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Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
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Trees down, roads closed, power out...
Flooding chaos Rising hockey star Amy Lawton will represent Australia at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. (Hockey Australia)
A landslip in Sassafras has changed the traffic conditions for the foreseeable future. (Stewart Chambers: 420079)
Amy gears up for Games By Shamsiya Hussainpoor
Mountain Highway, between Mount Dandenong Tourist Road in Sassafras and Forest Road in The Basin closed because of multiple trees down blocking the road. Emerald, Clematis, and Kalorama experienced power outages from Monday 15 July. “In Clematis, a tree brought down the power line, with 168 customers without power from 8.16pm on Monday, power was restored by 1.53pm on Tuesday,” an AusNet spokesperson said. Others were lucky to escape fallen trees on both there properties and cars. To read more, turn to page 2 and 3
Outer east rising star Amy Lawton has been selected to represent the Australian Hockey team in the 2024 Paris Olympics. She will play as one of the three midfielders for the green and gold team. At just the age of 22, she’s had a successful career playing in the Oceania Cup in 2019, FIH Pro League in 2019, 2020 to 2023, Tokyo Olympics 2020 (2021), World Cup in 2022 and Commonwealth Games in 2022 and now her second time playing for the Hockeyroos in the Olympics. Lawton has be recognised with many
awards for her extraordinary achievements, including winning a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in 2022, bronze medal at the World Cup in 2022, a sports scholarship from Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2022, runners up at the FIH Pro League and Sultana Bran Hockey One League in 2019. In 2019, the then 17-year-old was awarded the Emerging Athlete of the Year from the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and in the same year, she was awarded the Rising Star Award By Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS). Turn to page 28 to read more about her journey to the Olympics
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The Yarra Ranges once again saw flooding hit the region with roads closed and trees down across the shire last week. Power outages and flood waters plagued the Dandenong Ranges in the first heavy rainfall of winter. The Bureau of Meteorology’s senior meteorologist Jonathan How said some of the heaviest rainfall was recorded in the eastern suburbs last Monday, into Tuesday. “The highest rainfall total was more than 100 millimetres in Mount Baw Baw in Victoria. We also did see 86 millimetres at Mount Dandenong and many of those suburbs in eastern Melbourne as well,” he said. A landslide on Mount Dandenong Tourist Road in Sassafras closed the road, with one lane reopening on Wednesday 17 July and traffic management in place. With the rain causing extensive run off, Lilydale SES unit controller Shaun Caulfield said in other places along the Tourist Road, mud and debris had washed onto the asphalt creating a slippery surface. “You need to take care, to slow right down. Sometimes it can be quite thick on the road. It can be five or 10 centimetres thick, and that’s not going to impact your car, but it would slow you down very quickly if you were to drive into it,” he said. “It could also be slippery and you could lose traction. So in those instances, it pays to drive with care and drive for the conditions.”
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