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Apollo
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Edition
14-30 10/4/08 -
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 Music
Festival Community
News Landcare
Health
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Apollo
Bay Home | Great
Ocean Road Home |
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'Cabin by the Sea' receives its
first family
Babu's family together at last and enjoying the
Cabin by the Sea
David Babu Wani, his two adolescent nieces and one
11 year old nephew spent four wonderful days experiencing
the magic of the Bay first hand.
David's new 'family' had just arrived from a refugee
camp in Kenya where they have been struggling to
survive for the past four years under the most appalling
conditions. Merely four short weeks ago, the house
the children occupied was a one-room, mud dwelling
without sanitation or water in a refugee camp of
80,000 individuals.
These children have first hand experience of war,
death, loss of multiple family and extended family
members beyond a level that most of us can really
comprehend.
Visiting the Bay was the children's first ever experience
of the beach and the sea!
Neither David nor the children had ever been in
the ocean before let alone experienced a holiday
on its shores. Witnessing the joy on the children's
faces was a real pleasure and although coming from
a desert-bade, refugee camp on the equator with
mean temperatures in the mid 40's, the children
did not want to leave the surf at the end of their
first three hour beach session.
Since our first article on the cabin we have received
approximately $2000 in donations for this project
but still require $16,000 to complete the mission.
Thanks to Di Bryant from Sandy Feet who took the
initiative to get a donation box up and running
in her cafe. Also, a big thank you to John Brass
who has constructed some really delightful donation
boxes that are already in place in Sandy Feet and
the Ice Cream shop. If your shop or restaurant can
take on a collection box could you please contact
project worker John Quelch on 0400 970548
Facilitator: Desiree Cohen, Community Development
Officer, Anglican Diocese of Ballarat. Ph: 5237
1118
A.B.O.D.A.S.
THE NEXT Show Meeting will be Friday 11th April,
7.30pm at the Youth Club Tony Webber
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BAY AUSKICK
Stats this Sunday 13th April, at 10.30 am
at the Apollo
Bay Football Ground.
For Primary School boys $ girls, ages 5-12.
Cost for
the year is $48.00 This includes a NAB AFL
Auskick
Pack. NOW IS THE TIME TO REGISTER.
It is preferred that registration is completed
via the
internet. Visit the following website:-
aflauskick.com.au
For children that were registered last year,
there is a
re-register button on the website. Follow
the steps
below for NEW registrations.
1 Visit the above website
2 Click on "Registration"
3 Complete Registration details.
4 Print Internet registration form, get
Mum or Dad to sign it. Hand in form and
$48.00 cash/cheque to Colin Cooper on registration
day. Receive Auskick Pack
APOLLO BAY FIRE BRIGADE VOLUNTEERS
REQUIRED
Our brigade is seeking expressions of interest
to join us as a volunteer to the C.F.A.
and the community of Apollo Bay, in wild-fire
and structural fire suppression, road rescue
and search and rescue emergencies and incidents.
Basic training is provided and essential
with advanced training available. For those
wishing to join a worthwhile and rewarding
commitment to our community, for which a
police check is required, please contact:
Captain Colin Coleman: 0417 056 295 or Secretary
Bob Mason: 5237 6797 or drop into the Fire
Station, 28 Pascoe St, at 7.30pm on any
Tuesday night. Bob Mason Secretary
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Southern Otway Landcare
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Working
Bee 2: Skenes Ck Wed 16th Apr
The heavens opened up last Wednesday
with not only rain but also mud! A
group of staunch local volunteers
didn't let the weather deter them
and met at Skenes Creek to weed, mulch
and wiper sniper the picnic area We
will be back next Wednesday the 16th
April, from lpm to 4pm to finish off
our good work started last week. We
need as many hands and we can get,
so please join us at the park area
just above the Skenes Ck bridge.
Wongarra Landcare 2nd AGM
Sun 13th Apr
As you may be aware, an Annual Meeting
of the Wongarra Landcare Group was
held on 1 Dec 2007. Unfortunately
a new Committee was not elected as
there were no nominations. This second
AGM is being held to solicit interest
from members to become Committee members
for 2008 to allow the Wongarra Landcare
Group to continue as a viable entity.
It would be helpful if you are willing
and able to serve on the Wongarra
Landcare Group Committee for 2008
(and maybe 2009) if you could let
Rob Wertheimer (5237 0204) or me (5237
0232) know of your availability before
the AGM, so we can promote a positive
outcome for the Group. The AGM will
be held at Heather and Bruce Ride's
property at 415 Sunnyside Road, on
Sunday 13 April 2008, commencing at
2.00 PM. The only item of business
will be the election of Committee
office bearers. Afternoon tea will
be provided.
River Walks this Weekend!
Along Whalebone
Ck & the Ford River
SOLN will be conducting river walks
along Whalebone
Creek in Wongarra and along the Ford
River through
Glenaire with Greg Peters (Riverness)
this Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th
April. We have already run river walks
along Skenes Ck, Wild Dog Ck, Beauty
Gully and the East
Barham River, which were a lot of
fan and very
enlightening. Please see the upcoming
river walks details
below and call the SOLN office to
register your participation and organise
car shuffling. PH 5237 6904.
Whalebone Creek Walk
Meet: 55 Kenneady's Rd (off Sunnyside
Rd) at lpm
End Walk: Coast (vehicles to be left
at nearby property)
Ford River Walk Meet: Watsons Access
Rd (off the Old Ocean Rd) at 10am
End Walk: Ford / Aire River Confluence
(vehicles to be let at nearby property)
For both Walks, bring: packed lunch,
good walking boots
and wet weather gear. If you have
aspirations to make a contribution
to improving habitat and conservation
in our area, talk to Landcare!
Anna O'Brien, Greg John, Kristen Lees,
Dianne Inglis
(PH) 5237 6904 69-71 Nelson St. Apollo
Bay. Office hours 9am—lpm daily
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OTWAY Idol Youth Fest is attracting
wannebe rock stars from hundreds of kilometres
away to contest the second annual festival
at Gellibrand on Sunday, April 12th. Otway
Hinterland events president Sue Ladewig
said she was amazed at the distance some
competitors were travelling. Ms. Ladewig
said six singers and bands had made the
final cut for Sunday's Idol competition
which has been backed by Colac's FReeZA
and Gellibrand Community House. She expects
the judges' job will be difficult as the
entrants tough it out town a days recording
time at Otway Studios. Local entrants include
Apollo Bay's Chelsea Green, Colac's Josh
Rigg and band^plus Remain Un-names from
Laver Hill. Tess Guthrie,13, of Torquay,
will open the drug and alcohol-free festival
at Gellibrand Recreational Reserve at 11am
on Sunday. Ms Ladewig said although Tess
was tiny in statue she had a big voice which
won her a final place on TV's Junior Australian
Idol and impressed the crowd and judges
in last year's Otway Idol. Originally planned
as an event to fundraise for a community
piano, Ms Ladewig said the Idol competition
was about giving Otway kids the chance to
perform, see other young bands and to vie
for the chance to win recording tome. "A
lot of kids who played at Otway idol last
year have continued to get gigs," Ms
Ladewig said. "Last year's joint winner
Claire Younis and Josef Gardner, plus Tess
Guthrie, all played at the' Hit the Road
Jack' concert at COPACC late last year."
Organisers predict popular MixxFM breakfast
shift DJ Peter Deppeler and Kiwi band BONJAH
will be crowd-pullers. Deppeler will be
MC for the day and FReeZA -sponsored BOBJAH,
who play soulful roots and funk/reggae grooves
will be the last act before the festival
closes at 3pm. Ms Ladewig said food and
drinks would be available at the Recreation
Reserve and encouraged yout and families
to make the most of a fun, free day out.
For more details visit www.otwayidol.orq.au
or contact Sue Ladewig on 0 35235 9273
OTWAYS & COAST PERMACULTURE
GROUP
are planning to make a field trip to Melliodora,
the property of David Holmgren and Su Dennett.
The proposed excursion date is 4th May 2008
and we are asking for contact from anyone
interested in joining us. As many will know,
David Holmgren is the co-originator of the
Permaculture concept, a holistic design
system for sustainable living which can
be utilised from personal to community levels
(and beyond).
Melliodora (Hepburn Permaculture Gardens),
a one hectare property situated on the edge
of Hepburn Springs, is one of the best documented
and well known permaculture sites in Australia.'The
passive solar house, mixed food gardens,
orchards, dams... livestock.and creek revegetation
show how permaculture design can help restore
and improve land to provide for residents
needs and enjoyment... following purchase
in 1985, the...property has been developed
from a blackberry covered wasteland into
a model of small scale intensive permaculture
relevant to both large town blocks and small
rural allotments"
Please contact Fern Rainbow 0425 710 380
Tony webber 52 376926 or
Vanessa Wighton 52 377717
to express interest; you can also visit
www, holmgren.com.au (source of quoted material
above) to learn more.
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ABC launches the festival
with a bang
On Wednesday 9 April Derek Guille
launched 774 ABC Melbourne and ABC Statewide's
support for the 2008 festival. From now on
leading up to the festival ABC Radio, 774
and Statewide as well as ABC online and dig
digital radio will feature a host of the outstanding
artists who will be appearing at our festival.
Jon Faine will have Kate Miller-Heidke and
Martin Stephenson on the conversation hour
on the eve of the festival, and we are also
scheduling Jonathan Welch from the Choir of
Hard Knocks. Derek launched ABC's involvement
with a Live to air with
Skipping Girl Vinegar's Mark Lang and Chris
Helm, and also interviewed Caroline Moore,
our Program Manager Other acts to be featured
on the ABC leading up to the festival include
Jan 'Yarn' Wositzky, and many of the artists
who are performing in the Cat Stevens Concert.
Richard Stubbs and Lindy Burns have also extended
their support for the festival and are currently
confirming who their guests will be. So stay
tuned to 774 ABC Melbourne and ABC Statewide
to hear some great stuff happening. ABC Warrnambool
has also come to the party, with
presenter Jeremy Lees raving about the program
and
also scheduling interviews. Independent radio
stations 3RRR, PBS and Pulse FM, are also
going gang busters with interviews, and we
are focussing on getting some of our home
grown talent on air as well as the visiting
artists. All of the team at the festival office
are working tirelessly to ensure that the
festival is the best that it can be, and the
committee would like to thank once again all
of the volunteers who are putting in so many
hours.
A Tibbits, Hon Sec
Some current Community Bank® facts....
Thank you Apollo Bay for your support
with he establishment of our Community Bank®.
We are currently scheduled to open in new
Pascoe Street premises on Thursday April 24th
And the whole town will be invited to share
in the celebration. On opening we will be
joining a substantial network of Community
Banks Branches which now boast:
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More than 600,000 customers (In a population
of 20 million that's not bad, Chairman's license)
¦ Almost $11 billon worth of business
held
¦ 50,000 shareholders
¦ Having distributed $12 million in
dividends
¦ $16.8 million returned
to local communities in the form of community
support programs, grants and sponsorships
¦ $36 million spent in local communities
in the form of salaries, operating expenses
and rents
The branch will provide a complete range of
banking products and services, a local branch
manager and will be committed to returning
its share of the profits to community projects
and local shareholders.
Apollo Bay Historical Society News.
HELP WANTED at Apollo Bay Museum
The Apollo Bay Museum is the home of the Apollo
Bay & District Historical Society Inc.The
museum houses the society collection of artefacts,
newspaper articles, photographs, records and
family histories that record the history of
Apollo Bay and district. The district is roughly
the same area as the Otway Ward. The society's
collection is a unique community asset and
the information that it contains is not readily
available anywhere else in Australia. The
breadth of collection is a credit to all the
past and present members of the society and
to the familiesstthat have entrusted
their artefacts, photographs and information
to the society. It is certainly worth the
effort required to
preserve it and make it available to the community
and to the public.
The society depends on the services of its
members to keep the museum open. The more
members who can assist with this task the
easier it is for all. We currently depend
on fourteen members to fill the roster to
open the museum from 2 to 5pm every Saturday,
Sunday, Public Holiday and during the school
holidays, and for a
number of groups. Four of these members are
aged
80+, seven are 70+ and two are 60+. Three
of them will be leaving Apollo Bay soon. If
you can help with this
task we would appreciate your help now.
The society holds a working bee each Monday
morning
from 9 to 12am to carry out~thre~ maintenance
of the buildings and the exhibits. Members
are invited to pursue their own historical
interests; be they family
history, restoring artefacts, identifying
& cataloguing photographs, preparing displays,
etc. The working bees provide a great venue
for the exchange of ideas and information.
I commend them to all members even those who
cannot help fill the roster or who can only
attend occasionally.
The current members of the society are the
today's stewards of the collection. Without
new members the society will cease to exist
and the museum will close.
There would then be a real possibility that
this priceless collection would be broken
up and lost forever. If you can help, particularly
if you are prepared to join the roster to
open the museum, please contact the Sec. Ruth
Hedrick (5237 6302) or Pres. Barbara Leorke
(5237 6792 or Ted Stuckey (5237 7410) or come
along one Monday morning for a look.
OPEN DAY - 21st September 2008.
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The theme for this year open day will be Sport.
We would appreciate the help of the Apollo
Bay sports clubs, both past and present in
preparing this special exhibition. Would clubs
please provide the following information?
The Club name. The Club contact address. The
date/year the club was established. The date/year
that it closed (if this is the case). When
and where it meets; who it competes with (the
league or competition);
the names of the President & Secretary;
the names of founding members; the clubs successes
and anything else that you consider worth
recording. If you have any club team photographs,
both old and new please lend them to us for
scanning and return. Please contact the Sec.
Ruth Hedrick (5237 6302) or Pres. Barbara
Leorke
(5237 6792 or Ted Stuckey (5237 7410) or bring
them along to the museum. Ted Stuckey
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An EX residents opinion
First off, I would like to congratulate the
councillors who
decided not to represent their constituents;
these councillors
have quite effectively removed themselves
from participating
any further in the decision making process.
Bravo - if there
has been a better piece of street theatre
and stupidity in
local government, I haven't seen it. For those
thinking that
they cast a 'protest vote' (that would imply
that they actually
voted) against C29 by walking out and not
doing their most
fundamental constitutional civic duty to you
the voters and
rate payers, think again. In a democratic
society they would
have voted NO and still have been in a position
to affect
future outcomes of council, like the planning
permission, and
not cost you who pay their wages the cost
of a by-election.
Again, well done.
It seems evident by most of the comments that
appear in
these pages that many have not read the report.
I have, and C55, C17, the Apollo Bay Structure
Plan and the
transcript of the Select Committee on Public
Land
Development (to name a few). The arguments
that have
been raised by those in opposition have all
been addressed.
As for the flood issue, I will leave that
up to a quote from Jon
Spencer when addressing the Select Committee
on Public
Land Development:
"Ms PENNICUIK - if you build up all that
land that you have
described in that way, where will the water
go that is already
coming down the Barham River? ^
"Mr. SPENCER -1 have no particular problem
with that as an
engineer. I am aware of mathematical modeling
procedures
which I have used all my life in engineering
circles. I have
not particularly studied the flood modeling,
but the basic
argument of the flood modeling is thatsure,_yau.have
built
up this material and therefore the water has
got to go
somewhere eise. But they are assuring us —
and I have to
say that I have concentrated on the area that
I have just
spoken rather passionately about and left
the flood modeling
to other people, but I am prepared to accept
that the flood
modeling, provided you accept the flood modeling
figures,
sure the water will be displaced because it
will have to go
somewhere else, because these pods are in
the way. But I
am afraid that I am reluctantly prepared to
admit that it can
be engineered."
Full transcript is at this link
www.parliament.vic.qov.au/council/publicland/Transcripts/Ot
way%20Forum%20-%20Spencer.pdf .
If you have an argument, make it based on
fact and current
information - the dissemination of lies and
misinformation
that are being circulated has got too stop.
This is the link to Colac Otway Shires website
where all the
information is available both for C29 and
C55
http://www.colacotwav.vic.qov,au/index.asp?h=-1
I urge you to read them and make an informed
decision on
your own behalf.
I am not given to putting my opinion in the
public arena but
after 6 years one may be forgiven for thinking
that a
resolution may soon be at hand.
Do not think for a second, in the event Great
Ocean Green
are not successful, that in the foreseeable
future some other
consortium are not going to see this as a
cherry ripe for the
picking only without the golf course, or with
their own
commercial course.
If C29 does not go ahead then I will despair
at the lost
potential of a town I was born in and love.
Nothing endures but change. (Heraclitus)
I urge you to consider the possibility that
the next developer may not give you the opportunity
to participate in that change.
Jason Webster Amaroo Canberra
Apollo Bay Music Festival Parade
Sea Serpent Sculpture,
Movement & Dance Free Community Workshops
Tuesday April 8th- Our dragon has a healthy
set of teeth in place!! Kids were busy cutting
strips of material to decorate the body, playing
games and ribbon stick twirling. Whilst the
dragon team worked without break finishing
details!! It's all looking fantastic, with
still plenty more to do. Next week we are
painting the head and finishing off the body!
Come along and join in all the creative fun
and teamwork.
We need colourful Fabric and any glitzy bits
you
can offer, drop off at music festival office
in the
shire building. Cheers !
Dates
Workshop # 4 Tuesday 15th April after school
4- 6 pm Workshop # 5 Tuesday 22nd April after
school 4- 6pm
Held at Apollo Bay Youth Club
Sooooo if you're feeling creative and looking
for an
outlet, or just want to lend a hand and see
how it's
done, then come along to this free community
project
with a spectacular outcome! Don't miss out
its
happening now. !!
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APOLLO
BAY COMMUNITY NEWS |
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APOLLO
BAY
CHURCH
SERVICES |
St.
Aidans Anglican
9.00am
Rev Tim Cohen
5237 6615
Also
at 5pm 1st & 3rd sundays
Uniting Church
9.30am
Rev
Kevin Cranwell 5232 1360
Sunday School every 2nd & 4th Sundays
Star of the Sea Catholic
10.30am
Fr Gerry Prunty
5237 6782
Apollo Bay Assembly
of God
6.00pm
Ps Peter Smith
5237
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EVENTS CALENDAR
15 April Music Festival Parade Workshop
Youth Club 4-6pm
22 April Music Festival Parade Workshop
Youth Club 4-6pm
25th -27 April Apollo Bay Music Festival
Here! There!
all Apollo Bay
7 May Blumes Fashion Parade Catholic Church
Hall 1.30 pm
26 July Masonic Lodge Blues & Jazz Dance
(Clients) The time has come to farewell
Craig, so come
and join us at the Salon
On Friday April 13th 4.30/5.00pm onwards
for
some drinks and nibbles to say goodbye.
PROBUS CLUB MEMBERS
BALLARAT trip leaving car park at 7.30am
so please
be there at 7.20am.
BALLET - Ladies please bring your money
on May
2nd or pay Heather when you see her.
AUSTRALIAN ARMY BAND at COPAC on May 201
We need more participants for this trip
to continue.
Please ring 5237 6325 if you are interested
in
travelling on the bus with us. Cost-$29.
June 23rd Ocean Grove Trip - Glenn Miller
Swing.
Interested participants pjease give your
names at
next meeting on May 21nd
Apollo Bay Informal Fishing Group
next meeting will be held on Thursday the
1st of May,
2008 at 10.30 am at the Apollo Bay Shire
conference room, Nelson Street, Apollo Bay.
All
welcome.
Coordinator Andrew ORCHARD.
MUSIC FESTIVAL and ROTARY
Help ROTARY to help our community Do you
have a few hours to spare during the Music
Festival? The Apollo Bay Otways Rotary Club
would like to hear from anybody that could
assist with their time to help on our food
and drinks stand in the Mechanics Hall.
We will be manning the stand on Friday night
25th April, Saturday afternoon and evening
of the 26th and Sunday mid-morning to mid-afternoon
of the 27th.
All proceeds go back to our local community
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BAY FIRE BRIGADE CALLOUTS FOR MARCH 2008
2.3.08 10.36 hrs Assist motor cycle
washaway
Grt Ocean Rd Cumberland River 3.3.08 16.16
hrs Assist motor cycle washaway
Grt Ocean Rd. Apollo Bay 6.3.08 07.53 hrs
Protected Premises alarm
Pascoe St. Apollo Bay 18.3.08 00.01 hrs
Grass & Scrub fire
Morriss's Access Skenes Creek 21.3.08 12.27
hrs Grass Fire
Wild Dog Rd Apollo Bay 22.3.08 19.22 hrs
Grass & Scrub fire
Grt Ocean Rd Horden Vale 25.3.08 18,05 hrs
Car fire Lavers Hill 30.3.08 12.30 hrs Structure
fire (appliance)
McLennan St. Apollo Bay
nstructions on a new digital telephone include:
'When he other person answers, speak.'
Debbie Beasley, Langdon Hills, Essex, The
Times
OTWAY FORUM
Notice of Meeting Sunday April 13,2008
3.00pm at MarrarWoorn, Pengilly Ave
See also www.forum.apollobay.org.au
Daylight Saving may have it's good points,
but nothing can compare to waking up to
sunshine and warm air, after enjoying that
extra hour in bed. Esme Bell
Street Stall RSL Aux.
On Saturday 19th April at 8.30 am to 12
noon. All donations welcome. Cakes, Pickles,
Jams, Produce, Bric & brc.. Books
Apollo
Bay RSL Womens' Aux
Next Meeting Tuesday 29th April also Anzac
Day
BBQ
C.W.A.
Next meeting Friday 18th April 1.30pm. Competition
WW1-WW2 Medals etc Flower
SENIOR CITIZENS
No Seniors until further notice at rooms,
4 Whela St, and also no Bingo.
Farewell to Apollo Bay
Mrs. Joan Coghill, well known Apollo Bay
Artist is going into an Anglesea Nursing
Home this week. Joan sends good wishes to
all her friends and acquaintances
SEW WHAT
ALTERATION
I am giving up my at
Alteration Business from the end of the
month. A big THANK-YOU to all my Customers
and
hopefully will see you at the market Rosemary
Stoekli
Win a week for four at a 4 star resort in
Qld
Register now for fishing competitions on
the
"17m Moonlight". Catch the big
one.
Series 1 starts April 11.
Hurry - limited spaces.
$65 pp. Ph: 5237 7888
www.-apollobayfishing.com.au
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OTWAY
HEALTH NEWS |
Strategic Review
of Otwav Health
Otway Health has commenced the Strategic Planning
process for 2008 to 2011. An extensive community
consultation plan has been developed to include
individuals and groups in Apollo Bay, Forrest, Beech
Forrest, Lavers Hill, Glenaire, Wye River, Horden
Vale, and Kennett River.
Fi Mercer and Sarah Leach of Fi Mercer Coaching
Pty Ltd have been engaged on behalf of the Board
to develop the Strategic Plan. Sarah and Fi have
extensive experience in rural and regional areas
in governance, strategic and business planning,
research and executive coaching.
The project has three stages:
1. Review planning
2. Consultation, data gathering and Analysis
3. Formulation of strategic plan.
Currently we are in the 2nd phase and asking the
following questions:
¦ What do you want from your Health and Community
Service?
¦ What are the Service Gaps?
¦ What would you like to see in the future?
A significant number of community consultations
are happening over April and May, times and venues
for these will be made public. You can also drop
comments into the suggestion box at the Otway Health
front office or email otwayhealth@swarh.vic.gov.au
marked Strategic Planning
Selected courses qualify for free childcare!
Cert III in Aged Care Work (CHC 30102) Starts: Friday,
2 May. Total Cost: $755 (Concession Rate: $160)
BRACE can assist you in setting up your own business,
(Advice, mentoring, cert IV, NEIS Income Support).
All welcome to info session on 11th April at 11am
at Marrar Woorn.
From the Board
The Board of Otway Health is responsible for the
Governance, Risk Management and Strategic Direction
of the Multi Purpose Service. The Board Members
are:
• Andrew Jephcott - President
• Denise Hooke - 1st Vice President
• Terry Redmond - 2nd Vice President
• Les Noseda
• Eddie Rennick
• Desiree Cohen
• Sisca Verwoert
• Peter Hagan
• John Britton
Community Health Promotion Network
Otway Health will soon be establishing a Community
Health Promotion Network. This Network will aim
to develop concepts and strategies to improve the
health outcomes of the Apollo Bay and surrounding
community. Community members will be invited to
participate and these people could include representatives
from sporting groups, police, young people, youth
groups, business and tourist organisations and anyone
with a keen interest in contributing to health promotion
strategies. This Network will be developed by our
Health Promotion Officer in consultation with members
of staff and the Community. To express interest
in participating please contact Katherine Cust on
5237 8500
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Meeting
The community is invited to a planning meeting
to air views on the future of Otway Health and
Community Services.
Where: Apollo Bay Hotel, Kambrook
Room
When: Wednesday 16th April 2008
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Finger food will be provided and bar will be open.
Marrar Woorn Neighbourhood House Notices
Advisory Committee Meeting
15th April, 3-4 pm, want a say in the house? All
welcome.
Community Course Guide now available in your letter
box as well as in the Post Office, News Agency
and Second Sails. For information contact Karen
or Chani on 5237 8500
ABP12C Parents & Friends Group
Welcome back to term 2, sonny days and busy times
ahead. Our first Parents & Friends meeting
for the term will be on Monday 14th April, at
7pm, school staff room. We are going to have a
Spinning wheel raffle at the Market during the
music festival week end, we have four cooked Crayfish
to raffle off, thanks to Nolle Family THANK YOU!,
Shall need help on this day, setting up and selling
tickets, we plan to start around 10am and finish
at fish.
A CAR Boot Sale was organised for the 13th April
at the school car park. Due to a busy Easter at
the Youth Club and a few other places over March;
we thought community interest might be low. What
do you think? Homework is something I needed to
understand and explain to my children; this has
been taken from the Department of Education early
development web site:
Homework is an opportunity for parents or carers
to participate in their child's education. Homework
complements and reinforces classroom learning,
and fosters good lifelong study habits. Schools
usually advise parents of homework expectations
at the beginning of the year and provide a copy
of the school's homework policy.
Parents can help children by:
• encouraging a regular daily session to
examine and complete homework
• discussing key questions or suggesting
resources to help with homework
• helping to balance the amount of time
spent
between homework and recreational activities
such as watching television or playing computer
games
• asking how homework and class work is
progressing, and acknowledging success
• attending school events, productions or
displays their child is involved in
• ,. talking to teachers to discuss problems
with homework
• for upper primary and secondary students,
checking whether homework has been set and ensuring
that their child keeps a homework diary
• reading texts set by teachers
• discussing their child's responses to
set texts and asking to see work they complete
in relation to these texts
• Discussing homework with their child in
their first language, if English is not the main
language spoken at home, and linking it to previous
experiences.
Got any ideas you want to share, give us a call
or email: shezvs@biqpond.com or 52376 029 Sheryl
van Someren
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Hundreds of
submissions excluded from C55 planning
amendment
CORRA CORNER by Assistant Secretary,
Stephen Hart 5237 3196, E-mail: Iavershill(5),skvniesh.com.au
Hundreds of submissions lodged in
relation to any of the Apollo Bay
Structure Plan, Colac Structure Plan
and Rural Land Strategy are to be
withheld by Council from the C55 planning
amendment process. This means they
will not be forwarded to the independent
Panel and the people who wrote the
withheld submissions will not be invited
to speak at the hearings.
During 2007 Colac Otway Council exhibited
various planning documents including
the Apollo Bay Structure Plan, Colac
Structure Plan and Rural Land Strategy.
Each had parts that were unacceptable
to many ratepayers. Over 400 submissions
were lodged in relation to the Apollo
Bay Structure Plan, 300 to the Colac
Structure Plan and 46 to the Rural
Land Strategy. In addition, many ratepayer^
took the time to attend Council meetings
when they were allowed to express
their concerns in person to the Councillors.
Often this involved hours of travel
to be allowed to speak to the Councillors
for just 15 minutes or so. Council
adopted the various plans at different
meetings in 2007 and then exhibited
an amendment "C55". "C55"
is really just a label for administrative
purposes; it has no real meaning by
itself. Amendment C55 was exhibited
in December 2007 and submissions could
be made until 3 l/l/'08.
Amendment C55 is the formal process
to include the Apollo Bay Structure
Plan, Colac Structure Plan and Rural
Land Strategy into the Colac Otway
Council planning scheme.
"Marfs List"
APOLLO BAY CLUBS AND GROUPS 2008
Servicing the business, health,
recreational, service, special interests,
spiritual, sporting
and volunteering needs of the community.
This is the 3rd edition (2008) of
my list and contains 126 entries (plus
5 unconfirmed names), which was first
produced in August 2006 (and contained
108 entries). It is intended as an
introductory guide to the clubs and
groups with a phone number to start
you off finding out names, meeting
times, places and dates. If the contact
number has changed you will almost
certainly be referred to the correct
person.
If you have copies of the 1st or 2nd
edition on hand please destroy and
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Many people who wrote
submissions to the Apollo Bay Structure
Plan, Colac Structure Plan and/or
Rural Land Strategy were under the
impression that their submission will
be taken into account as part of the
planning amendment process (since
labeled "C55"). There were
over 700 submissions to these various
proposals. Council's position is that
only those submissions lodged explicitly
in relation to C55 are to be referred
to the independent Panel considering
Amendment C55 and associated documents.
Submissions on the various associated
documents will not be included unless
they were re-submitted specifically
in relation to the exhibition of C55.
Council has only recognised 251 submissions
as being explicitly in response to
C55. Hundreds of other submissions
to the various plans will be withheld
by Council.
In a letter to CORRA dated 18/3/'O8,
Council rejects the suggestion that
anyone who wrote a submission to one
of the plans could have thought it
was a submission to the amendment
C55. In a technical legal sense this
is correct as the "C55"
label was added later. Council relies
on a line in a multi page brochure
to support their position. Council
also goes on to say that it may be-^breach^oLprivacy
legislation to treat the submissions
as refevantto Amendment C55. CORRA
urges anyone who made a submission
to one of the plans but may have been
excluded from the C55 amendment process
to clarify with Council whether or
not their submission will be referred
to the Independent Panel. It may be
possible to raise this issue with
the Panel.
Please feel free to contact me on
5237 3196 if you want to discuss this
matter.
SAVE COLAC LIBRARY
Please help me to keep it up-to-date
ana relevant by reporting additions,
deletions and corrections by email
or phone to Marjorie Morkham morkhamm@.bigpond.net.au
5237 6479.iSThis is my small contribution
to keeping people in touch with what
is available in Apollo Bay —
it is not authorized by anyone and
is not copyright. Please feel free
to copy it as you need and use it
as you wish. I will gladly email a
copy to anyone on request and include
your name on the email distribution
list for future editions.
We should be very proud of the number,
variety and quality of organizations
available in this small town. Not
listed are numerous private, casual
and restricted groups meeting in homes,
etc and other interests run on a more
commercial basis. Because of a new
EC directive it was felt necessary
to put up a sign on the slopes of
the Cairngorms in Scotland saying:
'Hazard Warning. This snow could be
slippery and dangerous.'
Sunday Telegraph
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Letters
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Dear Editor,
I have just identified a business opportunity for
an enterprising person who lives in this town. We
are fast approaching the period in the year when
more houses are empty rather than occupied. Many
of these houses are used only by the owner/occupier,
and more often than not, the houses are vacant.
Who puts their bins away, after the weekend in town?
Who can check if the power was accidently left on?
Obviously an agent, if this property is managed
by one! (Even then, the agents are extremely tardy
with bin collection!) So, someone out there in town,
with a little time, could get themselves a bin "roll",
to replace bins safely in the correct property,
and check on details as, requested by an absent
owner.(l recently heard of a couple who collect
up to 16 bins, -or 32 each other week - and have
the keys of these properties for absent neighbours!)
Judy Hagan
Dear Editor
I am writing about the sale of the Apollo Bay Music
Festival bus as there was no community or member
consultation whatsoever, simply stated in the minutes
that it would be sold.
Besides the fact that it would have been a great
opportunity for the community to retain it for the
use of school children or the elderly or for other
community groups. It was a great promotional vehicle
for the festival itself if not the town...
something the media lapped up. Why was it only sold
for under $3000? And who bought it in West Australia
and did they pay for all the transportation costs?
It just seems a rushed
decision selling off one of the Music Festival assets
for a rock bottom price without member approval
which is required by the way when selling off assets
of a community organisation.
Would the President please explain to the community
and the festival members.
Sandy Gibson
Apollo Bay Festival Member
FOR SALE
Old church pews from Skenes Creek Church, built
by volunteer labour about 1902 - thought to be cedar
or Oregon. 2.4m long painted blue with wood turned
arm-ends and feet. $250 each. Enquiries to 5237
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Letter to the editor
It's been a while since I've experienced hard rubbish
collection. I watched the rubbish truck come along
and squash everything, except scrap metal that is
separated and squashed separately to be sold. To
see the amount of good things put out... and they
were all being squashed (if not found as a treasure
by a passer by, before the rubbish truck came...)
It would be good if the community had a re-use workshop...
a place where people could bring unwanted things
and for them to be worked on and reused. In Melbourne
at CERES (Centre for Education and Research in Environmental
Strategies) they have a Bicycle workshop, where
bikes aib taken to be fixed or reassembled, or bike
trailers made. There was so many bikes put out on
hard rubbish collection day... Pity we don't have
a bicycle re-use workshop down here. Pity that there
wasn't much interest in getting community bike moves
happening down here. They are doing great stuff
in Melbourne; moving house by bike, bike powered
music gigs etc. What is our music festival, with
its "sustainability and community" theme
to be powered on? Perhaps I'm a bit out of the loop,
but I'd really like to know what "sustainability
and community" practises are happening in this
community? We seem to be lagging far behind communities
such as Castlemaine and Bega. Can we work together
and get an Energy Descent Action Plan happening
for Apollo Bay? Can we become a transition town?
See
www.transitiontowns.org
Love you all, Fern Rainbow
Golf Club Issues
Last week I submitted to the Newsheet a letter SAVE
OUR CLUB and asked the question from what? Now I
read briefly in the Golac Herald WE ARE GOING TO
DIE, and I asked again from what? I feel that the
golf club tactics somewhat disturbing in the fact
they are mischievous, scare mongering, miss leading.
It appears to me that the golf club are going to
use any means to convince people that they are the
victims in the whole sorry business. As far as I
can see from where I'm sitting the club would be
better of trying to alleviate some concerns the
public may have about the future proposed development
and some information nights, instead of using scare
tactics on believe, believe me and a lot of other
people are fast loosing faith in the golf club's
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