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Van fee slugBy Simone Short

LEONGATHA has missed the chance to host 60 travellers willing to spend mon-ey in the town.

The members of the Campervan and Motorhome Club of Australia refused to pay fees to stay in Leongatha last night (Monday) and tonight, but will now stay at Meeniyan for free,

boosting that town’s economy.The club’s Charity Safari was to stop at the

Leongatha Recreation Reserve but relocated to Meeniyan after the reserve committee requested payment.

A representative from the Leongatha Football Club confi rmed the motorhome club had agreed to pay $200 to use the football clubrooms, but would not pay $10 a night for each of the 32 vans - equating to $640 - for land hire.

Safari road boss Alan Lawson said as a charity event, the group had budget restrictions and had never paid to stay at reserves before.

“In 11 years we’ve always been welcomed into the towns because we’re a charity safari,” he said.

“Unfortunately we don’t have the budget to stay at the Leongatha Rec Reserve.”

Mr Lawson said the group brings business to the towns they visit.

“They buy petrol, groceries and souvenirs, soit does add up to quite an amount of money with32 vans and around 60 people,” he said.

“Of course, that will still be spent inMeeniyan.”

Reserve committee member Jim Fawcett saidvisitors should make a contribution to ongoingmaintenance of the grounds.

Continued on page 3.

Working as one: Ian Richards and Neville Gilpin of Dumbalk, with Clydesdale Jay, demonstrated the art of sweeping hay at the Korumburra Working Horse and Tractor Rally at the weekend.

Nearly 2000 people attended the annual attraction that celebrates the farming skills of days gone by. Read more on page 14.

PAGE 2 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011

LEONGATHA Lyric Theatre opened its Smorgasbord of Plays on the weekend to great success.

The decision to put three short comedies together into one night’s entertainment was a bold but winning move by Lyric.

First up was the play Countdown, about a husband and wife living out their years at home where one of the biggest problems was where the whistle for the top of the kettle was!

Jack and Beth Miller play the stage hus-band and wife and do it remarkably well, with great timing and rapport. They actually tell the audience all about their relationship without the other one knowing.

Next came A Dog’s Life, with the young members of Lyric doing an outstanding job looking at life through a dog’s perspective, particularly Michael Dixon as the German Shepherd dog Fritz. Dixon held the show together with clever lines and great timing.

After young pup Ginger holds up her paw, Fritz delivers the line “how dumb do those humans think we are?”

Other animals Kate Ball as the snobby, spoilt Fifi , Alex Beyer as the old dog Ben and Asha Casey as the young pup Ginger all

perform admirably. Both Sophie McHarg asThe Warden and Holly Monaghan as TheVisitor feature well.

After a short interval the longest playwith the biggest cast got under way: No Chocolates by Request.

This play has a bit of everything: ghosts,gangsters, a spiritualist and confused familymembers.

In a dramatic start to the play, Alan ar-rives on stage with a bullet mark in his fore-head.

The action hots up when the gangstersarrive demanding the return of a chocolatebox containing $250,000.

Mike Pullar does an outstanding job asAlan, the dead husband, who runs the showfrom start to fi nish.

Julie Strini as Gabby and Sharon Chees-man as Carol the clairvoyant were excellentas too was Beth Millar as Sophia and theseasoned campaigner David Tattersall asCarter.

Peter Gilbert as Sophia’s husband, Brianalong with gangsters Slim (Geoff Robson)and Caruthers (John Lane) make up a funnyshow full of twists and turns.

If you’d like to take a look at the threeplays you only have this weekend to do so.

Young stars: from left, cast of A Dog’s Life, Kate Ball, Michael Dixon, Alex Beyer and Asha Casey during a performance of Lyric’s play.

Triple treat of shows

10 to the dozen about her tough and extremely chal-lenging 66 kilometre swim around Phillip Island.

“Everyone is obviously wanting to know about the swim, but for me I am just so happy I have completed what I set out to do, and that is to raise funds and awareness for our much needed 24 hour medical facility,” she said.

“There were people out there who doubted I would do it and to be honest there were many times out there in the water when I doubt-ed myself.

“Day one was the worst, going around Cape Woolamai. It was so chop-py and I got so seasick. I just couldn’t stop vomit-ing but my support team got me through and after a break they somehow talk-ed me into getting back in the water.

“I just wasn’t prepared for getting so seasick but after a few white lies that the water was a lot calmer and much encouragement, I did get back in the water only to discover the waves were huge.

“But I swam another three kilometres and that is when my support crew really believed I could do it.”

Amanda said day three was really tough. She didn’t fi nish until 6.30pm and she just kept think-ing she would never reach Pyramid Rock. But as she fi nally got closer she spot-ted some dolphins.

“That made it all worthwhile. I saw lots of dolphins and seals and something we called krill, jellylike balls. There were thousands and they

were really thick to swim through.

“They were that thick I could scoop them up as I swam and they felt really ticklish through my fi ngers and made me laugh, even when I was swimming in rather rough seas. It was moments like this that picked up my spirits and helped me keep going.”

As for sharks, Amanda saw shadows and the sup-port crew did spot sharks out there.

Amanda praised her family, friends, support crew and sponsors, namely one of her main sponsors Olympus, the camera gi-ant, for all their assistance and support.

“The support I have had from family and friends has been amazing and I have to thank everyone for sending me messages of support right through the swim,” she said.

Amanda said her par-ents, sister Kelly and boy-friend Ben Strong have been fabulous and there for her every step of the way.

“They were the ones constantly telling me I was not going to fail and I could do this,” she said.

“My sister Kelly fl ew down from Queensland to be part of the support crew and took all my stats and stroke counts right through the swim and this really helped.”

The biggest high came on the last day when she was on the last leg of the journey on Sunday and she was greeted by dolphins as she swam under the San Remo Bridge on the homeward straight.

“It was just amazing to

Amanda conquers swim for lifePHILLIP Island swimming sensation Amanda Drennan may well lay claim to be the fi rst person ever to swim around Phillip Island, but she has bigger fi sh to fry.

She has her sights fi rm-ly set on a much needed 24 hour medical facility for

Phillip Island.Amanda completed her

epic Swim for Life jour-ney around Phillip Island in fi ve days on Sunday at around 2.30pm to huge cheers from the welcom-ing crowd gathered at San Remo.

Talking to The Star yesterday, dual Paralympi-an Amanda was still very much on a high, talking

see the dolphins. They are my mascot and appear on the Swim for Life logo,” she said.

Amanda said she was just taking it easy on Mon-day before she heads back to university in Melbourne where she is studying nat-ural therapies, majoring in Chinese Massage.

She will get back in

the pool this week and continue training for the nationals competition at the Homebush Stadium in Sydney in two weeks.

Fundraising for the 24 hour medical facility on Phillip Island will contin-ue with Amanda planning a big gala event and Battle of the Bands for young people later this year.

The local community is urged to get behind this campaign and show sup-port. Donations can be made by visiting http://www.swimforlifephillip-island.blogspot.com, atthe local Bendigo Bank, or cheques can be sent to Swim for Life, 31 Hilton Street, Beaumaris.

Celebrations: for Amanda Drennan’s sister Kelly and other support crew mem-bers John Dickie, John Maddox and Peter McInnes it was a proud moment when they hoisted Amanda aloft after she fi nished swimming around Phillip Island on Sunday. The men acted as support crew and drove the boat to which her shark cage was attached.

So close: Amanda Dren-nan comes into San Remo at the end of her journey on Sunday.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - PAGE 3

Continued from page 1.“It’s becoming a more common

occurrence and the committee felt there should be some payment to cover the costs of electricity, maintenance and the fact it is an inconvenience to have 30 or 40 motorhomes parked,” he said.

“We need to justify that inconvenience to the community by charging a small fee to stay at the grounds.”

Mr Fawcett said past experiences had been taken into account.

Recently, a touring motorhome group had a faulty electricity pole repaired without fi rst consulting the committee, which was forwarded a bill totalling almost $800.

“We’ve had diffi culty with people staying on the reserve without permission on the basis that they’ve seen homes there,” Mr Fawcett said,

“It’s putting an unfair obligation on the reserve committee to deal with the issue and demand that they leave.”

Leongatha Chamber of Commerce president, Darryl McGannon said the chamber was approached by the CMCA about six months ago and supported their visit.

He was aware they had changed plans and were now staying in Meeniyan.

“Of course it’s disappointing for Leongatha because when you talk about that number of people coming into

town, it’s always good for business,” Mr McGannon said.

“We’re always happy to work with groups such as this and invite them to the town.”

South Gippsland Shire Council tourism manager Christian Stefani said he was still under the impression the safari was staying in Leongatha and was disappointed plans had changed.

“We had prepared show bags for the group promoting the whole region to get people to stay and explore more, obviously shop in the area and come back and bring more people,” he said.

“The main point is that we welcome people that come to the area and we try and get them to come back.”

Members of the Charity Safari are camping at the Meeniyan Recreation Reserve and will use the scout hall and reserve facilities.

Meeniyan Progress Association president Frank Arndt said the group would be welcomed with open arms.

“We’ll be glad to see them. There are three or four good eating places in town and hopefully there’ll be more facilities for them in the near future,” he said, referring to plans to install a dump station at the reserve.

The group will still involve Leongatha in their trip, with a dinner planned at the Woorayl Golf Club tonight.

Van fee slug

All set: Loretta Chumbley prepares to drive for Wonthaggi Secondary College in the human powered vehicle grand prix at Wonthaggi on Saturday. She is cheered on by Jason Gent, Matt Sullivan, Anthony Foon and Taylor Forrest. More on page 15.

From far and wide: Enjoying their time in Meeniyan were Rod-ger Hyde (Essex, Eng-land), Anna Farley, Ray Browne, Brenda Jack-son and Beryl Hyde.

By Simone Short

THE third armed robbery in Mirboo North in 18 months has prompted the town’s business-people to come together.

Traders have been concerned for their safety after the Bendigo Bank and Meeniyan Post Offi ce were robbed last year.

Then last Thursday afternoon, the Mir-boo North Post Offi ce was held up in similar circumstances.

But the arrest of a 57-year-old man has brought some relief to business people.

He has been charged with the armed rob-beries of all three businesses.

Strzelecki Newsagency owner John Za-

biegala said he had been concerned for the safety of his staff following the fi rst two incidents.

“We’ve only been here 18 months and that was the third robbery in the same period of time,” he said.

Manager of Stockdale and Leggo, Rich-ard Taylor is also relieved someone has been caught and charged.

“I feel compassion for the owners of the post offi ce because I as a fellow business manager could have been a victim,” he said.

“The post offi ce owners are very gentle natured and were the last people that de-served to be targeted.”

The Town Centre Nursery owner, Karen Haw said the robberies prove how vulnerable business-owners are.

“I’m at my shop alone sometimes,” she said.

“It’s a scary thought when someone like that is in your town.”

Police alleged at 3.50pm on Thursday, a man armed with a rifl e held up the post offi ce and stole money before fl eeing.

Around 15 police offi cers from Mirboo North, Korumburra, Leongatha, Latrobe, Foster and Trafalgar attended the crime scene. Following an investigation at the post offi ce, the accused was found at a farm in Mardan and identifi ed.

Only one customer was present during the robbery and no one was hurt.

The man will face the Latrobe Magis-trate’s Court on June 14 on three counts of armed robbery.

Town unites after third robbery

Off limits: police cordon off the Mirboo North Post Offi ce last Monday.

PAGE 4 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Mossvale a musical hit

Fun day: enjoying the tunes were Tracey Arnold of Mirboo North, Peter Oddy of Mirboo North, Julie Hogan-Walsh of Foster and Karen Tanswell of Fish Creek.

Popular still: the Mossvale Music Festival continues to lure fans of song from across the region and beyond.

Mellow sound: Joe Pug holds the stage.

In comfort: relaxing on the fi rst ever couch brought to the fes-tival were The Couch Crew. Front: Jo Roubystone, Jedd Kruger and Brett Kruger of Foster. Back: Sue Kruger of Briagolong and Damien Kruger of Caulfi eld.

Family day: Lorraine Massie of Buffalo caught up with daugh-ters Sharon Andrews of Drouin and Michelle Dedlefs of Narre Warren, with her daughter Jema Dedlefs.

♫♪♪FROM when the gates opened through until the last performer left the stage, the annual Mossvale Mu-sic Festival was a success.

More than 2000 budding music fans came through the gates on Saturday and enjoyed the variety of music, as well as the beauty of Mossvale Park at Berrys Creek on a warm autumn day.

Festival director Ian Bevington described the weather as perfect beyond belief.

“You can never know with the weather these days and we couldn’t have asked for a better day, especial-

ly with the full moon in the evening.”

Local band the Strzelecki Stringbusters were the fi rst to take to the stage on the day and were a great way to get the crowd tap-ping their feet.

The line-up comprised international, Australian and local musicians and bands that suited most musical tastes and defi nitely the taste of the crowd.

“It was great to see the international acts spoken about in the same breath as locals,” Mr Bevington said.

“The international guys were fantastic but my personal favourite was Melbourne musi-cian Chris Wilson who managed to have the entire park up and dancing.”

The day was mainly about music but in between the acts a pair of circus performers,

The Power to Whaite Ratio, ventured out amongst the crowd and performed amazing contortion stunts.

“Those guys were great and had kids gathering around wherever they appeared in the crowd,” Mr Bevington said.

He and the whole Lyrebird Arts team stressed the event was a community effort.

“A big thankyou goes out to Apex, Prom-coast Arts Council, Berry’s Creek CFA, South Gippsland Shire, Ray Everson from South Gippsland Mini Skips, Gary Yeomans Electrics and the O’Loughlin family who of-fered up their paddock for parking.”

As this was the ninth festival, some big surprises are planned for next year’s 10th an-niversary concert. circus pep rfrforor

♫♪♪♪

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - PAGE 5

By Brad Lester

SOUTH Gippsland Shire Council may support construction of a 33m telecom-munications tower that would dominate the heart of Leongatha, despite wide-spread community objection.

Council will tomorrow night (Wednesday) debate the proposal, backed by council’s planning department.

The monopole tower will be the tallest structure in the CBD. It is proposed for 54 Bair Street, at the rear of a dental clinic, despite the Code of Practice for Telecommunications Facilities in Victoria (July 2004) stating such towers must be located to minimise any interruption to a signifi cant view, a streetscape, vista or panorama.

Council received 18 written objections to the tower, with one submission signed by 13 people.

Only mayor Cr Warren Raabe and Cr Jeanette Harding heard objectors’ concerns last Wednesday evening. Three councillors – David Lewis, Mimmie Jackson and Jim Fawcett – were absent due to confl icts of interest, and other councillors had other events to attend. Only six councillors will be able to vote on the issue tomorrow.

The visual impact of the tower was the objectors’ greatest concern, citing the tower would dominate views of the town and particularly entrances to Leongatha.

Objectors Jim and Jenny Williams own 52 Bair Street. Mr Williams claimed the tower would be as high as a fi ve storey building.

“This is fairly out of character with the Leongatha skyline and with the changing technologies, will we need such structures in the

future?” he said.A consultant for Optus, David Hughes, told

council last Wednesday afternoon the company had tried to minimise the visual impact.

“A carpark was considered as an option but council preferred us to go to a private location,” he said.

Asked by Cr Bob Newton why council property was not chosen as a location, Mr Hughes responded: “I believe that it was better for council for us to explore all private land options before considering council property.”

The council report to tomorrow’s meeting states: “It is considered the proposed tower will be partly screened from view at street level in Bair Street and McCartin Street, the principle (sic) pedestrian and traffi c centres in the town, by the existing buildings and awnings over the footpath which limit extensive views of the sky.

“Notwithstanding, the tower will be visible from a number of vantage points around the town, particularly for traffi c entering the town from Koonwarra Road, where the proposed tower will directly within (sic) the line of sight for both vehicle and pedestrian traffi c.

“However, a number of vertical structures such as power poles, light poles, antennas and other telecommunication facilities already establish a vertical element in views of the skyline of Leongatha, including the view from Koonwarra Road.”

Health impacts were also raised.“If someone was to get a life-threatening

illness that may not have anything to do with the tower, the tower could be blamed. This stigma is in human nature and would affect our ability to lease the building and may make it vacant, which we do not want in Leongatha,” Mr Williams told council.

Optus claims that electromagnetic energy levels at 1.5m above ground level would be about 0.039 per cent of public exposure limits set by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency.

Council chief executive offi cer Tim Tamlin was unsure why council had rejected previous approaches to have the tower sited on council buildings, as that decision was made before his tenure began.

He told The Star he did not have concerns about the impacts of radiation on staff.

The Williamses believed the tower could be co-located with the new fi re station proposed for the other side of Bair Street.

Cr Raabe was worried about the visual impact and Cr Harding was concerned the tower could set a precedent.

Optus told council sites outside of Leongatha could not be considered as the company has “specifi c coverage needs”.

“Alternative sites within the township, such as in the Industrial Zone or in the recreation area, are signifi cantly lower than the town centre, and would require much larger, frame style aerials, such as the 55 metre high tower previously proposed and refused by council,” the council report stated.

“A site within the highest part of the town enables the overall height of the tower to be reduced and its visual appearance to be minimised by allowing a slim, monopole design.”

A council report stated improved communication services would encourage business investment and development in Leongatha, and that the tower would not impact the shire’s “environment and cultural heritage”.

Tower tick looks likelySo high: an illustration by objector Jim Williams, purporting to indicate how tall the tower will be above Bair Street.

By Jane Ross

A NEW swimming pool in Wonthag-gi would cost $16 million.

And Bass Coast Coun-cil wants to know what the overall shire community thinks of the idea.

The current pool and as-sociated sports facilities are old and tired.

They’ve been there for 30 years and belong to a different age.

A feasibility study has concluded that a new pool would cost $12.36 million and associated “dry” facili-ties, a further $3.54 million.

That revelation left councillors gasping.

And, they’re expecting the community will react

similarly.But, as Cr Peter Paul

stated at last Wednesday night’s council meeting, “We need to underpin this with a dose of realism. The community understands if you want an aquatic centre, you will pay for it. Aquatic centres are expensive.

“I look forward to real-istic feedback. Everybody must keep focus on what it means for Bass Coast to spend $16 million.”

Moving a motion that the feasibility study go on public exhibition and a re-port about that be presented to council in June, Cr John Dusher said the aquatic cen-tre had served the area well.

“But it has grown tired and old. The cost fi gures are pretty frightening and this seeks to ask the community

its view. If it is redeveloped, it will have to be staged.”

Seconding the motion, Cr Jane Daly said she was very disappointed the fea-sibility study included little input from the Phillip Island Aquatic Centre Committee.

“I thought we should’ve got a lot more information back from Phillip Island.

“I hope Phillip Island people will give feedback. We had one girl come for one afternoon in Cowes asking people what they thought.”

Cr Phil Wright backed her up.

“I won’t vote for $16 million going to Wonthaggi and not to Phillip Island. Phillip Island must not be left behind. We need an aquatic centre there.”

And, he asked, if coun-

cil funded $16 million, by how much would rates have to go up?

Mayor Cr Veronica Dowman ruled Cr Wright out of order.

“You’re speaking about the next step. That is not relevant to the motion.”

Cr Paul said a new Wonthaggi Aquatic Centre would come at “enormous cost” and had huge budget-ary implications.

“There are other priori-ties in Bass Coast.”

But, he said, the feasibil-ity study would allow peo-ple to “start to get a handle on realistic fi gures”.

“But what will it be at the expense of or deletion of?”

Cr Ross Smith suggest-ed the Community Support Fund, which he described

$16m for new Wonthaggi pool

Crazy days: co-ordinators of the Toora Primary School Crazy Hair fundraiser last Friday, Alanna Des-sent and Abbie Cook (front), enjoyed the fun day with fellow Grade 5 and 6 students. They were Ebony Nicholls, Ebony Jones, Jayde Vine, Kate Jenkins, Bonnie Orgill, Cody Migliorisi, Tristan Koolen, Ashley Hewson, Brendonn Springthorpe, Leah Ross, Rochelle Storr, Taylah Hillis, Elli Clavarino, Kourtney Brewer and Shelbie Sunderland. The school raised $80 for charity - a great effort by the school’s 48 students.

as “slush money from the casino” was one of the pos-sibilities council could ap-ply for.

Cr Duscher said all good things come at a cost, but the question is, can the mu-nicipality afford it?

Not too many years ago, councillors decided that $4 million was too high a price to pay for a new regional li-brary in Wonthaggi.

PAGE 6 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011

THE Korumburra Recreation Centre, or the ‘Rec Centre’ as it is known by residents, has had a facelift.

Friday night was the fi rst chance for the centre committee to show off the brand new revamped bot-tom court walls and new stage.

The night went off without a hitch, with a full tour of the facility and completed works.

Deputy Premier Peter Ryan offi cially opened the redevelopments by unveil-ing the plaque.

The Victoria Police Band took to the brand new stage and entertained all those who came along.

The three court com-plex (two full size and one training) supports many local events with basket-ball tournaments, Country Basketball League games, domestic night netball, basketball and volleyball as well as debutante balls, weddings, music concerts, and local school and club events.

The centre is now bet-ter than ever, with the new stage as well as the foyer, car park and drill hall up-grades from the past few years, so Trevor Rickard has decided it’s time to step down from his position of chairman of the manage-ment committee.

Since the centre fi rst opened its doors in 1982, Mr Rickard has headed the committee and has seen lots of changes and improve-ments to the establishment in the past years.

“With these recent im-provements to the centre I feel that it’s the right time to move on,” Mr Rickard said.

“I’ve moved away from Korumburra, don’t have my business there anymore and now no longer have my children participating in sport at the centre.”

The last major project to be done while Mr Rickard was committee chairman was the stage and relining of the walls of the bottom court.

He is happy with the result as well as the com-munity support the project received.

“It’s great that an origi-nal $15,000 proposal by the Lions Club can turn into a $270,000 project for the community,” he said.

Mr Rickard believes the new upgrades will encourage the staging of non-sporting events at the centre.

“Although the centre is most commonly used for sporting games it has many other uses,” he said.

“This is a community facility and much more than just a sporting sta-dium.”

Declared open: South Gippsland Shire mayor Cr Warren Raabe, Cr Bob Newton and Cr Mimmie Jackson, joined McMillan MP Rus-sell Broadbent, Deputy Premier Peter Ryan and outgoing chairman of the Korumburra Rec-reation Reserve com-mittee Trevor Rickard at the opening of the upgraded Korumburra Recreation Reserve on Friday night.

‘Rec Centre’ now better than ever

SOUTH Gippsland Community Watch-dog Paul Richardson is worried busi-nesses in the municipality are getting a raw deal.

He last week asked council what services are provided to businesses in return for rates paid.

The question bemused mayor Cr Warren Raabe and chief executive offi cer, Tim Tamlin.

“We will take that question on notice because it could be quite extensive,” the CEO said.

Cr Raabe responded: “That’s going to take a lot of time and effort and expense on behalf of ratepayers of which you claim to represent.

“I will provide a list of services that we provide but I will not give licence to staff to spend hours and hours on this.”

To which Mr Richardson responded: “Why should local businesses pay rates and get zilch in services?”

Mr Richardson also asked whether council had a Freedom of Information policy.

‘No’ was the answer from Mr Tamlin.“Council does not have a Freedom of

Information policy as we are governed by legislation and do not see the need to have such a policy,” he said.

HOW the Federal Government’s amended national health plan will impact on South Gippsland is dif-fi cult to determine.

Bass Coast Regional Health CEO Lea Pope, said she thinks it’s too early to tell.

She doubts there will be any changes in the short term.

Ms Pope said under the plan, the fed-eral contribution to public hospitals will increase from the current rate to 45 per cent by 2014 and 50 per cent by 2017. There will be no transfer of GST from the states.

State and federal money will go into a

central national pool to be allocated to the states to pay for health services.

Medicare Locals, which Ms Pope ex-plained were the primary healthcare or-ganisations announced before the national health plan was modifi ed, are likely to be more numerous than fi rst planned.

The modifi ed plan has set targets for emergency departments and elec-tive surgery and Ms Pope said an expert panel will advise on how these are to be implemented.

The modifi ed plan was announced ear-lier this month.

The Rural Doctors Association of Australia has reserved its judgment until

the fi ner detail is known.Its president Paul Mara, said the RDAA

welcomed the shared pool of funding which, hopefully, will match resources to local need. Part of the pool should be al-located to train, attract and retain doctors, nurses and other health professionals in rural areas because the need is “critical”.

Dr Mara said the national plan would only be successful if it improved access to health services for rural Australians and maintained or increased the availability of local rural hospital services such as ob-stetrics, surgery and accident and emer-gency care.

COUNCIL watcher Paul Norton has refused to pay a fi ne of about $600 to South Gippsland Shire Council.

Instead, the Leongatha South farmer said he has forwarded the sum to an un-disclosed charity.

Mr Norton was gagged and fi ned by mayor Cr Warren Raabe at the February 23 council meeting, in an unprecedented act in the shire’s history.

The mayor said he had then acted in response to what he labelled as Mr Norton’s “atrocious behavior”, when he refused to refrain from commenting at the meeting after being ejected from the chamber the previous week.

Mr Norton presented a letter to coun-cil at last Wednesday’s public presenta-tion session, read by council chief execu-tive offi cer, Tim Tamlin.

In that letter, Mr Norton wrote he had sent $600 to a “worthy registered charity where it will achieve more than what it would if paid to council.”

Mr Norton last week told The Star he would produce a receipt acknowledging his payment to charity.

In his letter, Mr Norton asked council where fi ne money paid to council goes. Mr Tamlin said: “To council, of course.”

Mr Norton also apologised to council for his actions at the presentation session on February 16 and at the February 23 council meeting.

The minutes of that meeting - to be confi rmed at tomorrow’s council meet-ing - state: “Mr Paul Norton proceeded to the lectern however the Mayor indicated that he had sent him a letter earlier in the week and would not be accepting questions from him at the moment.

“The Mayor further indicated that if Mr Norton continued to speak this would be at the risk of incurring a fi ne.

“Mr Norton continued to speak and the Mayor stated that he would be issued with a fi ne.”

Cr Raabe confi rmed he had not sent a letter to Mr Norton waiving the fi ne.

COUNCILLORS heard at their meeting last Wednesday, that $40,000 is being saved each year by putting the shire com-munity directory online, rather than printing hard copies. Only 300 of the latter have been re-quested, compared with the previous 10,000. Further money will be saved by encouraging community group representa-tives to change their contact de-tails directly through the council website, rather than the costly and time-consuming mail outs of yesteryear.

MORE than 130 people have contributed to a new early years plan. Councillors heard that one of the issues it needs to address is a state and feder-al decree that all four-year-old children must have a minimum of 15 hours of kindergarten education. Cr Peter Paul said that can’t be done without the federal funds to back it up, otherwise it would be another case of cost shifting. Never-theless, money spent on early years education was “very pro-ductive”. “You get very little out of remediation.” Cr Gareth Barlow said early years educa-tion “affects a child’s life most profoundly”.

A SECTION of govern-ment road abutting a property in Billson Street, Wonthaggi, will be declared unused so that the adjoining property owner can revegetate it. A licence from the

Department of Sustainability and Environment is needed and it is that body which sought action from council. A road reserve in Genista Street, San Remo, was discontinued as a road. The land will be sold to an abutting land-owner for $15,500, plus costs.

CR Phil Wright drew the at-tention of his colleagues to the World Kneeboard Titles being conducted on Phillip Island be-tween March 19 and 26.

“Council has funded some of the trophies and I would encourage everyone to come. There will visitors from all around the world.”

CR Peter Paul acknowledged and congratulated Amanda Dren-nan on her swim around Phillip Island. It began last Wednesday morning. Amanda is a Paralym-pian who decided to swim around the island to raise money for and awareness of the need for a 24 hour medical facility. It is also her way of saying “thank you” to the island community which helped her fi nancially during her Paralympic days. She has one leg and swims without a prosthesis.

A PETITION signed by 25 people protesting against a special charge scheme for Gra-ham Street, Wonthaggi, was re-ceived. It will “lie on the table for one month” in accordance with a council local law.

Bass Coast briefsHealth plan impact uncertain

Raw deal worries Fine win for charity

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - PAGE 7

By Brad Lester

LANDOWNERS are still con-cerned for the future of their properties despite greater oppor-tunities for development under revised planning rules in South Gippsland Shire.

People packed the gallery at a council public presentation session about changes to C51 last Wednesday to speak of uncertainty and the risk of wasting money.

They came seeking answers about whether their dreams of a rural life or selling their land could be fulfi lled, and whether they should risk spending money on applying for permits.

But in many cases, mayor Cr Warren Raabe could only offer a glimmer of hope, suggesting they could apply and hope for a favourable outcome.

Councillors were briefed by acting planning manager Paul Stampton about the likelihood of more planning permits being granted under C51, following legal advice from Queen’s Counsel, Stuart Morris, about council’s interpretation of the policy.

Mark Keppich-Arnold bought a block of less than 8ha at Hallston in 1988 with the intention of living there. But now he cannot sell the property as only lots between 0.4 and 8ha created after December 4, 1994 may be considered for a permit to build.

“What is going to happen to the block? It’s going to remain vacant to the day I die. There is nothing I can do,” he said.

“I have paid rates on that block for many years as though there was a house on it because it was bought with

a planning permit.”The 1994 date was the day the

existing South Gippsland Shire Council was created. Cr Raabe said dates were chosen to restrict the number of permits eligible for development to match the former State Government’s policy of minimising development of agricultural land.

“If we had left everything in there, we would have thousands and thousands of lots,” he said.

Cr David Lewis, who lives near Mr Keppich-Arnold’s land, is concerned the “arbitrariness of the dates will be written into our rural strategy” – the plan that will supersede C51 and govern future rural development.

Barry Hill questioned the imposition of cut-off dates for permit eligibility and believed council could have got a better deal from the State Government.

Cr Raabe responded: “The result may not be as palatable to the community as council would like but we have achieved something. We have achieved the right to give permits of a residential fl avour to some people in the Farming Zone.”

A resident who wished to remain anonymous said his property has lost 80 per cent of its potential market value as he was unable to obtain a permit.

A council valuation indicates it is now worth less than what he paid for it.

“We wish to sell it. We don’t wish to build on it but it looks like we won’t even break even,” he said.

His wife was concerned they could become bankrupt under the costs of applying for a permit.

Cr Raabe said the 60 acre allotment was beyond the jurisdiction of C51.

Barry Gilbert asked why C51

excluded road reserves that were typically of poor agricultural value and therefore suitable for housing development.

A Foster woman questioned the ineligibility of grazing and calf rearing on lots between eight and 40ha to qualify as agricultural activity, particularly in steep country.

“It is impossible not to live on site when you’re checking calves all the time,” she said.

Mr Stampton said typically agriculture required land greater than 40ha in size.

David Wyhoon said he runs a beef stud and spends considerable time checking stock. He sought clarifi cation about appropriate agriculture.

“Please, give us some direction as to what is acceptable,” he said.

Cr Raabe: “These are probably the same words that we asked the (former) State Government (when negotiating). They went silent. We are treading on new ground for them at the moment. They say build up cases through VCAT and people challenging you. They are looking for more intensive activities than grazing.”

Korumburra man Bill Jeffs wanted to know what type of agricultural activity would have to be undertaken in order for him to build a house on two acres within the Korumburra township.

Mr Stampton responded: “It’s diffi cult to come up with an agricultural activity that requires a house on a property of that size.”

Self-proclaimed council watchdog Paul Richardson has urged council chief executive offi cer Tim Tamlin to write to Deputy Premier, Peter Ryan, calling for C51 to be removed.

Confusion still reigns

What to do: Cr David Lewis listens to Mark Keppich-Arnold’s plight.

UNDER the revised C51 guide-lines, council planners may now consider:

• lots between 0.4 and 2.1ha created before December 16, 1999 to allow lots of fi ve acres (2.0234ha);

• lots between 0.4 and 8ha created after December 4, 1994, as these lots were intended to be rural residential lots and created since the formation

of the existing South Gippsland Shire Council;

• lots on vacant land but held in tene-ment, and when consolidated, would be between 0.4 and 2.1ha;

• lots formerly roads or road reserva-tions but changed by a planning permit for subdivision; and

• lots with at least 50 per cent rem-nant revegetation or regrowth more than 30 years old.

C51 changes

CR BOB Newton has demanded an apology from self-proclaimed council watchdog Paul Richardson in relation to his allegation that Cr Newton breached the Local Government Act in 2006.

Cr Newton said Mr Richardson’s claim was based around incorrect minutes of the October 4, 2006 council meeting that should have been corrected by councillors at the subsequent meeting.

The minutes stated Cr Newton declared a confl ict of interest when council voted about a wind farm matter. He owned a property identifi ed as a wind farm site at the time. Cr Newton said he was out of the chamber when the vote was taken.

He said his version of events was supported by then mayor, Nigel Hutchinson-Brooks.

“I expect Mr Richardson should apologise because he has caused such controversy over this innuendo,” Cr Newton said.

Mr Richardson, however, has ruled out apologising and still claims Cr Newton breached the act and demanded he pay a fi ne of about $12,000.

Last Wednesday, he asked council why the council of the time had not corrected the error at the next meeting. Mr Richardson has said he would take the matter to the State Government. Council chief executive offi cer Tim Tamlin told council’s public presentation session last Wednesday the oversight in correcting the minutes would be addressed at a future council meeting.

Cr Newton confi rmed his property at Korumburra was under consideration for a wind farm but the company involved has since withdrawn interest.

Apologise says Cr Newton

WATER storages across South Gippsland continue to be at satis-factory levels.

Foster Dam and Fish Creek’s Battery Creek res-ervoir are full.

Little Bass, which sup-plies Nyora, Poowong and Loch, is at 98 per cent ca-pacity, and Korumburra’s Coalition Creek is at 94 per

cent. Lance Creek sits at 90 per cent and Leongatha’s Ruby Creek at 89 per cent.

Rainfall recorded at South Gippsland Water’s storages last week was: Lance Creek 50mm, Ruby Creek 36mm, Coalition Creek 59mm, Deep Creek 46mm, Little Bass 62mm and Battery Creek 36mm.

Dams fi lling up

PAGE 8 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011

By Jane Ross

THE intersection of McKenzie Street and Korumburra-Won-thaggi Road Wonthaggi has reached saturation point.

And, with the advent of Bunnings on the old Cyclone site, nearby residents and Bass Coast councillors have been alarmed by the traffi c implications.

But a bit of hard-nosed argy bargy has found an answer.

Bunnings will contribute $125,000 towards road widening and traffi c lights at the intersection. Others will put in a total of $725,000. This is a good thing because the work will cost more than $2 million.

That’s nearly as much as the new Bunnings store itself. It comes with a

price tag of $2.25 million.Solving the dilemma of dealing with

Wonthaggi’s - and the shire’s - busi-est intersection, has left the way clear for councillors to approve a planning permit for Bunnings to go ahead with construction.

The matter came before the Febru-ary meeting, but councillors deferred it in order to allow staff to reach a traffi c jam solution.

VicRoads hadn’t been keen on the idea of traffi c lights, but has apparently had a change of heart.

The aim is to have the traffi c lights in place in the 2012-13 fi scal year.

“This is a really good outcome,” said Cr Gareth Barlow.

He had been worried that if Bun-nings contributed to the cost of turning lanes as VicRoads had initially suggest-

ed, the prospect of traffi c lights was far less likely.

“It’s clear this is the busiest intersec-tion in the shire,” he continued. “There are ridiculous traffi c delays. The traffi c in Korumburra Road will increase with Bunnings and a turning lane wouldn’t fi x the problem.

“We have the best mechanism to achieve traffi c lights in the shortest time.”

He commended Bunnings for its co-operative attitude.

“I want to thank Bunnings publicly for this solution and our staff for nego-tiating it. Everyone will be much safer and happier.”

Cr Peter Paul said that, with Bun-nings going in to that area, it “would become chaotic” without traffi c lights.

“This resolves the situation.

“I welcome Bunnings.”Cr John Duscher said he had been

very vocal at the previous meeting, wanting the planning permit application deferred pending more information.

“My opposition was based on an improved traffi c development to allow Bunnings to locate here.

“Bunnings will not be responsible for all the (traffi c) congestion, but they won’t make it any better. The commu-nity was demanding to know what we were doing about it.

“I still believe Bunnings should be in a business four zone, but our current planning scheme allows it where it is.

“Bunnings is a vote of confi dence in our shire but I bring the concerns of the people in adjoining streets. They will be inconvenienced by those tak-ing short cuts. This doesn’t make me

any happier.”But, he said, people can take com-

fort in the long-term solution of the traf-fi c lights.

Cr Ross Smith said he has beenworried that delivery trucks wouldbe clogging the intersections aroundBunnings.

“I have since been reassured.”He called for the hours of Bunnings’

delivery trucks “to be policed”.“It’s pretty important that we don’t

have the intersection clogged up withtheir trucks.”

Cr Smith agreed with Cr Duscherthat the Cyclone site was not idealfor a large business development likeBunnings.

“The positioning would have beenbetter on Wonthaggi Road.”

Lights save Bunnings

A WONTHAGGI nursing home has become embroiled in a media frenzy, after one of its residents, former star actor Rowena Wallace, spoke out about plans to demolish her unit.

The issue, engulfi ng Rose Lodge, was yesterday (Monday) covered by metropolitan television and a newspaper.

The lodge is expanding, but four units will be demolished to make way for the new accommodation.

Ms Wallace, a star of TV show Sons and Daughters, lives in one of the units to go and she told the Herald Sun she is fi nding a new place to live.

The extension of the aged care facility requires the demolition of a block of four independent living units that have been vacant for some time.

The lodge operators, Wonthaggi and District Elderly Citizens’ Homes, said it offered one of the units to Ms Wallace for 12 months until February this year.

A media statement issued yesterday (Monday) said Ms Wallace was aware of the short-term nature of the rental and the reason when accepting the offer.

The statement continued: “In February 2011 the situation regarding timing of the extension was reviewed and the tenant was offered a further six months to August 2011, but was advised that any further extensions would be unlikely.”

The statement said she signed an acceptance on this basis.

“Rose Lodge understands that the tenant may have concerns regarding her future housing needs, however, she has always been aware of the short-term nature of the accommodation,” the statement said.

Media frenzy over actor

• Rowena Wallace

THREE cars have been impounded by police since Friday night in a crackdown on hoon behaviour.

The fi rst incident occurred at about 6.10pm on Friday when a 24-year-old Mirboo North man was seen doing burnouts in a Holden ute.

He is expected to be charged on summons for care-less driving and causing noise and smoke.

Sometime between late Saturday night and early Sun-day morning, a man driving a red Toyota Avalon was seen behaving badly in Dowling

Street, Wonthaggi.A 23-year-old male from

Leongatha was caught driv-ing the vehicle at slow speeds with its wheels spinning,

He will face court for im-proper use of a motor vehicle, causing noise and smoke and driving an unroadworthy mo-torcar. The fi nal incident oc-curred yesterday afternoon when a 19-year-old male from Leongatha North was caught doing 156km/h in a green VY Commodore Sedan on Koru-mburra-Inverloch Road.

He will not have to face court, but was issued with an on-the-spot excessive speed infringement notice and auto-

matically lost his licence for 12 months.

The teenager, on his green probationary licence, lost eight demerit points and received a $597 fi ne.

All three men had their cars seized and impounded for 48 hours and will have to pay $490 to have them released.

Local police and members from the Bass Coast High-way Patrol are preparing to ramp up efforts against hoon drivers. Anyone witnessing hoon drivers is encouraged to contact the police as soon as possible by either phoning their local police or the Hoon Hotline on 1800 333 000.

Hoon crackdownDrunk drivers

face consequencesTHE DRIVER in charge of a learner driver blew almost four times over the blood al-cohol limit on Friday night.

A 44-year-old man from Syd-ney blew 0.182 in King Street, Korumburra and will face court at a later date.

A man was then caught driv-ing under the infl uence of alcohol in Wonthaggi at 2am Sunday. He was pulled over after doing a small burnout before blowing 0.085.

The man was issued with an

infringement notice for failing to have full control of his vehicle and lost his licence for six months.

As a local truck driver, the man is consequently now unemployed, restating the risks of drunk driv-ing and engaging in reckless be-haviour on the road.

Burglaries linkedTHREE burglaries believed to be related have occurred in Leongatha within days of each other.

On March 12, offenders at-tempted to break into Target by using a door in Sparrow Lane with no success.

The attention then turned to the Bruce Street Anglican op-shop where they forced open a window and cut a padlock on a storage shed. Nothing was stolen.

Infl uence on Dusk had $325 stolen from their till following a robbery after thieves rummaged through tea room drawers.

The last and most signifi cant attack was on the Best Dry Clean-ers in Peart Street. The premises were accessed via a window and a safe was stolen which contained $4300, as well as $400 from the till.

Bass Coast Criminal Investi-gation unit is investigating.

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By Jane Ross

SOUTH Gippsland Coun-cil’s David Lewis still has reservations about the sus-tainability strategy.

It’s not that he opposes the idea of being sustainable, it’s that he thinks there are better and cheaper ways of going about dealing with it than drafting a strategy.

He could have a point and he’s not alone.

A copy of the strategy given to The Star by ratepayer Steve Fin-lay, notes that it is version number 15.

How sustainable is that?Mr Finlay, of Leongatha,

has lodged a submission to the draft, saying he could fi nd little within its 40 pages of value to ratepayers.

He’s also worried about how much any of the suggested strate-gies, projects and programs might cost.

Cr Lewis is concerned about that too.

He was a lone voice at the De-cember 22, 2010 council meeting where his colleagues endorsed the draft and agreed it be put out for community submissions.

He said late last week he wasn’t

happy with “going to the commu-nity and giving no messages about what it might cost”.

“We start down a track and it leads us to approve things with-out the community knowing the cost.”

In Mr Finlay’s view, these could be huge.

“If all the recommendations in the draft are adopted, will it cost us a million dollars a year?” he asks in his brief submission to the document.

“Can council put a cost on this?”

It’s not that he is against sus-tainability either. He said he is an environmentalist and rides his bike wherever he can.

Both Cr Lewis and Mr Finlay are a little perplexed by some of the language in the draft strategy.

They don’t know what it means.

Mr Finlay points to a number of examples on page fi ve of the document. He wonders what a “living and evolving document” is and has no idea about “a full taxonomy of best practice”, never mind “Anyzing enabled work-shops”.

Cr Lewis was fl ummoxed by the latter two expressions too.

Cr Lewis said he thought jar-gon like that tended to obscure what was actually happening.

“An average person like my-self as a humble councillor, is not on the same tram as people using that language.”

Neither is Mr Finlay.“I think it’s all spin,” he de-

clared.Cr Mimmie Jackson said she

wouldn’t have used the word tax-onomy herself, but she said she is more focused on the content of the strategy.

“The language of the draft sus-tainability strategy would be diffi -

cult to read for someone who isn’t familiar with the kinds of con-cepts, words and acronyms used.

“Early on in the process, I was reassured that the strategy would be professionally proof-read be-fore being fi nalised.”

Cr Jackson said she hoped this would help in terms of the lan-guage used.

She pointed out that communi-ties expect a lot from their local governments, including responsi-bility for matters of sustainability and much of the strategy describes work that council already does.

“Councillors are well aware that council already provides nu-merous services that it needs to continue to do in a fi nancially sus-tainable way.

“I doubt we will forget this when it comes time to decide on the strategy and the actions that follow from it.”

Actions, she stressed, that “must be concrete, measurable and costed.”

The fi nal strategy – including some detail from the written sub-missions – is due to go back to council by the end of April.

Meanwhile, the shire is adver-tising for a full time sustainabil-ity offi cer on a salary package of $70,000.

Strategy or spin?

• Cr David Lewis.

By Jacob de Kunder

LEONGATHA Sec-ondary College is unsure whether a planned exchange trip to Japan will proceed this year in the wake of the catastrophic earthquake and tsu-nami in the country.

Assistant principal Tracey Summerton heads the exchange project and is waiting to make a deci-sion on the trip.

Leongatha’s sister school Toyama Dai Ichi High School was the des-tination of the trip that may be cancelled. This is despite the fact the school resides on the west coast of Japan and not the east

side that has been tragi-cally affected.

The college communi-ty was quick to make con-nections with their sister school to make sure every-one was safe and well.

“We’ve had good con-tacts with teachers and friends in Toyama as well as Tokyo since the disas-ter,” Mrs Summerton said.

She said the program would continue and the connections between Le-ongatha and Japan would remain strong.

“We’ve contacted the DFAT (Department of For-eign Affairs and Tourism) about continuing with the trip and are waiting for a reply from them,” Mrs Summerton said.

“But at this stage Ja-pan doesn’t seem like the

place to be taking a group of young students, because their safety is the main concern.

“The trip isn’t until September so we still have hope that it can go ahead and the country is deemed safe when the time comes to decide.

“All we can do until then is stay well informed and wait.”

With the predicted low levels of tourism in Japan, the school can afford to wait until after Easter be-fore having to make book-ings.

“Our heartfelt sympa-thies go out to the people of Japan,” Mrs Summer-ton said.

“Because of all this dire information coming out of the area at the mo-

Japan trip undecidedment we can’t help but be worried”

“Two years ago Vic-toria was deeply affected by the bushfi res and our

friends in Japan sent lots of good wishes. Now the time has come where we send our good thoughts to them.”

Oriental experience: Leongatha students (from left) Kate Ball, Kate Trotto, Sabrina Jansen, Alex Bayer, Bentia Eygenraam, Megan Rosser and Kayla Jolly at Toyama Dai Ichi High School during a trip in 2009.

SMOKE shrouded parts of South Gippsland over the weekend, as authorities undertook planned burns.

Two burns totalling 17ha were undertaken south of Wonthaggi on

Saturday, and a 528ha burn was undertaken on Little Snake Island south of Port Welshpool on Sunday.

Both burns were undertaken by the Country Fire Authority and Department of Sustainability and Environment.

Smoke hangs over weekend

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PAGE 10 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011

LOCAL car enthusiasts made the trip to the Phillip Island race circuit on the weekend for the Shannons Classic race and displays. Sunshine brought huge crowds on the day as well as members of local car clubs who drove the scenic trip in their prized posses-sions.

GOOD luck to the con-tingent of local cyclists heading off to Torquay for the Otway Classic on Saturday. The riders will face a 145km long trip so safe riding for all attending.

THE Leongatha Horticul-tural Society is running a coach to the International Flower show on Wednes-

day, March 30. Some seats are still available. For more information phone Heather on 5668 9202.

THE Leongatha Com-munity House will be running Food Safety levels 1 & 2 and RSA on Monday, March 28. Please call 5662 3962 for more details.

THE Meeniyan and Stony Creek CFA are holding a Jazz Night at the Meeni-yan Hall on Saturday, April 2. Le Jazz Hot will be providing the entertain-ment with swinging music for the 20s, 30s and 40s. Tickets are $20 and book-ings are essential so ring Eric Mould on 5664 7376.

GIRL Guides from the area took part in a fun Arabian Night camp. The group of about 20 girls travelled down their own version of the ancient Silk

Road which connects Beijing to Baghdad in a game full of Arabian challenges.The weekend was enjoyed by all the girls in the teams.

DUMBALK’s Re-lay for Life is gaining momentum.

Two more teams, Summer Lovers and Koonwarra Line Dancers and friends, have been out and about over the last few months fundraising for the event. Pictured from left are, Melissa Belstead from team Summer Lovers, Marg Turra, team captain,

representing Koonwarra Line Dancers and friends, and Renee Maskell, team captain from Summer Lovers. Melissa and Renee and team sold homemade dog biscuits and painted faces at the recent Loch Market while the Koonwarra Line Dancers held a cent night at the Berrys Creek Hall last Saturday night.

THE Loch Historical Police Lock-up has been rescued and is being restored in Sunnyside Park in Loch. With the help of a grant the lock-up is being returned to good con-dition with hard work by Loch resident James Smart.

Animals fi rst: Kevin and Deborah Scott of South Gippsland Board-ing Kennels and Cat-tery have appointed Victor Hobart Scott as chairman. Kevin and Deborah stress that he is very qualifi ed for the position as he is a cat. The eight-year-old Scottish Fold has been a member of staff all his life so the bosses thought it was time for a promotion.

Playing polo: a high octane game of polo with homemade horses.

In the spotlight: cameras from all around the world were fl ashing last Sat-urday evening as the South Gippsland Shire Brass Band played at the Phil-lip Island Penguin Parade. The band was asked to play to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the estab-lishment of the parade. Guests from around the world enjoyed the music as they arrived for the event.

NAGEL’S Amcal Pharmacy in Leongatha held an in-store fundraiser for the Cancer Council recently.

Staff created a ‘match the pet to their owner’ board. For a gold coin donation, customers are invited to match the pets on the board with pharmacy staff.

“This is our contribution to the Relay for Life because we’re all too busy to actually participate,” pharmacy staff member Jo Fennell said.

“So we decided instead of making excuses we would do some fundraising.”

The winner of the competition will take home a $50 voucher from the pharmacy.Guessing game: Valmai Goller fi lls out her choices with pharmacy staff mem-

bers Jo Fennell and Hannah Stollard.

Pets look like owners

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - PAGE 11

AN AMERICAN marine scientist has called for mon-itoring of pipis at Venus Bay to ensure the shellfi sh are not overharvested.

The mollusc has been the sub-ject of much controversy in recent years, with many people from Melbourne collecting large vol-umes for food and fi shing.

Scientist Heather Hawk visited Venus Bay recently and said lar-vae from Venus Bay pipis spread as far as Sydney and Adelaide, and warrant protection.

“Little is known about the im-pacts of harvesting in Victoria (a crash may be impending), so mon-itoring pipi population structure and harvests is critical for these beaches, which serve as recruit-ment sources for all of southern Australia,” she said.

Ms Hawk said the Venus Bay coast was not only teeming with pipis but with “harvesters keen to fi ll buckets with them, sometimes leaving the beach in craters.”

“Fisheries in Sydney and else-where have learned that this spe-cies is highly susceptible to local population crashes after overfi sh-ing,” she said.

Ms Hawk was also impressed by Parks Victoria’s efforts to pro-tect Hooded Plovers, which nest and lay eggs on the beach.

“Now that humans, with heavy steps and distracted eyes, are in-cluded among the list of threats, Parks Victoria builds ‘nests’ for them—100 m2 fenced-off nests, in fact—to prevent unsuspecting beachgoers from trampling the fragile eggs hiding in the sand,” she said.

“There were three nesting pairs when I visited, which is an amaz-ing count for a federally endan-gered species. The fact that these beaches still support viable popu-lations of these birds shows that this area should be treated gently and with respect.”

An employee of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Ms Hawk was taken by Soldier Crabs dwell-ing on the northern side of the Venus Bay peninsula, amongst mangroves.

“These crabs play key roles in keeping the tidal mudfl at clean and the migratory waterfowl fat and happy, but they are also eas-ily trampled by careless boots and boats,” she said.

“At each incoming tide, hun-dreds of these electric blue crabs emerge from mud burrows just millimetres below the surface with the task of cleaning every single sand grain of bacteria, algae, and detritus, while dodging predators such as the elegant White Ibis.”

Because Venus Bay is home to

By Matt Dunn

TOORA’S property market has ignit-ed, with real estate observers reporting the sale of at least fi ve houses during a 10 day period.

An additional house was reported to have been sold before the ‘for sale’ was placed on the front fence.

The revelations come in the wake of the sale of the town’s former Bonlac milk factory.

Esso, which has a plant at nearby Barry Beach, and the milk factory’s buyer, Loumbos International, have both denied being part of the extraordinary buy up.

But there is little doubt that something big is about to happen in Toora and people in the know are making astute property investments.

Loumbos International CEO Val Loumbos was remaining tight-lipped about what the old milk factory site would be used for.

The Sydney-based businessman’s company is the Southern Hemisphere’s leading independent recycler of waste paper, data and plastics.

“At the moment the property has been purchased by me. I’m pretty heavily in discussions with some people as to the use of this site. If we are fruitful with these discussions,

the site will be fully restored,” he said. “This will be a big employer, but I’ve

got to get this over the line. I took the fi rst step by buying the property. Now we’re in heavy negotiations. We’ll be making an announcement as to the success or failure soon.” Mr Loumbos said any potential successes would come through negotiations with the Victorian Government.

“We’re working really hard on it. If it comes through the way we’re planning it’ll be fully utilised and create quite a lot of jobs. It’ll have a top benefi cial effect on the surrounding areas. When the announcement is made the Victorian Government will get the kudos,” he said.

PBE real estate agent Marion Hannon, who clinched the Bonlac deal, said the property had been listed since October. It has been listed before, but failed to sell.

Ms Hannon, a Toora resident, said 14 parties had looked through the property since October. Mr Loumbos was the highest bidder among the three vying for it.

“It’s an unconditional deal, which is really good. It’s just going to be terrifi c for the town. So many shops have closed, which has made the town look empty,” she said.

“There will be areas available to lease by local businesses. None of that will happen until settlement. At the moment I’m just

encouraging people, if they’re interested in leasing certain areas, to come and see us; we can take names and numbers.” Ms Hannon envisaged that part of the site would become something of a “business park”.

She said house sales in the town had occurred because people were “investing in the area now”.

“People are recognising that Toora’s been one of the cheaper places to buy in recent times. But the sale of the factory is creating an opportunity where people come in and buy now because there will be more employment, more shops and more opportunity,” she said.

“It gives the town a reason to be and the investments are starting already. Things are kicking along for Toora.”

South Gippsland Shire councillor and Toora Progress Association president Jeanette Harding, another Toora resident, is excited about the sale of the factory and the brightening prospects of the town.

But even she is in the dark about the sudden market surge.

Rumours are rife, but there is no news coming out of South Gippsland Shire Council. Cr Harding is perplexed but happy.

“All of a sudden everyone’s got a spring in their step. I think it’s absolutely wonderful,” she said.

Town in demand

Protect pipis, biologist pleas

Protection vital: marine biologist Heather Hawk with Parks Vic-toria ranger Jonathan Stevenson at Venus Bay. a diversity of healthy ecosystems, Ms Hawk hopes that with proper care, the peninsula can be spared from the fate of overexploitation which many coastal shires now face.

“However, this can only be achieved by people making re-sponsible decisions about their use of Venus Bay’s environment

and becoming actively involved in the local and regional programs aiming to keep Venus Bay healthy and beautiful,” she said.

“After all, keeping the land and coastlines functioning and beauti-ful is the duty and best interest of every person who steps foot across the Tarwin River—home-owners, businesses, and visitors alike.”

Happy days: Toora is undergoing a renaissance as investors clamour to buy properties. The biggest sale, of course, has been the former Bonlac factory. Cr Jeanette Harding (pictured) is ecstatic about the brightening prospects of the town.

PAGE 12 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Not a doctorTHANK you for your recent

article on new staff at the Leon-gatha Healthcare Group.

As the medical student re-ferred to in the fi rst sentence, Ishould point out that I am notyet ‘Dr Bell’.

I’ll have to wait until later in2012 for that distinction.

In the meantime I greatlyappreciate the learning oppor-tunities provided by the clinicand the warn welcome of theLeongatha community.

John Bell,Kongwak

cillors had to vacate the chamber because their confl icts of inter-ests made them ineligible to hear Mr Hughes’ submission.

Later I asked Mr Hughes why Optus had chosen the site at 54 Bair Street. To my aston-ishment he informed me of two facts. Firstly, Bair Street was the site favoured by the shire coun-cil. Secondly, Optus were will-ing to build ‘out of town’ at any suitable site.

I suggested there were many elevated sites from which to choose, hopefully giving better mobile coverage to areas, for example Outtrim, which have poor or often no mobile recep-tion. Leongatha is a growing town and upgraded communica-tions facilities are vital, not only for the town but also for its sur-rounding areas.

Our beautiful town is re-nowned for its delightful council parks and gardens. We must pre-serve and enhance the reputation and attractions of Leongatha. A badly sited, overpowering tele-communications tower in our town will not do so.

Nancy Embleton,Leongatha

all our lives. We own the build-ing next to the proposed site. Our concerns are that this 33 metre tower will affect the amenity of our town for many years into the future.

Being owners of the neigh-bouring building we are in the strongest position to object. We would like to see the tower sited in a less prominent position, out of town, or co-located on a site already being used.

I would like to let you and your readers know that the coun-cillors will be meeting to vote on this application on Wednes-day, March 23, 2011. Because of a confl ict of interest the three councillors in this ward will not be voting, so our out of town councillors now have this re-sponsibility.

If anyone has an objection to this proposal, now is the time to act or it may be too late.

Jenny Williams,Leongatha

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E D I T O R I A LStop the towerTOMORROW night (Wednesday), South Gippsland Shire Council faces a decision that has the potential to change the streetscape of Leongatha forever.

Optus has applied to build a 33m telecommunications tower in one of the town’s main strips – Bair Street – that if built, would be the tallest structure in the CBD.

Council offi cers have recommended council approve the tower. Only six of the nine councillors will be eligible to vote, with Mimmie Jackson, Jim Fawcett and David Lewis all having confl icts of interest.

Objectors are concerned about radiation levels, devaluation of neighbouring properties and the potential of the tower to fall down, but perhaps the greatest concern is for the visual impact of this tower on Leongatha’s streetscape.

Quite simply, this tower would be an eyesore and should not be built in the middle of town.

Bair Street needs beautifi cation as it is and erecting such a high structure above buildings that are predominantly single storey, with only one double storey building nearby, is inappropriate.

Other much smaller telecommunications facilities have been placed on the roofs of other buildings in Leongatha and barely turn an eye, but this monstrosity proposed by Optus will be visible from afar.

From a distance, the spire of St Peter’s Anglican Church is the tallest structure in Leongatha’s CBD and is more quaint than the Optus proposal.

If council wants Leongatha to go forward, to attract new business and new residents, the town needs to be looking at its best, and plonking a 33m tower in the CBD will not do that.

Council is yet to indicate why its two-storey offi ce in Leongatha, tucked away from the main streets, was deemed an inappropriate site for the tower years ago.

Council chief executive offi cer Tim Tamlin is to look into this but has assured The Star it’s not due to radiation risks to the many employees who work in the offi ces.

Nevertheless, council’s reason for sending Optus elsewhere should have been made clearer earlier in discussions about this issue.

Councillors, protect Leongatha’s future by stopping construction of the tower and urge Optus to erect a much smaller tower on tall buildings in town.

Bad planDO we need an extremely un-sightly and very high telecom-munications tower overshadow-ing the central business district of Leongatha?

As one of the 18 objectors

to the proposed Optus tower, I attended the 2pm Wednesday, March 16 council session, but had not accepted an opportunity to speak.

Mr David Hughes from Op-tus was the only speaker. Before Mr Hughes began, several coun-

Act nowI AM writing to inform you that my husband Jim Williams and I attended the shire council meet-ing on Wednesday, March 16. We are opposing the siting of the Op-tus telecommunications tower at 54 Bair Street, Leongatha.

We have lived in the district

I AM writing to your paper seeking answers to questions about the departments of Parks and DSE in Victoria.

On Sunday, March 20 a planned fuel reduction burn was carried out on Little Snake Island off Port Welshpool.

This burn was conducted on a day of reasonable warmth of 22 degrees and with an easterly wind blowing at 20 to 25 knots across the island.

We have been told by

Fire opposition

the local hierarchy of both these department that they only conduct cold slow fuel reduction burns. Yeah right.

The smoke column could be seen from Leongatha. When we arrived at the Port Welshpool foreshore, fl ames could be seen well above the tops of the gums on the island; this from some considerable distance away.

These departments are the so called protectors of our fauna and fl ora, but get caught picking up a bit of wood from the side of the road and look out; yet we have this wholesale wanton destruction by the very people tasked to care for our native animals and the bush goes un-remarked.

Now the questions.Why was a burn conducted

on a day that was clearly not suitable weather wise?

What assets were at risk if this burn was not conducted?

Will the person who gave the go ahead be charged with arson as would you or I if we lit this fi re?

Who will care for the animals suffering from horrendous burns? Not Parks staff, this we know from fi rsthand experience.

Who will feed those that were lucky enough to survive unscathed that will now suffer a slow death by starvation? Again not Parks.

Why is it that those of us that raise concerns about the way these departments do

business are belittled, degradedand placed into the loopy basketto be ignored because we do notconform to the departments’thinking?

Where are is the RSPCA, theprevention of cruelty to animalssociety, wildlife groups, thegreens, are we all stricken withblindness while this destructioncontinues?

This does continue formonths not like the duck seasonthat we all get upset about,unless you’re into blood sports.

Who does control thesedepartments? And why do theylet these out of control burnscontinue?

Like-minded people reallyneed to make their voices heardbefore we lose too much.

Reg and Nola James, Welshpool.

In the wake of the Japanese disasters, what do you think about Australia using nuclear energy?

Nuclear energy isn’t that bad if the right steps are taken with safety. I think it’s a much cleaner form of energy for the future.

Michael Van WheelNyora

I don’t like the idea of using nuclear power because of all the potential dangers involved. The repercussions can be just too drastic if something goes wrong.

Dylan MuirKorumburra

Before using more nuclear en-ergy we should concentrate on making the coal power industry cleaner. That will give us time to make nuclear energy safer.

David VanceMeeniyan

If it’s killing people it’s too dangerous. I’d much rather stick with the safer option that we use now which is coal.

Aaron WilkinsonPort Welshpool

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - PAGE 13

AN UPDATE FROM AQUASURE

www.aquasure.com.au

Two key components of the Victorian Desalination Project are about to come together.

Installation of the marine structures was recently completed – two months ahead of schedule.

The intake and outlet structures sit on the seabed, drawing seawater into the plant and then returning seawater concentrate at the end of the process.

Installation of these structures was carried out from a jack-up barge, which became a prominent feature on the coastline for a short period of time.

Trained marine mammal observers were on board the jack-up barge at all times to ensure compliance with our environmental obligations.

With marine work now complete, the barge has now departed the area permanently, however it is important to note that the temporary marine exclusion zone is still in place.

Construction of the twin underground tunnels was also completed recently and the tunnelling team is now in the process of connecting to the marine structures.

Out on the pipe and power alignment, pipe laying and power cable installation is now almost 75% complete.

We expect to begin testing the pipeline and energising the power cable towards the middle of the year, and I will talk more about this in future columns.

36 out of 39 road crossings are now complete, along with 10 out of 21 water crossings.

On that note, I wanted to acknowledge the extraordinary fl ood events witnessed across Victoria last month.

The town of Koo Wee Rup was one of the towns hardest hit.

McDonalds Drain was breached by fl ood waters, where pipeline construction was not yet complete, and a number of surrounding properties were impacted by fl ood waters.

For many of these landowners, their land is their livelihood, and our pipeline construction contractor (Thiess Degrémont Nacap) has been active in providing practical and timely support wherever possible through the supply of manpower, plant and equipment.

They have also been working to assist the local Council and communities, assisting with dewatering of properties, cleaning out drains, supplying skips for rubbish collection and grading unsealed roads including some not associated with transport for the project.

The fl ood events have also generated much debate in the media about whether the desalination plant is still necessary and the cost at which it will come.

AquaSure is responding to the decision of the previous Victorian Government to construct a desalination plant.

We submitted a competitive, fi xed price bid for the project. Contrary to media reports, that fi xed price has not changed and will not change.

At the end of our 30 year contract term, the plant will be handed back to the State Government in perfect order and at no further charge.

We remain proud to have been selected for this task, of the facility that we are delivering and of the many people that have joined the team to deliver this project.

Chris Herbert CEO, AquaSure

PAGE 14 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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PAGE 14 THE STAR , Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Crowds step back in time

Maintaining skills: Anne Hopwood and Liz

Leigh, of Coal Creek Community Park and Mu-

seum at Korumburra, demonstrate the traditional

skills of spinning and knitting.

NEARLY 2000 people were lured by the appeal of the past at the 20th Korumburra Work-ing Horse and Tractor Rally at the weekend.

Held at Nyora, the event featured machinery and farming skills from the fi rst half of last century, peppered with colourful characters who could have stepped out of a time machine.

Sticking to the rally theme of ‘The Harvest’, the event featured horsemen and women working Clydesdales to harvest hay and potatoes.

Some of the fi rst balers were on display, as well as tractors built up until 1950.

While tractor numbers were down slightly, 150 were still on display, complementing the selection of 120

stationary engines.Blacksmiths created ornaments

and tools, collectors of stationary engines fi red up their pride and joys, and tractors from days gone by took part in a vintage tractor pull.

Volunteers from Coal Creek Community Park and Museum at Korumburra displayed crafts, butter was made, sheep sheared and dogs worked in a celebration of the region’s agricultural heritage.

Event secretary Melanie Durkin was overwhelmed by the public turnout and the superb weather.

“The public really enjoyed it. We had a good display of tractors and engines, and it was a really good weekend,” she said.

Irene Hunt and Brodie Kennedy of Loch won the ‘Guess the weight of the steer’ competition with a guess

of 1005kg; Brutus the steer weighed 1004kg.

The Victoria Police Axemen’s Club demonstrated woodchopping techniques, while Charlie Holton of Ruby showed off post and rail fencing, and Ian Lester displayed woodworking tools from days gone by.

“The aim of the show was to show other people what used to be done years ago. As people get older, there are less skills left,” past rally president Kelvin Wyatt said.

Milking, whipcracking and pyrography were among other attractions.

Volunteers from such organisations as Rotary and various fi re brigades assisted with the day and will receive funding.• More photos in next week’s Star.

Longstanding passion: Len Hanks of Meeniyan on board his 1949 Field Marshall tractor.

Grunt galore: Brett Heywood of Sandy Point drove his 1942 Stuart tank, used during World War Two.His grandfather bought 200 tanks after the war and many have since been used to clear land and work farms.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - PAGE 15

So quick: Paul Stampton of Mardan zooms around the corner for community team, South Gippsland.

Inferno team: front, Kelly Hamilton and Mark Withers, with Jess McCurdy and Lachlan Matthews. Absent: Lachlan Jones, Cameron Sanders, Morgan Barnes and Hamish Kentwell.

Fast swap: Thomas Stampton jumps into the driver’s seat for the South Gippsland community team, watched by grandfather Len Stampton, brother Sean, Adam Carlesso and father Paul Stampton.

New driver: Bethany Lawson leaves the vehicle of Leongatha based team Great Southern Racing, helpedby Graeme O’Connor, Isaac Lawson and Darcy O’Connor, as Morgan Clark (back) prepares to take the wheel.

MORE than 4000 people watched local teams show grit and determi-nation when they took on compet-itors from across Victoria and in-terstate in the Wonthaggi Human Powered Vehicle Grand Prix over the weekend.

Race winner, Aurora Racing from Maryborough, recorded more than 600 laps in the 24-hour event, but still local teams featured in the biggest fi eld ever in the event’s history, with over 90 vehicles.

Wonthaggi Secondary College entered senior and junior vehicles, while three community teams – South Gippsland, Great Southern Racing and Inferno – featured a combination of young and more experienced competitors.

This year’s event included 20 new teams, and spanned from noon Saturday until noon Sunday.

Competitors pedalled around the 1.4km circuit centred on the Wonthaggi Recreation Reserve day and night.

“The idea of it is to teach the kids

about innovative ways of saving energy,” Wonthaggi Secondary College team member Alastair Lowe said.

The grand prix is the main event at the SP AusNet Energy Innovation Festival.

Visitors were able to learn about powering their homes with solar energy, reducing their contribution to climate change and designing sustainable homes.

Speakers told of electric vehicles and farming with solar power, and Max Rankin from SP AusNet told how electricity is brought to homes and businesses.

More than 30 exhibitors and community groups took part and over 800 people attended the exhibition.

About 35 people attended the Local Transition Towns presentation and many were interested in displays by South Gippsland Water, the EPA, ETU, Solarhart, The Solar Shop, Phazer, GJ Gardner Homes and many others.

Festival organisers Michelle Evans and Susan Davies were absolutely thrilled with the turnout and weather.

PAGE 16 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011

TYPE 2 diabetes is the fastest growing chronic or long term disease in Australia.

It is often referred to as a lifestyle disease because, with a few simple measures, its onset can be delayed or even prevented.

With its focus on disease prevention, the Federal Gov-ernment is funding a variety of programs to raise awareness of the incidence of diabetes and provide ways for people to act.

General Practice Alliance (GPA) through Paul Green-halgh and Leongatha Health-care Services have combined to take action.

Pat Bowman is a practice nurse at Leongatha Health-care’s Jeffrey Street rooms, where she has just begun running a free diabetes clinic.

She said because the incidence of type 2 diabetes is being detected in younger members of the popu-lation, the clinic is pitched at the 40 to 49 year age group, but that doesn’t mean others are excluded.

She will be at SPLASH this af-ternoon between 4 and 7pm, speak-ing to people as they go in the door about the risks of developing type 2 diabetes.

A comprehensive list of risk factors is printed in the advertise-ment below. If you go through that and think you might be a candidate for type 2 diabetes, you are urged to make an appointment to see Pat.

Her clinics will be held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at the Jeffrey Street Clinic and appoint-ments can be made through the Le-

Diabetes – are you at risk?

Measures up: diabetes clinic practice nurse Pat Bowman checks Kate Reda’swaist measurements, one of the ways of assessing type 2 diabetes risk. Kate passed the test.

ongatha Healthcare main offi ce on 5662 2201.

The risk factors include a poor intake of fi bre.

“None of us eats enough fi bre,” said Pat.

“You should have 30 grams a day.”

Fibre comes from some cereals (check the packet details is Pat’s advice) fruit, vegetables, whole-meal bread and pasta and legumes, said Paul.

The clinic Pat is running is a fi rst port of call. As part of the fed-erally-funded prevention, patients who need it, will be referred to a free Life! Program at Gippsland Southern Health Service run by Evie Harle.

There, they will learn about the amount of exercise they need to undertake, the food - and size of portions that are safe to eat - and receive support that they need

to change their lifestyle and habits.

“If you hit the program goals, you can prevent type 2 diabetes,” said Paul.

“And Pat can act as a health coach.”

She will do this for those outside the 40 to 49 age group.

There is no cure for dia-betes, that’s why it’s called a chronic – or long term – disease.

Once you have it, you have it.

And, as Pat explained, it’s not just a matter of having a condition where your blood sugar levels are higher than normal because your body doesn’t produce enough of the hormone insulin.

There are other serious risks. Diabetes affects the organs of the body.

According to the Diabetes Aus-tralia website, having type 2 diabe-tes puts you at being:

• four times more likely to have a heart attack;

• four times more likely to have a stroke;

• three times more likely to suf-fer kidney failure; and

• 15 times more likely to have an amputation.

The Diabetes Australia web-site includes recipes for delicious meals, including a yummy wine trifl e. It’s made with diet jelly crys-tals, skim milk, custard powder, vanilla essence, canned peaches in natural juice, sponge jam rollettes and only one tablespoon of sugar. You can add port or sherry too, if you wish. The result per serving has a low GI rating.

Tasty: following a healthy diet doesn’t mean giving up all treats. The recipe for this wine trifl e is on the Diabetes Australia website.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - PAGE 17

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MEMBERS of the Victorian Branch of the Electrical Trade Union working at the Wont-haggi Desalination Plant last week presented a $5000 cheque to Gippsland Southern Health Service.

The money will enable the health service to purchase specially designed breast-feeding chairs for use by new mothers and their babies at Leongatha Memorial Hospital.

The 170 plus members of the Electi-cal Trade Union currently working at the plant recently established a local commu-nity fund to assist organisations such as the health service.

Scott Riches and John Kus presented the cheque on behalf of the electrical workers and said the service was the fi rst community organisation the fund has supported.

“The idea behind the fund is to give our members working at the desalina-tion plant an opportunity to give some-

thing back into the local community,” Mr Riches said.

“While our members are living and working in the area over the next 12 to 18 months, we are keen to pitch in and make a real difference to local community or-ganisations and groups through this fund.

“We would like everyone to know that construction workers are a far more kind-hearted bunch than some people often give us credit for.”

In accepting the cheque for $5000, the health service’s director of nursing Neil Langstaff, congratulated the electrical workers on their initiative to give back to the local community by establishing this fund.

“GSHS is the largest provider of birth-ing facilities in South Gippsland, with around 220 births each year at Leongatha Hospital,” Mr Langstaff said.

“This funding will allow us to pur-chase new breast-feeding chairs that are not only more comfortable for our new mums and babies, but easier for our staff to move around the maternity ward.”

Well spent: John Kus, GSHS midwifery student Chelsea Foon, Scott Riches and new mum Tanya Privitera with her son, Levi testing out the new breast-feeding chair.

Desal workers help mums

By Jane Ross

BASS Coast Council is keen to see some public art across the shire.

Accordingly its councillors are look-ing at a 10-year plan, involving an an-nual ratepayer contribution of $50,000.

Developer contributions would add to the pool, at a rate of three per cent of the value of projects over $1 million.

Cr Gareth Barlow said he was very pleased to support the idea.

“It fl ows out of a council commit-ment to the arts.

“Bass Coast has a very signifi cant number of working artists. We have a reasonable collection and great art shows, but no public art. That disadvan-tages a community.”

He said the fi rst piece of public art in the shire will be created as part of the Wonthaggi Centenary Centre in McK-enzie Street.

“It will be a signifi cant sculptural piece.

“I hope we can incorporate this into our planning scheme with more rapidity than other things.”

Cr Peter Paul said the strength of the move would be in its implementation.

“At least this is a starting point. There were 900 entrants in the San Remo Art Show and I would love to see sculpture on our foreshores. We are desperately in need of public art in Bass Coast and this is one way of strengthening the arts. The debate needs to be had and a review will be necessary to see what contributions we get.

“Every piece of public art says: this is Bass Coast.

“We have fabulous artists here. I want to see the shire awash with public art. This is a wonderful opportunity.”

Cr Ross Smith said the Save the Children Fund had an art show during the Inverloch Jazz Festival.

“It was a great success. There is great interest in art; people have a passion for it.”

Filling art need

PAGE 18 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - PAGE 19

DESTINATION Gippsland and its Inspired by Gippsland marketing campaign has won the Tourism Marketing cat-egory at the Australian Tour-ism Awards in Perth.

The Australian Tourism Awards recognise tourism industry busi-nesses and organisations who dem-onstrate excellence in the tourism industry.

Finalists must win their state award to qualify for the prestigious national title.

Managing director of Tourism Australia, Andrew McEvoy, pre-sented the award to Destination Gippsland’s chief executive Terry Robinson and chairman Sheila O’Sullivan in recognition of the results achieved by the marketing campaign.

“It is a great result for the Gippsland tourism industry to win

this award,” Mr Robinson said. “Marketing our region is a real

team effort that includes busi-nesses, Tourism Associations and local councils as we co-operatively promote our Inspired by Gippsland brand. Visitor numbers over the past 18 months have been very strong and that contributes signifi cantly to the local economy.”

Destination Gippsland is the peak tourism organisation for the region and is supported by Bass Coast Shire, Baw Baw Shire, South Gippsland Shire, Latrobe City, Wel-lington Shire, East Gippsland Shire, Parks Victoria and Tourism Victoria.

Its marketing campaigns focus on working with industry partners to promote Gippsland’s nature based strengths and package great accom-modation with food and wine, arts and culture and events.

The award recognises the great work of marketing manager James

Archibald with the strong support of Elysa Sorahan and the marketing committee chaired by Pearl Findlay-James.

The award caps off a successful year for Destination Gippsland.

The organisation also won the Victorian Tourism Award for mar-keting for the third year in a row and was inducted into the Victorian Tourism Hall of Fame.

Gippsland was also represented by Melinda and David Wilson of Montfort Manor after they won the state award for the Best Hosted accommodation.

Tourism campaign praised

Inspired win: Tourism Australia CEO Andrew McEvoy with Des-tination Gippsland representa-tives James Archibald, Elysa So-rahan, Terry Robinson and Sheila O’Sullivan.

COUNCIL was delighted to join with the Korumburra com-munity last Friday night to cel-ebrate the opening of their re-furbished recreation centre.

The enormous walls have been lined and a stage added, providing South Gippsland’s largest conference facility with improved aesthetics and options for use.

It is the culmination of a Master Plan developed around 2002, when I first joined council, which led to our purchase of the Drill Hall from the Department of Defence, its refurbishment, the addition of a car park with improved traffic flows, plus a gymnasium and easy access pathways to create an outstanding recreational precinct for the town.

Council officers worked hard to secure additional funding from State and Federal governments as well as providing substantial council funding and management of the project.

Our congratulations go to the proactive centre committee who raised funds and worked closely with council to achieve their vision for the centre which will be enjoyed by generations to come.

I was invited to speak at Milpara House last week on the future

of Korumburra. This is another extraordinary community facility in the town that delivers outstanding support and enrichment to its users, and their staff and volunteers are to be congratulated.

Councillors met with senior management for two days on March 9 and 10 to develop our key priorities for the coming year.

A master plan for the town centre of Korumburra was identified as urgent, with considerations for a community hub that would include an upgraded Children’s Centre to meet the new national standards effective in 2013.

We also recognised the urgency to address the infrastructure demands of new developments for the next 20 years.

Nyora is already feeling the pressure, with a 700 allotment development proposal presented to their community for discussion last Tuesday night.

Some 60 people attended and while there was mixed opinions on the developers’ proposal, a show of hands confirmed a solid majority in favour of some development and growth at Nyora.

Cr Warren RaabeMayor

Korumburra celebration

AT Education Centre Gippsland, it’s never too late to learn.

Whether you’re starting out or wish to expand your qualifi cations, ECG caters for all.

Accredited courses are available in retail and business as well as aged care and children’s services.

For those wanting to work out-doors, courses are also available in both agriculture and horticulture.

Want to fi nd work, but not sure you’re prepared?

ECG’s Access Program is a sev-en week vocational training course helping students to write resumes and learn about presentation, person-al hygiene and job interview skills.

The program then supports par-ticipants when fi nding a job and provides support for an additional 13 weeks to help solve any prob-lems new employees may face in the workplace.

The next Access Program will commence on April 18.

A number of short courses and ‘hobbyist’ programs are also offered.

First aid, safe food and handling and safe food and handling for su-pervisor courses are available, while RSA/RSG courses can be completed in one day.

In May, people interested in tracking and recording their fam-ily tree can take part in a six week genealogy course, or get snap happy and learn all there is to know about photography.

Enrolments are still being taken

Learn something new at ECG

Enrol today: Tanya Smith, Kristy Loenen, Gary Sherrard and Jade Ciccia can help you out with any course enquiries at ECG.

in term one for Victorian Certifi cate of Applied Learning for people aged 15 to 21 years.

VCAL is an alternative for stu-dents not in mainstream high school or wishing to return to study to gain senior secondary qualifi cations.

Classes are run four days a week with compulsory classes in literacy, numeracy, work related skills and personal development, as well as electives in driving and owning a car, indigenous history and art.

VCAL is currently run in Le-ongatha and at the Phillip Island Community and Learning Centre in Cowes, and will begin in Toora in term two.

A Certifi cate in General Educa-tion for Adults enables people of all ages to come back and begin or fur-ther study.

Classes are offered in literacy and numeracy, and the course is a great confi dence builder for those wanting to rejoin the workforce or take on a new challenge.

Enrolments in CGEA are cur-rently being taken for Leongatha, Cowes, Toora and Pakenham, while a course in Korumburra has already begun, with ongoing enrolment.

So what are you waiting for? Visit www.ecg.asn.au for details

on courses available or see the adver-tisement on page 7 of today’s Star.

Mayor’s messageCr Warren Raabe

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THE Woorayl Probus club of Le-ongatha celebrated its 20th birth-day recently.

The celebration was attended bystate president Irma Dymke and state vice president Jim Frew of the Probus Asso-ciation of Victoria.

The event was also attended by rep-resentatives of Leongatha Probus and Rotary clubs.

The club still has 17 foundation members, all of whom have contributed much to the club, with three being life members.

“It was a great way to celebrate the 20 years of fun and friendship at the club,” president Pat Allaway said.

The entertainment for the day was provided by two locals John Watson (tenor) and Barbara Fleming (pianist).

The Woorayl Probus Club extends a big thankyou to the ladies from MDU and Stony Creek football clubs who did an excellent job of catering for the lunch, and also to Lorna Anthony and her daughter for making and decorating the beautiful celebration cake.

Cutting the cake: president of the Probus Association of Victoria Irma Dymke and Audrey Brydon, fi rst lady president of Woorayl Probus, cut the cake with foundation members.

THE Victorian Bush-fi re Appeal Fund is calling for people who lost their per-manent residence in the 2009 bushfi res to consider applying for assistance.

Eligible people must not yet have found perma-nent accommodation and be experiencing fi nancial diffi culty.

Advisory Panel Chair Pat McNamara said that while more than $4.6 mil-lion had been allocated in 309 payments to people in need of permanent ac-commodation and suffer-ing fi nancial hardship, a Victorian Bushfi re Recon-struction and Recovery Authority housing sur-

vey in August last year indicated there were still many people who could potentially apply for the gift.

“The fund is keen to ensure as many people as possible, who lost their principal place of resi-dence in the fi res and are eligible for this gift, can receive assistance,” Mr McNamara said.

“The fund has always believed that the medium to long term needs of bushfi re affected people be taken care of, which is why we have ensured this fi nancial assistance pack-age is available.

“The fund has com-mitted $15.69 million to this gift allocation, which means we still have a large

capacity within the alloca-tion to assist many more people.”

Applications for the fi nancial hardship and in need of permanent ac-commodation gift close on April 15.

Under the gift, eli-gible people may receive $10,000 if they have a signifi cant level of need or $25,000 for an excep-tional need.

For information about gift and eligibility criteria, please contact 1800 180 213 or visit:

h t t p : / / w w w. d h s .vic.gov.au/bushfireap-peal /Fund-Payments/s u p p o r t - p a y m e n t s /financial-hardship-and-in-need-of-permanent-accommodation-gift

Fire funding help

LAST week the Gippsland Local Government Network (GLGN) sub-mitted its budget submission to the State Government. By submitting a region wide state budget request we strengthen our bid and show the state government that Gippsland is an area that works together.

Our submission has two key re-quests – funding for an integrated land use plan for all of Gippsland and funding for tourism infrastruc-ture projects. These projects were identifi ed in the Gippsland Regional Plan.

We believe the submission pro-vides good advice to the Coalition government, in terms of the needs of the Gippsland region.

Land use in Gippsland is impor-tant. As a region we are well known

for our abundant natural resources, broad range of primary production capabilities and great lifestyle, rec-reation and tourism options. How-ever, as a region, our population is set to grow by 20 per cent in less than 20 years.

Unplanned growth can have huge economic, social and environmental consequence for regional areas and we believe governments of all levels must work together to ensure criti-cal elements are planned for in the Gippsland region.

Through GLGN, we are also re-questing the state government to in-vest in tourism infrastructure in the Gippsland region. Bass Coast resi-dents know tourism plays an impor-tant role in our economy. As it does for all of Gippsland.

Gippsland currently lays claim to an abundance of natural resources, however new infrastructure that is well built, maintained and relevant to current and future tourism trends is needed.

This week on my radio show I interview Philippa O’Halloran, Council’s Community Safety Man-ager about the community meet-ing recently held in Cowes on the no entertainment approach to New Year’s Eve. The radio show runs on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8.30am and 4.30pm, so there is plenty of opportunity to catch it. To check the frequency in your area, log onto www.3mfm.com.au

Cr Veronica Dowman, MayorBass Coast Shire Council

Tourism boost needed

Mayor’s messageCr Veronica Dowman

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Probus marks 20 years

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - PAGE 21

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Meals roster

(Leongatha)

Joy Hayward and Le-ongatha Red Cross will be responsible for the delivery of meals on wheels, the week beginning March 28, 2011.

Community focus: Korumburra Lions Club members Ian Wilson and LorelleLogan with auctioneer Stuart Jenkins and helper Frank Parini.

AUTHOR, adventurer, fi lmmaker and motiva-tional speaker are all things that Tim Cope can put his name to.

This amazing man is coming to the Inverloch Community Hub tonight (March 22) to speak about his journey through North-ern Asia where he fol-lowed the trail of the no-mads and Genghis Khan on horseback.

This trip was fi lmed and turned into a documen-tary series on ABC2 which screened in 2010.

Originally planning to take 18 months, his journey was drawn out to three-and-a-half years because of the wild experiences which he faced.

Australian National Geo-graphic described the trip as “one of the greatest journeys of modern times” and were profoundly impressed.

Tim will be sharing ex-

periences from this trip and previous ones as well as his own take on life and his passion for adventure at the Inverloch Community Hub and staff are excited about it.

Tim’s motivational speaking is targeted at 16 to 26-year-olds as he uses fi lm and images to engage his au-dience.

He challenges the audi-ence to refl ect on powerful issues in life such as pursu-ing your dream, goal setting, resilience, determination, acting outside one’s comfort zone, developing a sense of integrity and looking outwards.

These issues are relevant to us all, but are particularly useful to the community youth at this stage in their lives.

People are urged to ar-rive early for tickets because the talk starts at 8pm sharp. Tickets are available at the door for $5 per person.

L E O N G A T H A Primary School opened its classroom doors last week and made welcome two primary school teach-ers from Indonesia.

Ms Westiani Agustin (Ani) and Ms Kurniawati Ida Purnomo (Dida) have made the trip from their special Indonesian Chil-dren’s Nature School: Sanggar Anak Alam (SALAM) in Indonesia for their fi rst visit in Australia.

Ani and Dida visited as part of a project they initiated to increase mu-tual understanding from Indonesian and Australian students on one common topic: environmental con-servation.

The ladies are spending three days of their 10 day trip at Leongatha Primary where they are working with the students to teach

Adventurer to speak tonight

Adventurer’s quest: adventurer Tim Cope midway through his journey in Mongolia.

Getting excited: Inverloch Library staff member Heather Withers with the Tim Cope display in the library.

International teachers visit

Cross-cultural bonding: Bu Dida helps Kaitlin Funnel with writing a letterin Indonesian. have the foreign teachers. Leongatha was the fi rst of 15 Australian schools to reply to the Indonesians’ email.

“I received the email last year and the program sounded very exciting,” Leongatha principal Rob Higgins said.

“So I replied as prompt-ly as possible.

“The program fi tted

very well with what we have going on at the school already so I automatically showed interest.”

Ani said: “The prin-cipal here is great and we are very happy that he re-sponded so quickly.”

The Australian em-bassy in Jakarta put the teachers from SALAM on to Leongatha Primary due to their involvement in the

BRIDGE program which connects the two cultures already.

Ani, project manager, and Dida, school principal, aim to take what they learn through the project while in Australia and present it to the Indonesian Govern-ment to demonstrate the importance of environmen-tal education.

Lions raise thousandsA GALA dinner and auction night has raised funds towards the purchase of a mul-tiple purpose stretcher for the Korumburra and District Hospital.

The event, hosted by

them more about Indone-sian life as well as environ-mental issues faced by the students at SALAM and Indonesian residents.

As part of the program, students from SALAM sent letters written in their best English with their teachers to the kids at Leongatha who will reply in their best Indonesian. These letters will help to encourage the learning of English in In-donesia and Indonesian in Australia and also build strong connections be-tween the two schools.

“My time in Australia has been a very enjoyable experience,” Dida said.

“All the children are very nice and the teachers are very helpful.”

Along with visiting the school, Ani and Dida will be giving a few pre-sentations on their busy stay in Australia: one in Canberra at the Australian National University, along with another at Ceres in Brunswick.

The staff at Leongatha Primary were happy to

the Korumburra Lions Club, raised $4800, with most of the funds going towards the stretcher.

More than 100 guests attended the event at the Korumburra Golf Club.

The club thanks spon-

sors and donors, ladies of the golf club for catering, and Stuart Jenkins for be-ing auctioneer.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - PAGE 23

EVERYONE loves a festival, especially when it’s free, infor-mative and fun, and the Sustainability Fes-tival at Coal Creek on Saturday, April 9 will be just that.

The festival will combine with the monthly Coal Creek Farmers’ Market, providing an added incentive to bring the family out for the day.

“The festival starts at 9am, so you can have an early start at the Farmers’ Market, leave your purchases in a special holding area in the cool for later collection, and enjoy the activities which will have items of interest for every member of the family,” said Christine Hamilton, festival organiser and council’s sustainability planner.

“It’s a fantastic program of environmentally focused entertainment and activities including games, solar boat competitions, demonstrations, kite fl ying, and face painting. Roving characters will be creating and distributing swap cards that affi rm environmental and social

values for the kids, plus there will be a petting zoo where they can feed the animals.”

A number of experts will provide information and practical demonstrations of soil, water and energy management techniques, and the environmental housing initiatives and designs expo will inspire visitors with lots of ways to retrofi t their homes sustainably.

Also on display will be a hybrid car and the CERES Energy Trailer which demonstrates solar, thermal and wind energy.

“Many ideas cost nothing at all to implement, while several others attract subsidies, so it’s really worthwhile doing some research while you’re at the festival. You can also learn how to compost, and grow your own fruit and vegetables,” Ms Hamilton said.

Sponsored by South Gippsland Shire Council, the festival will also have representatives from the South Gippsland Energy Co-operative, Landcare and the Local Food Network on hand. Displays will include health and wellbeing, so

THE centenary of Scots Pio-neer Church Mardan South, will be celebrated during the fi rst Pleasant Sunday After-noon for the year on Sunday, April 3.

And the ‘old girl’ is being spruced up for the occasion with a new coat of paint.

The special service planned will also mark the 10th anniversary of the PSAs.

It will, as far as possible, re-fl ect the fi rst PSA and anyone in-terested is invited. This particu-larly includes the families of the area, such as the Potter, Campbell, Couper, McKinnon, Matthies, Allan, Kuhne, McKenzie, McColl, Trease, McIndoe, Gardner and Steele families.

Historian John Murphy will speak at the celebratory PSA, which will begin with Lionel Boxer play-ing the bagpipes, as he did at the fi rst PSA. He is the grandson of Robert McIndoe, a well-known identity and former Woorayl Shire councillor and

shire president.Russell Hemming and Sue Ma-

cLeod will sing and Sam Nicita will introduce the celebration. Sue Stott will speak briefl y and Hazel Capewell, who is 90, will be one of the readers, with 18-year-old Tom Stone the other.

Scots Pioneer Church was built by George Gardner and William Steele and was offi cially opened as a Presbyterian Church on March 19, 1911, taking over from its predeces-sor, which was opened in 1890.

The new church acted as a venue for community gatherings, concerts and the fi rst school in the district started there. In 1978, the congrega-tion joined the Uniting Church, but numbers began to decline and at the end of December 1990, the last ser-vice was held.

In 1994, Margaret Castle (nee McIndoe) bought the building with a vision of restoring it to host ecumen-ical pleasant Sunday afternoons. She decided afternoons would be bet-ter, to avoid competing with regular church services in South Gippsland.

The fi rst service since the closure of the church in 1990, was held on Saturday February 17 2001, con-ducted by the Reverend Norman Pritchard, who was visiting from the USA. Brian Bayston offi cially re-dedicated the church. In April of that year, the fi rst PSA was conducted by the Reverend Peter Stockman.

The PSAs continued monthly, with different people either conduct-ing services or giving an address.

Congregation sizes varied be-tween 30 and 100.

Margaret Castle sustained se-rious injuries in a car accident in September 2005 and the PSAs were suspended. She made a triumphant return in September 2007, when the PSAs resumed, but she is not well enough to attend the centenary. Sue Stott will speak briefl y about Marga-ret’s state of health.

The PSA group did so at the sug-gestion of David McCuaig.

A small group was formed to or-ganise the PSAs, which resumed on September 30 2007.

THE Coalition State Government is there to support all Victorians.

Deputy Premier, Peter Ryan said that when he came to the Dumbalk Hall ear-lier this month to thank South Gippsland National Party members for handing out how-to-vote cards during last Novem-ber’s election.

Mr Ryan had hoped to meet his sup-

porters last December, but the demands of his new role, which includes three minis-terial portfolios, prevented that.

He told the gathering that there is much to be done in Victoria to deal with the aftermath of fl oods and to overcome the failings of the previous government.

The Dumbalk Hall ladies provided fi n-ger food for the event.

FOSTER theatre company, FAMDA, held its annual gen-eral meeting at the Foster War Memorial Arts Centre recently and a new streamlined committee has been elected to lead the organisation through the next year.

The executive re-mains unchanged: Tania Pell (president), Dianne Paragreen (vice presi-dent), Andrew Oldroyd (secretary), Norm Wil-loughby (treasurer) and Jennifer Paragreen (pub-licity), with Peter Rushen and new member, Mar-

lene Kirk, completing the committee.

In delivering her presi-dent’s report on activities 2010 – 2011 Tania re-ferred to several highlights including the introduction of the Arty-Farty Trivia Party in July when 101 guests fi lled the hall and participated in a night of art, performance, games and trivia.

It was such a social and fi nancial success that it will become an annual event – the next one be-ing held at the Foster Arts Centre on May 21.

The South Gippsland One Act Play Festival con-tinues to grow in stature with participants travelling

from all over the state.Of course the success

of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee was mentioned.

Directed for FAMDA by Nathan Eva, it earned six Gippsland Theatre awards including the cov-eted Most Outstanding Musical trophy.

Another highlight was the launch of the Prom Coast Film Society which will screen movies at the Fish Creek Hall on the fi rst Friday of each month. The next movie is the New Zealand fi lm, Boy on April 1.

After the meeting for-malities Carmel Slater presented FAMDA presi-

‘Pioneer’ turns 100

Historic: the old Presbyterian Church was moved in 1909 to W. L. Coulter’sproperty. It made way for the new Scots Pioneer Church at Mardan South.Two representatives of the Steele family are in the photo, one in the doorway and the lad beside the church.

Ryan says thanks

Thank you: Deputy Premier Peter Ryan (second right) thanks some of his National Party supporters, from left, Hugh and Natalie Opray, Joan and Charlie Blogg, Graham Walker and Lindsay Williams.

Festival’s future focus

allow some time for a little pampering.

Ms Hamilton said most people are keen to do the right thing in their back-yards, and in many small ways have already begun the journey by saving wa-ter and recycling.

“A few hours at the festival will provide lots of practical ideas that save money into the bargain, and the kids will have a ball as well,” she added.

“Delicious local food and produce will be

available to purchase, or you can bring your own picnic to enjoy by the lake.”

Add another sustain-able note by car pooling or travelling to the festi-val by bus. V/Line city bound services arrive at Coal Creek at 12.02pm, and outward bound buses from Melbourne arrive at the park at 10.36am and 12.56pm. Check out www.vline.com.au for a com-plete timetable.

All set: South Gippsland Shire Council offi cersChristine Hamilton and John Lambert prepare for the festival.

Steady as she goesdent, Tania Pell, with a handsome cheque – the proceeds from The Ris-ing Stars concert featuring young musicians and pre-sented at the Celia Rosser Gallery, Fish Creek, last November.

Symbolising the launch of FAMDA’s newest ven-ture, the Prom Coast Film Society, entertainment after the formal part of the meeting took the form of a screening of the Acad-emy Award winning short Australian movie, Harvie Krumpet, before everyone enjoyed a shared supper.

FAMDA executive: 2010 - 2011, Jennifer Paragreen (publicity), Dianne Para-green (vice-president), Tania Pell (president), Norm Willoughby (treasurer) and Andrew Oldroyd (secretary).

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BUSINESSES across Gippsland have a new opportunity to de-velop staff skills to grow their enterprises with Education Centre Gippsland (ECG) establishing a new Business Studies Centre to serve the region.

The centre is offering a unique model of business training where managers and staff can receive accredited training with-out having to step outside their workplace.The new training delivery is a fi rst in Gippsland and aims to support small busi-ness development by taking trainers to the business so workers can learn specifi c skills to their job role and their work is not interrupted.

A mentoring service for manag-ers is also being offered as well as free business skills assessments to help businesses identify skills needs.ECG chief executive offi cer, Bernadette O’Connor, said ECG had appointed John Brereton as general manager in-dustry and development to develop the centre, and senior manager and con-

sultant of some 25 years, Alison John-son as business development manager. “John Brereton has a strong industry back-ground and some 20 years in the training sector. Alison Johnson is also a fantastic asset for the centre. She has considerable expertise in the fi nancial services industry across various business units including human resources, project management, relationship banking and sales and ser-vice,” Ms O’Connor said.

Mr Brereton said the centre will focus on professional development, offering a number of higher diploma and advanced diploma courses in management and rural business management, human resource and project management as well as ac-credited certifi cate programs.

“The centre aims to reach businesses and professionals wanting to up skill across the region, with programs to be of-fered across South Gippsland, Pakenham, Warragul, Morwell, Traralgon and Sale,” he said.

“Courses can be delivered in the workplace or on campus, depending on the individual’s needs.”

A BIRD without feet has in-spired conservationists and rangers.

‘Stumpy’ the Hooded Plover has been spotted around Anderson Inlet at Inverloch and Point Smythe, inspir-ing Parks Victoria Wonthaggi staff and Friends of the Bass Coast Hooded Plover.

The group discovered ‘Stumpy’ last November during a regular cen-sus of the Hooded Plover around In-verloch and the sand islands of An-derson Inlet.

Steve Johnson, co-ordinator of the friends group noticed an unband-ed Hooded Plover with fi shing line caught around both its legs at Point Norman, near Inverloch.

“We undertook a number of visits during November to monitor the dis-tressed bird, as we were alarmed that both of its feet were now swelling up from the constricting fi nishing line,” he said.

As the census program continued into 2011, Parks Victoria ranger Brian Martin assisted the friends group by undertaking a series of visits to the sand islands around Anderson Inlet.

“With discomfort restricting its mobility and feeding capability, com-

INVERLOCH Primary School’s updates are progressing as teams are working together to create a new garden assembly area and prep building.

An inlet shaped seat, thought up by the inspired architect, will be the main attrac-tion to the assembly area.

The new building will include four classrooms as well as a toilet area, and will mean the end to a portable classroom

which is currently taking up space on theschool oval.

The library, which has been movedinto part of the gym, will return to its nor-mal area once the Preps have moved in.

TS constructions in Wonthaggi fore-man Maurice Jagoe said that he expectsto be fi nished mid-year.

“The only real trouble we’ve had sofar is the rain. But with weather permit-ting, we’re hoping to be done sometimearound June,” he said.

By Jane Ross

A COMMUNITY wood-fi red oven is to be built in the San Remo Lions Park.

Jeff Nottle who is be-hind the project, said the oven will be unique in Gippsland.

He said the idea of the wood-fi red oven is to provide a community as-set where people can get together to prepare, cook and share their food. When the idea was fl oated, Jeff said community support was strong.

The oven will be put together by Alan Watt, an internationally recognised wood fi red oven builder, who is inviting anyone interested to watch and help.

Jeff said Alan has con-ducted numerous work-shops throughout Austra-lia and overseas and was involved in building a wood fi red oven featured on the Better Homes and Gardens television show and in their magazine.

No special tools or skills are needed and in the past, Alan said he has had women attend his work-

Bird’s zest for life inspires

bined with numerous failed sightings during the census, we thought the little Hooded Plover had perished,” he said.

However, Jonathon Stevenson

from Parks Victoria’s Foster offi ce had a stroke of luck in early January when he observed a Hooded Plover without feet on Point Smythe at Venus Bay and passed on his fi ndings to the

friends group. Mr Johnson was determined to lo-

cate this distressed bird with no feet during the monitoring visits, and it wasn’t until late February that he saw

two birds- one banded and the other, afl uffed up bird sitting quite low in thesand within the sand islands aroundAnderson Inlet.

The bird had no feet and from thatmoment became affectionately knownas ‘Stumpy’.

“Whilst ‘Stumpy’s’ feeding ef-fi ciency was reduced by lack of legspeed across the sand, it appeared tobe showing no signs of discomfort,”Mr Johnson said.

“We observed it peck feeding andfl ying about the island with its faith-ful and loyal partner who remainedthroughout the ordeal. The tiny stumpholes it leaves in the sand as foot-prints are a statement of ‘Stumpy’s’determination to survive.

Mr Martin added: “It is momentslike these that make you appreciateyour job. To share in this discoveryand be able to see how well ‘Stumpy’has adapted to its new way of life is agreat experience and shows the resil-ience of the Hooded Plover breed.”

For further information, contactthe Parks Victoria Information Cen-tre on 131963 or visit www.parks.vic.gov.au

Determined to live: ‘Stumpy’ and a friend at rest.

Want to help make a wood fi red oven?

shops as well as men.The San Remo com-

munity oven will be built on March 26 and 27 and if you want to join in, con-tact Alan Watt on 0429 329 678 or email wood-fi redovenworkshops@big-pond.com

Jeff said the oven is being paid for by the San Remo Foreshore Com-mittee of Management. A second stage will add an undercover shelter where people will be able to sit and enjoy the food cooked

in the oven.He came across the

idea when he read about a similar oven in Albury-Wodonga and in Europe.

“I wanted to develop something special for the community,” he said.

He believes the oven will appeal to those who have a passion for wood fi red pizzas and bread baked in a time honoured tradition.

“It will be unique in design because it has to be ‘silly person’ proof.”

The oven will have a padlocked door and space for the storage of fi re-wood.

“Community groups will use it but it won’t be available for private functions.

“What I have in mind is to develop a calendar of times we’ll fi re the oven and the community will be able to come.”

The oven is to be built overlooking the pic-turesque waters of San Remo.

Cooking: Jeff Nottle with a community oven similar to the one to be built in San Remo.

LEONGATHA Sec-ondary College has welcomed new school leaders at a special assembly for par-ents and other school leaders.

As well as senior school leaders the school welcomed the student representative council members, Alpine School ambassadors and house captains to their positions.

All the leaders were presented with a badge for their position and were congratulated.

Leaders step up

A strong team: Leongatha Secondary College’s team of new Year 12 student leaders Hannah West, Josh Gardiner, Renae Moore and Tailah O’Loughlin Warr.

New faces: ECG’s John Brereton and Alison Johnson, appointed to de-velop the new ECG Business Studies Centre for Gippsland.

Business boost

School takes shape

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - PAGE 25

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You Know You’ll Love the Life in Yinnar!This 5 acre approx parcel is a delightful balance of grass, pasture & a smaller zone of native Australian bush. Raise your own animals, or enjoy the locals – koalas, wallabies & echidnas are your nearest neighbours. A triple carport, double garage or shed, & ample water from tank & dam all complement the colonial style home. You’ll fi nd extensive use of timber throughout the expansive living zones, 3 brms, 2 bathrooms & features of an OFP, wood heater, spa bath & soaring ceiling heights.

INSPECT Saturday @ 2.00 - 2.30pmAddress 405 Whitelaws Track, YINNAR SOUTH $350,000 - $380,000

Lush Pasture, Creek Boundary & Planning PermitJust 10 minutes out of Leongatha, in perfect and picturesque rural surrounds, this may be your Paradise Found. Some 8 acres of lush land with predominately level areas falling gently to the Wilkur Creek on the northern boundary. Newly fenced paddocks, bridges over the watercourse, native plantings to the creek banks, a substantial shed with concrete fl oor, power to boundary and a bitumen road frontage. Planning permit to build a home with the desired northern orientation. Exciting!

MEET AGENT ON SITE Sunday @ 1.00 - 1.30pmAddress Mt Eccles Road, Cnr Wild Dog Valley Rd, MT ECCLES $260,000 - $295,000

Exclusive Golf Club CommunityExecutive residence, or great family home, on an acre in the brilliant Golf Club Estate. 150m from your front gate to the 1st Tee, and 50m or so through your private rear gate to the Rail Trail. Just down the road from the recreation reserve, tennis club, & pony club. Position Perfect! And the home? Spacious living areas, galley-style kitchen, 3 bedrooms + study, 2 bathrooms, wood heater & air con, expansive outdoor entertaining, double garage, caravan-port, shedding & much more.

INSPECT Saturday @ 1.00 - 1.30pmAddress 20 Golf Links Drive, MIRBOO NORTH $395,000 - $420,000

Fantastic Family EntertainerTucked in the heart of “Old Leongatha” - an easy walk to town, schools and sporting facilities. Inspecting this 4 bedroom, young family home is like a visit to a display village! Professional landscaping complements a spacious fl oorplan that is accented by a minimalist decor. Three massive separate indoor living areas plus the stunning al-fresco room, two bathrooms, internal access double garage and spacious kitchen. Great outdoor space, extra off-street parking... let us entertain you!

INSPECT CANCELLED - Property Under ContractAddress 20 Clinton Court, LEONGATHA $435,000 - $465,000

Prominent and Unique Freehold Opportunity - South Gippsland HwyThis acre on the South Gippsland Highway, at the outskirts of Leongatha township, comprises impressive infrastructure including a stunning mud brick showroom and “care taker’s residence”, plus various shedding and outbuildings.Presently operating as Terra Flora Nursery & Landscape Centre, the property is offered for sale either as Freehold only, or with the option to purchase the existing businesses, with or without stock and plant, as well. Discussions with Shire Planning and Economics indicate that a planning application for amended use rights for certain business types is likely to be favourable. Included within the Leongatha Strategic Plan for a future Business related zoning. INSPECT By AppointmentAddress 195 Sth Gippsland Hwy, LEONGATHA $395,000 - $430,000

Sweet Dreams Are Made Of ThisThis bright, 3 BR Victorian weatherboard home retains many original features inc. 11ft ceilings, timber fl oors, and painted timber walls & ceilings. Stumps have been replaced along with wiring & plumbing. The rear of the home has been updated and features an open-plan Tas oak kitchen & dining zone which opens onto a large north-facing deck. There is a Split System & 2 wood heaters for year-round comfort!Sitting on a pretty half acre parcel, you’ll also fi nd a stunning 100YO oak, single garage & carport, shedding, chook run, cubby, fruit trees & veggie garden. Baths Road Reserve is just over the back fence, & it’s a short walk to the pool, park, schools, & chocolate shop. Sweet!INSPECT Saturday @ 12.00 - 12.30pmAddress 6 Pincini Court, MIRBOO NORTH $275,000 - $305,000

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At a glanceLocation: 6 Pincini Street, Mirboo NorthPrice: $275,000 - $305,000Agent: First National Prom Country Contact: Lisa Williams 0438 133 385

HERE you’ll not only fi nd an historic home on near-

ly half an acre in a great lo-cation, but all the ingredients to make a relaxed and dreamy lifestyle.

The light-and-bright early Victo-rian weatherboard home dates back to around the turn of the last century and maintains many of its original features including 11ft ceilings in the living room and the three bedrooms, timber fl oors, Baltic pine-lined walls and ceilings, and sash windows.

Built back in the days when steam trains whistled in Baromi Park (diagonally opposite), the house has been more recently moved one door down the street, resulting in the re-placement of stumps, wiring and plumbing.

The rear section of the home has been gifted with a loving refurbish-

ment and now features a large open-plan dining and kitchen zone with Tasmanian oak joinery, dishwasher, and toasty Coonara.

A second – and very attractive – cast iron wood heater forms the cen-trepiece of the living room and can even be used for cooking a slow stew or keeping the kettle hot.

Naturally, there is also a reverse cycle air conditioner for instant comfort.

Opening off the dining area is a big, north-facing merbou deck (around 6m x 6m), shaded in sum-mer by a pear and a walnut tree which emerge in spectacular fashion through the deck.

Even more majestic is the huge and perfectly-shaped oak tree which dominates the back half of the garden.

It is estimated that it was plant-ed around the same time the house

was built.Also outside is a single garage

with carport attached, a big wood/garden shed and small rustic-but-useable workshop with power for projects.

Cottage plants grace the front garden, whilst fruit trees and a ve-gie plot can be discovered down one side.

At the bottom of the garden you’ll fi nd more young fruit trees, a chicken run, cubby house, and pos-sibly even fairies.

Over the back fence, an easement allows for foot access to Baths Road Reserve and beyond to the local pool.As icing on the cake, the property is also within an easy walking distance of schools, park, shops, and the rail trail.

Sweet dreams are made of this - we know you won’t disagree.

Historic property homebuyer’s dream

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LOCATED perfectly in Kardel-la between Korumburra and

Leongatha on a quiet no through road, this old style weatherboard house offers buyers the opportuni-ty to secure a private and peaceful weekender or cosy old style home.

It sits on two and a half acres with love-ly rural views of surrounding hills.

The home is approximately 18 squares and offers four bedrooms (or three with BIRs and a study), separate lounge with open fi re place and reverse cycle split sys-tem, compact kitchen with dishwasher, electric stove, gas heater and space for an informal dining table in the centre.

Although inside the house is in need of some updating, it would be very com-fortable to live in while you were planning your internal refurbishment, while the out-side the home has already had a new roof, insulation installed, new windows and weatherboards as required.

The backyard has been securely fenced and includes an outdoor undercover patio, children’s dream playground (in ground trampoline and cubby), chook pens, and fenced vegie garden.

The surrounding land is divided into two paddocks, ideal for running a few horses, sheep or cattle.

All this is located within 1.5 hours of Melbourne, and within 30 minutes of In-verloch’s popular beaches.

Cosy Kardella lifestyle

At a glance:Location: KardellaPrice: $375,000Agent: Elders, LeongathaContact: Zel Svenson 0438 636 290

PARKLANDS, a brand new residential estate with the

highest standards and the best features ever seen in Wont-haggi will soon commence construction.

A long time resident and prin-cipal of the selling agents Stock-dale & Leggo, Pat Barry, said they have never seen anything like this before.

“It will bring a completely new way of living on the Bass Coast.

“The name Parklands says it all because there will be nearly 13 hectares (32 acres) of parks and open space with walking tracks and exercise stations for healthy outdoor living.

That’s almost 20 per cent of the entire project,” he added.

The developers, Parklea, also produced the exclusive Heritage Springs estate in Pakenham, which is renowned for its ambience and quality features.

Parklands will incorporate many similar ideas, such as architect de-signed landscaping highlighting peaceful pockets of parkland, cre-ative children’s playgrounds and a network of trails for walkers, joggers and bike riders.

“But that’s only the beginning of

Brilliant new estate for Wonthaggi

the story,” Pat said enthusiastically.“There will be 600 lots from 600

to 960 square metres, frontages up to 22 metres.

“Building guidelines will encour-age high quality homes in an envi-ronment that maintains standards and protects investment.

“This will be a neighbourhood that raises the bar; a place you’ll be proud to call your new home.”

A new display home village will be another feature of Parklands.

Both local and national builders will have their latest ranges of homes on show and special Parklands house

and land packages will be available.“This is another fi rst,” Pat

claimed. “We have never had a display vil-

lage down here before and I know it will create a lot of interest.

“It’s a very practical way of se-lecting your new home.”

Stage 1 at Parklands is about to be released so Pat Barry and Lisa Simpson are already taking registra-tions of interest on specifi c blocks.

You can contact them on 1300 467 989 or drop into Stockdale & Leggo offi ce on the corner of Murray and Bilson Streets, Wonthaggi.

New way of life: Lisa Simpson (left) and Tara Holt of Stockdale and Leggo, Wonthaggi said the offi ce was already taking registra-tions of interest for Parklands estate.

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SET commandingly on the high side of

Griffi n Road, this fam-ily home is ready for new owners to simply walk in, sit down and start enjoying.

Great street presence is just the beginning of this home.

Climb the stairs to the front door, or take the path up the side of the house where you’ll enter the un-dercover entertaining area.

Equipped with a built-in barbecue and sink with hot and cold water, it’s perfect-ly set up for outdoor living and entertaining. Enter the house through sliding glass doors and appreciate the spacious living area.

The solid timber kitch-en has a corner pantry and breakfast bar; tessel-lated slate tiles extend right through the kitchen/fam-ily, and continue through down the side of the formal lounge / dining, creating a “pathway” to the front en-trance.

The lounge is fl ooded with natural light thanks to plenty of large windows, which also offer views across to nearby farmland.

With new carpet recent-ly laid, relaxing here will be easy.

The master bedroom has an en suite; second and third bedrooms have BIRs.

The garage will easily accommodate two cars with plenty of room left over for workshop and storage.

Up, up and away

At a glance:Location: 11 Griffi n Road, LeongathaPrice: $385,000 Agent: Alex Scott & Staff, Leongatha.Contact: 5662 0922.

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It is a modern house featuring curved roofi ng.

The home boasts three large bed-rooms, each with built-in robes and carpets, the master with en suite.

The generous sized lounge room has polished fl oors, ceiling fan, wood heater and much more.

The modern kitchen boasts electric cooking with plenty of cupboard and bench space.

The exterior of the home enjoys a huge north facing deck and very low maintenance gardens.

A 322 litre electric hot water ser-vice and heaps of storage space under-neath complete the picture.

This new home is only a short walk to the local shops and the pristine beaches of Venus Bay.

This affordable home is one of the very best on the market

Modern masterpiece

At a glance:Location: 14 Canterbury Road, Venus BayPrice: $299,000Agent: Alex Scott & Staff, Venus BayContact: 5663 7111

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By Karen Haw, Town Centre Nursery, Mirboo North

THEY are back. What looks like a cross between an Af-

rican violet and a gloxinia but is twice as hardy and fl owers freely? Streptocarpus, a mouthful, but also known as Violetta or Cape primrose.

The genus is native to parts of Af-rica and Madagascar and although having a leaf similar to primroses, are no relation to them but belong to the Gesneriad fam-ily, which also includes African Violets and Colummneas.

Streptocarpus are easy to grow and come in many colours, from deep purple to white splashed with blue to subtle pinks and mauve.

They fl ower freely and are very easy to propagate by seed, leaf cuttings or division and are easy to grow.

They will grow outside in a very sheltered spot but will thrive in a well lit indoor area. These plants like light, but not too much di-rect sun.

Do not over water these plants and feed with any fertiliser that suits African violets.

Personally I can recommend these plants. I have been frustrated they have not been freely available and in the past have ap-proached many wholesalers to produce them.

Fortunately plant enthusiast Martin Far-rugia, who is responsible for the begonia fes-tival in Erica, has built up supplies of named varieties of streptocarpus and they will be

readily available at most nurseries.Another old fashioned popular plant that

Martin has reintroduced in numbers and va-rieties are the cane begonias.

These are the tough fl owering plants with interesting leaves that everybody’s grandmother used to have on her porch or indoors.

They are tough enough to survive out-doors but only in frost free areas. Cane be-gonias come in a range of colours to subtle

pink, orange, white and red. Many have leaf spotting and they fl ower

for many months and are evergreen. Cane begonias are one of the easier

types of begonias to grow and require a well drained potting mix and resent soggy feet. However mature plants are among the most tolerant of overwatering than any of the be-gonia species.

Plants should only be watered when the top of the potting mix feels dry.

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“Save on your Energy Bills” presented by Energy Innovation Co-operative will be held on Tuesday, April 5 from 7.15pm to 9.15pm. Explore options for becoming more energy effi cient in your home. Information on solar hot water and electricity and an application for a free energy audit will be in-

cluded. Held at Milpara Community House at 21 Shellcott’s Road, Koru-mburra, please call 5655 2524 for bookings or fur-ther enquiries.

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tion (OH and S Induction) will be held on Wednes-day, April 6 from 3.30pm to 9.30pm. This qualifi ca-

Women’s focus: International Women’s Day was celebrated at Wonthaggi North Primary School last week.Female staff indulged in a women’s luncheon while the male staff undertook yard duty. Staff had lots of fun and laughter with games, raffl es and a delicious lunch, and all ladies were given a fl ower. Among them were student teacher co-ordinator Jessie Hill (second from left) with student teacher Andrea Smith; graduates Katherine Toyer, Jodie Sheppard and Liz Humphris; and student teacher Ashleigh Jordan.

SOME of Bass Coast Coun-cil’s maintenance staff had their heads shaved as part of the Leukaemia Foundation’s annual World’s Greatest Shave.

They did so because their former infrastructure maintenance manager, Fred Mazyrko died last year from a rare form of leukaemia. This week marks 12 months since his death.

Colleagues unwilling to bare

their heads, coloured their hair in support.

Maintenance team administra-tion offi cer, Rebecca Simpson has been the force behind the fundrais-ing. She said the target was $1000. The staff are thrilled they have not only reached their target but have now already raised some $1300 for the cause.

While it is very much a team effort, many staff gave col-league Ange Gennaccaro a big pat on the back for raising an

impressive sum.Rebecca said Tash and Janine,

hairdressers at Hairport in Wonthag-gi, donated their cutting and shaving skills.

Donations can be made online us-ing a credit card. Go to www.worlds-greatestshave.com, click on ‘sponsor a team’ and search for ‘Bass Coast Shire maintenance’.

All donations over $2 are tax deductible and you will receive a receipt.

30 years ago, March 24, 1981INVERLOCH Primary School displayed a most

amazing array of giant pumpkins at the school on Thursday.

The huge orange pumpkins were grown by children for the state-wide Biggest Pumpkin Competition.

****LEONGATHA will be an entrant in the 1981 Pre-

mier Town contest. The town will be in a new section for towns with a population under 6000.

10 years ago, March 20, 2001DESPITE the weekend’s deluge, farmers are still

bringing hundreds of tonnes of fodder into the South Gippsland daily in an effort to offset failed pastures.

****A LARGE crowd gathered outside the Inverloch

Community Centre last Friday morning for the offi cial opening of the town’s new clock tower.

Five years ago, March 21, 2006A TOTALLY redeveloped Leongatha Hospital

costing around $50 million should be ready by the end of 2010.

****WONTHAGGI teams will fi ght it out for the fl ag

in the top division of LDCA cricket after wins in their respective semi-fi nals at the weekend.

One year ago, March 21, 2010THE region’s top cop has called for eight more

offi cers to deal with a predicted desalination plant-linked increase in crime.

****THE new $3.5 million Bass Coast Specialist

School has been dropped like a hot spud by the State Government. There are too few students and insuffi -cient funding.

From pages pastHistorical snippets

from The Star

Shaving in Fred’s honour

Clean shave: from left Bass Coast Shire infrastructure and maintenance staff members Ange Gennaccaro, Wonthaggi and Jamie Sutherland, Wonthaggi got their heads shaved on Friday morning by Hairport hairdresser Krystle Paisley.

Milpara Community House news

Techno win: TJ Sartori won the family picnicraffl e at Wonthaggi North Primary School, taking home an iPad. He received his prize from principal Matt McKittrick.

tion is now mandatory and legally qualifi es the holder for entry to building and construction sites.

******If you are new to the

Korumburra district and are interested in learning about our local area and meeting new people, then come to our next New-comer’s Luncheon. It will be held on Tuesday, March 29 from 12.30pm. Please contact Milpara on 5655 2524 for bookings.

******Life Skills for Women

is a six week course de-signed by Gippsland Wo-mens Health Centre and delivered by local train-ers. The course will com-mence on Monday May 2 and continue weekly for six weeks. Topics will include communication skills, building self esteem and managing daily stress. Call 5655 2524 to organise a pre-group appointment or for further information.

******Korumburra Walking

Group meet at the Rich-ard Street football oval on a Tuesday morning at 8.30am. Starting with easy warm ups, they walk to suit their own level of fi tness, fi nishing with some gentle exercises and stretching. New members are very welcome.

******Basic Sewing Skills

class has been rescheduled to commence on Wednes-day, May 11 from 10am to noon. Learn how to con-fi dently use your machine and maintain it. Make a simple garment using ba-sic sewing skills.

THERE are 33 high conservation roadsides in Bass Coast Shire and 11 signifi cant grass-land road sides.

And the community has nominated 21 new road-sides that need special care.

Managing all of that takes some organisation and cost. Bass Coast Council spends about $15,000 a year controlling weeds on high conservation roadsides.

At the end of 2003, the council developed a roadside management plan and every now and then, that has to be reviewed.

A report to councillors at their meeting last week said, “Our high conservation roadsides play a very im-portant role in our landscape.

“With a history of native vegetation clearance for agriculture and industry in the shire, less than 10 per cent of the original native vegetation cover remained in 2003. This places great importance on our reserves and the remnant vegetation found on private land and roadsides.”

During the review, four high conservation roadsides were down-graded to medium conservation status. The

down-grade resulted from the high percentage of weeds present and a reduction in middle and under storey layers. And six of the previously described signifi cant grassland roadsides were downgraded to medium con-servation.

Six out of nine roadsides nominated by the commu-nity for some conservation status are now rated as high conservation.

The review also found that grass species in the shire are not true grasslands, they are only remnants of wood-land or forest ecological vegetation classifi cation. So, the grasslands reference will be removed.

A weed management strategy has been suggested, as has the collection of seed from signifi cant roadside vegetation.

A revised roadside management plan, incorporating recommendations from the Bushfi res Royal Commis-sion, is expected to be fi nished by the end of this year.

Speaking at last week’s council meeting, Cr Phil Wright said it was “very essential” that vegetation on road-sides is preserved.

“It’s some of the best we’ve got.”

Preserving vegetation

THE Cancer Council Victoria South Gippsland Relay For Life begins with a Survivors and Carers Walk at the Dumbalk Recreation Re-serve, at 3pm on Saturday, April 9 and fi nishes with a Fight Back ceremony at 10am on Sun-day, April 10.

The Fight Back ceremony celebrates participants’ achievements.

During this ceremony, along with all other partici-pants, you can make a pledge to continue the fi ght against cancer in your own special way.

Perhaps it is as simple as getting a mammogram, rec-ommending your neighbour or father get a health check, committing to losing weight, or telling your neighbour to call Cancer Council Helpline 13 11 20 to get more infor-mation on their cancer diagnosis. These simple steps can save lives. The South Gippsland Relay For Life Volunteer Committee Chair Walter Aich said the relay is a perfect opportunity to help bring down the incidence of cancer amongst South Gippsland residents - currently more than 170 each year.

To learn more about The South Gippsland Relay For Life or to register for the Survivors and Carers Walk, visit www.relayforlife.org.au or call Cancer Council Victoria on 1300 65 65 85.

Team inquiries may also be directed to Karen on 5664 4471 and Survivors and Carers Walk enquiries and registrations may be directed to Toine on 5664 1258. Register early.

Fight cancer

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DOWN2. Happen to have caught twice in three-quarters of anhour (5). 3. A wave - of bankruptcy is it responsible for?(7). 4. Ordered without water (4). 5. Having been irreso-lute about attending, did (8). 6. In French, having a wordabout the horse (5). 7. Conversly the hero survives, withthe attendants (7). 12. Are out on a paper-chase, but willshow up again (8). 14. First make out it’s an inaccuracy(7). 16. Can’t I call in for the wine? (7). 18. Are, from theoutset, shielding the team (5). 20. Figure the atmosphereis created by her (5). 21. A great many come back to stay(4).

ANGLICAN: Wednesday, March 23: 11am St Peter’s Mid-Week HC.Sunday, March 27: 8am St Peter’s HC; 10am St Peter’s Family Ser-vice; 10.30am Union Church, Tar-win Lower MP.ST MARY’S ANGLICAN CHURCH: Mirboo North. Phone 5668 1346. Holy Communion 8.30am: Worship and Sunday School 10am.ST PAUL’S ANGLICAN CHURCH: Korumburra: Sunday 9.30am and Wednesday 11.30am. Poowong: Second and fourth Sundays, 11am.ST GEORGE’S ANGLICAN CHURCH: Wonthaggi. Sunday, 10.30am: Holy Communion & Sunday School; Monday, 7.30pm: Holy Communion; Wednesday, 8.45am: Christian prayer & medi-tation, 10am: Holy Communion.CHURCH OF ASCENSION: Inverloch, Sunday, 9am: Holy Communion & Sunday School; Tuesday, 9am: Christian prayer & meditation; 10am: Holy Com-munion; Thursday 7.30pm: Holy Communion. 5th Sunday services, alternating at Wonthaggi & Inver-loch, contact Rev Bruce Charles for details, 5672 3984.ASSEMBLIES OF GOD: Prom Coast Community Church Inc. - Foster Community House, Sta-tion Street, 10am: Sunday. Sunday School and Creche operates. Pas-tor Bill Watson 5686 2248.A.O.G. Inverloch - Cnr Bear and McIntosh Street, Inverloch. Sun-day Service 10am. Contact: Jeff Robertson, 0418 125 832 or Imag-ine Burwood 9888 7466.Korumburra Southern Hills A.O.G. - 4 Mine Rd, Sunday, 10am Worship Service and 5pm Prayer Service. Also Children’s Church and Creche. Contact: 5655 2478. Youth: Neville Stuart ph. 0407 343 219.Leongatha South Gippsland Liberty Fellowship - 17 Michael Place, Leongatha.Sunday services: 10 am and 7pm. Office: 5662 3100.Wonthaggi A.O.G. - Billson Street, 10am: Sunday. Contact: Pastor Barry Smith 5672 3984.CHRISTIAN REVIVAL CRUSADE: 40 Hughes Street, Leongatha. Sunday, Morning Service 10.30 am: Inspirational Service, 6.30pm: Children’s Church 10.30am: Home cells weekly. For all enqui-ries contact 5664 5455.THE CHURCH AT ARCHIES CREEK: Meeting every Sunday at Archies Creek. Morning Com-munion Service 11 am: Evening Holy Spirit Revival 6pm: Phone: Ps. Chris Chetland 5674 3867 or 5672 4660.SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST:

Saturdays, Church service 10am., Leongatha Sabbath School - 11.30am. CATHOLIC:St Laurence’s Parish Leon-gatha: 5 pm Mass Saturday, 11am Mass Sunday.Tarwin Lower: In St Andrew’s Union Church, 5pm winter, 6pm summer Mass Saturday. Meeniyan: 9.30am Mass, 1st, 3rd, 5th Sundays and 11am, 2nd and 4th Sundays.Mirboo North: 11am Mass, 1st, 3rd, 5th Sundays and 9.30am Mass, 2nd and 4th Sundays.St. Joseph’s Parish Korumburra: 9.30am Sunday Mass.Loch: 5pm/6pm Daylight saving Sunday Mass. Wonthaggi: Saturday evening 6.30pm: Evening Mass; Sunday, 10.30am: Mass. Inverloch: Sun-day 9 am: Mass.KORUMBURRA’S AGLOW: First Monday every month at Korum-burra Day Centre, Korumburra Hospital, Bridge St., Korumburra at 7.45pm. Inquiries phone 5657 2214.GIPPSLAND CHRISTIAN FEL-LOWSHIP: Meets at Baromi Cen-tre, Mirboo North, Sundays 4pm - 5pm communion, 5pm - 5.30pm refreshments, 5.30pm - 6.15pm Bible studies for adults, teens and children. All enquiries: Bob Ste-vens 0400 403 765.SALVATION ARMY LEONGATHA COMMUNITY CHURCH meets at 52 Anderson Street (South Gippsland Highway) - Sunday: Family Worship at 10am: Kid’s Club - Tuesday, 4 - 5pm; mainly music, Thursday 10am. All wel-come. Please contact Captain Claire Emerton or Lieutenant Ra-chael Collins, ph. 5662 5122.SALVATION ARMY WONTHAGGI COMMUNITY CHURCH meets at 149 McKenzie Street every Sun-day at 11am for Family Worship. Kids' Club - every Tuesday at 4 pm, Women's Group - Wednes-day at 1.30pm, and Playgroup - Friday 9.30am. Evening Ladies' Fellowship - First Monday each month and Youth Groups held monthly. All welcome. Please con-tact Lt. Robyn and Max Lean. Ph. 5672 1228.PRESBYTERIAN: Weekly Wor-ship Service 10am Sunday, corner Bent and Turner Streets, Leon-gatha. Phone Rev. Dr D. Clarnette 0409 236 981 or elder Col Rump 5662 2107. CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH: Reformed Church

meeting at the corner of Peart and Brown Streets. Sunday family ser-vice at 10.30am. (10am daylight saving time), creche and Sunday School available. 7.30pm service: All Sunday evenings except 1st Sunday of the month, 5pm service. Fortnightly youth activities. Home Bible Fellowship groups. Contact 5662 2527. UNITING CHURCH: Leongatha: Sunday 9am Contemporary Wor-ship, 10.45 Traditional Worship. Tarwin Lower: 10.30am. Mirboo North: 9.30am. Meeniyan: 10am. Wonthaggi: Sunday 9.30am, Family Service, all welcome. In-verloch: Sunday 11am: Korum-burra: Sunday, 9.30am: Rev. Pas-tors Gavin and Sue Sharp, 5655 1997. Arawata: 11.30am 1st & 3rd Sundays. Kongwak: 11.30am 4th Sunday.BAPTIST CHURCH KORUM-BURRA: 39 Mine Rd, Korum-burra. Service and Sunday School 10.30am. Pastor Ian Wilkinson. Phone 5658 1366.BAPTIST CHURCH WONTHAGGI: Cnr McBride & Broome Crescent, Wonthaggi. Morning Service & Children’s Activities, Sunday 10am. Weekly activities see www.wonbaptist.org.au, Pastor Geoff Pegler 5672 4769.MEENIYAN CHRISTIAN FEL-LOWSHIP: Sunday, 10am: Meeni-yan Youth Club Hall. COMBINED CHURCHES WONT-HAGGI / INVERLOCH: 4th Sun-day each month at 7pm.SCOTS PIONEER CHURCH: Mardan South. Pleasant Sunday Afternoons on the last Sunday of each month at 2pm. See occasion-al ad in this paper for details. For enquiries phone 9853 6627.FISH CREEK UNION CHURCH: 1st & 3rd Sundays, 9am; 2nd & 4th Sundays, 7pm. Contacts: Fran Grimes 5683 2650, Sue Poletti 5663 6325.

Church Times

ELIZA Jane Slorach was born at Bass Coast Regional Health on February 25 to Denni and Ash Slorach of Cowes. Eliza is a new sister for Amelia, four.

NATASHA Marrie Grogan was born on March 8 at Le-ongatha Memorial Hospital. She is a daughter for Matt andChantelle of Nyora and a sister for Jason, three.

RHYS William Geiberras was born at Bass Coast Region-al Health on February 5 to Brya Biggs and Russell Geiberras of Sunderland Bay.

LEIGH and Fiona Hocken are proud to announce the safe arrival of their second daughter, Lacey Belle. A sister for Indiana, Lacey was born at Mount Gambier Hospital on January 19.

MACY Shell Piera was born at Bass Coast Regional Health on February 23 to Lawri Barryand Lucas Piera of Phillip Island.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - PAGE 41

HOT music fans from across Gippsland have circled this Sat-urday (March 26) on their calen-dars for the perennially brilliant Raw Vibes Music Festival at Mossvale Park.

And no wonder. Fresh from the US with their newly released, hook riddled single Here She Comes, headline act Skipping Girl Vinegar is set to take over the Mossvale soundshell.

Raw Vibes event manager Cassie Willcocks said: “The Raw Vibes com-mittee is so excited to have Skipping Girl Vinegar as headliners for our music festival. They are fi nalists in the presti-gious International Song Writing Com-petition, and last week their new single Here She Comes was named the Herald Sun’s single of the week, so they‘ll be absolutely on fi re and playing tracks from their new album which comes out on May 7.”

Also lighting up the festival are the four Findlay sisters who make up the Zappa and Zeppelin inspired sound sen-sation that is Stonefi eld.

Their 2011 tour calendar is packed to the hilt and barely a day goes by when they are not making some kind of noise in the music atmosphere. Other bands to perform include 8 Bit Love, and Spookyfi sh, Empty Your Apron Pockets and Silent Circus.

Round out your day of music with

food, tattoos (temporary) and the search for 10,000 imaginary cats called Marvin who fi ght crime!

A free bus is available from the following locations. Email sophied@southgippsland.vic.gov.au or leave a post on the Facebook page to reserve a seat: www.facebook.com/rawvibesfes-tival

Cowes 10.10am, post of-fi ce; San Remo, 10.30am, V/Line stop; Wonthaggi, 10.55am, V/Line stop; In-verloch, 11.10am, V/Line stop; and Le-ongatha, 11.45am, V/Line stop.

First shuttle from Leongatha at noon, second from Leongatha at 1pm, third from Mirboo North at noon.

The bus will be leaving Mossvale Park at 6.05pm to return to Cowes and Mirboo North.

Mossvale Park is on the Strzelecki Highway, Berrys Creek. Gates open at 11am. Tickets: only at the gate $15.

This is an all ages drug, alcohol and smoke free event.

For more information, phone Sophie Dixon on 5662 9202 or sophied@south-gippsland.vic.gov.au

Proudly presented by the Raw Vibes committee, South Gippsland Youth Council and South Gippsland FreeZa committee, and supported by South Gippsland Shire Council and Uniting Care.

US act to rock Mossvale

US fl avour: SkippingGirl Vinegar is the headline act.

Left: All girls: Ston-efi eld comprises the Findlay sisters.

THIS Sunday, March 27 at 2.30pm, the Camberwell Chorale and the Camerata Orchestra under the leadership of re-nowned conductor, Douglas Heywood, will present a pro-duction of Handel’s Messiah in the Le-ongatha Memorial Hall.

Doug Heywood is well known as the conductor of the Combined Choir that performs at the Carols by Candle Light at the Sydney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne.

Two of the featured soloists, Raymond Khong and Ian Cousins, will be well known to the people of Leongatha because they have previously performed with the Victorian Concert Orchestra at Mossvale Park.

Bookings are essential and can be made by ringing 5662 2099 although tickets will be available at the door. The event is supported by the Combined Churches of Leongatha. Come and stand up for the “Hallelujah Chorus.”

Handel’s Messiah: the Camberwell Chorale and the Camerata Orchestra.

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ANOTHER great day was enjoyed by 85 members of the Leongatha Senior Citizens Club recently.

Festivities started with a lovely hot traditional pa-per wrapped fi sh and chip lunch.

Ron Bartlett and his country and western Tarago Country group got into swing with an hour-and-a-half of toe tapping country music.

Entertainment organiser Margaret and president Topsy gave a big thank you to the band for a very en-joyable performance.

The club has since been entertained by Graham Howie of the well known Howie Brothers, Takin’ Time and the Sunnysiders Variety Concert.

A GROUP of Year 10 students from Korum-burra Secondary Col-lege have been given a great opportunity.

Each Friday the group of 16 students takes a chance to get out of the classroom and into the kitchen.

The Pig and Whistle Cafe at Coal Creek Com-munity Park and Museum has opened their doors and let students experience the world of hospitality.

The once a week ses-sion gives the group an opportunity to learn the ropes and eventually at-tain their Certifi cate Two in hospitality.

The program came about thanks to the hard work of college principal Lyn Hardy.

Ms Hardy fi rst initiated this program at the start of 2010 with a land and con-servation course on offer for the students. With the great success of this, the school wanted to expand the program.

This is the fi rst year

the hospitality program has run and is doing well so far.

Course teacher Rob Hinde is happy with the kids’ progress.

“The group is very eager to learn about the world of hospitality,” he said.

The students learn not only about cooking but hygiene, safety, customer service and interaction within a business.

“The skills that they learn here are not only for the hospitality industry, they can be used in a range of different jobs,” Mr Hin-de said.

“The customer service experience can be used in retail as well as basic people skills and patience, which can be used in ev-eryday life.”

The days are a mixture of hands-on work running the cafe, as well as theory lessons where the pupils learn vital skills for the industry.

The students fi nd it gives them a head start into the world of hospitality.

INVERLOCH Primary School welcomed new school leaders to their positions as house captains at a special assembly recently.

The assembly hosted guest speaker Ken Shaw, an identity well known as an all round ac-tive man. Nearing on 80, Ken had some wise words to tell the chil-dren about goals and determina-

tion which will surely stay with them.

The children liked hearing about Ken’s achievements and were excited to receive their badges.

A WONTHAGGI Secondary Col-lege student has won a Gippsland-wide competition to create a new poster image for a Gippsland arts festival.

Camille Tragear, who lives at Ventnor, took a photograph of a friend playing with sparklers at a birthday party.

The result, called heart in the night, will help promote the Inspired Arts Festival in May. It will be seen across Gippsland.

Camille is excited by that prospect.“I want people to see you don’t have

to be a certain age to get your work out

there. You can appreciate the work of lots of people, regardless of age or back-ground.”

Bass Coast Council arts offi cer Jose-phine Kent praised Camille’s success.

“For her work to be recognised in a Gippsland-wide competition is a credit to her and shows she has a lot of talent and potential.”

A free workshop was held at the Won-thaggi Town Hall recently to help identify local arts and culture opportunities.

Discussion was led by John Smithies, director of the Cultural Development Net-work of Victoria, which advocates for a stronger role for the arts.

$208,000 bridge worksWORK has started on renewing a section of Hade Avenue in Bass.

Bass Coast Council is meeting the $208,000 cost through its capital works program.

Acting infrastructure director Felicity Sist, said the road north of the Hade Avenue bridge, is in poor con-dition and the works will be a “remarkable improve-ment”.

Weather permitting, the work will be fi nished by the end of this month.

ONE elderly man and his sin-gular passion are helping to re-generate part of the Bass Coast coastline.

Dr Tim Ealey has devoted his retire-ment to replanting seven kilometres of mangroves and mud fl ats with the aim of helping to revive Westernport Bay.

Along the way, he has enthused a large number of school children who af-fectionately dubbed him Dr Mangrove.

Ten schools, including Bass Valley Primary, are nurturing mangrove seed-lings. More will be planted in May, this time in the shallows rather than on the beach.

The latest development in the man-grove regeneration quest, is the erection of signs at the Grantville Jetty and Deep

Creek car park, explaining the impor-tance of mangroves to the shoreline and marine life.

Bass Coast Council environment manager Paul Smith, said schools are using copies of the sign to explain how mangroves protect the shore and pro-vide shelter and food for many species of fi sh and birds.

He said the signs acknowledge the importance of the project.

“Mangroves were part of the coast-line and were once abundant in this area,” said Mr Smith, “however, thou-sands were cut down and burnt so the ash could be used to make soap.

“The removal of the mangroves is a major factor contributing to the erosion of the Grantville coastline.”

Teen wins poster prize

Star: Camille Tragear with her heart in the night photograph that will be used on a poster to promote a Gippsland-wide arts festival.

Young leaders crowned

Inverloch’s new team: back, from left: teacher Jesse Boyd, Campbell McKenzie, Bailey Best, Jacob Horton, Brooke Anderson, Courtney Teakle and guest speaker Ken Shaw. Front, from left: Lochie Scott, Flynn Anderson, Abbey Argus-Smith, Lucy Hogan, Shaye Wilson, Nicky Lawson and Kate Maxwell.

One man’s questgains traction

Regeneration: Tim Ealey is known as Dr Mangrove by the hundreds of Bass Coast school children who are helping him replant mangroves along the badly eroded Grantville coastline. He and environment project offi cer Clare Landry admire new signs that have been erected advising of the ad-vantages of the trees.

Toe tapping fun

Hospitality a hit “I want to be a chef

and hopefully with this course I’ll get an appren-

ticeship at the end of the year,” student Craig Wal-lace said.

Power in numbers: the group of students who take part in the hospitality course with instructor Rob Hinde.

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VLE LEONGATHAKOONWARRA

1. Elders 2. SEJ 3. David Phelan & Co 4. Landmark 5. Alex Scott 6. Rodwells

Sale DrawMarch 23 & 24

LEONGATHAWednesday, March 23

Prime Sale - 8.30am

Thursday, March 24Store Sale - 10am

PAKENHAMMonday, March 28Prime Sale - 8am

Tuesday, March 29Export Sale - 8.30am

SALE DATES

A SMALLER yard-ing of cattle compris-ing 300 trade, 640 bullocks and 400 cows was penned, with most of the reg-ular trade buyers in attendance.

Quality was mostly good in the export offer-ing, and varied quality in the trade line up. Prices tended to be 5c to 9c/kg

dearer across the sale, with the exception of plainer cows which eased by up to 6c/kg.

The limited number of good quality vealers sold to strong competition. Heavy B3 vealer steers made from 245c to 266c to average 252c/kg to the trade, which was up to 9c/kg dearer. C3 vealer heifers made from 216c to 257c to average 238c to be 6c/kg dearer. Heavy C3 yearling

steers were also up by 6c/kg to average 212c/kg.

In the grown steer and bullock yarding, quality was generally good to very good. The larger portion of heavy C3 and C4 lots sold from 194c to 211c to aver-age 206c to be up to 4c/kg dearer. A top of 215c/kg was paid for high yielding medium weight C3 steers.

Grown heifers also sold to strong trade com-petition, with medium

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Prices hold despite yarding

A FIELD day at Koonwarra focused on AR37 novel en-dophyte in perennial ryegrass and the graz-

ing management of Hunter and Winfred brassica crops.

Held on the property of Allan and Nena Caithness, the day featured guest

Advice from across Tasman

Holding attention: Dr Glenn Judson in a paddock of Hunter hybrid brassica discussing the fi ner pointsof grazing Hunter hybrid brassica.

speaker, Dr Glenn Judson, animal nutrition and production specialist from Agricom, New Zealand.

The fi eld day was jointly organised by Stephen Pasture Seeds and Leongatha Rural Supplies.

Dr Judson spoke to the group of local farmers on endophytes in perennial ryegrass, with particular reference to the AR37 novel endophyte.

AR37 endophyte is a breakthrough in ryegrass technology, with its role in helping with ryegrass persistence and ultimately pasture production in the longer term.

AR37 novel endophyte in perennial ryegrass provides resistance to attack from insects such as Root Aphid, Argentine Stem Weevil, Pasture Mealy Bug and African Black Beetle which all can have serious effects on the survival and persistence of perennial ryegrass.

Pasture mixes containing ryegrass with AR37 novel endophyte and marketed by Stephen Pasture Seeds were also discussed on the day.

These mixes are available from Leongatha Rural Supplies, with Caine Salmon being the accredited AR37 agronomist for the store.

Dr Judson then

spoke about the grazing management of two brassica crops, Hunter and Winfred hybrid brassicas. Examples of how hard to graze the crop and the relative animal growth rates achieved in grazing trials was outlined.

The example for Winfred hybrid brassica

was lambs eating all of the Winfred leaf and petiole and half of the stem. This was at a stocking rate of 55 lambs per hectare with the lambs growing at 300 grams per day.

The group then inspected two of Allan and Nena’s brassica crops; fi rstly a crop of Hunter

hybrid brassica. This crop had been recently grazed, with 10 days’ re-growth, which was growing rapidly, given the recent rainfall.

A crop of Winfred just grazed and one that the lambs have just commenced grazing were also inspected by the group at the fi eld day.

The group also considered the impact of grazing the crop down ‘hard’ enough and the effect on the feed quality and leafi ness of subsequent re-growth.

The correct stocking rate to maximise utilisation of the crop was also considered.

Wednesday, March 16 BULLOCKS1 Centurians P/L, Dollar 595kg 215.0 $12791 L. & L. McGrath, Jeetho West 550kg 214.6 $11801 G.H. & A.J. Burston, Hinnomunjie 555kg 214.6 $11911 A.J. & C.R. Cook, Yarram 575kg 211.6 $121625 A.M. Kirwan, Foster 622kg 211.2 $13148 T. Morgan, The Gurdies 601kg 211.2 $1270STEERS1 Kindergem P/L, Welshpool 350kg 260.6 $9121 M. & R. Harms P/ship, Korumburra 405kg 258.6 $10471 V.R. Love, Boolarra 350kg 256.6 $8982 N.J. & H.E. Braithwaite, Jumbunna East 368kg 251.6 $9241 A.J. & C.R. Cook, Yarram 370kg 247.6 $9161 A. Skrljac, Leongatha 265kg 245.6 $650 COWS4 F. Walker, Bingo Munjie 619kg 178.7 $11054 T. & B.M. Dodds, Corinella 595kg 178.2 $10607 G.H. & A.J. Burston, Hinnomunjie 639kg 177.0 $11301 S. & C. Jones, Kernot 535kg 175.6 $9391 M. Triantafyllou, Woodside 635kg 173.0 $10986 Spectrum Finance Service, Tarwin Lwr 509kg 172.0 $875HEIFERS1 Kindergem P/L, Welshpool 395kg 256.6 $10131 N.J. & H.E. Braithwaite, Jumbunna East 355kg 247.6 $8781 Raymond Evison, Leongatha 410kg 243.2 $9972 D. James, Yarram 333kg 234.6 $7801 D.C. & D.C. Wylie, Korumburra 395kg 230.0 $9083 A.J. & C.R. Cook, Yarram 312kg 228.6 $712BULLS1 D.L. Brain & B.J. Thorson, Poowong East 795kg 190.0 $15101 A.R. & M.A. Bacon, Toora 980kg 187.6 $18381 B.W. & H.J. Pinder, Kongwak 905kg 185.2 $16761 R.W. Bruce, Koorooman 830kg 185.0 $15351 J. & S. Mattern, Tarraville 815kg 184.6 $15041 Wayne Reid, Leongatha 720kg 183.2 $1319

weight D4 lots averaging 194c/kg.

In the cow pens prices generally eased with the exception of better qual-ity heavy D4 beef cows, which made from 160c to 180c to average 174c/kg, dearer by up to 4c/kg. Plainer dairy cows dropped

by 3c to 5c/kg. Heavy D1 Friesians averaged 147c/kg, and heavy D2 Friesians made from 148c to 164c to average 155c/kg.

In the bull pens prices were fi rm to 4c/kg dearer, with heavy B2 and C2 bulls averaging 186c and 180c respectively.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - PAGE 45

Tuesday 29th March at Koonwarra VLE starting 11am

150 Special Dairy Sale 150Selling:

A/c Vendor 40 Friesian /Jersey x heifers due April-May

A/c A & S Mackie 10 Freshly calved reg. Holstein cows, prod to 10,000lts.

A/c Breeder12 Holstein cows, JD Score 10, AI Bred due April-June.

A/c Breeder 6 Jersey heifers due March-April JD Score 7.

A/c C Donchi 10 Red & White Holstein cows & heifers calved &

springingA/c D & B Kalladay

15 Friesian & xbred cows, AI bred due April-May15 Jersey cows AI Bred due April May Plus various vendors, calved & springing, cows & heifers.

Further entries invitedCatalogues available - please contact

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FONTERRA will increase prices for its Victorian and Tasmanian farmer suppli-ers by 16 cents per kilogram (c/kg) of fat and 40c/kg of protein (or 26 c/kg of milk solids).

Heather Stacy, Fonterra’s national milk services manager, said the increase refl ects strong international demand for dairy products, and milk powders in particular, across the Middle East, South East Asia, India and China.

“This strong demand is supported by tighter supply from some parts of the world. As a result, global dairy commodity prices have enjoyed sustained growth over the past fi ve months,” she said.

“The past nine fortnightly trading events on the globalDairyTrade platform have seen the index rise by a steady 22 per cent overall.”

The milk price increase applies across the board to all current Victorian and Tasma-nian suppliers and will be backdated to July 1, 2010.

“This increase represents an additional $34 million in the pockets of Fonterra sup-pliers this season, a signifi cant increase on our previous estimations,” Ms Stacy said.

PEOPLE wishing to fi nd out more about Landcare are invited to a meeting at Dumbalk next Mon-day (March 28).

Offi cers from the South Gippsland Landcare Network will be discussing the range of opportunities on offer to help in-dividuals with their Landcare work.

This includes the New Landholder program grant, with $500 available to new members of Landcare who develop a project that restores, enhances or protects the South Gippsland environment.

Other events coming up include a soil health program, weed control and ‘What’s with our weather and what does it mean for agriculture?’

The meeting will be held at the Dumbalk Kindergarten in Tarwin Street from 7.30-9pm. Supper will be provided.

Please come along and fi nd out what Landcare has to offer.

For more information, please contact Ed Hanley 5664 4344 or Belinda Brennan 5662 5759 sgln@landcare.net

RESEARCH scientists visited the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) at Ellinbank recently to in-spect their experiments convert-ing effl uent into energy.

The project team gathered to check on the progress of a pilot project that could offer farmers a new source of power.

Effl uent from the 500-cow DPI Ellin-bank herd is fuelling two research proj-ects. In one, an anaerobic bio-digester will create biogas while, across the other side of the effl uent pond, scientists are trialling algae-cultivation technologies for possible production of biofuels.

The work is being undertaken through the Victorian Government’s $28 million Smart SMEs Market Validation Program, for small to medium enterprises.

Victorian company Algae Enterprises has received almost $1.5 million to pi-lot the new technology, undertaken in partnership with Monash University and hosted by DPI.

Project manager for Algae Enterpris-es, Ayal Marek said: “The project will

enable a more environmentally friendly and cost-effective dairy effl uent system to assist dairy farmers in generating re-newable energy, irrigation water and bio products.”

Mr Marek said the work would help to increase economic effi ciencies for dairy farmers, reduce the cost of energy and help to future-proof their businesses against future energy prices through pro-moting increased self-suffi ciency.

“The technology is not just limited to dairy farmers and could be applied to other agricultural industries that rely on livestock – promoting possible export opportunities for Victoria which will create an economic boost and jobs across the state,” he said.

The Victorian Government’s $28 million Smart SMEs Market Validation Program is a demand-led research and development program assisting small to medium businesses develop new technologies.

FARM World 2011, organised by Lardner Park Events at its extensive Warragul fi eld days site, is on from Thursday to Sunday, March 24-27 and aims to point farmers in the right direction.

It will delve into the rapidly expanding op-portunities for farmers with its theme this year of New Directions in Agriculture.

Chief executive offi cer Mark Cockerell, said Farm World is one of Australia’s premier mixed farming fi eld days, with more than 700 exhibitors who span the spectrum of require-ments for successful and sustainable rural living.

Exhibitor displays will cover everything from basic to sophisticated farm machinery and equipment, backed up by a host of essen-tial information and services.

“Farm World is all about helping visitors to make informed purchasing decisions,” he said.

“A visit to Farm World will help them with decisions on the latest agricultural machinery, essential equipment and the latest information,

technology and available support systems. “Our theme this year, New Directions in Ag-riculture, is sponsored by the Department of Primary Industries and the Lardner Park Exhi-bition Centre will showcase new technologies and initiatives to make farming more profi table and sustainable.

“These include practical advice for farming newcomers, high-tech developments in mod-ern agriculture, computer-based farm planning programs, pasture monitoring, safe use of farm chemicals, soil testing and how to care for small herds and fl ocks.”

Mark said that among other featured ex-hibitors on the theme are:

• Hortworks, which supplies glasshouses and equipment for the hydroponics industry;

• Capitas Accounting Solutions, with an extensive range of Fairport farm management software customised for specifi c agricultural applications;

• the Landcare movement; • the Victorian Farmers’ Markets Associa-

tion; • the Bureau of Meteorology, with its site-

specifi c forecasts to within a 5km range; and

• AgriSolutions, Gerhard Grasser’s grow-ing advisory service, which also specialises in permaculture design and biological farming techniques.

Mark said that this year, after the region ex-periencing one of its highest rainfall totals on record last year, there was “genuine confi dence in an improving environment for farming.

“Dairy prices have strengthened, but not quite as much as farmers would like, fat lamb and beef prices are up and potato growers are getting good prices and the region’s agricul-tural machinery dealers are generally confi dent the agricultural industry will move up out of the fl at cycle experienced last year,” he said.

“It sets the scene for a good year for Farm World.”

There would be something to interest ev-eryone at the four-day event.

Farm machinery, tractors, hay and silage equipment, feedout wagons, potato harvest-ing units and the like underpinned the 50-acre site.

For more information, check the website www.lardnerpark.com.au

Where is farming headed?

Effl uent study: chief scientifi c offi cer of Algae Enterprises, Alex Falber points to a prototype of the biodigester process during the visit to DPI Ellinbank.

Effl uent energy hopes

Landcare opens doors

Fonterra boost return

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Fox control – Mirboo Regional ParkParks Victoria is committed to protecting and enhancing the natural values of parks and reserves across the state. Examples of this conservation management are the control of introduced plant and animal species which can impact on these values.

As part of an ongoing strategy notice is hereby given that Parks Victoria will be laying buried baits containing Sodium Monofluoroacetate (1080 poison) on public land for the control of foxes. Baits containing 1080 poison will be laid from Monday 28 March 2011 until Sunday 8 May 2011.

Baits will be laid at strategic sites and other known areas of fox habitat within the Mirboo Regional Park,specifically the Lyrebird Walk.

1080 poison signs will be posted throughout the baited area and members of the public who are living, visiting or working in the above named areas are advised to take particular care not to disturb or interfere with bait stations. Domestic dogs and cats are particularly susceptible to 1080 poison and should be under effective control, muzzled or kept away from the poisoned areas. The public is reminded that dogs are not permitted within the National Park at all times.

Operational details may be obtained from Wayne Foon by calling Parks Victoria on 13 1963.

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The fi rst round for 2011 of the Bass Coast Community Foundation’s Community Grants Program is now open to any organisation which is an endorsed DGR, tax concession charity or is applying for funding for a charitable activity, and which operates exclusively within the boundaries of the Bass Coast region. Grants of up to $5000 are available to assist with program develop-ment / implementation, equipment purchases or event organisation.

Applications are to be sent to: Executive Offi cer, BCCF, PO Box 180, Wonthaggi Vic. 3995

by Friday, April 29, 2011.Application forms can be downloaded from

www.bccf.org.au or by contacting Kate on 5672 3356 or info@bccf.org.au

COMMUNITY GRANTS PROGRAM

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Prep Open MorningWednesday, March 30

9.30 to 11amfollowed by a

Prep Information EveningWednesday, March 30

7.30 to 9pm

Come to see the Prep class in action and then be informed on how SCCC can meet the schooling needs of your Prep child in 2012 and beyond.

For further information contact Wendy on 5662 4355 or email enquiries@sccc.vic.edu.au

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CHIROPRACTORGarry Harrison19 Moonah Street

Cape PatersonMondayTuesdayThursday

FridayBy appointment

Ph: 5674 8290

BOAT LICENCE COURSE

Jetski endorsementincluded

INVERLOCHTuesday, March 29

6pm - 10.15pmBookings essential

Phone SEAL Diving Services5174 3434

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CAR BOOT SALE

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drinksStalls $10 each

To book a stall or make enquiries please call

Noelene Henson 5664 8272 or Thomasin Bale 0423 942 827

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WORKS AT NIGHT BETWEEN HATTAM CRT & BAZELY ST LEONGATHAFROM MARCH 17 TO MARCH 25, 2011 FROM 8PM & 6AMContractors under South Gippsland Water supervision will be relining a section of the sewerage main at the times and dates shown above.

The works are being undertaken at night to minimise disruption to customers and traffi c in Leongatha.

There should be no noticeable disturbance to the Corporation’s services to customers while the works are being carried out.

Should you require further information please call South Gippsland Water Customer Service Staff on 1300 851 636 or 5682 0444

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Now recruiting Leading Community Corrections Offi cers (LCCOs) in the Gippsland Region (Morwell, Sale, Bairnsdale, Korumburra). LCCOs are advanced case managers who supervise complex and high profi le offenders serving community based orders or released from prison on parole. They also coach less experienced staff and some LCCOs have a specialist portfolio responsibility of case managing the needs of Indigenous offenders.

• Utilise your case management experience

• Challenging and meaningful work

• Ongoing professional and career development

• Supportive team environment

• Work Monday to Friday – work life balance

• The opportunity to give back to the community

Applications close Monday 4th April 2011.

Apply now – go to www.careers.vic.gov.au and search under job reference: LCCOGIPPS

Make your work countLeading Community Corrections Officer$53,502 - $61,524 + superannuation

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Immunisation Administration Offi cerCasual – $29.72 per hour

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Administration Offi cer to join our Immunisation team during peak time and coverage of leave.You will be responsible for providing administrative support to the immunisation team, by arranging immunisation sessions in conjunction with schools, preparing the nurses’ timetable for immunisation sessions and updating and maintaining our immunisation records. You will have experience in administration or customer service, well developed organisational and interpersonal skills, and be competent in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook. You will have a year 12 qualifi cation or equivalent and the fl exibility to work across Monday to Friday.This position is subject to a satisfactory Police and Working with Children Check.We welcome direct discussion with Tim De Vere, Immunisation Program Coordinator on (03) 5662 9200 regarding this role.

Aged & DisabilityService Coordination Offi cer

Casual – $29.72 per hourWe are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and suitably experienced person to assist our Aged & Disability Service team during peak times and coverage of leave.You will be responsible for assisting with service coordination including the allocation of clients to staff or coordinating meals on wheels and community transport volunteers and administration tasks with the team.You will have demonstrated administration experience, must be competent in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook, and have well developed communication skills including the ability to liaise with a diverse range of people including those who are frail and aged and those with a disability. This position is subject to a current Driver’s Licence and satisfactory Police Check.We welcome direct discussion with Jeanette Draper or Louise Brydon, Aged & Disability Coordinators on (03) 5662 9200 regarding this role.

Applications addressing the key selection criteria are to be submitted by 5pm Wednesday 6 April 2011 to: Human Resources, South Gippsland Shire Council, Private Bag 4, Leongatha 3953 or emailed to careers@southgippsland.vic.gov.auFurther information and position descriptions are available from Human Resources on (03) 5662 9200 or visit www.southgippsland.vic.gov.au

www.southgippsland.vic.gov.au

South GippslandShire Council

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Position VacantSOUTH EAST SERVICES NETWORK GIPPSCARE

LeongathaThe Salvation Army South East Services Network,

Gippscare Service seeks the following position

Family Violence Outreach Worker(Full time 38 hrs per week)

Gippscare assists individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness within the Bass Coast and South Gippsland shires.

An exciting opportunity exists for an enthusiastic and highly motivated professional to join our Family Violence Service.

GippsCare provides support to women and children in the community who are experiencing or escaping family violence.

Applicants must have relevant qualifi cations and/or experience in risk management, report writing, case planning, advocacy and have sound written and verbal communication skills. The successful applicant will have an ability to develop ways of engaging women at risk.

The position is based at our Leongatha offi ce.

The above position advertised will be required to meet the following criteria:• Applicants must be willing to work within the mission

and values of The Salvation Army.• A driver’s licence is essential.• A satisfactory police check is essential.• A Working With Children Check is essential.• Proof of eligibility to work in Australia is essential.• All applicants are required to cite the names of three

(3) referees.• Applications for the above position are to be received no

later than close of business, Monday, April 4, 2011. A Position Description can be obtained by contacting reception on 5662 4502 or email debbie.gillin@aus.salvationarmy.org

Applications are to be addressed:CONFIDENTIALCecia IrwinSESN Senior ManagerGippsCarePO Box 126LEONGATHA VIC 3953

South East Services Network is a Child Safe Organisation

PROJECTS SUPERVISOR /TECHNICAL OFFICER

Are you a plumber, building inspector, or similar looking for a challenging position with a forward thinking and innovative employer based at Foster?

South Gippsland Water can offer a career opportunity to the right person who is physically active, has fi eld ex-perience and has some experience in project/contract/supervision. Applicants should be computer literate and hold a current driver’s licence.

The work will be interesting and varied and cover the South Gippsland Water region in looking after projects and contractors. A position description can be seen on www.sgwater.com.au and applications should be ad-dressed to:

HR Co-ordinatorPO Box 102Foster Vic 3960and received by:Friday, April 1, 2011

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Bakers Delight Leongatha has vacancies for the following positions.

First Year Apprentice BakerCertifi cate III in Food Processing (Retail Baking) Bread, running for 3 years. Applicants need to be self motivated and reliable as early starts and weekend work are involved. An understanding of basic mathematical con-cepts would be an advantage. All training and uniforms will be provided.

Part Time Sales Assistant (senior position)Approx 10 - 15 hours per week. We require an en-thusiastic, customer focused person to join our sales team. This position involves weekend and afternoon/evening shifts with staff supervision and end of day closing responsibilities.

Please forward resumés to: Lyndall Sturtevant

Shop 28 BCD McCartin StreetLeongatha 3953

SITUATIONS VACANT

Building a Healthy Community

Drug & Alcohol Rehabilitation Worker

0.6 EFTOngoing subject to continued funding

BCCHS seeks expressions of interest for the part time employment of an enthusiastic person to provide com-prehensive assessment and case summaries of clients with drug and alcohol issues, and to provide support to clients living and participating in the Maremont Supported Accommodation and Recovery Program. Mental Health and Drug & Alcohol working experience highly desirable.

Remuneration for this position as per relevant professional qualifi cations.

Enquiries can be directed to Karley Oakley, Co-ordinator Drug & Alcohol Services. To obtain a position descrip-tion and employment application form, please tele-phone reception 56713500 or refer to our website: www.bcchs.com.au

Applications close 5 pm Friday, April 1, 2011 and should be addressed to:

HR AdministratorBass Coast Community Health Service1 Back Beach Road, San Remo 3925

Or by email to: HR@bcchs.com.au

CUSTOMER SERVICE / OFFICE ADMINISTRATION

Part-Time with Option of Future Full-Time PositionPerson required to join busy business in Leongatha.Applicant must be well presented and have excellent communication skills. Computer literacy a must, with experience in MYOB an advantage, but not essential. Duties will include all aspects of offi ce administration, customer service and light cleaning duties.Applicant must be able to work Saturday mornings on a roster system.

Please apply in writing with resumé and references attached by April 5, 2011 to:

Offi ce Administration PositionPO Box 1189, Warragul Vic. 3820

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TRAINEESHIP – OFFICE ADMINISTRATIONA traineeship is available in a multi-business unit

environment in Morwell. The successful applicant will

complete a certificate III qualification while gaining a

years experience in Business Administration.

This position will require the successful applicant to

undertake training in all aspects of office administration

including filing, general word processing and data entry,

answering telephones, and other duties as required.

Applicants must be well presented, have sound

interpersonal and communication skills, good computer

skills (Word and Excel) and be able to work as part of a

team. While not essential a Victorian Drivers licence

would be advantageous.

In line with the Department’s commitment to increasing

the participation of Indigenous people in the workforce,

Indigenous applicants are encouraged to apply.

For more information, or to apply, contact: East Vic

Workforce, 84 Hotham St, Traralgon 3844.

Phone: 5175 0984. Email: field@eastvicworkforce.org.au

To apply online and for further information on position descriptions and selection criteria

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Sustainability Offi cerPermanent Full Time position with option of 9 day fortnight

$70k total salary packageAre you looking for an opportunity to be part of a team that champions environmental sustainability for one of Victoria’s most pristine environments? If so, this may be the challenge you are looking for!An exciting opportunity exists to be part of the team implementing Council’s Sustainability Strategy. Your primary focus will be to work closely with Council staff and the community to implement sustainability projects and programs that raise awareness and reduce our carbon footprint. Your responsibilities will include:• research and development of funding applications• liaising with Government Departments, businesses and community organisations• an ability to work autonomously in the planning and implementation of projects, yet

work collaboratively on meeting Council’s initiatives and environmental objectives To be successful in this role it is essential that you are a “relationship builder” and have experience in community development. You will have proven experience in the area of environment and sustainability and/or project management and excellent organisational skills. This is a great opportunity to display your talents in a work environment that offers excellent employment benefi t, professional development and job satisfaction.A current Drivers Licence is essential for this role.

We welcome direct discussion with Geoff McKinnon on (03) 5662 9200 regarding this role. A draft Sustainability Strategy is available on Councils website.

Volunteer CoordinatorTemporary Full Time (2 years) 9 day fortnight available

Council is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic individual to take on the exciting new role of Volunteer Coordinator. Your primary focus will be to help support the wide range of volunteers who commit their time to Council activity. You will do this by implementing a Volunteer Support System for Council.You will be responsible for:• Providing a central coordination role for Council’s volunteers and Council services that

use volunteers• Developing support processes for Council staff who manage volunteers• Identifying and organising skill development opportunities for Council volunteers• Developing and managing key volunteer recognition events in South GippslandTo be successful in this role you will have Year 12 secondary education or equivalent and experience working with volunteers. You will bring your well developed interpersonal skills and be able to demonstrate the ability to liaise, coordinate and communicate with a wide range of community groups and individuals. Strong organisational skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team, along with the proven ability to work to project deadlines will be required.This position is subject to a satisfactory Police Check.

We welcome direct discussion with Ned Dennis, Manager Community Strengthening (03) 5662 9200 regarding this role.

Planning and Building Administration Offi cerCasual - $29.72 per hour

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and suitably experienced Administration Offi cer to assist our Planning & Building Administration Team during peak times.In addition to ensuring a high level of service to all customers, you will be responsible for providing professional administrative support to the Planning and Building units of Council.You will have a year 12 qualifi cation, experience in customer service/administration in a similar role and must be competent in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook, and well developed interpersonal skills. A strong commitment to working in a team environment is essential.We welcome direct discussion with Lynn Missen, Planning & Building Administration Team Leader on (03) 5662 9200 regarding this role.

Further information for the above vacancies including position descriptions are available from Human Resources on (03) 5662 9200 or visit www.southgippsland.vic.gov.au

Applications addressing the selection criteria are to be submitted by 5pm Wednesday 30 March 2011 addressed to: Human Resources, South Gippsland Shire Council, Private Bag 4, Leongatha 3953 or emailed to careers@southgippsland.vic.gov.au

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CREW MEMBER POSITION – Bushland regeneration/environmental worksIndigenous Design Environmental Services Pty Ltd is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic individual to undertake bushland regeneration/environmental works. We conduct work on various environmental sites from wetlands to grasslands, and offer a variety of experi-ences and opportunities.

Key Selection Criteria: • Previous industry experience that demonstrates an

ability to undertake habitat restoration works ranging from herbicide application using knapsacks and other equipment, hand weeding, woody weed removal, revegetation works brushcutting, GPS mapping etc.

• A qualifi cation in Conservation & Land Management and/or Horticulture

• Good plant identifi cation skills• Demonstrated commitment to working in a team

environment by working effectively with colleagues.• Ability to complete tasks on schedule to achieve

agreed projects and work priorities in accordance with supervisor’s direction.

• Current certifi cates/licences including: - Manual Drivers Licence (required) - First Aid (Level 2) - ACUP or Farm Chemical Users Certifi cate - Chainsaw – Trim & Crosscut (Level 1)

Please note that this job is physically demanding and there is a requirement to work in most weather conditions depending on the tasks required.

Position Descriptions can be obtained by contacting James Apthorpe at james.apthorpe@iddesign.com.au

Applications close on April 8, 2011 at 9am

Indigenous Design Environmental Services P/L

Mirboo North Aged Care Facility is currently recruiting for the following positions in a

casual capacity:Cook - Suitable applicants must possess a Food Handlers Certifi cate, have previous experience within Aged Care and have a current National Police Check.

PCWs - If you have a passion for Aged Care, a commitment to providing quality care and have a current National Police Check - please apply now.

Please submit all applications to:Alison Snell (Facility Manager)

Mirboo North Aged Care Facility27 Giles Street, Mirboo North, Vic. 3871

email mirboonorthdon@acsagroup.com.au Or 5667 9100 for enquiries

Mirboo North Aged Care Facility

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At the Leongatha Veterans Welfare Centre.Wanted computer-literate

person who works well with other people

and who has fi nancial experience.

Apply with resumé and references to: Ross Bryan,

Leongatha Veterans Welfare Centre

PO Box 385 Leongatha Vic 3953

Or call in Thursday/Friday between 10am - 4pm

CASUAL POSITION VACANT

(1 day a week) with view for more

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Yanakie Caravan Park requires a

CASUAL PERSON 2 days per week

to perform offi ce/retail duties.

For more info phone 5687 1295

Resumés can be faxed to 5687 1295 or email

yanakiecaravanpark2@bigpond.com

BRICKLAYER required, full-time work in Gippsland area. Ph: 0408-513664 or 0409-270500.

MILKER requiredKorumburra area. Ph: 0417-563846.

Mothers & OthersWORK FROM HOME

PART-TIME or FULL-TIME

Excellent incomeFull training and support

providedCall Michelle 0409 565 494

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PAYROLL OFFICER

Minimum 48 Hours per fortnightApplications are invited for the above position to provide and manage the Payroll and Salary Packaging services of the Health Service. We are seeking a person with the ability to analyse complex payroll scenarios, with a high level of inter-personal skills and the ability to manage a small team. The successful applicant will be required to meet strict deadlines.Candidates must have an experienced payroll back-ground with the ability to interpret and maintain award provisions, taxation and superannuation legislation. Previous experience with SAP and Kronos systems will be considered favourably.Applications should be made to Janet Arrott-Watt and should address the selection criteria listed in the posi-tion description.Further information for this position can be obtained by contacting The Personnel Manager 5667 5503.The successful applicant will be required to provide a current satisfactory police record check.

Applications close March 28 and should be addressed to:

Janet Arrott-WattPersonnel Manager

Gippsland Southern Health ServicePrivate Bag 13

LEONGATHA 3953

Career opportunity

Storeperson/DriverWonthaggi

Middendorp Electric Co P/L (Middy’s) is Australia’s largest privately owned supplier of Data & Electrical products and has been family owned since 1928. We have a National network of 87 Branches and still growing. Middy’s culture and values support our staff and foster job satisfaction with 33% of our staff having 10+ years of service.

We are seeking a well-organised, energetic person to join our busy team.

Some of the duties for this position are:• Receipting inwards goods• Invoicing outwards goods• Organising the Store • Deliveries in Company vehicle – Manual Licence

essential• Some counter & phone sales• Assisting in general Branch operations

A willingness to continue training and development is essential. Experience in the Data/Electrical industry an advantage. Some lifting involved.

If you are committed to delivering excellent customer service and are looking for a long-term career opportunity, we would like to hear from you.

Please apply through the Middy’s website with covering letter and resumé.

www.middys.com.auAbout Middy’sCareersPositions Available

MEC is an Equal Opportunity Employerwww.middys.com.au

The Foster Medical Centre has a vacancy for an experienced Div 1 Nurse to work 6-8 days per fortnight as part of the nursing team.

Key Selection Criteria• Current registration• Minimum three years experience• Demonstrated patient-focused approach in service

provision• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills• Ability to work in a team as well as independently

without direct supervision• Ability to prioritise and organise• An understanding of community nursing practice and

allied health teams• Willingness to learn on the job• Computer literacy• Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional

developmentThe Medical Centre has recently opened a major building extension which included expanding the area devoted to nursing services. This would be an exciting time to enter into General Practice Nursing and a great opportunity to join a dynamic and enthusiastic team of doctors, nurses and receptionists.

Please contact the Practice Manager for a position description by phoning 5682 2088 or email Maureen.Buckley@fostermedical.com.au.

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Sales Support - Administration

At Landmark you can explore the many roles and activities of an industry leader in Australianagribusiness. Across our national network, our people have unrivalled expertise and the abilityto grow with the business as they work with the customers to grow theirs.

Landmark’s Leongatha team have a requirement for a part time employee to fill a 12 monthcontract in a Sales Support Administration role. This role will play an integral part in the adminareas of livestock & merchandise sales and finance as well as providing secretarial supportacross all activities.

As an administrator with Landmark you need to have excellent computer skills, practicalorganisation, attention to detail, good communications skills and the confi dence to deal withclients and suppliers both face to face and by telephone also preferably one to three years ofdebt collection experience.

We offer a competitive package including performance based incentives and access to awide range of employee benefits. For further information please contact Naomi Logan on03 5662 2291. Apply on-line at our website:

careers.landmark.com.au

Part Time 12 Month Fixed Term Employment Leongatha

Ref: JOO3899 Applications close April 5, 2011

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WITH CARE & DIGNITY WE RESPECTFULLY SERVE THE DISTRICTS OF:

LEONGATHA / KORUMBURRA 5662 2717Paul and Margaret Beck

FOSTER 5662 2717Paul and Margaret Beck

WONTHAGGI / INVERLOCH 5672 1074Ray and Maree Anderson

PHILLIP ISLAND 5952 5171Ray and Maree Anderson

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BOILERMAKER / STEEL FABRICATORLeongatha based company is seeking a qualifi ed

boilermaker / steel fabricator for their modern workshop. Experience in stainless steel would

be an advantage.Please send application and current resumé to:

Steel Fabrication JobPO Box 159, Leongatha 3953

or email to steelfabricationjob@gmail.com by April 4, 2011

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LOOKING FOR WORK?GBS Industrial needs skilled workers for Maintenance Contracts and general industrial work.• General Welders, Boilermakers and Pressure Welders• Mechanical and Maintenance Fitters• Heavy Machine Operators - with tickets• Labourers - Confined Space Ticket or Induction Card• Machinists• Project Managers

Contact Jacqui Leek on 5174 2665 or forward your resumé to ops@gbs4real.com.au or PO Box 1030, Traralgon Vic 3844. Check out www.gbs4real.com.au for more current vacancies.

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Water Treatment Plant OperatorSouth Gippsland Water invites applications from suitably qualifi ed persons for the position of Water Treatment Plant Operator.

The role is based in South Gippsland Water’s Central Western area and involves carrying out all aspects of water treatment plant operations.

The Corporation is committed to staff development and there are ample opportunities to gain skills and experience in a wide range of operations.

Salary banding is dependent on applicants’ experience and ranges between: band $45,182.56 - $55,308.52.

Commuter use of a vehicle is provided.

The successful applicant will need to be available to work outside of ordinary hours, and requires a current manual driver’s licence. Recent plant experience and the ability to use computers are advantages.

Applicants should read the position description relevant to their experience located at www.sgwater.com.au

Applications close on Friday, April 1, 2011 Att: HR Coordinator, South Gippsland Water, P.O. Box 102, Foster Vic. 3960.

NEW-USED VEHICLE SALESPERSON

Our busy Motor Vehicle Dealership is looking for a motivated, dedicated applicant who has a passion for the Motor Industry. Our expanding range of Hyundai and Nissan vehicles requires a person who is willing to learn and meet new challenges. A background in the Motor Industry would be preferred but factory training is available to the successful applicant. The successful applicant will need computer knowledge and be familiar with Microsoft Word and Excel. The position requires a current full time driver's licence and will include some Saturday morning work.

A competitive salary package would be available and all applicants would be treated in the strictest confidence.

Please send your resumé to:Darryl McGannon Edneys Leongatha

PO Box 72, Leongatha 3953 or to edney@dcsi.net.au

CASUAL RECEPTIONISTSouth Gippsland Therapy Centre in Leongatha aims to provide a solution to all natural health and fi tness needs in a caring, personal way. Our clinic currently has an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated, friendly and enthusiastic casual receptionist to join our busy team.

The role initially will be casual 1-2 days per week, however there may be an opportunity to increase to more days in the near future.

The role involves general reception duties which include answering phones, working with patients and therapists, scheduling appointments, fi ling and other administrative duties.

To be successful for this role you will have had experience in a similar role as well as:

• A warm and caring personality• Excellent customer service skills• Strong computer skills, MYOB an advantage• Payroll experience (desirable)

To be part of our friendly and dynamic team, please forward your application to Melinda @sgtc.com.au

or call Melinda on 5662 5225.

South Gippsland Therapy Centre

for lease for lease

PULLETSWednesday, Mar 30

Commercial crossbreds.Fully vaccinated. Not debeaked.

12wk (Black, White, Brown) $13Available from Elders

Past., Leongatha10.30am

Phone 5662 3523to order now

(Brian Larkin Poultry)

for sale

VACUUMCLEANER

RepairsDUST BAGS

SalesFREE QUOTES

WONTHAGGI SEWING CENTRE167 Graham Street, Wonthaggi

(opp. Ritchies IGA)

5672 3127BANTAM roosters, 3 months, free to good home. Phone Therese 5664-4457.

CHIHUAHUA long coat, sable, female pet, only $800. 5668-2124.

FIREWOOD, redgum & local wood, Ph 0408-980-711, A/H 5662-5175

GENERATOR 2500W, never used. $400. H.W.S. Bosch 13H instantaneous natural gas $350. Hi-bay shed lights (2) $50 each. Traralgon 0488-747-677

HAY RINGS - $400, hay feeder / calves - $300, and a diesel tank on stand 400lt approx. Ph 0408-131-485

HAY - small square bales, new season’s, $8 each. Fully shedded, suitable for horses, never been wet. Quality guaranteed. Mardan - 5664-1320, 0428-999691.

LUCERNE Hay, The Ridge Lucerne Co., 8x4x3, A1 quality. Ph 0448-441-952, Rosedale.

OLD PORT POULTRY FARM are delivering 20 wk old laying hens to your area Saturday, March 26, $17 each. Ph: 0438-832535, a/h 5183-2515.

ON-SITE 28ft caravan, Shallow Inlet, Yanakie. Huge annex, air/con, sleeps 7 plus. Dogs, fi res permitted, great fi shing. $20,000. Ph: 0417-325781.

SLEEPERS, treated pine, 200x50x2.4 $12.10 each, 200x75x2.4 $16.75 each. Free delivery for pack lots. Phone Joe 0417-530662.

SPOODLE puppies, 3 female, vet checked, $600. Ph: 5662-5415.

GARAGESALE

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classifi eds@thestar.com.auor call in to

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to pick up your kit when you place your advertisement

GARAGESALE KIT$25

KIT INCLUDES5cm x S/C advert (valued at $31.90)

• 2 x A4 Garage Sale Signs

• Marker Pen • Garage Sale Tips

(dos and don’ts) • Sheet of Price Stickers • Star Carry BagTotal package valued

at $39

garage sales

LEONGATHA - 1 Noel Court, Saturday, March 26. Strictly 8am - 2pm. Bikes, helmets, student desk and more.

FREE CAR REMOVALWill pay up to $300

for complete carBuyers of scrap metal

All machineryBins provided

Bass Coast Metal Recyclers5672 2946

0417 556 593

used vehicles

FALCON 2003 SE ute with canopy, tinted glass, alloy wheels, $9000 neg. SFY159. Ph 0428-646-523.

FORD FIESTA Trio, 3dr, 5sp, clean, economical, reliable, RWC included. $2500 ono. NVO243. Ph: 5674-2382, m: 0419-310-261

HYUNDAI Getz 2007, 5sp manual, 3 door, A1 condition, new rego, new tyres, full service history, RWC. 78,000km, XPU504, $9500. Ph 0407-889-345

FULLY Qualifi ed Painter. No job too small. Good rates. Call Drew on 5662-4238 or 0418-517443.

work wanted

GOWERS - Samuel Peter. Born March 8, 2011 (9lb 10oz). Little brother for Lily. A beautiful baby boy for Josh and Kim. Taken from us too soon. Thanks to all staff at South Gippsland Hospital, especially Dr Phil Worboys, Sharon and Rena who all did so much for Sam.

Such a short time together but a lifetime of memories.

births

MERLENE STRATTONLeongatha5662 2574

marriage celebrant

Jenny MilkinsAll areas - 5672 3123

jenny_milkins@hotmail.com

CAM ABOODLeongatha5662 4191

THORNTON - Trevor. The President of the Leongatha Rotary Club together with past and present members regret the passing of Trevor Thornton, loved husband of Rotarian Kerry.

Our deepest sympathy is extended to his devoted family.

WATCHORN (Yap) - Janine Choon Foong. My darling wife Janine. Thank you for seven years of happiness, adventure and laughter. You will be forever an Angel looking over Kyra and I wherever life takes us. It was an honour and a privilege to be your husband. Reunited with your father and little Angel. Eternal Love

- Troy and Kyra.

WATCHORN (Yap) - Janine Choon Foong. Suddenly after a short illness. Loved and cherished daughter of Yong Yap (dec.) and Yoke Lan Lee. Loved sister of James and Vivien, David and Fong Lin, Lorena and Andy and Wong. Loving aunty to Edwin, Javier, Felicia, Leticia, Ethan, Eugene and Charmine. You are and always will be such a wonderful and treasured part of our family. Always in our hearts and thoughts. Rest in Peace

WATCHORN (Yap) - Janine Choon Foong. Loved and cherished daughter-in-law of Terry and Gwenda. You were a ray of sunshine that will forever shine on through our beautiful granddaughter. Special love to Troy and Kyra.

WATCHORN (Yap) - Janine Choon Foong. Much loved and respected sister-in-law and aunty of Peter, Abbie and Molly. Lovely friend of Sharon, Mitch and Koby. A beautiful lady of strength, kindness, happiness and love. You touched our lives and we will never forget you.

deaths

deaths deaths

IF you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.” 1 Peter 4:14.

message of hope

THORNTON - Trevor. Much loved son-in-law of Faye. Long time fi shing mate of Harry (dec.). There is bound to be plenty of fi shing done now.

WATCHORN - Janine. Much loved sister-in-law of Dean and Deb and loving aunty to Brock and Adam. We will always remember your beautiful smile, your wonderful laugh and your enjoyment and positive attitude to life. You will be sadly missed.

WATCHORN - Janine. A special friend who will be sadly missed. Deepest sympathy to Troy, Kyra and families. Marg, Sharon, Lynda, Jeremy, Mel, Tim and families.

WATCHORN - Janine. To Troy and Kyra, your beautiful wife and mother has been taken too soon. We will miss her happy face, kindness, and humour. Deepest sympathy to both your families.

Leon, Lois, Michael, Tracey, Chloe and Lachlan.

WITHERDEN - Beatrice Jean (Betty). Passed away peacefully at home at Walkerville on March 14, 2011 aged 80 years. Dearly loved wife of Len. Loved mother of Russell and Mary. Cherished Nan of Scott and Heidi, Matt and Alice, Shaun and Jen, great grandmother of Marlie.

Private cremation.

SOUTH Gippslanders are being warned not to fall for fake salespeople claiming to sell solar products.

Consumer Affairs Victoria has issued the warning, after its Morwell offi ce released information about door-to-door salespeople targeting homes in Gippsland.

Consumer Affairs Victoria director Dr Claire Noone said the incidents have prompted a renewed call for people to understand their rights when salespeople ap-proach them at home.

“Consumer Affairs Victoria is reminding Gippsland residents that they do have protection when dealing with unsolicited salespeople and should not feel intimi-dated into making a purchase,” she said.

“You should not be intimidated into making on-the-spot purchases or signing up to a contract. If a consum-er isn’t actively looking to buy a good or service, being approached at home can leave them feeling pressured into taking up an offer, before they’ve had a chance to weigh up the pros and cons.

A consumer in Morwell recently contacted Con-sumer Affairs Victoria after her elderly mother was vis-ited by a door-to-door salesperson selling solar energy panels.

For any consumer issues, visit the Gippsland Re-gional offi ce of Consumer Affairs Victoria at the Mor-well Justice Service Centre, 25 Ann Street, Morwell or check out the mobile service across the region to Korumburra, Morwell, Sale, Traralgon, Warragul and Wonthaggi. Call the offi ce on 03 5116 5701.

Scam warning

PAGE 50 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011

TIDESAt Port Phillip Heads

MARCHTime height

(metres)

0204 1.540800 0.101456 1.712025 0.44

0247 1.560847 0.051545 1.712110 0.45

0329 1.550934 0.051632 1.672153 0.47

0411 1.521020 0.091719 1.592235 0.51

0453 1.461104 0.171808 1.502318 0.55

0002 0.610630 1.301232 0.371954 1.33

23WED

24THUR

25FRI

26SAT

27SUN

28MON

29TUE

All times shown in24 hour clock

0001 - 1200..................AM1201 - 2400..................PM

Add one hour fordaylight saving

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

0539 1.381147 0.261859 1.40

THE SOUTH Gippsland Bass Swimming Club had it best ever results at the Gippsland cham-pionships which were held in Sale over the Labour Day long weekend.

With beautiful sunny skies the perfect weather conditions set the scene for an excit-ing competition for the best swimmers in the Gippsland region, which is the strongest swimming district in Victoria.

South Gippsland Bass members produced extraor-dinary results with the club coming home with a massive overall medal haul of 30 in-cluding 10 Gold, 12 Silver, and eight Bronze medals.The club fi nished a very close fourth overall on the club points tally which is exceptional considering that South Gippsland Bass has a very small member-ship basis compared to the other Gippsland Clubs.The club achieved another fi rst when they were awarded the trophy for the B Division Premiership for its overall season’s results both within and out of Gippsland swim-ming competitions such as State and country champion-ships.

Beau Van Agtmaal and Charlee Gough proudly ac-cepted the trophies on behalf of their excited team members.Emily Goode in her fi rst ever Gippsland champion-ships won three Gold medals dominating the eight year old events.

Nathan Foote 10 years also swam exceptionally well winning a silver and bronze individual medal.

The 10 year old relay team of Nathan Foote, Ned Bradley, Jacob Kiley and Jack Stockdale delighted the onlookers with their Bronze medal in the boys 10 year old freestyle relay.The dynamic duo of Bowen Gough and Lochie Nunn dominated the boys 12 year old events.

Bowen was outstanding, winning a medal in all of his events resulting in six indi-vidual medals: four gold and two silver. He also broke the Gippsland record for the 100 m fl y on the last day of com-petition which is his third re-cord for the season.

Lochie also had a great meet coming home with a Gold, Silver and Bronze medal in individual events.Bowen and Lochie then teamed with youngsters Na-than Foote and Jacob Kiley to win a Bronze medal in the 12 and under medley relay which was a fantastic effort, especially considering the age of the two younger boys.Charlee Gough 15 years, achieved her best ever re-sults at the Gippsland cham-pionships also winning six individual medals; one Gold, two silver and three bronze, demonstrating her overall versatility with a po-dium fi nish in every stroke.In a very powerful display Ol-iver Bates won a Gold medal in the 100m butterfl y.

Oliver then teamed with Rhett Boscombe-Hill, Travis Zappa and Bowen Gough to win two silver medals in the boys 14 years medley and freestyle relays, consolidat-ing their place as one of the best relay teams in Gippsland.Nationally qualifi ed 15 year old Beau Van Agtmaal once again excelled at the top level, winning a silver and

Swimmers still succeedingthree bronze medals. Beau also swam strongly in the 16 and under relay teams sup-porting his younger team members admirably and nar-rowly missing relay medals.Imogen Kaye-Helmot 12 years, in an awesome effort and with a massive personal best time won a Silver medal in the 200m Individual Medley. Youngest club member, seven year old Bradley Peters also amazed the excited crowd with his efforts making the fi nal in the boys eight year old backstroke and narrowly missed a place in the freestyle fi nal.

This is a terrifi c accom-plishment considering Brad-ley will be able to swim in that age group again next year.Ingrid Nunn, Molly Ed-wards, Rhett Boscombe-Hill, Travis Zappa, Harriet Bates, and Holly Pilkington proved that they are amongst the elite swimmers in Gippsland, qualifying for fi -nals in their individual events.Jessica Kiley, Courtney Teak-le, Mallory and Ned Bradley, Nikki and Jack Stockdale, Taylah and Ashlee Tobias, Scarlett Beaton, Jasmine and Kiara James-McCourt, Lauren and Amy Robertson were also exceptional representing the club in both relays and individ-ual events, coming home with numerous personal best times.The championships then culminated with the excit-ing news that 14 year old Rhett Boscombe-Hill was announced as winner of the “Otto Ford and Kathleen Froud Memorial Encourage-ment Award” for his outstand-ing improvement and achieve-ments at the championships.

This was a fi tting conclu-sion to the club’s most suc-cessful swimming season in its history.

Swimmers: the South Gippsland Bass Swimming Club at their recent meet.

ON MARCH 2 the Newhaven College swimming team went to the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre to compete in the annual Gippsland Inde-pendent Schools Swimming Carnival.

Newhaven College holds a strong tradition in this event and the students were all very keen to up-hold this tradition.

Excited by the opportunity to not only compete at inter-school

level, but also to swim in the very same pool that hosted the Mel-bourne Commonwealth Games, the students were appreciative of the professional environment which boasted adjustable start blocks, an electronic scoreboard and timing pads.

For the eighth year in a row, Ne-whaven College was successful in taking home the Fenwick Shield.

This shield is awarded to the best performed school on the day in comparison to their size; a type

of handicap system to level out the playing fi eld.

Newhaven College ran a very close fourth overall.

Outstanding performances were given by the whole team, but in particular by Year 7 Bowen Gough, who was the under 13 Boys age group champion and set a new re-cord in the under 13 boys butterfl y.

There was a strong contingent of successful Year 7 students, placing the college in a good position to de-fend the shield for years to come.

Newhaven wins Fenwick Shield again

Go girls: Jaslin Fisher, Tyler Brown, Amber Turner, Maddie Birrell and Cobie Standfi eld were part of a strong contingent of Leongatha PS students who competed in the Gippsland Primary School Swimming championships last week.

Ruby Martin: the Tarwin Valley Primary School student fl exed her muscles at the Gippsland Primary School Swimming championships last week.

LEONGATHA Swimming Club hosted a very successful swim-ming carnival at Splash, Leon-gatha on Sunday, the fi nal event of the season.

The club was delighted with their ef-forts this year which saw Leongatha retain the South Gippsland Swimming Associa-tion Shield for the second year running.

The club celebrated the end of a great competition when Leongatha swimmers jumped into the pool with their coaches,

some fully clothed!While Sunday’s competition was going

on, three Leongatha club swimmers trav-elled to the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre for the Country All Junior Titles.

Oscar Harry put in an outstanding per-formance, winning three golds. Mikaela Cornelissen won gold and a bronze while Lauchie Nunn brought home bronze. Well done to these swimmers.

The club now looks forward to “champ’s day” coming up in just under two weeks’ time.

Shark success: Leongatha Swimming Club captains and vice-captains cel-ebrate another successful season from left, vice-captain Brayden Pickers-gill, captain Camille Thompson, captain Jordan Pickersgill, and vice-cap-tain Annabelle Chester.

Leongatha retains shield

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - PAGE 51

LEONGATHA ath-lete Max Round has received a grant from the Australian Government in rec-ognition of his suc-cess in volleyball.

Max was part of the Victorian Junior State Volleyball team that com-peted in the Australian championships in Perth several months ago.

He was recently pre-sented with a $500 Lo-cal Sporting Champion Grant by McMillan MP, Russell Broadbent.

Other grant recipients were: Anna Kentwell (competed in National School Cross Coun-try Championships), Sang Rok Judo and Ju-jitsu Club at Wonthaggi

($3000), and Adam Wright from Mirboo North, who competes with Special Olympics Basketball Gippsland.

Money can be spent on travel, accommoda-tion, uniforms or other sport related expenses.

Max has excelled de-spite not being regularly exposed to such a high level of competition.

The Local Sport-ing Champion program is designed to provide fi nancial support for young sportsmen and women participating in state or national level sporting competitions and national school sport competitions.

Young athletes aged between 12 and 18 can apply.

Athletes backed with dollars

Well done: Max Round is congratulated by McMillan MP, Russell Broadbent.

WONTHAGGI Little Athletics was well represented by 13 athletes who qualifi ed to compete at the state championships at Olympic Park over the weekend.

There are over 160 Little Athletics centres with upwards of 20,000 ath-letes across the state and only the top 24 athletes in each event get through to the state championships, so just qualify-ing for the championships is a mighty achievement in itself.

No medals were won this year but the club is proud of the fi ve top 10 fi n-ishes that were achieved.

All our athletes put in outstanding performances, none better than Phillip Island’s, Declan Ryan (Under 12) who had a great weekend with a fourth place in the 1500m fi nal in a new club record time of 4.56.79.

Declan also broke the club record in the 800m fi nal where he fi nished a close up ninth in a slick 2.28.92.

Under 15 girl Samantha Davis also had a strong meet, competing in all three throwing events.

Samantha just missed a medal in the discus, fi nishing fourth with a best throw of 26.45 metres.

She was also just out of the medals in the shot put, fi nishing sixth throwing a 9.01metre personal best and put in a strong showing in the javelin, fi nishing 11th with another PB of 20.26 metres.

Under 11 girl Ciara Ryan narrowly missed the fi nal in all three sprints.

Ciara was sixth in her 70m heat in a slick 10.85sec, sixth in her 100m heat in 15.16sec and fourth in her 200m heat in a new PB time of 31.06 sec.

Sadie Plumb returned to some of her old form with three strong performances in the Under 15 girls.

Sadie was 10th in the javelin with 20.28 metres, fi fth in her 400m heat in 66.42 sec which was a 4 second PB and then fi nished 11th in the 800m fi nal in 2.27.85, which was a 15 second PB.

Under 13 athlete Nicole Davis also qualifi ed in the same three events as her sister.

Nicole fi nished 13th in the shot put (8.23 metres), 16th in the javelin (20.14 metres) and 19th in the discus with a best throw of 21.10 metres.

Under 14 athlete Phoebe Epifano did well just to be there considering she was on crutches two weeks ago. Phoebe was 16th in the shot put (7.67 metres) and 20th in the discus with a best throw

of 18.38 metres. Jade Dalton fi nished 19th in the

Under 13 girls javelin (17.74 metres). Imigen Langford who had been fi ghting illness all week was a brave 18th in the Under 13 Girls 1500m fi nal (5.49.24).

Brodie Anderson qualifi ed in the middle distance races last year and showed his versatility with a close sixth in the U11 boys 60m hurdle heats with a new PB time of 11.99sec.

This year we had two athletes com-peting at their fi rst state championships.

Melody Notley fi nished 15th in the Under 10 girls shot put with a best put of 5.90 metres and our other debutante was Ethan Slade in the Under 13 boys 100m.

Ethan was a very close fi fth in his heat and just missed the fi nal by 0.15 sec.

Ethan’s time of 13.15 sec was a 0.5 sec PB which is a massive improvement in the 100m. All athletes really enjoyed the chance to compete at the highest lev-el and all are keen to win their way back to have another crack next year.

Club competitionWith the state championships

on at the weekend the weekly club competition was held on Wednes-day night with 47 athletes helping themselves to 79 PBs and one club record.

Congratulations to Callan Hollins who broke his fi rst ever club record in the Under 13 boys 1500m race walk.

The high fi ve award this week goes to Samantha Davis who achieved fi ve PBs from her fi ve events.

Sam smashed her previous PB in all fi ve events showing no after effects from her strong showing at the Austra-lian Youth Championships in Sydney the previous weekend.

Special mention to the four athletes who achieved four PBs from their fi ve events: Harriet Fallaw Under 8, Brodie Anderson Under 11, and the Filippi twins Daisy and Georgia in the Under 12 girls.

ResultsUnder 6 boys: 200m: J. Garnham

49.13, K. Burns 50.92. 400m: K. Burns 1.55.9, J. Garnham 1.57.7, M. Spen-cer 2.27.3. 70m: J. Garnham 14.83, K. Burns 15.59, M. Spencer 16.12. Discus: M. Spencer 11.36, K. Burns 8.93, J. Gar-nham 7.20. Long jump: J. Garnham 1.92,

K. Burns 1.74, M. Spencer 1.25. Girls: 200m: T. Ihomana-Montgomery 49.94, D. Fitzgerald 58.37. 400m: T. Ihoma-na-Montgomery 2.03.1, D. Fitzgerald 2.12.9. 70m: T. Ihomana-Montgomery 14.61, D. Fitzgerald 16.55. Discus: T. Ihomana-Montgomery 8.23, D. Fitzger-ald 4.20. Long jump: T. Ihomana-Mont-gomery 1.86, D. Fitzgerald 1.29.

U7 boys: J. Timmermans: 100m: 21.95. 200m: 44.14. 70m: 14.66. High jump: 0.66. Shot put: 3.75. Girls:100m: D. Loughridge 21.12, A. Smith 22.80. 200m: D. Loughridge 42.51, A. Smith 48.54. 70m: D. Loughridge 12.94, A Smith 15.29. High jump: D. Loughridge 0.82. Shot put: D. Loughridge 5.17, A. Smith 3.83.

U8 boys: 200m: J. Garnham 40.63, T. Loughridge 41.82, A. Maxwell 42.93. 400m: J. Garnham 1.36.3, T. Loughridge 1.38.6, A. Maxwell 1.40.0. 70m: J. Garnham 12.75, T Loughridge 13.14, A. Maxwell 13.30. High jump: J Garnham 0.91cb, T. Loughridge 0.91, A. Maxwell 0.88. Shot put: A. Maxwell 5.53, A. Burns 5.11, J. Garnham 4.72. Girls: 200m: H. Fallaw 42.05, I. Rooks 43.15, M. Notley 49.28. 400m: I. Rooks 1.39.8, H. Fallaw 1.40.6, M. Notley 1.49.2. 70m: I. Rooks 13.35, H. Fallaw 13.52, M. Notley 14.73. High jump: M. Notley and H. Fallaw 0.79eq, I. Rooks 0.75. Shot put: H. Fallaw 4.42, M. Not-ley 3.94, I. Rooks 2.98.

U9 boys: 100m: R. Pridham 18.93, J. Anderson 19.13. 1100m walk: J. Anderson 9.56.7. 800m: J. Anderson 3.44.3, R. Pridham 5.09.5. Discus: R. Pridham 8.30, J. Anderson 6.79. High jump: R. Pridham 0.90, J. Anderson 0.75. Girls: L. McKenzie: 1100m walk: 8.39.9. 100m: 20.19. 800m: 3.54.5. Dis-cus: 7.00. High jump: 0.85.

U10 boys: 1100m walk: M. Perters 8.27.00, J. Timmermans 8.54.2. 70m: M. Peters 13.10, J. Timmermans 13.56. 800m: M. Peters 3.58.3, J. Timmermans 4.09.6. Discus: M. Peters 10.59, J. Tim-mermans 8.90. Long jump: M. Peters 2.37, J. Timmermans 1.87. Girls: 1100m walk: M. Notley 8.29.7, J. Rooks 8.30.8, C. Fallaw 9.09.3. 70m: M. Notley 12.43, C. Fallaw 12.77, J. Rooks 13.89. 800m: M. Notley 3.42.1, C. Fallaw 3.54.0, J. Rooks 4.09.2. Discus: M. Notley 13.35, C. Fallaw 10.09, J. Rooks 9.70. Long jump: M. Notley 2.40, C. Fallaw 2.35, J. Rooks 1.96.

U11 boys: 1500m walk: M. Fallaw

11.21.27, B. Anderson 11.27.57. 400m: B. Anderson 1.16.5, M. Fallaw 1.27.0, M. Geyle 1.34.1. 70m: M. Fallaw 11.19, B. Anderson 11.72, M. Geyle 13.31. Discus: B. Anderson 18.09, M. Fallaw 14.59, M. Geyle 14.27. Triple jump: M. Fallaw 7.41, B. Anderson 6.89, M. Geyle 5.21. Girls: 1500m walk: C. Ryan 11.17.14, B. Lowe 11.34.84, K. Hollins 12.13.43. 400m: C. Ryan 1.15.2, B. Lowe 1.28.7, K. Hollins 2.03.0. 70m: C. Ryan 10.70, B. Lowe 12.74, K. Hollins 13.46. Discus: B. Lowe 8.48, C. Ryan 8.22, K. Hollins 6.84. Triple jump: B. Lowe 5.93, K. Hollins 4.78.

U12 boys: 1500m walk: M. Moje-O’Brien 10.38.01, D. Ryan 11.13.53. 200m: D. Ryan 34.93, M. Moje-O’Brien 37.32, B. Timmermans 40.44. 800m: D. Ryan 2.58.3, M. Moje-O’Brien 3.13.8, B. Timmermans 3.24.9. High jump: D. Ryan 1.35, B. Timmermans 1.17, M. Moje-O’Brien 1.15. Shot put: D. Ryan 6.60, B. Timmermans 5.42. Girls: 1500m walk: D. Filippi 10.47.88, G. Fil-ippi 12.27.16. 200m: S. Slade 42.03, G. Filippi 42.35, D. Filippi 44.69. 800m: S. Slade 3.50.1, D. Filippi 3.57.0, G. Fil-ippi 4.05.4. High jump: G. Filippi 1.05, S. Slade 1.00, D. Filippi 0.98. Shot put: S. Slade 5.58, D. Filippi 4.83, G. Filippi 4.78.

U13 boys: 100m: E. Slade 13.78, C. Hollins 18.03. 1500m walk: C. Hollins 11.25.93 (record), E. Slade 11.30.03. 800m: C. Hollins 3.50.0. Javelin: C. Hollins 14.95, E. Slade 13.18. Long jump: E. Slade 3.99, C. Hollins 2.61. Girls: 100m: J. Dalton 15.46, I. Lang-ford 16.10, N. Davis 16.28. 1500m walk: L. Geyle 10.16.39, H. Robbins 11.19.02, N. Davis 11.31.38. 800m: T. Lowe 3.05.6, I. Langford 3.16.4, L. Geyle 3.31.7. Javelin: N. Davis 21.02, J. Dalton 20.54, T. Lowe 17.50. Long jump: J. Dalton 3.71, T. Lowe 3.43, N. Davis 2.88.

U15 girls: 100m: Sandra Plumb 14.70, Sadie Plumb 15.36, S. Da-vis 15.92. 1500m walk: Sadie Plumb 8.43.0, Sandra Plumb 10.13.49, S. Da-vis 11.31.18. 800m: Sadie Plumb 2.52.1, Sandra Plumb 2.59.0, S. Davis 3.29.6. Javelin: Sadie Plumb 21.30, S. Davis 18.80, Sandra Plumb 12.46. Long jump: Sandra Plumb 3.68, Sadie Plumb 3.58, S. Davis 3.39.

Next week is the last Little Aths meet for the season. Please arrive by 9am for a 9.15 start.

Wonthaggi takes on state champs

Wes Graeme brought home medals from the two-day competition, with Eleanor winning gold on Saturday in the Under 15 Girls’ high jump with a 1.70m clear-ance, and backing that up on Sunday with silver medals in the triple jump (11.44m) and 300m hurdles (45.37 seconds).

She also fi nished sixth in the long jump with a 4.89m leap.

Wes took gold in the Under 13 boys’ long jump on Saturday afternoon, with a personal best jump of 5.43m. On Sunday, he fi nished fourth in the triple jump (11.36m), fi fth in the 400m (1:00.01min) and fourth in the high jump.

Wes was one of fi ve competitors to clear 1.60m in the high jump behind Bacchus Marsh’s Ryan Shaw (1.75m), with the fi -nal placegetters determined on a count-back.

Among these was Le-ongatha’s Julian Patterson, who also reached the same height and was classifi ed seventh.

Other results included: Nicholas Matheson - Un-der 10 boys 1100m race walk 11th (8:26.17min); Shannon Kennedy - Under

10 boys 80m hurdles 11th (15.17sec), high jump, plac-ing TBC (1.20m); Ruby Martin - Under 10 girls 70m 8th (10.85sec), triple jump 9th (8.08m), 100m 11th (15.09sec); Brett Thor-son - Under 11 boys high jump 6th (1.30m); Sara Riseley - Under 11 girls high jump 20th (1.15m); Christine Byrne - Under 12 girls 200m 12th (28.75sec), 100m 15th (14.16sec), long jump 18th (3.76m); Shane Byrne - Under 13 boys jav-elin 9th (27.75m), 200m 14th (27.16sec), 100m 20th (13.68sec); Julian Patter-son - Under 13 Boys jav-elin 10th (26.60m); Georgia Riseley - Under 13 girls high jump 7th (1.45m); Mitchell Green - Under 15 boys shot put 7th (11.71m), discus 8th (35.88m); Mikaela Withe-row - Under 15 girls 1500m 17th (6:26.94min), javelin 18th (16.92m).

The Leongatha Little Athletics Club’s presen-tation day will be held this Saturday, March 26, at St Laurence Primary School hall, starting at 10-10.15am. Please note this is earlier than previously advertised.

Young athletes shine at state fi nalsA GROUP of 13 young athletes represented Leongatha Little Ath-letics Club at the State Track and Field Cham-pionships at Olympic

Park in Melbourne last weekend, all perform-ing with distinction in their events against competitors from across Victoria.

Eleanor Patterson and

In her stride: Mikaela Witherow battles hard in the 1500m.

Jump start: Wes Graeme displays the talent that won him a gold medal at the state championships.

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South Gippsland Bridge MEENIYAN – Monday evening: 1st Faye Rowlands,

Frank Arndt, 2nd Margaret Munro, Ellie McIntyre, 3rd Sally and Brian Hoskins, 4th Margaret and Noel Smith and Barbara Axten, Pat West.

Tarwin Lower – Tuesday - North/South: 1st Faye Rowlands, Pat West, 2nd Kathryn Smith, Colin Cameron, 3rd Barbara Axten, Margaret Munro.

East/West: 1st John Sullivan, Alan Johnston, 2nd Vi-vienne Westaway, Maureen Stiles, 3rd Hannah Martin, Leila Bell.

Inverloch – Friday - week two of the Club Champi-onship Pairs: 1st John Sullivan, Alan Johnston, 2nd Jack Kuiper, Jean Barbour, 3rd Kaye Douglas, John Sutton, 4th Colin Manley, Dina Drury, 5th John Farr, Anne Williams, 6th Nancy Embleton, Mary McCaughan, 7th Faye Row-lands, Pat West.

Midweek ladies tennis

JUST a quick note to let you know that the points I deducted from one team I had to reverse due to the scoresheet being sent on time but it had “gone to New Zealand and back”, so I felt it was unfair to deduct points.

If at all possible teams could email me their scoresheets to bdharri-son@activ8.net.au and also send them, because we have found we can’t rely on Australia Post. It is very diffi cult and unfair to teams if ladders are not correct at the time of pub-lishing.

LaddersUp to March 15

Section 1Westernport ............................23Inverloch Gold ........................22Leongatha ...............................21Inverloch Silver ...........128.4 19Wonthaggi .....................106.5 19Bena .........................................17Inverloch Madfi sh ......................3

Section 2Foster Yellow ...........................24Phillip Island...........................23Wonthaggi Swans ................* 21Foster Black ............................17Wonthaggi Green .....................16Bena ......................................* 11Korumburra ................................8

Section 3Wonthaggi ...............................31Korumburra ........................* 23Phillip Island Silver ................19Inverloch Pink .....................* 17Inverloch Blue ..........................13Nyora ..........................................8Phillip Island Gold .....................5

Section 4Grantville ................................28Inverloch .................................25Wonthaggi White....................21Leongatha .................... 111.0 17Fish Creek .....................104.5 17Wonthaggi Red ...........................9Korumburra ................................7

* Denotes scoresheets not received.

Leongatha indoor netball

Results March 7Juniors: Stars 2 lt Hot

shots 6, Jnr Bushrangers 9 d Vixens 3, Swifts - bye.

Seniors: Reps 34 d Rising Stars 14, Divas 48 d Hot Shots 27, Mixtures 23 lt Odd Bods 40, Mutley Crew 37 d Lil Rascals 9, LOLs - bye.

March 28Juniors: Hot Shots v

Jnr Bushrangers, Vixens v Swifts, Stars - bye.

Seniors: 6.30 - Mix-tures v Lols, Reps v Lil Rascals; 7.15 - Mutley Crew v Rising Stars, Odd Bods v Divas, Shot Shots - bye.

For the thousands of people with an intellectual disability in Victo-ria, sport is a way of celebrating and transforming their lives.

In sport, every effort is rewarded with a smile and every journey is more mo-mentous than any victory.

Special Olympics Gippsland provides ongoing sports training and competition for children and adults with an intellec-tual disability.

Through the work of dedicated volun-teers our programs are offered within 13 regions and in 14 sports across Victoria, including Gippsland.

SOV Gippsland seeks expressions of

interest from individuals keen to join this not-for-profi t organisation in various vol-unteering roles.

At the moment Gippsland is looking for a Volunteer Co-ordinator, Event Co-ordinator and Senior Basketball Coach.

We invite you to discover what Special Olympics stands for, what the Gippsland branch of this worldwide organisation hopes to achieve over the next few years and how you can be part of this very spe-cial movement.

For more information please contact the SOV State Offi ce on (03) 9275 6922, email victoria@specialolympics.com.au or visit the website at www.specialolym-pics.com.au.

A call for volunteers

Results 50m pennant

Section B R1 - MCC A 582. 017

d Leongatha A 571.013.R2: Shepparton

578.024 d Leongatha A 563.016.

R3: Leongatha A 573.027 d Frankston B 557.015.

Section ER1 - Leongatha B

555.010 (bye).R2 - Lancefi eld 562.010

d Leongatha B 550.013.R3 - Leongatha B

557.017 d Kyneton 543.010.

We shoot Friday nights at 8pm at the rifl e club on the recreation reserve.Any inquiries, please call R. Spratt on 5664 2358.

Leongatha Small Bore Rifl e Club

Leongatha squashTHERE was no play in

A Grade this week due to the public holiday.

B GradeCats 4-12-133 d Suns

0-5-101Pies 2-7-85 d Swans

2-6-89Tigers 3-11-129 d

Hawks 1-5-109Match of the week goes

to two newcomers to the competition, Sam Clark and Dave McLean. This was a marathon fi ve set-

ter with each game closely contested. With the score at two games all, the fi fth and deciding game went right down to the wire. Sam managed to hang in there and take the game 10 points to eight.

Sam won the match 3 games 43 points to Dave 2 games 42 points.

It was a great effort by both players who have shown great improvement in their games since the start of the competition.

Team effort: Under 12s coach Nick Brosnan with his players.

Man in charge: Under 14s coach Terry Earl with the players.

Under 16s: coach Gareth McDermott and team manager Neil Waters with the players.

Volunteer: Terry Earl presents Bill Moller with the Gippsport volunteer of the year award.

Future star: Under 12s Most Disciplined Player Holly Forsyth.

Under 14s award win-ners: Max Homer, bat-ting and bowling, Ethan Senior, coach’s award, Luke Hamilton, most disciplined, and Terry Earl coach.

Under 16 award winners: Gareth McDermott, coach, Cade Waters, most dis-ciplined, Josh Water, coach’s award, Ben Foon, bowling, James Honeysett, batting and cricketer of the year, and team manager Neil Waters.

Wonthaggi Miners junior cricket presentations

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - PAGE 53

LeongathaTHE fi rst round of the club championship brought some excellent net scores, but the slick greens and back tees made good gross scores hard to come by.

Anthony Sparkes played good golf to win A Grade with 79-11-68. Ian Murchie was best in B Grade with 84-15-69, while the medal winner was Shane Law who dominat-ed with a super round, scoring 88-23-65. Bob Jamieson took D Grade on 99-29-70.

Max Kavanagh won pro-pin, Dylan McMeekin won nearest the pin on the 16th (good reason for that pin - placement) and the fol-lowing can collect a ball for their efforts: G. Morrison 67, J. Drummond, D. Hanna 69; S. Fisher, A. McFarlane, F. de Bondt, M. Herrald 70; S. Drummond, P. Hart, P. Ray-son, J. King, R. Martin 71; E. Kosciuk, T. Goldie, D. Poul-ton, D. McMeekin, M. Stubbs 72; R. Thurston, N. Savino, D. Malone, B. Hughes, A. Monaghan 73.

Only three players broke 80 - Jacob Drummond (78), Tony Goldie and Anthony Sparkes on 79, David Poul-

ton (80) and Michael Thomas (82) are others in contention.

Leading scores in B Grade are Peter Rayson on 83 from Ian Murchie 84 and Ken Wardle 86. A close tussle is developing in C Grade where Gordon Morrison leads on 87 from Steve Fisher 88 and Denis Hanna 89.

Our medal winner Shane Law has established a healthy lead in D Grade, his 88 clearly ahead of Fred de Bondt on 95 and Mick Herrald on 96.

TuesdayA rare par event brought

the usual grumbles, but club captain Ian Nunn was un-concerned as he had a fi ne +4 round to win handsomely. John Stewart was runner-up on +1 after a complex count-back.

Jon Smith and Keith Mac-farlane were nearest the pin winners.

Ball winners: M. Street, P. Hobson, G. McDonald, S. Moncur +1; P. Waters sq., B. Stevens, J. Eabry, B. Clark, J. Lowell -1.

ThursdayAn Irish fourball on St

Patrick’s Day seemed appro-priate. The winning score of 116 points was achieved by

Geoff Maher, Les Newton, Joe Lowell and Tim McCa-rthy.

Ian Nunn 14th and Tim McCarthy 16th were nearest the pin winners, and teams to win balls were: F. Smedley, P. Seth, J. Gilder, T. Steer 113; J. King, C. Leaver, P. Hartigan, K. Scott 112; C. Sperling, A. Sperling, S. Moncur, G. Shar-rock 112.

This Thursday is the ‘grab a leftie’ ambrose sponsored by the Dandenong club. Sat-urday brings round two of the club championship. The draw for the Hyland Cup is up and fi rst round players should start organising their matches. Mixed pairs are required for the social day with Meeniyan on Sunday, April 3.

LadiesIN THIS lovely autumn

weather 47 ladies competed in the Colin Watson Holden stableford competition and seven in the nine hole event on Wednesday March 16.

Ann Blundy continued her great run of form to win A Grade with 36 points.

In B Grade, Deb. Mill-er showed that she is in hot form too, winning with 40 points.

Marg. Griffi ths won C

Grade in a countback from Isobel Sutherland, both scor-ing 34 points.

Georgina Mitchell 37, Loris Clark 36, Kerry Hogan 36, Joan Scott 36, Marea Ma-her 35, Evelyn Indian 35, Jan Bissett 34, Sharyn Rayson 34, Isobel Sutherland 34, Marion Bellingham 33, Dot Stubbs 33, Wendy Brown 33, all won balls down the line.

Karen Orford 15 points, won the nine holes from Kit Boag 13.

Shirley Welsford was nearest the pin on the 14th, and just to show it was no fl uke she did it again on the 16th.

On Saturday 19th Ann Gibson won the stableford event with 37 points. Balls went to Anna de Bondt 32, Deb Miller 32, Rita de Bondt 31 and Kerry Hogan 31.

In the second semi-fi nal of the Nancy Sperling 4BBB board event Ann Debenham and Libby Seebeck defeated Evelyn Indian and Helen Mackenzie, 3/4.

Earlier winners of the fi rst semi-fi nal were Maria Bell and Toni West who defeated Pat Moore and Pam Chris-tensen also 3/4.

MeeniyanSATURDAY was a nice day for golf, with the greens com-ing up well after the renova-tions.

We played singles stabl-eford with the event being the qualifying round for the Ron Trease Memorial singles knockout.

The day’s event was spon-sored by Tarwin Veterinary Group and we thank them for their generous support.

A Grade winner was Craig Buckland with 38 points from David Thomson on 37 points.

B Grade winner was Peter Riddle with 39 points from Chris Buckland on 38.

Nearest the pin: 2nd Chris Buckland and 11th Rod Matthews.

Down the line: Mike Wel-gemoed, Russ Evans, Jim Cu-sack, T. Winston Reilly.

The top 16 names will go

into the draw next week, with those who scored 30 points or more qualifying.

Next week is the fi rst round of the Col Heppell fourball knockout, with draw for partners at 20 to 10.

Tuesday, March 15 was stroke and the winner was Frank Peile with 68 net from Winston Reilly and Mick Fowkes on 73 and on 74 Graeme Hughes.

Best nine was Jim Cusack 36 net. No nearest the pin.

Thursday, March 17 was singles stableford and the winner was Bob McGeary with 38 points on countback from Steve Collins also on 38 points, and on 37 Lloyd Hemphill.

Best nine Frank Peile 22. Nearest the pin Bob McGeary.

There is a RSA course at the club on March 27, in-terested persons contact the

club. A reminder that the tour-nament is on April 15, 16 and 17 with all entries welcome.

LadiesWEDNESDAY March 16

was the qualifying round of the Ray and Heather Poletti four ball board event.

The winners on the day were Grace Benson and Nan-cye Hammet with a great 47 points.

The runners-up on a count-back were Sheila Constantine and Kristen Elliott with 45 points. Down the line balls to Faye LePage and Eileen Dor-ling 45, Veronica Park and Lyn Jennison 44. Good luck to the eight pairs who quali-fi ed for the knockout.

Marg Roe took out the 45s with 19 points. The pen-nant season has started and we wish our two teams all the best.

Mirboo NorthTHERE were 27 starters for the sta-bleford event on Thursday March 17. The CCR was 69.

Noel Fox was the A Grade winner with (15) 42.

Down the line balls: Maree Thompson (17) 40, Joe Kus (14) 39 and Ron Funnell (19) 37 count-back.

Birdies: John Blunsden 6th, Garry Shandley 4th, Tom Traill 4th, Richie Robbins 6th, Shane Woodall 16th and John Woodall 6th.

LadiesA Captains Presidents Day was

held on Wednesday, March 16.Winner: Captains team - C.

Gunn, R. Leslie, W. Gervasi, R. Millsom, Sandra Hughes, F. Fer-nandez and T. Higginbottom.

Nearest the pin: 6th T. Higgin-bottom, 13th L. Snell.

Birdie: M. Beruldsen 16th.There were 30 starters on Sat-

urday, March 19 when the Bob Burdekin 4BBB was played. Spon-sor was Bob Burdekin.

A Grade winner was John Woodall (6) and Shane Woodall (14) 46 countback.

Down the line: Doug Taylor (24), Chris Bracecamp (24) 46; Ian Evison (10), Stan Evison (21) 45.

Nearest the pin: 4th P. Draper (c), 6th F. Bradshaw (c), 16th J. Kus (c). Pro pin: T. Bradshaw (c) $20. Nearest 2nd shot on 1st P. Draper.

Birdies: 4th P. Draper (c), R. Funnell (b), R. Robbins (c); 16th J. Woodall (c).

WooraylTHIS week we held our annu-al tournament and the course was turned out in immaculate condition each day thanks to Damien and his helpers.

As a club we say a big thank you.

On Monday we held a men’s fourball event spon-sored by Gendore. The scratch winners were Mick Thomas and Ryan Thomas - a fi rst for him and great to see Mick en-couraging his offspring.

The A Grade handicap section went to our visitors, Peter Rayson and Russell Williams with 48 points. The runners-up were Tom Ryan and Trent Walters.

B Grade was won by Bri-an Wilson and David Stevens also with 48 points, whilst the runners-up were Max Wood and Chris Bracecamp with 45 points.

Balls went to the follow-ing pairs; Mark Carruthers, G. Johnson / N. Black, N. Thompson R. Gourlay, B. Fiek / G. McKinnon, J. Red-mond and J. Newton and P. Burgess.

The nearest the pins on the 17th went to George Johnson.

On Tuesday A Grade went to Marg Higgins and Gwen Chapman with 45 points from Rebecca Thomas and Marilyn Williams. B Grade went to Carmen Thompson and Lyn-dell Shields with 53 points (this is not a misprint). They won from Gwen Heppell and Tanya Thorson. The three nearest the pins were won by Elsie McBride (8th), Marg Young (11th) and Kath Bron-sema (17th).

The ladies singles on Friday saw a play off for the scratch between the Foster pair of Gail Tyers and Barb Warren. Gail Prevailed and Barb won the A Grade handi-cap with 38 points. She won from Shirley Thomas.

B Grade went to Marg Higgins from Heather Sul-livan. C Grade was won by Alice Patterson from Elsie McBride.

Balls went to G. Ben-son, V. Park, F. Maynard, V. Hislop, P. Moore and P. Lan-caster.

The nearest the pins went to B. Warren (8th), S. Thomas (11th) and V. Park (17th). The day’s event was sponsored by Berrys Creek Cheese.

The day’s event was held in conjunction with the Woorayl Cup. The sponsors were Lance and Pauline Lan-caster.

The cup was won by Shir-ley Thomas, Pauline Lancast-er and Anne Patterson.

On Saturday the men played a single stroke event sponsored by Financial Blue-print. The scratch winner with a 73 was Michael Grist and the A Grade winner was Brett Stubbs with a net 70.

B scratch went to Max Wood with a 91 and the hand-icap section was won by Alan Hayes with a net 71.

The C Grade scratch was won by Bob Beilby with 92 and John Maynard took out the handicap with a net 66.

Balls went to C. James, I. Balfour, Damian Burge, P. Carter, D. Lim, P. Hayman, C. Turner, G. Johnson, L Wake-fi eld, J. Hassett and A. Hills.

The nearest the pins went

to Bob Beilby (8th0 and Brian Thomas (17th).

On Sunday we held our mixed Canadian event which was sponsored by Kelvin Johns Retravision.

The scratch winners were Ann and Michael Grist and the A Grade handicap section was won by Barb and Mark James.

The B Grade handicap went to Max Wood and Di O’Connor.

Balls went to J. Dia-per, L. Cox / P. Burgess, D. Jarvis and P. and L. Lancaster.

The men’s nearest the pins went to R. Williams (8th) and M. Wood (17th) and the ladies D. Jarvis (8th) and C. Perrett (17th).

The last practice day for the juniors will be on March 25 but if your child is inter-ested in golf, they can join as a junior member for $30 and play all year round for free.

Next Saturday the men will play for the March monthly medal spon-sored by Hartley Wells Furniture.

FosterResults

March 20SATURDAY March 19 – stableford, Pe-ter Dight trophy.

Winners A Grade: Lloyd McKenzie 42 points. B Grade: Phil Nightingall 41 points.

Down the line balls: Steve Reid 41 points, Col Pulham 41 points, Brenton McKenzie 10 points, Andrew Boyd 40 points, Chris Foulds 40 points, Athol McGrath 39 points.

Nearest the pin: 4th Phil Harris, 6th Kevin Flett, 13th Andrew Boyd, 15th Steve Reid, 17th Andrew Naylor.

Saturday March 19 - par.Winner: Pam Witheridge (35).

Down the line balls: Joy O’Sullivan

(35) +2. Nearest the pin: 17th Gayle Reid.

Friday March 18 – twilight stableford. Winner: Geoff Knott 20 points.

Down the line balls: Kevin Flett 19 points, J.Ferguson 17 points, Graham Clothier 17 points.

Thursday March 17 - stableford. Win-ner: Peter Dight 40 points.

Down the line balls: Dave Hutchinson 39 points, Gary Donald 38 points, Athol McGrath 37 points. Nearest the pin: 4th: Neville Thompson.

Wednesday March 16 - fl ag. Trudi Prue trophy.

A Grade winners: Jenny Mountford (25) 93, 68 net. B Grade winner: Mary Ellis (36) 101, 65 net.

Down the line balls: Beth Curram (19) 69 net, Barbara Warren (14) 69 net, Anne Horstra (19) 70 net, Kaylene Morris (33)

71 net, Margaret Blake (28) 72 net on countback.

Nearest the pin: second shot 4th Bar-bara Fuller, 6th Rae Knee, second shot 13th Margaret Blake, second shot 15th RobynGalloway, 17th Beth Curram.

Tuesday March 15 - stableford. Win-ner: Trevor Jones 43 points.

Down the line balls: B. Robinson 41 points, Denham Grierson 378 points. Nearest the pin: 13th Trevor Jones.

Coming eventsTuesday March 22 - stableford.

Wednesday March 23 - stableford, Alayne McKenzie trophy. Thursday March 24 - stableford. Friday March 25 - twilight stableford, FoodWorks trophy. Saturday March 26 - twoball Ambrose, Phil Scho-fi eld trophy.

Woorayl Cup: best players for the season in each division were Pauline Lancaster, Anne Pat-terson and Shirley Thomas.

Best players: Foster’s Barbara Warren, A Grade Handicap, Scratch winner Gale Tyers, B Grade winner Margaret Higgins and C Grade winner Anne Pat-terson celebrate their wins.

KorumburraSATURDAY was the third round of the Korumburra Golf Club championships and a stroke day with 68 players compet-ing for trophies sponsored by I. Dixon and G.T. Whelan.

There were plenty of good scores on the day but none better than Bill Hessells who had a fi ne 83-18-65 to give him a handy lead in the C Grade championship.

Chris Clements won A Grade with 67 net to also take a fi rm hold on the seniors’ title while W. Hopkins won C Grade with 67 net.

The leaders in the club championship after 54 holes were as follows: A Grade Tim O’Neill 222, B Grade Dave Austin 251, C Grade Bill Hessells 266 and D Grade Brad Perks 272. Tim O’Neill and

Chad Clasby were equal handicap leaders in A Grade on 210, Dave Austin was lead-ing B Grade with 212 nett, Roger Hamill C Grade 211 net and Brad Perks was a clear leader in D Grade on 200.

Down the line balls were won by: (67) R. Newton, (68) N. Wardle, B. Perks, P. Johnson, (69) I. Gibson, J. Little, (70) M .Garnham, (71) C. Corr, C. Clasby, B. Maskell, (72) T. Fowles, R. Spokes, S. Bromby and S. Rose.

Nearest the pin: (1st) C Clements, (7th) I Gibson, (13th) B Hessells.

On Sunday, 39 played stroke in the fourth round of the club championships for trophies donated by the Spokes fam-ily. Winner of the day’s event was (A Grade) R. Johnson 70 net and (B Grade) B. Hessells 68 net.

Down the line balls: (70) W. Hopkins,

P. Hornibrook, (71) C. Clements, I. Gib-son, T. Marotti, B. Clasby, I. Dixon, T. Jones and G. Wilson.

Nearest the pins: (1st) P. Hornibrook, (7th) C. Clements, (10th) T. Fowles, (13th) L. Sharp.

Major championship winners were as follows: A Grade - Tim O’Neill (scratch), Steve Bromby (runner-up), Chad Clasby (h’cap), B Grade - Tyler Marotti (scratch and h’cap), Malcolm Garnham (runner-up), C Grade - Bill Hessells (scratch and h’cap), Greg Bull (runner-up), D Grade - Brad Perks (scratch and h’cap) and Chris Corr (runner-up).

The club rounded out a successful event with the annual presentation night in the clubrooms on Saturday night at which many of the year’s major winners were presented with their awards.

‘Burra champs: Korumburra Golf Club A Grade Champion, left, Tim O’Neill, with runner-up Steve Bromby, centre, and club captain Athol Worthy, receive their awards at the club’s presentation night last Sunday night. The pair combined to win several other major events through the year.

On the green: (from left) Heather Sullivan, Sevy Piasente and Sue Wakefi eld after their round of golf.

PAGE 54 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Tarwin Lower bowlsMEN’S turkey triples saw a full green with a promise of a good day.

Winners were the Wonthaggi boys Tony Merlo, Rod Beech and Roy Smith. Runners- up were the Tarwin team consisting of Arthur Newsome, Fred Martin and Paul Griffi ths. Best last game went to Peter Emmet, Gordon Burke, Lorraine and Jan Coates. Good effort.

The triples were sponsored by Terry White Chemists.

Barefoot Bowls The grand fi nal was a great night. After the two semi fi nals the winners

were The Sharks over the Bearded Kiwis and Scratched over Prestige WW. By the time the winning teams were ready to start the fi nal the

spectators were very vocal and were expecting a great fi nal – and they were not disappointed.

The two teams went shot for shot and it came down to the last end with Scratched holding the shot and Andy Guymer needing to draw the shot to make it two.

Andy was given plenty of encouragement as he stepped onto the mat and calmly sent his bowl on the way, it fi nished about a metre away and after a measure – Scratched got the two to win the fi nal.

The Bowls Club thanks all the teams for participating and the sponsors for supporting the club over what has been a fantastic season.

Playoff: Runners-up in the back row were the Sharks; Connie Jenssen, Bill Van Dillen, Maz Williamson and front; Scratched, the winners, Crackers O’Loughlin, Andy Guymer and Squeak Holm.

Korumburra Parlor BowlsTHURSDAY, March 17 was the half-way point of competition parlor bowls.

Teams had see-sawed throughout the sea-son with regard to their positions on the lad-der and, judging by Thursday’s results, will continue to change positions during the second half of the season.

The fi rst drawn game for 2011 was played by Sicilians and Battlers.

Battlers were the early leaders with a six point lead but Sicilians slowly breached the gap and when they stole four points and the lead, they looked the winners.

The last point of the game sealed a draw. Kardella and VRI played a one-sided game

with VRI taking the lead by scoring several large ends.

They won by a large margin even though Kardella outscored them in the second half of the match.

In the third game, The Burra met Pretend-ers.

The Burra went ahead by seven shots but was only scoring in single points and, unfor-

tunately for them, Pretenders scored 15 points in six ends to gain, and then hold the lead until the fi nish.

Thursday night’s results were Sicilians and Battlers 20, VRI 27 d Kardella 14, Pretenders 25 d The Burra 18, Kookaburras - bye.

The half-way ladder is 1.Pretenders 20, 2.Kookaburras 20, 3.Sicilians 18, 4.The Burra 16, 5.VRI 16, 6.Battlers 14, 7.Kardella 8.

It seems an exciting second half to the season is yet to unfold, with only one winning game separating fi ve of the seven teams. The coveted top position on the ladder is still up for grabs.

On Monday night’s social bias bowls, 15 bowlers rotated from skip, to lead, to second or third bowler causing mayhem amongst the teams.

Lead bowlers, playing as skips, acquitted themselves well whilst skips, playing as leads, struggled to draw to the kitties. It was the steady bowling of the seconds and thirds that carried Michael Matthews, Andy Hanks and Joe Occhipinti (2W+5) to a win and George Bentley, Lee Armstrong, Sally Gammaldi and Connie Occhipinti (2W+1) to second place.

InverlochTHE club’s March triples were held last Thursday when 28 teams competed.

The sponsor for this day was the Wonthaggi Club and our club thanks them for their continued support.

Four games of two-bowl triples were played. After the end of play there was unusu-ally no four-game winners but there were seven three-game winners.

After the addition of points won by the seven teams with three wins, plus the ends won on their losing game, there were two teams equal on points and the winners were decided on shots up.

The team with the most shots up was the Phillip Island team of I. Ferguson (ld), P. For-rest (2nd) and J. Newcombe (sk) with 61 points and 39 shots up.

Runner-up with 61 points and 23 shots up was the Inver-loch team of N. West (ld), S. Scimonello (2nd) and J. Scott (sk).

The drawn card prize went to the team of L. Beaumont, T. Marotto and N. West from Wonthaggi.

Last Saturday another small fi eld of only 14 players played social bowls.

Two games of fours and triples were played and the winners with two wins and 34 points were D. Watt (ld), H. Nation (2nd) and B. Hensley (sk). Also winning two games but only on 31 points were H. Dunn (ld), B. Growse (2nd) and K. Perrett (sk).

Next Saturday our premier-ship Division 1 team travels to Sale to compete in the Group 8 championship against the pre-miers in Division 1 of the East, North and Mid Gippsland as-sociations.

We wish them good luck in their quest to become champion of champions of our Group 8.

By winning the recent Tra-ralgon Classic triples the Inver-loch team of Ron Burge, Mick Coram and Chas Buccilli have become the fi rst team to win this event in consecutive years and is a record.

This event which has been running for more than 20 years has had the teams win it more than once but never back-to-back, which makes our boys’ effort an excellent achieve-ment.

The fi rst prize for winning this event is $1800, not $1000 as stated in last week’s report.

LadiesCONGRATULATIONS

to Joy Brown, (Robyn Dennis unable to play) Jay Alan Dale, Hazel Crewdson and Yvonne Kee for winning the Group 10 State fours championship. These ladies now go on to play at Shepparton Park in April.

Also congratulations to Ann Tschiderer and Marlene Jenkins for being this year’s pairs champions.

Our last sponsored triples for the season were held last Wednesday March 16.

Sixteen teams participated with the winners being Pat Da-vis’ team from Phillip Island.

Runners up were Marg Flett, Shirley Cook and Pam

Mardan indoor bowls

THE SECOND week of the season and another good turn up of bowlers with eighteen players in attendance.

We welcomed Bert Bright as a new member and had Melissa, Dave and Norman all trying out indoor bowls for the fi rst time; we hope to see them back and becoming club members.

The players were teamed up in six teams of three all playing three games of eight ends, the selectors again do-ing an excellent job with none of the sides managing to win

all three games. Winners on the night with

two wins and 16 winning ends were David, Jeanette Grady and Cliff Smith (skip), runners-up with two wins and 13 winning ends were Bert Bright, Andy Plowman and Russell Grady (skip).

This week is the club’s offi cial opening night, on Wednesday March 23.

The club looks forward to welcoming all the visiting bowlers from around South Gippsland, sure to be some good bowling and the usual excellent supper, with a heap of easter eggs to be won in the raffl e.

LeongathaWEDNESDAY, March 16 saw the mid-week social bowls in action, with only a small number of bowlers taking to the greens in a pairs event.

The winners on the day were Fred Sau-varin (s) and Margaret Fisher on two wins plus 23. Runners-up were F. Filomeno (s) and C. Richardson on two wins plus 20.

The sponsors for the day were Hand-ley’s Funeral Services and the club thanks them for their valued support.

Saturday, March 19 saw a small fi eld in action in another social pairs event and the winners were the team of G. Washfold (s) and P. Bolge with two wins plus 22, and a triple team of J. Pendergast (s), F. Filomeno and Tas Haywood on two wins plus 21.

Sponsors for the day were South Gippsland Quarries and the club thanks them for their valued support.

In pleasant weather on Sunday, March 20 the Regent Caravans afffi liated triples took place, with 28 teams taking part.

There were two teams from Karingal Bowls Club, two from Yarram, one from Trafalgar, Traralgon, Somerville, Hastings and Thorpdale, with nine Leongatha teams and 10 teams from clubs within the South Gippsland zone.

The winners were Keiran Gardiner, Alan Easterbrook and Mike Yates (Inver-loch).

Runners-up were Keith Button, John McVeigh, Graham Hams (Korumburra) three wins plus 16.

Third place were Trevor Fink, Theo Ty-mensen and Pat Kiely (Yarram) three wins plus 12.

Fourth were Ray McGannon, Jim McLean and Alan Brown, two wins plus 25.

Best last game Andy Robinson (Koru-mburra), John and Fay Turner (Leongatha) 14 up.

The club thanks Regent Caravans for their valued support who on the day had several caravans on site for inspection. Also thanks to the catering club members and or-

ganisers for the day.There is only one more round to go in

this tournament and this will be held on Saturday, April 16 and will be the event classifi ed as affi liated fours. Entries are still available for this event.

Reminders: The Leongatha club’s af-fi liates annual general meeting will be held at the clubrooms on Tuesday, March 22 at 7.30pm.

Wednesday, March 23 will see the af-fi liated two-bowls triples in action, 9.30am start.

Leongatha club’s presentation night will be held at the clubrooms on March 26 with a 6.30pm start for a meal and the pre-sentations to follow. If you wish to attend the meal please ensure your name is on the meal list in the clubrooms.

Congratulations to Graham Washfold who took out the club’s presidents handi-cap grand fi nal, and also to Barry Davidson for winning the club’s 100 up grand fi nal last week.

KorumburraTHE annual day for the disabled was held last Sunday with a happy day of bowling.

Visitors and club members took part, al-though there weren’t as many as previous years.

After three games, winners with three wins and 21 shots were Ken Cecil, Debbie Williams, Joy Hargraves and Graeme Faull.

Runners-up with two wins and 17 shots were Ron Williams, Jenny McVeigh, Doug Berryman and J. Deloge.

On Saturday the men had a good turn-out. After three games, with three wins plus 16 shots, the winners were George Hams, Peter Goad and John McVeigh.

Friday night was another successful coun-ter tea. Many thanks to all who ran the night. It was great to have Eric Billing with us.

Dates to rememberOn March 23, six of our ladies will be rep-

resenting the club at the SGDLBA pairs and fours at Inverloch. We wish them well for a successful result. Finals will be on March 29.

The club is holding a mixed fours day on March 27 with two members and two non-

members. April 1 will be the ladies tournament, with

the men’s annual triples day of two members and one visitor bowler. On April 2 then April 4 men’s triples, entry sheets are on the board for all these events.

On Wednesday the ladies had a very suc-cessful sponsored day. Many thanks to Grand Pacifi c Tours for their support. After three games the winners with three wins and 16 ends were Ron Williams, Keith March and GPT representative Harvey Hele. Runners-up with three wins plus 15 were Gary Ingley, Joan Blogg and Beryl Clay, with Shirley Mar-tin, Nancy Gilbert, Joanna Lomagno and Vera Sund receiving a club memento as the other three game winner.

The men were back on the greens on Thurs-day where the winners, after three games were Chas Blogg and George Savage with three plus nine shots, with the drawn card going to Gary Horner and John Halliday.

The twilight bowls had numbers down this week, with winners on the night Keith March and Heather Hancock. Saturday’s win-ners were Bill Dilg, David Goodridge and Don MacKay.

LochA very successful ladies in-vitation day was held last Wednesday, with beautiful weather and a full comple-ment of 64 ladies taking part.

The prizes for the day were again produced by our long-time valued sponsor Dan Dykhuizen, with the added extras provided by his wife Ann.

Ditch-to-ditch pen sets were won by Liz Hoogwert and Rena Renden. The wise old owl clocks for fi rst touch-ers went to Terry Morris (l), Bronwyn Ellen (s), Ena Dud-fi eld (t) and Dot Motton (sk).

The tile clocks for best ends last game went to the Phillip Island team of Ann Green, Marian Hill, Gloria Caile and Lorraine Waters.

The cheeseboards for

runners-up went to the Won-thaggi team of Kathy Simp-son, Joan Clarkson, Lorraine Farrell and Mary McBain.

The winners of the larger clocks were the Foster team of Lorraine Wheeler, Ena Dudfi eld, N. Parry and N. McLeod.

Thank you to all who contributed to the success of the day.

Twilight bowls winners were Geoff Barber, Christie Barry and Bep Mandemaker. A few ladies enjoyed a wind-down few ends on Thursday, with a welcome extended to Angela who came for a look at the game.

Saturday afternoon presi-dents, Geoff and Margaret sponsored their day for us.

There were a pleasing number of members bowl-

ing along with a visitor and a good number of our twilight bowlers.

There were three 3-game winners, with John Polson, Charlie Hodge and Bep Man-demaker coming in third. The runners-up were John Kennedy, president Margaret and Patsy Polson, with the winners being Gary Horner, Margaret Cochrane and Mag-gie Hunter.

Kath Moss won the ditch-to-ditch and John Kennedy took home the bowling back from Travelling Jack. In all a busy and successful week of bowls.

Presentation night will be Friday, April 15 beginning at 6.30 for a meal at 7pm. Please indicate on the list if you are attending or let your secretar-ies know.

Winners: Dan Dykhuizen’s beautiful woodwork and the winning team on ladies invitation day: N. McLeod, N. Perry, Dan, Ena Dudfi eld and Lorraine Wheeler (Foster).

Buffalo indoorWEDNESDAY, March 16 there were eight players on a nice night to bowl, which saw four teams of two.

We played two games of 12 ends with six bowls. We also welcome Col Densley who helped make the numbers up.

In fourth (LL), skipper Rod McConchie and Col Dens-ley; third (LW) 12 ends, skipper Glenys Pilkington and Peter Heldens; second (WL) 14 ends, skipper Andrew Hanks and Jim Atkins; fi rst (WW), skipper Toni Heldens and Sebastian Terranova.

The best fi rst game Toni 15-9, Glenys 18-7. The maxi-mum six was scored by Glenys in the second game.

There will be no bowls next Wednesday.

Sutcliffe. Best last game winners

were Joyce Arnold, Cynthia Hensley and Gloria Growse.

The raffl e was won by Barbara Dyke, Gloria Growse, Molly Treadwell and Pam Lawson.

Thanks again to Ray Paynt-ing for doing the board.

The match committee thanked Phillip Island and

Meeniyan for supporting us throughout the season and also to Lois Luby for all the hard work she has done and Marg Flett for providing envelopes.

Some small prizes were awarded for overall winners and participation throughout the season.

Sponsors for the day were Slice of Paradise.

Shot bowl: Ray Saunders of Leongatha and Geoff Westmore of Karingal Bowls Club en-joyed the sunny weather for the big Regent Car-avans bowls day in Leongatha on Sunday.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - PAGE 55

THE Corner Inlet Pony Club’s an-nual Labour Day gymkhana was held at the Bennison Recreation Reserve last week, with good numbers of entries in all sections.

The weather was warm and sunny and riders from as far away as Mornington and the Latrobe Valley joined locals for a great day of riding.

The six rings ran to capacity all day and the club thanks judges Jenise Cart-er (open), Ruth Sargant (Pony Club), Corinne Hoddinott (showjumping), Terry Josephs (fun ring), Aileen Hughes (novel-ties) and Deb Collins (handy mount) who were kept busy all day with a steady fl ow of riders awaiting their turn.

The fence at the fun ring was lined with parents and friends supporting the littlest riders and their ponies, and veteran judge Terry Josephs, a Life Member of the club encouraged them every step of the way.

Others enjoyed the ridden events in the open and PC rings while the handy mount tested the all round skills of riders as they completed an obstacle course on horseback-which included bathing a baby (doll), crossing a bridge and a water ob-stacle.

Novelties are always popular and Aileen Hughes, herself a past champion

novelty rider capably judged the riders and their versatile ponies.

The showjumping which ran on the new sand arena was very popular, with 108 rounds jumped on the day, fi nishing at 6pm. It was a marathon judging effort for our judge Corinne Hoddinott.

The two highlight awards of the day are always the Josephs family Hi Point trophy – this year presented to young Jasmyn Mackie and Mouse from Meeni-yan PC, and the Irma Esler Memorial tro-phy for the champion CIPC rider which was awarded to Julia Green riding Run-ning Warrior, with Louise Breen on Billy Bob as runner-up.

The club thanks everyone who sup-ported the gymkhana, especially the core crew of parents who set up, packed up, gear checked, stewarded and ran the offi ce and canteen.

Again this year the judges made spe-cial mention of the impeccable manners of the Corner Inlet riders, so well done to everyone. The next event at Bennison Rec Reserve is the annual three day in-structional camp on April 11, 12 and 13 (application forms available on www.cor-nerinlet.ponyclubvic.org.au) and a two day showjumping competition will be run as part of the WGZ showjumping series on May 28/29.

Good hands: Powlett River Primary’s Ben McRae shows Richmond’s Mitch Morton how it’s done.

Corner Inlet Pony Club gymkhana

Fancy dress: competitors in one of the more relaxed competitions.

Well ridden: winner of the Esler Family Trophy is Julia Green on Running Warrior and runner-up is Louise Breen on Billy Bob.

Jump: Tayla Faragher competes in the jumping competition.

Local students tackle Tigers

Big bump: Wonthaggi Primary School student Jack Connors takes on Richmond’s Ben Nason.

RICHMOND Foot-ball Club players were greeted by hundreds of Wonthaggi and Phillip Island students last Wednesday.

The Tiger players were on hand to inspire children in Grades 3 and 4.

Gippsland Power’s Rob Reid said that this was a perfect age to run clinics for kids.

“Grade 3 and 4 is where kids are starting to decide which sport they want to play. It’s good for the local clubs if we can infl uence a few to play Aussie Rules,” he said.

“The important thing isn’t the skills. It’s for the kids to be up close with the players they see on TV.

“The Richmond boys have a week off between the NAB cup and Round 1, so it’s a good time for them to get down here.”

RightNot bashful: these two young St Joseph’s Primary School stu-dents were glad to meet new Richmond player Bachar Houli.

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FOSTER netballers went through undefeated in the Phillip Island pre-season net-ball tournament on Saturday in Cowes, winning both the Open and Reserves sections.

Seniors coach Cathy Chester said it was a great effort by the Foster girls.

“Most of the games were close and the girls defi nitely didn’t have a walk over and both grand fi nals were

close,” Mrs Chester said.Foster defeated Mt Evelyn in the

Open section 13 to 12.“This was a very tight game and

we were down by two goals at one stage but the girls worked hard and came back to win the fi nal,” Mrs Chester said.

In the Reserves Foster defeat-ed Monbulk 14 to 12. Deb Hams coached the Reserves side.

Mrs Chester congratulated Phillip Island on a very well run

tournament.“This is the second year we have

competed in the tournament at Phil-lip Island and it was a great work out for our players and good to be able to play different teams,” she said.

Foster will be buoyed by the im-pressive tournament wins going into their fi rst game for the 2011 Alberton Netball Association League compe-tition on April 2 when they take on Yarram.

Action: Foster and Toora netballers in action during the pre-season netballtournament at Cowes on Saturday.

Clean sweep for Foster netballers

Toora: Toora netballers Justine Dyson, Jade Storr, Andrea Rerden, Laura Parry, Jasmine Jones, Donna and Neika Sparkes and Tara Hollier enjoyed competing in the preseason netball tournament at Phillip Island on Saturday.

Powerful: Wonthaggi Power netballers Alice Lindsay, Emma Main, AliceYoung, Sarah Blundell, Sarah Foon, Courtney Blair and Carley Main com-peted in the Phillip Island pre-season tournament at Cowes on Saturday and won their fi rst round against Yarram Junction.

Alberton teams: Foster and Toora netballers compete in the Phillip Island netball tournament in Cowes on Saturday.

Winners: Foster netballers Therese Dalmau, senior coach Cathy Chester, Ni-cole Coates, Allira Best, Nat Van Dyke, Brittney McKenzie, Taryn Comben, Nics McKenzie, Megan Hallit were thrilled with their clean sweep at the Phil-lip Island netball tournament on Saturday in Cowes, winning both the Open and Reserves sections.

Welcome: Jeff Pendergast wel-comes Keith Martin of Regent Caravans to the big bowls day at Leongatha on Sunday. Regent had two caravans for inspection while Edneys, Leongatha also supported the day with several vehi-cles on display.

Winning double: Foster netballers went through the Phillip Island pre-season netball tournament un-defeated on Saturday in Cowes and were awarded the winning trophies for the Open and Reserves sections.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - PAGE 57

ESSENDON footballer and for-mer Leongatha local Dyson Hep-pell was again recognised for his achievements on the sporting fi eld.

The 18-year-old was one of 54 rising sports stars from government primary and secondary schools to receive a Victorian School Sports Award.

Students received their awards from an impressive line-up of Victorian sport-ing heroes, including swimmer Leisel Jones, former Western Bulldogs cap-tain Brad Johnson, Melbourne Vixens player Sharelle McMahon, Melbourne Heart captain Simon Colosimo and six-time Olympic gold medallist Nicole Livingstone.

Parliamentary Secretary for Edu-cation Inga Peulich congratulated the award recipients for their commitment to their chosen sport and their achieve-ments so far.

“Seeing the depth of talent spread across such a wide range of sports is truly inspirational and promises excellent things for Australia’s sporting future,” Ms Peulich said.

“Chances are we will see some of

these students representing Australia in their chosen fi elds in years to come.

“Many of our greatest sports stars be-gan their careers with a Victorian School Sports Award, including Olympic gold medallist Steve Hooker, dual Olympic medallist race walker Jared Tallent, AFL footballer Dale Thomas, Australian Opals basketballer Jessica Bibby, Australian cricketer Cameron White and Paralym-pian Ellie Cole, to name a few.”

Ms Peulich said sport played a fun-damental role in Victorian schools, and helped students develop important life skills such as teamwork, confi dence, discipline, perseverance and good sportsmanship.

“Children who develop a love of sport while they are at school will hopefully continue to stay fi t and healthy into their adult lives,’’ Ms Peulich said.

Ms Peulich said about 300,000 pri-mary and secondary school students throughout Victoria took part in school sport programs during 2010.

“Every single one of them was sup-ported by a large number of teachers, par-ents and other community volunteers and it is vital that we acknowledge their hard work as well,” Ms Peulich said.

Dyson’s achievements recognised

LEONGATHA Croquet Club hosted players from as far away as Bairnsdale for the Gipps-land Croquet Championship last Friday.

Members from teams from right around Gippsland competed in four different sections with the winners going on to the Regional competition in Horsham.

The competition was all in all a good day.

Travelled far and wide: (from left) David Blowers from Bairnsdale, Ruth Stevenson from Korumburra and Robert Smallwood from Morwell took part in the Gippsland competition.

Threading the gate: Ruth Stevenson from Korumburra tries to put her ball through the last gate during the championship.

BASS Coast Boardriders Club enjoyed a per-fect day of 30 degree weather and clean four foot waves for their social competition day at Williamson’s Beach on Saturday.

Surfi ng Victoria executive director, Max Wells was generous enough to make himself available to run and judge the competition. His experience in running pro-fessional surfi ng competitions including the Rip Curl Pro at Bell’s Beach was invaluable to the group, many who had never competed before.

The competitions focused on teamwork, which was enjoyable for everyone, regardless of age or ability.

Winners pairs - Jarrod Membrey and Ty Hamilton.Winners tag team - Pete McEntee, Jamie Cummins,

Jarrod Membrey, Ty Hamilton, Shem Arnon and Luke O’Conner.

BCBRC president Ron Anderson was stoked with the day saying, “It doesn’t get much better than this for a competition day. The guys that came down really enjoyed themselves and the future looks bright for the local surfi ng community”.

The perfect day was made even better when Wells in-vited all of the competitors to surf with 20 of the world’s best professional surfers at the upcoming Rip Curl Pro at Bell’s Beach this Easter. Many of the surfers were really keen to take up this opportunity of a lifetime.

Bass Coast Boardriders Club is open to all surfers and their families who live or surf on the Bass Coast.

Perfect day for Bass Coast boardriders

Local surfers: Bass Coast Boardriders gather at Williamson’s Beach for competition on Saturday.

President: BCBRC president Ron Anderson calls the shots from the beach.

Leongatha croquet

Another accolade: Dyson Heppell with Parliamentary Secretary for Education Inga Peulich and former Western Bulldogs captain Brad Johnson at Friday’s Victorian School Sports Awards.

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Home team Away Team Ground UmpireGrade A1 Won Workmens v Won Miners W Turf Clive Salmon Graham LairdGrade A2Phillip Island v Glen Alvie I Turf Terry Rogers Ken LesterGrade B1 Won Workmens v Nerrena WFG Alan Jordan Brendon ThomasGrade B2OMK v Korumburra WC1 Stephen Lanyon Michael HeenanGrade C1 Inverloch v Korumburra EC Les White John LeaGrade C2OMK v Kilcunda/Bass Glen Alan Roberts Alvie Dallas Wyatt To all clubs involved in the fi nals, best of luck. Enjoy the game. May the best team win but remember to ‘respect the game and the spirit of cricket’. All umpires enjoy the game and have a great fi nal and may cricket within the Association prosper.Thanks to Evans Petroleum for their sponsorship of the umpires panel.

Leongatha District Cricket Association

Umpire AppointmentsEVANS PETROLEUMGrand fi nals - March 26 and 27

Geoff Wyatt is stepping down from his role of umpires appointments offi cer to look after junior cricket and hopefully to eliminate errors in batting technique before they become embedded. Here Geoff gives his views on umpire criticism and player conduct.

IT is a simple game. You have a bat and

The simple game of cricketball, three stumps and an understanding if you play straight and use your bat to hit the ball you will be a good bat with the opportunity to make runs.

By playing straight you present the full face of the bat to the ball and give yourself every opportunity to hit the ball where it is meant to go.

If it is outside off you play to the off side, on the stumps you play straight and on leg side you play to the leg.

Today so many cricketers (and I hope they’re not teaching the juniors this) make it worse, they try to hit it square and wonder why they get out.

If you hit the ball off

the stumps square and you miss, you are either out bowled and if you are not bowled the only thing stopping you getting bowled is your pads, hence many lbws.

It is very easy to walk off the ground and say bad decision, or I hit it, but if the batsman played straight they would spend more time in the centre than sitting in the grandstand blaming the umpires for their own failures.

Having been involved as appointments offi cer for 14 years I have never seen one of the captains who continually blamed umpires for their team’s demise ever stand up and umpire cricket. I’m not sure if they don’t know the rules or they like to hand out criticism.

Umpires make mistakes, batsmen,

bowlers’ fi eldsmen make mistakes but it is always the umpire that cost us the game.

Reports “that lbw cost us the game” aren’t warranted when, on investigation you fi nd the team dropped 11 catches.

Or a captain gives the umpire zeros, (an umpire rating card is fi lled out by captains at the end of the day’s play) when upon investigation we fi nd he is crooked on another umpire in a previous match for not giving him an lbw when he was bowling.

Sometimes an A Grade captain says “umpires are not giving out the close lbws” - whatever that is supposed to mean.

Most times when a report is marked down you go through the scoresheet, and sure enough the

captain was given out lbw or run-out.

Some captains complain about umpires getting involved. If some of the captains upheld the ‘spirit of cricket’ and controlled and managed their team, umpires would not have to be involved.

So over this period I have come to respect the captains who write meaningful reports as opposed to the sour grapes.

But it all comes down to one thing - if you play straight and hit the ball with the bat you will be out less often, make more runs and you won’t have to blame the umpires as much.

So use the bat to hit the ball and you will not be out lbw!

Geoff Wyatt.

OMK will face off with Korumburra in the B Grade Division 1 grand fi nal follow-ing their wins on the weekend.

Town managed to bowl the Cobras out for 131, but Michael Patching bowled an inspired spell on Satur-day afternoon and ended the match with fi gures of 6/43.

Nick Moore (45) was

the only Town player to make a score of any signifi cance.

The junior cricketer kept the Scorpions in the game until he was out lbw and Town fell 30 runs short.

MDU could not repeat its feats of a year ago, los-ing to OMK in the semi fi nal at Outtrim.

Last year the Demons stunned the Diggers, but it was no such thing on the

weekend. OMK had them bowled

out for 140, and chased the runs down with only one batsman out.

The Diggers will go into the B Grade grand fi nal as defi nite favourites given their season so far.

Details MDU v KOONWARRA RSL

1st innings Korumburra L. Roberts r.o. ...........................17H. Wyhoon lbw. b. S. McCallum .....................12T. Allen c&b. S. McCallum......11

C. Smith lbw. b. W. Turner .......25J. Turnbull b. W. Turner .............3J. Richards b. W. Turner .............0J. Greenwood lbw. b. W. Turner.............................7K. Miller c&b. W. Turner .........20M. Patching lbw. b. B. Moore ....2H. James n.o. ............................10P. Dunlevie b. ............................2Extras .......................................22Total .......................................131

Bowling: S. McCallum 2/32, W. Turner 5/47, B. Berry 1/11, B. Moore 1/34.

1st innings TownI. McCallum b. M. Patching .......0L. Hanks c. C. Smith b. J. Turnbull ...........................1S. Fixter lbw. b. M. Patching .....7

M. Borschman b. M Patching ....3B. Moore lbw. b. J. Turnbull ....16W. Turner b. M. Patching ...........1N. Moore lbw. b. M. Patching ..45M. Borschman b. H. James ........5L. O’Brien c. H. James b. M. Patching .......................12B. Berry c&b. H. James .............4S. McCallum n.o... .....................0Extras .........................................7Total .......................................101

Bowling: M. Patching 6/43, J. Turnbull 2/29, H. James 2/19, P. Dunlevie 0/0, L. Roberts 0/4.

2nd innings KorumburraL. Roberts n.o. ..........................24H. Wyhoon n.o. ........................10Extras .........................................4Total ......................................0/38

Bowling: B. Berry 0/7, S. McCallum 0/2, W. Turner 0/5, N. Moore 0/7, M. Borschman 0/5, I. McCallum 0/2, S. Fixter 0/1, M. Borschman 0/4, L. O’Brien 0/2.

MDU v OMK1st innings MDU

N. Hill lbw. b. G. Adams ............6D. Jones c. S. McNamara b. D. Jeffries ..........................18C. Le Page c. D. Jeffries b. B. Maguire ........................13S. Browne b. M. Hems .............19B. Spokes b. B. Maguire ..........18R. Olden c. T. Knox b. G. Knox ...............................3M. Martin c&b. G. Adams .........4L. Mercer c&b. G. Adams ..........0M. Olden n.o. ...........................18

D. Tuckett c&b. D. Jeffries ........0S. Riley c. G. Knox b. M. Hems ...........................24Extras .......................................17Total .......................................140

Bowling: G. Adams 3/20, H.Hems 2/30, G. Lomagno 0/15, B. Maguire 2/22, D. Jeffries 2/22, G. Knox 1/12, C. O’Brien 0/10.

1st innings OMKG. Lomagno n.o. ......................35P. Miller c. L .Mercer b. S. Riley ..............................65C. Maguire n.o. ........................34Extras .......................................10Total ....................................1/144

Bowling: L. Mercer 0/16,M. Olden 0/13, M. Martin 0/9, S. Browne 0/0.

• B GRADE DIVISION 2

Diggers to meet Cobras

KILCUNDA/BASS got the better of Phil-lip Island in their semi fi nal on the weekend.

Opening batter for Kilcunda/Bass Dar-ren Aurisch made an early impression, scor-ing 84 runs in the in-nings and led the team tovictory.

OMK locked in a comfortable win against Poowong/Loch, ending the day with fi ve wickets still in hand. This was helped by Keith Hough-ton’s 94 not out perfor-mance and led OMK to a win and a spot in the grand fi nal against Kilcunda/Bass.

Details KILCUNDA/BASS v

PHILLIP ISLAND1st innings Kilcunda/Bass

D. Aurisch c. J. Black ................. b. P. Offi cer ..........................84

R. Gardiner c. G. Marshall b. M. Haringsma ..................10

D. Masinovic c. P. Offi cer b. M. Haringsma ....................2

S. VanSteensel lbw.

b. M. Haringsma ....................2I. Brown b. P. Cashman .......... 11R. Shepherd c. R. Good b. C. Johnston ........................7D. Stacey-Van Steensel c. B. Johnston b. P. Offi cer .. 11J. Dakin c. R. Good b. M. Haringsma ....................4D. Puru c. M. Haringsma b C Johnston ........................14D. O’Neill c. P. Offi cer b. P. Cashman ......................15J. Oates n.o. ..............................4Extras .....................................22Total .....................................185

Bowling: M. Haringsma 4/37, E. Docherty 0/18, P. Cash-man 2/63, C. Johnston 1/33, J. Black 0/16, P. Offi cer 2/6, G. Marshall 0/7.

1st innings Phillip IslandA. Horvarth b. R. Shepherd ......4D. Kenter c. D. O’Neill b. R. Shepherd .......................1B. Johnston lbw. b. D. Masinovic .....................3P. Cashman lbw. b. R. Shepherd .......................4R. Good c. R. Shepherd b. I. Brown ...........................25M. Haringsma c. D. O’Niell b. J. Dakin ...........................28P. Offi cer c. D. Puru b. I. Brown .............................7G. Marshall n.o. ......................23J. Black b. D. O’Neill .............. 6C. Johnston b. J. Dakin ............0E. Docherty c. J. Oates b. D. Masinovic .....................0Extras .....................................18Total ..................................... 119

Bowling: R. Shepherd 3/6,

D. Masinovic 2/0, S. Van Steen-sel 0/12, I. Brown 2/31, J. Dakin 2/36, D. O’Neill 1/5.

POOWONG/LOCH v OMK1st innings Poowong/Loch

J. Garnham lbw. b. N. Audino ..6N. Weymouth b. S. Nation ........7G. Birnie c. M. Gow b. D. Wylie ............................8S. Magnusson c. D. Wylie b. L. Lamers ........................35P. Carns c. M. Chizzonitti b. D. Wylie ............................0R. Humphrey c. L. Lamers b. D. Wylie ..........................44L. Green n.o. ...........................20R. McKenzie c. R. Paterson b. M. Chizzonitti ..................17J. Lancaster b. M Chizzonitti ....3T. Hacock n.o............................6Extras .....................................19Total ..................................8/165

Bowling: S. Nation 1/36, N. Audino 1/30, C. Walker 2/40, D. Wylie 2/18, R. Pasterson 0/1, L. Lamers 1/18, D. Wylie 1/16.

1st innings OMKD. Wylie lbw. b. G. Birnie ......31K. Houghton n.o. ....................94M. Chizzonitti b. G. Birnie .....15N. Audino c&b. b. G. Birnie .....4S. Nation c. J. Garnham b. G. Birnie ..........................15L. Lamers b. G. Birnie ..............1M. Gow n.o. ..............................0Extras .......................................7Total ..................................5/167

Bowling: R. McKenzie 0/33, S. McKinnon 0/39, T. Hancock 0/11, G. Birnie 5/36, S. Magnus-son 0/19, L Green 0/9, J. Lan-caster 0/20.

• C GRADE DIVISION TWO

Opener’s early impression K O R U M B U R R A

bowling stars Luke Williams and Nathan Allen kept the Work-mens’ score low enough, with the pair claiming 6/64 and 4/30 respectively.

This had the Workmen all out 21 runs short of their goal and puts Koru-mburra in the grand fi nal against Inverloch.

James Ogden of In-verloch got the better of Nerrena, with his bowl-ing skills claiming 4/21. This made it easier for Inverloch to get the better of Nerrena and secured a spot in the grand fi nal.

Details KORUMBURRA v

WONTHAGGI WORKMENS 1st innings Korumburra

A. McKinnon c. .......................11D. James r.o. .............................20G. Barrett c. .............................44J. Scott b. ...................................6J. Oxlee b. ...............................18P. Kelly c. ................................41N. Allen c. .................................0L. Williams c. ............................8B. Codolucci c. ........................13D. Isgro lbw. b. ..........................1S. Hall n.o. .................................9Extras .......................................14Total .......................................184

Bowling: J. Thomas 0/30, A. McLean 0/5, S. Coldebella 1/25, J. Turner 1/30, L. McLean 2/53, S.

Roche 3/27, J. Bolding 2/9.1st innings

Wonthaggi WorkmensS. Osborne b. L Williams .........46D. Turton b. L. Williams ..........40J. Bolding c. S. Hall b. L. Williams ........................24J. Sheerin b. L. Williams ............5A. McLean lbw. b. L Williams .........................25B. Jeffries c. D. James b. N. Allen ...............................5J. Thomas c. P. Kelly b. N. Allen ...............................0L. McLean lbw. b. N. Allen .......0S. Roche c. B. Codolucci b. L. Williams ..........................2S. Coldebella n.o. .......................5J. Turner b. N. Allen ...................0Extras .......................................12Total .......................................164

Bowling: L. Williams 6/64, S. Hall 0/18, N. Allen 4/30, D. Isgro 0/5, J. Scott 0/9, G. Barrett 0/15, D. James 0/10, J. Oxlee 0/10.

NERRENA v INVERLOCH 1st innings Nerrena

J. Holloway c. M. Goldsmith b. D. Jones ...............................5G. Giliam lbw. b. J. Ogden .......25C. Baudinette c. R. Bettess b. J. Ogden ............................16B. Standfi eld b. J. Ogden ...........4G. Wightman b. P. Jobling .........0S. Gaddam r.o. ..........................19T. Clark lbw. b. J. Ogden ............3T. Renden c. A. Jones b. I. Smith ................................2K. Clark b. I. Smith ....................0A. Trotto n.o. ..............................5T. Lawrence c. I. Fowler b. I. Smith ................................0Extras .......................................25Total .......................................104

Bowling: A. Jones 0/10, D. Jones 1/26, P. Jobling 1/19, J. Ogden 4/21, I. Smith 3/6, J. Dennerley 0/9.

• C GRADE DIVISION ONE

’Burra beats Workmen1st innings Inverloch

J. Ogden b. J. Holloway .............5R. Bettess b. J. Holloway ...........2I. Fowler lbw. b. B. Standfi eld .26J. Dennerley n.o. ......................30I. Smith n.o. ................................2

Extras .......................................22Total ....................................4/129

Bowling: J. Holloway 2/40,T. Lawrence 0/25, K .Clark 0/16, A. Trotto 1/10, G. Wightman 0/12, B. Standfi eld 1/14.

Busting through: Hayden Renehan works his way through the obstacle course as Tiger Kelvin Moore looks on.

“THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - PAGE 59

SECOND placed Le-ongatha Town suf-fered defeat at the hands of Glen Alvie on the weekend, go-ing down by 24 runs.

The Alvie made 171 in the fi rst innings of the match, which is an above par score on the Fish Creek turf.

Orazio Santalucia was the best performed batsman for his side, knocking up 38 runs in a patient innings that led his side to victory.

Daniel Jago was the best Town bowler, showing his

tricks as he swapped from pace to spin, taking two wickets with each style.

Town lost two wickets in their 12 overs at the crease, which didn’t set the chase up with much of a positive outlook.

But with plenty of star batting still in the shed, the Scorpions were right to feel they had the team to make the runs.

The Simpsons, along with the two Hales’, bowled brilliantly, giving their opposition nothing as they worked their way to victory.

Nathan Johnston looked

in good nick before losing the fi ght to an LBW shout.

The Alvie will now ad-vance to a match against Phillip Island, who had a big win over Poowong/Loch.

The Island cruised to victory, only losing two wickets before they chased down Poowong/Loch’s 154 required.The match went on to al-low Phillip Island’s number three batsman Alex Manteit to score 100.

Unfortunately his great innings was cut short when he was caught and bowled by Russell Greaves.

Greaves took three wick-ets, but it wasn’t enough to turn the game.

PHILLIP ISLANDv POO-WONG/LOCH

1st innings Poowong/LochC. Knox c. T. Hornsby b. C. Wilson .............................5P. Duffus c. L. Keating b. A. Matthews ........................7M. Adderley c. A. Manteit b. D. Womersley ....................10R. Greaves b. R. Cleeland ........34P. Dyer stp. A. Manteit c. C. Wilson ...........................31K. Nestor c. A. Manteit b. J. Emery ............................16M. Wilson b. S. Kirton .............33M. Holloway b. D. Johnston ......3S. Jenkins b. D. Johnston ...........7D. Brain b. S. Kirton ..................8J. Poynton n.o. ............................1Extras .........................................4

Total .......................................159Bowling: C. Wilson 2/38, A.

Matthews 1/24, D. Womersley 1/10, E. Richards 0/13, S. Kirton 2/35, R. Cleeland 1/12, J. Emery 1/8, D. Johnston 2/15.

1st innings Phillip IslandR. Cleeland c. M. Wilson b. R. Greaves ...........................0L. Keating b. R. Greaves ..........70A. Manteit c&b. R. Greaves .....95T. Hornsby n.o. ...........................8Extras .........................................4Total ....................................3/177

Bowling: R. Greaves 3/65, J. Poynton 0/14, D. Brain 0/19, K. Nestor 0/52, S. Jenkins 0/24.

GLEN ALVIE v TOWN1st innings Glen Alvie

S. Smith lbw. b. N. Johnston ......2S. Lowe c. D. Jago b. N. Johnston .........................0D. Hales c. M. Wilson b. A. Hickey ..........................36

A. Simpson c. M. Wilson b. A. Hickey ..........................14P. Roberts c. N. Johnston b. D. Jago ..............................14O. Santalucia c. M. Smith b. D. Jago ..............................38D. Tiziani c. M. Wilson b. D. Jago ................................0S. Edwards c. M. Wilson b. D. Jago ..............................16B. Ould c. N. Johnston b. A. Hickey ............................9J. Hales c. C. Bruce b. N. Johnston .........................4K. Simpson n.o. ..........................7Extras .......................................31Total .......................................171

Bowling: D. Jago 4/59, N. Johnston 3/40, A. Hickey 3/31, J. Burge 0/13, M. Davies 0/11.

1st innings TownA. Hickey c. K. Simpson b B. Ould .................................5C. Bruce c. K. Simpson

b. D. Hales ...............................2M. Wilson c. S. Lowe b. D. Hales ...............................3M. Davies b. A. Simpson .........23R. Paine b. K. Simpson ..............7M. Smith c. S. Smith b. A. Simpson .........................2N. Johnston lbw. b. J. Hales .....46L. Bowman stp. S. Lowe b. K. Simpson ..........................7J. Schelling b. J. Hales .............18D. Jago lbw. b. K. Simpson ........4J. Burge n.o. ...............................9Extras .......................................21Total .......................................147

Bowling: D. Hales 2/22, J.Hales 2/22, K. Simpson 3/30, B. Ould 1/23, A. Simpson 2/19, O. Santalucia 0/15.

Glen Alvie upsets Town to advance

Top shot: Inverloch’s Will Rankin fi nds the boundary at Wonthaggi Turf.

My turn: Inverloch’s Mark Anderson awaits his chance at the crease.

• A GRADE DIVISION TWO

• B GRADE DIVISION ONE

NERRENA’S Zack Trease took 7/33 to en-sure his team won their match against the Won-thaggi Miners at the weekend.

Taking the new ball, Trease had removed three Miners batsmen before a run had been scored.

The Wonthaggi boys limped their way to 68 thanks mainly to Gerard Kent (38) but were still well short of their target of 188.

On Saturday it was Terry Clark (39) and Tim Trotman (57) who got things going for the Red Caps, before Ashley Harrison’s 54 moved the score along.

Phil Owen was the main Miners destroyer, snagging six wickets for just 40 runs off 22 overs.

Wonthaggi Workmen were too good for OMK at McMahon Reserve.

The Diggers tried every bowler in their team bar the wicket keeper in the hope of

fi nding wickets after they were knocked over for 112.

Craig Harvey was the best Workers bowler, tak-ing 3/26 off 12 overs to lead Wonthaggi’s charge.

OMK v WONTHAGGI WORKMENS

1st innings OMKP. Harper b. S. Williams .............0R. White b. A. Sartori .................7T. Miller b. lbw. b. S. Williams ..........................0T. Wyatt c. B. Vague b. A. Sartori ...........................56K. Kerr lbw. b. C. Harvey ..........9M. Adams lbw. b. C. Harvey ......0N. Creed r.o. ...............................0J. Paterson b. C. Harvey .............3W. Dowell b. L. Sawyer ...........28M. Walker lbw. b. A. Sartori ......0J. Cochrane n.o. ..........................4Extras .........................................5Total ....................................... 112

Bowling: S. Williams 2/22, T. Harley 0/3, A. Sartori 3/47, C. Harvey 3/26, L. Sawyer 1/14.

1st inningsWonthaggi Workmens

D. Dutchman c. M. Walker b. M. Adams ..........................21S. Huitema b. R. White ............23C. Harvey b. J. Paterson .............0S. Brann c. J. Paterson b. T. Wyatt .............................18R. Geyer b. K. Kerr ....................3B. Vague c. M. Walker

b. T. Wyatt .............................37L. Sawyer c. N. Creed b. R. White ..............................3M. McCall c. M. Adams b. T. Wyatt .............................15T. Harley lbw. b. R. White .........0S. Williams n.o. ........................19A. Sartori n.o. ...........................30Extras .......................................17Total ....................................9/186

Bowling: M. Adams 1/38, R. White 3/31, J. Paterson 1/27, T. Wyatt 3/40, K. Kerr 1/20, N. Creed 0/3, J. Cochrane 0/6, M. Walker 0/1, P. Harper 0/5, W. Dowell 0/4.

NERRENA v WONTHAGGI MINERS

1st innings NerrenaW. Telfer c. ................................1T. Clark c. ................................39T. Trotman c. ...........................57D. Baldi c. .................................6A. Harrison c. ..........................54M. Giliam lbw. ..........................0J. Renden c. ...............................2B. Castles stp. ............................6Z. Trease stp. .............................0B. Croatto stp. .........................13C. Eva c. ....................................0Extras .......................................10Total .......................................188

Bowling: B. Foon 0/10, M. Owen 1/36, J. Armstrong 3/78, P. Owen 6/40, J. Piasente 0/12.1st innings Wonthaggi Miners

S. Webster c. M. Giliam b. Z. Trease ..............................0

P. Hammer c. W. Telfer b. Z. Trease ..............................7R. Todd c. J. Renden b. Z. Trease ..............................0B. Foon c. B. Croatto b. Z. Trease ..............................0G. Kent b. C. Eva .....................37S. Williams lbw. b. Z. Trease .............................3M. Owen c. J. Renden b. M. Giliam ............................5J. Armstrong c. B. Croatto b. Z. Trease ..............................1P. Cornelis c. T. Trotman b. Z. Trease ............................12J. Piasente c&b. C. Eva ..............0P. Owen n.o. ...............................0Extras .........................................3Total .........................................68

Bowling: Z. Trease 7/33, M. Giliam 1/24, C. Eva 2/10, B. Cro-atto 0/0, B. Castles 0/0.

2nd innings NerrenaT. Clark c. ..................................5W. Telfer c. ..............................13T. Trotman b. .............................8D. Baldi c. .................................5M. Giliam c. ..............................6J. Renden c. .............................37A. Harrison c. ..........................18B. Castles c. .............................17B. Croatto n.o. ..........................17Extras .......................................24Total ....................................7/150

Bowling: M. Owen 2/19, B. Foon 0/17, J. Armstrong 1/34, R. Todd 2/14, P. Owen 0/27, J. Pia-sente 2/22, S. Williams 0/7.

Trease’s seven sees Nerrena through

Wait and see: Inverloch’s Jason Smith can do nothing but watch as he is caught and bowled by Workmens’ Gavin Bolding.

All spin: James Sherrin delivers for Workmens as Inverloch’s Nathan Cant hopes for a running chance.

PAGE 60 - “THE STAR”, Tuesday, March 22, 2011

THIS year’s LDCA A Grade Division 1 grand fi nal will be fought out by both Wonthaggi teams following their wins on the weekend.

The Workers were too good for Inverloch at Wonthaggi, while the Miners upset Nerrena at Leongatha.

The Red Caps missed their chance to play in this year’s fi nal, go-ing down to the Miners by 19 runs.

Only two Red Cap players made more than 16 runs, with Gerard Mur-phy (74*) eventually running out of partners as his side failed to close the gap.

The Miners removed solid open-er Mitch Clark early, as well as the league’s leading run scorer Craig Friebe, which started a rot that could not be halted.

Only skipper Tim Wightman (72) and Murphy were able to get going.

On Saturday it was a similar story, with Miners number three An-drew Donohue doing the bulk of the

scoring with 92.Darren Beesey (52) was the only

other Miners bat that looked the part. In the other match played, the Work-ers made it an all Wonthaggi fi nal, winning comfortably against Inver-loch at Wonthaggi.

The Stingrays batted fi rst, and after a shaky start had things going again thanks to batsmen Dylan Clark (40) and Steve Brayley (52).

But it did not last as long as they would have hoped, with both bats-men removed within two runs.

When Jason Smith fell cheaply the Stingrays had their backs well and truly up against the wall.

Ryan Thomas was the best of the Wonthaggi bowlers, snavelling 3/34 in an economical 20.5 overs.

The Workers’ chase did not get off to a dream start, losing David Brann and skipper Richie Hassett early on.

But seasoned campaigner Gav Britt (69*) and all rounder Ryan Thomas (51) kept the score ticking over.

All Wonthaggi cricket fi nal

INVERLOCHvWONTHAGGI WORKMENS

1st innings InverlochW. Taberner c. D. Britt b. M. Thomas ..........................9S. Brayley c. M. Thomas b. J. Sheerin ...........................52D. Ruffi n c. J. Liddle b. R. Thomas ...........................9B. Debono c. T. Hooper b. L. McGuirk .......................10D. Clark b. G. Bolding .............40W. Rankin b. R. Thomas ..........19J. Smith c&b. G. Bolding ...........0N. Cant b. G. Britt ....................18M. Anderson c. R. Hassett b. M. Thomas ..........................5L. Rankin n.o. .............................5A. Hall c. R. Hassett b. R. Thomas ...........................6Extras .......................................19Total .......................................192

Bowling: R. Thomas 3/34, M. Thomas 2/31, L. McGuirk 1/12, G. Britt 1/33, J. Sheerin 1/38, G. Bolding 2/26, T. Hooper 0/2.

1st innings Wonthaggi Workmens

D. Brann c. W. Taberner b. L. Rankin .............................0T. Hooper b. L. Rankin ............20R. Hassett r.o. ............................0G Britt n.o. ...............................69R. Thomas c. D. Ruffi n b. A. Hall ...............................51G. Bolding lbw. b. D. Clark .....26D. Britt n.o. ..............................14Extras .......................................15Total ....................................5/195

Bowling: N. Cant 0/45, L. Rankin 2/55, M. Anderson 0/24, D. Clark 1/47, J. Smith 0/13, A. Hall 1/5.

WONTHAGGI MINERS

v NERRENA 1st innings Wonthaggi Miners

M. Donohue c. C. Friebe b. C. Rump ..............................0J. Andrighetto c. P. Matheson b. J. Trease...............................7A. Donohue c. T. West b. T. Wightman ......................92P. Jordan c&b. T. Wightman ......9M. Johnson c. T. West b. R. Clark ...............................6K. Smith c&b. T. West .............13C. Tait c. D. Trotman b. G. Murphy .........................30D. Beesey stp. T. West b G. Murphy ..........................53C. Thomas n.o. ...........................7D. Foon c. D. Symmons b G. Murphy ............................2Extas .........................................14Total ....................................9/233

Bowling: C. Rump 1/42, J.Trease 2/34, P. Matheson 0/6, R. Clark 1/29, T. Wightman 2/69, G. Murphy 3/44.

1st innings NerrenaM. Clark c. ................................1C. Friebe c. ................................3T. Wightman c ..........................72D. Symons c. .............................2D. Trotman b. ............................3P. Matheson c. .........................13G. Murphy n.o. .........................74C. Rump c. ..............................16T. West c. ...................................5J. Trease c. .................................1R. Clark b. .................................9Extras .......................................15Total .......................................214

Bowling: D. Foon 1/24, R.Birkett 2/37, C. Tait 1/16, M. Johnson 2/59, A. Donohue 2/47, D. Beesey 2/22.

Roaring in to town: Richmond Football Club made their way to Won-thaggi and Phillip Island to give a su-per clinic to local Grade 3 and 4 stu-dents. This young St Joseph’s Primary School student was lucky enough to be able to practice his high marking on Richmond’s Mat-thew White. See more on page 55.

We’re in: Workmens’ players congratulate Gavin Bolding after he caught and bowled Inverloch’s Jason Smith in theirwin on the weekend. The Workers have advanced to yet another A Grade Division 1 grand fi nal. They will meet theMiners.

Tiger clinic