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By Mike HastA MT Eliza man has been fi ned $500 and ordered to pay restitution of $1000 and legal costs of $2000 after contrac-tors cut down street trees in front of his property in Dueran St.
David Gladman was charged by Mornington Peninsula Shire with four counts of wilful damage and fi ned in Frankston Magistrates’ Court on 16 June after pleading guilty.
The $1000 will go to the shire’s parks and roadsides team for planting new trees on the shire-owned land.
Contractors working for Mr Glad-man also removed trees in the front yard of his property, but the shire’s team leader of development compli-ance, Luke Eng lish, said this was a lawful act.
Federal MP Bruce Billson, whose electorate of Dunkley covers Mt Eliza, lobbied the shire on behalf of Mr Glad-man, seeking to negotiate a settlement and keep the matter out of court.
Mr Billson said David and Sophie Gladman had acted in good faith after an arborist had told them the trees were diseased and should come down.
“They inadvertedly did the wrong thing and offered to make good at their own expense and undertake reha-bilitation works,” he told The News.
“I believe the shire and the Gladmans could not agree on the cost of the work. Efforts to solve the issue amicably fell apart.”
Mr Billson said he was not in favour of reckless tree clearing but this was a matter of residents not understanding the law.
The Dueran St trees were cut down
by a tree felling team that has been working in Mt Eliza and surrounds since the introduction of the so-called 10/30 rule.
Mt Eliza Ward councillor Leigh Eus-tace said the tree cutters were from New Zealand.
“The boss goes doorknocking and offers to remove trees cheaply, send-ing his crew next day in an unmarked white van,” he said.
In some cases trees were being re-mov ed without valid permits or rea-sons, he said.
The 10/30 rules was brought in by the state government in September 2009 and is due to expire next March.
The controversial rule was a reaction to the devastating Black Saturday bush-fi res of 7 February 2009 and allowed landowners in 59 of Victoria’s 78 mu-ni cipalities to clear trees 10 metres from a house, and shrubs and ground cover 30 metres from a house without a permit. Trees within four metres of a fence line can also be removed.
In October 2009, the state govern-ment revoked a Frankston Council envi-ronmental planning local law after the council refused to adopt the 10/30 law.
The council chief executive George Modrich said he had “signifi cant con-cern” about the impact on estab lish ed urban areas not prone to bush fi res as “most of the municipality has been as-sessed by the CFA as low fi re risk”.
Living With the Bush spokesman Louis Delacretaz said the peninsula risked being denuded: “I would think that the fi rst trees to go will be the ones where people have wanted to cut them down for other reasons.”
Fine after Fine after axing of axing of street treestreet tree
WHO is that masked man? While he’s no marauder or saviour of the weak and vulnerable as far as we know, but he is the mayor.
Although it is a month away, Cr Graham Pittock is al-ready willing to put on a mask to round up contenders for this year’s mayoral ball – “a masquerade extravaganza”.
The annual ball will raise money for the Mornington Peninsula Charitable Trust and the Mornington Peninsula branch of Make-A-Wish Australia, which last year granted Matilda Airey’s wish to meet Christina Aguilera in Los Angeles.
Matilda, of Langwarrin, will be guest singer at the ball which has the Phil Ceberano Band headlining the enter-tainment. There will also be live and silent auctions and a
three-course meal and drinks.“Make-A-Wish Australia does a fantastic job in helping
to grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medi-cal conditions,” Cr Pittock said. “And the Mornington Pe-ninsula Charitable Trust assists local charities, so the more funds we can raise for these two great causes the better.”
President of the peninsula branch of Make-A-Wish Len Kelly said that since being formed two years the branch had raised more than $26,000 and been involved with the granting of 18 wishes.
The mayor’s charity ball will be held at The National Golf Club, Cape Schanck, on Friday 12 August.
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Charity time: Singer Matilda Airey and the mayor Graham Pittock step out early to promote this year’s mayoral ball.
Mayor masks up for charityMayor masks up for charity
PAGE 2 Mornington News 14 July 2011
ROCKS and soil stockpiled at Mt Martha Quarry will be used as part of works to stabilise Eyrie Gully at Mc-Crae.
The work has already been delayed and is now scheduled to start in No-vember, but could be put back to Feb-ruary if wet weather continues.
Road contractors Maw Civil were originally given 22 weeks free use of the quarry to use as a depot while con-structing nearby Wonderland Terrace.
The deadline to reinstate the quarry
ran out months ago but the company now appears to have been given a re-prieve by the need to use the stored materials at McCrae.
Mornington Peninsula Shire’s prop-erty and valuations manager Yasmin Woods said grasses were now growing over the stored material and contrac-tors would soon spray the weeds.
“Once the materials are removed, the spoiled site will be reinstated by the contractor,” Ms Woods said.
In February Ms Woods defended
giving Maw’s free use of the quarry when asked why community groups had to pay to use other council-owned properties.
Ms Woods said Maw’s use of the quarry was “a functional solution to the issue of storage of construction materials for residents, the contractor and council as principal”.
The News fi rst reported on the use of the quarry in October, when it had already been used for several months.
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By Mike HastA STALWART of Mornington Penin-sula fi re brigades and a link to the early European settlers, William John “Bill” Jones died at age 94 on Thurs-day 7 July.
Also known as “Mr Moorooduc”, Bill was communications offi cer of the Westernport Fire Brigade Group for 27 years and a fi rey at Morning-ton and Moorooduc brigades for a remarkable 68 years.
He was awarded the British Empire Medal in 1968 and the Australian Fire Service Medal on Australia Day in 1994 for services to fi refi ghting.
He also received service awards from the CFA, including a 65-year medal in 2008, as well as the Queen’s Fire Brigade Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1974, the T H Grigg Achievement Award for out-standing achievement within the fi re service in 1985, the CFA Outstanding Service Badge in 1990 and National Medal in 1995.
Bill joined Mornington Rural Fire Bri gade in 1943 and Moorooduc in 1960. He was an honorary member at Mornington, and life member of Moorooduc, Westernport Group and Victorian Rural Fire Brigade Assoc-iation’s No. 8 Regional Council
Farewell to CFA legend Bill JonesFarewell to CFA legend Bill Jones
CFA radio pioneer: Legendary fi re brigade communications offi cer Bill Jones of Moorooduc served as a volunteer fi refi ghter for 68 years, fi rst with Mornington and then with Moorooduc and the wider Westernport Fire Brigade Group. Picture courtesy CFA
Over the years he held the positions of fi refi ghter, communications offi cer for the Moorooduc brigade and Wes-tern port group of brigades, and Region 8 base radio operator.
His wife Bette, also a CFA stalwart, was also a recipient of the BEM.
Bill was a member of the pioneering Jones family who arrived on the penin-sula in the 1800s, at the dawn of Euro-pean settlement.
Memorial notices in daily newspa-pers this week came from CFA District 8 and Westernport Fire Brigade Group as well as brigades at Mornington, Mt Martha, Dromana, Hastings, So mer-ville, Bittern, Langwarrin and Pearce-dale.
He was variously described as a “true CFA icon”, “a good friend and mentor” of various brigades, “an es teem ed col-league”, and “always a friendly voice on the end of the radio”.
In 1868 Edward Jones, a carpenter of Sandridge (now Port Melbourne), leased land near the corner of Morning-ton-Tyabb Rd and Stumpy Gully Rd.
It was called Spring Farm and had cattle, sheep, pigs, orchards and a dairy.
Edward and Sarah Jones had seven children and later bought land at what is now the intersection of Mornington-Tyabb Rd and Derril Rd, which became the centre of Moorooduc.
In the 1920s, the family operated a general store at the intersection, which is still known as Jones Corner.
The Jones family gave land for the erection of a Nissen hut, a tin shed for the fi re brigade, in the 1940s. The bri-gade converted the fi rst tanker from an ex-Army vehicle.
Bill and Bette, along with brothers Len and Ken Gibson, pioneered the installation of ex-Army VHF radios in fi re trucks and installed a radio base sta-tion.
A peninsula fi re brigade history re-cords that the fi rst radio call was made at 12.15pm on 29 October 1953.
“Today, communications on the fi re ground back to a central base is almost taken for granted but this was an enor-mous achievement in the early 1950s,” wrote Allan Monti in his history.
Bill is survived by his wife of 63 years, Bette, daughter Roz, sons Daryl Nev, nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
His funeral is at 1pm on Friday at New Peninsula Church in Craigie Rd, Mt Martha, and more than 1000 mourn-ers are expected. He will be buried at Mornington Cemetery.
In place of fl owers, the family has requested donations to the Moorooduc Fire Brigade, which will establish a fund in memory of Bill.
Call made for Call made for enviro heroesenviro heroesNOMINATIONS for the 2011 Victo-rian Landcare Awards are being taken.
Mornington MP David Morris said the awards are an opportunity to rec-ognise the invaluable environmental contribution volunteers make to riv-ers, farming land, wetlands, estuar-ies, coasts and urban environments.
“It’s important we highlight the efforts of com munity members who work hard to make our land better for the generations ahead,” he said.
“There’ll be a focus on creative initiatives in cluding sustainable farming, bushfi re recovery, aware-ness and partnership building.”
Victorians can nominate volun-teers or groups for about 18 award categories, including seven special Victoria-specifi c categories.
Landcare volunteers perform a range of tasks including planting trees, stopping soil erosion, protect-ing native wildlife, and controlling weeds and pests.
Nominations close 22 July. State winners will become nominees in the biennial national Landcare awards 2012. For more information visit www.landcarevic.net.au
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AN important deadline is approaching for Morn-ington Peninsula Shire councillors: deciding whether to advertise that the CEO’s $320,000 a year job is vacant.
Under local government regulations the current CEO Michael Kennedy must be told next month, August, whether his position is to be advertised.
When Dr Kennedy’s contract runs out in Feb-ruary it will be his 13th year in the job and it will be the third time in a row if he is reappointed without council seeking other applicants for the position.
Despite dissatisfaction from ratepayer groups about the position not being advertised, council-lors are giving no guarantees they will seek other applicants.
The mayor, Cr Graham Pittock has said the “fi nal
decision is for the council and not the community”.In response to a question from Tyabb resident
David Lines at council’s 27 June meeting Cr Pit-tock said council was “crucially aware of the process to be followed in either appointing or re-appointing the chief executive offi cer”.
According to council minutes Cr Pittock “also confi rmed that councillors, as the elected repre-sentatives of the community, take this decision very seriously and the fi nal decision is for the council and not the community. At this stage, council has not formally resolved whether to ap-point or reappoint the chief executive offi cer.”
Mr Lines had asked why Mr Kennedy’s posi-tion would not be advertised “as he has held this offi ce for approximately 13 years, maybe it is time for a change”.
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Good fi re: Djarrin Blow, left, and Conrad Ross conduct a smoking ceremony outside the shire council’s Rosebud offi ce last Monday for NAIDOC Week. It is an ancient custom that involves smoldering various native plants as either a welcome to country or to cleanse “bad” spirits.
By Mike HastADAM Edwards Magennis, a second year archaeology student and Boon-wurrung man, was deep in conversa-tion with geologist Tim Evans during a break at a workshop at The Briars Park visitors centre in Mt Martha.
Tim rolled out a huge chart showing the Mornington Peninsula’s ancient geology and the two men pored over it, animatedly pointing here and there.
Adam, a cultural offi cer with Morn-ington Peninsula Shire’s Aboriginal support and development team, was gleaning crucial information from the Ringwood-based geologist and found-er of Terra Geoscience.
“The basement rocks in the Dromana Bay catchment are covered by ancient shallow marine sandstone and this is in turn is covered with 10,000-year-old river, estuarine and beach sediment. I’d look for Aboriginal artefacts here, too,” the geologist said.
Adam nodded his head and made more notes in a book.
The meeting of minds is part of Ad-am’s journey that has led him to study for a Bachelor of Archaeology at La Trobe University. He is two-thirds of the way through an honours degree to be completed next June.
He will become a cultural heritage adviser, qualifi ed under Victorian leg-islation to appraise Aboriginal sites, the shire’s fi rst Aboriginal heritage adviser.
He will advise government and de-ve lopers, devise cultural heritage management plans, and join 22 other Aboriginal archaeologists and the new Aboriginal Archaeologists Associa-tion, founded earlier this year.
Adam’s university course and job at the shire is being funded by the federal Department of Education, Employ-ment and Workplace Relations.
Shire support includes an offi ce at Hastings, a computer and administra-tive support.
“I’ve had tremendous help from many people at the shire including Mi-chael Kennedy, Joe Cauchi, Alex At-kins, Margaret Taylor, Jenny Macaffer
No stone goes No stone goes unturned in unturned in search for pastsearch for past
Digs older things: Adam Edwards Magennis, a cultural offi cer with Mornington Peninsula Shire’s Aboriginal support and development team, is doing an honours degree in archaeology at La Trobe University and hopes to become the shire’s fi rst qualfi ed cultural heritage adviser.
and my colleagues and friends on the Aboriginal support and development team, Glenys Watts, Beryl Wilson and Debbie Mellett,” he said.
He has worked at Mornington har-bour, where the yacht club is propos-ing to build a marina; other peninsula sites; and conducted workshops for councillors at the eight municipalities that are members of Inter-Council Ab-original Consultative Committee, for whom he used to work.
The shire’s manager of sustainable communities, Joe Cauchi, says it will be good when Adam is qualifi ed to carry out cultural heritage manage-ment plans.
The shire spends about $150,000 a year on outside consultants to prepare these plans.
“We know where most of the sen-sitive areas are located,” Adam says, “but there is much work to do on the ground when a planning application triggers the Aboriginal Heritage Act.”
Oddly, applications for single-storey buildings do not trigger cultural heri-tage requirements.
It’s been a colourful journey for the 36-year-old, who lives in Mornington with his wife of six years, Kylie, and their four-year-old daughter and two-year-old son.
He grew up in Bayswater North and attended Ringwood Secondary Col-lege from years 7-10 and Box Hill Tech for year 11, where he studied graphic communications in 1991, the fi rst year of VCE in Victoria.
He became a qualifi ed stonemason and bricklayer in 1995, and worked at various sites around the eastern sub-urbs. He was only the third Aboriginal man in Victoria to become a qualifi ed bricklayer. This attracted the attention of the ABC, which interviewed him for a television program called All in a Day’s Work.
In 1997 he set off to see the United States and Canada for three months.
APART from family life, university studies and shire work, Recon-ciliation Day in May and NAIDOC Week, which ended last Saturday, kept Adam Magennis busy.
At Rosebud Cinema on 25 May, a Reconciliation Day event included legendary singer Archie Roach performing two songs that left hardly a dry eye in the packed cinema.
More than 100 people were turned away from a screening of Liyarn Ngarn, a documentary made in 2007 by Martin Mhando, featuring Archie Roach, longtime activist Patrick Dodson and the late British actor Pete Postlethwaite (who died in January) travelling around Australia to confront the harsh realities of deaths in custody and the Stolen Generation.
Archie’s performance was
supported by peninsula a cappella group Lingmarra, an all-white women group building a reputation for sensitive renditions of songs from around the world. Adam played one of his didgeridoos.
Boonwurrung elder Caroline Briggs gave a stirring talk, thanked by Cr Tim Rodgers, and Adam presented one of his large traditional paintings to Archie Roach.
On the weekend, Adam Magennis becomes “Byron”, pulling on the boots for the Peninsula Raiders Superules Football Club, the over-35s who just can’t bear to give the game away.
A tough wingman, he usually plays for the Masters team, but last week helped the Supers defeat Hallam, 13.12-90 to 7.4-46, snagging a sausage roll off the interchange bench.
Man for all seasonsMan for all seasons
“It was a fantastic experience and I returned to North America the follow-ing year, spending more than two years working on building sites in the Mid-west, including as a foreman.”
He travelled through the States and Canada, meeting people of all types including indigenous people.
He did a bus trip across Canada from
Toronto to Vancouver, and worked at the Lake Louise skifi elds.
When crossing the border from De-troit to Windsor one time, he was ar-rested carrying three didgeridoos. Bor-der police thought they were guns. “I had to do a mini-concert to prove to police they were musical instruments,” he recalls with a chuckle.
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By Mike HastRYE Community Bank and Morn-ington Peninsula Shire are in confl ict, sparked by the shire choosing the Na-tional Australia Bank for a $3 million loan.
The loan, approved by councillors on 14 June, was for capital works proj-ects in the 2010-11 fi nancial year just ended.
The shire sought quotes from three banks for the loan, which is to be re-paid over 15 years – NAB, Common-wealth and Rye Community Bank.
NAB came up with the best rate – 7.54 per cent a year, one quarter of one per cent better than Rye bank – and NAB’s offer was accepted.
The money was drawn down on 20 June.
Rye Community Bank, owned by a company called Rye & District Com-munity Bank Branch, is disappointed with the shire and is considering its $26,000 sponsorship of Australia Day events in Rye and Dromana.
The money may be shifted to service clubs such as Rotary or Lions.
The 2010 Dromana event won the shire’s community event of the year.
Rye & District Community Bank in conjunction with other Mornington Pen-insula branches was also considering
taking up naming rights at the former Mornington Secondary College class-room block being renovated for commu-nity use. The rights are worth $300,000 – $60,000 a year for fi ve years.
Half the block will become the stu-dios of community station Radio Port Phillip, expected to open in September.
The other half of the four-classroom block is to be renovated for use by several community groups and will be ready next year. It is seen as an adjunct to Mornington library’s meeting room.
The shire went with Rye Community Bank for two loans last year and the year before, together worth $5.3 million.
The News believes senior bank exe-cutive Gary Sanford and shire mayor Graham Pittock had a robust discus-sion at a charity golf day soon after the shire chose the NAB.
Cr Pittock would not comment on the golf day, but said he was a strong supporter of community banks on the peninsula.
“We need an in-depth conversation with the [bank] board,” he said.
The News contacted Mr Sanford, who is on leave, through a member of the Rye bank board. “We don’t want to say anything at this stage,” the spokes-man said.
A council source told The News the Rye bank was cutting off its nose to spite its face. “The loan tender was not a Dutch auction. The banks were asked for their best rate and the National came out on top.”
The source said Rye bank had formed stronger links with sporting clubs and other community groups on the peninsula and saying it would with-draw support from the two Australia Day events, and the radio station and community meeting space was short sighted.
The News believes Rye bank insid-ers are privately annoyed with the shire. The council does all its banking with NAB, but does not hesitate to ask
Rye bank for contributions to various events and fundraising activities.
At the council meeting on 14 June, the shire’s fi nance manager Geoff Em-berson told councillors the difference in rates made the community bank of-fer “less attractive” than in the past.
He said there was a $185,000 differ-ential between the NAB and Rye bank rates over the life of the loan. Asked about how much the community bank would put back into the community as a percentage of and over the life of the loan, he said “$63,000 ... so we’d [the
shire] be $120,000 worse off”.Rye bank rates had been much closer
in the past, he said.Questioned further, Mr Emberson said
the difference was 0.25 of 1 per cent.The NAB loan was approved unani-
mously by the council after the motion was moved by Cr Anne Shaw and sec-onded by Cr Frank Martin.
Before discussion and voting on the matter, Cr David Gibb declared an in-direct confl ict of interest as a minor shareholder of the National Australia Bank and left the council chamber.
Fireworks over bank loanFireworks over bank loanSponsor cut threat Sponsor cut threat to Australia Dayto Australia Day RYE Community Bank opened in
June 2001 after residents got togeth-er and invited Bendigo Bank to open a branch after fi ve banks closed their doors in the town.
The bank’s formal name is Rye & District Community Bank Branch and its shareholders are peninsula residents.
The company opened a branch in Dromana in June 2007, with shares being taken up by locals in a matter of days, one of the most successful
capital raisings in Australian com-munity bank history.
Rye & District Community Bank has returned thousands of dollars to the community, helping sporting clubs, schools and other organisa-tions.
Other community banks under the Bendigo Bank brand have been opened on the peninsula in Balnar-ring, Hastings, Mt Martha and Mt Eliza, and there are more than 273 community banks around Australia.
Banking on BendigoBanking on Bendigo
VOLUNTEERS attending this Sunday’s working bee organised by Balcombe Estuary Rehabilita-tion Group (BERG) have been reminded that they now come under occupational health and safety guidelines.
Clothing for the day should include sturdy boots or shoes, long pants and long sleeves to minimise risk of scratches, injuries from tools or bites.
In summer, volunteers can add hats and sun-screen to their list along with water, although BERG will also have some drinking water avail-able.
The health and safety guidelines have been set by Coast Action/Coastcare and Mornington Pe-ninsula Shire.
Anyone wanting to pitch in and help BERG between 9am and midday on Sunday, 17 July, should meet at the parking area by the rotunda, at the end of Mirang Av (Melway 144 K11). For information, call Liz Barraclough on 0408 388 430.
Other activities over the next month include Friday working bees 10am-midday, call Ms Barr-aclough 0408 388 430 or Sue Betheras 0408 808 201; Tuesday working bees, call Mary Stemp 5974 3996; and WaterWatch testing Saturday 13 August, 9am at the Augusta St bridge. Call John Inchley, 5974 1095.
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By Mike HastPLANS for the expansion of Yaringa Marina on the edge of Western Port at Somerville have been submitted to the federal government, triggering the En-vironment Protection and Bio diversity Conservation Act.
The plan needs approval from the federal government’s Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities before it goes back to Mornington Peninsula Shire and then on public exhibition.
It would then go to the state go-vernment, which would appoint an independent panel to consider the plan before returning it to the shire.
The plans also trigger seven Victorian acts covering the environment, fl ora and fauna, planning, wildlife, land pro tection, coastal management, and native vegetation.
The expansion of the complex at the end of Lumeah Rd was fi rst proposed in 2009 and will consist of: Excavation of a new 300-metre long marina arm on private land to create 200 new wet berths. A $1 million lock between the exist-ing 300-metre marina arm and the new section to retain water in all tides. The lock would be on public land held un-der a 21-year lease. About 200 new dry berths on private land with some under cover in new buildings. 180 holiday apartments beside the new marina arm on private land. New buildings for the existing ma-
rine service centre, which currently is home to 20 companies.
The existing marina has room for 600 boats, 150 in wet berths on leased public land and dry storage for 450 boats on private land.
A channel between the two marinas would be 70 metres long, seven metres wide and 2.5 metres deep.
The lock would be 25 metres long.Yaringa marina owner Stefan
Borzecki, who grew up in Hastings and has owned the marina for almost 30 years, said he had commissioned studies covering Aboriginal heritage, fl ora and fauna, economic viability, acid sulphate soils, coastal hazards (predicted sea level rise), water circu-
lation, landscape and fi re risk. An en-vironment management plan had also been prepared.
Mr Borzecki said construction would employ 860 people and once completed the expansion would gen-erate 200 di rect and 600 indirect jobs.
Mr Borzecki’s land is zoned Spe-cial Use and the leased Crown land
is zoned Public Conservation and Re-source.
The entire complex would occupy 23 hectares.
The expansion would entail removal of 3.4 hectares of remnant vegetation, which was being offset by land Mr Borzecki had bought on French Island.
“It’s been a long-term dream to ex-pand the marina as we have been at full capacity for some time,” he said.
It was well known that expansion of marinas would only be fi nancially vi-able with accommodation, he said.
“I’ll be seeking rezoning for the new marina basin and the apartments.”
Mr Borzecki said no works are pro-posed in the existing marina basin or along the access channel to deep wa-ter.
“Apart from the management of tou rist accommodation, no new ope-rational activities will occur on the site.
“My planners have talked with the shire, Department of Sustainabil-ity and Environment, Department of Planning and Com munity Develop-ment, Abori ginal Affairs Victoria, Port of Hastings, and Country Fire Author-ity.”
The Yaringa plans went to the fed-eral government in the same week that the Baillieu government said it would scrap the previous Labor govern-ment’s Melbourne 2030 strategic plan-ning policy framework and expand develop ment in green wedge zones.
Marina plan to CanberraMarina plan to Canberra$$50m expansion for boat harbour50m expansion for boat harbour
Planned development: An artist’s impression of the expanded Yaringa Marina complete with apartments and extra moorings (cen-tre top) and the existing marina (right), which was built in 1984. The marine service centre is at left.
Mornington News 14 July 2011 PAGE 7
AN elderly woman escaped with her life and just a few sentimental pos-sessions when fi re virtually destroyed the interior of her brick home on the border of Tuerong and Hastings.
The blaze, believed to have started in the heating system, has brought re-newed calls by the CFA for peninsula residents to be vigilant as winter bites.
More than 75 per cent of the Tuerong house was on fi re when Hastings CFA arrived at lunchtime to fi nd the elderly woman standing safely outside.
Following Hastings came CFA units from Balnarring, Moorooduc, Tyabb, Somerville, Mornington and Frankston, with Mornington fi reys bringing a thermal imaging camera and Frankston brigade a breathing ap-paratus van.
CFA brigade administrative support offi cer Jane Orr said it took more than 30 minutes to douse the fi re, which caused the collapse of a large section of the roof. In all, 11 CFA vehicles at-tended the blaze.
Fireys were initially hampered by in-suffi cient water until Balnarring CFA’s “big fi ll” unit arrived.
The quick fi ll pump is used to sup-ply tankers from dams and other static water supplies.
CFA state duty offi cer Kevin Pettit said winter was the peak period for house fi res and a recent spate of inci-dents had highlighted the need to take fi re risk seriously.
“More than 1200 homes in Victoria caught fi re during the winter of 2010
and about 10 per cent of blazes were caused by heaters,” he said.
“There is no excuse. People must be vigilant in using heating and electrical appliances this winter.”
The CFA advises: Ensure your heater is not a fi re threat by having it professionally checked each year; maintain it according to the manufacturer’s instructions; and keep clothing, curtains, toys and anything combustible at least one metre away Keep your open fi re place under con-
trol by always placing a screen in front of it; extinguish fi res before going to bed or going out; and keep fl ammable materials at least one metre away. Make sure your electric blanket is safe by checking the wires aren’t dam-aged and there are no burn spots; fi t-ting it fi rmly to the bed; and don’t have it on for longer than half an hour and turn off before going to sleep.
For more on home fi re safety go to www.homefi resafety.com.au
Fire warning as winter bitesFire warning as winter bitesWinter warning: An elderly woman made a quick exit when her house at Tuerong caught fi re.
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Program facilitator guide residents through the facts, activities and challenges to make the home more sustainable and save on energy and water bills.
Residents can learn from demonstrations and group discussions in a relaxed and social atmos-phere. The program’s fl exible design allows the course to focus on what’s important to individu-als.
The course has been developed in conjunction with the CSIRO and the Australian Conservation Foundation and is divided into modules about the themes of energy, water, waste and garden.
Groups will be guided by a peninsula person with knowledge about household sustainability.
The activities will assist participants to decide the most important changes they can make in their home and set about making the changes.
The program is geared to encourage household action either through behaviour change, DIY product installations or employing service pro-viders.
The Sustainable Homes program will be held at Sorrento Community Centre on Tuesdays 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 August, from 6-8pm. Cost is $55.
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Thrills and skillsThrills and skillsMORNINGTON Breakers’ three-day basketball skills and drills camp from Thursday to Saturday 14-16 July at 9am-3pm will raise money to send the under-18 boys to the United States in December.
The camp at Mornington Secondary College’s stadium will be led by Breakers head coach Chris Jan-nese with other club coaches and the under-18 boys from the VC and Regional 2 Mornington Breakers teams.
Cost is $35 a day, two days $60.To register call Chris Jannese on 0438 555 403 or email [email protected]
Angelic comedyAngelic comedyMORNINGTON CEF Players’ coming produc tion of the Samuel and Bella Spewacks comedy My Three Angels was fi rst staged in 1953.
In 1954 Paramount Pictures released the movie version, We’re No Angels, starring Humphrey Bog-art, Aldo Ray and Peter Ustinov.
“This is a whimsical period comedy that tells the story of three Devil’s Island convicts helping a dominated shopkeeper and his family to outwit a scheming relative,” Linda Wood of the CEF said.
The play will be performed in St Peter’s Hall, Albert St, Mornington, on Friday and Saturday 29-30 July and 5-6 August at 8pm, with two Sunday matinees on 31 July and 7 August at 2pm.
Tickets are $20, $17 (concession) and $15 (under 16). Bookings: 5977 0347 (credit card facilities available).
The troupe is holding auditions for its Novem ber show, Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, 2, 4 and 7 August.
For audition bookings and more information, call 0438 029 106.
PAGE 8 Mornington News 14 July 2011
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By Mike HastBASHING and crashing 30-year-old plus cars along dirt roads in Outback Australia for 11 days must be addic-tive.
How else would you explain the attraction of taking part in the Vari-ety Club Bash year after year for two famous teams from Western Port and Mornington?
The pink 1967 Holden station wagon dubbed the Babemobile – carrying an all-women team dressed in pink uni-forms – and the multi-coloured 1986 Ford LTD with three blokes aboard will again trundle up the peninsula to join an expected 100 cars at the Mel-bourne departure point.
This year’s Bash starts on 22 August and takes entrants on a cook’s tour of Tasmania, not visited by Bashers for 15 years.
Bashes since then have crossed some of Australia’s most inhospitable coun-try, but entrants return to their comfy lives with a host of tall tales and true – and the satisfaction of collectively raising millions of dollars for the chil-dren’s charity since entrepreneur Dick Smith organised the fi rst Bash in 1985.
Aboard the Babemobile will be Jill Lewis of Pearcedale, the business manager at Frankston Special Devel-opmental School, and Mornington Peninsula Shire’s 2004 Citizen of the Year Eunice Mathews of Hastings, an indefatigable community volunteer.
The seasoned Bashers (Jill’s done 15, Eunice 14) will be joined this year by rookie Marg Rae, a former penin-sula business manager and now work-ing for a bank in Bendigo. She’s fi lling in for regular “Babe” Gayle Shute.
The Babemobile has completed 13 Bashes, a remarkable record for a car of its vintage – Broome 1998, Airlie Beach 1999, Kalgoorlie 2000, Gold Coast 2001, Alice Springs 2002, Mis-sion Beach 2003, Darwin 2004, Calo-undra 2005, Cairns 2006, Byron Bay 2007, Yeppoon 2008, Alice Springs 2009 and Margaret River last year.
In Mornington, restaurateur John Crossin (10 Bashes) and automotive genius John “Bubba” Mackie (9) will be a man short this year in their team the Kippanookas, which they swear blind means “chicken botherers”.
Regular teammate Geoff Adshead (9 events) has pleaded for a year off to consolidate his scaffolding business.
Bubba has owned Mornington Car and Tyre Services since 1993 and keeps both cars on the road.
Bubba and Geoff are one Bash be-hind Johnny Crossin because both pulled out last year, but Crossin turned up at the start line anyway – on his own. Eunice “Mum” Mathews kindly volunteered to leave the Babes and ac-company Johnny for the 11 days from Ballarat to Margaret River in WA, an experience the pair still laugh about.
She takes the mickey out of his driving as The News sits with Eunice, Johnny and Bubba over a cup of tea on the deck of Crossin’s newest restaura-teur venture, Harba, on the Esplanade in Mornington last Wednesday.
“You nearly killed us at Streaky Bay, John,” she says with a big grin.
“Don’t exaggerate, Mum; besides, that was Bubba’s fault,” says Crossin, “the nuts came off the rear wheel.”
Bubba insists the car left his work-shop in perfect nick: “That corner claimed lots of cars, John; I heard the nuts sheared off clean as a whistle. And it didn’t help that you kept driv-ing for another 50 metres.”
The banter continues for a minute
Bash ‘addicts’ head to Apple IsleBash ‘addicts’ head to Apple Isle
Good Bashers: John “Bubba” Mackie, left, John Crossin and Eunice “Mum” Mathews with their Variety Club Bash cars at Mornington harbour last Wednesday. They are gathering support for the 2011 Bash to Tasmania. Below, map on the Babemobile side window shows where the hot pink HR Holden has travelled in the past 13 years.
“Variety is nice and small, and you can
see what they do, how they spend the money.
You can also have a say about where the
money is spent.”– John Mackie,
Variety Club ‘Basher’
before it’s explained the T-intersection of a greasy mud road and the asphalt main road did indeed claim several cars during a huge downpour.
“That track was a horror,” says Eu-nice. “We had to wait fi ve hours for the Bash mechanics because they’d come to grief 50km back up the track.”
This is how long-time Bashers talk; each year provides a feast of tales and laughter when they get together, both during the event and after. It’s part of the attraction, why they keep coming back. The Bash has a good safety re-cord and human injuries are few and far between.
Why do you do it, John? “I’m a lucky man. My kids Rebecca and Me-gan are healthy, and Variety does a power of good work.
“They support the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne; ambulances to take critically ill and premature babies to hospital; Kindilan in Red Hill, which looks after intellectually
handicapped young people; Canteen, the teenage cancer support group; and much more.”
Eunice said: “I had two kids who died young; one who was stillborn, the result of a car accident, and one who died at 21 months of epilepsy. I have two boys aged 42 and 44 who are healthy. Variety is a terrifi c charity.”
She also likes the mateship of the Bash, the chance to share a beverage at the end of a hard, dusty day and play a few pranks – all in the name of fund-raising, of course.
Bubba said: “Children are our fu-ture. Variety is nice and small, and you can see what they do, how they spend the money. You can also have a say about where the money is spent. In-stalling a Liberty swing [for children of all abilities] at Pelican Park play-ground in Hastings was something real for our area.”
Eunice said the club was now sup-porting two children in Hastings who suffered from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a muscle-wasting disease. “You can apply for support directly to
Variety,” she said.The two teams have raised in ex-
cess of $150,000 each, with the Babes ahead of the Kippanookas because of their extra Bashes.
No donated money goes on the cars or the crews’ living and fuel expenses. To donate to the peninsula’s Variety Club Bash crews, call Jill Lewis on 0407 361 989 or Eunice Mathews on 0400 863 321 for the Babemobile and John Crossin on 0419 319 479 for the Kippanookas.
Mornington News 14 July 2011 PAGE 9
By Mike HastFORMER Murray River paddleboat skipper Peter Payne’s moment of truth had arrived.
His restored former Sydney Harbour ferry was on the slipway at Yaringa Marina in Somerville, just minutes away from being launched.
Would it all go according to plan?MV Bennelong represented four
years and three months of almost full-time work for the 80-year-old as well as help from a cast of dozens includ-ing his mates Johnny Buckle and Dick Payne, his brother.
The Somerville boatie was calm on the outside – and on the inside: “This is the third boat I’ve restored at Yar-inga in the last few years. Every detail has been taken care of so the launch should go off without a hitch,” he said as a small crowd of friends, family and supporters gathered on a grassy bank overlooking the slipway.
Minutes later Bennelong was in the water, fl oating serenely on a fl ooding tide, and Peter and his fan club strolled along the dock to clamber aboard and celebrate with a beverage or two.
Captain Payne, a Parkdale boy, has spent a lifetime on water, salt and fresh. He was an apprentice boat-builder at age 15, working with the legendary Jim Sugrue at Beaumaris, in those days a hive of boat-building and fi shing.
Peter built his fi rst boat at age 14, a VJ12 racing skiff, the smaller version of Sydney Harbour’s famous, speedy 18ft skiffs.
He was a founding member of Park-dale Yacht Club and to fund his sail-ing exploits, he bought, fi xed and sold Sharpies, then a popular class of rac-ing yacht based on 19th century fi sh-ing boats and raced at the 1956 Mel-bourne Olympics.
At age 21 he started out on his own, restoring a 35-foot (10.5-metre) cruis-
er, then worked for boatbuilders on the Mordialloc Creek island and in Chel-tenham, building and repairing boats of all types and sizes.
In the 1960s, Peter redesigned and built the fi rst two fi breglass Boo me-rangs, paving the way for the Boomer-ang 20, which made a big impact on the trailer sailer market.
The lure of working for himself again took Peter and his wife Dawn to Port MacDonnell in SA where he built three timber fi shing trawlers a year and operated the port’s slipway, but the need to educated their three chil-dren brought them back to Melbourne.
Peter and Dawn moved again in
1973, this time setting sail for Mildura where he bought and restored Wanera, a 300-tonne paddle steamer licensed to carry 40 passengers.
On Wanera he ran the fi rst overnight cruises out of Mildura. Later there were fi ve-day trips up the Darling River.
He skippered the famous paddle steamers Emmylou, Melbourne and Rothbury after being enticed out of semi-retirement running a boat hire business in Merimbula.
“I lived for that river,” he said.Peter retired properly 10 years ago,
but you can’t keep a good boatie down – he found a 44-foot (13.5-me-
tre) yacht, Scheherazade, named after the legendary Persian queen, which had toured the world for a decade and stood languishing at Yaringa. He re-stored it and then restored a trimaran, Kakula.
Bennelong is his third restoration at the marina. “They reckon I’ve got one more in me,” he said.
The former Sydney ferry was built in 1952 by the NSW government and, after being pensioned off, carried par-tygoers on the Yarra River for several years. It is 48 feet (14.5 metres) long, weighs 14 tonnes and draws just one metre.
When Peter bought it at a sheriff’s
auction for $500, it had been out of the water for 12 years and on a cradle in the Yaringa Marina hardstand area for seven.
“It’s made of Queensland kauri and was too good to burn,” he said.
Bennelong – named after the Syd-ney Aboriginal man who was taken to Eng land by Captain Arthur Phillip to meet King George III in 1793 – had no wheelhouse and the superstructure had rotted.
Peter admits he is a bit of a scroung-er when restoring his boats. “I’m a pen sioner and half of the rebuild was done with secondhand material. Yar-inga’s a friendly place and it was easy talking people into helping me. And I’d like to thank all those people,” he says with a smile.
Yaringa harbour owner Stefan Borzecki also sports a smile, a wry one, while standing beside the octoge-narian as Peter tells the story of auc-tion day. “There were about 15 peo-ple,” Peter said. “The auctioneer asked for an opening bid of $100 and no one spoke, not a movement in the crowd. Then my dopey mate yells out ‘$400’ and I could’ve kicked him. I quickly bid $500 and got it.”
Stefan: “That ... boat owned me more than $2000 in fees. Peter might have to take me out in it a few times.”
Mr Borzecki will have to be quick: Peter is taking the boat to Paynesville after two weeks of sea trials including testing the Perkins diesel that pushes Bennelong along at 7-8 knots.
“We were thinking of taking her up to the Murray, but we’ve got a pen at the Paynesville marina,” Peter said.
Fishing? “Nope; Dawn fi shes. I’ll be lying on a deckchair in the sun.” Additional material from the Yaringa magazine, 2002.
Another ferry nice restoration Another ferry nice restoration by retired riverboat skipperby retired riverboat skipper
All aboard: Peter Payne and grandsons Paul, left, and David aboard the 14-tonne ferry MV Bennelong after it was launched into the waters of Western Port at Yaringa boat harbour.
Slipping in: Yaringa Marina staff guide MV Bennelong into the waters of Western Port on Friday last week.
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By Keith PlattAFTER twice being laid low by ill-ness and gaining good health follow-ing months of research Eva Torning decided to write a book so others could easily benefi t from what she had dis-covered.
The self-described former corporate high fl yer thought she was succeeding in her life as a single mother of two daughters until, aged 30, she was hit by a series of health “challenges”.
Relief for one of the major ailments came through using natural and alter-native healing methods.
This sparked an ongoing interest in natural therapies, eventually leading to her being classed as a certifi ed mas-ter and practitioner of neurolinguistic programming (NLP), a hypnotist and gaining qualifi cations in reiki, pranic healing and emotional freedom tech-niques (EFT).
About 10 years ago Torner was again “burnt out” and facing hormone-based health problems.
Once again she turned to her own re-sources for a cure, fi nding that conven-tional medicine was not helping.
The collected results of her experi-ences were the inspiration and the
content for her book, Hormone Hell to Hormone Heaven.
Sitting in her Mt Eliza home Torner said most books dealing with women’s health are complicated and written by men.
“There was no way I could sit my kids down and talk about my experi-ences, but I thought if these lessons were recorded there would be a chance they’ll read them.”
But of course the potential audience was much larger than her own family.
Much of Torner’s work and writing deals with easing the ailments caused by stress, “something that hits us and threatens our survival”.
Stress caused by fi nancial problems frequently causes “deep-seated fears that we often don’t acknowledge … not a good state from which to solve our problems”.
Torner says reversing the “down-ward spiral” of stress “can only happen when you’re in another state of mind”.
“We need to interupt the pattern, break the cycle of thought.
“The quality of thinking depends on your emotional state.
“People get scared to fi nd out the de-tails of their true position. We do have
inner wisdom, but you need to tap into it.“I look at a life as a journey, with ob-
stacles being part of the story.“You need to decide where you want
to be – there is something bright and shiny down the track that can act as your compass. Set goals, make a road map.”
Torner believs “everything is pos-sible” but people are limited by their emotions and beliefs.
“These feelings can be catastrophic, making things, problems, seem bigger than they are.”
She wants to give people the tech-niques to identify their inhibitions and the ability to “blast through them”.
“A lot of wealthy people are not hap-py and I won’t write a book on how to be a multimillionaire until I am one.
“The unconscious mind will help de-vise ways of reaching goals.”
Eva Torner’s book is available at book sytores or visit www.hormone-helltohormoneheaven.com/about_eva.
Self help: Eva Torner, right, has turned her health challenges into a book that she believes can help women change
their lives.
Life lessons learnt Life lessons learnt from stressful timefrom stressful timeBook to guide women on health challengesBook to guide women on health challenges
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Mornington News 14 July 2011 PAGE 11
Navigating Shoreham: President of Shore-ham Community Association Peter Renkin checks out the group’s online presence.
SHOREHAM residents are hoping to cut their power bills.
Under a scheme being coordinated by Shoreham Community Associa-tion, the residents will band together to bulk buy power.
The scheme is similar to one al-ready being undertaken at Somers.
“This initiative will be open to members of the association and through bulk power purchasing will have a reduction in electricity charges,” association president Peter Renkin said.
He said details and registration forms would soon be available on the association’s website followed by a public information day in August.
The website www.shoreham.vic.au created by administrator Gina McIn-nis and members of the association’s committee features items about com-munity organisations and events, fi re safety advice from Shoreham CFA and photos.
“The website is managed by the Shoreham Community Association and is purely voluntary with all cost burdens met by SCA membership fees,” Ms McInnis said.
Association membership forms are available from the website or from the Shoreham Post Offi ce, email [email protected] or call Mr Renkin on 5989 8818.
Bid to cut town’s power billBid to cut town’s power bill
HELPING prove the identity of a child’s father has become a growing part of work provided by Peninsula Community Legal Centre.
In the past 10 years the centre has helped “hundreds of mothers … to prove the identity of the father of their child”, says the centre’s principal law-yer Victoria Mullings.
“It is a right of a child to know who their parents are and it is something that most of us take for granted.”
Ms Mullings said tracking a father’s identity was one of the services of-fered under the centre’s child support program.
“DNA testing is currently the most advanced and accurate technology to determine parentage.
“In a DNA parentage test, the result, which is called the ‘probability of par-entage’, is 0 per cent when the parent is not biologically related to the child and typically greater than 99.9 per cent when the parent is biologically related to the child.
“Simply knowing who both their parents are can make a huge differ-ence in the lives of children, as well as ensuring that children are fi nancially provided for by both parents.”
Ms Mullings said children had the right to know who their parents were under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which start-ed in 1989.
The convention “represents a ma-jor milestone in the historic effort to
achieve a better world for children”.“As a binding treaty of international
law, it codifi es principles that countries of the United Nations agreed to be uni-versal – for all children, in all countries and cultures, at all times and without exception, simply through the fact of their being born into the human family.
“The treaty has among other things inspired changes in laws to better pro-tect children and has been incorporated into family law legislation in Australia to refl ect decision-making concerning the best interests of children and the rights of the child.”
Peninsula Community Legal Cen-tre’s child support program is one of many free legal services it offers. Call 9783 3600 or www.pclc.org.au.
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By Fran HenkeIT was a dark and stormy night.
Just thinking about going to bed when the decision is made for me by an ugly orange explosion in the street.
Lights waver, followed by another orange message with a hiss-bang. Lights, TV, clocks, any thought of an electric blanket or letting the dish-washer tidy up the day, all gone.
Remember hanging a small torch with new batteries among keys by the kitchen door for such an emergency.
Find it and there’s comforting light – but not for long. It quickly gives up the ghost.
Rummage for matches in the kitchen cupboard and light the stove – ensur-ing no tea towels or fl ammable items are nearby.
Next the candelabra on the dining room table – trip over one of the dogs on the way there and panic with vi-sions of myself lying on the fl oor all night, broken hip, gas burning, a gale outside.
Avoid falling, light candles and there’s a truly comforting glow. Turn off gas – candles are cheaper.
Can’t see a fridge magnet for elec-tricity emergencies so by candle-power fi nd a power bill and Jemena’s emergency number. None of the walk around phones or computer phone is working.
God bless the mobile, recently re-charged. Listen to the areas under blackout – Frankston, Karingal, around Dandenong, expected to be fi xed around 3am. Hastings is not mentioned so wait on the line, shak-ing with cold and fright in tune with the house, being hit by up to 130km/h gusts.
Nice young man breaks into the re-
corded music. Tell him the address and about the orange fl ash. He says they’re working in the area and asks if I’m al-right.
How kind. Tell him I got a fright but have found candles.
Decide going to bed is only option – trip over the other dog on way to blowing out the candelabra, keeping a small candle in hand for the Florence Nightingale bit.
Next door’s eucalypt, 40 foot tall, is thrashing around and from past storms, disaster is a reasonable ex-pectation. Decide to go to bed fully dressed, for warmth and in the event we have to bail out suddenly. (Well, who wants to end up on television in the street in a tired dressing gown and fl uffy slippers?)
The three of us (defi nitely a two-dog night) snuggle up; wind is howling in from Bass Strait. Instead of counting sheep, affi rmations that ‘the house is a bubble of safety’ bring sleep until the inevitable crash.
Don’t think anything has hit the house so dogs and I try not to think about the next thud.
A couple of hours later we’re woken by a familiar trill from the dishwash-er, fl ashing lights from eight digital clocks around the house. The wind has stopped, power is on and there’s rain. Safe to get into the jamies and sleep until 9.30am, not before thank-ing Someone Upstairs for the work of brave men and women up ladders in wind and rain.
Daylight reveals a 20-foot limb has speared into the shed roof taking an-other with it.
The next door neighbour comes over and we agree it is threatening the house and ringing the SES is the best
solution.Ring the 132 500 number and ad-
vise it is not an emergency but help is needed.
Within half an hour two tired-look-ing blokes arrive with a pole saw and drop the limb, not without danger as it falls.
They’ve been working since 7pm the night before.
They get two more calls for roofs off in Mornington while they’re cleaning up.
The lean-to roof is ‘cactus’, but we’re fortunate compared to others in the path of the blast. The experience has been salutary. Here’s some sound advice: Have a ‘lights out’ pack ready (in memorable location) with candles, matches, workable torch, mobile phone and emergency numbers. Many house fi res are started by can-dles, so don’t turn your back or leave one burning in a room unattended – especially in high winds. Keep mobile phone batteries charged and the phone handy during bad weather. Put pets on leads to stop them bolt-ing and to avoid falls. Avoid the pink dressing gown look – go to bed warmly dressed, shoes handy, in case you end up in the street with your house roof in the next sub-urb. Escaping by car is not ideal in storm conditions. However, hospital staffers are advised always to keep fuel tanks at half full in the event of an emergen-cy trip; good idea for us too.
Lastly, support volunteers such as CFA and SES, and linesmen – where would we be without them? Thanks again.
What to do when the lights go outWhat to do when the lights go out
MORE than 40 artists are showing about 90 artworks at Mornington’s Oak Hill Galley until 27 July.
It’s the gallery’s annual members’ exhibition, a place to dodge nasty weather and seek inspiration from members of the peninsula’s art com-munity.
There is a $2000 prize pool to be distributed among exhibitors for best exhibit, highly commended and en-
couragement award.“The exhibition is as diverse as the
artists, and includes works in two and three dimensions,” a gallery spokes-woman said.
The gallery at 100 Mornington-Ty-abb Rd, Mornington, is open Tuesday to Sunday 11am-4pm. For details, call 5973 4299.
Pictured is a work by Oak Hill Gal-lery member Diane Williamson.
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Winter is a great time in the gardenWinter is a great time in the gardenBy Frances CameronWE reached the midpoint of the year at the winter solstice (the shortest day) on 21 June, so slowly the days will get longer and become warmer. Meanwhile there’s a lot to do in the garden.
Because it is winter, decidu-ous shrubs and trees have lost their leaves. In this state they are dormant but still have the chemicals necessary for growth stored in their stems. This makes it the perfect time to take hardwood cuttings.
Hardwood cuttings are so called because this year’s growth has completed its growth, fl owering and fruit-ing stages and has become ‘woody’. Select healthy look-ing stems about the thickness of a pencil. Cut these into pieces about 20 to 25cm long with at least three buds or sets of buds. The bottom cut should be made directly underneath a bud and the top cut should be at a 45-degree angle about half an inch above another bud. Dip the bottom cut into a rooting hormone (powders and liquids are both widely available) and place it into a fi ne potting mix or seed raising mix. Cuttings can also be put directly into the ground but I have found it is harder to regulate watering. Be
careful to put the cuttings in the right way up as putting them in upside down will result in fail-ure. A mini hot house is ideal to keep them in but you can do just as well with a plastic bag over the top or by keeping them in a sheltered area out of direct sunlight and wind. Roots will have formed by next autumn when they can be potted on or put in the ground. Shrubs that can be treated in this way include buddleia, dogwood, forsythia, bougainvillea, roses and grapes.
Complete pruning this month. Make sure your seca-teurs, loppers and saws are sharp and clean to reduce the risk of infections entering a jagged wound. Cuts which aren’t ‘clean’ also take longer to heal.
In the vegie patch you can put in rhubarb crowns. Prepare the soil well with well rotted compost and leave enough space for the plant to grow: Rhubarb can grow to one metre wide or more.
Broccoli and caulifl ower that was planted earlier in the year will be forming tight heads by now, keep an eye out for slugs, snails, slaters and earwigs get-ting up inside the leaves and munching away at them before you get to enjoy them in your
winter stews and casseroles.Keep your iron and vitamin
C levels high with spinach and silver beet, both of which can be planted through winter and indeed most of the year. Chard, with bright, colourful stems makes a lovely addition to any vegie patch and is very similar in taste. Also plant cab-bage, peas, lettuce, onions and potatoes.
On the pest front, I have been having trouble with snails eat-ing my spinach seedlings. I have bought some copper tape to stick onto a wooden frame to place around the seedlings. The idea is that the snails are unable to crawl across the tape as it gives them a small electric shock. Will it stop them com-pletely? I don’t know but it’s worth a try.
Keep warm by getting out into your garden and keep-ing the weeds down. The rain we’ve had is wonderful but it does have a habit of making the weeds explode out of the ground. Winter grass (Poa an-nua) is a problem in gravel driveways and it fi nds its way into any spare cracks in the pavement or driveways, be vigilant.
Happy gardening!
Mornington News 14 July 2011 PAGE 13
By Mike HastA BUSHLAND reserve on the south-ern edge of Rosebud’s residential area shows what can be achieved when de-velopers, a shire council and environ-mentalists work together.
Peninsula Gardens Bushland Re-serve was once slated for housing, but the late Stefanie Rennick and reveg-etation specialist Tony Brindley con-vinced developer Greg La Manna his subdivision, now known as Peninsula Sands, would be more valuable if adja-cent to a reserve.
The then Shire of Flinders facilitated the deal when it told Mr La Manna it would rezone his land for housing if he gave the shire 45 hectares south of the Drum Drum Alloc Creek for a reserve.
The 155-hectare La Manna property was then known as Peninsula Gardens Estate and became Peninsula Sands, with the reserve retaining the original name.
The reserve at the southern end of Jetty Rd contains a long list of the pen-insula’s endangered, depleted or vul-nerable plants.
It is now looked after by a Friends group, which is seeking new members to keep the work going.
Stefanie Rennick, who died in 2001 aged 82, is best known for the semi-
nal book The Mornington Peninsula: A fi eld guide to the fl ora, fauna and walking tracks, co-written with Ilma Dunn with pen illustrations by Caro-line Graley.
A teacher, naturalist, environmental-ist and bushwalker, Stefanie was the driving force behind the peninsula’s longest walking trial, the Two Bays track, 26 kilometres between Dromana and Cape Schanck, which she fi rst pro-posed in 1984.
Tony Brindley is best known for his 20-year regeneration of a former cattle property near Greens Bush at Main Creek during which he became a wet-lands expert.
Other people involved at Peninsula Gardens reserve included naturalist Tom Sault, who identifi ed rare plants such as stands of muttonwood trees, and founding members of a Friends group Stuart Weir of Rosebud, and An-drew Picone, the reserve’s fi rst “over-seer”.
Trust for Nature was instrumental in having a covenant placed over a 37-hectare section of the reserve.
Friends member Ian Bell recalls the lobbying work of Ms Rennick and Mr Brindley. “It is a precious remnant of the area’s original bushland and it was wonderful Stefanie and Tony were able
to successfully negotiate with the de-veloper.”
Walking tracks provide access for Peninsula Sands residents and a corri-dor, or biolink, through private proper-ties allows the eastern grey kangaroo to move between feeding sites.
“It can be quite a surprise when you come face to face with an eastern grey,” said another Friends member, Jan Dwyer, also a member of the active Southern Peninsula Indigenous Flora and Fauna Association (SPIFFA).
“An area in the centre of the reserve was intended to be used for Aboriginal cultural education, but this has not yet been realised,” she said.
An early task for volunteers was re-moving pest plants and trees, includ-ing boneseed, sweet pittosporum, pine trees, introduced eucalypts and black wattle that had regenerated after pine removal and fi re.
Hard to access sections were cleared of weeds by contractors employed by Mornington Peninsula Shire.
Ms Dwyer said recent work under the direction of Melbourne Water and the shire had seen substantial clear-ing of willows and pines, and planting along the creek.
“There has been great natural regen-eration of many plants,” she said.
Indigenous fl ora specialist Gidja Wal ker, whose knowledge of penin-sula plants is peerless, has identifi ed ground covers such as orchids includ-ing red-beaks and three species of hi-bertias. Bracken fern, heathlands and nine ecological vegetation classes, or vegetation communities, are found in the reserve.
“Peninsula Gardens supports a high level of biodiversity,” Ms Walker said. “Small shrubs provide cover for little birds, swamp rats, bandicoots and white-footed dunnarts, while 300-year-old grass trees also provide shelter and are an impressive sight.
“Wattles and eucalypts have sprung up to complement the old-growth trees, which are home to possums and larger birds such as parrots and owls.”
Fauna ecologist Malcolm Legg, who lives close by, but works all over the peninsula and southeast, has carried out several fauna surveys and found the powerful owl (listed as threatened in Victoria), boobook and tawny frog-mouth.
The powerful owl can be 60 centi-metres tall and, gruesomely, can de-capitate and consume a fully grown possum.
Mr Legg said a sandy ridge left be-hind after sand mining was home to
spotted pardalotes before disturbance by trail bikes.
He also found swamp skinks living near Drum Drum Alloc Creek, a vari-ety of frogs and broadfi nned galaxia, an endangered indigenous fi sh.
“Galaxia struggle to exist in our wa-terways because of larger fi sh intro-duced for recreational fi shers, drought and waterways chocked by willows and other introduced vegetation,” he said.
“The reserve is a treasure trove of di-versity and must be preserved.”
The Friends say the greatest threats to the reserve are unrestrained dogs and trail bikes.
Jan Dwyer: “This is a major concern. The diversity of insect, animal and plant species in the reserve makes it a very special place where it is a joy to work or walk. There is always the sound of birds, the wind in the trees, the occasional close encounter with a kangaroo and the sense of this being our heritage.” The Friends of Peninsula Gardens meet at 10am on the third Tuesday of the month and on the fourth Saturday. They would welcome help. The next working bees are on Tuesday 19 and Saturday 23 July. For details call Jan Dwyer on 5986 6566.
Precious plants preserved at Peninsula GardensPrecious plants preserved at Peninsula GardensSpecial place: Above, 300-year-old grass trees and Friends member Simone Cole. From top right, replanting around a pond, muttonwood leaves and fruit, a yellow fl owered hibertia and a path in the reserve. Pictures: Dave Matthews and Jan Dwyer
PAGE 14 Mornington News 14 July 2011
Healthy Living
16,000 Australians die prematurely from obesity and obesity related dis-eases every year. What are the facts and what can be done about it?
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Measurement of ObesityTHE commonest measurement is the BMI (Body Mass Index) which is weight (kgm) divided by [Height(m)] squared. Normal is 20 to 25, 25 to 30 is overweight and 30 or more is obesity with increasing BMI being defi ned as Morbid Obesity, super obesity and even super super obesity for BMI over 60. BMI is not a perfect measurement for each individual, but is a very good general guide.Effects of ObesityBMI from 28 to 35 is associated with a small but measurable reduction in average lifespan of 2 – 3 years. By BMI 40 the average lifespan is reduced by 10 years, about the same as a lifelong heavy smoker. BMI over 40 is associated with increasingly
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By Stuart McCulloughTHE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT was not the name of a home renovation reality show, but it probably should have been. Instead, ‘the Project’ were an English progressive rock band. I am totally unfamiliar with their albums but am led to believe that one of their instrumental pieces -“Sirius” - is commonly used by sporting teams such as the Chicago Bulls. From this I can only adduce that they were a ‘sirius’ band that made very ‘sirius’ music.
There is one other thing I know about The Alan Parsons Project. Namely, that during renegotiations with their record label, they submitted an unlistenable, atonal album that was wholly instrumental entitled ‘The Sicilian Defence’. The name, apparently, is derived from an aggressive opening move in chess. Considered even by the band to be an affront to human hearing, it had the desired effect in that it hastened negotiations whilst simultaneously ensuring that ‘The Sicilian Defence’ would remain forever unreleased.
How things have changed. It used to be that bands recorded albums that were unlistenable piles of steaming rubbish solely to put the acid on their record company. Now such records are routinely released back into the wild by Justin Bieber. It makes you long for a simpler time….
Back in 1990, things were different. In those days, everything a record company released carried the indisputable weight of quality. It was an era in which the public were
deluged by classic albums by classic artists whose work has withstood the test of time. Like Mount Rushmore, their melodies have been carved deep into the very face of rock and roll and stand forever as a monument to good taste. New Kids on the Block, Snap!, Right Said Fred and Colour Me Bad all had number one hits that year. This, I feel, largely speaks for itself.
But amongst this crowd of giants loomed a fi gure that towered head and
shoulder-pad above the rest. Whilst the name ‘Robbie Van Winkle’ may sound like the work experience kid who just spilled the contents of the toner cartridge down the front of his chinos, Robbie’s notoriety was achieved under a non-de plum. To this day, the name Vanilla Ice causes grown men to shout the rallying cry, ‘kicking it’ and youths armed with graffi ti pens to deface stop signs by appending the words, ‘collaborate
and listen!’ Despite this, respect has proved elusive.
It’s always been my view that if you are going to go down in history as a one hit wonder, it’s best that you make it an absolute cracker. The song ‘Ice, Ice Baby’ is a work of absolute, if not genius, then of someone who has been homeschooled and received additional tuition from several well qualifi ed tutors. Although the song relied heavily on a sample from the Queen / David Bowie tune ‘Under Pressure’, the Ice-meister quickly had a bona fi de smash hit on his hands and the accompanying record, ‘To The Extreme’ sold eleven million copies.
It was all downhill from there, and quite steeply so. His collaborator, ‘Chocolate’ (possibly not his real name) complained about a lack of royalty payments. This famously resulted in some gentlemen entering Vanilla’s hotel suite on the fi fteen fl oor and offering to throw him over the edge. His record company; determined to make both hay and as much cash as possible whilst the sun still shone, rushed out a live album ‘Extremely Live’ which one critic described as possibly the most ridiculous album release since ‘The Best of Marcel Marceau’.
Movie appearances failed to stem the slide to oblivion. Vanilla had a cameo in the fi lm, ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze’ describing it as ‘one of the coolest experiences’ of his career. Anyone who has heard his records may well agree. Then there was the movie ‘Cool as Ice’ in which he
played the role of Johnny Van Owen. The fi lm is regarded as a vehicle for Vanilla Ice’s acting talents, in which case it’s probably a Datsun 180B or a 1982 Toyota Corolla. Worse was to come – Robbie Van Winkle suffered the ultimate career kiss of death that is dating Madonna and even assisted her attempt at career suicide, a smut-dressed-up-as-art-dressed-up-as-a-coffee-table-book entitled ‘Sex’. Anonymity ensued.
That anyone can be redeemed is a comfort to us all. In the case of Vanilla Ice, he’s returned with his own television program. But this is no mere reality television show about a washed up one hit wonder. No siree. Entitled ‘The Vanilla Ice Project’, it involves Robbie Van Winkle renovating houses. I only hope that other rappers help out. I can imagine an episode in which Ice is installing a set of shelves before ceasing to exclaim, ‘Stop – Hammer time!’ MC Hammer would, of course, have to trade in his trademark silk tracksuit pants for overalls but surely the overall effect would be a sight to see in its own right. Sir Mix-A-Lot would, of course, be in charge of the cement. Such an undertaking, however, needs someone to oversee the effort to ensure the whole thing comes together. For that reason, it’s inevitable that the entire site would come under the sturdy supervision of The Allan Parsons Project Management Group. Laugh if you will, but I am being absolutely sirius.www.stuartmccullough.com
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LOCAL news: All you readers fortu-nate enough to look forward to living on our Mornington Peninsula into the 2020s can relax, because our Hastings mate, handsome Greggy Hunt, is on the job. More sand for Portsea Beach, which is no more anyway, trim the re-maining cypress pines and a National Centre for Coasts and Climate at Point Nepean. Our other mate, Marty Dixon, not to be outdone, is likewise on the job with the $200,000 peanuts study to ease the summer congestion along Point Nepean Rd, hah, and the long-proposed Southern Peninsula Aquatic Centre at ?
It’s all happening, isn’t it? I won’t be here, but enjoy, eventually, if ever? Aren’t they just gorgeous. Why oh why did the Port Phillip Conservation Council lodge an appeal against a new club headquarters for the Dromana Bay Life Saving Club? Thankfully president Len Warfe was defeated. Marty did well here; ditto Planning Minister Matthew Guy. Enough!
***A HERALD SUN Galaxy poll resulted in 58 per cent against a carbon tax, 28 per cent for and 14 per cent undecided. A clear result in favour of a no? Must be; they made it a front page headline.
So how many voted? 500. Wow. With a population of 5.5 million that repre-sents a massive percentage. What do we deem from this? Easy; the perfect example of a media baron and others with the motivation to conduct a me-dia poll construed to refl ect their inter-ests-cum-preferences. I fi nd the horo-scopes a better read. Aries: Dynamic and quick-witted. The sexy sign of the zodiac? I did my own quick survey and the results are in. Question: Is cli-mate change a reality? Sixty per cent didn’t have a clue, 20 per cent said no and 20 per cent said yes. Five respons-es. Conclusion: Nobody’s nose knows.
***HOMOPHOBIA is alive and well among us; not back in Plato’s time but almost ever since. I worked with gay and straight people for years and never a problem. In my time some older het-erosexuals preyed on young actrines and some young actrines preyed on di-rectors. There are literally hundreds of variations as to what happens between two or more people in private – my ex-periences amount to a very low, single digit number, so far – so why this blind emotional disgust? Sexual supersti-tions are the recourse of people who are full of nervous apprehension and
lack of self-knowledge. A suggestion that it’s dirty and dangerous is enough to enforce a misguided opinion with-out reference to reasoning. The gov-ernment trots out the usual concerns regarding higher rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicide at-tempts, but we all know that repre-sents hot air. A simplistic view might be: it’s OK to occasionally give your wife a belting and force her into what-ever without police interference, but same sex couples are disgusting. Too harsh? In 2010, 25,000 females con-tacted the crisis centres, which draws the conclusion that another 100,000 were probably too frightened to call. “And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.” “Boys and girls come out to play, happy and gay the laxette way”. Just joking.
***LIKE almost everybody I’ve met, I can say “I’m not a racist” but it’s fair to say we all are, it being a question of degree. I’ve worked with some really nice, talented Aboriginal people and some very angry talented ones who obviously hated white people includ-ing those who provided the funding. Many would say they had good rea-son. It’s diffi cult to forget just how far
racism can go harking back to Hitler and the Jews, the treatment of African Americans in the US and now the Is-lamic Muslims. Ditto the same issues with the arrival of Italians, Greeks, Lebanese, Vietnamese; a psycho-logical disease no less. Footballers Nicky Winmar, Michael Long, Adam Goodes, Shaun Burgoyne and actor Aaron Pedersen stand tall in gain-ing recognition for Aboriginal rights. Kevvy Rudd and his historic apol-ogy, Martin Flanagan forever mak-ing a solid case and Caroline Jones saying: “I am constantly taken aback by the compassion that Aboriginal people have for white Australians.” I try to understand, but philosophically, I’m left with an insoluble mish-mash. I gave up long ago on sacred places. Best to treat people as you fi nd them, surely, assuming they’re not politi-cians or Carlton supporters.
PS: Western Bulldogs footballer Jus-tin Sherman was fi ned $5000 for rac-ist language playing against the Gold Coast Suns. He is to have one-on-one counselling and join a mentoring pro-gram for remote indigenous communi-ties. This should educate the lad, for a month or two. Needless to say AFL chief gestapo and political correctness
freak Adrian Anderson was incredu-lous that this could happen again. On and on the AFL comedy rolls.
***THE Beach Emporium opens in the main shopping strip of Rye mid-Au-gust featuring Jennifer Ellen art and Vicki Street clothing. My talented daughter (albeit with my genes domi-nant) threatened me with isolation. Get along. After your visit go to JJs for coffee; say hello to Sam. End of plugs.
***ACCORDING to Cosmopolitan, if a woman meets a stranger at a party and think he’s attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he’s married? An-swer: No, wait until morning.
Note to a book editor: “If you once understand an author’s character, the comprehension of his writing becomes easy” (Longfellow).
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ORIGINALLY known as Flowers, Ice house came into being following the break-up of Flowers in early 1982.
Founder Iva Davies (pictured) re-cord ed the album Primitive Man in late 1982 on his own, releasing it un-der the name Icehouse. After this Da-vies assembled a new band, Icehouse.
Davies studied oboe at the NSW Conservatorium of Music and was a member of the ABC National Training Orchestra before heading down the rock road.
Flowers had top 20 chart hits and as Icehouse had more than 20 hits.
The 1982 hit Hey Little Girl was a top 20 hit in the United Kingdom, top 5 in Germany and No 1 in Swit-zerland.
Icehouse was one of the fi rst Aus tra-lian bands to tour behind the Iron Cur-tain, in 1984 performing in Buda pest and Hungary.
We are now celebrating the music of one of Australia’s most-revered and respected musical icons with an album of songs we know and love.
Following the unexpected and over-whelming response to the Flowers Ice house 30th Anniversary Edition released in May, Universal Music and Davies have released a second album.
Icehouse White Heat: 30 Hits brings together every single ever released by the band.
It comes out on 26 August and is a three-disc set of two audio CDs, each with 15 songs in chronological order of release, and a DVD of 32 fi lm clips.
The album takes us on a journey through the band’s amazing career and includes hits such as Great Southern Land, Hey, Little Girl, Crazy and Elec-tric Blue.
The package includes a 12 page booklet with images of the band from each album era as well as single cov-ers artwork.
Musicians who have been a part of Icehouse include acclaimed bass play-er Guy Pratt, who toured with the band for the Primitive Man and Sidewalk albums; soundscape artist and produc-tion genius Brian Eno, who featured on the 1986 release Measure for Mea-sure; and beloved Australian sax-and-song man Joe Camilleri.
Davies said he had been over-whelmed by the support for Icehouse White Heat.
“The enthusiasm for the entire Ice-house catalogue was amazing. Many of the requests for what to put out next focused around some of the compila-tions we had released in the past,” he said.
“I looked at the past sets and realised there had never been a collection of every single ever released or a DVD compilation of every clip so that’s what we decided to do.”
It was the album Man of Colours that made Icehouse a true international success with the hits Crazy and Elec-tric Blue topping both the US airplay and sales charts.
Man of Colours was also the high-est-selling album by an Australian band and the band’s most-successful album, selling more than a million copies in Australia alone.
White Heat: 30 Hits is a delicious musical foray for fans new and old
and can be pre-ordered from Friday 15 July at www.icehouse-ivadavies.com.www.facebook.com/icehousebandwww.icehouse-ivadavies.comwww.getmusic.com.au/icehouse
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Mornington News 14 July 2011 PAGE 19
By Mike HastTHERE’S a shortage of ice skating rinks on the peninsula but this hasn’t stopped teenage ice hockey prodigy Sam Hodic.
The 14-year-old left Melbourne for Finland on Tuesday to join the (ice) cream of world hockey juniors jos-tling for a place at the inaugural Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Switzerland, next January.
Sam and just one other young Aus-sie – 17-year-old Sharnita Crompton of NSW – have been selected by the Australian Olympic Committee for a qualifi cation event at the International Ice Hockey Federation’s development centre in Vierumaki, Finland.
The world’s best young players will attend the camp and compete in a se-ries of intense skills tests for speed, shooting accuracy and agility over three days.
The top 15 boys and 15 girls from nations not qualifi ed in the team event will go to Innsbruck.
Sam has a crowd of supporters be-hind his rise to the top, including West-ern Port businesses, but his biggest fan is undoubtedly his dad Jamie, who works for BlueScope Steel contractor Roll Surface Technology at the cold mill in Hastings.
Who else would pack Sam and his massive ice hockey bag, $1000 skates and $450 hockey stick into the family car at 4.30 in the morning to be on the rink at the new Icehouse in Docklands at 6am?
Jamie, a Moorabbin boy who played ice hockey in the 1970s, including for the Victorian team in 1978, is not a pushy parent living through the ex-ploits of his son: “He has to want to do it; I’d be quite happy to stay in bed and dodge the pre-dawn drives to town, but as long as Sam’s enthusiastic, I’m there,” he says matter of factly.
Sam has been playing ice hockey for half his life after seeing his fi rst game with a friend when he lived near the Oakleigh ice rink, now closed.
The Hodics moved to Crib Point about four years ago and Sam and his dad make the long trip to Docklands several times a week.
It’s been a huge year for the teenager. He’s in the Victorian under-18 team
playing in Perth after he gets back from Finland. Then he’s off to Newcastle as a member of the under-15 state team. He’s played for Victoria since age 10.
Sam is also in the Melbourne Ice ju-nior development squad and plays for the under-18 Pirates in the Melbourne league.
The Ice is Melbourne’s national team and Sam will be allowed to play with the big boys when he reaches 16. There’s little doubt he would already be in the senior squad if not for age restrictions.
It’s hockey, hockey, hockey – inclu-ding in the backyard at home where Ja-mie has set up a goal for Sam to prac-tise shooting and a series of cones for the teen to run around.
Studies at Western Port Second-ary College are not ignored as one of Sam’s ambitions is to win a scholar-ship to an American college and he knows his grades will have to be good. He wants to be a physiotherapist if pro-fessional ice hockey is out of reach.
Flying to Finland this week is not Sam’s fi rst overseas trip: he went to one-week ice hockey camps in Min-nesota, US, and Vancouver in Canada last July.
Jamie’s three boys all play sport – el-dest Brody, 20, is a vigorous full-back with Australian Rules team Oakleigh Districts and 10-year-old Gus is gun footballer with Crib Point Magpies and a basketballer with Crib Point Se-ahawks.
A deal between Jamie and Sam is for the ice hockey champ to help out at Gus’s footy club, and Gus has become somewhat of a team mascot because of the number of hours he spends rinkside at the Icehouse.
Sam’s itching to get to Finland and show his skills to the ice hockey world. “I matched it with 15-year-olds in Minnesota and the best of us trained and played with 17- and 18-year-olds on the last three days of that camp,” he
said.“Finland will be an unreal oppor-
tunity; it’s going to be amazing.”Ice Hockey Australia president Don
Rurak, travelling with Sam and Shar-nita to Finland, is confi dent the teens can deliver.
“I think they have a very good
chance. It is hard to know the standard of other nations, but the Australian players are top quality,” he said.
“This is the fi rst time ever for this exciting format and there is a lot of in-terest. The sun never sets in Finland in July so the kids are in for a fantastic experience.”
Jamie was pouring over family fi nan-ces when The News visited on Friday evening. “The Olym pic committee is paying for Sam to go to Finland, but the trips to Perth and Newcastle are my responsibility,” he said.
“We’ve had tremendous support in recent years from sponsors, but it’s hard work doing the rounds each year and I’ve had less time to be his mar-keting manager. Sam’s been involved in more sessions at the Icehouse as he rises through the ranks.”
Past supporters have included Neil Rist of Crib Point Cellars, Rob Tuck-ett of Tyrepower in Hastings, Bittern’s Sunday Market, Hastings real estate agent Ben Tallon, trucking business owner Stuart Burke, Robbie Drever of Drever Automotive Services, White-horse Tattoos of Box Hill, Mornington Peninsula Shire, and the Australian Workers Union.
“Don’t forget my grandma Rose of Brighton,” chips in Sam, completing an eclectic list of sponsors.
Jamie and Sam agree ice hockey has taken off in Melbourne in recent years, especially since the Icehouse opened in early 2010.
Saturday night games are packed and the sport is growing around Australia.
Don Rurak: “Australia hopes to qualify 14 to 17 athletes across 11 dis-
ciplines for Innsbruck and con tin ue our recent string of podium performances at Winter Olympics and World Cham-pionships. The team will be led by dual Olympic aerial skiing medallist Alisa Camplin.”
Australia might not have much snow and ice, but it has dedicated youngsters like Sam Hodic with parents like his dad Jamie; people who will drive for
hours before dawn and again late at night to give their children a chance to follow a dream.
Anyone wanting to help Sam Hodic fi nancially can call his dad Jamie on 0423 325 086. Additional reporting by Andrew Reid, website producer for the Australian Olympic Committee.
Ice-cool Sam chasing glory in FinlandIce-cool Sam chasing glory in Finland
It’s been a huge year for the teenager.He’s in the Victorian under-18 team playing in Perth
after he gets back from Finland. Then he’s off to Newcastle as a member of the under-15 state team.
Ice prince: Sam Hodic on the rink in Kelowna, British Columbia, during his trip to Canada and the United States last winter. The Crib Point teen is just one of two young Australians competing for a place at the inaugural Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Switzerland, next January.
THE tide turned for Mornington train-er Jason Warren when Bel Sprinter stormed home to the win the Craigie-burn Sporting Club at Moonee Valley last Saturday.
A gelded son of Black Caviar’s sire Bel Esprit was resuming from a six-month spell so there is obviously con-siderable room for improvement.
An impressive winner at Morning-ton at his only other appearance, there are many more wins in store for the rising four-year-old.
Popular owners Kevin and Tanith O’Brien, who are based at Corinella, were pleased with the effort of Gen-eral Truce who was runner-up to Bel Sprinter.
General Truce, who has proven
his ability in group company, is being aimed at the Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m) at Caulfi eld on 16 July.
It is worth noting he was placed behind champion Black Caviar under weight-for-age conditions at Caulfi eld in last October.
Another Mornington-trained gal-loper to catch the eye was the Clive Balfour-trained Marotta.
The fortune of the race went against Marotta when she was fi nishing fi fth ($14) behind another Mornington gal-loper, Charlie’s Queen, and is worth backing next time she steps out in a similar race.
Adelaide-trained David Jolly has been making successful forays into Melbourne of late and looks to have another coming winner in The Long Road.
Heavily backed at $3.60, she was tightened for room on several occa-sions when third to the speedy Mysti-cal Spirit.
Colin and Cindy Alderson continued their winning streak when The Tiger raced away from his rivals over the concluding stages of the Leslie Short Hiskens (2040m) at Moonee Valley. Aggressively ridden by Lisa Cropp, the fi ve-year-old is back to his best and should win a few more before the better horses come back.
The Aldersons could notch up an-other win when Perturbo contests the $150,000 Victorian Sprint Series Final (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday. A noted straight specialist, the fi ve-year-old has reach a new level this cam-paign and is sure to test the opposition.
Dark Note hit a purple patch of form at this time last year and Cran-bourne trainer Eric Broomfi eld has the seven-year-old back at that level, win-ning over 2040m at Moonee Valley on 18 June before a luckless third over the same route last Saturday.
Sparingly raced fi ve-year old By The Way was on trial at 1500m
when fi fth to in-form Mr Make Be-lieve at Moonee Valley, but he did hit the line with gusto and is ready to break through in a similar event up to 1600m.
Longshot Overtake wasn’t suited by the pattern of racing when ninth be-hind the freewheeling Beyond Pardon in the Kyabram Club Handicap, but he did work to the post nicely and will be hard to beat when he drops in grade. Like Moonee Valley, the conditions at Sale were favourable especially con-sidering the time of the year.
One of the most notable performers at Sale was the Flemington-trained Sam Le Champ who sprinted quickly over the last 200m to win the 1000m maiden. The son of Fastnet Rock still has plenty to learn, but has the poten-tial to reach city class in the near fu-ture.
Second-placed Electronic Lan, who is trained by Damien Williams at Cranbourne, should be able to break
his duck at his next start. Signifi cantly, Damien’s brother Craig, who is just back from a successful trip to Japan, went to Sale for the one ride before taking a 10-day holiday.
Cranbourne-trained Langridge Street showed potential in a handful of starts earlier this year and is sure to make his presence felt this campaign. A winner over 1600m at Morphet-tville on his third start, the Elvstroem gelding showed greater tactical speed when second over 1200m.
Locally trained Uno No also came under notice when a fast-fi nishing fourth while others worth backing out of the Sale program are Very Cherry, Bel Rhythm and Lady Mahler.
Horse-to-follow Koonoomoo was disappointing at Sandown Hillside last Wednesday but was all at sea on the heavy ground and is worth another chance on a drier surface.Best: Sam Le Champ.
Mornington trainer takes home the silverwareMornington trainer takes home the silverware
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