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Treasures not trash at Rotary sale ROTARIANS have been carting thousands of treasures from Mt Eliza garages in recent weeks to stock the club’s annual sale at the Peninsula School on Saturday 14 April. Rotary Club of Mt Eliza’s Bruce Harper said the all-day sale would include furniture, books, plants, kitchen items, art, DVDs, CDs, toys, tools and bric-a-brac. “Bargain hunters will find a treasure trove, including furniture, always a great bargain for the savvy buyer, and 10 tables of coffee table books on travel, interior decoration, sport and gardens, and collector’s specials.� Mr Harper said the club supports peninsula community causes as well as Australian and international projects. “We raised $51,000 in 2009-10.� The sale at the school in Wooralla Drive is from 9am-5pm. Details: 0457 326 632. Great goods galore: Malcolm Hull, Carolyn Such and Merrilyn Hamilton-Smith (helped by Eloise the Jack Russell) sort goods at the Millers Moves warehouse in Mornington for Mt Eliza Rotary’s annual garage sale at the Peninsula School on the Saturday after Easter. Picture: Yanni
Lights out after storm By Mike Hast POLICE are running extra patrols in Mornington’s Centro shopping centre car park. The car park was plunged into darkness after one of five light towers was blown down in a storm overnight on 3-4 March. Mornington Ward councillor Bev Colomb said the extra patrols and Centro shopping centre leaving its lights on later would help maintain safety until the towers were replaced.
She said they would be installed “as soon as possible� and had been ordered by the shire. Cr Colomb said the towers “were a nice design, not your standard light towers�, but would be replaced with “more standard lights�. Mornington resident Paul Smith said it was lucky the tower came down at night when no one was around. “The fallen tower was removed on 6 March.� The tower near the front entrance of Centro was one of five erected by
the council when it constructed the car park in the early 2000s. Mr Smith said the fallen tower was taped off by the SES and he had started making inquiries when told by friends they had been arriving in the car park in darkness as the surviving four lights had been turned off. “I called Centro on Friday 9 March, nearly a week after the tower fell, and was told the centre did not own the car park or the lights,� he said. Mr Smith then called the shire and was told to call the power company
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Jemena, which said the shire owned the lights. Mr Smith, who keeps meticulous records when dealing with the authorities, wrote to the shire on 13, 15 and 19 March asking about the lights and was told the power would be turned on on 20 March. He said the four remaining towers were removed some time over the weekend of 24-25 March. “It would seem the bolts holding the base plate to the concrete pad on the fallen tower must have corroded,� he
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said. “Someone told me it reminded them of what happened to the Arthurs Seat chairlift tower that collapsed in 2003.� The shire’s contract manager of parks and roadside, Greg Powell, said the shire was “working with Tenix� to replace the five 15-metre light towers, but could not say when this would occur. The cost had not been worked out. The News asked if energy-efficient fluorescent lamps would be installed. Continued Page 6
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