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Garden opens gate for African choir mission CATE and John Jaede will open their Mt Martha garden to the public to raise money for poor African children. The open garden weekend is on 19-20 October at 38 Ellerina Rd. Entry costs $5 with all proceeds going to Kwaya Uganda Incorporated. The Jaedes’ expansive garden features hundreds of Australian native plants, complete with rocky creek and pond, and is a favourite destination for birds and butterflies. Richard Anderson of Merricks Nursery will share his extensive knowledge of Australian plants at the event. Mrs Jaede, below, will visit Uganda next year along with 40 other volunteers on a Kwaya Cross Cultural Connections choir tour as guests of the African Children’s Choir. Kwaya helps change lives in Africa through financial donations, gifts of basic essentials, educational material, and assistance with construction and renovation projects, and is a partner of the choir’s Music For Life program. Pictures: Yanni
Tip at mercy of state plans By Mike Hast THE state government has released two draft plans for waste recovery infrastructure that will markedly reduce the likelihood of a rubbish tip in the old Pioneer quarry at Dromana. The plans were released on Friday by Acting Environment Minister Peter Walsh. Mr Walsh said the Statewide Waste
and Resource Recovery Infrastructure Plan provided “a 30-year roadmap for government and industry investment opportunities to improve Victoria’s waste management and resource recovery infrastructure network”. The complementary draft Metropolitan Waste and Resource Recovery Strategic Plan for Melbourne identifies
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specific waste and resource recovery infrastructure needed for metropolitan Melbourne, including the Mornington Peninsula, over the next 10 years. He said the plans were “two major milestones in implementing the government’s Getting Full Value: Victoria’s Waste and Resource Recovery Policy, which was released in April”.
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Getting Full Value outlined the government’s intentions to develop a statewide waste and resource recovery infrastructure plan to improve longterm strategic waste planning, he said. The two plans will make it harder for tip proponent Peninsula Waste Management and its owner, the R E Ross Trust, to challenge the EPA’s refusal of
the quarry tip plan earlier this month. The quarry site on the Arthurs Seat escarpment does not have space for a waste recovery depot. PWM has until Friday to decide whether to challenge the EPA’s decision at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. Continued Page 8
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