed schools, but were notallowing themselves to think too farahead.
“They’re just taking every step in theirstride, I guess. They know too that it’s areally long, hard road ahead of them. It’sa matter of one thing at a time, chippingaway at it,” she said.
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Dancing high: Xavier Pellin, Claudia Bolam, Lucy Hogan, Jasmine Susic and Gemma Richards are ready to take a great leap forward in their dance careers.
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COMMUNICATION AND CONSULTATION POLICYBriefing 17 October 12.45pm
Council is reviewing its Communication and ConsultationPolicy that provides guidance on its methods of communicationand engaging with our community. The community is invited toattend this briefing to provide feedback and suggestions formethods of consultation or communication that Council couldconsider for inclusion, via submissions, or through participationon the day. A draft copy of the policy and draft working copy ofCouncil’s Communication and Engagement Toolkit will bemade available on www.southgippsland.vic.gov.au underDocuments Currently on Public Exhibition. Submissions can bemade directly to Christian Stefani on 5662 9840 or [email protected].
HOUSING AND SETTLEMENT STRATEGYCouncil is preparing an integrated Housing and SettlementStrategy to manage the growth and development of the townsand localities in the Shire. It is expected to comprise atownship hierarchy, Urban Design Frameworks for 17settlements, review of Rural Living Zone precincts, andapplication of the Restructure Overlay.Consultation with the communities will be ongoing throughoutthe project period. It is anticipated that the Strategy will becompleted by mid 2013. Enquiries: 5662 9200 orhttp://www.southgippsland.vic.gov.au/Page/Page.asp?Page_Id=1126&h=-1
TEMPORARY CLOSUREMICHAEL PLACE PUBLIC TOILETS
1 October - 30 NovemberThe ‘ladies and gents’ amenities at the rear of the LeongathaMemorial Hall, will be closed from 1 October to 30 Novemberfor extensive renovation. However, the unisex accessible toilet(up the ramp), around the corner in Michael Place will be open.We apologise for the inconvenience during this constructionperiod.
COMMUNITY CONSULTATION SESSIONLeongatha industrial land supply study
Wed, 17 October, 6-8pmCouncil is preparing a study to review existing and identifypotential industrial land in Leongatha to encourage industrialgrowth over the coming 25 years. We are looking for feedbackfrom the community regarding appropriate locations and futuregrowth areas. Enquiries: Nick Edwards Ph 5662 9368, orLaura Murray of Meinhardt Consultants 8676 1324.Venue: Leongatha Boardroom, 49A Long Street, Leongatha.
PROPOSED ROAD OPENING OF A 200 METRE SECTIONOF UNUSED GOVERNMENT ROAD,
CORNISHES ROAD, NYORACouncil, at its 26 September 2012 meeting, resolved tocommence statutory procedures (pursuant to Sections 204(2),207A(c) & 223 of the Local Governmant Act 1989), to proposeto declare the 200 metre section of unused government roadbetween the east and west sections of Cornishs Rd, in theParish of Nyora Township (cross hatched on the plan below),as a road that is required to be open to the public for traffic.
PROPOSED ROAD OPENING OF A 130 METRE SECTIONOF UNUSED GOVERNMENT ROAD BEING AN EXTENSION
OF SHEENS ROAD, PARISH OF MIRBOOCouncil, at its 26 September 2012 meeting, resolved toCommence statutory procedures (Sections 204(2), 207A(c) &223 of the Local Government Act1989), to propose to declarethe 130 metre section of unused government road being anextension of Sheens Rd, Parish of Mirboo (cross hatched onthe plan below), as a road that is required to be open to publictraffic.
AUSTRALIA DAY AWARDSNominations closing 31 October!Council’s Australia Day Awards program is asimple and effective way to recognize peoplein the community who make a difference. Consider those whoare the backbone of your community groups, perhaps aneighbor who quietly makes a difference in many spheres, or ayoung person who is already demonstrating great citizenshipqualities. Categories are:• South Gippsland Citizen of the Year• South Gippsland Community Event of the Year• South Gippsland Youth Contribution Certificate (noncompetitive).Nomination forms are available from Council or can be postedupon request. Interactive forms can be downloaded fromwww.southgippsland.vic.gov.au. Enquiries: 5662 9200.
A person may make a submission to the proposals no later than31 October 2012 addressed to the Chief Executive Officer, SouthGippsland Shire Council, Private Bag 4, Leongatha 3953 ordelivered to the Council Office, 9 Smith Street, Leongatha.Any person making a written submission is entitled to statein their submission that he or she wishes to appear inperson, or be represented by a person specified in thesubmission, at the 223 Hearing Session held onWednesday21 November 2012,at the Council Chamber,Leongatha.unused government road Cornishs Road,Nyora at1.15pm
• unused government road Sheens Road,Mirboo North at12.45pm
Copies of submissions (including submitters’ names andaddresses) will be made available at the Council or SpecialCommittee meeting at which the proposals are consideredand Council is required to make submissions available forpublic inspection for a period of twelve months.
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CONSIDERATION OF COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT2011/2012
Council’s Annual Report 2011/12 will be considered at theCouncil Meeting to be held on Wed 24 October, at Leongatha.The Annual Report including the Auditor General’s Report canbe inspected at Council Reception andwww.southgippsland.vic.gov.au. CDs of the Annual Report willbe available to the public upon request after the Report hasbeen adopted.
COUNCIL WORKS 8 OCTOBERArea WorksBuffalo/Hoddle to Stony Creek area Road maintenanceKardella/Ruby to Trida area Road maintenanceKennys Road, Nyora Tree worksMardan/Koonwarra to Nerrena area Road maintenanceMcDonalds Track, Lang Lang East Road maintenanceToora/Port Franklin to Mt Best area Road maintenance
Knife standoffAN Inverloch man is receiving psychiatric assistance after ini-tiating a standoff with Korum-burra Police on Sunday night.
The 30-year-old male confronted offi cers with a knife at the Korumburra station around 5.15pm.
With the support of Leongatha Po-lice and the Bass Coast Highway Pa-trol, police were able to convince the man to hand over the knife.
He was then taken into the sta-tion where psychiatric assistance was arranged.
Police said the man was possi-bly suicidal, and it is still undecided whether he will be charged.
Thieves caught A MAN has been sentenced to
jail and another remains in hos-pital after a string of illegal ac-tivities last Thursday.
Leongatha Police attended a scene in the main street of Meeniyan around 4pm where two males, both from New South Wales, were found fi ghting.
Police said a 38-year-old male was taken back to the Leongatha station where he was breath tested and record-ed well over the legal blood alcohol limit.
Further enquiries then revealed the two men had committed a burglary, stealing electrical goods from a prem-ises in Parr Street, Leongatha, as well as a petrol drive-off in Stratford earlier that day, before getting into a fi ght in Meeniyan.
The 38-year-old was interviewed and remanded in custody, before ap-pearing at the Wonthaggi Magistrates Court on Friday, where he was sen-
tenced to one month imprisonment.The man’s accomplice was taken to
the Leongatha Memorial Hospital with a substantial cut to his arm, before be-ing transferred to Latrobe Regional Health in Traralgon.
He has now been taken to Dande-nong Hospital for surgery and is yet to be interviewed.
Booze burglarA WONTHAGGI man will be summoned to Korumburra Magistrates Court after stealing alcohol last week.
The 49-year-old man was seen stealing around $55 worth of alco-hol from IGA in Wonthaggi around 6.30pm last Tuesday.
Although the man was not initially caught, managers noticed the theft on CCTV footage whilst closing the store
that night.Police said they received the foot-
age the next day and caught the culprit, who was charged with theft.
Drugs foundA MAN has been found with illegal substances after being caught for speeding yesterday morning (Monday).
The man in his early thirties was intercepted by police along the Bass Highway in Kilcunda around 5.15am.
Police searched the man’s vehicle, locating cannabis and speed as well as cash.
He will be charged with both drug and traffi c related offences.
Grand Prix cautionPOLICE are asking motorists to
“arrive alive” at the Phillip Is-land Grand Prix, with a biggerthan normal crowd expected toattend on October 26-28
“Obviously there will be a biggercrowd this year with Casey Stoner’slast ride, so there’ll be more traffi c onthe roads,” Wonthaggi Police SergeantDale McCahon said.
“We will be running public orderoperations on Phillip Island and onthe track, but we will also be runningtraffi c operations en route to the GrandPrix.”
Sgt McCahon asked drivers to bepatient on the roads, especially in riskyareas.
“We’ve had a very wet winter andthe roads aren’t in the best condition,so police will be in force to make surepeople do arrive alive.”
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TWO council candi-dates have released a two point plan they say will turn around South Gippsland Shire.
Strzelecki Ward can-didates David Amor and Andrew McEwen want a services and infrastructure plan for the western end of the shire and developer contribution levy, plus a taskforce to guide the fu-ture of Korumburra.
The pair say there is a lack of trust and commu-nity infrastructure in the western end of the shire that needs to be urgently addressed.
“It is absolutely clear that council has lost the
confi dence of the over-whelming majority of resi-dents in the western end of the shire and particularly in Nyora, Poowong and Ko-rumburra,” Mr Amor said.
Mr McEwen said con-cerns range from a belief that Nyora is not really considered a part of the shire to the abysmal state of roads, footpaths and drains.
Nyora also needs a de-cent hall, landscaping and a walking trail in Loch must be completed, and a community centre built in Poowong, the duo said.
With council facing a defi cit of infrastructure up to $25 million in the next 10 to 15 years, the pair believed council must
develop a sustainable fi -nancial strategy to address demands for essential community infrastructure.
They said the absence of a developer contribu-tion levy - that provides for a fee per allotment to pay for infrastructure - is going to place major pres-sure on council, either to increase rates or not pro-vide essential services and infrastructure.
They said council can request payment of a de-veloper contribution or levy per allotment, but without a development plan, cannot enforce one.
Mr McEwen said: “There is somewhere be-tween $20-30 million of community infrastructure
works required in the west-ern end of the shire in the next 10-20 years. There could be up to 2,500 allot-ments created in the next 10 years, which with a levy of $10,000 would bring in $20 million to pay for the needed infrastructure.
“The lack of action could cost the ratepayers dearly through the rapidly escalating rates like Baw Baw’s recent 11.6 per cent rise to fi nance the provi-sion of essential commu-nity infrastructure.”
Mr Amor said coun-cil has to regain the con-fi dence of Korumburra residents, after the closure of the saleyards and gov-ernment agencies, and the resulting loss of business
Vision for Korumburra revealedin the town.
The pair propose a taskforce focused on de-veloping and implement-ing a preferred Future Pos-sibilities Vision and Plan
for Korumburra.“The proposed task-
force, involving coun-cil, community, sporting clubs, business, farming and government agencies,
would develop an agreed blueprint for getting on with the job of revitalising and developing the true potential of Korumburra,” Mr Amor said.
Fresh ideas: council candidates Andrew McEwen and David Amor outside the Korumburra Community Meeting Room with their two point plan.
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ARE you around Meeniyan during the day? The Meeniyan CFA is looking for new members (female and male) to train to be volunteer members mainly to assist with day time call-outs.
Now, a lot of members work out of town during weekdays. If interested call captain Dean Delaney on 0409 741 952.
MEENIYAN Progress Association is celebrating the 40th birthday of the re-nowned Meeniyan Art and Craft Exhibition over the Melbourne Cup weekend, November 2 to 6, at the Meeniyan Hall.
Activities include a four day exhibition of Gippsland artists, a cheese and wine opening night on Friday, November 2, jazz among the art on Saturday, Novem-ber 3, and garden walks on Sunday.
Enjoy browsing the mini market and a delicious De-vonshire tea.
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THE Napoleon exhibi-tion at the National Gal-lery of Victoria in Mel-bourne recently held a link to Gippsland.
The exhibition held a treasure trove of uniforms of the period, swords, muskets, pistols, paintings and maps of early French explor-ers who sailed along the Gippsland coast and made detailed maps of the south-ern coastline of Australia.
It was interesting to examine the map of the Gippsland coastline and see the land was named af-ter Napoleon himself, and was therefore called Na-poleon Land, which could have meant that we could have quite easily become a French speaking country.
THE Loch Spring Vari-ety Concert will be held at Loch Public Hall this Satur-day evening.
The event promises a memorable evening of di-verse entertainment, laugh-ter and music from Loch and district’s best and brightest.
Gasp at the magic arts of magician Colin McKenzie, cheer and weep with bush poet Keith Wilkinson and try a little DYI Latin percussion.
The event follows the successful Loch Village An-tique Fair recently.
FOR the rest of October, Cancer Council Victoria is calling on women in South Gippsland to register to host a Girls’ Night In, and show their support for the 29 local women who will be diagnosed with breast or gynaecological cancer this year.
The premise of Girls’ Night In is for women to register as hosts, invite friends over for a fun night in and ask them to donate what they would have spent on a night out to the Cancer Council. Funds raised are channelled to the women’s
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THE new Inverloch community-run farmers market will be held on the last Sunday of the month, not the fourth Sunday as stated in The Star last week. The fi rst market will be held in The Glade on November 25 and is a project of the In-verloch Community Farm-ers Market, a sub-commit-tee of the Inverloch Tourism Association.
A COMMUNITY fo-rum on suicide prevention including panel question/discussion time will be held on Tuesday, October 23 at the Foster Football Club rooms, Station Road Foster.
Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Show bags and supper will be pro-vided. Speakers include Stephanie Wilks, Carlene Hurst and Dr David Iser.
Master of Ceremo-nies for the evening is Pe-ter Rushen, CEO South Gippsland Hospital. Any-one who has emotional is-sues Lifeline is a 24 hour service phone 131114
WEST Gippsland Li-brary Corporation is going bike crazy and revving up for the Phillip Island Moto Grand Prix on October 26 to 28.
The Phillip Island Mo-toGP quiz is entering its fi fth year and is once again offering four lucky winners family passes for admis-sion to the event. This year is the very last chance to see Casey Stoner take part in this home Grand Prix so there is even more incentive to win.
To enter you just need to pop into any of the corpora-
tion’s libraries in the Bass Coast, South Gippsland and Baw Baw shires and pick up a crossword.
Entry is free, open to all and closes at 6pm on Wednesday, October 17.
Entries will be drawn at 3pm on Monday, October 22 with winners notifi ed soon after. So there’s still time to start your engines and get down to your local library.
K O R U M B U R R A Community Development and Action Inc is present-ing the Tourist Railway Garden Competition and open gardens in Korum-burra and community on November 4.
Tickets are to be pur-chased for the open gar-dens from the Korum-burra Railway Station at $10 each.
The day will fi nish with a sausage sizzle at Poo-wong following the last garden which is included in the walk, as well as two gardens in Korumburra.
It is hoped to have the competition and the com-munity open gardens as an annual event.
This year Korumburra Rotary have donated the prizemoney of $750 for the Best Sustainable Rail-way Garden and Koringal Ladies $750 for the Most Beautiful Railway Garden.
Judging is to take place prior to the gardens being open to the public by three Gippsland registered hor-ticultural judges, Arie Bos, Dawn Gough and Frances Grylls.
Korumburra Develop-ment and Action Inc would like to take this oppor-tunity to thank all those who have assisted to make this happen, especially the Koringal Ladies and the Korumburra Rotarians.
Anybody interested in further details may contact Syd Whyte on 5655 1247.
As part of the upcoming Coal Creek Literary Festival, Leongatha Lyric Theatre is presenting Sherry Before Six, an Australian comedy written by Eve Old.
The play is a ‘one night only’ performance on Satur-day, October 13 so don’t miss out on the chance to see it along with the rock/blues band, Psycho Wombat. Tickets are available for $20 at Mushroom Crafts in Leongatha or at Coal Creek.
The performance will be at the Pig and Whistle Hotel at Coal Creek from 6.30pm, with the play commencing at 7.30. Drinks and fi nger food available .
The cast, pictured, have been rehearsing for this witty play directed by Sacha Lamont, from left, Sharon Chees-man, Mike Street, Annette Perry and Jo Street (front).
Well done Rem: Rem Dal Pozzo, 6, was one ofThe Star lucky winners from the Colour the Pen-guins colouring competition held over the school holidays. Rem, who is pictured with The Star’s KidsPage co-ordinator, Dianne Smart, wins a three-park pass to Phillip Island Nature Parks.
Another winner: Tahlia Hill, 10, of LeongathaSouth did a fantastic colouring in of the penguins to win for herself a three-parks pass to the Phillip Island Nature Parks. She was one of the two win-ners in The Star’s school holiday competition.
Oh brother: the Clarke brothers from Korumburraenjoyed some holiday fun last week, spending time playing in the sun at Leongatha’s McIndoe Park. From left are, Reuben, Levi and Ari.
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LEONGATHA commerce has been buoyed by some more good news with the announcement this week that Marriotts Motorcycles and Power Equipment will double in size.
The news comes on top of last week’s announcement of $800,000 new premises for GEM Industrial Services in the Leon-gatha Industrial Estate.
Manager of Marriotts, Tim Marriott, said the current building was not big enough to accommodate the current sales and workshop areas.
Marriotts moved from its Bair Street location to the South Gippsland Highway site back in 2004. In just eight short years it has now outgrown its building.
“We are literally having trouble fi tting our stock in at the end of each day and locking the door,” Mr Marriott said.
“We are currently in the design phase but the changes will double the size of the sales and workshop area.”
As well as adding KTM Motorcycles and Seadoo jet skis to their range when they moved in 2004, Marriotts are about to add another range of motorcycles and ride-ons in the near future. They have also added ten-fold to the range of clothing and accessories in the past few years.
Also, Mr Marriott said the business would soon become a Stihl specialist dealer which will require more space to accommodate the increased Stihl product range to be stocked.
“As part of this agreement with Stihl we’ve had to relinquish the Husqvarna brand,” Mr Marriott said.
“However anyone who has purchased a Husqvarna product with us can be as-sured that we will still be able to look after their service, parts and back-up needs.”
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TRAFFIC fl ow through Korumburra must be addressed, Deputy Premier Peter Ryan said.
Despite this, VicRoads has no plans in place at this stage for an alternate route.
“At the present time there is no specifi c planning pro-cess in place for a Korumburra bypass but eventually work will need to be undertaken to solve the problem of the movement of heavy traffi c through town,” Mr Ryan said.“That is an initiative I would like to continue to have investigated.”
However VicRoads regional director Sebastian Motta told The Star there is nothing in the pipeline.
“VicRoads does not currently have any plans in place, or a preferred route, for a heavy ve-hicle alternate route at Korumburra,” he said.VicRoads has replaced the old metal ‘Keep Left’ signs at the intersection of Bridge Street and Mine Road with new sign mounted on fl exible poles to stop trucks destroying them during any collision.
The Leongatha Alternate Truck Route is a focus of VicRoads at the moment as the VicRoads works to-wards plans.
“VicRoads is working with South Gippsland Shire Council, Department of Transport, Public Transport Victoria, VicTrack and numerous other stakeholders on design concepts,” Mr Motta said.
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E D I T O R I A L
Voice to peopleTIP costs and green waste dis-posal are common topics raised during my election campaign.
I was amused to see the Reform Team offering only two collec-tions of free green waste bins per year when the council already of-fers six weeks annual free green waste collection at the tip.
Free times could be spaced out through the year and cost-effective collection could be arranged on demand. Tipping charges should be capped for low income householders.
Pedestrian safety in Wonthaggi is very important in our growing town. After hearing from VicRoads that traffi c lights at Korumburra Road could be over a year away, I am concerned about the crossing in McKenzie Street near the new info centre.
Although, when VicRoads and I measured it last week, it is the regu-lation width, but the central refuge just doesn’t feel safe for walkers, mobility scooters or prams.
My suggestion is that, as soon as the new council is formed, a citi-zens’ assembly is held in the town hall to decide on priorities. Action committees can be formed to pool our knowledge and fi nd solutions on these issues.
Jessica Harrison, independent candidate for
Hovell Ward,Wonthaggi.
Come cleanTHE burning issue for the Bass Coast Shire Council election is the future of Bass Coast.
Around 70 per cent of our shire is used for agriculture.
The State Government’s policy is to ‘reform’ rural zones so that uses currently deemed inappropriate will be allowed without community consultation or appeal.
Though it has announced a moratorium on further coal seam gas exploration until a national framework has been agreed upon, the government is also in favour of coal seam gas mining.
If we value our environment, we need to make sure we know where local government candidates stand on these and other environmental and development issues.
We also need to know what can-didates’ political allegiances, if any, are.
For instance, should the State Government lift the mora-torium on coal seam gas in Gippsland and allow the mining of it in Bass Coast Shire, will those with a political allegiance be to their constituents or to their politi-cal party?
If candidates cannot assure us of their independence on such issues, we could fi nd some developers and coal seam gas interests exploiting our environ-ment and our communities for
profi t with little or no respect for sustainable development.
Meryl Tobin,The Gurdies.
No coal exports
IN your reply to your article “Brown Coal’s Big Potential” (The Star, October 2), I would make the following points.
For years entrepreneurs touting “value added” brown coal products claimed that their processes had been “proven” at the pilot plant stage, offering potential investors in commercial plants large shares of their planned enterprises. With-out much success it seems.
Now they’re lining up for gov-ernment research grants. As well they want huge allocations of dirt-cheap brown coal and government-funded infrastructure, such as road and port improvements.
It’s utterly nonsensical to claim that dried brown coal is “clean”. When burned to generate electric-ity, its green house gas emissions are equivalent to those of black coal - much higher than emissions from gas, which is also far from clean compared with renewables like so-lar and wind power.
Perhaps dried brown coal could replace the present wet stuff while the Loy Yang plants continue to generate.
That would no doubt depend on the comparative economics involved, remembering that the carbon price would still apply to emissions from dried brown coal and the costs of drying would have to be met.
But the spin promoting some sort of bonanza from exporting brown coal briquettes to India or China is mere fantasy.
It’s absolutely outrageous to suggest that Port Anthony on beau-tiful Corner Inlet should become a coal-processing and exporting centre.
Wilson’s Promontory National Park is South Gippsland’s premier tourist destination.
Ramsar wetlands adjoin the in-let. Corner Inlet includes a marine park, fragile sea-grass beds and mangroves which provide nurseries for fi sh and other aquatic life.
No-one wants a kilometre-long coal conveyor and bulk carriers in Corner Inlet. Huge environmental damage would be caused by repeat-ed dredging of shifting sandbars in-side the inlet and at the entrance.
It would be unfeasible and dangerous to anchor bulk carriers outside in Bass Strait and attempt to load them from barges plying up and down from Port Anthony .
When Port Anthony was fi rst mooted, South Gippslanders were told it would be used for coastal cargoes of timber, dairy products etc.
Peter Ryan said in September
2011 that Port Anthony would ser-vice trade with Tasmania.
Proponents did not research a rail link though one company reck-ons dried coal would be transported initially by road from Yallourn to Port Anthony via Sale and Yarram.
As for new coal mines in South Gippsland, local communities have recently shown how strongly they oppose that idea.
Wilma Western,Leongatha.
Bruce’s visionYOU can be as critical of coun-cil as much as you like, but the only way to make real change is to throw your hat into the ring and stand as a candidate, ready to make changes if elected.
I am as critical as anyone about the state of our roads, the neglect of drainage systems and the way coun-cil goes about repairing them.
It is my belief that a guy with a shovel and practical maintenance (good old fashioned hard work) could have avoided some of the potholes that will now be very ex-pensive to fi x because the road base has been compromised.
I agree with James Fawcett’s letter to the editors (September 18). He has said that it is time to be bold and this new council may well be the most important council since amalgamation.
As an accountant by profession, Jim keeps a keen eye on the mon-etary decisions and I am prepared to listen to his opinions.
His contention that we should look at redundant assets within the shire to capitalise and repair and rebuild important infrastructure is a good one
I also know that by working with the other councillors, we can make a great team to set up South Gippsland for the long term future.
I love where we live. I am proud of the facilities that we have in our many towns and I know that some diffi cult choices will have to be made along the way.
I have also stood for all of the “greener” issues such as wind farms, fuel effi cient transport and solar panels in the past.
I believe that renewable energy solutions hold the key for future generations but they won’t just happen.
There is work to be done and jobs to be had in this area. The pursuit of coal and coal seam gas exploration in this beautiful area will lead us nowhere and will cause much unnecessary upset in the process.
If you want a passionate and enthusiastic representative with the ability to represent you at all levels give me your fi rst preference in the Coastal Promontory Ward.
Bruce Beatson,Toora.
True reform? I AM struggling to under-stand why the Reform Team, where possible, have second preferenced the current sit-ting councillors.
Given their concerns with bud-get management by the present council and their stated intention to replace them, the very council some of whose decisions they have referred to as ‘stupid’, what motiva-tion could there be for these prefer-ence allocations?
How much reform do they actu-ally want?
Or is there a hidden meaning to their idea of ‘reform’?
Jordan Crugnale,candidate for Townsend
Ward,Inverloch.
Financial plan SOUTH Gippsland Shire Coun-cil’s long-term fi nancial plan condemns families, farmers and businesses to a 40 per cent rise in the real level of rates in the next 10 years.
While it is correct that council’s equivalent consumer price index rises at a higher rate than the CPI, the proposed rises dwarf even this.
Council in my view has been lazy in how it strategically manages its fi nances. It is faced with serious fi nancial challenges.
There is not only the $4.6m su-perannuation liability but also a sig-nifi cant and building infrastructure defi cit of up to $25m in the next 10-15 years.
There are no easy silver bullets. Council severely cut back ser-
vice and sold assets in the early 2000s as a strategy to reduce the high levels of debt.
As Councillor Lewis pointed out this week in response to the fi -nancial situation, “The idea that if you reduce costs you must reduce services is completely wrong.”
Developing a sustainable fi nan-cial strategy will be diffi cult but not impossible.
We need to examine ways to in-crease income, as well as ways to better target services in an effi cient and effective manner.
As Cr Jim Fawcett recently indicated, it is possible to realise signifi cant resources by sales of surplus assets that will materially assist in addressing the infrastruc-ture defi cits in the next 10 years.
The development of an infra-structure contribution levy scheme has the potential to realise up to $20m to council’s revenue in the next 10-15 years.
Council in its wisdom in my opinion negligently decided not to do this three years ago at a cost of up to $1 million or four per cent rate rise over three years.
Council needs to upgrade itseconomic development strategy tobest practice to target business in-vestment and new residents, whichhas the capacity to signifi cantlyincrease rate revenue base over thenext 10 years.
On the expenditure side, thereis some scope for effi ciencies. Thecosts of council’s senior executivesand management have risen by over40 per cent, accounting for a fourper cent rise in rates in the presentterm of council.
At a time when leading organi-sations are creating fl atter structures,council has pursued an outmodedhighly bureaucratic and adminis-trative dominated approach, con-trary to the widely acknowledgedbelief that organisational structuresshould follow strategy.
Council needs to work with thecommunity to develop a shared vi-sion for the future with an agreeddirection and strategies. This wouldthen provide a guide for councilabout where to focus its efforts andresources.
Clearly there is also a need toexamine the equity of the variousdifferential rates in the shire andbenchmark them against compara-tive fi gures for Gippsland and otherequivalent areas.
Council is a complex organisa-tion with over a $54m budget provid-ing over 100 services and functions.
The reality is that unless youwant to cut back child immunisa-tions, home and community carefor the aged and disabled, libraryservices, the community grant pro-gram and basic infrastructure ser-vices, there is not much scope fordramatic savings.
Council benchmarked againstBass Coast Shire is still signifi -cantly below pro rata employmentlevels to deliver its services.
The real question is where thestaff is deployed, moving awayfrom bureaucracy and towards ser-vice delivery positions.
A crude slash and burn approachwill hurt our children, families andolder people and compound our in-frastructure defi cit. We need a moresophisticated and clearly targettedstrategy to turn council’s fi nancesand services around.
Turning around council’s per-formance will lay the foundation tocurb council rate rises through time.
To do this will require clarityof purpose, sensible revenue andexpenditure measures and a healthydose of common sense.
If elected I will move immedi-ately and decisively to get council tourgently consider developing a sus-tainable fi nancial strategy to providea sound fi nancial basis of council tocontinue to deliver services, and ad-dress the infrastructure defi cit andthrough time to curb rate rises.
Andrew McEwen,candidate for Strzelecki Ward,
Meeniyan.
Yes, only because I am always a little bit resistant to Christmas. The beginning of December is when I start to think about it.
Susan Mulholland,Wonyip
Do you think it is too early for businesses to be advertising Christmas?
No, not really. If the word gets around you can layby for your family.
Gloria Hanlon,Allambee South
I think it is too early because it comes around quickly enough as it is.
Robert Allan,Wonthaggi
No, I don’t think it is too early. It is good to be in the Christmas spirit year round!
Carrie Bruce,Leongatha
Time for fi ne tooth combTHE prospect of shire councils reducing staff seems to be growing – or at least the perception of that action is.
Alan Brown and his reform team have not ruled out staff changes at Bass Coast. He refuted claims in a fl ier that his team would cut 100 council jobs, but rather states his team wants to “implement a full review of the role and operation of the Bass Coast Shire and this is to see if effi ciencies can be introduced and savings made”, saying more staff working outdoors on road repairs and parks was desirable.
Whether that means a cull in administrative stuff remains to be seen.South Gippsland Shire Council candidate Ian Nicholas has stated
he believes there are too many management roles and wants to make “severe cuts” to help offset council’s $4.6 million superannuation bill.
Mr Nicholas’ fellow Strzelecki Ward candidate Andrew McEwen – who left council after the management restructure initiated by CEO Tim Tamlin – writes on this page: “The costs of council’s senior ex-ecutives and management have risen by over 40 per cent, accounting for a four per cent rise in rates in the present term of council.”
Cr David Lewis has long been critical of the staff increases at South Gippsland, but then again council has been criticised for not providing adequate services, particularly timely planning decisions, and council attributes that to staff shortages.
A new council has a right and responsibility to assess the level of services provided to ratepayers at their expense, to determine whether savings can be made that ultimately result in more funds being available to other services.
By the same token, major disruptions to councils’ staffi ng struc-tures can affect the services councils already provide.
A wise council will review the existing services and staffi ng levels, but at the same time consider the long term implications of their decisions, and not just measure their success in monetary out-comes but rather in the long term growth and success of the shire the council serves.
Easy option?ERECTING signs seems to be a quick and cheaper way of addressing potholes than fi xing them.
While “traffi c hazard” signs have frequently been placed along the region’s highways and other roads, the favouritism of signs has been taken to a new level by VicRoads.
On the Bass Highway near Inverloch, permanent signs have been placed stating “Rough surface 80km/h”. The signs are in the yellow and black colours of typical speed advisory signs and are either side of a section of road prone to potholes.
Do the signs suggest that VicRoads has given up on repeatedly fi xing the holes and instead expects motorists to travel slowly for-ever on what should be a highway?
“THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - PAGE 13
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As a result, the name of thechildcare and kindergarten haschanged to Time 4 Tots EarlyLearning Centre.
It is a family owned centre under anew management team: ShelleyCampbell, area manager, CarlyCarter, centre director and DanaeHemming, assistant director.
“With our new management teamwe are very excited about the greatchanges we are developing as wespeak,” Ms Campbell said.
Owner of the centres, EmmaKinrade, will be working closely withShelley and the rest of themanagement team to ensure theyraise the quality of early learning.
“The centre will undergo somechanges in the coming months,including the implementation of thenational quality framework and earlyyears learning framework,” MsKinrade said.
“We will ensure all our staff arewell trained in the new frameworkand implement it into our everydaypractice.
“We want to ensure we are in linewith national quality standards andwork in partnership to establish ameasure of individual chi ldoutcomes.”
Ms Campbell added: “We have avery professional approach to ourprogramming and education whichwe provide at our service with extratraining available whenever werequire.
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“We are bringing in new ways ofcommunication and focusing on thefamilies and children's ideas andinterest in our programs.
“Our children are educated asspecial individuals and all ourprogramming reflects back to thegreat feedback we receive from ourfamilies.”
Time 4 Tots has a delicious andnutritional menu that covers all dietaryrequirementsforyourchild'sday.
“We are in the process ofchanging our menu for thespring/summer time, which issounding very healthy but alsoyummy; aga in fami l i es areencouraged to suggest any requestfor the menu,” Ms Campbell said.
Centre staff believe it is importantfor more vulnerable children andtheir families to receive the supportand assistance they need.
“We plan to improve access tovarious funding sources and toinvest in targeted staff training anddevelopment to better support
vulnerable families,” Ms Kinradesaid.
The centre will have its computersystems upgraded, to support centreneeds and ensure the familyaccounts are correct and up-to-date.
“We will also be developing animproved repair and maintenancestrategy and upgrading a number ofplay spaces and natural outdoorenvironments,” Ms Kinrade said.
The centre will introduce updatedpolicies and procedures for staff andfamilies, and ensure they arefollowed through.
“These goals and changes are inthe best interest of the children whoattend Time 4 Tots and the viability ofthe centre,” she said.
“Together with our friendly andhappy new team, we are very excitedto continue to provide high qualitycare.”
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By Sarah Vella
THE restoration of the Port Welsh-pool Long Jetty moved a step closer, when Deputy Premier Peter Ryan announced the project would move to the detailed design stage.
Mr Ryan said structural assessment works at the site had been completed and that detailed design plans would ensure the project was shovel-ready when the Federal Government was considering its next round of grants.
“Now that the assessment work is complete, Gippsland Ports is ready to commence the detailed design phase of the project, which will ensure readiness for tender as soon as project funding is secured,” he said.
“The Port Welshpool Long Jetty is a wonderful historical piece of maritime infrastructure that is cherished by the Gippsland community. It is great to see the project continuing to progress.”
The State Government has already committed $5 million to the project and South Gippsland Shire Council, $1 million.
The estimated overall cost of the restoration project is $11 million and would rely on input from the Commonwealth Government to proceed.
“The community is hopeful that the government will eventually lend its support to this important regional project.
“A recent decision by the Gillard Government to place a hold on Regional Development Australia funding has put a cloud over Federal Labor’s capacity to fund this important work.
“Fortunately the Coalition has already committed dollars to the project and I would encourage the Gillard Government
to do the same.”Gippsland Ports will begin the detailed
design phase works immediately with the works expected to be completed in early 2013.
Geoff and Ann Clark, (owners) and Belinda Kimball, (manager) of the Long Jetty Caravan Park at Port Welshpool, all agree this announcement is a positive step for the project.
“We still get a lot of phone calls here asking whether the jetty has been reopened yet, to which we have to reply ‘no’,” Mr Clark said.
“No matter what the weather, tourists would still walk out there, because it is something different for them.”
Ms Kimball said the caravan park received visitors who do not have boats and would love to fi sh from the jetty.
“This whole area is an untapped tourist market. When operational, the Long Jetty brought hundreds of tourists to the port,” Mr Clark said.
“If it were reopened, it would increase our business by at least one third. On a good long weekend over 1500 people would visit the jetty.
“At Christmas, around 700 people stay at the park and every one of those people would go out on to the jetty at least once.”
Peter Rose at the Port Welshpool General Store said the announcement is well overdue.
“There have been so many years of tourism lost since it was closed,” he said.
“All of the visitors that come into the shop ask: when is it going to be done? So, it is good to see the project being pushed along.
“We just need that commitment from the Federal Government.”
New jetty closer
High hopes: Geoff Clark and Belinda Kimball from the Long Jetty Caravan Park want to see the Long Jetty restored to its former glory, for the benefi t of the entire region.
PAGE 14 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012
A regional partnership with the TAC and the Victorian Government.
“We know that excessive or inap-propriate speed is responsible for more than a third of fatalities in Victoria,” Ms Slatter said.
“It’s our goal to make speeding unacceptable to all Victorians, in order to see another significant re-duction in road trauma. If you know
someone who thinks speeding is ok,speak up and let them know that it’snot ok to put themselves or othersat risk.”
By Matt Dunn
THE GIPPSLAND Power Football Club is doing its best to drive change in young peo-ple’s behaviour on the road.
Club president Peter Francis said the club’s list of young footballing talent had always been keen to team up with the TAC and AFL Victoria, helping to create of a suite of road safety ads targeted at young drivers.
Posted online, the advertisements – which feature all the TAC Cup teams - can be viewed at youtube.com/tac and have also appeared on Channel 9’s TAC Cup Future Stars.
“It’s important for us to be in-volved in the road safety message, as we’re an Under 18s club. We’ve
got boys on their Ls and Ps. They’re the drivers that are at most risk,” Mr Francis said.
“It’s really important for us to push the message out there, espe-cially with our boys, who are really high profi le within the region. They are guys who are really looked up to and are role models for other kids. If they’re seen to do stupid things in cars, others will do it to.
“We really are focused on stop-ping kids getting killed in cars.”
TAC CEO Janet Dore said the support of the league’s players and families was “exceptional”.
Ms Dore said the commitment shown by all TAC Cup teams to the road safety program was the key to the success of the 21 year part-nership between the TAC and AFL
Victoria. “Young drivers are over-repre-
sented in road trauma, and this com-petition and the work the clubs do in their communities helps us deliver practical road safety messages and enhance young drivers’ awareness of staying safe behind the wheel,” Ms Dore said.
“All the teams can be proud of their efforts to increase road safety and we hope their mates and fami-lies recognise the messages they are sending, and continue to drive safely.”
AFL Victoria’s TAC Cup com-petition was this year re-branded to the message “Speed Hurts” – a change that is in line with the TAC’s goal of making speeding socially unacceptable.
Footy club drives change
Driving change: Leongatha’s Aaron Heppell and Mirboo North’s Liam Nash are part of the Gippsland Power squad and road safety advocates.
Stay safe on the roadsTHE Transport Accident Com-mission (TAC) has appealed to regional Victorians to commit to its vision of making every journey a safe one, on the one year anniversary of the Talk the Toll Down campaign.
This time last year, the Premier Ted Baillieu and the TAC launched the Talk the Toll Down partnership with the ed-itors from 60 regional newspapers.
TAC acting chief executive offi cer Tracey Slatter said through their cov-erage of local road safety issues, the newspapers had shown a clear passion for keeping their local readers safe on the roads.
“The media support for this cam-paign has kept road safety top of mind and encouraged all regional Victorians to be a part of the combined effort to reduce trauma on Victoria’s roads,” Ms Slatter said.
“I commend all of the regional newspapers for their commitment to promoting the road safety message through this campaign.”
The anniversary comes in a week when there were fi ve fatalities in just 24 hours on Tuesday, all on regional roads.
Ms Slatter said such a tragic day was a reminder of the importance of talking the toll down.
“Our vision at the TAC is to make every journey a safe one,” she said.
“We know that over the long term, there has been a signifi cant reduction in the road toll, both deaths and seri-ous injuries, so we know our vision is achievable.
“The TAC will keep working with the newspapers and the Victorian com-munity to educate people about what we can do to make our roads safer. To-gether we can continue to reduce road trauma.”
A recent analysis of the campaign has revealed that speeding is the most common issue reported by the regional newspapers.
The results showed that young drivers, drink driving and motorcycle safety were the next most common is-sues to be reported.
Speaking up: Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu and the TAC launched the Talk the Toll Down partnership withthe editors from 60 regional newspapers last year.
“THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - PAGE 15
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A VENUS Bay cooking and playgroup program is in the running for a state award.
Cook’n’Book at Venus Bay Community Centre, run by South Gippsland Shire Council, is a fi -nalist in the Communities that are more Family and Child Friendly category of the Victorian Early Years Awards.
The fi ve-week program com-bines a playgroup with a commu-nity kitchen cooking session and library story-time.
Minister for Children and Early
Childhood Development Wendy Lovell said the awards recognise and celebrate leadership, dedica-tion and innovation in early child-hood education and care. Winners in each of the three categories re-ceive $15,000.
Council’s community services director Jan Martin said the council supports a playgroup at the centre for children with extra needs, such as housing and social isolation.
Parents also learn parenting skills and about healthy eating, and the benefi ts of stories to children’s education.
“It is about healthy food and nutrition, and the value of reading stories to children and developing good parenting skills, and it’s about bringing families together so that they can build relationships with each other,” Ms Martin said.
“It’s about children playing and exposing parents to different types of playing and the development of their children.”
The program is the fi rst of its kind in the shire and will continue to be offered by the community centre.
Playgroup named state fi nalist
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BELIEVE it or not, there is a tourism mar-ket in people visiting family and friends.
Chris Buckingham, CEO of Destination Mel-bourne, shared this be-lief at the annual general meeting of Prom Country Regional Tourism at djinta djinta winery at Kardella recently.
Mr Buckingham spoke about the importance of the visiting friends and rela-tives market, and how local residents are an important link in the promotion of a region.
The formal proceedings provided members with an overview of recent Prom Country Regional Tourism achievements, including the facilitation of a winter cam-paign that involved the pro-duction of 80,000 brochures distributed in local and met-ropolitan newspapers.
An offi cial visitor guide, touring map, and shopping and dining guide were also developed and distributed.
New initiatives for 2012-13 were discussed, including the launch of a new look regional tourism website and an iPhone ap-plication due for release in January.
Prom Country Regional Tourism chair Catherine McGlead, convened the meeting and provided members with an overview of how they could get the most of their membership with Prom Country Region-al Tourism.
Ms McGlead encour-aged members to try to
attend as many industry workshops and network-ing events as possible.
“The network of friends and acquaintances available to you as a mem-ber of the local industry is vast, and holds some keys to your success and enjoy-ment of being an active participant” she said.
Election proceedings
were brief with all candi-dates elected unopposed.
Returning executive members include Cath-erine McGlead (Promon-tory Gourmet Foods), Lor-raine Hughes (Meeniyan Motel), Philip Botte (Mc-Cartin’s Hotel), Rowena Ashley (Coal Creek), Marty Thomas (Moo’s at Meeniyan) and Jacinta
Hicken (Mirboo Country Development Inc).
Other board mem-bers include Brent Moran (Parks Victoria), and Dan-ielle Todaro and Jeanette Harding (South Gippsland Shire Council).
Rachel Brown (Toora Tourist Park) and Sean Taylor (Promhills Cabins) were the new additions to
the board.The meeting compo-
nent ended with a farewell to retiring executive mem-bers Ted Wlas and Angela Morris.
Forty members at-tended the event and were treated to a delicious two-course meal served with a selection of djinta djitna wines.
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Tourism focus: at the Prom Country Regional Tourism annual meeting were, from left: Brent Moran(Parks Victoria), Lorraine Hughes (Meeniyan Motel), Sean Taylor (Promhills Cabins), Rowena Ash-ley (Coal Creek), Marty Thomas (Moo’s at Meeniyan), Catherine McGlead (Promontory Gourmet Foods), Rachel Brown (Toora Tourist Park) and Jacinta Hicken (Mirboo Country Development Inc).
By Brad Lester
COUNCILS are hoping for more funding in the future to control road-side weeds and pests.
The State Government recently allocated funding to councils to address roadside weeds and pests, but the Mu-nicipal Association of Victoria is concerned about the way funding was allocated.
MAV president Cr Bill McArthur said the government should not have used road length to determine how much each council will receive when a study, The Bailey report, rec-ommended equal base funding for each municipality, in addi-tion to a proportional ratio.
“Fifty-six councils will re-ceive $7.8 million in funding after the government’s three-year commitment in this year’s Victorian Budget,” he said.
“But as councils know all too well from past experience, funding often declines over time or stops altogether and then ratepayers are left cover-ing the costs.
“We don’t support the intro-duction of legislation to forma-lise roadside weed obligations given that councils have al-ready proven this thorny issue can be managed without it.”
The 2011 Bailey Work-ing Party produced a roadside weeds and pests report to map out an agreed way forward.
Last year the government accepted the recommenda-tions, including the use of municipal Roadside Weed and Rabbit Control Plans, to
specify priorities.South Gippsland Shire
Council has been allocated $41,570 each year for three years.
Council’s community ser-vices director Jan Martin said the funding was appreciated but was unsure about future fi nance.
“We welcome the funding because we could not do the job otherwise but we still share the concerns – collectively – of local government of shifting these costs across to local gov-ernment,” she said.
“Often when there is a shift in responsibility, often in the long term the funding is not continued. The funding is for three years. The concern is will it be ratepayers’ responsibility after that period ends.”
Council will employ con-tractors to perform the works but if the responsibility perma-nently becomes one of council, council staff will undertake the work.
A Bass Coast Shire Council spokesperson said the funding would allow council to con-tinue with existing pest plant and animal control works on council roadsides.
No new staff will be used. Weeds targeted include rag-wort, wild Watsonia, black-berry, Paterson’s curse, bridal creeper and asparagus fern.
Bass MLA Ken Smith: “The recent Bailey Report on Roadside Weeds and Pests rec-ommended that councils are best placed to control weeds and rabbits on local roadsides and this program will help our local councils to do just that along local road.”
Funding fi ne – for now
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THE fi rst step to making Coal Creek cost neutral started last week with a feasibility study getting underway.
Ideas to bring outside businesses into the park and take the fi nancial strain off South Gippsland Shire Council are the focus of the feasibil-ity study.
After one-on-one interviews with the Coal Creek staff on Monday, on Tuesday Mawland Tourism Consul-tants invited the public to share their ideas about ways to improve the Ko-
rumburra park.It was big ideas that consultants
Simon McArthur and Jacinta Mack-ey were after from Tuesday’s brain-storming session.
“We need to fi ll the $0.52m short-fall that the council forks out each year,” Simon said.
“It’s a big challenge and we need big ideas to make it happen.”
Overnight accommodation and restaurant function centres were ideas brought up by the group.
Possible usage of the land behind the park was also discussed.
Coupling the park’s heritage edu-cation with adventure activities and
accommodation was one idea that received positive feedback.
“We will take all the ideas from today and pick out the best few that will suit the park,” Simon said.
“Then we will draw up business plans for the ideas and return to council with our fi ndings.
“Hopefully in the next fi ve to seven years we will see these ideas in the park and it becomes cost neu-tral for the council.”
If you have an idea that would go well in Coal Creek, look out in The Star next week for the launch of acompetition with great prizes for the best idea.
By Simone Short
MCKENZIE Street in Wonthaggi is about to become just that little bit fan-cier, with a gallery set to open later this month.
The Wonthaggi Artspace will be the fi rst op-portunity for local and visiting artists to display their pieces in the town, whether they be paint-ings, drawings, sculptures, jewellery or more.
The gallery is the result of years of planning and searching for the right space by members of the Bass Coast Art Council.
The Artspace management committee chair-man, Colin Billington, said they had been push-ing for something like this for a long time.
“We tried to get a place through the council to use as a gallery, but were always told other com-munity groups were using them,” he said.
“We were told about this place and that the owner, Neil Rankine, was keen to help out com-munity groups, and he offered us a ridiculously low rental rate, as well as three months prepara-tion to get it up and running.
“We decided we could make it work and cov-
er costs with the income we hope to make.”Around 60 people turned up to a public meet-
ing held to discuss the Artspace, and 18 people applied for positions on the committee, despite room for only 10 members.
“We have incredible talent on our committee in terms of art,” Mr Billington said.
“Also, you only have to mention a job, and every single one will put up their hand and say they’ll do it.”
Committee members and volunteers have been dedicating their time every week for the past two months to get the gallery up and run-ning, with a great deal of work turning the former bike shop into an artspace.
Mr Billington said local businesses and com-munity members had also been generous, with donated services and goods “coming out of the woodwork”.
One of the originators of the gallery and art-ist, Dennis Leversha, said the concept behind the Artspace is that artists will hire a section for a small fee on a monthly basis, as well as pay a small commission on any artwork sold.
“We can have between 30 and 35 artists on display at the same time,” he said.
“We will have a larger wall space for an exhi-
bition, while there will be smaller sections for a few pieces; there are 14 sections in total.
“It will be the same for crafts as well; we’ll have glass cabinets and shelves for work to be displayed.”
Mr Billington said everyone involved in the project was “thrilled to bits” their dream had fi -nally eventuated into reality.
“The community and art fraternity have been giving us such backing while we’ve been trying so hard to get something up and running,” he said.
“It’s a great addition to Wonthaggi because there is virtually nowhere else artists can display and sell their goods.”
With the Artspace grand opening planned for October 21 from 2pm until 5pm, the gallery is already nearly booked out for the fi rst month, with expectations the waiting lists will also fi ll quickly.
Once opened, the Wonthaggi Artspace will be open from Thursday to Monday, from 10am until 4pm.
Anyone interested in volunteering at the gal-lery during opening hours can email [email protected].
Bringing art to Wonthaggi
A place for art: Wonthaggi Artspace management committee chairman, Colin Billington, curator Karin Murphyellis and artist Den-nis Leversha are thrilled to be opening an artspace in Wonthaggi later this month.
Coal Creek aims to be cost neutral
After ideas: Simon McArthur from Mawland Tourism Consultants chats with Coal Creek co-ordinator Rowena Ashley about possible oppor-tunities for the park.
YOU can expect next year’s Leongatha Daffo-dil Festival to be bigger and brighter than ever after a successful forum was held to discuss the future of the event.
Held by the South Gippsland Shire Council on behalf of the Leongatha Horticulture Society, the forum was used to gather ideas on how to expand the festival and involve more community organisations.
Society member Lillian Brittain said the meeting was “terrifi c”, with the 24 people attending represent-ing almost all the groups who currently take part in the festival, as well as three representatives from Leongatha Apex Club.
“We reviewed how the show went this past year, then we looked back at the shows in the past and people tried to note the various things that happened, like parades and dress-ups,” she said.
“We then had a lot of suggestions – some that will turn out to be practical and some that won’t.”
Ms Brittain said, having gone through the suggestions, they decided to hold a follow-up meeting on November 19 with all in attendance agreeing to meet again.
The follow-up forum will also be open to the public for anyone interested in attending.
“We hope that if there’s real interest, we can form a committee to run the festival next year,” Ms Brittain said.
“We got off to a good start; to have all the groups represented and one new one is very good indeed.
“We will see improvements to the show next year.”
Bright future for festival
Find police on Facebook
Embracing social media: Wonthaggi Police Constable Tara Firth checks out Facebook up-dates from Bass Coast Police.
BASS COAST police are putting their social media skills to the test with a new Facebook page for the region.
Linked through the Vic-toria Police Facebook page and under the banner of Morwell Police, local offi -cers are keeping the public up-to-date with what they have been doing.
Wonthaggi Police Ser-geant Glenn Birt said police are trying to embrace social media outlets, such as Face-
book and Twitter.“We’re trying to show
what we’ve been up to and link photos with stories,” he said.
“For example, we’ve al-ready put up photos of the truck crash in Jumbunna, a cannabis crop we seized, and a recent school visit we had to the station; it’s not necessarily all about crime.”
Sgt Birt said social me-dia was also a great tool for connecting with the com-munity and broadcasting
messages.“We put up a photo of a
seized car and let anybody who might have witnessed repeat drink driving, speed-ing or any other illegal be-haviours know they can re-port it to police by providing a description of the vehicles involved,” he said.
“It’s just an opportunity for us to let people in the South Gippsland and Bass Coast areas know what we’re doing.”
Facebook isn’t the only way police have been con-necting with the community either; people can now use an application on their iP-hones to report criminal ac-tivity to CrimeStoppers.
“It’s just another ex-ample of how the police are embracing the digital world,” Sgt Bird said.
“This app is called Stop Crime and makes it easy to do something like dob in a hoon – you can even take a photo to submit to police.”
Updates from Bass Coast Police can be seen by visiting the Victoria Police Facebook page, clicking on ‘Local news and pics’ and selecting the Morwell region.
IT is a great accomplishment to write and publish a novel, and is something Jellie Wyckelsma certainly knows a thing or two about.
She has just published her second novel in only 14 months - a feat she never thought possible herself.
Mrs Wyckelsma launched her book The Photograph and the Diary of the Daughter at the Inverloch Library last Thursday afternoon to a great crowd of family, friends and fellow members of the Bass Coast Writers.
Mrs Wyckelsma said she hadn’t ex-pected to be launching another book so soon.
“In August last year I was standing right here to launch my fi rst book and I never could have dreamt I’d be standing here again,” she said, adding it was both
easy and diffi cult to write another novel.“I felt more confi dent and received
encouragement and support from the members of the Bass Coast Writers, but it wasn’t easier to write.
“When you start something, you have a beginning and an end, but the middle is a big challenge.”
She likened writing a novel to climb-ing a mountain.
“You know the point where you start the climb and you know where the top is, but there are several spots you pause and ask ‘why am I doing this?’ because you are mentally and physically exhausted,” she said.
“But the next day you know which track to take and you make your way to the top of the mountain, and when you get to the top you shout ‘I did it!’”
Mrs Wyckelsma said her novel was based around a woman who talks to a photograph of her late mother, and was written in a diary format.
“Sometimes when we’re making dif-
fi cult decisions, we’d love our mothers to be beside us; we’d love to listen to their opinions and advice,” she said.
The Photograph and the Diary of the Daughter, like Mrs Wyckelsma’s fi rst novel, also has a migrant theme, except with a second generation Australian born to migrant parents.
President Colin Campbell said Mrs Wyckelsma reminded him of English author Mary Wesley, who wrote her fi rst book at the age of 70 and went on to write one a year for the next 10 years.
“You’ve only got 10 more to go!” he joked to Mrs Wyckelsma.
Mr Campbell said he was honoured to offi cially launch the book, which he said dealt with “deeply felt issues”, including love, and the challenges faced by a mar-ried woman living in the 21st century.
Mr Campbell said he was also im-pressed by Mrs Wyckelsma’s ability to write two novels in only 14 months.
“Not even Charles Dickens could do that!” he laughed.
Second book for Inverloch author
Second novel: Jellie Wyckelsma launched her book, titled The Photograph and the Diary of the Daugh-ter, at the Inverloch Library last Thurs-day with the support of Bass Coast Writ-ers president Colin Campbell.
LUNG cancer is the big-gest cause of cancer deaths in the electorate of Gippsland South in the 2008-2010 period.
Prostate cancer was the most common for local men with 170 cases and breast cancer the most common for women with 120 cases. Bowel cancer claimed more lives, with the local toll standing at 34.
A total of 1038 people in the electorate were diagnosed with cancer in that three-year period.
Of those, 327 cases were in South Gippsland Shire and 331 in Bass Coast. That compares with the state average of 320 new tumours diagnosed per 100,000 of the population, so the local rates are statistically on average with the rest of Victoria.
Those are the latest fi gures from Cancer Council Victoria.
Releasing the fi gures, Eastern Victoria MLC Phil Davis said during the three-year period, 455 patients “sadly lost their battle” with the disease.
Mr Davis urged “locals” to prevent their risk of cancer by making healthy lifestyle choices “in particular eating health-ily, exercising regularly, being SunSmart, quitting smoking and reducing alcohol intake”. Regu-lar screens for breast and bowel cancers are also advised.
THE wet, wet, wet goes on.“This is the toughest winter I
can remember,” Lindsay Fromhold said.
He and his wife Linda run the Meeniyan Post Offi ce and Lindsay is the town’s weather recorder.
They’ve been in Meeniyan for 17 years and have had a farm at Toora North since 1981.
“We’ve had 18 rainy days in September, that’s more than in August.”
Mr Fromhold tipped 36.7mm out of his rain gauge over the last weekend in September. The amount brought the monthly total of 110.6mm, which is quite a bit more than last September’s 67.5mm.
“It’ll bring the Tarwin River right up again. It doesn’t take much because it’s so saturated.”
Neville Buckland, a Fish Creek farmer of many years’ standing, said seven days of fi ne and hope-fully windy weather, are all that’s needed to dry things out.
He records the rain for Fish Creek and said there was 44mm over the last weekend in Septem-ber, bringing the monthly total to 111.5mm. The average is 106mm.
Mr Buckland said rainfall so far this year is 1043.5mm, compared with 1096mm for the same period last year.
He said he had heard 70mm fell at Wilsons Prom over the weekend.
While last year was wetter than this around Fish Creek, Mr Buck-land said there have been more bit-terly cold spells this year.
“It’s been a very hard winter.”South Gippsland Water reports
show all storages are full, with the exception of Ruby Creek which re-mains at 98 per cent.
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its signs in place on this sec-tion of the South Gippsland Highway are there because
the road surfacing is heavily worn and can be slippery in wet conditions,” regional di-rector Sebastian Motta said.“While some drivers may
not be able to easily see this road surface issue as they pass over it, it is vital the signs in place are adhered to for the safety of all road
users.”Potholes along the
South Gippsland Highway were fi lled last Thursday but VicRoads actively en-
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Why the 80km/h signs?
Back to 80: a road surface issue has meant the speed limit along the South Gippsland Highway at Kardella South has been pulled back to 80km/h.
MOTORISTS have been baffl ed about why the speed limit on a section of the South Gippsland Highway has been dropped.
The speed limit on a 700
metre stretch of the high-way near Kardella South was dropped to 80km/h about fi ve weeks ago.
A VicRoads spokes-person said the speed limit was reduced for motorists’ safety and signs should be
TWO young Victorian men who are defying the odds to live fulfi lling lives shared their stories at an event to celebrate the Transport Ac-cident Commission’s 25th anniversary last week.
The young men, Anthony Bartl and Simon van Beest, joined 100 staff at the TAC in Geelong to mark the occasion.
Both men had car accidents in 1986, as young boys, and their challenges and achievements over the past 25 years have been cap-tured in a short fi lm refl ecting on the TAC’s history.
Anthony was six when he was crossing a road and hit by a car.
He was so severelyinjured, it wasn’t thought he
would survive, let alone have any quality of life.
Today, despite challenges of having only movement of his head, not being able to feel below his neck and breathing only with the help of a ventilator, he hasn’t let his disability hold him back.
He has just completed a teach-ing degree, has appeared and won on Channel 9’s Millionaire Hot Seat game show and has pursued outdoor activities including snor-kelling, sailing and micro-gliding.
Simon was eight when he was a passenger in a car that crashed. He was in a coma for three months and had to be taught how to swal-
low, speak and walk again.Simon now has two part-time
jobs and is learning to live inde-pendently.
TAC chief executive offi cer Janet Dore said these were the sto-ries of just two of 590,000 clients supported by the TAC over the past 25 years.
“It’s diffi cult to imagine what support injured Victorians would have if the TAC hadn’t been
established. What we do know from talking to people like Antho-ny and Simon, is the tangible
difference the TAC has made to many people’s lives,” she said.
Ms Dore said the event and the fi lm showed the signifi cance of the TAC to the Victorian
community.“It’s about the 44,000 people
who are currently receiving our support after a transport accident; it’s about the 800 staff who care for clients or work in road safety,” she said.
“It’s about the health profes-sionals, medical providers, road safety agencies, researchers, the government and many others, who care about people injured in transport accidents and dedi-cate themselves to achieving our shared vision: to make every jour-ney a safe one.”
Premier Ted Baillieu gave a special thank you to all those who have been involved with the
TAC over the past 25 years.
Inspirational stories capture TAC’s history
Roomy: even with the front seats pushed all theway back, there is plenty of leg room in the rear of the Nissan Almera. Find out more on page 21.
Big boot: Edney’s Leongatha is now offering the Nissan Almera. Under the boot lid is a large space for shopping and everything else. Full review on page 21.
NISSAN Australia has released a perfectly simple and economic passenger car – the all new Almera.
The fi rst thing you notice when you get in the Almera is that it is like the Tardis - there is an amazing amount of space.
In the front, there is plenty of leg room and even when the front seats are fully extended, the back passengers will be comfortable with large foot wells still available.
This space for the passengers does not compromise the size of the boot either, with a large space hidden behind the back seats.
Despite the room on the inside, the Almera is the size of a small sedan and easy to drive, operate and park.
On the road, the Almera is all that you want. The vehicle rolls well around corners, is easy to steer and most impor-tantly makes you feel safe when in the driver’s seat.
Under the bonnet is a four cylinder, 16 valve, 1.5 litre petrol engine that provides 75 kilowatts of power and 139Nm torque, driven through the front wheels.
This engine not only gives you all the power you could want in a small car but records 6.3 litres of fuel per 100km.
The engine is matched with fi ve speed manual transmis-sion or a four speed automatic option.
Even though it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles, the Almera has everything you could want in a car.
It comes standard with power-windows, Bluetooth hands-free phone system, steering wheel audio controls, central locking with remote keyless entry along with a four-speaker audio system matched up with CD/MP3 player and auxiliary input jack.
The stereo controls are easy to use and the steering wheel controls are straight forward.
You will never be without a cup-holder in the Almera, with one in each front door, and four in the centre console, two for front passengers and two for those in the rear.
This is a perfect car for the small family or if you are downsizing from a big car.
For whatever reason, the Almera is the choice for you.Get into Edney’s Leongatha and test drive one today.►More photos on page 20.
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All new: Nissan’s Almera is a great economical and simple new car on the market.
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MORE V/Line bus services are needed at Loch and Nyora, ac-cording to the South West Gippsland Transport Group.
Several years ago, V/Line increased the number of bus services to and from Melbourne.
But not all extra services promised to Nyora and Loch were established.
The Loch, Nyora and Poowong districts miss out on three bus services a day both from and to Mel-bourne, Monday to Friday.
Before services were upgraded, residents told the Department of Transport the importance of getting to the city at 10.15am and be-ing able to leave for home at 1.10pm Monday to Friday.
A petition has been initiated to be lodged to Gippsland South MLA Peter Ryan, calling for changes.
Andrew McEwen, chairperson of the South West Gippsland Transport Group, said: “Our group is
concerned that all people have access to regular ser-vices that enable them to get to work, to go to school or to important medical appointments.
“It is crazy that for the want of a few minutes, school children can’t be independent in the school holidays and people are de-nied access to services and employment.”
The South West Gippsland Transport Group has supported the petition by writing to the transport minister and local members of parliament.
“We are hopeful that common sense will prevail. Having a bus tantalisingly close but not being able to catch it is frustrating and really a waste of public re-sources,” Mr McEwen said.
Resident Tricia Fleming has found an enthusiastic response from the commu-nities of Loch, Nyora and Poowong for the petition.
Although Poowong does not have a V/Line bus service, the residents are also affected as they catch
the buses in Loch or Nyora. “I have 600 signatures in
my possession and I know I have many forms to collect with more signatures,” Mrs Fleming said.
“Although for many of us, we may not need to use the V/Line buses and those particular times Monday to Friday, but our teenage chil-dren, our grandchildren vis-iting, or ourselves, because of a medical condition, may need to, in the not too distant future. And so if you are in one of the towns in the next week, please sign.”
The petition is available to be signed at the Loch Post Offi ce, Hard Loch Café and Elton Motors in Loch.
In Nyora the petition can be signed at the takeaway shop, general store and post offi ce.
In Poowong the forms are available at the post of-fi ce, hairdresser, hotel and milk bar/take-away.
The completed petition forms will be presented to Mr Ryan, who will pres-ent them to Parliament.
Please listen: Andrew McEwen and Tricia Fleming accept a completed petition from George Elton of Elton Motors, Loch and Max Semken, a member of the South West Gippsland Transport Group.
Bus must stop at Loch, Nyora
YOUNG people have much to offer and that was the message delivered at a busi-ness breakfast at Inverloch last Friday.
Guest speaker Adam Smith pre-sented about “Harnessing the Power and Potential of Generation Y” at the event hosted by the Bass Coast-South Gippsland Business Alliance.
The breakfast was held at Manna Gum @ Broadbeach.
Mr Smith said Generation Y are aged 18-32, materialistic and tech-nology savvy, bringing social media and productivity skills to the work-place.
People aged 20-24 are three times more likely to change jobs in a year than those aged 45-54.
While one in fi ve workers are now members of Generation Y, by 2020 they will be the largest gen-eration in the workforce, comprising two in fi ve workers.
“This year there will be more 60th birthdays than ever before. The point is that over the next 16 years, this huge generation will all sail past 60 and ease out of the workforce, creat-ing a signifi cant labour and manage-ment challenge,” Mr Smith said.
“Now is the time to begin the
succession planning in businesses of all sizes.”
Mr Smith noted that according to testing by Army recruiters in the United Kingdom, there are typically four categories of Generation Y:
• leaders looking for the opportu-nity to inspire;
• thinkers seeking a way to make an intellectual difference;
• mates searching for belonging and adventure; and
• escapers who are after a new start, money and action.
Mr Smith is the founder and prin-cipal consultant of The Equity Insti-tute, and has generated more than $20 million in philanthropic and cor-porate investment in public schools in Australia.
He has worked in the United States, Middle East and Europe, and in 2009 was named Young Executive of the Year by BOSS Magazine.
His current clients include the Royal Children’s Hospital Educa-tion Institute, Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, Cape York Partnerships and Austra-lian Council for Educational Lead-ers.
► More photos in Social Scene on page 38.
SOUTH Gippsland Shire Council wants to fi nd out what the main health and well-being issues are in South Gippsland.
We know things like smoking, poor nutrition and being inactive can be harm-ful to our health.
However, there are other factors affecting our health, like access to services, op-portunities to participate, safety, housing, education and transport.
Council plays a key role in creating the environment for communities to prosper and enjoy improved health and wellbeing.
Council’s director of community services, Jan Martin explained that under the Public Health and Well-being Act, council has a re-sponsibility to protect, im-prove and promote public health and wellbeing by de-veloping and implementing a Municipal Public Health
and Wellbeing Plan.Council is asking the
community to contribute to the development of a new four year Municipal Public Health and Wellbe-ing plan by completing a short survey.
This will help coun-cil gain valuable insights into the main issues for health and wellbeing in the community.
“From this information we will be able to develop a realistic plan with actions that are refl ective of, and specifi c to, our local com-munity, and achievable by working in partnership with other agencies and the com-munity,” Ms Martin said.
The survey can be com-pleted online at www.south-gippsland.vic.gov.au
Hard copies are available from local libraries, visitor information centres or upon request from council’s cus-tomer service department on 5662 9200. The survey closes October 31.
By Sarah Vella
A NEW report, titled New Set-tlers to the Gippsland Region 2005 to 2011, has been com-missioned by Gippsland’s Regional Development Aus-tralia Committee.
Gippsland has become the home for many migrants and refu-gees, particularly from countries within Africa and South East Asia.
Around 145 new arrivals were reported to have settled in South Gippsland between July 2006 and June 2011.
In the same time period, 273 new arrivals were recorded to have settled in the Bass Coast region.
The Wonthaggi Secondary Col-lege has a number of Karen stu-dents from Burma.
The college effectively helps new students from non-English speaking backgrounds to settle in, in a number of ways.
“Wonthaggi Secondary College has English as an additional lan-guage (EAL) teacher and two mul-ticultural education aides who sup-port our newly arrived students,” EAL teacher at the college, Kate McKittrick said.
The college is working with employment services in the Wont-haggi area, to address the issue of career pathways for high school students from a non-English speak-ing background.
“VCAL has been a fantastic program for our older students to be involved in, as it encourages the development of work ready skills and provides an opportunity for them to work in the community one or two days a week.
“Students have forged strong links with their employers, some of whom have offered part-time work or apprenticeships to our students.
“Our EAL student numbers are small so our pathways programs for them have been managed indi-vidually and with success, but the students are concerned about sup-port networks once they leave our supportive school environment.”
Cultural awareness within the school and the broader community
is a necessary part of education. “Maung Aye, a member of our
Karen community and former Bud-dhist monk, came and spoke to thestaff about his refugee experienceand some of the diffi culties ourstudents may face at school,” MsMcKittrick said.
“Senior school English teachershave invited our refugee students toshare personal stories with classesin the context of confl ict, whichwere powerful and emotional ex-periences for all concerned.”
Australian teaching methodscan be foreign to students, in termsof classroom practices, acceptedstudent behaviour, consequencesfor unacceptable behaviour andstudent-teacher relationships.
“It is important as educators tounderstand we are not just teachingour curriculum, but also teachingour culture,” Ms McKittrick said.
“This needs to be done withsensitivity and with an acknowl-edgment that the newly arrivedstudent’s own culture and experi-ences are different but also valuedand important.
“Lack of English skills is obvi-ously a huge barrier to educationand English development needs tobe a priority for the students to ex-perience success in other areas.
“A rapport needs to develop be-tween the staff and students beforethey feel safe and able to learn. Staffneed to monitor the students as theysettle in and link them into counsel-ling services should the need arise.”
The college has been involvedin activities to maintain links to theKaren students’ home country, suchas the community kitchen program,run with the support of MitchellHouse and the Anglican Church.
“Parents, students andEAL staff shopped and cookedtogether each week, initially pre-paring Western style foods butwe progressed to predominantlyKaren food,” Ms McKittrick said.“Lots of talking, laughing and eat-ing bonded our little group and weare to release a bilingual cook-booklater in the year that has been pub-lished with a grant from the De-partment of Education and EarlyChildhood.”
Young offer tech skills
On board: breakfast sponsors Wendy Major of the Local Learning and Employment Network, Rob Francis of Bendigo Bank, guest speaker Adam Smith, Peter Francis of Bass Coast Shire Council, Loretta Willaton of Telstra and Stuart Cooper, manager of Gipp-sTAFE’s Leongatha campus.
Health matters
Feel good: South Gippsland Shire Council is urging the community to contribute to a wellbe-ing survey.
THE CFA recognised 690 years of commit-ment by volunteers at the Mirboo Group an-nual dinner recently.
Sixty-four members from Allambee, Dumbalk, Hall-ston, Mt Eccles, Milford and Mirboo North came togeth-er to celebrate their third annual dinner at the Mirboo North Golf Club, with service awards presented to 29 Mirboo Group personnel.
CFA operations offi cer Bill Alards presented the awards, with assistance from district training instructor Terry Hanley and Gippsland area training manager Ian Dunbar.
Prestigious 50 years of service awards were presented to two members: Allambee ex-captain Cliff Smith and Dumbalk’s stalwart Tom Marshman.
Mr Marshman is also a 20 year member of the CFA’s State Aircraft Unit as an air observer, and spent many hours circling South and West Gippsland on Black Sat-urday in 2009, giving vital information to ground units battling bushfi res below.
Other awards were presented to: Alan Coulter (45 year medal), Dianne Smith, Mark Bourke, Terry Murphy, Jon Giliam, Grant Hosking, Rob Auchterlonie, Arthur Van Boven and Dot Pearce (30 year medal), Ron Holt and Clyde Taylor (25 year medal), Kim MacDuffi e, Bruce Harrison and Frances Nyhuis (20 year medal), Vicki Osborne, Geoff Webb and Stephen Polkington (15 year medal), Brian Cook and Kevin West (10 year medal) and Bec Easey, Clive Stewart, Greg Multon, Barry Auchter-lonie, Noel Hough, Bradon Grown, David Corbridge and Charlie Tumino (fi ve year certifi cate).
Mirboo North Brigade awards went to Andrew Salin-ger with the Stephen Groen Encouragement Award, while the Ian Moon Captain’s Award went to the brigade’s fi re equipment maintenance team of Jason Barnes, Noel Hughes, Kevin West, Mark Kennedy, Frances Nyhuis and Amanda Bourke.
Guests were also entertained on the night with ac-tivities organised by MC Janet Auchterlonie, including a ‘pocket treasure hunt’, where the quickest participant to fi nd an object won a prize.
There was laughter all round when she asked for an odd object in particular, a pair of fl ippers, in which a visi-tor dressed in full scuba diving gear, including fl ippers, strolled into the room, collected his prize and, with a de-parting wave, walked out again.
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THE CFA recognised 690 years of commit-ment by volunteers at the Mirboo Group an-nual dinner recently.
Sixty-four members from Allambee, Dumbalk, Hall-ston, Mt Eccles, Milford and Mirboo North came togeth-er to celebrate their third annual dinner at the Mirboo North Golf Club, with service awards presented to 29
Mirboo Group volunteers recognised
Tremors pose low risk
By Jacob de Kunder SOUTH Gippsland and Bass Coast build-ings are guaranteed to be secure despite looming earthquakes.
Melbourne-based architects are warning standards may not be up to scratch but Matthew Patterson, South Gippsland Shire Council’s municipal building survey-or, said otherwise.
“Since 1993 buildings have been required to com-ply with the earthquake standard,” he said.
“As part of that standard, it does identify this part of Victoria as an area more prone to earthquakes.
“Say if you were building a house here compared to Melbourne you’ve got to design it to a higher level so it complies with the earthquake provisions.”
Hannah Duncan-Jones, Bass Coast Shire Council planning environment director, agreed earthquakes were not an issue with local buildings.
“I’m a building surveyor and most of us participate in the Gippsland Group of Building Surveyors and they talk about current issues and changes in codes and regulations and all of those sorts of things, but earth-quakes are not one of the things that have been seen as a key issue at this point in time,” she said.
“If there was a need to have a change in the code, the call would probably come from Geosci-ence Australia.
“They would have the data of the likelihood of earthquakes.”
Ms Duncan-Jones said the main reason the building code and earthquake provisions exist are not to save buildings.
“Essentially the provisions aren’t there to save the
buildings but to save the people inside them,” she said.“What they’re trying to do is minimise the likelihood
of collapse so you can safely evacuate occupants of the building.”
Earthquakes over the past few years, including a magnitude 5.4 out of Moe and 4.5 and 4.6 from north of Korumburra, have not done any major damage to any buildings in the area, according the councils.
“We are not aware of any damage being reported to heritage buildings or the like as a result of the earth-quakes,” Ms Duncan-Jones said.
Mr Patterson agreed: “We haven’t really had any damage apart from minor cracking with cornices, skirt-ings and architraves and stuff like that.
“Because we haven’t really had any reports of any signifi cant damage, I suppose that indicates that the cur-rent standards are appropriate and that no changes are required at this stage.”
Half a century of commitment: CFA operations offi cer Bill Alards (right) presents a 50 years of ser-vice medal to Allambee ex-captain Cliff Smith at the Mirboo Group annual dinner recently.
Group effort: Mirboo North Fire Brigade’s Ian Moon Captain’s Award was presented to the fi re equipment maintenance team, from left: Noel Hough, Frances Nyhuis, Amanda Bourke, Jason Barnes, Mark Kennedy and Kevin West.
Important role: Tom Marshman receives his 50 year medal from CFA opera-tions offi cer Bill Alards. Mr Marshman played a vital role as an air observer during the Black Saturday bushfi res.
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ENVIRONMENTAL issues have been brought to the fore in local government elections.
The Clean Ocean Foundation, based at Wonthaggi, questioned candidates on their position in relation to issues critical to the local environment including: cli-mate change and ocean temperature, coal seam gas, the decommissioning of dams proposed by South Gippsland Water, monitoring of effl uent from the de-salination plant, ocean acidifi cation and plastic pollu-tion.
The foundation’s John Gemmill said: “The results show that most candidates have considered positions on environmental issues, even though they may be perceived by some to be outside of their area of re-sponsibility.
“They also indicate that most candidates are keen for their position on these issues to be shared with the electorate.
“Clean Ocean hopes that the values that underpin these responses infl uence their decisions as council-lors.
“As many in Bass Coast have seen over recent years, response of all tiers of government to these is-sues can have dramatic effects on local community and the environment.”
Mr Gemmill said candidates who had not respond-ed by last Thursday were phoned and offered a last chance to submit their answers.
Those who did not respond at all, or responded with a comment rather than a yes/no answer, have been listed in table as “???”.
While some candidates were happy to respond, others contacted The Star to say they did not wish to respond either ‘yes’ or ‘no’, and would have preferred the opportunity to submit comment.
Given there are 26 candidates running for Bass Coast, their responses are not listed in a table for the sake of clear printing.
Most candidates responded “yes” to most ques-tions.
Alan Brown’s column was marked with “???” throughout, as were the columns of Simon Lord, Dan-iel Marshall, Peter Foden and Andy Chappell, with the exception of Mr Chappell answering “yes” to the plas-tic bag question.
Candidates probed about environment
SOUTH Gippsland Shire Council candidate Frank Hirst wished to submit more sub-stantial answers to the survey conducted by the Clean Ocean Foundation.
The Strzelecki Ward candidate was not comfortable with ‘yes/no’ answers and offered the following responses:
• Climate change and ocean currents. Do you accept that anthropogenic (hu-man made) Climate Change is causing oceans currents to alter thereby threat-ening local bull kelp underwater forests and the species that live there?
Mr Hirst: “Whilst warming oceans
are likely to have effects on ocean cur-rents at some stage in the future (such as the possible reversal of the Gulf Stream in the North Atlantic), I’m not aware of specifi c local threats.”
• Coal seam gas. Do you oppose coal seam gas extraction in South Gippsland due to the environmental risks that include the pollution of wa-terways and marine environment?
Mr Hirst: “I oppose the extrac-tion of CSG in general as I believe we should be putting our efforts into renewable energy sources rather than chasing down the last vestiges of fos-sil fuel.
“Exploration and extraction locally would put highly productive farmland
at risk as well as posing potential envi-ronmental hazards.”
• Dams. Are you concerned that the decommissioning of many of the dams proposed by South Gippsland Water will increase the risk of fl ood damage to both property and the environment in times of heavy rainfall?
Mr Hirst: “If dams are decommis-sioned properly I see no reason why there should be any increased risk of fl ooding.
“It’s disappointing to see dams de-commissioned but the board must make decisions based on the cost of water from all sources, including a desalina-tion plant which it had no say in.”
• Desalination. Should the Victo-
rian Desalination Plant comply with world’s best practice in monitoring its effect on the marine environment in-cluding continuous (24/7) monitoring of dissolved oxygen levels as occurs in Western Australia?
Mr Hirst: “Clearly any new de-salination plant built should comply with world’s best practice. However, if world’s best practice had begun with a genuine effort to look at sustainable water supply and use in southern Vic-toria, I very much doubt whether one would have been built here at all.”
• Ocean acidifi cation. Do agree with the vast body of scientifi c evidence that anthropogenic (human-made) CO2 emissions are causing ocean acidifi ca-
tion that threatens much of the world’soceans marine life?
Mr Hirst: “I am concerned aboutincreasing ocean acidifi cation and itseffects on the marine environment -an aspect of global warming which islittle talked about.”
• Plastic bags. Given the risk to bothmarine animals and human health fromplastic in the ocean, do you support ef-forts to make local shopping centresfree of disposable plastic bags?
Mr Hirst: “The masses of plasticaccumulating in the oceans, especiallythe area known as the Great Pacifi cGarbage Patch, are of great concern tome and I would back any move to re-duce the use of disposable plastics.”
It’s more than yes or no, says Frank
Do you accept that anthropogenic (human made) Climate Change is causing ocean currents to alter thereby threatening local bull kelp underwater forests and the species that live there?
Do you oppose coal seam gas for South Gippsland due to enviromnetal risks that in-clude the pollution of waterways and marine enviroment?
Are you concerned that the decommission-ing of many of the dams proposed by South Gippsland Water will increase the risk of fl ood damage to both property and the enviroment in times of heavy rainfall?
Should the Victorian Desalination Plant com-ply with world’s best practice in monitoring its effect on the marine enviroment including con-tinous (24/7) monitoring of dissolved oxygen levels as occurs in Western Australia?
Do you agree with the vast body of scientifi c evidence that anthropogenic (human made) CO2 emissions are causing ocean acidifi cation that threatens much of the world’s ocean marine life?
Given the risk to both marine animals and hu-man health from plastic in the ocean, do you support efforts to make local shopping centres free of disposable plastic bags?
THE Leongatha cenotaph is undergoing refur-bishment.
Korumburra monumental mason Barry Wakley and his workers Michael Mattock and Rob Lawry laid some foundations last week for new “desks” that will display the names of those who died in more recent confl icts.
Leongatha RSL sub branch secretary Anne Davies said not all confl icts are mentioned on the cenotaph. It sits in front of the Memorial Hall, having been moved there from its original place on the Bair/McCartin streets roundabout. She said the cenotaph also needed cleaning.
The RSL received a State Government grant of $10,000 for the work.
Mr Wakley said the renovations should be completed by the middle of this week.
Cenotaph revamp
SOUTH Gippsland Shire Council has adopted a plan to improve life for elderly citizens.
The Active Ageing Plan 2012-2016 mentions a host of activities.
These include promoting men’s sheds, over 60s recreation at pools, sustainability, mentoring, walking groups, car pooling and succession planning for farmers.
Residents will be taught how to use technology and look for volunteering opportunities, and the plan will also encourage the development of accessible housing.
The plan was based on a survey of 1200 South Gippslanders, community forums and the ideas of a steering group.
While the plan was funded by a grant through the Department of Health, Cr David Lewis felt it was still not a wise use of tax-payers’ money.
“That money should really be spent on infrastructure to make it easier for people to live their lives,” he said, noting footpaths and public toilets as examples.
Cr Lewis felt public money should not be used for conducted walks and car pooling, particularly when council was facing a diffi cult budgetary time ahead with a $4.6 million superannuation debt to pay next year.
He was the only councillor to vote against adopting the plan.
Seniors ideas not so wise: Cr Lewis
MILPARA Community House is open again after the school holiday closure with a brand new purple program of activities (delivered by householder mail). If you would like to participate in any of the activities, you need to be quick as many of the classes are starting early this term. For bookings or further information contact the co-ordinators Belinda or Sandra on 5655 2524 or email [email protected].
To help you manage those accounts whether for business or a committee, Milpara is offering an evening manual bookkeeping course to be run over fi ve weeks commencing on October 22, as well as an evening MYOB course also starting on October 22 and running for seven Mondays. The daytime QuickBooks course will commence on Tuesday, October 23 from 10am to 1pm for six weeks.
The men have their Men’s Shed operating on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings at Coal Creek. The men’s discussion group meets every Friday morning at Milpara from 10am until noon. Now the women have a new weekly group “Just Chat” commencing on Monday, October 15 from 10am. Come along to enjoy good company, a cuppa and share something you have done, read or experienced with other women.
The computer basics course includes computers for beginners commencing
on Thursday, October 18 from 1pm to 4pm, and continues with internet and email for beginners and concludes with word processing nine weeks later. This comprehensive course will give you the confi dence to use a computer for work or personal interest.
For people who have recently moved to the area, Milpara is hosting a Newcomers Luncheon on October 22 at 12.30pm. Please contact Milpara to let us know if you would like to attend, as this is a great opportunity to learn about the local area.
For parents returning to work or someone considering a change of occupation Milpara will be running an Introduction to Community Services course to be held over four Wednesdays in November. If you are interested in aged care, home and community care, childcare, disability or community services this course will help you make the right choice.
Mary Mitchell will be running her restorative yoga class at the Korumburra Community Meeting Rooms from 10.30am on Thursdays for people who have chronic fatigue syndrome, fi bromyalgia, arthritis or osteoporosis. Mary also repeats this restorative yoga class on a Monday evening at 5.30pm at the Walsh Centre and this is followed by a normal yoga class at 7pm.
Milpara Community House news
Steady, steady: monumental mason Barry Wak-ley (right), with Rob Lawry and Michael Mattock, steer a large slab of stone towards the Leongatha cenotaph which is being refurbished and updated.
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begins to radiate a kind a warmth thathas been missing in our lives for the lastsix months.
Footy season is over and finally wecan come out of hibernation to thesounds of birds singing, flowersblooming and not to mention thosepesky magpies bringing out our bestP e t e r G a r r e t t m o v e s .With winter taking so long, one maynotice a squishy soft substance that hasattached to your abdomen, hips andthighs making you ponder “where onearth did that come from?”At this pointpeople all over Victoria are in a state ofpanic but not to worry. I have a few tricksup my sleeves for all you pasty whitesummer dreamers.
You have less than two months to beready for summer and the key to successdoesn't have to be complex.
In fact, a simple clean up of how youorganise yourself may be all you need tobalance the scales back in your favour.
We all know that exercise and dietcan make a wonderful weight lossmarriage.Without one or the other, yourworkload is increased.
If you don't exercise your metabolismdecreases, motivation can be lost, dietbecomes much more crucial and leavesno room for mistakes.
Without good diet exercise goals cansuffer. Energy levels are down, resultsare further away and all your effortcomes crashing down with little result.
With day light savings comes longerdays and rather than hitting the couchafter dinner, you can simply hit thepavement instead.
A 30 minute brisk walk can dowonders and it keeps you from snackingwhen it is not needed.
Even the 6am getting out of bedroutine becomes much easier so takeadvantage of it.
I also suggest you find activity thatyou not only like, but can commit to andbe able to do readily. Find a friend who isas keen as you and if you can't, get aniPod to keep you company. Little ideas,big potential.
As for the overall plan, start breakingit down. Forget just thinking the twomonths ahead and focus on week toweek.
Like, I will walk three times this week,do a weight session on Monday andThursday and go to a spin class onSaturday morning.
Get a calendar and mark off yourweek ahead and every other week is youcan. Planning is everything!
As for the diet side, here are somesuggest ions. Don' t under anycircumstances shop when you haven'teaten, when you are prone to throwmore in your trolley because your braintells you those Tim Tams look mightyinviting.Take a shopping list and stick toit.
I also think it is a good time of year toclean out your pantry.Throw out what isout of date and what you should havenot bought in the first place.
Start stocking the fridge full of goodfood, healthy fruit and vegetables, leanmeats and low fat dairy.
This is where you should go when youare hungry more so than the pantry. Eatall your meals at the kitchen table. Thecouch should not be your dining areaand nor the bedroom. Make it a rule andstick to it.
Hide all evidence of food, exceptmaybe a fruit bowl on the counter. Seeno evil, eat no evil! My best tip of all isto only buy healthy food that is to lastthe week and never buy snacks such asbiscuits, chips, chocolate and lollies inadvance unless you are admitting thatyou plan to be eating junk food over thenext few days.
Does it not become clear that if it isnot there you can't eat it? If you have togo to the shop to get it, then maybe youwon't be bothered.
Looking for food when you arehungry and seeing a packet of barbequechips that you conveniently put awaytwo days ago is a recipe for failure.
How many times have you had aweek moment, eaten something thatwas demolished in two minutes and wasleft kicking yourself for being sodesperate. Then you are left with guiltand depression, it's a cruel world, right,but you put it there in the first placeremember.
If you are drawn to success, you canachieve anything regardless of factorsthat may get in your way.
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I hope you can see that simple routinechanges may be all that is missing inhelping you to achieve a balance in yourfavour.
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6.30pm to 8.30pm on Sunday,
October 21, 2012 at the
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• The CAST will be drawn from 10-16 year olds
• NO prior experience necessary
• The ROCK BAND will be drawn from youth
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• A mentor program in all areas of production for
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• The show was rated PG on Broadway.All people under
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bands with a retro infl uence yet at the forefront of the live contemporary music scene.
Headlining, from Atlanta, Georgia, USA will be Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings.
Cooler than fashion and both sweeter and harder than all their contemporaries, this is probably the world’s greatest, most authentic, most electrifying super soul revue.
The dynamo out front, Sharon Jones’ voice, never stronger, evokes at once the raw power of Tina Turner, the moaning soulfulness of Mavis Staples, the rhythmic swag-ger of James Brown, and the melodic command of Aretha Franklin.
Steeped in the gilded and gritty sounds of gospel, soul, and funk, the nine-piece group continues to electrify fans, disc jockeys, critics, record collectors, and bloggers the world over with their heart-felt sound.
Continuing the vibe of the big soul sound that is sweep-ing the live music scene, Australian band, Clairy Browne and The Bangin’ Rackettes is also in the line-up.
This nine piece ensemble has been making a splash at home and internationally with their original take on soul, jump blues, doo-wop, ska and r’n’b.
Clairy Browne and her harmonising girl gang the Bangin’ Rackettes have earned a reputation for their dynamic live show which is an experience from start to fi nish.
Melbourne band Saskwatch is also a nine-piece band with raw grooves, organ, horns and wild break-beat throw downs.
They resurrect an atmosphere found somewhere in the late ’60s and early ’70s, yet they keep it fresh with original compositions and hip takes on old favourites.
“If you’re yet to experience the sensation that is the swirling hurricane of unmitigated soul put forth by Sas-kwatch, then you’ve only got yourself to blame” - BeatMagazine.
Chris Wilson will also make a welcome return to South Gippsland. Chris Wilson has been an essential part of the rock and soul music scene in Australia since taking the stage with the Sole Twisters more than 20 years ago.
Chris’ stage presence, voice and talent are all as big as the country he lives in. Chris Wilson is a master of his craft.
And what would a summer of soul be here, near our wonderful beaches, without a touch of surf music, Spanish style!
Independently seeping into the ears of r’n’r lovers, ’50s and ’60s instrumental fans, fi lm-makers and taste-makers, Los Coronas have forged a name for themselves with their distinctive blend of surf-tinged atmospheric twang and their own Spanish musical heritage.
Dan Electro, Surf’s Up Magazine, wrote: “Oh, man!Stellar material from very together players. The writing is really good, from straight ahead surf rants to amazing Span-ish fl amenco and pasodoble excursions all reverbed out.”
Steve Smyth will also perform. Steven Smyth is one of those artists who draws you in even before you’ve heard him perform.
For more information and tickets go to Lyrebird’s web-site: www.lyrebirdartscouncil.com.au or buy tickets at any of the local outlets: Gecko Studio Gallery, Fish Creek; Duck Hutt, Meeniyan; Main Street Revelations, Foster; Dear An-tiques, Leongatha.
Summer of soul at Mossvale
LYREBIRD Arts Council’s annual one-day music event at Mossvale Park will be held on Sunday, January 6 in 2013.
The event has a breathtaking line-up centred around big
USA origins: Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings will play Mossvale in 2013.
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The former Mount Eccles School, surrounded by the stunning views South Gippsland has to offer, could become your home, and is available through Insight Real Estate. See page 30 for details.
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POUND CREEK
50 PICTURESQUE ACRES WITH SEA VIEWS
7min from Inverloch, views of Andersons Inlet. 4 BRs &
study (master a parent's retreat.) Open living
kitchen/dining area, lounge looks out over gardens &
A+ for historic school with WOW appealMOUNT ECCLESLocation: 10 Hall RoadBedrooms: 2Bathrooms: 1Car spaces: 1Internet ID: 7477299Land size: ½ acre approx.Price: $340,000Agent: Insight Real EstateContact: 5662 2220Sole agent. New listing
Has to be seen to be believed, at a new price
A FORMER pupil at the Mount Eccles School’s recent 100th birthday reunion
remarked that school life on the Mount was easy and happy.
Now a lucky buyer can enjoy that special feeling and historic character in a home on a rare half-acre block among established trees; it’s the perfect balance of a quiet, private lifestyle in a friendly community. The house is surrounded by some of South Gippsland’s
most stunning views. Leongatha is a
15-minute drive away and access to Melbourne is less than two hours.
The high-ceilinged schoolroom with open fi re-place and ceiling fan is now the lounge room, with a spacious mezzanine above, currently a guest bed-room and sewing room. The light, bright kitchen with new appliances including dishwasher was revamped recently by the present owner.
A spacious central second living room/study with a lovely view through French doors connects the 1912 school structure with the original building. Used as a shelter shed in 1912, this section is now the
large main bedroom with side entry, plus the bathroom, separate toilet, large laundry with rear entrance, a shelved storage area and a broom cupboard.
A heat pump for hot water keeps power costs reason-able, the water tanks have a capacity of more than 50,000 litres, and the living areas are well equipped with heating and cooling. The older section of the house was rewired during the kitchen renovation. Outside storage includes a single garage and garden/woodshed.
The locality, the building and the nature of the land lends itself to a variety of purposes: family home,
lifestyle retreat, B&B (STCA) or holiday ac-commodation. Inspection of this unique property is highly recommended.
INVEST for the future.This spacious Colonial-style home is
ideal for those looking for an immaculate fam-ily home to live in now, and one with develop-ment potential (STCA.)
The options are certainly worth consider-ing. On a whopping 2400sqm (approx.) of fl at manicured parcel of prime land and situated close to all schools and shops, this home has so much to offer.
There are two spacious living areas. The large open planned family area includes a well-appointed kitchen, with Tasmanian oak cup-boards, bench space, pantry, dishwasher and large island bench plus breakfast bar.
The adjoining dining area looks out to ex-tensive private garden views and the outdoor entertaining area. The family sitting area also features a built-in bar. This area has a large wood heater and air-conditioner.
A separate formal lounge featuring quality carpets, a copper canopy fi re-place and split system allows for family members to have their own space.
Entry via the lounge room and through to a separate fourth bedroom/study opens up options to use the study as a home offi ce. Windows to the front of the home are double glazed.
The other bedrooms are spacious with qual-ity curtains and carpets. The family bathroom is large, with a separate bath and toilet. The laundry has bench space, storage cupboard and is large enough to house a freezer.
Side access with double lock-up gates to the rear double carport is convenient. A workshop, wood shed and garden shed provide ample storage, with room to build more.
The back yard is amazing, with raised veg-etable gardens, numerous fruit trees, specimen trees and expansive well-kept lawns.
Inspection is highly recommended in order to appreciate all this home has to offer. If you are an investor looking for a project, a family wanting a large comfortable home, or even a farmer wanting to retire in to town (but not quite ready to give up the country feel and space just yet), this hidden oasis is for you.
from the family room opens onto a large covered outdoor area where you can admire the view with a real sense of privacy.
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This superb property, located only 2 minutes from the MeeniyanTownship, is the pinnacle of lifestyle living.* Ultra-modern 5 bedroom family home with hostess kitchen, openplan living and rumpus room for the kids* Stunning rural views from all windows* Gently rolling heavy grey soil, 90% tractorable* 3 paddocks all with dams plus a permanent creek* Good fencing with electric support.
This superb property, located only 2 minutes from the MeeniyanTownship, is the pinnacle of lifestyle living.* Ultra-modern 5 bedroom family home with hostess kitchen, openplan living and rumpus room for the kids* Stunning rural views from all windows* Gently rolling heavy grey soil, 90% tractorable* 3 paddocks all with dams plus a permanent creek* Good fencing with electric support.
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Rare opportunity to secure a lifestyle property,the calibre of “Eagles Rise”only a 10 minute drive to Leongatha andwithin easy commuting distance to South Eastern suburbs.
10% deposit. Balance 60 days
45 Nolans Road, Meeniyan
“EAGLES RISE” 42.65ha (105 acres)
A/H Michael Wrigley0418 595 757
7 Williams Street INVERLOCH | 5674 6622
FOR SALE“Irrigation Dairy farm and Caravan Park”
AGENT: PAUL BOURKE - 0428 451 366
Smyths Road, Valencia Creek, Gippsland, Victoria
Phone 5147 2200
Paul Bourke 0428 451 366
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22 aside double up herringbone dairy.
Included is a picturesque Caravan Park on the banks of the Avon River offering secondary revenue stream.
Currently milking 300 cows.
SITUATED in an extremely handy
position to shops and recreational facilities, this home has a lot of pluses and the hard work’s already done.
The home has been re-wired, re-stumped. With a new Colorbond roof and fresh paint, this three bed-room home boasts a smart laminated kitchen, up-dated bathroom, separate living area, Reverse Cycle air conditioner and ducted natural gas heating.
Entertainers will be im-pressed with the enclosed deck complete with an eight seater salt spa, solid fuel heater, TV and built-in bar, all overlooking a large landscaped block with rear lane access and two lock-up sheds with concrete fl oor and power. Inspection will surprise.
Entertain in style
LEONGATHALocation: 27 Roughead Street Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 1Car spaces: 2 Internet ID: 267142Price: $295,000Open for inspection: Sunday, October 14, 1pm-1.30pmAgent: Stockdale & Leggo LeongathaContact: 5662 5800
Affordable escape to the country
PEACE, privacy and only 15 min-
utes from town, this ideal lifestyle proper-ty is situated on seven acres with views from every room.
The comfortable four bedroom renovated farm-house includes open plan living area, two semi-en suites, study, third bath-room/toilet, Daikin invert-er air-conditioner, wood heater and verandahs on three sides overlooking the creek.
Outside features in-clude large garage/work-shop, stables, chook run, tanks, plus two spring-fed dams.
A school bus stop is a fi ve minute stroll away.
The owner is relocating - call now for an inspection!
WILD DOG VALLEYLocation: 40 Rasmussens RoadBedrooms: 4Bathrooms: 2Car spaces: 2Price: $369,000 Agent: Alex Scott & Staff LeongathaContact: 5662 0922
“THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - PAGE 33
LOCATED just minutes from town is this quaint
original 1940s period home. The brick feature entrance to the
front door speaks of its originality. The home has character with its
old-world features including original light fi ttings, ornate ceiling roses and leadlight windows.
The spacious entrance leads to the
lounge room with solid wood heater set in a feature fi replace and original leadlight windows either side.
One of the three bedrooms has a bay window, there is one main bath-room and a cosy sun room.
Set on 446m2 the ideal position of the property would lend itself to many options; fi rst home buyers, in-vestor or home business consulting rooms (STCA).
LEONGATHALocation: 20 Smith StreetBedrooms: 3Bathrooms: 1Price: $295,000Open for inspection: Thursday, October 11 from 12pm-12.30pmAgent: SEJ Real Estate Contact: Glenys Foster on 0408 515 665
5662 4033www.sej.com.au
0418 515 666
Barry Redmond
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South Gippsland Hwy
LEONGATHA
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JEFFREY’S FLAT
Berrys CreekMirboo North
• Idyllic 6.5 acre protected flat block
• Berrys Creek forms part of
the boundary
• Bitumen Road to the front
gate from Mirboo North
$225,000
9 Range Court
Korumburra
$480,000
Inspection Will Delight
46 Ogilvy Street
$385,000 All offers considered
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1 BR Inc utilities. 66 Tamara Cres. $195 pw
7 BR Central. 29 a’Beckett St. $280 pw
5 BR Close to beach. 5 Ullathornes Rd. $350 pw
4 BR Exec living. 94 Meanderri Dve. $350 pw
3 BR Neat & tidy. 1/42 Halford St. $230 pw
INVERLOCH
45 Bair Street5662 0922Andrew Newton
0402 940 320
1/7 A’Beckett Street 5674 1111
Peter Dwyer0428 855 244
Alan Steenholdt0409 423 822
Carly Roughead0417 382 979 AL
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820 POUND CREEK ROAD, POUND CREEK• Superb 200 acres of rolling, grazing country• Cosy 2 bedroom cottage• Hay & machinery sheds, heavy duty stockyardsPOA
Marni Lee Redmond 0477 038 897Dennis Ginn 0412 317 360Dawn Hughes 0417 380 736Melanie Playdon 0402 734 766
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8 WOODLAND HEATH, INVERLOCH• 3 bedroom BV home• Spacious main bedroom, built-in robes & ensuite• North facing, captures the morning sun and light$515,000
23 THE CRESCENT, INVERLOCH• Entry from either Clerk Crt or The Crescent• Block approx 1000 sqm• 4 bedrooms all doubles, main with WIR$699,000
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“CARRELLY” 575 CANAVANS RD, LEONGATHA• Unique architect designed property• Landscaped gardens• Main residence + fully self contained 2 bedroom
cottage• B&B opportunity$785,000
2 VALLEY VIEW CRESCENT, LEONGATHA• 3 Bedroom home with ensuite + WIR• Carport and double garage/workshop• Close to schools, shops, clinic
40 RASMUSSENS ROAD• Rural retreat on 7 acres• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms (2 ensuites)• 15 minutes drive north of Leongatha
$369,000PRICE REDUCTION
7 ACRES
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FOSTER-MIRBOO NORTH ROAD, DOLLAR• 157 acre livestock property• Undulating to hill country• Good road frontage$549,500
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99 BROWN STREET, LEONGATHA• 5 Units under construction• Offering quality, value and position• 5 Star energy rating, caesarstone benchtopsPRICED FROM $299,000
455 LEONGATHA NORTH ROAD, LEONGATHA• Charming 3 bedroom homestead on 25 acres• Large shed 9m x 15m• Good views, within 10km to town$720,000
INVERLOCHRENTAL PROPERTIES
130 G BROWNS ROAD, NERRENA• 3 bedroom Edwardian home on 10 acres• Quiet country road• Stunning 360 degree views$439,000
17 TURNER STREET, LEONGATHA• 3 bedroom home on huge block• Central to schools, parks, sporting facilities• Perfect first home or investment property$249,000
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1625 LEONGATHA YARRAGON RD, HALLSTON• 21 acre property on top of the world!• Current planning permit• Fantastic views - build your dream home (STCA)$125,000
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1625 LEONGATHA YARRAGON RD, HALLSTON• 21 acre property on top of the world!• Current planning permit• Fantastic views - build your dream home (STCA)$125,000
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31 KOONWARRA ROAD, LEONGATHA• Recently renovated 3 bedroom home• Polished floorboards, bathroom & ensuite• Central location to shops, school & medical centre$339,000
• 210 acre dairy farm• Newly built 18 swing over dairy
• Comfortable 3 bedroom home
• Well maintained laneways
• Good fertiliser history
$4,950 per acre
34-36 CASHIN STREET, INVERLOCH• Purpose built factory & office situated in high
profile location on 2 titles• Landsize:2118sqmapprox. factory:300sqmapprox.
Office: 21sqm approx.• Occupancy permit for up to 53 employees on site• Currently used for steel fabrication business as
the current owner is retiring.Asking $920,000 the lot, $570,000 factory &office on one title or $350,000 vacant allotment.Asking $920,000 the lot, $570,000 factory &office on one title or $350,000 vacant allotment.
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IF you’ve dreamed of building your country retreat on some acres, with panoramic views
in all directions, then this may be the block you’ve been waiting for.
Measuring in at around 21 acres, this block already has a planning permit in place allowing a house to be built; however you’ll need to act quickly as the permit expires at the end of April, 2013.
The views from this land are breathtaking!Located approximately 23kms from Leongatha, this
block offers seclusion within accessible distance from town.
With the clock ticking on the planning permit, the
owner has slashed the price to $125,000, offering a bar-gain to whoever can get themselves organised to begin building.
Don’t miss this opportunity...call us today for more details.
On top of the world
HALLSTONLocation: 1625 Leongatha Yarragon Road Land size: approx. 21 acesPrice: $125,000 Agent: Alex Scott & Staff LeongathaContact: 5662 0922
“THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - PAGE 35
By Simone Short
AS the school year heads into its fi nal term, you could be mistaken for believ-ing the Koonwarra Village School has been educating chil-dren for years.
The children play to-gether in their free time almost as though they’ve created their own little fam-ily, and the classrooms are bright, fresh and busy with students working on their own individual projects and assignments.
In fact, the school is still in its fi rst year, having fi nally opened and taken in students in February, and has a different approach to education.
While students still re-ceive direction and support from their teachers, or men-tors as they prefer to call them, they are encouraged to take on tasks and chal-lenges at their own pace and with their own approach.
Of course, it is still school, and students must complete work on time.
School co-ordinator Fiona McKenzie said they don’t like to use grades at the school; rather the students work at “where they’re at”.
“Every student has their
own individual needs when it comes to learning,” she said.
“The children are given the opportunity to manage their own time and learn how to balance their com-mitments with their recre-ations; they’re essentially taught greater responsibility at a younger age.”
Contracts are used at the school, with children work-ing at one of four levels, ranging from working with their mentor 90 per cent of the time, to being fully in-dependent.
They also get the chance to choose ‘electives’ as part of the curriculum, which include cooking and gar-dening.
The students are more than happy to talk about their experience at school too.
Eleven-year-old Geordie Ball describes the school as “unique” compared to his previous schools.
“It suits me better; I feel more at home and more ac-cepted here - there’s not a lot to be unhappy about!” he said.
Fellow student Cass Maclean, also 11, said she enjoys having an indepen-dent contract, which helps structure the children’s learning.
“I manage my own time and I know I can do what-ever I like,” she said, adding
she likes to get all her work done fi rst, giving her free time at the end of the school week.
“At my old school I used to get bored when I fi nished my work, but now I can keep working on other things, no matter what ev-eryone else is doing. I think it’s better to be challenged; there’s always something to be learnt.”
Possibly one of the most interesting aspects of the school is the kitchen roster.
Students take it in turns during the week to prepare and cook morning snacks and lunches for their fellow students and mentors.
As the year has pro-gressed, it has become most of the students’ favourite activity.
“It’s fun to invent new food and come up with ideas with other people,” he said.
“It’s nice to know what you’re doing is benefi ting other people, and it feels good to help others.”
Mentor Sarah Maclean said the students have all settled in well with the dif-ferent learning structure at the school.
“They’ve now got the ability to set their own goals in an independent way and articulate what they need academically and socially,” she said.
“As the students get to
Room to learn at Koonwarra
manage their own work, no one ever comes to school wondering what they’re go-ing to do that day. They’re in control of their whole week and don’t turn up and get told what to do. I think it really empowers them.”
Ms McKenzie agrees the students have adjusted to the learning method well in less than a year.
“The changes in the kids have been sensational,” she said.
“They’ve got plenty of space to relax and they’ve been working together really well, both in the classroom and on the play-ground.”
Preparing lunch for all: Nash Jefferis, Cass Maclean, Tiffany-Blossom Matheson and Geordie Ball all enjoy cooking in the Koonwarra Village School’s kitchen.
Time to play: students at the Koonwarra Village School, including TahliaHampshire, Yasmin Tough and Erica Collins-Savva, enjoy their free time when they’ve fi nished their work.
trays before using them for potting up.
Both Mr Banks and Mr Dunn have now signed up for their Certifi cate 3 in Horticul-ture as part of working in the nursery.
The nursery offers a wide range of plants, all grown from seeds by the staff, and currently has around 5000 tubes ready to sell.
“We specialise in native and indigenous tube stock, covering coastal trees and shrubs, damp forests, native grasses, sedges and rushes, herbs, native bush tucker plants and a general line of Australian natives,” Ms Rob-inson said.
“Our staff have learnt skills including propagat-ing native and indigenous seeds and Australian native cuttings from mother plants,
and pricking out of seedlings and growing them in 50mm tubes ready for wholesale and retail.”
The nursery also on-sells tree guards and bamboo stakes, as well as selling kindling from Moonya Gar-dening Services.
For anyone wanting to recycle their old pots, you are welcome to drop them off in a collection bin out the front of the nursery, located at Moonya Community Services in Murray Street, Wonthaggi.
The nursery will offi -cially open with a small cel-ebration and sausage sizzle from 9am until 3pm tomor-row, Wednesday and trading hours for the nursery will be Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10am until 3pm, with everyone invited.
Moonya grows
Green thumbs: staff members, Steven Banks and Andy Dunn, and nursery manager Donna Robinson have grown around 5000 tubes from seeds at the Moonya Native Nursery, which will offi cially open tomorrow (Wednesday).
By Simone Short
WONTHAGGI Primary School students put their cre-ative talents on display at the unveiling of their completed mosaic wall recently.
Encompassing 90 individual mo-saic designs, the brightly coloured addition to the school’s playground was fi nally revealed after eight months of hard work.
The grades 4, 5 and 6 students were proud to present their efforts to their teachers, parents and peers,
celebrating with a performance of The Mosaic Wall Song written by the students themselves.
The younger year levels were not left out either, singing along with the song and working together on two panels for the wall.
Art teacher Pirili Chapman said the inspiration for the wall was a mo-saic artwork by Pamela Irving at the Patterson Train Station titled Moving Faces.
“We had done a mosaic piece years ago and the students had been nagging me to do another one,” she said, adding the fi nal product would
“last the test of time”. Music teacher Ruth Chambers
said students also write their own songs in groups.
“The project wasn’t just about art and music – there were a lot of lit-eracy links involved too,” she said.
“The students looked at pop mu-sic for infl uence and two of the girls even wrote their own keyboard parts for the song we chose.”
Acting principal Vin Hally was thrilled with the fi nal outcome and dubbed the project the ‘Great Wall of Wonthaggi’.
Great wall of WonthaggiMosaic wall fi nally complete: (from front) Katie, Jorja, Holly, Tori, Luke and Ella show off eight months worth of hard work by grades 4, 5 and 6 students at Wonthaggi Primary School.
MOONYA Com-munity Services are now offering peo-ple with disabilities a chance to learn horticultural skills with the opening of their nursery.
The Moonya Native Nursery has been in the works since January this year, beginning with a revamp of the previous Moonya Day Services nursery.
Qualifi ed horticultur-ist and nursery manager Donna Robinson said a great deal of work was required to get the nurs-ery prepared for the of-fi cial opening, which will be held tomorrow (Wednesday).
“Construction of hardening off areas was needed as the old struc-tures were unsafe to work in,” she said.
“One of our current staff members, Steven Banks, is our qualifi ed carpenter on-site who oversaw the construc-tion of our hardening off areas and now is keen to further his education in the horticultural fi eld.”
Fellow staff member, Andy Dunn, has taken on the job of sterilising all the plant tubes and
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ANGLICAN: Tuesday, October 9: 7pm St Andrew’s, Dumbalk / St David’s Meeniyan Fellowship.Wednesday, October 10: 11am St Peter’s Mid-Week HC.Sunday, October 14: 8am St Peter’s HC; 10am St Peter’s Exploring Worship; 10.30am Union Church, Tarwin Lower HC.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, Wonthaggi. Sunday, 9.30am Eucharist, 11am Family Service, Wednesday 10am Eucharist.Anglican Church of the Ascension: 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. Sunday Service 10am; Imagine Christmas Day Service 9am. Contact: Jeff Robertson, 0418 125 832 or Imagine Burwood 9888 7466.Korumburra Southern Hills A.O.G. - 4 Mine Rd, 10am: Sunday. Also Children’s Church and Creche. Contact: Pastor Rob Davey 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 enquiries contact 5664 5455.THE CHURCH AT ARCHIES CREEK: Every Sunday 11am Worship, 6pm Faith Forum; 1st Sunday of each month simultaneous service for singles to age 25. Tea/coffee and lunch provided. 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 Leongatha: 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: Sunday 9 am: Mass.KORUMBURRA’S AGLOW: First Monday every month at Korumburra Day Centre, Korumburra Hospital, Bridge St., Korumburra at 7.45pm. Inquiries phone 5657 2214.GIPPSLAND CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: meets at the Baromi Centre Mirboo North, Sunday 4-5pm Family Communion, 5-530pm refreshments, 5.30-6.15pm Bible Studies for adults, teens and children. Friday-Home Fellowships. More info: Bob Stevens 0400 403 765 or www.gippslandcf.org.auSALVATION ARMY LEONGATHA COMMUNITY CHURCH meets at 52 Anderson Street (South Gippsland Highway) - Sunday: Family Worship at 10am: Sagala - Tuesday, 4 - 5.30pm; mainly music, 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 Sunday at 11am for Family Worship. Kids' Club - every Tuesday at 4 pm, Women's Group - Wednesday at 1.30pm, and Playgroup - Friday 9.30am. Evening Ladies' Fellowship - First Monday each month and Youth Groups held monthly. All welcome. Please contact Lt. Robyn and Max Lean. Ph. 5672 1228.PRESBYTERIAN: Sunday Service 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 service at 10.30am. (10am daylight saving time), creche and Sunday School available. All Sunday evening services at 5pm. Fortnightly youth activities. Home Bible Fellowship groups. Contact 5662 2527. UNITING CHURCH: Leongatha: Sunday, October 14, 10am (HC). Mirboo North: 9.30am. Meeniyan: 10am. Wonthaggi: Sunday 9.30am, Family Service, all welcome. Inverloch: Sunday 11am: Korumburra: Sunday, 9.30am: Rev. Pastors Gavin and Sue Sharp, 5655 1997. Arawata: 11.30am 1st & 3rd Sundays. Kongwak: 11.30am 4th Sunday.B A P T I S T C H U R C H KORUMBURRA: 39 Mine Rd, Korumburra. 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 FELLOWSHIP: Sunday, 10am: Meeniyan Youth Club Hall. COMBINED CHURCHES WONTHAGGI / INVERLOCH: 4th Sunday each month at 7pm.SCOTS PIONEER CHURCH: Mardan South. Pleasant Sunday Afternoons on the last Sunday of each month at 2pm. See occasional 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 Times QUICK PUZZLE NO. 8346
ACROSS6. Face (11)7. Region (4)8. Flood (8)9. Show (6)
6. Find it a burden to be called? (4,3,4). 7. Her name is inthe last half (4). 8. Think your chum can improve the writ-ing in it (8). 9. Fancies mother’s covering for again (6).10. Reveal an antiquated attitude (6). 12. A wheel oil (6).15. “District,” as usual, is hard to clue (6). 17. Fear funnybusiness, you say again (8). 19. The cockney? He had hamand cheese (4). 20. Another variety that’s not very good(6,5).
DOWN1. Do a cart wheel first and fall (8). 2. How the wicket-keeper walks? (6). 3. Jabber and irriate one (6). 4. Holdout, after all (4). 5. Albert’s put in hard beds (6). 6. Pipe“The barrier’s starting to break!” (5). 11. By the usualmeans, grated cheese (8). 13. As opposed to only part ofthe poem? (6). 14. Pulls in to read out the rules (6). 15. Astone when lifted up has little creature under it (6). 16.Doesn’t go for restrictive garments (5). 18. Confront thefellow with one (4).
ARIES - March 21 - April 20An invitation to a prestige event may arrive this week. Travel is spotlighted, but plan for changing weather conditions. Conditions change in the friendship area also, thankfully for the better.TAURUS - April 21 - May 22Some diffi culties appear in the communications area. Try to ensure that your casual comments are not misinterpreted. An outstanding payment may arrive at last. Your partner may seem a little calmer this week.GEMINI - May 23 - June 21Look for a positive outlet for built up tensions. A workmate may be vague, don’t hesitate to ask for clarifi cation. A friend out of town may be in touch.CANCER - June 22 - July 22The moods of others are changing. A critical acquaintance becomes more understanding, while a shy friend is surprisingly assertive. Your positive infl uence has played a part in all this.LEO - July 23 - August 22Sorting out fi nancial papers may prove unexpectedly time consuming. Community programs may lead to new interests and a possible new friendship. Your relationship is much more clearly defi ned.VIRGO - August 23 - September 22If considering major household tasks, be sure to examine the broader picture carefully. Musical events may be accented on the weekend. New relationships are increasingly harmonious.LIBRA - September 23 - October 22This week will be like a tapestry - rich in detail and colour. Take time to stand back and study the patterns. On a more practical level, your fi nancial affairs may require attention.SCORPIO - October 23 - November 21Partnership endeavours are generally highlighted, provided each par-ticipant understands the individual responsibilities and the combined goal. You may be asking to sponsor a community or social event.SAGITTARIUS - November 22 - December 22Avoid taking shortcuts and watch a tendency to make excuses. Hard work and long hours pay off. Your family is supportive of your ideas. Pets are featured in the weekend activities.CAPRICORN - December 23 - January 20You are surprisingly idealistic this week, fi ghting for principles with vigour. Your wit is sharp and you meet someone who’s almost your equal. Family ties are tightened.AQUARIUS - January 21 - February 19Watch a tendency of promising too much to too many and try to give yourself some much deserved pampering. After a few false starts, a pet project is in full swing.PISCES - February 20 - March 20Your independent streak surfaces and as a result you make impor-tant strides in the professional environment. After the weekend the emphasis is on financial and possibly real estate dealings.BIRTHDAY THIS WEEKYou can be quite nostalgic, having strong ties to your family’s past, but you look to the future too and generally keep up with the chang-ing times. You tend to keep your anxieties bottled up. The months ahead spotlight ‘new directions’ and focus on travel and expansion in your profession.
Winners of our Phillip Island Nature Parks colouring contest were:Tahlia Hill, of Leongatha South and Rem Dal Pozzo of Koonwarra.Congratulations to everyone who entered. Entries were of a very high standard.
Here are some funny faces. Draw some ofyour own in the spaces.
CONTRARY CANDLE
If you asked a friend to blow acandle gently to make the flamepoint he wouldsay it was impossible - the flamewill always point in the direction
you blow. But if you hold a [pieceof card about 3” square, betweenyou and the flame and blow at it,the flame will flutter .(Be careful not to burn yourself)
towards himself,
towards you
“THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - PAGE 37
See Page 2 for Stadium 4 cinema session times.See Page 2 for Stadium 4 cinema session times.
Rob Sitch, Richard E Grant, Barry Humphries, Peter Rowsthorn.
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Fountain Lakes' foxy ladies,mother and daughter from suburban Fountain Lakes,turn more than just heads when they set off on a trip to Italy accompanied bytheir friend,Sharon and end up being the centre of their very own fairytale.Kath and Kim wind up in Papilloma, which appears to be a Spanish enclave onthe heel of the country. In Papilloma,King Javier rules over his unhappy people. Inthe King's castle, Sharon is attracted to the King's factotum, Alain while theKing's masked son, Julio, fancies Kim, and the King himself, thinking she'swealthy,makes a play for Kath.
There’ll be face painting and balloons for the kids, cup cakes (if you’re
early), a chance to win breakfast for two at Lucy May’s café,and
delicious Trampoline Gelato to try made from local milk. Plus Jonella
Farm will be back with new season asparagus. YUM!
SATURDAY, OCT 138AM-12.30PM
2nd Korumburra Scouts on the Community BBQ
Leongatha CWA cakes.
2nd Korumburra Scouts on the Community BBQ
Leongatha CWA cakes.
Other markets to visit:
FOSTER Oct 20, KOONWARRA (now VFMA accredited) Nov 3.
Thanks to your support and our
stallholders’ dedication, we’re turning two!
10am:
10.15am:
Meredith from Grow Lightly shares her spring gardening
tips.
Learn a sweet twist on olive oil when Julianne from Olive
Twist shares her Lemongrass Teacake recipe.
ILLUSTRATING the artist’s per-sonal story, A Journey on Wings is the latest exhibition at the Mush-room Crafts Gallery in Leongatha this month.
The artist, Kristy Wilson-Johnson, said the artworks included in the exhibit were completed over the past 18 months.
“My artwork is my escape, my release, my way of letting out all that is within me - somewhat like a journal,” she said.
“I have explored my different journal entries through dreamlike illustrations.”
Kristy said butterfl ies, which feature
heavily in her artwork, are symbolic of the changes that occur in our lives.
“They are also representational of the emotional changes that we go through in different situations: anger, guilt, sorrow, grief, excitement, freedom and happiness, through to the fi nal stage of spreading their colourful wings and taking fl ight,” she said.
The artist has also introduced new medi-ums into her latest artworks.
“While my earlier drawings focus on fi neliner and biro, I have recently dabbled in watercolours seriously for the fi rst time,” she said.
“I fi nd the combination of the detailed line work using the fi neliner and biro, and the free fl owing hues from the watercolours, really help to enhance the feeling in my art-works.
“I hope you enjoy the pictorial story of my journey as a butterfl y - now spreading my wings in fl ight.”
A Journey on Wings will be on display at Mushroom Crafts Gallery until the end of October.
More about Kristy and her artworks can be found on her Facebook page, titled A Journey on Wings.
‘RENAISSANCE Man’ is the obvious way to describe Sergiu Pober-eznic, one of the pre-senters at the forthcom-ing Coal Creek Literary Festival on Saturday, October 13.
The Romanian born clas-sical ballet dancer, choreogra-pher, writer, painter, composer and sculptor has written fi ve adult fi ction novels and also nine children’s books.
He is currently working on his sixth adult fi ction novel.
It’s been quite a journey for Sergiu. Born during what is described as a ‘typical com-munist dictatorship’ in 1967, his father defected to the west when Sergiu was just eight.
The last words of his father – also a dancer – to the young Sergiu were, “You have to take care of your mother now. You’re now the man of the house.”
Within three years Sergiu was able to join his father in London, and it wasn’t long before he was accepted into the prestigious Royal Ballet School.
He was exposed to a lot of artistic and well-read people, especially when a piece was written on him by a critic for
The Sunday Telegraph.“This pulled me into the
world of writers,” he said.Sergiu’s fi rst experience
of Australia was during a tour with the Royal Ballet in 1988 and decided after holidaying here he liked the place.
Once his dancing career was over, he moved to Sydney and then Melbourne.
“One day I suddenly thought, I’m going to write a short story about a recurring nightmare,” he said.
In just two weeks the ‘short story’ had become 75,000 words and the whole project was completed following six to eight weeks of editing.
While he has given talks on choreography in Sydney and in the UK, the Coal Creek Literary Festival will be the fi rst time he has spoken publicly about lit-erature and his writing.
You get the feeling the for-mative experience of growing up in a communist dictator-ship has never left Sergiu.
“Oppression forces people to look within themselves even more,” he said recently.
Listening to this most fas-cinating Renaissance Man’s presentation should be a real highlight of the Coal Creek Literary Festival.
Artworks a personal journal
Art changes: Kristy Wilson-Johnson fea-tures butterfl ies in her artworks to tell her personal story, as part of her exhibition at Mushroom Crafts Gallery this month.
Renaissance man at literary festival
PAGE 38 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012
• South Gippsland Dairy Expo, Korumburra• Bass Coast - South Gippsland Business Alliance
breakfast, Inverloch
On the gate: Robin McKinnon and Bernie Dilger from the Strzelecki Lions Club were just a part of a small team on the gates at the South Gippsland Dairy Expo.
Early starters: Josh Kilgour of Westernport Property Consul-tants chatted with Dean Thompson of Bendigo Bank at the Bass Coast-South Gippsland Business Alliance breakfast at Inverloch on Friday.
Shine your shoes sir: Scott Griffi ths from Australian Leather Seal was show-ing off the seal and offering a free shoe shine.
Fine jewellery: Noelle Walker was creating her handmade jewellery in the Ladies Pavilion at the Dairy Expo.
Event sponsors: Emma Earl and Jackie Laurie of the Inverloch Community Bank branch of Ben-digo Bank heard about Generation Y at the business breakfast held at Manna Gum @ Broadbeach, Inverloch.
Social time: Peter McDonald, and Darren and Wendy Jepsen enjoyed the business breakfast at Manna Gum @ Broadbeach, Inverloch. They all work at Bass Coast Storage.
Top dogs: Anthony and Jack Ewing check out some of Paul Macphail’s kelpies at the Dairy Expo. Anthony pur-chased a great working dog from Paul at last year’s expo.
“THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - PAGE 39
By Simone Short
IT has taken more than 16 million man hours and cost $5.7 billion, and now the Victorian Desalination Project is fi nally nearing completion.
Although controversial, a tour of the plant is nothing but incredible, with the enormity of the project absolutely mind blowing.
What is most interesting about the desal, however, are the statistics and here are a few to boggle the mind.
Around 10,500 workers have contributed to the plant in some way, with the number of workers at one time peaking at 4500 in July last year – almost like having the entire population of Korumburra working at the de-sal at the one time.
Local employment for the duration of the project was 25 per cent, giving job opportu-nities to over 2600 people across Gippsland.
During the past few years, those work-ers have poured 76,978m3 of concrete, and used 6000 tonnes of structural steel – that equates to the weight of over 1000 African elephants.
Now imagine laying out electrical cabling from Wonthaggi to Newcastle – you’d still have some left over compared to the 1200km used in construction of the project.
Although still waiting for an order from the State Government, the desal has the ca-pacity to produce 150GL of water each year (that’s 444ML every day) with the option to increase to 200GL in the future.
That means the desal plant has the abil-
ity to completely fill Lake Argyle, the largest lake in Australia, in less than 54 days.
The water transfer pipe from the site to the Cardinia Reservoir totals 84km in length, is 1.93m in diameter and is made up of 6787 pipes, with each weighing 13 tonnes each.
We might need a few thousand more el-ephants to compare that one.
On its way to Cardinia, the desalinated water has quite a journey, crossing 45 roads and 88 waterways.
The underground power supply isn’t something to pass over either; it totals 87km, making it the longest in the world.
Despite sitting on a 263 hectare site, the actual plant only takes up 38 hectares, leav-ing 225 hectares to the coastal park, which will be planted with 2.5 million indigenous trees and shrubs.
The native life doesn’t end there either – the desal’s green roof, which is the largest in the southern hemisphere, has space for 26,000m3 worth of vegetation, equating to 100,000 plants ranging across 25 species.
So apart from providing water to Mel-bourne, what has the desal done for us?
The project has invested over $400,000 into the community through its Community Partnership program and staff have delivered 170 presentations to community groups and schools. Staff have attended 22 local shows and events with an information trailer.
In total, the VDP has interacted with over 23,000 people, including 13,000 through the Community Information Centre.
Whew!
Statistics reveal desal scale
Taking in the view: head of operations at Theiss Degremont, Mike Jury, explains the different compartments that combine to complete the Victorian Desalination Plant.
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“IT’S amazing. You start off with a raw log and then you end up with that.”
Ian Gunn points to the Welsh stick chair he created while learning the centuries-old craft of wooden chair-making at Koonwarra last week.
The Tarwin Lower man has previously carved wooden sculptures, but the experience of making chairs with hand tools and techniques hailing from the 11th and 12th centu-ries was moving.
“It’s been a real privi-lege to be shown the old mastercraft and the art of this,” Ian said.
The nine day course at the Koonwarra Village School was hosted by Meg Viney and Bill Bell, and conducted by Howard Archbold, who travelled from the Hunter Valley in New South Wales.
“The fi rst week is more physical because there is so much prepping
work to do,” Bill said.The chairs were con-
structed without nails or screws, but largely wedg-es, and mortice and tenon joints.
Dry wood with peg-like ends – or tenons – was inserted into green mortices – or holes. As the mortice wood dries, it shrinks by about one mil-limetre, creating a strong bond.
Chair-makers split logs with an axe and mal-lets to obtain wood for the project. From there, spindles were turned on a pole lathe powered by the craftsperson’s foot push-ing on a wooden plate.
A rope stretched up-wards from the plate and was wrapped around the piece being turned. The rope then continued up to a sapling pole secured to the ground at the opposite end by star pickets.
As the woodturner pushed the plate down, the sapling was pulled down too. When released,
the sapling’s upwards movement spun the tim-ber for turning.
Other chair pieces were carved using a foot-operated vice and a draw knife, and seats were shaped with an adze, a pick-like tool.
Mountain ash timber was sourced from a sus-tainable forest at Jindi-vick. Seats were made from camphora laurel from the northern New South Wales coast where the tree is a declared nox-ious weed.
American ash was im-ported for bending arms and bows.
“In 200 years, the chair could still be passed on. Each chair is an indi-vidual, totally different,” Ian said.
The course will run again next year. To fi nd out more, contact Meg on 5664 2436.
South Gippsland Shire Coun-cil started its annual footpath renewal and extension works recently.
The program will result in better pe-destrian access in Mirboo North, Toora, Foster, Korumburra and Leongatha.
The work, which is expected to be completed by March and to cost about $591,000, will be carried out by con-tractors under council’s capital works program. The locations that will benefi t this fi nancial year are:
Challis said there may be some minor disruption to traffi c during construction and asked residents to take care in these vicinities, on both foot and in vehicles.
“Despite being a car oriented soci-ety, our pathways are well used by chil-dren walking to school and people of all ages walking for access, exercise and leisure,” he said.
“Footpaths are an integral part of the infrastructure for our community’s health and well being and we strive to keep them upgraded and relevant to their usage.”
Old ways turn logs into chairs
Better paths on the way
Taking shape: Irwin Lowe from Camperdown and sister-in-law Sarah Carrucan from Warrnambool splitlogs ahead of making chairs, watched by Howard Archbold.
So proud: Ian Gunn with his fi nished chair, ad-mired by grand-daughters Skye and Sascha Mould-en of Hawthorn East.
Back to basics: Bill Bell shapes wood using a shave horse.
“THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - PAGE 43
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CR Ross Smith’s grand-son Xavier Sammut sat through Bass Coast Shire Council’s brief-ing sessions late last Wednesday afternoon.
There were two brief-
ings; one about the coun-cil’s superannuation li-ability, the other about the Bass Coast Business Awards.
Xavier is 11 and accord-ing to his grandpa, asked some astute questions dur-
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Did he enjoy the meeting?
“It was a bit boring,” he confessed.
Like his grandpaFuture leader: Xavier Sammut may follow his grandpa Cr Ross Smith’s lead and devote some of his life to politics.
KORUMBURRA Secondary College students learnt about hygiene recently thanks to Burra Foods.
Year 7 science students worked with Burra Food lab techs Rod Mc-Call and Krystal Condoluci to gain a
great insight into where germs come from, how they spread and what stu-dents can do to eliminate them.
They also spoke about the differ-ence between ‘good bugs’ and ‘bad bugs’.
To demonstrate how bacteria is spread, students took part in activi-
ties involving a glitter bug, which uses a fl uorescent lotion and light to visually detect how germs can be shared.
Burra Foods ran the class as part of its partnership with the secondary college.
Beating bugs with Burra Foods
Spot the bacteria: Korumburra Secondary College student James Downie inspects the germs passed on to him from a classmate during a Year 7 science class held by Burra Foods.
Sharing bugs: Rod McCall from Burra Foods ex-plains to Year 7 students at Korumburra Secondary College that germs can be spread by hand-to-hand contact, demonstrated by Zac Allman and James Downie.
Keeping clean: Year 7 students Shannon Heylen, Amber Wilson-Cairns, Deedee Chiavaroli, Cailen Tollitt, Shane Richards and Lachie Harms learnt all about the importance of washing their hands and general hygiene thanks to Krystal Condoluci (far left) andRod McCall (far right) from Burra Foods.
IN conjunction with the Heart Founda-tion, Bass Coast Shire council is organis-ing free walking groups.
Council’s community strengthening manager Antoi-nette Mitchell said the groups are for all ages and paces.
“Walking on a regular basis is a great way to feel more energetic, reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke, have stronger bones and muscles, feel more confi dent, happy and relaxed,” Ms Mitchell said.
The Bass Coast walking program was launched last week at the Sea Salt Café in Cape Paterson.To fi nd a walking group near you, log on to www.heartfoundation.org.au or call 1300 362 787.
Walk for healthBASS Coast Commu-nity Health Service has received a new transporter bus.
The vehicle was gener-ously donated by San Remo District Financial Services.
The bus will help the health service achieve its on-going mission to provide the Bass Coast community with quality, responsive commu-nity health and primary care services.
The bus will assist the popular Planned Activity Group to deliver impor-
tant regular outings that encourage social inclusion and meaningful activities for older people with a dis-ability.
San Remo District Fi-nancial Services Ltd is the community-owned com-pany that operates the Com-munity Bank franchises with the Bendigo Bank which has three local branches: San Remo, Cowes, and Grant-ville and District. The com-pany is managed by a board of directors, with Terry Ash-enden as chairman. Board members are volunteers.
The fi nancial services re-turn 80 per cent of profi ts to the community as grants and 20 per cent to shareholders as dividends.
Up until June 2012, more than $600,000 has been giv-en back to the local commu-nity, with a further $128,000 to shareholders. Already, $130,000 has been put into the community foundation for next year’s grant pro-gram.
The bus is a proud sym-bol of the power of people supporting valued local services.
Bank backs bus
ANYONE interested in producing, pro-cessing, selling or eating food is invited to comment on the draft Gippsland Food Plan.
Put together by Region-al Development Australia Gippsland, the aim of the plan is to guide and enhance the region’s food system.
This includes improv-ing infrastructure, attracting investment and the support
of policy makers for the needs of Gippsland’s food system.
Input from local pro-ducers, processors and the broader community is being sought and a consultancy group engaged to interview “key stakeholders”, run workshops and conduct an on-line survey.
To fi nd out more about the draft plan, contact the chair of the plan’s steering committee on 5627 8491 or [email protected]
Have say
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Communities is a local community group working to encourage, promote and deliver clear messages to all communities throughout the South Gippsland and Bass Coast shires on the benefi ts of physical activity.
Regular rides to work and around the local Inver-loch-Wonthaggi ‘loop’ has prepared Inverloch Primary School physical educa-tion teacher Jesse Boyd to compete in the road cycling event at the Victorian Teach-ers Games in Ballarat.
“Riding to work is a great way to start the day and a good opportunity at the end of each day to un-wind before arriving home,” Jesse said.
He has been a keen rider since his early years, riding to and from school and on his paper round.
Jesse sees riding as a
good way to reduce trans-port costs, relieve road pres-sures and to model behav-iour to all his students.
“I love being active. I have had terrifi c role mod-els in my life, and hopefully I can pass on the right mes-sage to others,” he said.
Nick Edwards mixes work with play daily.
He rides to and from work most days and he uses his lunchbreak to get out on the road and pedal around the streets of Leongatha and surrounds.
“Riding at lunch-time works for me. It breaks my day up and I have found heaps of new rides around the town just from getting out and enjoying it,” he said.
As a planning offi cer at South Gippsland Shire Council, Nick is a busy man with little time to dedicate
to his passion for riding. “I make sure I get away
each day and take the time from the desk to get some exercise,” he said.
“I am using the training over lunch-time as prepa-ration for the upcoming Around the Bay in a Day.”
Getting on your bike not only gets you active but as Nick explains can have many more benefi ts.
“It’s a simple travel op-tion without having to wor-ry too much about where I park, fuel or any of that,” he said.
“The hardest bit is de-ciding to get on the bike. Once you’re on, it is great fun and the best way to travel.”
For more information on Ride2Work Day go online at www.bicyclenet-work.com.au
Ride your bike to workSOUTH Coast Ac-tive Communities is encouraging people to pump up their bike tyres and ride to work on Wednesday, Oc-tober 17 as part of national Ride2Work Day.
The Ride2Work Pro-gram is a nationally run, year round program that actively encourages Austra-lians thinking of commuting by bicycle to give it a try.
Existing riders can share their knowledge and expe-rience with peers, as well as support and encourage those starting out.
The focus of the program is on people’s main, regular transport requirement. For many people living within 5-10 km, commuting by bi-cycle is a viable option.
With South Gippsland’s rail trails and scenic back-drop, riding to work is not only great for your health, but a super way to connect with your community.
Active communities member Gene Parini be-lieves spring is the perfect time to reignite the desire to cycle.
“It’s been a long win-ter and Ride 2Work day is a great way to re-energise those whose cycling habits have been deterred by the colder months,” he said.
“It is also a great time to plan for a healthier life-style.”
For Gene, a safe ride is a good ride.
“Make sure you check your bike for any problems, don a helmet, wear high vi-sual clothing and observe your local road rules,” he said.
South Coast Active
Lunch-time escape: Nick Edwards of South Gippsland Shire Council sets off on his bike.
Riding high: Jesse Boyd en-joys some time with dad Col Boyd on the bike.
By Jane Ross
HAROLD Ball is in his mid-70s but looks at least a decade younger.
He’s also in good health, but it wasn’t always so.
A problem that was taking the sight from his right eye, a spur on his hip that was causing great pain and a diagnosis of pros-tate cancer have all, he says, been healed by prayer. And he’s seen it work for others.
Harold has no idea why God has chosen to heal him, but he speculates it was a sign for him and another member of the Meeni-yan Christian Fellowship to set up a healing room. This will open for the fi rst time this Friday evening from 5 and will continue ev-ery Friday evening.
Harold said anyone can come and they can be assured of confi dentiality.
“I’ve been really blessed,” he said.His story began two years ago. “I was having a lot of trouble with my
right eye and I was sent to see a specialist at Wonthaggi. He did a scan and the back of the eye was all upset. He wanted to oper-ate on it but there was a lot of risk attached to it.”
The operation would have left him $5470 out of pocket. He decided not to have it because he was getting used to his bad eye anyway.
Then he developed a problem with his right leg.
“It would just give way underneath me. My son called me Garfi eld because I’d just go down.”
He was admitted to hospital where tests showed he had a spur on the bone where it pivots into the hip joint. His specialist’s appointment was months away and he was given pain killers to help him through.
Meanwhile, his brother-in-law was diag-nosed with prostate cancer, a disease from which Harold’s father-in-law had died.
Harold’s wife Judy was worried about the family history and urged him to have a
blood test. It showed a high prostate specifi cantigen (PSA) count.
“I went home and started praying. Avoice spoke to me and said if I heal younow, no one will know you’ve had prostatecancer; when you are diagnosed then I willheal you.”
Harold told his wife, but when a biopsywas positive, she wanted him to have theprostate surgery.
Instead, he asked for prayer from hischurch. In December last year, he sat in themiddle of a circle of church members whostarted praying for him.
“I got that hot, I felt as if I was cooking.When I got up I fell on the fl oor, I was thatweak.”
About 10 minutes after returning to hischair, he began to realise he could see betterout of his almost-blind right eye.
“The pain in my hip had gone and hasn’tbeen back since.”
Harold and a friend at his congregationhad been talking for some time about settingup a healing room in Meeniyan. They hadbeen asking themselves the question: doesGod still heal?
They visited a healing room at Moe,where Harold asked for prayer for his pros-tate cancer. Three people began to pray forhim when Harold heard the voice again. Itsaid, “Why are you asking for prayer forprostate cancer? I healed it last Sunday.”
He told those present God had spoken tohim and he was healed.
A subsequent blood test showed his PSAreading was a lot lower.
“I avoided an eye operation, a hip opera-tion and a prostate operation.”
Others in his family are sceptical, butHarold holds the view that God heals andalthough he calls himself a Christian, hesaid you don’t have to be a believer for thehealing to work.
“I believe God wants to heal everyonebut why that doesn’t happen, we don’tknow.”
Believer: Harold Ball says prayer has healed him, saving him from eye, hip and prostate surgery.
Harold healed by prayer
BASS Coast Shire Council has been given a glowing report by its audit committee.
The body comprises the mayor, two sitting councillors and three independent members.
Lodging an annual report with coun-cillors at their meeting recently, inde-pendent chair Rob Goddard said the committee was “very satisfi ed” with the budget, planning and fi nancial man-agement processes operating within council.
“The committee also considers the internal controls and procurement pro-cesses to be sound. The committee notes that council is travelling well against all prescribed fi nancial benchmarks.”
Further, the committee is “very pleased” with progress in implementing a new risk management framework.
“Financial sustainability remains a recurring theme at committee meetings.
“While most of the pressures con-fronting council are external and beyond much infl uence, there are always oppor-
tunities for improving productivity.“The new business planning arrange-
ments have already thrown up savings and more could be expected over time.”
Mr Goddard reported the committee agreed regular monitoring of council’s compliance against legislation should be undertaken. Compliance with the Local Government Act has been in place for some time, but compliance with other legislation is not.
The annual report stated the commit-tee was “very satisfi ed” with the budget, planning and fi nancial management pro-cesses of council and considered internal controls, asset management and procure-ment processes to be sound.
The committee also noted council is “travelling well against all prescribed fi -nancial benchmarks”.
Development of a new internal audit plan, continued close monitoring of the risk management framework, quality of reporting and accountability and an on-going review of issues associated with fi nancial sustainability will be the focus for 2012-13.
By Jane Ross
NEWHAVEN College has been granted a planning per-mit application to build a mid-dle school on its site on the Phillip Island Tourist Road.
College principal Gea Lovell said she was delighted the permit has gone through but could reveal no detail at this stage.
Most Bass Coast Shire councillors were pleased too.
Discussing the planning applica-tion at their meeting recently, Cr Jane Daly described the development as “fantastic”.
“When I fi rst came to the island, Newhaven College didn’t exist. I’m so pleased for the island, I think this is marvellous.”
Cr Peter Paul, himself a school
principal, said the application was “a well thought out proposal that ticked the right boxes”.
But Cr Phil Wright said he was worried about traffi c on the tourist road.
He said the school generated employment.
“It brings new people and occa-sionally we get a footballer out of it.”
However, adding to the site which already houses the school’s Year 9 centre will bring more buses and traffi c.
“I can’t vote on anything that will add to our problem of traffi c. It’s the elephant in the room and no one will ever tackle it.”
Cr Ross Smith said the site was where the whole school would even-tually be established, and he didn’t think the school and students should be denied the new building.
“This is a necessity.”
Cr Gareth Barlow took Cr Wright to task over his statement council had “done nothing” about the Tourist Road.
“Our staff raise the issues with Vi-cRoads whenever they can. Council-lors have met with VicRoads and the minister and we continue to lobby for safety and improvements.
“This part of the road has not been identifi ed as particularly dangerous. It is absurd to say we are doing nothing. We have been ‘doing something’ for years and have been ignored.”
Planning staff told councillors the college’s application was for a build-ing, associated car-park, play areas and pedestrian links. The building will be north-east of the existing ju-nior school. The middle school will cover 2550 square metres of fl oor area, embracing 12 classrooms, and student and teacher facilities. It will house around 250 students.
College expansion approvedFinances in top order
“THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - PAGE 45
30 years ago, October 12, 1982
WOORAYL Shire Council will cut park-ing time in McCartin and Bair streets from two hours to one. The move followed a meeting with the shire’s by-laws offi -cer and chamber of com-merce representatives.
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ELDERLY people from around Leongatha have been denied their one day a week outing by the State Government. Once a week, a volunteer driver and a volunteer as-sistant have picked up 17 elderly citizens from the Dumbalk Post Offi ce and driven to the Senior Citi-zens Club for the after-noon. The funding, which runs to $1250 a year, is to be scrapped.
10 years ago, October 8, 2002
SOUTH Gippsland Shire has taken over con-trol of the Foster Swim-ming Pool amidst claims of cost-shifting by the State Government. The move also followed threats of mass resigna-tions by volunteers serv-ing on the pool commit-tee should council not accept management.
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CHRISTMAS street decorations throughout the shire are threatened by new public liability insurance requirements. Power company TXU is advising community groups that stringent new standards must be met before Christmas decora-tions can be hung from TXU poles.
5 years ago, October 9, 2007
THE popular kiosk at the seaside end of Abbott Street, Inverloch will have to stay as it is. The owners have been refused permission to redevelop the site. They had wanted to defer an application before Bass Coast Shire Council last Wednesday, but councillors couldn’t see the point of that, giv-en they were against it.
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LEONGATHA goes off stage four water restric-tions from midnight next Thursday, October 18. In a move he said earlier he would not make, South Gippsland Water Corpo-ration managing director Steve Evans announced the town would drop to stage two restrictions.
1 year ago, October 11, 2011
SOUTH Gippsland Shire Council is facing a legal stoush over disputes surrounding transfer sta-tions and the expansion of the Koonwarra landfi ll. Council terminated one of two contracts held by Gippsland Waste Services - relating to the operation of transfer stations - on Friday, after the company suspend-ed services in protest of the protracted disputes.
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POOWONG residents have done all they can to protect their pool after lodg-ing a community submis-sion last week. About 80 people in total attended two town meetings last Monday to offer input into the com-munity submission to be given to South Gippsland Shire Council.
From pages past ago,
8, 20025 years ago,
October 9, 20071 year ago,
October 11, 2011
Historical snippets from The Star
Leongatha Red CrossRED Cross emergency services co-ordinator Deidre Grainger addressed the September meet-ing of Leongatha Red Cross.
She spoke of her work with emergen-cy services in preparation for any incident that may occur in the future. In case of an emergency such as bushfi re, she will contact team leaders from each unit to or-ganise help.
A report on the recent conference was given and members were thanked for their assistance with morning tea and lunch. The stall was also well supported.
We were also advised of the regional lunch to be held at Leongatha RSL on October 30 which will be the last hurrah
for the region so all members are urged to attend.
Arrangements were made for the de-livery of Meals on Wheels and the selling of raffl e tickets.
Peter Kerr has kindly donated a wheel-barrow which will be fi lled with various items for gardening including a rose do-nated by Gatha Gardens Nursery. This will be the raffl e which will be drawn at the rose show in November.
Members will be selling tickets at the supermarkets during October. It will be a lovely prize to win.
The next meeting will be held on Oc-tober 25 at the Leongatha RSL at 10.30 am. All welcome.
CLANCEE Geoffrey Salmon is the fi rst child for Nicole and Caine Salmon of Leongatha. He was born at South Gippsland Hospital in Foster on Sep-tember 18.
NATHAN Jeffrey Hunt was born at Leongatha Memorial Hospital on September 27. He is the third child for Andrew and Penny Hunt of Leon-gatha South, and a brother to Joshua and Sienna.
ARCHER Finn Morén was born at Bass Coast Regional Health on September 21 to Tenille and James Morén of Inverloch.
NASH Maddox Gray was born at Bass Coast Regional Health on August 21 to Claire Ferguson and Patrick Gray of Inverloch. Nash is a brother for Max, 3, and Seth, 1.
LILY Grace Treacy was born at Leongatha Memorial Hospital on August 31. She is the fourth child of Tamara and Wayne Treacy of Leongatha, and a sister for Ryan, 7, Amy, 5, and Aidan, 3.
SHEM Sullivan Hickey is the fourth child for Ash and Michelle Hickey of Leongatha. Shem was born at Leongatha Memorial Hospital on August 30, and is a brother to Isla, 10, Levi, 9, and Sari, 4.
CONNOR Patrick Martin was born at WesleyPrivate Hospital in Brisbane on August 2. He is the fi rst child for Sean and Annette Martin. Annette, nee Tomlin, was formerly of Leongatha.
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Canada opens Mitchell’s eyes By Sarah Vella
WHEN Mitchell Clark decided to take a gap year before starting his university studies, the Nerrena youngster knew he wanted to combine his desire to travel with his interest in dairying.
“I decided last year when I was studying Year 12 at Leongatha Secondary College that I wanted to take a gap year before I went to university,” the 19-year-old said.
“I was looking for a break and was keen to trav-el and also work at the same time. I am very interested in the dairy industry, in partic-ular stud Holstein cows.”
After working at a dairy farm at Leongatha South for four months earlier this year, Mitchell headed to Canada in July and will re-turn in mid-November.
He is working on a 700 acre dairy farm at Stratford,
Ontario, called Athlone Farms, owned by Brian and Wendy Anderson, and their family.
“My work on the farm can vary from day to day; I do regular milking sessions and clean the barns. I have been working on the crops, raking and tedding, and also carting bales,” he said.
“I have been taught to drive a bobcat. This is a necessary piece of machin-ery on Canadian farms, as it is used regularly to clean out the barns and to push the feed in for the cows.”
Jim Conroy from Semex Australia assisted Mitchell in fi nding his position at Athlone Farms, where he has noticed a lot of differ-ences in their husbandry and farming practices.
“Farming in Canada is very different to what I am used to at home. The cli-mate is a major factor for this; all cows are kept in barns year round and calves are reared in individual hutches,” he said.
“The cows are milked every 12 hours; in the morn-ing at 4am and again in the
afternoon at 4pm. “All cows’ feet are
trimmed on a regular basis.“Because all of their ani-
mals are housed inside, the feed has to be taken to them manually. I have noticed this creates extra work, and therefore more staff are employed to work on dairy farms over here.”
Mitchell has discovered Canadian farmers have to supply a certain amount of milk each month, and in order to meet this cows are calved down every month.
“Cow hygiene is very important in Canada and strategies to maintain hy-giene are implemented in the dairy morning and night,” he said.
“The milking parlour is fully computerised. The milk meters indicate the litres each cow produces morning and night.
“The meters also indi-cate if the cow’s produc-tion is up or down from one milking to the next.
“A bio-gas digester is currently being built at Athlone Farms, which will burn methane and added bio-waste. This will then generate electrical energy to be supplied to a local power company.”
Mitchell said he has been welcomed into the Anderson family and he has met many friendly people.
“I am enjoying learning to farm the Canadian way. It has been a great escape from a wet and cold South Gippsland winter,” he said.
It hasn’t all been farming and cattle during the time he has spent overseas so far.
“I have been tubing on Lake Huron, and attended a Major League Baseball game between the Toronto
Blue Jays and the Tampa Bay Rays at the Rogers Centre in Toronto,” Mitch-ell said.
“I have been to an ice hockey match, visited a number of dairy cattle shows and fairs, and went to the Ebyholme Holsteins dispersal sale where the top priced cow made $31,000 and the herd averaged $4550.”
Last month, he went to Wisconsin in the United States of America to work for Semex at the World Dairy Expo and then in November, will work at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto.
In 2013, he will start at Latrobe University to study a Bachelor of Agricultural Science, and aims to work in dairying.
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THERE were approximately 150 trade, 300 grown steers and bullocks, 500 cows and 40 bulls penned.
The usual buying group was present for a mixed qual-ity yarding.
The trade run was once again mostly yearling grass cattle, with the mainly good quality 500kg to 600kg steers being 5c/kg stronger, while the plainer heifers sold to mixed demand.
An increased number of well fi nished heavy weight bullocks sold to good competition, the best being fi rm to a few cents stronger.
The cow run was mostly dairy lines in plain condi-tion which sold to good demand to be fi rm to a few cents stronger, as were the small number of good condition heavy weight beef cows.
Heavy bulls sold to a dearer trend. Yearling grass steers 500kg to 600kg sold from 204c
to 210c/kg. The best yearling grass heifers made from 174c to 209c, with the plainer lines starting mostly from 135c/kg.
The four score bullocks sold from 184c to 204c, with the secondary three score lines from 176c to 188c/kg. Heavy weight bullocks made between 180c and 191c/kg.
Friesian and crossbred steers sold mostly from 160c to 180c/kg. The best grown empty heifers made from 145c to 178c/kg.
Plain condition one score dairy cows sold from 93c to 125c/kg. Better condition two and three score dairy cows made from 125c to 142c/kg.
Plain condition one and two score and lightweight beef cows sold between 118c and 137c/kg. Good condi-tion three and four score heavy weight beef cows made from 138c to 150c/kg.
Heavy weight bulls sold from 138c to 167c/kg. This week’s sale draw for October 10 is: 1.
Rodwells, 2. Landmark, 3. Elders, 4. David Phelan, 5. SEJ, 6. Alex Scott.
Wednesday, October 3 BULLOCKS8 G.L. & J.M. Wallis, Leongatha South 553kg 209.6 $115910 Nicholl Primary Production, Nilma Nth 605kg 208.0 $125815 D.V. & S.A. Logan, Yinnar 592kg 208.0 $123211 D.P. & C.M. Brown, Mirboo North 579kg 206.6 $11976 Nuntin Pines, Stratford 571kg 204.0 $116612 P. Urbino & R. Bishop, Ivanhoe 657kg 198.6 $1304STEERS1 J. Dean, Rosedale 395kg 220.6 $8711 B. Raynor, Korumburra 290kg 212.6 $61619 E.L. & A.M. Deppeler, Yinnar South 534kg 210.0 $11211 G.T. & C. Cummaudo, Mirboo North 325kg 198.6 $6451 Nicholl Primary Production, Nilma Nth 540kg 197.6 $10673 Interfl ow Petroleum, Hazelwood 533kg 196.0 $1045COWS1 M. Dobson, Trafalgar South 575kg 150.0 $8621 C.W. & G. White, Toora 625kg 149.2 $9321 D.J. & R.E. Harrison, Meeniyan 710kg 148.0 $105011 D. Macleod, Welshpool 560kg 148.0 $8295 J. Myer, Carrajung 556kg 148.0 $8221 J.L. & K.F. Clark, Outtrim 455kg 147.6 $671HEIFERS1 G.T. & C. Cummaudo, Mirboo North 315kg 208.6 $6572 B. Raynor, Korumburra 262kg 205.6 $5391 J. Dean, Rosedale 305kg 190.0 $5795 Melaleuca Pastoral, Meeniyan 429kg 186.2 $79811 P. & E.V. Hanrahan, Stony Creek 459kg 182.0 $8368 N.G., D.A. & J.D. Buckland, Fish Creek 513kg 177.6 $912BULLS1 D.L. Brain & B.J. Thorson, Poowong 810kg 166.6 $13491 P. Pangrazzi, Wonga Wonga 605kg 163.6 $9891 G.L. & J.M. Wallis, Kongwak 860kg 162.0 $13931 G.G. & C.T. Chessari, Kongwak 790kg 162.0 $12791 K.D. & L.J. Opray, Hedley 900kg 162.0 $14581 Vuillerman Past Co. Yanakie 640kg 160.6 $1027
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Holiday fun: Kaelin, Ella and Kyle with dad, Adrian Littlejohn, from Leongatha enjoyed their school holiday trip to the saleyards at Koonwarra on Thursday.
Sale time: Hayley and Madison Cox from Somer-ville were visiting with their grandpa, Neil Cox from Yarram. Mr Cox was looking to add a few head to his herd from the store sale held at Koon-warra last Thursday.
Thurs October 4Total yarding: 639.Steers: W.F. & A.R.
Walker, Leongatha 1 x $975; H. & J. Matheson, Woolamai, 1 x $925; R.D. Knowles, Poowong North, 1 x $870; R.D. & D.J. Col-lins, Waratah North, 2 x $800; M. & A. Broadbent, Bridgewater, 5 x $680; R. & C. Broadbent, Bridge-water, 7 x $680.
Heifers: B. & L. Jef-feris, Korumburra, 11 x $705; Mabcon P/L, Bass, 1 x $525; R.J. MacKen-zie, Leongatha, 10 x $506; Bangala Deer P/L, Ne-whaven, 14 x $500; H. & J. Matheson, Woolamai, 1 x $480; A. Marshall, Mir-boo North, 12 x $405.
Cows: Mabcon P/L, Bass, 3 x $810; M.F. Wrench, Outtrim, 2 x $500; Meadowview Prop-erties P/L, Boorool, 5 x $430.
Cows and calves: A. & Y. Morrison, Inverloch, 2 x $1160; R.D. Knowles, Poowong North, 1 x $1070; S. & C. Jones, Ker-not, 1 x $975; G.F. & R.J. Scanlon, Leongatha, 6 x $920; Mabcon P/L, Bass, 1 x $860; M.J. Sawyer & Son, Sale, 1 x $830.
Flicking through the newspaper, he found a productthat sounded like what he was after.It was Line-X, a protective coating advertised to‘provide an impenetrable barrier between valuableequipment and nature’s harshest elements’.With three troughs needing similar treatment,Gordon picked up the phone and, without evenasking for a quote, had Line-X dealer DickPendlebury at his addressshortly after.Ten months on andthe product has worked like adream, just like Dick promised.“I can guarantee it will work fora minimum of 10 years,” hesaid. The coating is made frompolyurethane elastomers, whichprovide a flexible and tenaciousbond, and can stretch to covercracks, without ripping ortearing. It’s suitable for use inwater containers, given that itcontains no solvents. In fact, theLine-X is used quite regularly inthe food industry.Line-X isn’t just used forconcrete tanks or troughs. It’s also been used towatertight decks, homes, steel, timber and justabout anything that leaks. But Gordon’s biggest
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surprise was the time ittook, or rather lackthereof, to coat thecracks and then seal thewhole inside of his tank.
“We took the water out, he sprayed the cracks andthen the whole thing,and it was ready to be filled thenext day,” he said.With a special gun and generator
to heat the product to around 160 degreesfahrenheit, the liquid polish is dry in just fiveseconds. The trough was filled up the next day andGordon has not had a worry since.“I was at the pointof not using it a while ago.Now I reckon I’ll get about20 more years out of it,”he said.“I used to turn the tap on and off, and when I had iton it I would just be losing too much.”Gordon will now be chasing up Dick to coat his other
Fish Creek farmer Gordon Thomson’s water trough had just about had it. It was leaking almost allaround, with cracks about to burst open at any minute. Granted, it had lasted 20 years already.Replacing the current trough at a similar size was out of the question due to the cost, so he wasconsidering downsizing.
Line-X isn’t justused for concretetanks or troughs.It’s also been used
CHRIS and Leonie Daley may have been the only South Devon exhibitors at the Royal Melbourne Show this year, but the effort was worth their while.
They not only won grand champion South Devon bull at this year’s Royal Melbourne Show, but exhibiting is the per-fect advertisement for the breed and their stud.
“We have made some lovely friends at shows too. It is a very social occasion,” Leonie said.
The couple own The Bend South Devon Stud at Mirboo North, and have been breeding and showing South Devons for around 13 years.
Since 1999, they have not missed a Royal Melbourne Show.
This year, Chris said prepa-ration of three cattle destined for the show was a little harder than it has been previously.
“If an animal is going to its fi rst show, we usually spend at least three months feeding them up and training them,” he said.
“It has been really hard this year because it was so wet. It was a struggle to get the team
ready and as such, our team was not as good as we usually produce.”
The Daleys took three cattle to the show this year: a three-year-old bull, a 12-month-old heifer and a 15-month-old bull.
“It was the heifer’s fi rst show and she performed re-ally well. They really put their trust in you when they are in a strange environment because you are the only familiar thing,” Leonie said.
“You really form a bond with them when down there.”
They also had three steers represented in the carcase com-petition, prepared and shown by Hayden King from Garfi eld.
MAX Jelbart will join the board of dairy co-operative Murray Goulburn.
The Leongatha South farmer was elected by suppliers along with sitting Gippsland directors, chairman Philip Tracy of Yanakie and Bill Bodman of Won Wron.
Mr Jelbart will offi cially join the board at MG’s annual general meeting on November 28.
He has a wealth of experience behind him, including being a central council-lor for United Dairy Farmers for seven years, board member of Australian Dairy Farmers for fi ve years, board member of Marcus Oldham College for 15 years and board advisor for Warakirri Dairies.
Mr Jelbart is also a Nuffi eld Farming Scholar and outside farming, has experi-ence in mining, construction, hospitality and real estate.
“Murray Goulburn needs farmer di-rectors with a signifi cant skills base both on and off farm, to ensure we can both question and work with management, to ensure the strongest milk price and re-turn to shareholders both now and into the future,” he told The Star recently.
South Devon success at royal show
Hunk of beef: Leonie and Chris Daley, with their bull that took out grand champion South Devon bull at this year’s Royal Melbourne Show.
All offi cial: Max Jelbart of Leon-gatha South will join the Murray Goulburn board.
Jelbart elected
This year, The Bend was unfortunately the only South Devon Stud competing in their breed ring; however they were up against more than 30 others in the inter-breed classes.
“Although we didn’t have much success this year in the inter-breed ring, we did very well in the South Devon Ring,” Leonie said.
“We will be back next year with a better team. We have had some really great successes over the years.”
The Daleys also show their cattle in shows around the Gippsland area, including Maf-
fra, Sale, Yarram and Bass Coast, as well as Lang Lang, Warragul and Foster.
“We also really enjoy the National Beef Show, held in May in Bendigo. It wasn’t run this year, but will be back in 2013.”
The Daleys moved from the Mornington Peninsula to Mirboo North in 2002, from 40 acres to 250 acres. They run around 160 head of cattle, in-cluding 80 breeding cows.
When looking for a cattle breed to become involved with, Leonie and Chris came across the South Devon, with its docile tem-
perament, excellent growth rate and strong maternal instincts.
“We bought our fi rst cattle off a show breeder in 1998 and attended our fi rst Royal Melbourne Show in 1999. We enjoyed it so much, we haven’t missed one since,” Leonie said.
The South Devon originated in England and is the largest English breed of cattle.
“We have concentrated on moderating their frame size and improving their thickness. They produce a fi ne textured, sweet beef which is very easy eating.”
Past players, committee and the community are invited to an
Informal lunch at the Meeniyan Hotel on Sunday, October 21 at 12.30pm
to gather information for their upcoming 50 year reunion, to take place in October 2013.
Any queries phone Kim Byrnes 0427 346 048 or Darlene Jones 0417 640 035
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An Application for Planning Permit has been made which may affect youThe land affected by the application is located at 103 Whitelaw Street, Meeniyan VIC 3956 being L1 TP229887L Parish of Nerrena.
The application is for a permit for a: Licensed Restaurant, retail venue, advertising sign, waiver of car/bicycle parking.
The applicant for the permit is: J. Philpotts.
The Application Reference Number is: 2012/183.
You may look at the Application and any documents that support the Application at the office of the Responsible Authority. This can be done during office hours (8.30am to 5pm) and is free of charge.
The Responsible Authority is:South Gippsland Shire CouncilPrivate Bag 49 Smith Street, Leongatha 3953
Any person who may be affected by the granting of the permit may object or make other submissions to the Responsible Authority. An objection must be sent to the Responsible Authority in writing, include the reasons for the objection and state how the objector would be affected. If you object, the Responsible Authority will tell you its decision.
The Responsible Authority will not decide on the Application until 14 days after the date of this Notice.
Dated: 9.10.2012.
* Please be aware that copies of submissions received by Council may be made available for inspection to any person for the purpose of consideration as part of the planning process.
FORM BSOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE COUNCILNOTICE OF AN APPLICATION FOR A PLANNING PERMIT
NOTICE OFANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGNotice of Annual General Meeting to be conducted on Friday 16th November 2012 at the Centre, commencing at 11am. A light lunch will be served following the meeting.
BUSINESS:1. To confirm minutes of the previous Annual
General Meeting.2. To receive the reports of the committee and the
financial statement.To elect three (3) members of the committee in place of retiring members. The retiring members for 2012 are: Mr Don Kennedy, Mrs Shirley West, Mr Colin West. In addition to the retiring members, there are two vacancies on the committee.
3. To consider the Notice of Motion that the revised constitution of the Tarwin Lower and District Community Health Centre be adopted at the Annual General Meeting of the 16th November 2012
4. To consider any resolutions delivered within at least seven days' notice.
A copy of the revised Constitution is available at the Centre for perusal from the 12th of October 2012.
Nominations for the Committee close on Friday, 26th October 2012, a current satisfactory police record check is required when accepting positions for the Committee of Management. Committee Nomination, Centre Membership and Police Check forms (on-line) can be obtained from, and completed, at the Tarwin Lower Community Health Centre.
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We are currently seeking applications for people who have previous experience in the meat industry as a
KNIFE HANDOur employment conditions are ongoing casual roles supplied and laundered uniform. You must pass a phys-ical, medical and drug test prior to commencement.
The applicant will need to be reliable and punctual, also have the ability to work as part of a team. Must be able to follow Hygienic and Safe working procedures and ideally be vaccinated for Q Fever.
We are currently looking for outgoing bubbly people to help build an exciting new cafe / Antique Sales business in Meeniyan.
Qualifi cations:• Food Handlers 1 & 2• Responsible Alcohol Serving• Management skills (not essential)• Computer skills• A knowledge of antiques an advantage but not
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Please contact the manager on 0408 650 874 or resumés to:
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South GippslandShire Council
Business Liaison Offi cer• Temporary full time until 30 June 2013• $28.60 per hourWe are seeking a suitably experienced and enthusiastic Business Liaison Offi cer to join our Strategic Planning and Development Team. You will be responsible for assisting with a range of activities to build sustainable linkages within the business community, including coordinating workshops and networking functions. You will also be required to work on a range of projects to encourage people to live, work and invest in South Gippsland.You will have a Certifi cate in Business or equivalent, relevant experience in project management and administration and excellent communication skills.We welcome direct discussion with Ken Fraser, Economic Development Coordinator on (03) 5662 9200, regarding this role.All applicants must submit an Employment Application form and address the selection criteria outlined in the position description, by 5pm Wednesday 17 October 2012.Further information and a position description is available from our website.
www.southgippsland.vic.gov.au
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BCCHS seeks expressions of interest for the full time employment of an enthusiastic person to work with youth and provide comprehensive assessment, counselling and case summaries of clients in the justice system. Drug & Alcohol working experience highly desirable. Remuneration for this position as per relevant professional qualifi cations.Enquiries to Rae Davies, Manager Client Services. All applicants must address the Key Selection Criteria contained in the position description and include the application for employment form. These are available from our website: www.bcchs.com.au or by calling reception on 5671 9200.
Applications close on Monday 15 October 2012 at 5pm and should be addressed to:HR AdministratorBass Coast Community Health Service1 Back Beach Road, San Remo VIC 3925or by email to: [email protected]
ASSISTANT MILKER and general farm worker, Kongwak, 26 swing-over herringbone shed. Full time position (every 2nd weekend off). Contact: 5657-4229.
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THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of Contributors to Woorayl Lodge Inc. will be held at
Woorayl Lodge, 71-73 McCartin Street, Leongatha, 7.30pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012.
Business:1. To confi rm Minutes of the 2011 Annual General Meeting.2. To receive the President’s Report and Reports under
Section 34 of the Retirement Villages Act and Section 96 of the Aged Care Act.
3. To elect four members to the Committee of Management. Persons nominated must be contributors. Mr Keith Marsh-man, Mr Phillip Carter, Mr John Vuillermin and Mr Ken Marshman retire in accordance with the Rules and are eligible for re-election for a three year period.
4. To elect an Auditor.5. To transact business of which at least seven days notice
in writing has been given.Nominations on the approved form for positions on the Committee of Management and that of Auditor close with the undersigned no later than noon on Monday, October 22, 2012.Jo WhiteMANAGER
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WANTED by 1st of November: person to milk 240 cows, in 23 swing-over herringbone dairy, with cup removers. Farm situated within 10km Foster, Fish Creek and Meeniyan. Ring Bill on 0427-891270.
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PACKING BOXES, removal (x 38), used once. $65 the lot. Ph: 0400-265580.
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.
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THE Lord is good to those who wait for Him. Lamentations 3:25.
message of hopeBENSON - Isobel. Loved sister of Mary (dec), sister-in-law of Stan (dec). Dear aunty to Robert, Tom (dec), David, Christina, and to their families.
Now reunited with her loved ones.
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BERRYMAN - The Funeral Service for the late Mr Douglas Leonard Berryman will be held at St Andrew’s Uniting Church, Peart Street, Leongatha on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 10.30am. The funeral will leave at the conclusion of the service for a private family interment. All South Gippsland Bowls Club members are respectfully invited to attend. In lieu of fl owers, donations may be made to the Cancer Council Victoria. Envelopes available at the church.
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BERRYMAN - Doug.Berrys Creek Fire Brigade note with sympathy the passing of brigade member Doug Berryman.Sincere sympathy to the Berryman family.
BENSON (Browne) -Isobel. Loved cousin and friend of Lil and Jim Cope (both dec) and Dawn and Jim, and Elizabeth and Stan, and families.
Always remembered.
BERRYMAN - Douglas Leonard. 19.2.1928 - 6.10.2012 Passed away at Cabrini Hospital after a short illness. Loved husband of Charlotte. Treasured father of Stuart (dec), Ellen, Rhonda, Alison and Ross. Father-in-law of Brendon, Wayne and Melissa. Loved Pa of Daniel and Cassandra, Clinton, Caleb and Clara, Matthew, Jessica, Kristen and Tom Cameron, Mitchell, Jonte, Lester and Chelsea. Great grandpa of Imogen and Fabian. Master of Mollie and Bobbie.
Your legacy of ‘Netherwood Farm’ in the beautiful hills of Leongatha is a testament to your working life. Happy memories of you there, will always be with us.
BERRYMAN - Doug. Loved eldest brother of Jeff, brother-in-law of Tricia, uncle of Andrea, Ryan and Alysha, great uncle of Sonny. Though we didn’t spend many years at home together, you always loved a good joke and a great laugh.
A hard-working man now at rest.
HUGHES - Marita. Sincere sympathy to David, Jess, Erin, Anna and Sarah. Marita, we will miss you.
Robert and Evelyn Dent and family.
HUGHES - Marita Carmel. We’ll always treasure the time we spent with Marita. Her smile and friendship will remain with us always, and butterfl ies hold a special memory. Sincere sympathy to all her loved ones.
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SCHOOLS and community groups in Bass Coast Shire have begun receiving furniture, white goods, building material and sta-tionery from the Wonthaggi de-salination plant.
Distribution is being organised by the Wonthaggi/Inverloch Anglican Church and the Wonthaggi Lions Club.
The items have been donated by plant construction company Thiess Degremont
which is winding down its workforce.One of the benefi ciaries is the Won-
thaggi Theatre Group (WTG) which willuse furniture and offi ce equipment tohelp fi t out its new building at the StateCoal Mine. The new hub will providefor set construction, rehearsals, costumesewing, storage and meetings, as well asperformances.
WTG president David Wall said thebuilding has been designed to fi t into thecoal mine’s historical precinct.
By Matt Dunn STRZELECKI Ward candidate David Amor has again been ac-cused of backing out of a prefer-ence deal in the hotly contested South Gippsland Shire Council election.
While Cr Bob Newton was up in arms last week after Mr Amor alleg-edly turned his back on a handshake preference deal, candidate Frank Hirst has now reporting a similar experience with the Korumburra businessman.
Six candidates are contesting the seat, with only three places up for grabs.
“David told me straight out three times that he had given me third pref-erence, and he has actually given me
fi fth. It’s possible that he’s just got that poor a memory. I can leave the other alternative to your imagination, but I don’t want to make any asser-tions. It’s a bit poor either way,” Mr Hirst said.
Last week Cr Bob Newton said: “We had a gentleman’s agreement, and my word is my bond. He went back on his word.”
Mr Amor said: “I spoke to Frank on the day when we had our photo tak-en for the elections and I said to him I had him and Bob third and fourth or fourth and third. Frank rang me a day later and I said, ‘Mate, until it comes out I can’t remember whether you’re third or fourth.’ That’s exactly what I said to him.
“I said to him, ‘You put me where you want to put me.’ I’d already handed mine in. I decided to do it there and then on the spot, after the photo was taken. That is it. I wished Frank good luck.
“When you look at the preferenc-es, almost everyone has put me last in the preferences. I’m not ringing them up. I made my decision on that day. I know the other fi ve candidates have made a hell of a lot of phone calls back and forth to each other to work out preferences.”
Mr Amor said he did not hold any grudges for the deals done.
“I’m just going in as a new person, saying what I’ve said in the newspapers for the past 12 to 18 months.” he said.
THE Tarwin Valley could become even more famous, with the idea of development of a brand and website for the region receiving substantial funding.
The Tarwin Valley Development Group has re-ceived $50,000 from the Advancing Towns Project overseen by the State Government.
The funding will be used to create a website and promote the brand, group secretary Andrew McEwen said.
The committee will soon meet with Peter Singline from brand developers Truly Deeply to discuss com-missioning the project, with work to start in late Octo-ber/early November.
That company has also been involved with such brands as Eyre Peninsula, ANZ Bank and V/Line.
The development group has also been formally in-corporated.
The group aims to promote the identity and brand attributes of the Tarwin Valley to attract big spending tourists, attract new residents, promote the district for its climate, secure dairy farming and farming succes-sion, attract more investment in tourist, and promote the sale of food and produce.
By Jane RossTHE Gippsland Terti-ary Education Council has only met once but will have an action plan to government by the end of the year.
“Most on the board are from industry and we’re fo-cused on outcomes,” coun-cil chair Dr Peter Veenker said.
The council is supposed to meet four or fi ve times a year, but Dr Veenker said it would probably gather more frequently.
Appointed earlier this year by State Higher Edu-cation and Skills Minister Peter Hall, the council is charged with the task of working out how the re-gion can provide the terti-ary education necessary to
Thanks: community groups are grateful for donations of items from desalina-tion plant construction company Thiess Degremont. They are John Fleming (left) and Di Fleming (right) of the Wonthaggi Lions Club, Graeme Peters from the Wonthaggi/Inverloch Anglican Church and Wayne Moloney, David Wall, Kirk Skinner and Jenny Churchill of the Wonthaggi Theatrical Group.
Desal gifts
Tarwin Valley thousands granted
Action plan for tertiary education
Preference deal fallout broadens
meet Gippsland workforce changes.
“For example, statis-tics show we are moving to an ageing population so health areas are critical,” De Veenker said.
Introduction of the car-bon tax, new initiatives with brown coal and other forms of energy will have particu-lar workforce requirements.
“We are the food bowl, and food processing is im-portant too and the region requires further profession-al people, accountants, that sort of thing.
“Our hope is to offer local education to people locally so they continue to
work locally, with the work-force responding to changes in society.”
To this end, Monash University Gippsland would be encouraged to develop a high tech engineering de-gree to provide workers with skills for the changing needs of the energy sector.
The education council is a pilot for Victoria.
Asked if the fi rst meet-ing had discussed the con-troversial slashing of fund-ing to the TAFE sector, Dr Veenker replied, “We noted TAFE is going through con-siderable change – our role is to support and help.”
He said the suggestion
that TAFEs work together instead of being in competi-tion was something council members could support.
“We’d also encourage TAFEs to work closely with universities, especially Monash Gippsland so stu-dents have an easier path-way and get credits towards degrees.”
He said there is recogni-tion everywhere of the im-portance of education.
“It’s one of the points in the Gippsland Plan; education is on the map. Something needs to happen and providers need to do it quickly. There is a lot of support from the state.”
With a lower-than-state-average uptake of tertiary education in the region, Dr Veenker said the council is giving thought to how to inspire young people to gain an education. He said it’s not just a matter of role models, but ways of engag-ing families are important too.
“Major industry groups and local government net-works all recognise educa-tion is critical to the area. Work needs to be done on fi ltering that to the wider community.”
Bass Coast Shire Coun-cil CEO Allan Bawden is also on the council.
“THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - PAGE 53
By Jane Ross
THERE are 149 children living in the vicinity of Queenscliff Drive, Inverloch.
A large park sits in the middle of the new housing estate that has developed into a thriving community.
All those children and young fami-lies need somewhere to gather and Bass Coast Shire Council’s Cr Ross Smith has been helping them. He said he’s making the issue a pre-election commitment.
Cr Smith is one of four candidates for Townsend Ward.
The estate’s developer had to create the open space as part of a planning per-mit. There are some young trees, a bit of garden in the middle and some concrete paving, but there’s nowhere to sit other
than on the long grass and no playground equipment for the children to clamber on.
Cr Smith is hoping he’s changing that. His colleagues have agreed he can put $2500 from his council discretionary fund into some tables and benches, and he’s pushing for playground equipment too.
All up, he expects the improvements will cost around $30,000.
Michael and Jackie Dowson live nearby. They organised a petition with 87 signatures, asking council to consider installing a playground, and councillors have agreed in principle. Cr Smith said the improvements are needed because of the growing number of families moving into West Inverloch.
Mr Dowson said the Inverloch Lions Club has also offered support.
Playground please: Jackie Dowson with Leithan aged one, her husband Michael Dowson, Cr Ross Smith and Bonnie Patterson. In front are Levi Patterson eight, Niamh Dowson three and Sam Patterson fi ve. They are hoping for a playground/picnic area in west Inverloch.
Kids hope for playground
SOUTH Gippsland Shire Council has too many managers and cuts will have to be made.
That is the view of council candidate Ian Nicholas, himself a coun-cil employee.
“I think there is a major overkill in management resources,” the contender for Strzelecki Ward said.
“We have a $4.6 mil-lion superannuation debt that has to be paid and the way to do that is to make some severe cuts in the bureaucracy of the shire. That is the start and then we have to look at new ways of funding the shire. We just can’t rely on rate rises and funding from governments to keep up with the costs.”
Mr Nicholas wants developers of residential estates to pay developer levies to contribute to the cost of providing the infra-structure needed to cope with population growth.
He also wants business-es to contribute to the cost of parking spaces when they expand or develop a new business that warrants customer parking.
The Outtrim resident is tired of government cost shifting, with councils being given more respon-sibility by State and Fed-eral governments without funding to match.
The changes to zonings proposed by the State Gov-ernment recently raised his ire, given South Gippsland
Ready to represent people
• Strzelecki Ward candidate Ian Nicholas.
had invested substantial money in formulating strategies that now stand to be affected.
Mr Nicholas believes the lack of road mainte-nance is the biggest issue facing the municipality. He said councils of the late 1990s to the early 2000s cut road maintenance bud-gets during extended dry seasons, but roads then suffered when wet winters returned.
“No drains have been done and they have been
blocked. I would say that a lot of the landslips have been caused as a result of poorly maintained drains,” Mr Nicholas said.
“Roads, transfer sta-tions and aged care; these are the types of services that have got to be re-sourced. While there are some services that are airy fairy, at the end of the day, council has got to look at core services.”
Mr Nicholas believes the services council pro-vides should be the subject
of an independent review to ensure every service matters.
He wants councillors to take control of the organi-sation from the offi cers.
Now on leave from his role as local laws co-or-dinator, Mr Nicholas will resign if elected.
“At the end of the day, I’ve tried to be consistent,” he said of his dealings with people in enforcing local laws.
In Strzelecki Ward, Mr Nicholas aims to:
redevelop and seal Henrys Road, Nyora, to service rural living areas;
redevelop the pedes-trian and cycling path between Korumburra Sec-ondary College and the main township; and
seal Hudsons Road at Korumburra South, a major link to the South Gippsland Highway.
He believes his 25 years experience in local government will aid his role as a councillor.
A resident of Strzelecki Ward for 48 years, he was born at Ranceby and was a dairy farmer until his late twenties. He worked with the City of Berwick for six years with the outdoor staff, before joining the then Shire of Korumburra.
As well as running two beef farms, Mr Nicholas has served as president of the South Gippsland Car Club and the Korumburra Parlour Bowls Club, and has been a major organiser of the car club’s annual swap meet at Korumburra.
By Jane Ross
JESSICA Harrison believes local government has a part to play in raising awareness of vio-lence against women.
A candidate for Hovell Ward in the Bass Coast Shire Council elections, Jessica has responded to a request from the Gippsland Women’s Health Service (GWHS) to sign up to an action plan for women’s health.
Developed by Victorian women’s health services, the plan looks to an increase in funding for women’s specifi c services, a gender based analysis of health outcomes, so-cial inclusion in government policy and service delivery and a human rights approach.
Looking to the year 2014, it seeks resourcing for four priority areas: women in a changing society, sexual and reproductive health, prevention of violence against wom-en and mental wellbeing and social connectedness.
Asked what role local government could play, Jessica suggested through maternal and child health services and by sharing responsibility for women’s health with Won-thaggi Hospital and Bass Coast’s fi ve community health centres which run a one-stop shop.
“They deal with problems of family violence,” Jessi-ca said, “and that’s where women should go if they don’t feel safe in their homes.”
Jessica said the gender equity aspect of the action plan had the potential to be applied in the various depart-ments or sectors of the council.
“Most family violence is usually (perpetrated) by someone you know. There is a lot of it and it’s every-where. Often it’s alcohol related and it’s so easy to get alcohol.”
A GWHS press release said despite progress, Victo-rian women still face areas of signifi cant social and eco-nomic disadvantage that impact on their health, safety and wellbeing and local government has been identifi ed as having an important role in improving those factors.
If she is elected to council, Jessica said she would work in with existing health services and would “use my extensive contacts in the community to raise awareness of the problem of domestic violence”.
She quoted GWHS facts including that freedom from violence is a human right, intimate partner violence is a leading contributor to preventable death, disability and illness for Victorian women.
She said GWHS has a family violence strategic plan
Signing up to anti violence
Signing up: Bass Coast Hovell Ward candidate Jessica Harrison signs a commitment to advocating for women’s health.
and a proposal for the inclusion of the prevention of vio-lence against women as a health promotion priority is-sue.
Jessica was one of a number of women council can-didates who attended a forum in San Remo to talk about issues of interest in candidates’ communities, where she raised the topic of violence against women.
She is keen to open up council as a forum where ev-eryone can come, rather than it being seen as “some dis-tant body”.
“Local government is the most accessible tier of gov-ernment. It is up to us candidates to open it up.”
For support and accommodation for women and chil-dren fl eeing domestic violence, ring 24 hour freecall line 1800 015 188.
By Simone Short
WITH only four can-didates in the Coastal-Promontory Ward in the upcoming elec-tion, partnerships have been quick to form.
Current councillors Ki-eran Kennedy and Jeanette Harding have selected one another for their second preferences, while fellow councillor Mohya Davies has once again teamed up with Bruce Beatson, run-ning a joint campaign.
Cr Davies and Mr Beat-son ran a similar campaign in the 2008 election.
“Bruce and I have known each other since Young Farmers and have had many robust debates,” Cr Davies said.
“He is a broad thinker and we probably agree on lots of things, although I’m sure there’ll be lots of things we disagree on too!”
Cr Davies said she be-lieved she and Mr Beatson formed a great partnership and would provide strong representation in the Coast-al-Promontory Ward.
Mr Beatson said while Cr Davies and Cr Ki-eran Kennedy would both “claim the fairly solid vote” from their own ar-eas, he was competing with Cr Jeanette Harding in the Toora area.
“Jeanette and I are both from Toora and I noted she had me last on her prefer-
Cycling ahead: Bruce Beatson campaigns on hisbike at Tarwin Lower on Saturday.
Alliances form in Coastal-Promences,” he said, adding there was no bad blood between the two.
“I don’t think it’s be-cause we dislike each oth-er; it’s just because we are fi ghting for a third position on council from the same area. It would be a bit pointless putting Jeanette third, and it would be for her with me.”
Mr Beatson said he saw himself and Cr Davies as “like-minded”.
“We do see ourselves as progressive; we’re not stand still types of people,” he said.
“If change is re-quired, change needs to be implemented.”
Furthering his sugges-
tion they are not “stand still” people, Mr Beatson and Cr Davies are hitting the roads for their cam-paign, cycling throughout the Coastal-Promontory Ward towns to speak with voters.
Cr Kennedy said he’s happy to allow the vot-ers to make up their own minds when it comes to their preferences.
“Probably 85 per cent of the time, those who have voted for me have followed my preferences,” he said.
“I don’t advertise, I just allow the voters to judge on what I have done. My mot-to is local government is there to do things for you, not to you.”
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
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THE Meeniyan and District Volleyball Asso-ciation concluded the season with its grand fi nal on Tuesday, September 18 between the Tigers and the Blues.
The competition this year was extremely tight with two teams, the Roughies and Sharks just missing out on being in the fi nal top four.
In the elimination fi nal the Blues overcame a slow start to defeat the Blacks 3 – 2.
The semi-fi nal was another tight contest with the Tigers overcoming the Meanies 3 – 2 to go straight into the grand fi nal.
The second week, the preliminary fi nal, saw the Meanies get off to a great start winning the fi rst game.
The Blues fought back with some great work at the net by Daniel Potter and Harry Sellings.
With Terry Potter setting well, the Blues eventually won 3 - 1 to grab the second spot in the grand fi nal.
The next week the Tigers got off to a great start thanks to some good work at the net by Paul Robinson and Shane Pouw winning the fi rst game.
The Blues steadied in the second with some good serving by Amanda Foster and Shane Bright, but some great setting by Mark Tudor and Leah Svehla saw the Tigers win the second game.
The fi nal game saw the Blues come from behind to nearly pinch last game.
However the Tigers, with some great work from their new recruits Tommy Wilson and Naomi Bowden saw the Tigers win 3 – 0.
The score line didn’t refl ect how tight the game was with some great rallies and some good play from both teams.
Well done to the 2012 premiers the Tigers. After the fi nal all players and spectators headed
down to the Meeniyan Hotel for the presentation night.
The Most Valuable Player Award was close, with John Pouw awarded one vote in the last game to tie with Daniel Potter, both fi nishing with 27 votes each. Paul Robinson was third with 24 votes.
The Best Junior Player was Daniel Potter. Best First Year Player was Clayton Bawden. The Most Improved Player went to Tamara Spokes and the Best Clubman went to Mark Tudor.
Congratulations to all the award winners and thank you to all the committee, and members who helped out during the 2012 season.
Look forward to seeing everyone again next year.
Meeniyan – Monday evening: 1st Susan Ruf-fi n, Clive Hope. 2nd Greg Nicholson, Jean Barbour. 3rd Sally and Brian Hosk-ins. 4th June Metcalf, Co-lin Cameron.
Inverloch – Friday af-ternoon: North/South: 1st Jack Kuiper, Jean Barbour. 2nd John Sutton, Kaye Douglas. 3rd Greg Nichol-
son, Margot Moylan. 4th Faye Rowlands, Pat West.
East/West: 1st JohnSullivan, Alan Johnston. 2nd Sally Hoskins, Bluey Aeschlimann and Anne Dujela, Dawn Jolly.
Friday is our birthday – bring a plate to share, BYO alcohol, 10.30 for 11.00am start. Soft drinks supplied.
ALL matches started but rain came after two sets in most grades.
Good to see B Grade on the court.Well done to the two young boys for Leongatha on
winning their fi rst set together in seniors, and to the two young girls from Leongatha North, who also won a set.
Let’s hope the weather is more favourable next week.Affi liation fees are now due for all clubs and payable to
the treasurer next week.Tournament entry forms are out for the November 11
men’s and ladies’ doubles. Be sure to get your entry in.
Volleyball wraps up
Award winners: (from left) Clayton Bawden, Mark Tudor, Tamara Spokes, John Pouw and Daniel Potter.
Premiers: (from left) Mark Tudor, Shane Pouw, Tommy Wilson, Leah Svehla, Paul Robinson and Naomi Bowden.
Runners Up: (from left) Colby Breedin, Daniel Potter, Terry Potter, Harry Sellings, Amanda Foster and Shane Bright. South Gippsland Bridge Club
THE Leongatha Sharks Swimming Club had its fi rst taste of competition for the new season with an intra-club competi-tion on Friday night.
Fiercely contested, the young Sharks swam some scintillating times.
Club president Peter Bellingham said there were “plenty of new swimmers” at the meet, but more were always welcome.
You can fi nd out more by checking out the club website: gathasharks.com.
Left In the swim: Ella, Maddy, Caleb and Ame-lia have started the sea-son well, with impres-sive early times.
WE are now half way through the season and I hope everyone has been having a great time. At least the weather has been fairly good on Tuesdays.
I am still having a few problems with score sheets not turning up on time or sometimes being illegible.
Please make sure if you need to alter the score you cross it out and re-do it.
Also please make sure you write on the back of the score sheet if you are us-ing a new player or a pool player.
Email me at [email protected] if you don’t have the link to the ladders and I will email you the link direct.
You can also take a pho-to of your score sheet and text it to me on 0414 359 502 if you don’t have email or a scanner.
Points will be deducted in future if the score sheets don’t arrive on time.Section 1
Section 3Inverloch Pink 55Inverloch Blue 43Fish Creek 37Grantville 32Nyora 26Phillip Island 23
Section 4Inverloch 54 Wonthaggi 53Leongatha 44Korumburra Purple 31Phillip Island 21Korumburra Red 7
Allambee Mirboo & District Tennis
Mid-week Ladies Tennis
Sharks hit the water
“THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - PAGE 55
LeongathaWEDNESDAY, October 3 saw eight teams take to the greens in a social triples event.
The winners were A. Rayson (s), Jack Embleton and Gary Van Sinderen with two wins plus 17; run-ners-up R. Trotman (s), Mike Carnell and Tas Hay-wood, also on two wins plus eight.
Saturday, October 6 saw four teams in Division 1, four in Division 2 and four in Division 4 get un-derway in a pennant practice, however after six ends mother nature took control, causing games to be called off.
Tuesday, October 9 will see the ladies’ pennant for 2012-13 season underway, with our Division 1 ladies at home to Korumburra ladies, while Division 3 ladies will be away to Korumburra ladies at the ’Burra.
Saturday, October 13 will see the start of the men’s pennant season, with Leongatha Division 1 and 2 away to Wonthaggi, and I understand Division 4 could also be away to Wonthaggi, which due to a misprint in the SGBD fixture, shows that Wonthaggi play Wonthaggi instead of Wonthaggi v Leongatha.
Friday evening, October 5 saw a good attendance at the club’s regular monthly Kitty Club teas. Thanks to the chef and his crews as well as to the MC, John O’Connor. A good night was had by all.
Reminders: Wednesday, October 10 will see the midweek social bowls in action with a 10am start. Names to be in by 9am. BYO lunch.
To Leongatha members/bowlers, the closing date for entries for the 2012-13 club championship events will close on Sunday, October 14. Entry sheets are on the notice-board in the board room, so if you wish to enter any event please put your name on the respec-tive entry sheet and fee paid.
The first of the club’s 2012-13 tournaments will be the mixed triples event scheduled for Sunday, November 6 and any club or team wishing to enter please contact any of the following: Jeff Pendergast 5662 0974 or David Bee on 5662 2605.
The first of this season’s business bowls is sched-uled to commence on Tuesday evening, November 13. Any of the business bodies within Leongatha and surrounds, if you would like to enter a team or place your name to be in a team, or want more information then please contact either Alan Rayson 5662 3042 or the guru of business bowls, Harry Forrester 5664 2274.
Until the next report, good bowling - Jackhigh.
Buffalo indoor
On Wednesday Oc-tober 3, 10 bowlers played two games of 12 ends.
The winners were Charlie Tumino (S) and Lee Armstrong (ww) 15 ends from Rod McCon-chie (S) and Mary Tumi-no (lw) 14 ends, then Toni Heldens (S), Glenys Pilk-ington and Joe Occhipinti (wl) 11 ends.
Bill Wolswinkel (S), Joyce Occhipinti and Peter Heldens (ll), eight ends, came fourth.
Best fi rst game: Toni 20-11. Best second game: Charlie 18-4.
Bowling at Buffalo Hall takes place Wednes-day 7.30pm. All welcome.
Meeniyan AFTER a number of practice games, pennant gets un-der way this week. Let us hope that the weather gods are kind.
We have gained a couple of players for the Tues-day section and lost some from Saturday. Good luck to all teams!
Tuesday pennant began on October 9 with Divi-sion 1 at home to Wonthaggi and Division 3 away to Mirboo North.
On October 16 ones are away to Korumburra and threes are home to Phillip Island.
Saturday pennant on October 13th sees Division 2 away to Loch and the newly promoted Division 4 home to Lang Lang.
Wednesday social bowls has continued uninter-rupted due to rain.
Over the past two week winners have been Lar-raine Godkin and Michelle Douglas and Dudley Har-rison and Michelle Douglas.
Lucky draws have gone to Meghan dal Masetto (Avril’s grand-daughter) and Evelyn Thorson.
Thursday was the fi rst of our regular monthly triples which was sponsored by Stockdale and Leggo Real Estate, Leongatha.
The game was played in windy conditions and proved challenging.
Winners were Mick Dillon and Ian Potter (Mirboo North) with Peter Williams (Meeniyan).
Runners-up were locals Dave Gillett, Don Pater-son and Kevin Robinson.
Max Brown, Mick Scott and Karl Kappes (Meeni-yan) also won three games.
Friday was Ladies’ Invitation Day with clubs from most of the association clubs competing.
Sponsors for the day were Handleys Funeral Ser-vices - Paul and Margaret Beck.
It was an ideal day for bowling with Bev Mar-tin’s Tarwin Lower team winning the day and Joy Hargeaves representative team runners up.
As usual the catering committee and helpers put on a wonderful lunch and afternoon tea.
Reminder that training for our newly purchased defi brillator is on Wednesday from 7.30 to 9.30pm.
Lists are up for the men’s singles and pairs compe-tions. Entries close on Sunday October 14.
Tarwin LowerOUR Wednesday triples started very successfully on September 12 with all eight rinks in play.
Les Goss’s team from Inverloch won the day with Doug Kuhne’s team from Meeniyan the runners-up. Best last game went to Col Densely’s team.
The day was sponsored by Tarwin Fuel Sup-plies.
Marriott’s Machinery sponsored our second triples day on September 26.
Winners that day were Bill Massier’s team from Tarwin, Runners-up Dino’s team from Toora and Doug Kuhne’s team took out the best last game.
Our thanks to the sponsors and all participants for their support.
Ladies Pennant starts this Tuesday, October 9, with the men starting on Saturday and we wish ev-eryone good bowling and a good season.
ON Monday, October 1 the bias bowl-ers welcomed Will and Chelsea for their second go at bowls.
The youngsters brought many smiles with their enthusiasm and bowling abil-ities.
Their excitement at their good shots proved infectious and became the catalyst to many great bowls from the adults.
The results were varied with no team suffering three losses.
In fourth place were Charlie Tumi-no, Joe Occhipinti, Margot O and Will with 1D2L -6 shots. Michael Matthews and George Bentley looked after Adam O and managed to score1D2L+1.
Mary Tumino, Joanna Lomagno, Ashley van Duffelen and Margo Maher scored 1W2L-2 whilst Lee Armstrong, Joyce Occhipinti and Chelsea bowled
very well to win the evening with 2W1D+6 shots.
All the bowlers look forward to the next time Chelsea and Will can attend.
Thursday night’s parlor bowls teams had interesting combinations of players which lead to close results throughout the night.
However, one exceptional game re-sulted in a thirteen shot difference but this had no effect on the overall results.
Two teams were undefeated on the night.
Unfortunately for Alan Dyall, Andy Marshall and Joe Occhipinti their drawn game gave Mary and Charlie Tumino and Lee Armstrong the night’s honours as they scraped in in all three of their games.
The teams results were 2W1D+7 compared to 3W+4.
SINCE the last time I reported we have had two bowls nights and seen the return of two of our nomadic mem-bers in the guise of Bruce Douglas and Robert Campbell. The weather must be due to start getting warmer when they come home to roost. Welcome back gentlemen.
Our weekly attendance has also risen again and it’s good to see the numbers get up around the 20 mark again.
The previous week saw 21 players and this week we had 19, with Jeannie Baker on fi re after her eye fi xing she couldn’t put a bowl wrong.
On the September 26 we had 21 bowlers giving us three teams of three and three of four and as usual was some excellent play all round.
This week we had fi ve teams of three and one of four results were not quite as close as the previous week but still an enjoyable night.
Results were: Runners-up with two wins and 13 ends: Diane Smith,
Jeanette Grady and Andy Plowman (skip).Winners with three wins: Robert Campbell, Bruce
Douglas, Nick Rutjens and Ian Bristow (skip).Results for October 3 were:Runners-up with two wins and 16 ends: John McColl,
Margaret Campbell and Brian Kilpin (skip).Winners with three wins were: Ron Baker, Ray Saun-
ders, Robert Campbell and Russel Grady (skip).There are not many weeks left until we end for the
year, and our break up dinner will be on November 16 so all members should be aware that they might want to start thinking about that night and whether they will be attending or not.
If you say you are attending you will be charged for the night if you don’t turn up on the night without a very good reason so please keep that in mind when you give Theresa your name.
MY apologies for the late reporting of McKenzie’s Day.
We had full greens and the day was enjoyed by everyone.
All proceeds were do-nated to the Foster hospi-tal and a cheque for $750 was presented to Dr Da-vid Iser.
The winners on the day were Lucy and Dino Vignocchi, Seb Blancato and George Napier; run-ners up Rob Staley, Mar-garet Smith and Bob and Sheila Constantine.
OUR second State event for the season was the Over 60’s Pairs, a new event for the ladies.
Day one, last Wednesday saw some fi erce sectional competition on a warm and sunny day on the Phillip Is-land greens. With most ladies putting down 144 bowls each in a long day, sectional winners were Anne Tschi-derer and Lois Luby (Inverloch), Joy Brown and Robyn Dennis (San Remo) and Ivy Sheppard and Joy Har-greaves (Inverloch) who progressed to the fi nals.
These were held at Foster in tricky, blustery condi-tions where the ladies coped very well.
The afternoon fi nal was played between Anne and Lois and Joy and Robyn with Joy and Robyn as the win-ners.
Many thanks to the lovely ladies from Phillip Island and Foster clubs for their care of the competitors and of-fi cials and to the men for preparation of their greens for both days play.
OUR second State event for the season was the Over 60’s Pairs, a new event for the ladies.
Da one last Wednesda sa some fierce sectional
San Remo take second state
Winners: Anne Tschiderer and Lois Luby Run-ners-up, Joy Hargreaves Division Chairperson and Robyn Dennis and Joy Brown winners.
Mardan indoor
Korumburra Parlor
Fish CreekMany thanks to the
McKenzie family who have continued to spon-sor this day in memory of the late Corrie McK-enzie.
Friday was our pre-sentation night and it was great to see some new faces amongst the trophy winners.
Diane Buckland is the lady champion with Margaret Smith the run-ner up.
Peg Hazeltine and Faye McKenzie are the ladies’ pairs champions. Tim McLean is our men’s champion with Lea McK-enzie the runner up.
We were very pleased to welcome our guests, Joy Hargreaves, the Bowls Victoria Regional Representative and Alan Cook Immediate Past President of the South Gippsland Bowls Divi-sion.
Joy presented Senior Veteran’s badges to
Audrey Truscott, Nel-lie Van Dyk, Margaret
Smith and Ron Cozens. Not one of you looks
80 years of age and it is great to see you all still as active as ever.
One of the highlights of the night was to see Alan Cook bestow Life Membership on Cor Van Dyk.
This honour was well deserved and we were all very happy for him and so pleased that several members of his family were present to witness the event.
Earlier in the week the ladies had their A.G.M. at which Meree Bath be-came our new Lady Pres-ident, Phyl McLaughlin our Senior Vice President and Diane Buckland our Junior Vice President.
Many thanks to Diane who did a wonderful job as our President for four years.
We wish Meree the best of luck and all the ladies assure her of our support.
PAGE 56 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012
MDU Juniors celebrate 2012
MDU Fourths: Ben Heppell (coach), Matt Newton (Most Improved), Brayden Pickersgill (Best and Fairest), Dean Thorson (runner-up Best and Fairest), Alex Campbell (Most Consistent) and Charlie McInnes (coach’s award). Absent: Charlie Doherty (Most Determined).
MDU Under 15s: Lauren Redpath (Best and Fairest) and Tenille Leicester (runner up Best and Fairest).
MDU Under 17s: Tyler Ralph (Best and Fairest) and Van-essa Redpath (runner-up Best and Fairest).
MDU Under 13s: Kayla Redpath (Best and Fairest) and Zoe McEachern (runner-up Best and Fairest).
MDU Thirds: Joel Winderlich (First Senior Game), Ben Thomas (Best in Finals), Beau Coulter (Michael Reilly Memorial Award), Tim Harris (First Senior Game), Jake McMillan (runner-up Best and Fairest), Lachie Findlay (Best and Fairest), Ryan Olden (Most Consistent) and Kurt Sinclair (Most Improved). Absent: Jayke Hoy (Coach’s Award) and Sam Horvarth (Most Determined).
13 & Under: (from left) Most Improved Chloe Ollington, runner-up Best and Fairest Harrison Marshall, Best and Fairest Ally Martin and Coach’s Award Rory Hanks.
Stony Creek Football Netball Club Juniors
Best Junior Club People: Connor Brown and Jade Cashin.
15 & Under: Best and Fairest Nikita Wright, Coach’s Award Sarah Marshall. Absent: runner-up Best and Fairest Teagan Burge.
Fourths: (back from left) Best First Year Hayden Funnell, Most DeterminedZac Fiddelaers, Most Improved Matt Darmanin, (front) Most Consistent Tom Francis, runner-up Best and Fairest Liam Harrington, Best and Fairest Troy Sinclair and Coach’s Award Kurt Newton.
Thirds: (back from left) Best Back-man Daniel Potter,Most DeterminedJames Monaghan,Best Team ManGreg Pate, (front)Coach’s AwardJosh Brown,Most DeterminedZac Fiddelaers,runner-up Bestand Fairest SamWilson, Best andFairest Eli Taylor,Best First Year andMost ConsistentTom Stone.
“THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - PAGE 57
Ready to play: Leongatha Croquet Club stalwart Ron Bridgman played a game in town last week, doing battle against players from across the Gippsland region.
Leongatha Parrots club awards
Best Netball Club Per-son: Carlie McNamara with Club President Dale McCahon.
George Gould Award: Marg Barter was presented the award by Geoff Forrester.
Phil Riseley Award: Marty O’Loughlin was presented the award by Trevor Riseley.
Peter Dixon Award: Damon and Jack Ginnane with winner Dylan Westaway and Joan Dixon.
Korumburra-Bena recogniseStandout club people
Above, Honoured: Dick Martin’s posthumous Life Membership was received by Heidi Greenwood,Trudi Olden, Cade Maskell, Dianne Maskell and Bianca Maskell.
Big players: congratulated on their careers so far were James Kyle (150 Games), Josh Whiteside (200 Games), Scott Braithwaite (150 Games).
President: Michael Hopkins receiving best club-man from Brian Kyle.
Life Member: Sharon Adams
Life member: Josh Whiteside presented with his life Membership by Murray Gow.
LeongathaTHE inaugural playing of the John West-away ambrose pairs was a great success with 90 competitors.
A big thank you to Vivienne and fam-ily for enabling this great event and also to Bruce Hutton for making the very attrac-tive honour board.
The fi rst names to go on the board are Dylan McMeekin and Denis McDonald who had the best scratch score of 68. These two have won practically every fourball event held this year.
Handicap winners were the well tried combination of Col Sperling and Jon Smith with a score of 74-8¼-65¾, on a countback from Bruce Hutton and Peter Cannon.
Runners-up in the scratch event were Tony Goldie and Jeremy Westaway on 70.
Tony won nearest the pin on the 14th and Dave Vorwerg took the 16th. Ladies’ nearest the pin winners were Helen Mack-enzie (14th) and Coral Gray (16th).
Ball winners: K. Finney - P. McNutt 66, K. Wardle - D. Prior 66¾, M. James-Cull - K. Castwood 66¾, J. Cummins - A. Mac-farlane 66¾, P. Bence - P. Morris 67¼, G. Marshman - R. Wilson 67¾, J. Feddersen - T. Rickard 67¾, T. Stanton - T. Bell 68, R. Elliott - L. Page 68, G. McRitchie - S. Fisher 68, G. McDonald - R. Burton 68, R. and R. Thomas 68¾, D. Malone - R. Thurston 68¾, B. Clark - N. Lafferty 69, T. McCarthy - R. Findlay 69¼, G. and A. Graham 69¾, I. Purbrick - D. Hanna 69¾, R. and G. McRobert 70.
TuesdayLong hitting Tom Willliamson scored
37 points to win the Broadbeach Resort voucher, and we thank Broadbeach for their valued support. Runner-up on 36 was Jon Smith.
Nearest the pin winners were Phil McNutt on the 14th and John Potter on the 16th. Balls went to: P. Hobson 36, M. Oliver 35, G. McDonald 34, J. Lowell, R. Gourlay 33; P. McNutt, F. Smedley 32.
ThursdayA warmer day helped build the fi eld
above 50 allowing three grades. CraigDudek scored 33 points to win A Grade.Neil Mackenzie knocked up 37 points,easily the best effort on the day, to win BGrade, while C Grade went to Bob Cathie.
Doug Clemann and Trevor Steer werenearest the pin winners and balls were wonby: P. Hartigan, P. Waters 34, T. Steer, N.Hughes 33; G. McDonald 32, D. Clem-ann, K. Wardle 31; J. Lowell, I. Nunn, B.Hutton, F. Smedley, P. Williamson 30; A.Hawkins, A. Nilsson 29.
There will be no competitions formembers next Saturday due to the club’shosting of the Victorian men’s countryteams event. Monthly medal for Octoberwill be on Saturday, October 20. The KitBoag mixed event is scheduled for Sunday,October 21.
Sunday nine hole competitionA very successful start for the fi rst
round of the season, with 59 players in 11teams.
Two new teams have entered this sea-son and more would be welcomed in thenext round. This is the 30th year of thiscompetition.
There were only fi ve broken handicapsrecorded. Three ladies shared the best la-dies gross, Val Brydon, Wendy Parker andSharyn Rayson all scored 50.
Margaret Danks won the ladies’ bestnet with 54-15-39.
Michael Thomas with 33 off-the-stickwas the winner of the men’s best gross andnet. His handicap for this competition isnow -1.
The Drumdlemara All Stars was thewinning team of the day on 142, scoring 10points, 7 Up on 148 came second scoringeight points, The Royals scored six pointson 149, Espy Eagles on 150 scored fourpoints. The other seven teams all gainedtwo points.
Thank you to our sponsors Kevin andDeborah Scott from the South GippslandBoarding Kennels & Cattery.
The next round will be played on No-vember 4.
Chuffed: scratch winners of the John Westaway Memorial event Dylan McMeekin and Denis McDonald were congratulated by Vivienne Westaway and club captain Kevin Castwood.
Handicap winners: Jon Smith and Col Sperling with club captain Kevin Castwood.
IT was Medal Day on Satur-day and Scott Rathjen pro-duced great golf in heavy conditions to record a round of 1 under par 71.
Scott had 34 on the fi rst nine with three birdies, and was four un-der par after 14 holes before drop-ping three shots in the fi nal holes to fi nish with 71.
This included an eagle three on the 14th hole after he hit the green with his second shot.
Scott will be a big threat in the upcoming Club Championship.
On Thursday David Hutchinson (13) produced a solid 37 points to record a win.
The down the line balls went to Larry Giddy (18) with 34 points and
Robert Fulton (12) on 33 points. David also got the NTP. Bill Fuller broke through for
a win in the Chicken Run with 20 points, with the down the line balls going to Denham Grierson and Jim-my Harry – both on 16 points.
The NTP’s were won by Den-ham Grierson and John Stone.
Saturday was Medal Day played for trophies provided by the Foster Mirror.
A Grade was won by Scott Rathjen with 71-9-62, while B Grade went to Paul Spencer with 98-28-70.
The down the line balls were won by Gary Clavarino with 87-16-71, Norm Cooper with 80-9-71 and Peter Dight with 81-8-73.
The A Grade Scratch went to
Scott Rathjen with 71, and B Grade Scratch went to Geoff Prue with 92.
Scott also won the putting with 28 putts.
The NTP’s were won by Scott Rathjen (2 holes), Norm Cooper and Noel Black.
The encouragement award went to Kane Esler with 93 net.
I had the privilege of playing with Kane and he had one of those days.
He hit nearly every tree on the course (my count was 27 shots that hit trees), and most of them fi nished dead as a doornail.
He plans to get a few lessons from our excellent local arborist Thommo.
However Kane still had a win
on the day as he retained his sense of humour throughout, and that is what golf is all about.
The Mixed Foursomes Cham-pionship which was washed out earlier has been re-scheduled for Sunday, October 21. Hit off will be at 10.30am.
Barb Britten was not on hand to collect the $250 in the members cash draw.
The draw will be for $300 next Friday.
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 Thurs-day’s Par, Friday’s Chicken Run, Saturday’s 4 Ball Aggregate and next Tuesday’s Stableford.
Leongatha LadiesTHIRTY-two players competed in Wednesday’s stableford event, sponsored by Leongatha Golf Club life member, Kit Boag.
The winner of A Grade was Coral Gray with 33 points. Marion Bellingham with 32 points won B Grade and C Grade was won by Isobel Sutherland with 32 points.
Down the line ball winners were Toni West 32 points, Dot Stubbs, Di Williams, Val Brydon and Marg Danks all on 31 points followed by Anne Blundy, Trish Owen and Jocelyn Howson with 30 points.
Nearest the pins were won by Isobel Sutherland (14th) and Coral Gray (16th).
Seven players competed in the 9 hole event. Audree Wyhoon won with 17 points and Pat Moore re-
ceived a down the line ball with 15 points.
Winners: Wednesday winners at Leongatha were Isobel Sutherland (C Grade), Coral Gray (A Grade) and Marion Bellingham (B Grade).
• FOSTER
Scott shoots 71 off the stick
Staying dry: Rob Thurston from Melbourne and Dan Malone from Inverlochdid their best to keep out of the rain at Leongatha on Saturday, using their golf cart for shelter.
“THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - PAGE 59
DAVE AUSTIN had a perfect start to his round, scoring a hole-in-one on the fi rst in Saturday’s stroke m/m competition.
Dave was one of 45 competitors on the day. Greg Jones and Neil Green won the event with a CCR of 70.
Goyne handicap win-ner M. Giles 68 net. A Grade (7 handicap): P. Johnson 69 net.
Balls went to: M. Perks 72, T. Marotti 72, M. Garnham 72, L. Webster 73, T. Herbert 73, M. Wrig-ley 74, T. O’Neill 74, T. Fowles 74.
Parry scratch winner: T. O’Neill; 75 O.T.S. B Grade (14 handicap): D. Goad 70 net. Ball: M. Bel-vedere 71.
Juniors: T. Marotti 72
net. C Grade (19 handi-cap): M. Giles 68 net.
Putting: T. O’Neill 27, M. Belvedere 30, N. Alger 27.
Nearest the pin: 1st D. Austin (hole in one), 7th M. Giles, 10th M. Simon, 13th T. Marotti.
Naga: A. Worthy 86 net.
Tuesday winner: I. Cash 40 points. Thurs-day winner: D. Austin 41 points.
A reminder that sin-gles knockouts need to be played by Sunday 14 Oc-tober.
The winter eclectic competition winners were (scratch) T. O’Neill 56, handicap C. Rielly 47 net, Tuesday (scratch) T. O’Neill 56, handicap P. Hosking 43 net.
LAST Saturday 40 golfers braved the wet weather for our medal day, which was sponsored by Terry Lund Auto Electrics.
The A Grade win-ner, who was beaten on a countback for the medal, was Danny Dwyer, with net 70.
The B Grade and medal winner was Craig Turner.
In C Grade May Woods won on countback with 71.
Balls went to: G. McK-innon, P. Burgess, Bo Fiek, G. Winkler, G. Johnson, T.
Martin, A. McEachern and K. Riseley.
Nearest the pins: Brett Stubbs and Peter Burgess.
Putting: Danny Dwyer (27).
Rob Gourlay won the Thursday competition while a ball went to Otto van der Vorm.
Next week’s competi-tion is a stableford event sponsored by C & L Stain-less Steel.
On Thursday we will give our course over to the South Gippsland Veterans.
OUR midweek stableford event attract-ed nine players. D. Williams won with 37 points.
Balls down the line: D. Crellin 36, B. Dicker 36.
On Saturday the club held its monthly medal event with a fi eld of 32 players.
Thanks to sponsor, the Wonthaggi Show Society, which donated $200.
A Grade winner: E. Vanagtmaal 74 net. B Grade and medal winner J. Drew 72 net. C Grade winner V. Tuddenham 73 net.
Balls down the line: A. Cubban 72, R. Walker 73, I. Baker 74, P. Shultz 74, K. Loughran 74, I. Buadrano 74, S.
Scott 75, T. Kennedy 75, S. Tiziani 75, F. Desenech 75, D. Green 76, C. Jeeves 76.
Nearest the pins: 2nd J. Foon, 8th T. Scholey, 13th N. Burne, 17th T. Kennedy.
Great to see so many players on Sat-urday tee up on a golf course that will be perfection leading into the club cham-pionships, which are only fi ve weeks away.
I look forward to seeing you all this week and remember to always hit off the back tees during monthly medal or it could cost you a two stroke penalty and the event.
Woorayl ladiesAFTER a couple of days of fi ne and windy weather, the course was in very good condition for the Gena Roughead Bowl played on Friday.
The event was well supported with 51 players and congratulations go to the bowl winners, Meeniyan 1: Irene Holm,Veronica Park and Faye LePage.
A Grade winner was Veronica Park (18) with 39 points, B Grade was won by Heather Grist (25) with 35 points and C Grade winner was Fay Maynard (28) with 32 points.
Balls down the line went to Marg Higgins, Barb Wood, Mary Beruldsen, Melinda Martin, Di Walker, Nancy Barlow, Marg Tuckett, Faye LePage, Freeda Nair, Nancye Hammet and Heather Sullivan.
Nearest the pin on the 8th was Toni West and on the 17th was Elsie McBride.
Last week’s Monthly Medal winner for October was Marg Higgins (22) with 78 net.
Balls down the line went to Melinda Martin and Fay Maynard.
Nearest the pin on the 8th was Marlene Rayson, on the 11th was Marg Harris and on the 17th was Lois Young.
Next week is our annual social day with the Meeni-yan ladies, which will be a 4BBB sponsored by Moos Chocolates.
This will be a 9.00 for 9.30 shotgun start and players are reminded to please bring a plate of afternoon tea. SATURDAY was a four
person Ambrose event with the sponsor for the day being Jackson and Lawry optometrists which is much appreciated.
Thank you very much to the sponsors for opening their doors on Saturday to allow our captain to play, stupid contact lenses.
Finally the weather has allowed us to play golf without two inches of rain, and the scores showed.
The winner of A Grade and medal winner was Ian Trease with an excellent 63 net from an unlucky Chris Buckland with a net 64.
The B Grade winner was Reg Hannay with a net 70 on a count back from Daryl Wright with a net 70.
Ball down the line went to Ryan McKnight 70, Dave Thomson 70 and Ian Warman with a net 72.
Congratulations to Dave Thomson who had an eagle on the 15th with an eight iron second shot, well done to Dave.
The putts were won by Chris Buckland with 25 putts.
The pro pin on the 8th was won by Craig Buck-
land.The members draw
was not won, so it jack-pots to next week.
Tuesday was a singles stableford event with the winner being Ian Warman with 38 points.
Balls down the line went to Col Stewart 31 points, Lloyd Hemphill 30 points and Fred Stalker with 30 points.
Nearest the pin on the 2nd was won by Fred Stalker.
Best nine was Reg Hannay with 15 points on a count back.
Thursday was a single stableford event with the winner being John Mortensen with 33 points.
Balls down the line went to Daryle Gregg with 31 points.
Nearest the pin on the 8th was won by Frank Peile.
Best nine was won by Henry Mueller with 19 points.
Don’t forget we have a trivia night on the 27th so get in early and book your table.
Next week is a singles stableford event.
Korumburra ladiesTHE mild weather last Wednesday brought out 18 wom-en to enjoy the course.
The event was Par and the Grade winners were: A Grade (0-28) Heather Grist (25) with a score of -4, run-ner-up Julie Brannaghan (22) on -6.
In B Grade (29-45) Barb Twite (31) was the winner with -3 and runner-up was Pam Eyers (42) on -4.
Nearest the pin on the 1st was Jan Hewitt. Four girls played in the 9 hole competition with an
excited Bernadette Pattie (45) winning with 12 points. Three teams went to Woorayl’s Gena Roughead Bowl
last Friday where Heather Grist continued her good form to win B Grade with a nice 35 points, unfortunately Barb Wood lost C Grade on a count back with 32 points, but received a ball down the line for her efforts.
Wednesday, October 10 is the postponed Monthly Medal.
A couple of reminders for our girls to get their teams organized for the Moulton Bowl on Thursday, October 25 and to invite some visitors for Ruby Stephens Am-brose on Monday, November 5.
Meeniyan
Wonthaggi
Woorayl
Korumburra
Bowl winners: from Meeniyan Faye LePage, Irene Holm and Veronica Park.
Winners: C Grade winner Fay Maynard from Woorayl and A Grade winner Veronica Park. Ab-sent B Grade winner Heather Grist.
On the green: Nori Little from Korumburra, Julie Howard from Leongatha and Nancy Hammet of Meeniyan were trying to keep dry on Friday.
Teeing off: Heather Grist from Korumburra, Leonie Bentley from Wonthaggiand Fay Maynard of Wooryal tee off in the Gina Roughead Bowl.
Great mates: Ben Hannon and David Russell had a hit at Woorayl Golf Course last week, lap-ping up the spring sunshine.
PAGE 60 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012
OVER the past three Sundays the club has had some training rides on the program.
Several of these days have been cold and wet and the turnout has been poor.
However, next Sunday the club is looking for all the members to be out at Outtrim at 8am for a family ride morning.
This will be followed by presentations for the road season and a BYO barbecue and social gather-ing.
Some of the members were at the track working bee on Sunday doing the fi rst part of preparations for the coming track season.
There is still a need to renew the track markings and lines.
Club coach Tony Smith has scheduled a track preparation night for Friday, October 19 so that rid-ers can get set up on the bikes prior to the fi rst train-ing nights.
Any interested boys, girls or seniors are welcome to attend and get started on track riding.
There are plenty of club members putting in some longer rides prior to the annual Round the Bay event.
Anyone who has entered for the ride and who is keen to clock up some longer training rides are wel-come to contact the club to see who they can join in with for a training ride.
• LEONGATHA CYCLING
Club welcomes sunny
weather
LEONGATHA Little Athletics has returned for season 2012/13, with more than 80 enthu-siastic young athletes turning out at the velo-drome oval last Saturday for the fi rst competi-tion meet.
The rain held off as all competitors, including many new faces, took to the track and fi eld with great enthusi-asm and spirit.
New members are always welcome at the club, with anyone interested in joining encouraged to attend this Saturday’s meeting, October 13, starting at 9.15am. Please get there early for registration.
Children between the ages of fi ve and 15 can register, with the emphasis on ‘family, fun and fi tness’.
A special ‘On Track’ program for beginners (aged fi ve to seven) is also held, and aims to provide a strong level of motor skills and confi dence in running, jumping and throwing before starting competition.
More information can be found on the club’s website: www.leongathalac.com; or contact club registrar Helen Patterson on 5662 4797.
LEONGATHA Little Athletics has returned for season 2012/13, with more than 80 enthu-
Leongatha Little Aths is back
THE fi nal round of the 2012 Cross Country and Road Rac-ing (XCR) season was held at around Melbourne’s iconic Tan Track, a 3.8km track around King’s Domain and the Botanic Gardens.
The Tan, as commonly and affec-tionately known, was originally a horse track for Melbourne’s well-heeled but today is one of Melbourne’s most fre-quented locations.
Interestingly South Coast Athletics has its own history with the Tan, with all-time records being recorded for South Coast members.
Mirboo North youngster Sam Quirk currently holds the top fi ve performanc-es for the men followed by San Remo’s Lachie Connell in at number six.
In the Women’s another youngster, Wonthaggi’s Sadie Plumb holds the best performance with a time of 16.05 minutes.
The Tan Top 10 performances for South Coast Men and Women:
Men: Sam Quirk –11.36min (2011), Sam Quirk -11.45min (2010), Sam Quirk – 12.05min (2009), Sam Quirk – 12.20min (2012), Sam Quirk – 12.26min (2008), Lachie Con-nell – 12.30min (2010), Steve Quirk – 12.39min (2009), Steve Quirk – 12.50min (2010), Steve Quirk – 12.51min (2008), Ben Quirk – 12.57min (2012).
Thanks to everyone who competed in the XCR series this year and espe-cially to those who offi ciated.
We really suffered with injuries and other commitments this season but still remained competitive in the Men’s under 20, Women’s Division 3 and the Men’s 50+ Divisions.
We also had six of our athletes fi nish in the top 10 within their indi-vidual categories which was a great achievement.
There are a lot of runners out there pounding the pavement who are un-aware that this competition exists.
Runners of all ages and abilities are welcome.
We turn our focus to the summer Track and Field season which com-mences on Tuesday, October 9 at the Leongatha Velodrome Oval, 6pm.
The local competition alternates between Leongatha, Wonthaggi and Newborough.
For further information please con-tact Lyndall Green on 5662 3637.
• SOUTH COAST ATHLETICS
Locals take on the Tan
Fast fi nish: Ryan Giliam, Jacob Wrigley, Mitchell Molloy and Cambell Riseley battle for line honours in a fast-paced 200m.
Top class: Cross country sensation Brigid Johnsonhas no trouble transferring to the track, putting in a great effort in the 800m.
Bar belle: Maddi Cruickshank is a picture of concentration as she prepares to leap over the high jump bar.
Soft landing: Hayley Wight sinks into the sand in the club’s new pit to record her fi rst set of long jumps for the season.
nell – 12.3– 12.5– 12.512.57m
Top runner: Mirboo North’s Sam Quirk holds the top fi ve performances for the South Coast Athletics Club around Melbourne’s Tan Track.
“THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - PAGE 61
STONY Creek’s racetrack will be brought to peak con-dition for its summer racing season, following track re-medial works announced on Wednesday.
Minister for Racing, Denis Napthine and Member for Gippsland South, Peter Ryan announced the $120,000 in remedial track drainage works after they were identifi ed as a priority.
The State Government handed over $60,000 for the works with Country Racing Victoria chipping in $30,000 and the club paying the difference.
“A decade of drought followed by periods of heavy rainfall in Victo-rian regions such as South Gippsland has caused stress to drainage sys-tems at a number of racecourses,” Dr Napthine said.
“The total funding of $120,000 involves the replacement of key
culverts, removal of built-up silt, as well as excavation and repair of drain connections. These works will enhance track drainage and lessen the impact of future fl ooding rains, giving greater certainty to the race club to host events.”
Club chief executive offi cer Ralph Gallagher said the news is fantastic.
“It’s absolutely terrifi c,” he said.“A great signal for Stony Creek
that the club and community are sup-ported so strongly.
“It’s a very signifi cant amount of money and it’s all in the best interest of the Stony Creek Racing Club, its patrons and the general community.”
The refurbishment of the drain-age works is set to start in the com-ing weeks.
“Hopefully they will be fi nished in two weeks then we will trial the track and have trainers run their horses on it and jockeys and stew-ards inspect it which should set us
up well for the start of our racing season,” Mr Gallagher said.
Everything is going great guns for the club as it prepares for the first race of the season on Decem-ber 8.
“The track’s looking good at the moment, once the drainage work is fi nished we’ll do our bi-annual spraying of weeds and that sort of thing which will make sure the track is in top class condition in Decem-ber,” Mr Gallagher said.
“A big change for this year is we have six race meetings this season instead of fi ve.
“We’ve picked up a meet from the Moe Racing Club which happens to fall near St Valentine’s Day.”
Other things are going great at the club too with the hospitality vil-lage going strong and spots being taken fast.
Make sure to check out the races at Stony Creek over summer for a great family day out.
Upgrades race in: Sarah and Jessica Wolf from the Stony Creek Racing Clubare excited about the new drainage upgrades and the upcoming race season.
Raring to race
INVERLOCH Surf Life Saving Club sent six candidates to the 2012 Victorian Advanced Life-saving Camp.
The fi ve day camp held at Lorne at-tracted volunteer lifesavers from across the State.
Their aim was to attain their Gold Me-dallion in Lifesaving with the potential to
be employed as Professional LifeguardRecruits for the summer season withinthe Bass District.
First aid based scenarios were heldwith theory classes reinforcing and ex-tending training from earlier years.
Chilly water conditions didn’t deterthem from swimming the 1200 metrecourse and carrying out their tube andboard rescue practice.
On the track: riders got out on the track at Outtrim recently for the Korumburra Motorcycle Club practice day.
Many local riders took to the dirt including Leongatha’s Ben Gardiner (above) and Jack Hemming (below). Photos courtesy Matt Hayward Photography.
Training up: Inverloch Surf Life Saving Club members Tim Evans, MaxRounds, Nat Wabbis, Max Leonard, Bec Morris and Sam Suke all attended the 2012 Victorian Advanced Lifesaving Camp in Lorne recently.
Inverloch Life Savers train up
PAGE 62 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012
By Matt Dunn
THE Korumburra Bena Football Club has refused to pay the medi-cal and out-of-pocket expenses of a junior footballer who cut his knee open on an exposed sprinkler head.
Tarwin Football Club under 18s player Kyle Robinson, 16, was playing on the muddy Korumburra ground on Saturday, August 11 this year, when he suffered a deep wound that cut him to the bone. The gash required fi ve internal and fi ve exter-nal stitches. It later became infected.
The game was abandoned, and later games were relocated to Stony Creek for the following day.
League insiders believe the ground was in no fi t state to host a football match. It’s a claim that has been refuted by the Bulldogs. Further claims that an offer was made prior to the match to have the game relocated could not be confi rmed.
Nine days after the incident, Kyle’s fa-ther Grant sent the Bulldogs a letter, list-ing his son’s medical and his out-of-pock-et expenses (shifts lost working a part time job and boundary umpiring for the South Gippsland Umpires Association). The bill came to a little under $260.
He asked the club to pay the amount as a “goodwill gesture”.
The Bulldogs replied to the claim in a letter, saying: “...we believe our club has and did everything to ensure player safety, unfortunately in a physical sport injuries do occur.”
“We are glad Kyle’s injury is healing well and we don’t like to see any injuries but we believe that the club shouldn’t have to pay these costs and remuneration for lost shifts,” the letter said.
It’s a response that has angered both father and son.
“I thought they would offer to pay the money as it was their ground. And be-
cause it was a decent injury. I had medical expenses and lost work,” Kyle said.
“It wasn’t a standard injury for footy.”Grant said he “did not want to pursue
any legal avenues”. “I just wanted to cover that money. It’s
not because I want them to admit guilt. It was to be a goodwill gesture. From the start of it I really thought they would pay and when I got that letter it really disap-pointed me. To say they didn’t know the sprinklers were there was just rubbish,” he said.
“They knew they were there. They put them there.”
Bulldogs president Michael Hopkins said that if the club had agreed to the pay-ment it would have opened “a big can of worms”.
“You’d pay one bloke for injuring himself on the footy fi eld, then how many others are you going to pay? The ground had got seriously muddy, but there’s no way we could have predicted that the sprinkler head would surface,” he said.
“If he had landed six inches either way we wouldn’t be having this conversa-tion. Alright, his kid was injured. But we couldn’t foresee that.”
Tarwin Football Club secretary Kieran O’Loughlin believes too much pressure is placed on club committee members to inspect grounds and give them the okay prior to matches.
“I don’t want to see something like Kyle’s injury happen again. The league really needs to make the call. Don’t leave it to the clubs to make the call,” he said.
“That’s where we stand as a club. We could have bashed on and done back fl ips and ranted and raved about the injury. But that wasn’t going to fi x anything. What we really want to ensure is that something like this doesn’t happen again.
“We need a change of protocol, whether it starts from the VCFL (Victo-rian Country Football League) or the AFL (Alberton Football League).”
Kyle Robinson: the Tarwin under 18s footballer cut his knee open on a sprinkler head while playing on the muddy Korumburra Bena Football Club ground. He is out of pocket, but will not be compensated by the Bulldogs.
Bloody ordeal: the injured knee, after it was stitched up at the Wonthaggi Hospital.
Pain, but no pay
DYSON Heppell continues to excel in his AFL career after coming runner-up in Essendon’s Best and Fairest, the Critchon Medal.
Teammate and Brownlow Medal winner Jobe Watson took out the prize over the born and bred Leongatha foot-baller last week.
Since then Heppell has jetted off to
the Northern Territory with fi ve other Essendon footballers as part of their off season trip.
On the trip Heppell will visit remote communities and experience diverse cultural experiences. This includes club sponsored communities Wadeye and Tiwi.
Below he is pictured with fans in the Tiwi community.
Heppell continues to impress
Lightning premiership kicks off Under 16 cricketON Sunday October 14 the junior cricket season of the Le-ongatha & District Cricket Association begins with a Light-ning Premiership of 20-over games being played in Leongatha and Wonthaggi.
Ten teams will take part in two divisions in round robin games. The top team from each division will play each other for the U/16 LDCA 20/20 Cup.
Rules:• Each team bats for 10
overs.• Bowlers are restricted
to 2 overs maximum.• Batsmen must retire
on shot that gets them to 20 runs.
• First named team bats fi rst in each game.
• A Kookaburra ball in good condition is to be used.
Draw for SundayWEST ZONE
9amWorkers v Inverloch
(McMahon Res)Miners v Kilcunda-Bass
(Wonthaggi Rec)Phillip Island - bye
10.45amPhillip Island v Workers
(McMahon Res)Miners v Inverloch(Wonthaggi Rec)
Kilcunda-Bass - bye
12.30pmKilcunda-Bass v Workers
(McMahon Res)Inverloch v Phillip Island
(Wonthaggi Rec)Miners - bye
2.15pmWorkers v Miners(McMahon Res)
Phillip Island v Kilcunda-Bass(Wonthaggi Rec)Inverloch - bye
EAST ZONE9am
Imperials v Korumburra(East Campus)
Poowong-Loch v MDU(Leon Velodrome)
Fish Creek-Tarwin - bye
10.45amFish Creek-Tarwin v Imperials
(East Campus)MDU v Korumburra(Leon Velodrome)
Poowong-Loch - bye
12.30pmPoowong-Loch v Imperials
(East Campus)Korumburra v Fish Ck-Tarwin
(Leon Velodrome)MDU - bye
2.15pmMDU v Imperials(East Campus)
Fish Ck-Tarwin v Poowong-Loch(Leon Velodrome)Korumburra - bye
In the nets: the Koonwarra/Leongatha RSL junior cricket teams got together on Thursday for a hit prepar-ing for the upcoming season. Jake Rockall and Jed Pearce (front) tried out their batting fi rst, while test-ing out their bowling skills were (back from left) Seth Rockall, Hamish Millar, Callum Buckland, Adam Drury and Mitchell Buckland.
Big swing: Jed Pearce tests out his batting before the junior season starts.
“THE STAR”, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - PAGE 63
SAM Hughes and Braydan Moscript lead their team to a win over Foster in a tight one on Satur-day.
Both the openers man-aged half-centuries before they were both caught out.
The Cougars took the win in the fi nal over, knocking up a score of 204, just six runs ahead of their target of 198.
Young gun Ben Doran lead the scoring for Foster
with 66 runs. All-rounder Josh Toner also put in a great effort at the crease with 46 runs to his name.
Koonwarra/RSL bowl-er Daniel Pearce was the only one to claim multiple wickets in the game taking Doran and Chaseling.
Leongatha Town Cap-tain Joe O’Loughlin led his team with 55 runs in a win over Kilcunda-Bass.
O’Loughlin and fel-low opening batsman Brett Moore scored 99 be-tween them adding to their
team’s total of 169 after the 40 overs.
Kilcunda-Bass’s Jacob Dakin was the top scorer for his team with 53 runs but Town bowlers Nathan Johnston and Madura Weerasinghe Silva took charge getting two wicket each.
The Bass boys were dismissed for 137 with two overs to go.
The other two matches could not be played and were considered draws.
WORKMEN opener David Dutchman was one run shy of a century after 40 overs against Phillip Island.
Neither Phillip Island star bowlers Blake Young (two wick-ets) or Darcy Johnston (three) were able to take out Dutchman, who survived the entire innings.
Phillip Island failed to come close to their target of 176 end-ing the innings 8/96.
Joel Sinclair was the top bowler for MDU when they took on Inverloch with three wickets. Sinclair was also MDU’s top scorer with 19 runs.
This, combined with the rest of the team’s efforts, was enough to put the score out of reach for the Inverloch counterparts.
The two other matches were abandoned, however the high-light of the round came from the Miners Dean Jagoe taking 6/32 including a double hat-trick.
Greg Miller also entertained before the match was aban-doned, notching up 80 runs.
TIM and Peter Miller tallied enough to take out Fish Creek-Tar-win themselves on Saturday.
The OMK openers managed a 78 and 42 re-spectively adding to the
168 total.Nick Audino did his part
for the OMK team claim-ing 5/26 helping to dismiss the Fish Creek-Tarwin side in less than 25 overs.
The other matches were abandoned due to wet weather.
Home team Away Team Ground UmpireGrade A1 Imperials v OMK East C C. SalmonInverloch v Phillip Island I Turf K. LesterWorkers v Korumburra BW Oval G. LairdWon Miners v Nerrena Won FG T. RogersGrade A2Foster v Glen Alvie FGC P. AbsolomMDU v Kilcunda-Bass Meen L. WhiteTown v Poowong-Loch L Turf A. Rob-ertsFish Ck-Tarwin v Koonwarra-RSL Tarwin B. BekGrade B1OMK v Glen Alvie Outt S. LanyonPhillip Island v Inverloch Cowes A. Rob-ertsMDU v Won Workmens Dmblk G. WyattNerrena v Won Miners Nerrena I. ThomasGrade B2OMK v Koonwarra-RSL KSC A. StrideKilcunda-Bass v Imperials Newh Col M. WishartWon Workmens v Town McM Rec TBAKorumburra v Fish Ck-Tarwin Kor Rec TBAGrade C1 Town v Kilcunda-Bass WC 1 TBAImperials v Inverloch Leon Velo TBAPoowong-Loch v Phillip Island Loch Rec TBAWon Miners v Nerrena Won Nth B. AllanGrade C2Phillip Island v MDU Red Newh TBAGlen Alvie v Won Workmens Glen A TBAKoonwarra-RS v Foster Koon Rec TBAKorumburra v MDU Blue Mary McK TBAInverloch v OMK Inv Rec TBA
Leongatha District Cricket Association
Umpire AppointmentsEVANS PETROLEUM
Round 2 - October 13
A Grade, Division 2KOONWARRA-RSL v
FOSTER1st innings Foster
M. Lynch c. S. Hughes b. M. Clark ......................... 1
P. Dower c. N.Grimes b. J. Kennedy ................... 17
J. Toner c. D. Pearce b. B. Moscript .................. 46
J. Prain r.o. .............................. 2R. Johnston c. N. Grimes b. S. Turner ...................... 14
B. Doran stp B. Anderson b. D. Pearce ...................... 66
A. Starret lbw b. S. Hughes ..................... 10
S. Chaseling stp B. Anderson b. D. Pearce ........................ 9
G. Tanner n.o. ......................... 8F. Griggs n.o. .......................... 1Extras .................................... 24Total ................................ 8/198 Bowling: M. Clarke 1/24, S.
Sperling 0/26, J. Kennedy 1/25, B. Moscript 1/41, D. Pearce 2/27, S. Turner 1/22, S. Hughes 1/26.
1st innings Koonwarra-RSLS. Hughes c. A. Starret b. J. Prain .......................... 50
B. Moscript c. J. Toner b. B. Doran ...................... 61
C. Wise n.o. .......................... 39S. Sperling b. J. Toner ............. 4B. Anderson n.o. ..................... 7Extras .................................... 43Total ................................ 3/204 Bowling: R. Johnston 0/26,
B. Doran 1/38, A. Starrett 0/38, F. Griggs 0/17, J. Toner 1/27, G. Tanner 0/41, J. Prain 1/13.
KILCUNDA-BASS v TOWN
1st innings Kilcunda-BassS. Oates c. M.T. Borschman b. N. Johnston .................. 21
D. Hunt c. B. Moore b. N. Johnston .................. 17
A. Larcombe r.o. ..................... 3J. Dakin c M.P. Weerasinghe Silva, b. J. Bolge ................... 53J. Tregear std J. Hume b. J. Burge .......................... 6
T. Miller b M.P. Weerasinghe Silva ... 9
P. Palmer c. J. Burge b. J. Bolge ......................... 0
D. Pipicelli std J. Hume b. M.P. Weerasinghe Silva .. 2
J. Mahood std J. Hume b. J. Bolge .......................... 1S. Tapscott n.o......................... 5D. Masinovic r.o. .................... 0Extras .................................... 20Total ................................... 137 Bowling: N. Johnston 2/17, M. Borschman 0/15, J. O’Loughlin 0/27, S. Clark 0/10, M.P. Weerasinghe Silva 2/24, J. Burge 1/33, J. Bolge 3/5.
1st innings TownB. Moore c. D. Hunt b. S. Tapscott ................... 44J. O’Loughlin c D. Huntb. J. Dakin ............................. 55J. Withers r.o. ........................ 31M.P. Weerasinghe Silva b. J. Dakin .......................... 8N. Johnston c. J. Mahood b. J. Tregear ..................... 10M.T. Borschman b. D. Pipicelli ..................... 0J. Hume n.o. ............................ 5Extras .................................... 16Total ......................... 6/169 (cc)
Bowling: D. Pipicelli 1/39, D. Masinovic 0/28, J. Tregear 1/21, J. Mahood 0/29, J. Dakin 2/31, S. Tapscott 1/17.
B Grade, Division 1 WONTHAGGI WORKMEN’S
v PHILLIP ISLAND1st innings Wonthaggi Work-
men’sD. Dutchman n.o. .................. 99R. Geyer c. & b. B.J. Young .... 6C.M. Harvey c. G. Marshall b. B.J. Young ...................... 7C. Harvey c. L. Keating b. D.L. Johnston ................. 9I. Barnes c. D.L. Johnston b. P. Francis ....................... 8A. McLean c. G. Marshall b. D. Johnston .................. 32L. McGuirk lbw b. D.L. Johnston ................. 2L. Borne n.o. ........................... 0Extras .................................... 13Total ......................... 6/176 (cc) Bowling: P.J. Cleary 0/34, B.J. Young 2/13, D.L. Johnston 3/39, J.R. Keating 0/10, P. Fran-cis 1/39, A. Thomas 0/32.
1st innings Phillip IslandM.A. Cleary c. J. Turner b. A. McLean ..................... 1A. Finlayson
b. A. McLean ..................... 4L. Keating c. C.M. Harvey b. J. Turner ....................... 10D.L. Johnston lbw b. L. McLean.................... 13P. Francis c A. McLean b. Z. Macdermid.............. 12P.J. Cleary std C. Harvey b. L. McLean...................... 0J.R. Keating c. C. Harvey b. L. McGuirk .................... 4G. Marshall n.o. .................... 26A. Tolley c. R.Geyer b. L. McLean...................... 9B.J. Young n.o. ........................ 6Extras .................................... 11Total ........................... 8/96 (cc) Bowling: J. Turner 1/16, A. McLean 2/4, L. Borne 0/11, Z. Macdermid 1/10, L. McGuirk 1/17, l. McLean 3/22, C.M. Harvey 0/10.INVERLOCH v MEENIYAN
DUMBALK UNITED1st innings Inverloch
B. Phillips b. J. Riley ......................... 11J. Belli c. R. Oldsen b. L. Mercer ....................... 0T. Wyatt c. T. Sinclair b. S. Riley ....................... 10I. Smith c. R. Olden b. L. Mercer ....................... 7S. Awn r.o................................ 2W. Williams c. L. Corry b. J. Sinclair ..................... 10J. Jackson c. M. Olden b. L. Corry ....................... 13J. Welch std R. Olden b. J. Sinclair ....................... 0M. Goldsmith b. J. Sinclair ....................... 3J.P. Dalmau std R. Olden b. J. Sinclair ....................... 3C. Maher n.o. .......................... 0Extras ...................................... 8Total ..................................... 67 Bowling: L. Mercer 2/19, J. Riley 1/11, S. Riley 1/23, J. Sinclair 3/11, L. Corry 2/2.
1st innings Meeniyan Dumbalk United
R. Olden r.o. ............................ 9J. Sinclair c. M. Goldsmith b. I. Smith ........................ 19T. Zukovskis lbw b. T. Wyatt.......................... 9M. Olden lbw b. I. Smith .......................... 6L. Corry b. T. Wyatt.......................... 3
D. Thomas b. J.P. Dalmau .................. 16B. Davey n.o. ........................ 15T. Sinclair n.o........................ 17Extras .................................... 16Total .......................... 6/110(cc) Bowling: J. Jackson 0/16, J.P. Dalmau 1/23, I. Smith 2/20, W. Williams 0/22, T. Wyatt 2/13, S. Awn 0/10.
B Grade, Division 2FISH CREEK TARWIN
v OUTTRIM MOYARRA KONGWAK
1st innings Fish Creek TarwinJ. Pouw b. G. Lomagno ................. 13D. Lavarda b. N. Audino....................... 8G. Webster b. N. Audino....................... 7T. Redpath b. G. Adams ....................... 0M. Bright b. N. Audino....................... 0M. Van Boven c. B. Maguire b. N. Audino....................... 5L. Buckland std & b. N Audino 0N. Bergman b. R. Provan ..................... 31T. Peters n.o. ........................... 0A. Watkins b. R. Provan ...................... 1Extras ...................................... 7Total ..................................... 72 Bowling: G. Lomagno 1/11, C. O’Brien 0/16, N. Audino 5/26, G. Adams 1/10, R. Provan 2/3.1st innings Outtrim Moyarra
KongwakP. Miller b. M. Van Boven .............. 42T. Miller c. N. Bergman b. L. Buckland.................. 78T. Creed lbw b. L. Buckland.................. 31P. Harper lbw b. J. Pouw .......................... 5C. O’Brien n.o......................... 0G. Lomagno n.o. ..................... 0Extras .................................... 12Total ......................... 4/168 (cc) Bowling: J. Pouw 1/22, N. Bergman 0/13, M. Van Boven 1/32, T. Redpath 0/37, G. Buck-land 0/21, L. Buckland 2/35.
Hit away: Foster’s Josh Toner gets one away early on his way to 46 runs on Saturday in A2.
• A GRADE DIVISION 2
Cougars take tight one
Wet weather, less games
Overs beat Dutchman Miller boys hit big
Squad: W. Taberner, D. Clark, R. Thomas, K. Rothier (Inverloch); D. Lloyd, J. Wilson, B. Wyatt, A. Jenkins, P. Dyer (OMK); U. Weerasinghe, D. Salmon (Korumburra); S. Murdoch, E. Richards, J. Finnigan (Phillip Island); S. Coppell (Glen Alvie), S. Hughes (Koonwarra-RSL); C. Frie-be, T. Wightman, M. Clark (Nerrena); S. Oates (Kil-cunda-Bass); M. Weeras-inghe (Town); M. Johnson (Miners); R. Thomas, G. Britt (Workmens); L. Rog-ers (Imperials).
GCL dates: Round 1 (October 28) v Traralgon at Traralgon; Round 2 (No-vember 18) v bye; Round 3 (December 2) v Bairns-dale at Leongatha; Round 4 (January 13) v Alberton at Alberton West; Round 5 (January 20) v Sale-Maffra at Inverloch.
Melbourne Country Week dates: February 18 - 22, 2013.
If unavailable contact Gary Sauvarin 0407 343 204 or Clive Salmon 0429 624 635.
LDCA Senior GCL
representative squad
SIXTEEN grounds were un-available this week in the Le-ongatha and District Cricket Association.
This meant only A and B Grade teams could play but most of those games were abandoned due to wet weather.
Association president Russell Mat-thews said this is a regular occurrence for the start of the season.
“The last couple of years it has been a regular thing, but this year it was a bit wetter,” he said.
“If it hadn’t rained in the last week, a lot of grounds would have dried out nicely.”
Despite the wash-outs and lack of games, Matthews was happy to see
some games get a result.“It was great to see some games get
fi nished despite the weather,” he said.“This round it was good to see Fos-
ter competitive against Koonwarra/RSL. The Cougars will be right up therethis year.”
Next week Matthews is hoping tohave all teams playing.
“Looking ahead this week it’s sup-pose to be showers every day so I don’tknow whether we will be able to get CGrade on the ground or not, but at thisstage we’re going to go for it,” he said.
“If we don’t get much rain this weekwe might get to make a start, but if it doeskeep showering we might struggle.”
Clubs will be informed on Thursdaywhether or not C Grade will be playing.
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IT was a traditionally wet start to the Leon-gatha and District Cricket Association sea-son on the weekend with only a handful of the games getting a result.
No A1 teams were able to walk away with a win,
with Koonwarra/Leongatha RSL and Leongatha Town bettering their counterparts in A2.
For the full cricket scores see page 63.
Caught: Sam Hughes dives for a close catch in the Cougars match against Foster on Saturday.
