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ISSUE 88 JAN 2017 The Tattler Port Albert’s Local Monthly Newsletter Free St Johns services will be held Sunday the 1st and Sunday 15th from 9am Port Alberts Australia Day Celebrations 25th of Jan to the 28th, see page 2. PAPA Meeting will not be held until Tuesday February Port Albert, Happy 2017 the 14th at the CFA Meeting Rooms As we say goodbye to 2016; some of us say goodbye sadly and some of us say goodbye with pleasure to a year that took people close that we loved and for others some of our greatest loved performers. For me the loss of Labyrinths tights wearing Port Albert Market, Sunday David Bowie, the fantastically somber Leonard Cohen & the flamboyant Prince; and the 22nd of Jan at the off course my guilty pleasure, Harry Potters Professor Severus Snape; (the amazing Mechanics Hall from 9am - Alan Rickman) has made this a dark year for loved ones and performers. However for Port Albert and our Local Area, I think we have seen some amazing [email protected] changes and events. We have seen Port Alberts Tarraville Road get its new footpath (although it took much longer than any of us would have liked), we've seen another great Australia Day celebration (about to surpassed by this years event hooray!!), our Port Albert Progress Association wonderful 175th birthday which I think was a winner (especially with Warren Curry’s PO BOX7, Port Albert 3971 amazing exhibition of our areas history, I may be biased but I think not), the rezoning of [email protected] a large section of properties (something we have been fighting for, for a long time), and finally having a Port Albert Councillor, Gayle Maher to represent us (congrats Gayle!!!) All works in The Port Albert Altogether its been a good year for our small town and this is only a small look at our Tattler remains a copywriter of successes'. ( more on page 3) the writers and writers accept all responsibility for the I look forward to 2017, I plan on spending even more of my time making this town published work on submission. great and spending every spare moment I have, just enjoying it. Happy New Year to the views of the writer may not everyone and I truly hope for all us it is a great one. represent the views of the progress. All care is taken to ensure that information provided is correct. if we are Follow Us on our NEW Facebook page - notified of any error a www.facebook.com/visitportalbert correction will be issued in the 1 next Tattler. ‣ Spud Man AUSTRALIA DAY PORT ALBERT ‣ Poh's food ‣ Chinese food ‣ Pancakes 2017!!!!! ‣ Coffee If there is any event that is a must for the new year it is Port Alberts ever growing Australia Day celebration, and let me tell you; 2017 will be even bigger and BUSH DANCE - Mechanics Hall better, with not only our fantastic Family Fun Day during the Day, but our new Night Bush Dance at the A new addition to the Port Albert Australia Day celebrations is Mechanics hall, and the celebrations don't end there. our new night event, a rocking Bush Dance with the amazing Briagolong Bush Band The Party will start at Rutter Park at 10.30 with kids activities starting from 11am and bands starting at 12pm. There will Starting at 7pm at the Port Albert Mechanics Hall on Victoria also be up to 10 different food and beverage stalls with street, tickets are only $15 which includes amazing live music, variety of different cuisines. Events in the park will wind up at soft drink, tea and coffee and nibbles. A bar will also be around 4pm and will then move onto the Bush Dance at the available to offer wine and beer at $5. The band will play from Mechanics hall starting at 7pm. 8pm until 11pm so bring your comfy dancing shoes. Full details of the day including time tables are as below, Tickets are available at the door or via Denise by calling 03 51826685. Kids Activities and Displays - Other Events Happening - Kites for Kids - 11am - 3pm Miniature Pony Rides 11am - 3pm Petting Farm 11am - 3pm And Australia Day doesn't stop there………… Spinning and Old Trades Demonstrations -11am - 3pm Balloon Sculpting 12pm - 3pm Friday 27th of January Face Painting 12pm - 3pm Movie Night at the Yacht Club - Ned Kelly Live Music - 7pm for and 8pm movie start - $10 entry - Bar with $5 wine and beer. Cheese plates also available for purchase. Tarraville Road - Local Band - 12pm - 1.30pm Midnight Possum 2pm - 4pm Saturday 28th of January A look into the History of Port Albert - Historic Walks Meeting 10.30am or 2.00pm at the Port Albert Maritime Museum. Gold coin donation. Sunday the 29th of January Yacht club social sailing the morning - Starting at 10.30am however this is dependant on the weather. Yacht Club - Afternoon Australia Day Race - Start time will be depending on the weather. For the Food Lovers - For updates and more information go to www.facebook.com/visitportalbert. we will have regular ‣ Lollie Stall updates on times and any additions to the weekend ‣ Ice Cream Van celebrations. ‣ Fairy Floss ‣ BBQ We hope to see you all there. 2 We have held meetings with Gippsland Ports to discuss altering Progress news berthing arrangements at the wharf and the initial stage of this change was completed recently. We have erected new signage for January at the corner of the South Gippsland Hwy and the turn off to Port Albert, giving our town more visibility and greater ability to promote what’s going on in Port Albert. Thank you to the many people who donated materials and time to help this project. 2016 Wrap Up and What’s Ahead Holes were dug by Russel Lewis. Posts donated and for 2017 transported by Les Simmons, concrete donated by Reg and Progress supplied the sign. A great collaborative, community Firstly, thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Progress effort. Association throughout 2016. Even if only attending one meeting Masami Goold has led the charge for the reformation of the to present a view, everyone’s input is always greatly appreciated. Tennis club and has seen us affiliate with Tennis Victoria. We Our membership continues to grow and we have had some have had some successful fundraising for the resurfacing of the valuable input from some new members. courts as well as one successful grant of $2000 from the RACV. Jason Conroy is one of our newest members. Jason is a great WSC have recently confirmed that as soon as our fund raising example of someone in our community who has an issue he feels is within $5,000 of the funding we need they will provide the passionate about. He is concerned with the takeover in the old port $5,000 needed under the Community Plan grants scheme. area of the noxious weed BRIDAL CREEPER. We could offer him Progress has organised several successful community events some support and he has successfully gained a grant to help him including Australia Day, Anzac Day and of course in supporting with this project. This is an ongoing project and Jason will be the committee for our 175th birthday celebrations. We believe keeping us up to date with some dates for proposed working bees this was a landmark event in our history as many of our local that he will be organising to help eradicate this weed. organisations contributed to make this series of events special. We also welcomed Alexis Curry to our association. Alexis instigated Thanks to Denise Symington for coming on board as our event and organised our inaugural Mother’s Day raffle which raised a co-coordinator. The fact that we had representatives from the significant amount of money towards the tennis club. Lex also took three levels of government present at our official opening over the reins of the Tattler and has taken this publication onto new evening speaks volumes for the way Port Albert continues to levels. Producing the Tattler takes a large amount of time and the punch above its weight for a small community. And what an new Tattler is a publication of considerable substance. Thank you opening night it was. Held against the backdrop of Warren to the whole production team but especially Lex for her great Curry’s fantastic exhibition it was a night to remember. editorial expertise. We were successfully involved in arguing for a Panel hearing to Just a reminder that membership renewal is due on 1st January for rezone land that had been inappropriately zoned back in 2007. the 2017 calendar year. We currently have 100 registered This was a follow on from the farcical Port Albert Rural lifestyle memberships. We are obliged, constitutionally, to keep records of lots review. A lot of good work was done by our association and financial members, we therefore encourage you to complete and our Planning amendment C95 submission was most ably return a new membership form with your membership fees as soon penned by Michael Hobson, with supporting submissions from as possible to enable us to meet our responsibilities as an John Coghill, Michael Glebov, Gary Proud and Saul Stainer. association. Unfortunately, council did not see fit to do the proper work required to make this rezoning complete. This matter still needs What did Progress Work On to be dealt with properly by council. and Achieve in 2016 2016 has been an extremely busy year with many events and issues to deal with. The association has acquitted itself very well and achieved some remarkable results.