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TWO new candidates hadve put up their hands to contest the three Central Ward seats on Bayside Council.

Michaela Newell, a member of the Bayside-Glen Eira Greens, and “in-dependent” Robbie Nyaguy will seek election to the seats now held by the mayor Cr Louise Cooper-Shaw, and Crs Felicity Frederico and James Long.

By Keith Platt

BAYSIDE Council has backed down on its decision to privatise its child care centres in Hampton and San-dringham.

The decision at a special meeting on Tuesday 18 September overturns last month’s awarding to of a tender for Bambini Junior Pty Ltd to lease and run the two centres.

Under the 30-year lease agreement, Bambini would have had 12 months rent free while it spent $2.5 million upgrading the two buildings.

The first rent of $180,00 would have been due in 2014, increasing an-nually by CPI.

However, councillors did a unani-mous backflip, deciding to abandon the lease and tender process and continue running the child care centres itself.

The decision flies in the face of recommendations from their own offi-cers who judged that four community submissions received in August (but again included on the 18 September agenda) were not relevant as they were directed at the awarding of the tender, not the lease.

The mayor Cr Louise Cooper-Shaw told The Citizen that council would now run the centres at least until De-cember 2013.

“There can be no further decision until there is a new council,” she said.

Council elections will be held next month, putting the present council into a 32-day caretaker mode and unable to make any decisions that could effect the decision-making ability of the in-coming council.

Although council had previously cited the need to spend money on the centres in Bluff and Sandringham roads as part of its reasoning to lease them out, Cr Cooper-Shaw did not think council’s decision would impact on the current budget.

Last month Cr Cooper-Shaw is-sued a news release announcing coun-cil’s intention to get out of the child

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care business and let the Hampton and Sandringham centres to Bambini (‘Contractor takes over child care’, The Citizen August 2012).

She said fees would increases, add-ing that the centres “will be substan-tially improved by the proposed up-grades to both facilities”.

“Council decided not to continue as a direct provider of childcare services in the context of significant, compet-ing budgetary pressures in the provi-sion of family and children’s services and the availability of sufficient, sus-tainable childcare in Bayside.”

News of council’s change of heart was applauded by the Australian Ser-vices Union’s assistant secretary Rich-ard Duffy.

“The ASU congratulates council on their change of heart. As a union, we have always said that local gov-ernment-run centres provide the best standard of childcare and this vote certainly vindicates our view on the current system,” he said.

“The ASU and parents in the area worked hard to convince council that privatising child care was not in the best interests of children, their parents or the employees across the council who do such a fantastic job.

“ASU members look forward to working with council to make sure they continue to provide high quality child care to the residents of Bayside now and well into the future.”

Ballot packs for the postal election will be mailed out to eligible voters from 9-11 October.

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The election office for Bayside Council is at 16/354 Reserve Rd, Cheltenham.

Bayside Council sees the election as a “great opportunity to influence the future direction of the local commu-nity” but cautions that “a councillor’s role is exciting but also demanding, and prospective candidates need to find out what is involved before nomi-nating for election”.

Candidates must pay a $250 de-posit, refundable if they are elected or gain at least four per cent of first preference votes.

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HAVE camera will travel. At least that can be one of the benefits of joining a camera club, along with seeing things in a different light or aspect ratios.

Members of the new camera club at Studio Space in Hampton are discov-ering that there is no end of inspiration or subject matter close to home.

A trip to Melbourne reveals lane-ways artistically daubed with graffiti (unlike most of that sprayed on walls in Hampton) while an early morning trip to the Brighton beach shows a dip is not for the fainthearted.

Peter Hunkin, of Hampton, says the first challenge after joining the camera club was to shoot a black and white image.

“I decided to get up early one Sun-day morning and head to the Brighton Yacht Club for some photos of the sun rising first light on the yachts in the marina and across to the cityscape,” he said.

“It was a clear morning and there was a chill in the air with an ambient temperature of around four degrees. I wore numerous layers including scarf and beanie.

“Another photographer was there from Camberwell and we were enjoy-ing ourselves swapping stories and taking shots with the pink glow of the sunrise in the frosty morning.

“We turned around to see first one person, then a few more, then around 30 Speedo-clad people walking along the pier before bravely leaping in and swimming under the pier before a lap of the marina. Asking permission from a couple we took a few shots of these brave and athletic individuals on their morning exercise regime.”

Camera club membership is $95 a year. For details contact Sue Stone on 9521 8577 or email sue@thestudio-space.com.au

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Dining outTHE “no such thing as a free lunch” adage rings true for Bayside ratepay-ers who have seen the cost of their councillors’ meals bills almost double in four years.

Meals and refreshments for coun-cillors at council meetings and other events cost $58,000 in the 2008/09 financial year and just over $103,000 in 2011/12.

The 2009/10 year was the cheapest of the four, with a total menu cost of $56,700.

The following year (2010/11) set the upward trend, hitting $87,000 before breaking the $100,000 mark a year later. In less than three months this year the city’s seven representa-tives have managed to knock back $14,200 in meals and refreshments.

THE Southern Area Concert Band has been entertaining audiences since 1971.

In that time it has grown to a 40 plus piece concert band of amateur and semi-professional musicians play-ing woodwind, brass and percussion instruments.

The band plays under the baton of Darryn Wright and last year celebrat-ed its 40th anniversary with a trip to Tasmania to perform with the Burnie Concert Band.

This year started with the band coming second at the National Band Championships, with a score of 480/500.

Assistant conductors Evgeny Che-bikin and Fiona McKellar have joined

training band conductor Jenny Corco-ran in developing and supporting new musicians.

The next major performance on the band’s calendar is the annual Octo-ber concert, Past, Present and Future which will feature the Southern Area Concert Band and Southern Area Training Band.

The concert will be held during se-niors month at 2pm on 7 October at Mentone Girls’ Secondary College (cnr Balcombe and Charman roads, Mentone. Melway 86H6). Tickets: $15 adults, $12 concession and $5 seniors and children. Bookings: 0451390727 or at the door.

For details about the band go to: www.sacb.com.au

Bands ready for concertTEN council-owned independent living units in Sandringham will be demolished and replaced by 20 new units under a deal worked out with po-tential new owner, Mecwacare.

Residents in the units would be moved to Beaumaris and Glen Iris with an option to move back to San-dringham after the works had been completed, said the mayor Cr Louise Cooper-Shaw.

The decision to sell council’s units at Sandringham and Beaumaris was made after council was faced with a $2.6 million upgrade.

Cr Cooper-Shaw said council had decided against providing social hous-

ing “in the belief that alternative op-erators would be better able to secure government funding and manage the units in the longer term”.

She said Mecwacare – a not-for-profit agency that for 50 years had been providing aged and disability services, including community hous-ing – would spend $3.7 million on the units.

“The purchase includes a guarantee that the two sites will be used for in-dependent living now and into the fu-ture,” Cr Cooper-Shaw said.

“Existing tenancy rentals will re-main unchanged until the unit im-provement works are completed with

rentals then to be individually renego-tiated and based on equivalent public housing rental rates.

“Provision of affordable housing for older people is a clear responsibil-ity for state and federal governments. In recent years successive state gov-ernments have been reluctant to fund local government to provide social housing, preferring instead to direct funding through community housing associations.”

Objectors to the sale must make a submission to council on or before 10 October. Submissions will be consid-ered by a committee on 14 November.

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Street worknext yearWORKS to improve Hampton St will start in March or April next year.

Implementation of the $850,000 first stage of the Masterplan for Hampton Street will be between Crisp and Willis streets, including the rail-way crossing and the area in front of Safeway.

Bayside Council’s economic devel-opment manager Anthony Jacobs said upgrading Hampton St was designed to “encourage it as a focus for the local community to meet, shop and dine”.

The masterplan includes new foot-paths “to promote walking and gather-ing in the street”; new furniture, trees and garden beds “to make the street more attractive”.

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By Pat Lowry

“WATCH Me Fly, See Me Soar” was one of the eight songs Bayside choir Vocally Wild planned to sing at the 15th Val Pusteria International Choir Festival in northern Italy. And we cer-tainly did fly – on cloud nine.

After months of planning, fundrais-ing, rehearsing, uniform shopping and learning Italian, 36 members of Vo-cally Wild, including several partners, who were our tremendous helpers, set off for the festival on 17 June.

First stop was unique, historic Ven-ice, followed by the most amazing experience possible at the Val Pusteria Festival.

We had to pinch ourselves that this was really happening.

Along with 90 fantastic choirs from all five continents, we sang in the most spectacular venues – atop spectacular mountains (Sound of Music eat your heart out), in delightful, scenic val-leys, in atmospheric village halls, an-cient town squares and we even sang at midnight in front of a beautiful old church in San Candido, with cheerful fellow choristers and residents joining in the fun.

Our accommodation for five days in Hotel Kreuzbergpass (Passo Monte-croce), near Sesto, was splendid, with views to die for. We were made wel-come by the proprietors and staff. On one morning the hotel hosted several Italian gospel choirs as part of the pro-gram. To listen to these Italian choirs

singing all their eight exciting gospel arrangements, in perfect English and in magnificent harmony, was hum-bling indeed.

After the official singing was over, we joined the choirs in joyful spon-taneity which, in itself, was such an experience, but with the glorious mountain scenery behind us was ex-hilarating.

Vocally Wild also sang for the Ital-ians, in our keenly and painstakingly learnt Italian, which was received with gusto, friendship and cheerful appre-ciation.

Sadly, the exciting and eventful festival had to come to an end, but the final Parade of Choirs through the streets of Sesto was stunning.

There were bands, dancers, 90 choirs with flags, all marching through the streets to cheering, flag-waving crowds and meeting together in the town square for the official farewell.

Vocally Wild was the first to march and this meant we could meet and greet all the other singers from around the world.

There was much enjoyment, sharing of gifts, clothes, phone numbers, cards and hugs, and the morning ended with 2300 people singing Val Pensiero and Ave Verum Corpus together. An expe-rience never to be forgotten.

The tour continued in happy, conge-nial mood, albeit in very hot weather, to Lake Garda for five days during which time we attended the opera Aida

in Verona’s Roman amphitheatre.We then visited Pisa on the way to

spending a couple of days in Florence followed by five days in Rome.

While in Rome we took a day bus trip to Pompeii where we did a ‘pop-up’ song in the ancient amphitheatre,

much to the crowds’ delight.Actually, ‘pop-up’ songs featured

several times during the tour, includ-ing in the cellars of the Tomasi Winery near Garda.

We left Rome on the 5 July after a very hot, but extremely enjoyable time.

Vocally Wild will perfom at the Bayside Carols in the Park, Dendy Park, on Tuesday 11 December.

Pat Lowry is a member of Vocally Wild.

Singing praise of choir’s overseas success

On tour: Vocally Wild, in tune for this year’s Val Pusteria International Choir Festival in northern Italy.

A Bravery Garden has been estab-lished in the Triangle Gardens on the corner of Beach Rd and Hampton St as a place of remembrance and reflection for anyone who has lost their lives or been injured in saving life or property in perilous circumstances.

The garden cost $64,000 and was proposed by the mayor Cr Louise Cooper-Shaw in May last year.

At the Monday 17 September open-ing Cr Cooper-Shaw said the garden extended on an existing monument to

an individual act of bravery by creat-ing a place “that is more conducive to reflection and remembrance”.

A memorial drinking fountain was erected in 1924 by the Bank Officials Association in memory of 22-year-old teller William Almeida who was shot dead trying to prevent an armed robbery at the Commercial Bank in Hampton.

Highett resident and recipient of a bravery commendation for saving a stricken yachtsman, James Rohan, and

the yachtsman’s sister, Cheryl Thread-gold, were among the guests at the garden’s official opening.

New paths have been built and old ones repaired as part of the $64,000 works which also included creating a rain garden; planting new garden beds with 1000 different plants including na-tive fushia and grasses; and a new drink-ing fountain with disability access.

A further $2000 was spent on the official opening, including $1250 for a sign.

Honoured guests: James Rohan and the sister of a yachtsman he rescued, Cheryl Threadgold, at the Bravery Garden in Hampton.

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THANK you for your work on representing community views and interests in the production of The Citizen.

I refer to your article ‘Clean-up time’ in the August 2012 issue. The comment from the mayor Cr Louise Cooper-Shaw is hardly believable: first, that no graffiti in Hampton St had been reported to Bayside Coun-cil, and second, that she was “curious to see where it might be”.

What suburb does Ms Cooper-Shaw live in? And can it be true that no one has ever reported graffiti in Hampton St? What constitutes a ‘report’?

Every investigation on dealing with graffiti seems to affirm that it has to be removed quickly. The less time it is there, the less kudos the perpetrator receives.

I’m sure that there would be volunteers from the community to assist with removal right away if the kits were made available and council permission for the work was pre-arranged.

Another approach, commended in various reports, has been to foster graffiti as ‘art’ and allow specific places for ‘legal’ graffiti.

Even competitions have been intro-duced to divert the ‘artists’ from other places. However, that hasn’t worked. The fences and buildings along train tracks are smothered with graffiti, and

schools have their walls for graffiti artists, but it hasn’t stopped the defac-ing of private and council owned property.

I do not know if there is more to be done in ‘engaging’ with the (usually) young people who wield the spray cans.

Given the skepticism of the mayor, I guess on this occasion you had to include photos. However this should be the last time that any illegal graffiti is reproduced in a public forum.

Some residents are giving up the battle. Graffiti is left for longer and longer periods while they muster up the energy and expense of removing it yet again. I see that there is one ratepayer on Beach Rd who has pre-empted the inevitable graffiti scourge, deciding it is preferable to create a graffiti-like fence himself rather than be subject to random attacks. Simi-larly, a shockingly out of character wall facing the Thomas St park.

It would be good to have more information about the apparent dif-ference in council’s policy relating to private and council property. I would have thought that, private property or not, it’s a council/community issue.

Please keep encouraging work in this area. Thank you for your article.Janice NewhamHampton

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AS spring flowers start to bloom in backyards the hairy flower wasp is out in force.

This three centimetre blue wasp turns heads in the warmer months due to its distinctive markings, hairy body and iridescent blue wings.

“People tend to think that every wasp will sting, but the hairy flower wasp is not at all aggressive towards people,” Susanna Bradshaw, CEO of the Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife said.

“A hairy flower wasp does have a sting, but it is rarely used. This is because, unlike a bee, hairy flower wasps live alone and don’t have a hive or colony to protect.

“If you spot a hairy flower wasp in your garden, count yourself lucky. They are nature’s pest controllers, and they will pollinate your flowers and help your veggie garden along. Best of all, they do it all scot free.”

Ms Bradshaw said that after mat-ing, a female hairy flower wasp digs through soil or wood to find a grub or beetle.

When she finds one, she paralyses it temporarily and lays her egg in it, and reburies it in its underground chamber.

Hairy, but not scaryHow to encourage hairy flower wasps:n Set up a compost heap in the garden and to save organic matter from ending up in landfill.n Spread chopped mulch around plants to retain moisture and attract hairy flower wasp, lizards and useful creatures.n Plant local native flowering plants to feed and shelter hairy flower wasps, butterflies, honeyeaters and other small birds.n Look for hairy flower wasps around tree stumps, sawdust, mulch and compost piles in the backyard and be careful not to sit or step on them.n Avoid using pesticides and chemicals in the garden and encourage natural pest controllers such as ladybeetles, wasps, spiders, bees and butterflies.n The hairy flower wasp particularly likes sugar cane mulch and the flowers of mango trees.

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SOME complain there are too many of them, others not enough, but at a gath-ering of local government bigwigs it was agreed that roads were the arteries of progress and government in colo-nial Victoria.

The 150th anniversary of the forma-tion of the Moorabbin District Roads Board was marked with the unveiling of a commemorative plaque in Dendy Park, Brighton, on Thursday 16 Au-gust.

The establishment of the board in 1862 marked the beginning of local government in the region. The area administered by the board covered 36

square miles (93 square kilometres) stretching from North Rd to Mordial-loc Creek and inland to Heatherton. At the board’s inception, the popula-tion of the area was 4500. The region is now covered by Bayside, Glen Eira, Kingston and Monash municipalities.

The first general meeting of the Moorabbin District Roads Board was held in June 1862 at Jessie Morley’s Plough and Harrow Hotel, the main building in the area, which stood on the corner of what is now South Rd and Nepean Highway. It was just 11 years after Victoria officially separat-ed from the colony of NSW.

Robes of honour: Glen Eira mayor Cr Jamie Hyams, Bayside mayor Cr Louise Cooper-Shaw and Kingston mayor Cr John Ronke at the ceremony in Brighton.

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FIFTY works by indigenous artists from the east Kimberley region of Western Australia, the Northern Ter-ritory and north west Queensland are being shown at the Bridget McDon-nell, Hampton.

Northern Editions collaborates with individual artists and aboriginal art centres to produce and exhibit etch-ings, woodblocks, screenprints, litho-graphs and linocuts.

Artists included in the exhibition include Dion Beasley, Timothy Cook, Sally Gabori, Alan Griffiths, Mignon-ette Jamin, Hector Jandany, Shorty

Robertson Jangala,Netta Loogatha, Judy Mengil, Boxer Milner, Eubina Nampitjin, Ningie Nangala, Bai Bai Napangardi, Dorothy Napangardi, Kathleen Paddoon, Rammey Ramsey, Reggie Robertson, Fred Tjakamarra, Freddie Timms,Tjumpo Tjapananka, Brandy Tjungurrayi, Helicopter Joe Tjungurrayi, Billie Thomas, Phyllis Thomas, Marina Strocchi, Judy Wat-son and Mercia Wawul.

The Bridget McDonnell Gallery, 392 Hampton St, Hampton, opens 10am-5pm Tuesday to Friday and 10am-3pm Saturday. Phone 9598 8398.

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Gardeners talkSOMALIAN born Mariam Issa is the founder of RAW (Resilient As-piring Women) whose mission is to “break down barriers and create social change by empowering, enlightening and educating women in a positive, nurturing environment”.

At the next meeting of Bayside Cli-mate Change Action Group she will describe what it was like moving to Bayside from a remote African town. She will talk about her development of a community garden and her cook-ing classes.

Co-founder of RAW Katharina Kons, was raised in Germany but spent time in France, Switzerland and Africa.

The pair will also speak about their vision of breaking perceived barriers and why they feel the community gar-den is so important.

Bayside Climate Change Action Group, 7.30pm Tuesday 25 Septem-ber at Sandringham Uniting Church Hall, 21 Trentham St, Sandringham. Visit www.bccag.org.au for more in-formation.

Mobile mayorsRATEPAYERS in Bayside have spent $42,000 providing cars for the past four mayors.

Cr Alex Del Porto, elected in 2010, was the cheapest mayor to keep on the road, with $4928 being reimbursed to him for using his own vehicle. The most expensive, at $14,834, was Cr James Long who served as mayor for a year from 1 December 2008.

Cr Clifford Hayes was not far be-hind in 2009/10, with a car bill of $13,426 while the car being used by the present mayor, Cr Louise Cooper-Shaw, up to the end of July has cost $8580.

THIS photograph of a house in Mills St, Hampton, is being exhibited by Sandringham and District Historical Society in October. The photo-graph of the Evans family was taken early last century. It was donated by John Swanell and shows his grandparents Lucy and Isaac with twins Herbie and Colin and, from left to right, Geoffrey Mollie Carrie and Bernard. Heritage consultant Lorraine Huddle will open the ‘Our House’ exhibition at 7.30pm on 4 October at 6 Waltham St, Sandring-ham (next to the library).There will be an open day 9am-4pm on Sunday 21 October as part of the Village Fair.

As the hairy flower wasp larva de-velops, it feeds off the host bug, par-ticularly cowboy, rhinoceros, scarab and African black beetles.

“Luckily, the hairy flower wasp is very good at picking unwanted and harmful beetles to use as a host. While it’s bad news for the host grub or bee-tle, it’s great news for your garden,” Ms Bradshaw said.

“Hairy flower wasp are also useful in the garden as a pollinator, much like bees. The tiny, fine hairs that cover their bodies carry pollen from flower to flower.”