25 February 2016
sun city news Lets go sailing Story inside
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Editor’s desk
sun city news
Published fortnightly and distributed to Yanchep Two Rocks, Gingin, Lancelin, Butler, Merriwa, Alkimos, Neerabup, Nowergup, Carabooda, Eglington, Woodridge, Wannamal, Guilderton, Seabird, Ledge Point, Gabbadah, Sovereign Hill and Redfield Park. Published by Sun City Publishing Pty Ltd. Whilst every effort is made to ensure accuracy of content. The Sun City News takes no responsibility for inadvertent errors or omissions. Email: question@suncitynews.com.au Editor: editor@suncitynews.com.au Advertising: sales@suncitynews.com.au Accounts: admin@suncitynews.com.au Contact Details PO Box 1, Two Rocks 6037 Ph: (08) 9561 2500 Fax: (08) 9463 6066 Web: suncitynews.com.au If you have a story you’d like to tell us: articles@suncitynews.com.au
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three days, 39 people shared the article and nearly 80 people posted their comments, including the owners of the resort.
Facebook can be a very powerful tool for local communities to use - Facebook pages have been set up to promote local community events, highlight community concerns and make the community aware of problems in their suburb. The Sun City News set up a Facebook page several years ago and averages over 20,000 reaches every week. Unsurprisingly, we can predict whether a ‘post’ will be popular or not before it is published Facebook insights and research indicate very clearly what people like to read and what they don’t. For example, last week, the Sun City News posted an article about the vandalised Club Capricorn Resort - Over 12,000 people read the article in the next
The very next Sun City News Facebook post related to organising a ‘Community Safety’ meeting - It was like we’d unleashed a virus in the community, less than 700 people read the article and no one was interested in attending a meeting to explore local solutions for better community safety. What does it tell you? We are all very quick to complain, whinge and bemoan the lack of services or attention received, but very few people are willing to join forces, work with local government and police to help make their community safer and a better place to live. And, while we all keep this ‘don’t involve me’ or ‘I’m too busy’ attitude, the community scum who cause these issues thrive, give you the finger and are laughing at all of us.
Last week, I attended a Jindowie Residents Group meeting, it was a delight to see concerned local residents discuss a local issue and come up with a positive action to try and resolve their concerns. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a local group work together to address a local issue - Well done to this committee. Regularly, emails, letters and unmarked envelopes turn up in my mailbox, highlighting various local community concerns, seeking the Sun City News to ‘do something’ about their issue, but ‘Don’t mention my name’. For nearly 20 years, the Sun City News has provided, and continues to provide, the local community with the opportunity to publish their concerns, express their viewpoint and/ or alert the wider community to local issues; often this has been with consequences for the Sun City News management. Public discussion of local issues is very important, but finding a
solution is equally as important. It is also equally as important that the community has confidence in the services offered by local councils and police. Being able to contact your local council or police, receive a response in a reasonable time with a positive outcome provides all residents confidence, while the one per-center ratbag scum will realise they aren’t wanted. It is a disgrace to see good families selling up, because a drug dealer or some scumbag is allowed to continue to rent a premises causing the wider community ongoing misery. The local community can fight back and rid the region of these undesirables, making our community safer; but we need the caring community members to protest about the lack of services, safety and support being offered in our fast growing suburbs. If this problem is left unattended, it will only get worse - Then what?
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Dogs attack kangaroo in St Andrews Mid-last week there was a very ugly incident in the St Andrews Estate, near the Sun City Country Club - Two men out walking their dogs, off the lead, allowed the dogs to chase, attack and maul a kangaroo with a little young pinky joey. The kangaroo eventually escaped from the three dogs,
but her young pinky was seriously mauled. A nearby resident took the pinky to a local wildlife carer, but the animal died. Two residents who witnessed the attack have been interviewed by the RSPCA; and CCTV of the incident is being reviewed.
After a shouting session between a couple of residents and the dog owners about having their dogs off leads and encouraging them to attack the kangaroo, the dog owners hightailed it from the scene of the offence. One of the dogs is called Bella, another is believed to be a
retriever with the third dog possibly a kelpie. The RSPCA is very keen to hear from anyone who knows the whereabout of these dogs. The Sun City News understands they live in the St Andrews Estate and one of the dogs has attacked before.
If anyone has any information about this horrific attack, please contact the RSPCA on 1300 278 3589. This is a serious incident with penalties of up to $10,000 fines for cruelty to animal offences.
Quigley speaks out Last Thursday morning, Member for Butler, John Quigley, responded in State Parliament to the Premier’s Statement setting out his government’s agenda and aims for 2016. Mr Quigley said: “I have looked carefully at the Premier’s Statement and there is nothing in the statement - not one line - that holds out any hope for the families of Butler. There is precious little infrastructure at all in the electorate of Butler. “I remind the chamber that the extension of the freeway to Hester Avenue does not enter the electorate of Butler. “A huge community has moved there in the last few years, to places like Eden Beach, Shorehaven, Alkimos, Eglinton and Amberton. There is now a massive Satterley subdivision going on at Allara. There is also a subdivision at Trinity by Mr Danny Murphy’s LWP group. “Further north into Yanchep, Jindowie and Atlantis, right up to Two Rocks, there is massive development but no state infrastructure. “The only piece of state infrastructure is the Butler train line that extends a mere three or four kilometres into the electorate, and that is it.
“I will continue my speech under headings; firstly, the development of Butler and the development of an employment centre at Butler. “We know that this turns upon the development of a City in Yanchep which is predicted to be the size of Joondalup. “The Tokyu Corporation has the shovel ready to go to create a city centre. It is already extending Marmion Avenue past its terminus at the roundabout at Yanchep. “Along with the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, the member for Kingsley and the member for Swan Hills, who is present, I attended a meeting in the boardroom with the chairman of the Tokyu Corporation, Mr Nomoto, from Tokyo, and we received the presentation that once the rail is put through to Yanchep, this is what it will do for the Yanchep City Centre to create employment. “I know that the members for Swan Hills and Kingsley and the Speaker all left that Tokyu conference room agog at what was planned, which is bigger than Joondalup, to bring employment to the area. But it will not happen before rail.
“A study the government commissioned in late 2008, prior to the 2013 election, reported that the top priority for rail was to complete that last seven or eight kilometres from Butler into Yanchep because of the jobs it would spawn. “It was estimated to cost about $350 million. We know that the Tokyu Corporation was ready to chip in and put a contribution towards that rail line, which would unlock job opportunities in that area. “It was not going to cost the government anywhere near $350 million because the Tokyu Corporation was ready to fund part of it up-front.
rail line would be delivered into Yanchep by 2020.
“I do not want to say in this chamber exactly what that was because the then Treasurer, Mr Troy Buswell, said in this place that the government supported that recommendation and the concept that Tokyu Corporation would be contributing to that line.
“The government has been silent on it, but the Member for Wanneroo let the cat out of the bag when he published an article on WA Today saying that the government did not need to consider this line before 2024.
“In fact, he made a promise in this chamber that the government was already spending money out of the 2011–12 budget to plan that line and all the things that were needed to put in that line. “A promise was made before the last state election that the
“What do we know now about the progress of this line?
“May I move to the next thing, roads. “Of course, there is only one road in and out of my electorate and that is Marmion Avenue. “It is single lane, one lane up and one lane down, for a whole electorate of tens and tens of thousands of people.
“They have to come out of subdivisions without any traffic lights. They have to come out of Amberton, for example, without any traffic lights with cars pouring down Marmion Avenue, and they have to effect a righthand turn into heavy traffic to try to get on to Marmion Avenue with all these build-ups. “Further down towards Shorehaven it is repeated and repeated. There would not be another electorate that suffers this sort of road infrastructure deprivation - There is not a state road in my electorate, so Marmion Avenue, although it is the prime thoroughfare for tens of thousands of people, is still classified as a local distributor road. . . . Continued page 14.
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Your letters and emails Flying the flag
Some 16 years ago in a moment of frivolity, turn of the century, midnight, myself and a couple of neighbours decided we should mark the occasion and make a statement. So as dinkum Aussies we made the arduous journey to the top of the hill behind Charnwood
Ave. There we hoisted the Australian flag on a broomstick affair. It is slightly more stable now. This ‘Tradition’ has been kept going since then. Only one of the original culprits is still living in the area and despite advancing years the flag is renewed as soon as possible.
Despite a succession of burnt flags, destroyed and/or stolen flags the flag remains.
Early this February, the flag was looking rather dilapidated so a new one was in order. Imagine the surprise when Red Dot Yanchep, informed me that they were not stocking the flag
now as Australia Day was over for another year. I told them ANZAC Day is coming though. One has to wonder, is this Republicanism gone mad or just an oversight. I went to Red Dot Clarkson and after some serious negotiating
was able to purchase one from here albeit the last one from packed away discontinued stock. I read recently where a person from another area has and is having trouble displaying his loyalty. I ask the question is this the start of the rot? Barney, Two Rocks.
Group is active
I do welcome that you are speaking for residents bringing up various local issues. However, I was a bit surprised to read that some residents stopped attending the meetings of the Yanchep Two Rocks Residents Association for political reasons and not getting anything done. I do assume you are referring to the Two Rocks Yanchep Residents Association of which I am a proud member since some years. This organisation is run, to my opinion, by very competent elected volunteers spending a lot of their free time to take care in an as much as possible neutral manner of big and small issues raised by their members in the interest of the community for Two Rocks and Yanchep. Each meeting, which is held once a month is also regularly attended by at least one or more councillors from the City of Wanneroo, giving an update of all pending matters the association has raised with the city. Also the police are giving a report on matters regarding traffic incidences, security, etc. Most of the time, also a member from parliament gives information about issues raised in parliament which are of importance for the community like road and train development, etc. Each member attending the meeting can then ask questions or raise some other issues which might be of interest. Just to name a few, the Two Rocks Yanchep Association was very much engaged in pushing through the traffic lights in Yanchep which now makes this intersection much safer. Also, thanks to the initiative of this association and some active members which included a petition signed by more than 500 residents, the City of Wanneroo renegotiated the terms with the developers to construct the new ovals in Yanchep and keep Charnwood Park as a beautiful spot well used by families, kids and teens for pleasure. So come and join this valuable association as you will get first hand information and where others will listen to your questions and matters of concern, which will then be followed up regularly. Thus you can help directly that things are getting done or at least are leading in the right direction. Looking forward to see some more new faces at the next meeting. Rainer Breitfeld, Two Rocks. Editor’s comment: In general local resident associations are very helpful for fast growing communities, but when some elected officers, victimise people who do not agree with them while they are running their own agenda, I feel it is time for change to these empire builders. It is my view this association needs to seriously look at its empire builders and traitors.
Send your Letters to the Editor to: editor@suncitynews.com.au
25 February 2016
Group takes action At last week’s Jindowie Residents Group monthly meeting, the issue of ‘hooning’ on the estate was discussed - There were several reports of residents contacting police to report these incidents and not seeing any action.
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The group is asking all residents to be part of a ‘hoon watch’ and report every incident by ring 131 444, making a note of the vehicle type, road name, time and date. Then ensuring that the police provide an incident report number. By following this process and then letting the Jindowie Residents Group know about each report, they can monitor how effective local policing of this issue is in the estate.
can make their community safer for everyone.
Communities working together with the cooperation of the police, they
This community group is very active promoting ‘community safety’, local
events and activities while working with the estate developers to provide the best possible new community.
Follow Jindowie Residents Group on Facebook, the site is regularly updated.
Neighbours from Hell! Local councils offering ‘safety and security services’ are very restricted in what they can actually do in neighbourhood issues.
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Over the past few weeks, there has been an increasing number of ‘neighbour issues’ varying from abuse, threats, intimidation and many more unsavory actions by one
neighbour towards other neighbours. Many concerned residents feel there is no support provided by the council, police or property leasing agents.
Neighbourhood issues rate low on the police’s very busy roster; and most times, leasing agents are dictated to by investment property owners who want their weekly rent money and don’t care about the quality of the tenant. Recently, the City of Wanneroo instructed a Two Rocks resident to removed
the vehicle wrecks on the front verge - The renter sprayed an unsavory comment on the side of one of the cars, before eventually moving the car inside the fence line. The Sun City News is aware several residents have approached local police for advice/help to resolve these neighbourhood issues without much success. If anyone has any suggestions, send your ideas to news@ suncitynews.com.au
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25 February 2016
Work starts on new school Earthworks have started on the new Atlantis Beach Baptist College - This new, co-educational private college will be located off Breakwater Drive, just north of Two Rocks.
Brayden at WA Nationals
It is expected to open for Semester 2, 2016 for Pre-Kindergarten to Year 8 students, subject to Department of Education Services Registration. The students will commence their first day of school on Monday 18 July. The College will offer Year 9, 10 and 11 in 2017 and Year 12 in 2018. Set in a coastal location with a tranquil, natural landscape and ocean views, the future-focused college will offer a dynamic environment to meet the needs of students, families and the community. The college will have a respectful environmental focus to develop in the college community a passion for sustainability,
social responsibility citizenship.
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There will be a modern, effective and highly functional Information Technology System, supporting global-focused student learning outcomes. The college has a strong pastoral care program that provides a framework of encouragement, enabling
students to recognise and use their abilities with compassion, character and confidence. The vibrant co-curricular program will give students an opportunity to learn new skills, take on leadership roles and develop selfconfidence with the opportunity to use their personal talents and abilities to serve the community.
The Foundation College Principal, Gary Harris said: “I see this as a wonderful opportunity to serve the needs of a growing community and provide more options in education for families in the area, some of which are travelling large distances each day to educate their children.”
Cottage industry warned about labelling The sale of ‘homemade’ products such as jams, pickles, sauces, etc,) at various outlets including community events or through local shops requires the appropriate labelling. Food Standards Australia New Zealand says ‘Food
sold at fund raising events is exempt from most of these labelling requirements’. A fund raising event is defined as an event that raises money solely for charitable or community causes and not for personal financial gain.
Despite these general exemptions, certain information must always be provided when relevant. Other information must be provided if the customer requests it. Stall holders, especially food stalls, at any public
event is also required to be registered through their local council. Organisers of community events should be ensuring that all stallholders have the appropriate permits to protect everyone’s interests.
Last weekend, Brayden McCarthy competed in four events at the WA Little Athletics State Championships. In the Under 14s age group, he collected a Gold medal for the hammer throw, Silver medal for the discus, and bronze medals for shot putt and javelin. Brayden is feeling very excited about his medal achievement and is embarking on a extensive training program to compete in the Australian Junior Athletics Championships to be held at WA Athletic Stadium, in Floreat between 8 and 13 March. More than 2000 Australian junior athletes will be competing at the Australian Junior Athletics Championships - A celebration of athletics for those aged under 12 through to under 20, the six-day program features the race for the coveted title of national champion. Athletes can also vie for selection to the Australian Spark team that will compete at the IAAF World Under 20 Championships in Bydgoszcz (Poland).
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On the council agenda At next Tuesday’s City of Wanneroo’s monthly council meeting, there are 40 different reports for deliberation. Items of interest to the North Coast Ward include: Consider an increase to the size of the proposed multi-purpose space in the Yanchep Active Open Space Sports Amenities Building - At a meeting between several potential venue user groups and City of Wanneroo administration, a number of issues were raised by the clubs, including: First Aid room; roof height on western side; function room; kiosk; changerooms; storage; and verandah area. The majority of the design changes identified by the clubs were considered to be feasible and within budget, a larger function room and larger changeroom were considered by administration to be in excess of needs. It is being recommended to the council meeting not to support a bigger changeroom or multipurpose area. Council will reconsider a development application for compost stockpiling at Lot 121 Carabooda Road, Carabooda, in response to State Administrative Tribunal hearing. The proposed compost stockpile does not fall within any of the land use categories of DPS 2. Administration is recommending it sets aside its previous decision and approves the modified application for the compost stockpile.
The council will consider the 2015/16 Mid Year Review of Annual Budget - The report states: “In summary, the City remains in a strong financial position and has adequate cash available to effectively operate.” Council is expected to endorse the Mid-Year Review. In another report, the council will consider the Mid-Year Corporate Business Plan progress for 2015/16 - The report shows 80 of the 92 operational actions have or are due to start in the current 2015/16 financial year. Of the 80 actions, eight are completed, 57 on target, 13 behind their expected target and two on hold. Council is expected to accept the report. Council will consider a number of Motions that were presented at the Annual Electors Meeting in late January. One of the motions related to the request for a skate park plaza at Yanchep Administration is recommending to council to note a budget bid for the 20 year Capital Works Budget and note that the council engage with youth about the facility. The Sun City News understand a petition with about 1000 signatures will be presented to the council meeting. Council will consider a report that will approve payments to employees in addition to contract or award council policy. The report states: “. . . this policy
will only be for those cases where the City has exhausted all other measures in assisting the employee to remain in the employ of the City.” The council will consider a draft Economic Development Strategy so it can be advertised for public consultation. The new strategy appears to be an updated version of two previous City of Wanneroo Economic Development Strategy 2004-2007; and ‘Wanneroo: Open for Business 2020’ report developed in 2003/04. Neither of the previous plans appear to have been fully implemented; and there would appear to be a long way to go with the new draft strategy. The council is expected to endorse the report and not see it again until the end of the year. In another report the council will consider a proposed new Dog Local Law and new Cat Local Law - The effect of the proposed new law is to extend the controls over dogs and cats which exist under the previous regulations.
Shire of Gingin
At last week’s Shire of Gingin council meeting, there were seven items on the agenda plus three late reports. In the first report considered, the council expenditure of surplus funds identified from the 2015/16 budget review. The council agreed to spend $6,000 for a shade shelter at Lancelin skate facility; spend
$9,133 for Lancelin CBD streetscape improvements; and construct a portion of the unmade Lancelin foreshore pathway near Miragliotta Street up to $8,500.
The council noted the employment contract for the Executive Manager Operations, Allister Butcher, was extended by the Chief Executive Officer until March 2021.
In a late report, the council was updated on the progress of the Seabird erosion project - Council are seeking tenders to create three offshore breakwater.
In the second confidential report, the council agreed to allocate an amount of $37,400 unbudgeted expenditure from its 2015/16 Budget for the purpose of undertaking of a topographic and feature survey and a probing test to determine bed rock levels, and the engagement of a suitably qualified coastal engineering company to undertake a detailed design of the Seabird sea wall; and accept the quotation submitted by GHD to carry out this project.
The tender will be considered at the 15 March council meeting. It was highlighted that the Shire required full indemnification with respect to the Seabird Foreshore Stabilisation Works. If it wasn’t received by 15 March 2016, the Council would not be unable to progress the tender. Two reports were deliberated behind closed doors.
Council agendas and minutes are available on the web.
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Plans for 2000 students Earthworks for the new high school in the Jindowie Estate will start in March, plans for the school still need to be signed off by the State Government. Building construction is expected to start around the end of September, or early October, this year, and will be ready for term one, 2019.
The new high school will start with Years 7 to 11 and expand to Year 12 in 2020.
The Sun City News is aware several residents in the Jindowie Estate are concerned about traffic management and parking issues around the new school. Jindowie Residents Group is seeking a meeting with
Report welcomed
The City of Wanneroo has welcomed the report by Infrastructure Australia that identifies the need for coordinated and timely road and public transport infrastructure to ease traffic congestion, drive productivity and enhance standard of living. Mayor Tracy Roberts said: “The City was one of only five cities across the nation to make a submission to the report with Infrastructure Australia agreeing that major transport projects should be a high priority on the infrastructure plans of the State and Federal Governments. “Infrastructure Australia has identified the very real need for additional road and public transport capacity in Perth’s growing northern corridor – a fact the City of Wanneroo has been placing on the state and national agendas through our Tri-Cities Alliance and Community and Shadow Cabinet meetings. “This clearly reinforces the City’s advocacy about the dire need to extend the Mitchell Freeway to Romeo Road and bring the rail link to Yanchep to fruition by 2020, five years earlier than currently scheduled. “ An earlier audit by Infrastructure Australia predicted the cost of road congestion in Perth could top $16B by 2031.
Stable Fly
Stable Fly problems have been reported in Sovereign Hill Estate, Redfield Park Estate and Guilderton. Stable Fly breeding has been found on a number of properties throughout the Shire of Gingin. Stable Fly complaints should be directed to DAFWA on 1800 084 881 for recording on a central register. The complaints is then passed on to the respective local government to investigate and report back any outcome.
the Department of Education about this issue.
History shows the Department of Education has a poor record when it comes to these matters. At next week’s City of Wanneroo council meeting, responses to Kim Garbut’s motion presented at the Annual Electors meeting
will be presented. Council administration has presented answers to various questions asked and asking the Mayor to request a meeting with the Minister for Education, Peter Collier to advocate for the upgrade and expansion of Yanchep District High School.
The future of the existing Yanchep District High School after the new high school is open is uncertain - It is expected to revert to a local primary school, but will need extensive upgrading and modernisation to comply with current primary school standards.
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Scholarship helps get Haylee to university Gingin resident, Haylee Slater’s academic dreams will become a reality, thanks a Gingin and Lancelin Community Bank Scholarship. The scholoarship is awarded to first-time tertiary students whose financial circumstances might mean that a university degree is out of their reach.
Ms Slater said she was thrilled to be able to start university with the financial security a scholarship provided. “I can’t wait to get started and work towards my goal of completing a degree in Commerce, majoring in accounting and business law. My end goal is then to become a Forensic Accountant and
work for the Australian Federal Police,” she said. Chairman of Community Bank, Stephen Beckwith said he was thrilled to offer Haylee the chance to further her education. “I would hate to think that a local young person like Haylee would be unable to start a higher education because of the financial costs.”
Photo: Rob Kestel, Haylee Slater, Irene Neville and Stephen Fidge, all pointing the way to university.
Crossover concerns The Sun City News has received a number of phone calls about the changes made to the crossover at the Lisford Ave and Sovereign Drive intersection. The City of Wanneroo told the Sun City News: “A review found that the existing crossing point (north of Sovereign Drive) did not provide optimum lines of sight to ensure safe crossing of Lisford Avenue. Works completed earlier this week provides a safer design and better lines of sight for pedestrians at the existing crossing of Lisford Avenue at the southern side of the intersection with Sovereign Drive. A new crossing point on Sovereign Drive is also being installed. The City of Wanneroo Director of Assets, Harminder Singh, said: “The City was keen to respond to the resident’s safety concerns as quickly as possible and thanks residents for their involvement and interest in community safety.”
Stronger Communities Program now open Federal Member for Pearce, Christian Porter, is calling for ‘Expressions of Interest’ from local community groups to fund small capital projects through Round 2 of the Coalition Government’s Stronger Communities Program. Interested organisations are invited to submit their Expression of Interest to Mr Porter’s office by 5pm, Friday 18 March. If you require further information regarding the application process please contact Annette Livesey at Christian Porter’s office on 6296 7255 or via email: annette.livesey@aph.gov.au. More information and the Guidelines for the Stronger Communities Programme can be found at http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/SCP
Appointments call Donna on
9561 6336 or 0403 768 933 4 Foreshore Vista,Yanchep
25 February 2016
Club Cap vandalised About two weeks ago, the gates to closed Club Capricorn Resort were opened to allow fisher people access to the groyne. To the disgust of many people driving through the resort, it has become a vandalised dump, looking like a bomb site. As one local resident said: “It looks like Club Cap is a criminal training school.” Since the resort was closed suddenly mid-last year, it appears to have been regularly vandalised with just about every window smashed, cupboards smashed, fires started in various locations and turned into a derelict dump. Jarrod Rendell from Acumen Development Solutions, managers for Capricorn Village Joint Venture and owners of the resort site told the Sun City News: “We are aware of significant damage and vandalism that has occurred at the former Club Capricorn facility despite ongoing attempts to secure the buildings with significant fencing of the areas of containing buildings and security patrols. “Looking forward, the Capricorn Coastal Node Local Structure Plan was endorsed by the Department of Planning in mid-January 2016, following the amendments made and supported by City of Wanneroo in August 2015. “This now establishes a planning framework for the future development of the area, and is a critical approval milestone to be able to plan the future development for the area. “We are now in discussions with the City of Wanneroo
regarding the licences and approvals needed to clear the site and remove the damaged buildings, and we expect that within the next 12 months this will be resolved. “In the meantime, we will continue to do whatever is possible to control the damage, however it is a large and isolated site that is very difficult to secure 24 hours a day.” Last week, someone from Capricorn Yanchep posted on the Sun City News Facebook page: “The owners of the former Club Capricorn have attempted to secure the property with extensive fencing and security patrols while we seek approvals from City of Wanneroo to demolish the buildings. There has been significant theft, damage and vandalism occurring on private property. “We have recently opened the driveway to allow respectful locals to again have access
through to the Capricorn Groyne Beach, however people should not leave the sealed bitumen road nor enter the fenced building areas as it is dangerous and unsafe.”
Solutions spoke at this week’s Two Rocks Yanchep Residents Association’s monthly meeting informing the meeting of progress of their Capricorn and Atlantis development.
Meanwhile, Nick Perrignon, from Acumen Development
Mr Perrignon, made it known at the meeting that
he is not a ‘fan’ of the Sun City News, because he didn’t think the Sun City News had been any help to him. NEXT WEEK: How safe are our local heritage listed items? Should they be delisted and demolished?
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Lets go sailing at SCYC Sun City Yacht Club (SCYC) was founded in 1974 by a group of West Australian businessmen and sportsmen, including West Australia’s best known entrepreneur and the man behind the original Yanchep Sun City development, Alan Bond. Bondy as he’s still known was obsessed with winning sailing’s most exclusive trophy, the America’s Cup. The Americans had held the cup for 123 years. For over three years, the waters off Two Rocks hosted preparations for an America’s Cup challenge and in 1977, the yacht Australia, representing Sun City Yacht Club won the selection battle off Rhode Island, New York, to be official challenger for the America’s Cup. It was however, to be another six years before Bondy claimed the trophy for Australia. The Sun City Yacht Club has continued sailing activities and
provides a venue for social activities for over 40 years at the Two Rocks marina. The most recent addition to the yacht club’s activities is the family sailing activities. The club runs dinghy sail training within the protected waters of the marina on Saturday mornings between 9:00am and midday from early October through to Easter, and dinghy racing on Saturday afternoons from 1:00pm.
The club hosts free Discover Sailing Days in September and October, leading into the next season. These are very popular, allowing people of almost any age the opportunity to try out dinghy or keelboat sailing and to see the club’s facilities and plans for the season. The club welcomes visitors to come down on a Friday evening after 5:30pm or a Saturday morning.
There are also a number of keelboats and powerboats owned by club members and frequent opportunities for excursions along the edge of the Indian Ocean.
If you would like any further information about membership or family Saturday sailing, call John on 0409 109 687 or Alexandra on 0466 409 060.
SCYC is located at the south end of the Two Rocks marina, opposite the recreational boat ramp.
Get your club profiled
SCYC provides all the sailing dinghies and has made what can be quite an expensive sport both accessible and affordable to all families.
If you would like your club or group promoted, call the Sun City News on 9561 2500 for full details.
25 February 2016
Retro Rewind line up
Entries welcome
The upcoming Retro Rewind featuring the Vintage Collective Markets has announced three feel good bands to play at the free community event in Yanchep on 12 March, in the Yanchep National Park. The line up includes Repartee For Two, a Perth jazz duo, Ali Bodycoat and Libby Hammer; Some Like It Yacht, a Perth-based eight piece tribute band recreating smooth pop sounds known as ‘yacht rock’; and Randa And The Soul Kingdom, a six piece band that bring 1970s funk and soul to life with a big, classic funk sound that has a fresh edge.
will be many free children’s activities on offer including flower crown making, lawn games, retro arcade games, a bouncy castle and face painting.
The event will also showcase vintage hot rods, a pin-up parade, and free workshops and activities to get the whole family feeling retro.
Young and old alike will also be able to partake in swing dance workshops and get dressed up to have their photo taken in the Vintage Photo Booth.
Visitors will be able to browse and enjoy more than 55 stalls and there
The event is free and park entry fees have been waived for this event.
The City of Wanneroo is calling all local and Western Australian artists to enter their best artwork for the chance to win their share of $16,800 in this year’s Community Art Awards and Exhibition. For City of Wanneroo residents entries opened on 22 February, and for Western Australian artists on Monday 29 February. Entries will close when 230 applications have been received, or by 4pm on Friday 8 April. Artists must be over the age of 16 to enter. Works must have been completed less than 12 months before they are entered and must not have been previously exhibited.
Seniors enjoy great trip indoor bowls, and afternoon tea, and a little bingo to finish the afternoon off. There is also a pool table available.
The Yanchep/Two Rocks Seniors meet every Monday at 1:00pm in the Phil Renkin
in Lisford Avenue, Two Rocks, where they enjoy a friendly game of cards,
Monthly, the group organises an outing and luncheon at various regional venues. In the photo, left, the group enjoyed a Christmas outing to the Seabird Tavern. If you are looking for some local senior activities, drop
down to the Phil Renkin Centre any Monday afternoon. If your group is organising any community activities, contact the Sun City News on 9561 2500 or email your information to news@ suncitynews.com.au; don’t forget to include your contact details and a group photo.
The exhibition will run at Wanneroo Gallery from Saturday 14 May, through to Saturday 11 June. For further information please telephone 9405 5920 or visit wanneroo.wa.gov.au/artawardsentryform for all entry details. Photo: Last year’s Art Award winner, Astuera by James Worsley.
Construction underway Wanneroo Council recently awarded a tender for the construction of the Yanchep Surf Life Club at a total project cost of $6.78M. The car park, which is entered from the Brazier Road and Capricorn Esplanade roundabout, will be closed from 29 February, until construction is completed, about November. The lagoon will still be accessible the existing stair access, opposite the Yanchep Kiosk.
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More on Quigley speech From page 3.
Mr Quigley’s speech went on to say: “The freeway does not go into the electorate of Butler. It stops at Hester Avenue. What is going to happen? “All this traffic is going to come up the freeway. It comes up the freeway as far the terminus at Burns Beach Road at the moment, it is a T-junction.
“That means that the council has to look at trying to build out of its budget nearly 15 kilometres of dual carriageway. “I have the figures here and I will just go to them. I have asked the city about the state’s position, I am not talking about the elected officers; I am talking about the council officers. “They said that the state will not become involved until the road is designated a prime road. “I said, ‘Let’s get it designated as a prime road’, and they said it could not be designated as a prime road because there are criteria under the legislation that it has to be dual carriageway before it can be designated as prime road. “The city cannot afford to make it a prime road, so that is a Sir Humphrey Appleby sort of an argument - Yes Minister; going around in circles while the families of Butler have got to suffer. “There is no public transport on the rail line and there is just one road. This would be like going to Premier’s electorate and cutting off Railway Parade, cutting off the oceanfront Marine Parade, cutting off all other areas and reducing Stirling Highway to one lane each way. “People would not stand for it, but that is what is happening in Butler. There is just one lane each way and no prospect of that changing in the future.”
“I know that the member for Hillarys has been up that way and he knows. He has also been to Hodges Drive before the freeway went past there; there is mayhem at the end of the freeway, just traffic mayhem. But it gets worse at Hester Avenue. “None of the traffic will be turning right or east because there is nothing right or east. “There are no suburbs to the right or east. Hester Avenue only takes us up to Wanneroo Road and then up Indian Ocean Drive. “All of this traffic is going to turn left past all the aged people’s villages and past the schools. “This is going to be bedlam; they all know it out there. “Then it takes us onto Marmion Avenue, which is one carriageway each way. It is going to be bedlam. “What needs to happen is what the City of Wanneroo has been pleading with the government to do; to commit now in this budget to the timetable with the extension of the freeway from Hester Avenue to Romeo Road. “That needs to happen urgently. “That is the same length of freeway as what is being extended at the moment. “It needs to happen in this budget and I am telling the Premier that because of the broken promises about the rail in the last election.
“The then Minister for Transport; Treasurer stood in this Parliament and said that the government was already spending money out of the 2011–12 budget to implement the recommendations of the independent report about what rail projects should come next in Western Australia. “He said the government accepted that this last little bit to Yanchep was critical and needed to happen then. That promise was broken, so unless there is a program.”
At this stage of Mr Quigley’s speech, the Premier, Colin Barnett interjected: “The government did not promise the rail to Yanchep.” Mr Quigley responded: “The Premier said he did not promise the rail to Yanchep. “The then Treasurer stood in this Assembly and announced it. “I have read that Hansard before and the people have access to it on my website. “He said, ‘We are already spending money on this project to get it there by 2020’. “That was Mr Troy Buswell, the former Minister for Transport and the Treasurer of the day, endorsing it. “That is what all the people were given to believe, because that was the announcement that was made,not in the election, but as part of the government’s program announced in 2012. “The government will not be believed about the freeway going into this election unless it comes out in this budget and says here is the money and here is the program. “The freeway needs to go to Romeo Road, Premier. This community is landlocked and people cannot get out in a reasonable fashion.” At this stage of Mr Quigley’s speech in State Parliament, he was granted a time extension to conclude his speech. Mr Quigley said: “I invite the Premier to come out to Marmion Avenue to see what the traffic chaos is like at 7.15 in the morning. I have dealt with the need for the freeway and I have dealt with Marmion Avenue.” Mr Quigley then summarised the need for a shark net at Quinns Beach Mr Quigley moved on to another concern in the electorate, stating: “We have another problem further up the coast at Alkimos. These are beautiful beaches, and I invite members to go up there.
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“We have all these people moving into the area, but there is not a surf lifesaving club there and no beach patrols. “We are looking at a very problematic situation over the next couple of summers. We have to do something up there as well. “The infrastructure in my electorate is well below the standard that people would expect even in remote or regional areas in places such as Dunsborough or Albany. The electorate of Butler has been, by and large, overlooked by the government. In closing Mr Quigley spoke about local policing. He said: “I do not have to say much about policing. We all know what has happened. “There has been a complete failure of the policing model in so far as it applies to the Butler electorate. “I have said before that the district office and dispatch centre was moved south to Warwick. We have a police centre at Joondalup. This area is remote from the centre of Perth. The Member for Girrawheen, Margaret Quirk interjected: “And you have lost your detectives over to Armadale.” Mr Quigley responded, saying: “Yes, the detectives have gone to Armadale, which was an incredible thing, too! “Before they put detectives into Clarkson, which followed public protests that there was insufficient policing, we were told they would bring 15 detectives into Clarkson to police it locally. “We kept on asking where the 15 detectives were? “They said that they first had to build accommodation for them. “They spent $1 million building the accommodation for detectives, but once they got in and started working locally, they had not been there ten minutes when WA Police came up with a new policing model and said: “Whoops! We’ll move them out.” “It [policing] is a big problem in my electorate, where we have a long distance between Joondalup and Two Rocks; it is nearly the distance between Joondalup and Perth. “If a person at Two Rocks calls for a police car after hours, it is like calling into the country.
“A police car is dispatched either from Warwick or Joondalup, which is not adequate or appropriate for my electorate. When I say ‘my electorate’ I mean all the families in the electorate. “Finally, in the Premier’s Statement, he said that he would facilitate business. “In one minute I want to raise Yanchep National Park. The government is a disgrace. “Yanchep is the local park of my electorate and the government is charging people $12 to get in, at the same time as sacking six of the nine rangers there who did maintenance. “Yanchep National Park is not being looked after and we are paying $12 to get in. “They tell me that one of the three rangers left in there has to go down and mow and fertilise the lawns at Crawley Bay. “The people of Butler [electorate] are really being stung. If they want to have a barbecue at their local park, they have to pay $12 to get in to fund the wages of rangers who have to go down and look after lawns in Nedlands. “What a joke!” “My electorate would not be in this situation now if there had not been such waste of government expenditure. “I will now turn to the cost overruns in the information and communications technology program, which run at $40 million. “If we had that $40 million of cost overruns from the ICT program, we could build Marmion Avenue tomorrow! “We could not only build Marmion Avenue tomorrow, but also take care of some of the other problems with infrastructure in my electorate, just from that one wasted item in government. “We could put bus shelters on Marmion Avenue, we could put traffic lights on Marmion Avenue, and we could dual Marmion Avenue all the way through, and we would still have money left over to start the planning for the rail to get the railhead through to Yanchep.” After Mr Quigley’s 30 minute passionate speech in Parliament, last week, not one member of the Parliament challenged or disagreed with the issues he raised. Only time will tell, if the message was received by the State Government.
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Scientists in Gingin play a major role in detecting Einstein’s gravitational waves someone might have injected this signal, because like I say, the signal just looked too good to be true,” he said.
Scientists working at the Australian International Gravitational Research Centre off Military Road, Gingin, played a major role in the detection of Albert Einstein’s gravitational waves, identifying and fixing an instability in the massive US detectors.
The Blairs and other scientists at Gingin will continue working on the instability issue, which they said would be an ongoing problem as more powerful detection instruments were built.
Ten years ago, physicists at the Australian International Gravitational Research Centre predicted the observatories in Louisiana and Washington State would run into problems.
They also hope the discovery of gravitational waves would spark renewed government investment in their science.
The centre’s director, University of Western Australia Professor David Blair, who has been researching gravitational waves since 1972, said they realised the detectors would start ‘whistling’ if they were not slightly redesigned. Professor Blair said: “We set about trying to mimic the American detectors here at Gingin. “And we had to build a small scale version of the detector to be able to mimic the light conditions and everything else, and we were able to create this whistling sound that happens, and then we were able to stop it. So our specific role has been stabilising the American detectors.”
In particular, Professor Blair has long pushed for the first Southern Hemisphere detector to be built at Gingin.
The team also developed technology to teach super computers ‘to hear the special sounds of gravity waves’ and very rapidly detect the signals. For Professor Blair, the search for gravitational waves, which he describes as ‘ripples in the curvature of space’, has been a consuming passion. “This is the only way so far that humanity has been able to get direct evidence of the first stars
in the universe. And that is wonderful,” he said. It is a wonder he has passed on to his son, whose PhD is focusing on the instability in the detectors. Carl Blair happened to be at one of the US sites when the signal was detected on 14 September, last year. He said it was a very exciting to be there when one of the holy grails of physics was proven.
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“Arriving at work the following morning everything was abuzz. Emails flying around the place with what looked like a gravitational wave signal,” he said. But there was scepticism the system could have been hacked, and scientists ran tests to rule out every other possibility other than gravitational waves as the source of the signal. “It started quite an entertaining search to try and work out how
He said all the current detectors were in the Northern Hemisphere, meaning it was impossible to tell where in space the gravitational waves were coming from. “To pinpoint, you need to be able to triangulate and that means you really need a detector in the Southern Hemisphere,” he said. “So, for years we’ve been planning that we should build a big detector on this site in Gingin, to be that key Southern Hemisphere link in the world array.”
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Secret in Their Eyes is a 2015 American mystery thriller film written and directed by Billy Ray, based on the 2005 novel originally titled El secreto de sus Ojos by Argentine authors, Juan Jose Campanella and Eduardo Sacheri. Sacheri’s novel was previously adapted into the 2009 Argentine film The Secret in Their Eyes, directed by Juan José Campanella, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards. The film was released by STX Entertainment late last year. In Los Angeles, FBI counter-terrorism investigator Ray Karsten (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and district attorney’s investigator, Jess Cobb (Julia Roberts) go about their day in the office. Newly hired assistant DA, Claire Sloan (Nicole Kidman), an attractive Harvard graduate, is gaining Ray’s attention. Jess is pushing Ray to ask Claire out, to Ray’s disapproval, since Claire recently became engaged. While Jess and Ray bicker, they receive a call about an unknown female’s body found in a dumpster near a mosque that Ray is investigating for possible terror links. Arriving on the scene, Ray takes the first look at the body and is deeply shocked to see that it is Jess’s daughter, Caroline, raped, brutally murdered and bleached inside and out.
Jess is distraught when she learns the news and breaks down. Ray vows to find the suspect and do justice. Now, thirteen years later, after obsessively searching every day for the elusive killer, Ray finally uncovers a new lead that he’s certain can resolve the case, nail the vicious murderer, and bring long-desired closure to his team. No one is prepared, however, for the shocking, unspeakable secret that will reveal the enduring, destructive effects of personal vengeance on the soul.
Interweaving past and present, this deeply layered mystery explores the murky boundaries between justice and revenge, and asks the question: how far would you go to right an unfathomable wrong? Ray and Claire are reunited once again, their attraction now obvious. Ray discovers that Jess had kidnapped her daughter’s murderer thirteen years prior and has been keeping him in a cage at her isolated farmhouse.
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For intellectual stimulation, you can listen to guest speakers, participate in Bridge tournaments or attend wine lectures and high teas. Singles can enjoy the camaraderie of communal meals and organized shore tours, special singles’ meetand-greets, a host of onboard activities and, on some ships, solo cabins. You’ll find swimming pools, boutiques, libraries, casino’s, games rooms, gyms and spas on board. You can participate in contests, do crafts, watch movies or simply grab a book and get a tan.
with Melanie Grigoratos, Bridge the World Travel and Cruise Centre. Two Rocks.
Gone are the days when cruising was just for the ‘newly wed and nearly dead’. On the upside, cruise companies are increasingly targeting families, offering a myriad of programs, entertainment and facilities that rival those on land. For kid theres water parks, kids clubs, teen discos, video games and a variety of crafts projects and interactive play. Hip and urban travelers will be pleased to find gourmet dining, high-tech and modern entertainment and late-night action at onboard bars and clubs.
For the more adventurous, there are recreational options like waterslides, rock climbing walls and ropes courses. Some cruise liners even feature bumper cars, roller skating and indoor skydiving onboard, tennis, lawn bowls and croquet! Cruise ships come in a variety of sizes and personalities. You’ll find a wide variations of choices from ocean liners, mega ships, small ships, exploreroriented ships, decadent luxury ships, river ships, family ships, sailing ships etc. There literally is a ship to suit everyone! Prices range from extremely affordable sale fares to superpricey for fancy suites on luxury lines and your fare includes your accommodation, meals in main dining venues, activities (including children’s programs) and nighttime entertainment as well as transportation from port to port.
When you factor in all of the costs you’d incur on a land vacation, you’ll discover that you can often save money by booking a cruise. Some extras are not included, such as specialty restaurants, some coffee and ice cream bars, soft drinks and alcoholic beverages, shore excursions, spa treatments and gratuities. There’s not much downside to cruising other than you may sometimes encounter rough seas, cabins are generally smaller than hotel rooms and viruses can spread quickly in confined spaces, but you can stay healthy by washing your hands often and using the hand sanitizer lotion found in dining areas and by the ship’s gangway. Seasickness can usually be relieved with overthe-counter medication.
General travel precautions on board should be adhered to as you would on land.
to protect passengers’ (and crew members’) safety while onboard.
Keep any valuables in your cabin’s safe (or leave them at home), and parents, should give children strict rules about roaming the ship without adult supervision, especially near the swimming pool.
The rules regulate everything from fire safety to navigation and maritime security.
Like most land-based resorts, few ships have lifeguards, so make sure to review pool safety tips before your cruise. Concerned about putting on weight? There is more than enough ways to work off the bulge with all the activities and equipment on board! Safety wise, cruise companies must follow an extraordinary number of rules and regulations
Before the ship sails, everyone has to participate in a safety drill that includes instructions on locating and putting on life jackets and finding your assigned lifeboat. Overall I’m sure you would agree that cruising is an affordable, interactive and entertaining way to see the world – why not try it? You may get hooked! Speak to your local travel agent, their cruise specialists, can provide up-to-date information on cruises and specials.
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1 Person under age 6 Inherited character unit 10 Baptismal vessel 14 Pertaining to cattle 19 Criterion 23 Loses colour 24 Fondness 25 Disturbance 27 Sunny 28 Sink down through fear 29 Precious stone 30 Venture 31 Stopped 33 Encounter 35 Fermentation vessel 36 Sea nymph 37 Fastener 39 Go by ship 41 Follow orders 43 Agitate 45 Put to flight 47 Pale 48 Alone 49 Insurgent 52 Vast age 53 Solicit alms 54 Public transport 56 Heavy substance 58 Sweetener 59 Japanese monetary unit 60 Corridors 62 Added clause 64 Colour 65 Fork spikes 67 Curve 69 Deputized group 71 Breadth 73 Firm hold 74 Saint (abb)
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2 In case that 3 Inferior horse 4 Lyric poems 5 Send money 7 Dash 8 And not 9 Happening 11 Spoken 12 No score 13 Toddlers 15 Out from 16 Vigour 17 Passive 18 Born 19 Gathering of witches 20 Absent 21 Fish trap 22 Alternatively 26 Cha 30 Storehouse 31 Employ 32 Dreadful 34 Lofty structure 38 Melodies 40 Unbound 42 Sack 43 Temperate 44 Liquor dregs 46 As new 50 Trumpet blast 51 Scourge 53 Wicked 55 Single entity 57 Coarse paintings 60 Quill 61 Farm birds 63 Loud noise 66 Boxes 68 Neon (sym) 70 Leave out 72 For example (init)
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1 Myself 3 Rescue 5 Literary ridicule 7 Decay 8 Gaul 10 Outcome 12 Laurel tree 15 Golfer’s warning 16 Sleeveless cloaks 18 Labyrinth 19 Continent 20 Greek letter 22 Rodents 23 Sailor (coll) 24 Deity 26 Speaks 29 Slippery fish 31 Pace 34 Country 35 Descendant of the Zoroastrians 38 Taker of illegal interest 42 On the move 44 Mode of transport 47 Airtight grain store 48 Ostentation 50 Breaks out 53 Light cavalryman 55 Insect 58 Satellite 59 Top card 60 Egg-shaped 61 Turns to use 63 Say again 64 Tells tales (coll) 65 Instructive example
66 Of birth
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1 Floor covering 2 Dispossess by law 3 Soaks 4 Before (poet) 5 Tolerable 6 Napoleon’s isle of exile 7 Trace back 9 Long thin candles 11 One granted a lease 13 Still 14 Army weapon 16 Domestic animals 17 Wise men 21 Rowing implements 25 Numbered musical work 26 Table utensil 27 Old stringed instrument 28 Neat 30 Deadly 32 Fish 33 Unit of noise intensity 36 Soak 37 Fuel 39 Unbending 40 Bird 41 Large cupola 43 Modern Persia 45 Govern 46 Egyptian goddess 49 Extinct bird 51 Vegetable 52 Distress signal 54 Cricket score 56 America (init) 57 Obtain 62 Australian state (init)
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2 Out of bed 4 Courageous 5 Insane 6 Bring up 8 Encourage in crime 10 Wrath 11 Periods in history 14 Repeat 16 Telegram
19 Plant 21 Examines 23 Man’s name 25 Very indirect 28 Former Indian coin 30 Nimble 32 Flightless bird 33 Airman 34 Narrow way 37 Musical sounds 39 Rested 41 Bailiff 44 Old-womanish 45 Savoury 47 Study 48 God of love 50 Cricket trophy 52 Concerning 54 Hitler’s bodyguard (init) 56 Agave fibre 58 Hex 61 Foot lever 62 Deserve 63 Gratuity 65 Ice cream holder 66 Italian vermouth (UK coll)
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1 Arachnid 3 Style 4 Gives in exchange for 7 Lessen 8 Zodiac sign 9 Wager 12 Proportion 13 Strong twilled fabric 15 Blackboard support 17 Miriti palm 18 Of the kidneys 20 Devoted follower 22 Hackneyed 24 Pass into disuse 26 Gourd 27 Unmelodious 28 In a frenzy 29 Fastener 31 Pierces with horns 32 Half an em 35 Indirect effort 36 Biblical garden 38 Celtic tongue
40 Discharges a debt 42 English public school 43 Receptacles for flowers 46 Makes lace 49 Sun-god 51 Assistant 53 Pinches 55 Vend 57 Trembling poplar 59 Newspaper executive 60 Ancient tongue 64 Australian city
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2 Spielberg’s alien 4 Plant juice 6 Fit out 8 Merriment 9 Scoff 11 Fluent and ready 13 Blackthorn 16 Solemn promise 18 Faucet 19 Not as many 21 Tree 23 Fate 25 Watery part of blood 26 Not fast 27 Administer extreme unction 29 Discharge 32 Poker stake 34 Edible corn spike 36 Wicked emperor 38 Regret 39 Hooked claw 41 Discover 43 Negating prefix 44 Mum 46 Parcel out 47 Colour-scheme and furnishings 48 Web 50 Water pitcher 51 Heights measurer 55 Non-clerical 56 Help 57 Article 59 Forefront 60 Knack 61 First man 63 Register
65 Push 67 Check 68 Beards of barley 69 In the direction of
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1 Relish 3 Light shield (Arch) 5 Heap 7 Coalesce 9 Impartial 10 Waterway 12 Archer’s weapon 14 Shoestring 15 Perform surgery 17 Water hole 19 Renown 20 House covering 22 Low sand hill 24 Counterpart 25 Cicatrice 26 Close up 28 Thin 30 Arbitrator 31 Poet’s Ireland 33 Invalid 35 Flower 37 Single occasion 39 Tribal symbol 40 More agreeable 42 Delaware (abb) 43 Announcement 45 Cry, as cattle 46 Pertaining to a grandparent 47 Of the dative case (gramm) 49 Meadow 52 Den 53 Laughing restrainedly 54 Dutch cheese 58 Planet 60 Allures 62 Morse element 64 Sisters 66 Cut with blows
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Gingin Triathlon Road Closures 28 February 2016 The Gingin Triathlon, consisting of swim, cycle and run legs, is to be held in the townsite of Gingin on Sunday 28 February 2016. The program commences at 7.00am at the Gingin Aquatic Centre, with an intended finishing time of approximately 10.30am. It is intended that the road closures will commence from 7.00am. In order to provide competitor safety the following roads will be closed from vehicular traffic: Proposed Full Road Closures Intersection of Weld Street and New Street (old Recreation Centre entrance) Intersection of Mooliabeenee Road and Old Mooliabeenee Road Intersection of Weld Street and Church Street Intersection of Weld Street and Horan Street Intersection of Weld Street and Jones Street Intersection of Weld Street and Brockman Street (at bridge) Intersection of Brockman Street and Weld Street/Dewar Road (near the Cemetery) Proposed Partial Road Closures with Marshall Control Dewar Road from the Gingin Golf Course entrance to McHavloe Drive Any queries on the intended road closures please contact the Shire’s Executive Manager Operations, Allister Butcher, on 9575 5142 during office hours.
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Woodridge Community Market We are excited to announce that a monthly market is starting in Woodridge (a leisurely 25 minute drive north of Yanchep along Indian Ocean Drive). The Woodridge Community Market has evolved from a group of passionate people that live in the area that wanted to create an opportunity for local residents to attend a local regular market where they can buy fresh produce, treat themselves to something special, catch up with friends and meet other local residents. We also wanted to provide an outlet for small local businesses that work from home. The Woodridge Community Market will be held on the second Sunday of each month commencing the 10th April and will be held in the lovely shady grounds of the Woodridge Community Centre located at the corner of Indian Ocean Drive and King Drive Woodridge. The market will run from 8:00am until 11:30am. We will have a great variety of stalls including in season produce, biodynamic and organic produce, Dorper Lamb from Cervantes, plants, homemade preserves, handmade crafts, unique gifts and a wellness corner. Also, if you want to treat yourself to a nice breakfast or lunch whilst you are there you can pop into Verge Cafe, 13 King Drive Woodridge; they are open 8:00am until 5:00pm. Be sure to add this date into your calendar and we look forward to seeing you on Sunday, 10th April. Woodridge Community Market – bringing local communities together
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25 February 2016
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Gingin/Chittering Lions
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Guilderton Community Association
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9577 1528
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Guilderton Moore River Visitor Centre
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Meetings and Events Your daily guide of local things to do, places to go and community activities SUNDAY 28 FEBRUARY Gingin Triathlon
TUESDAY 15 MARCH Casino Bus Trip
SUNDAY 27 MARCH Woodridge Easter Market
Starts at Gingin Aquatic Centre 7.30am. Great family fun.
The Community Casino Bus will leave the Phil Renkin Centre at 5.15pm and then picks up passengers at the Yanchep Sports Club, both places have parking.
See you at the Woodridge Community Centre for the Easter Market. 8.00am to 12noon.
SATURDAY 5 MARCH Polymer Play Day Two Rocks Yanchep Cultural Arts Network’s Polymer Play Day. 10am to 3pm.
SATURDAY 5 MARCH Jazz and Movie in the Park Music by WA Youth Jazz Orchestra followed by the movie ‘Home’. Face painting, bouncy castle in Key Biscayne Park, Ledge Point, from 4:00pm onwards. This is a free Shire of Gingin event.
SUNDAY 6 MARCH Lancelin Primary School Monster Fete
This trip will be a $10 special, which includes $5 bus fare, a meal at Café, Noodle Bar or Carvers, $1 Keno and $3 free play on your Membership Card. The Coach will leave the Casino at 11p.m. Book your seat, call Linda on 9561 5321.
Meet at the Guilderton Country Club in Wedge Street at 8am. Free Sausage Sizzle afterwards.
SATURDAY 12 MARCH Retro Rewind Live music, entertainment, vintage collective market, and hot rods in the Yanchep National Park, 1:00pm to 5:00pm. This is a free event.
The Sun City Yacht Club will be holding a Quiz Night at the club rooms on Friday 18th March. Clubrooms open from 5:30 and Quiz form 7:00pm.
Two Rocks Yanchep Cultural Arts Network’s Micro Macrame. 2pm to 4pm.
SATURDAY 19 MARCH Concert in Park Free concert at Gabbadah Park, Guilderton, starting at 4.00pm with Bernard Carney. Moore Men’s Shed will provide refreshments for sale.
SUNDAY 13 MARCH Red Hawks Registration Day Players and membership registration day at St Andrews Park, from 11.00am. BBQ provided, come down and get involved.
TUESDAY 15 MARCH SCYC Quiz Night The Sun City Yacht Club will be holding a Quiz Night at the Pickled Herring in the Two Rocks Shopping Complex. Restaurant open from 5:30pm and quiz starts at 7:30pm.
SATURDAY 19 MARCH Equinox Detox Yanchep Colour Dieters meet at Curry On The Rocks, Two Rocks, for a Detox Eatiquette Game between 6.30 and 7.30pm. Call Sunny 9561 25 by 16 March.
SATURDAY 26 MARCH Easter Fair Lancelin CWA Easter Fair at Lancelin CWA Hall, cnr Gingin Rd and Miragliotta Street from 9:00am to 3:00pm.
SPORTS RESULTS S Ahluwalia 38. Ladies: P GOLF Graham ocb P Bekker 36, Guilderton GC A Mann 31. Wed 3 Feb - Scroungers: Sun 14 Feb - S/ford Men: B Hardeman 18, T Button D Strain 41, G Scott 40, 17, Bill Briehus, B Wegner, A Attrill 39. Ladies: M J Bresland 16. NTP: P Dickerson 40, A Mann 34, Flavell, B Wegner. Longest M Glover 31. putt: R Re, P Flavell. Tues 16 Feb - Par: L Wells Sat 6 Feb - S/ford: B ocb B McDonald and J Hardeman 42, B Hicks, Dunstan 72. P Flavell 34, R Prince, M Schmiedte 33. Longest putt: M Scmiedte. NTP: P Rouse, P Flavell. Best 2nd shot: M Schmiedte. Best 3rd shot: P Flavell.
Sun City CC Sat 13 Feb - S/ford Men: P Kahru 41, P Hopes 39,
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FRIDAY 18th MARCH SCYC Quiz Night
SATURDAY 19 MARCH Micro Macrame
SUNDAY 6 MARCH Clean Up Australia
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Yanchep GC Sat 13 Feb - R Dixon 65, J Mcintyre 67, I Lowe 70, J Tonti 74. Sat 20 Feb - S/ford: W Pawlenko 42, G Curtis, J Mcintyre 39, K Attwood 38.
Moore River Weight Watchers
9577 1573
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9577 1495
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Two Rocks Yanchep Culture & Arts Network
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Woodridge Lower Coastal Computer Group
9577 1498
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9561 2512
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Yanchep Redhawks Cricket Club
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Yanchep Redhawks Football Club
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Yanchep Sports & Social Club
9561 1196
Yanchep Two Rocks Arts & Craft Workshop
9561 2738
Yanchep Two Rocks Catholic Church
9561 21 72
Yanchep Two Rocks Lions Club
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Yanchep Two Rocks Community Rec Assoc.
9561 1538
Yanchep Two Rocks Home Support Group
0417 954 522
Yanchep Two Rocks RSL
9561 1672
Yanchep Two Rocks Senior Citizens
9561 1287
Yanchep United Football Club (Soccer)
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25 February 2016
SPORT - WAAFL new president with Dennis Heaney At the Annual General Meeting of the West Australian Amateur Football League (WAAFL),held last Wednesday evening outgoing president, John Davies, was replaced as president by Sam Birmingham, West Coast Amateur Football Club president for the past two years. Davies has been president of the WAAFL for the past 20 years, however his demise was not entirely unexpected as the winds of change had been blowing prior to the meeting. Birmingham, a holder of both law and economics degrees is currently a business owner and university lecturer in addition to his role as president of the West Coast Amateur Club and would appear to being more than capable of moving the league into the future. Davies has been an amateur football stalwart being on the committee for 40 years. twenty of which were served as president. There is no doubt that he has served amateur football
Photo (Courtesy of Kylie Hall): Red Hawks have started training. exceptionally well and that the league should be eternally grateful for the services rendered over his lifetime. Another amateur football stalwart in Milton Sanders, a long standing WAAFL supporter and board member also lost his position on the board. It appears that the WAAFL may be preparing for a change in
direction and this fact should be an encouragement for clubs like the Yanchep Amateur Football Club as they approach their initial season in the amateur league and make their presence felt by supporting the new administration and performing creditably both on and off the field.
Apparently there were initially six nominations for the presidency, but after there were three withdrawals on the night with the final vote being a three way contest with victory going to Birmingham. This is first time in the history of the WAAFL that the new president was not elected from the ranks of the existing committee.
A quick appraisal of the 2015 premiership ladders in the higher grades indicates that the strength of the older and once more powerful, both on and off field, clubs may be on the wane and this clears the way for newer clubs in developing areas to grow make their mark in the football world.