DO you kick like a girl? Good! Tyabb Junior Football Club wants you to join its new girls football team this year. Girls have been keen participants at Tyabb Auskick for several years and Tyabb Juniors is offering girls a chance to take to the footy field in competitive games for the first time in the club’s history this season. The club has kicked off a social media campaign with the hashtag #yabbienation to spread the word about the club’s expansion ambitions for the year ahead. There are three divisions – junior, intermediate and youth girls – and Tyabb hopes…
Day: February 2, 2016
SOMERVILLE Tennis Club will hold a free tennis day, 1-5pm, Saturday 6 February. President Karyn Dickens said those attending could have a hit with the club pro, pick up some tips and join in on a lesson to get a taste of tennis. “Tennis is fun for the beginner, social player and the up-and-coming club star,” she said. Attractions include a radar gun being used to check service speeds. Prizes and giveaways will go to the fastest server. In Hit the Target, players test their aim on service. “This is a fun way to practice your serve and challenge your…
THE new park at Red Hill opened with a ribbon cutting, speeches and a barbecue, but it was the enjoyment on the faces of children using the playground equipment that proved the worth of the efforts of the Red Hill Community Association to create the park. “It was lovely to hear the squeals of children enjoying the new playground and see them having such a good time,” Felicity Jackson said. Hamburgers and veggie burgers cooked by volunteers on the barbecue were handed out by members of the 1st Red Hill Scout group. Musician Keith White performed old standards and pop…
THE lack of suitable fuel depots for giant fire-fighting “air cranes” means the Mornington Peninsula is less well protected against catastrophic bushfires than it could be. The fuel, called AVTUR, is not stored anywhere on the peninsula, meaning the air cranes have to travel back to either Moorabbin or Essendon airports for refuelling – or depend on a road tanker from the refinery at Altona. During the disastrous – but relatively small – 18 January fires at Crib Point, a tanker was sent from 83 kilometres from Altona to refuel the Erickson water bomber at Tyabb. It was delayed by…
ALTHOUGH there is no chance of offering travellers a cathedral at the end of their journey, Michael Leeworthy believes a walking track on the Mornington Peninsula could gain some international popularity along the lines of the celebrated Camino de Santiago, which runs from France to Spain. Also known as the Way of St James, the Camino has four pilgrimage routes to the shrine of the apostle St James the Great in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, north western Spain. Thousands of tourists follow the Camino de Santiago each year – or sections of it – either to…
HELP for those affected by a bushfire which swept through parts of Crib Point two weeks ago is coming from the community and state government. While the government has announced emergency relief assistance for affected property owners, co-workers and friends have already raised thousands of dollars for David and Caroline Tootell, whose house on The Esplanade was the only one lost in the fire. By early yesterday (Monday 1 February), $6745 had been raised in three days by 172 people who work alongside Caroline Tootell at Peninsula Health to be added to a “substantial sum” raised by Somers Yacht Club…