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Residents back renewable energy, better waste management Queenscliffe residents are “significantly” residents, with 70 per cent aged 55 and 59 per cent female. concerned about climate change, with 69 per cent of respondents to a recent survey supporting a Just six percent of respondents were aged target of becoming a zero carbon community under 35. by 2031. A separate workshop was conducted with 12 Three hundred-and-46 people participated local school children.   in the survey – an initial stage of community engagement towards to the development of the “Renewable energy investment was borough’s first Climate Emergency Response consistently the most popular project Plan (CERP). suggestion with both survey respondents and school students. This project suggestion ranked Most respondents said they feared how highly in both prompted and unprompted climate change will impact future generations responses, and regardless of who was taking and the things they value about living in the responsibility for the action - both Council- borough, identifying sea level rise, erosion and led and community-led renewable energy habitat destruction as their biggest concerns. initiatives were highly popular,” the Council said. Asked what the CERP should include, investment in renewable energies, improved “Changes to waste management and waste management and becoming a zero behaviour also ranked highly for both groups carbon community were listed as top priorities. among suggested actions.” The survey asked a series of open-ended “Survey respondents also tended to feel the questions, but prompted respondents to share plan should be ambitious, setting targets for their own ideas. It collected upwards of 1,200 Council and the community to become zero- separate suggestions. carbon within a decade,” it said. The majority of respondents were BoQ DIGBY MORAN War on Waste earns recognition LANDSCAPES (Assoc. Dip Hort, Burnely) The Queenscliff Music Festival’s War on waste and actively ensuring cleaner grounds Waste has earned it three nominations in this for patrons to encourage more conscious waste Specialising in low-maintenance, year’s Premier’s Sustainability Awards. disposal behaviour. low-water gardens The event is one of 28 finalists, announced Partnering with Feed Me Bellarine and food Design & Construction across 10 categories. vendors, 500kg of excess food was also salvaged Quality Paving and delivered to residents in need. Retaining Walls The QMF has been nominated for the Turf Community, Environmental Volunteering and And over 500 families were engaged through Irrigation Environmental Protections categories. Bellarine Catchment Network in festival activities, including propagation of seedlings Landscape Plans for Council The initiative resulted in 95 per cent of waste which were later planted across the local dune approval collected at the 2019 festival being diverted system. from landfill. Qualified Tree Arborist Award winners will be announced on The result was achieved through the festival Wednesday, December 16. 0412 520 438 or becoming the first event of its size to become 5258 1547 fully reusable, with all vendors serving reusable crockery, cups and cutlery, upcycling build email: [email protected] Feed Me Bellarine issues help plea Support service, Feed Me Bellarine, has made a plea for donations to HOME MAINTENANCE help meet growing demand. Including • BATHROOMS The not-for-profit charity, staffed by volunteers, provides welfare in • KITCHENS the form of free meals prepared from discarded and donated produce to those in need across the Bellarine, Geelong and Surf Coast. Grant Rogers - Point Lonsdale PH: 0438 261954 “Our deliveries are up day by day. Our phone is ringing more and more. Our emails are flooded with requests for help but also thanks for what we do. We need some help,” the service said. Donations to a Go Fund Me page will help the service cook 10 hours a day, set up its kitchens, buy containers to pack food and “keep the lights on,” according to the service. Donations are tex deductible and donors will be invited to a “wasted dinner” night next year. gf.me/u/y5cdtp The Rip December 2020 Page 33

The Rip Community Directory EMERGENCY BUILDING MAINTENANCE & EDUCATION Borough of Queenscliffe 5258 1377 HANDYMAN Point Lonsdale Primary School 5258 1501 Coast Guard 000 Queenscliff Primary School 5258 1696 Point Lonsdale S.L.S.C. 5258 4123 Matt's Handyman Services 0418 127 028 State Emergency Service 132 500 Steve's Handyman Service 0497 331788 ELECTRICIANS Home Maintenance 0431 488706 ACCOMMODATION Patrick McCarthy Maintenance 0408 075 330 Col Ferrier 52581553, 0448 813 156 Coastal Property Maintenance 0404 088 500 LMAC Electrical Services 0438 545500 Lon Retreat 5258 2990 Seagull Home Maintenance 0438 261 954 I & S Ransom Electrical 0418 336 670 Kerleys Coastal 5258 4100 Warren Jankowski Electrical 0404 163609 Queenscliff & Coastal Holiday BUSINESS BROKER Bookings 5258 3763 Kerr Capital Business Broker 0416 213 300 FENCING Queenscliff & Pt Lonsdale Acomm Paul Farmer Point Lonsdale Fencing 0408 581 439 www.qpla.com.au 52581640/0407866568 CABINET MAKERS Ruby’s Queenscliff 0407 879096 Jake Masterman 0417168537 FITNESS - SPORT INSTRUCTORS ACCOUNTING/BOOKKEEPING CARPENTRY Bellarine Pilates 0418 519655 Epic Bookkeeping 0449 168299 Damien Mason (Carpenter) 0417 891122 Kerry Pettigrove Fitness 5258 1670 0418 147 174 Crigan Bookkeeping 0416 148861 Carpenter Fully licensed James Rush - Rush Group 0400 853 674 FUNERALS LBW Accounting 5221 6111 CAFE - CATERING Bellarine Memories 5255 5500 Kings Australia Funerals 5222 3688 AIRCONDITIONING 0418 336 670 Ocean Bar & Cafe 5258 2441 Tuckers Funeral Service 5221 4788 5258 4829 I & S Ransom Heating/Cooling Saltbush ANTENNAS - AUDIO 0404019781 CIVIL CELEBRANTS 0488 053099 GARDENERS/MOWING 0447 625 661 5258 1616 0488 885 296 Kendall Antennas Sue Warner Civil Celebrant 0419 121003 Lena McLaren Gardening 0400 568 629 Val Lawrence Marr. Celebrant Lawn Order - Pt Lonsdale 0408 357 116 & Communications Jen Lawrie-Smith Mel's Gardening 0412 770 232 Ken Adam 131 546 ARCHITECTS/PERMITS/INSPECTIONS COMMUNITY GROUPS Lawrence Property Care 0403 863 360 Jim’s Mowing Thomas Andrews Designs 0423 298 666 Rotary Club 5258 4723. Andrew Stephenson Mowing Lions Club 5258 4648 J3 Design & Warren Hobbs Architects Masonic Centre Queenscliff 0400 553939 Neighbourhood House 5258 3367 0417 543 786 Probus Q’cliff/Pt Lonsdale 5258 4308 Probus Queenscliffe - mixed 0419 151673 Tony Baenziger Architect 0412 823 488 Point Lonsdale Civic Assoc. 0400 083719 Queenscliffe Community Assoc. 5258 3381 Binder-Peart Design Pty Ltd 0437 463125 Queenscliff Environment Forum 5258 3360 GARDEN/LANDSCAPING Queenscliffe Historical Museum 5258 2511 0413 202300 Queenscliff Library 5258 2017 A Cut Above - Garden Design & Maintenance Queenscliff Music Festival 5258 4816 Stuart Miller Permits/Design 0412 841434 Queenscliff Reconciliation Mob 5258 1722 0423 276 574/0412 073 876 Red Cross 5258 1616 ART - GALLERIES Rural Australians For Refugees 0418 340155 Coastal Elements Landscaping 0455 971 515 Senior Citizens 5255 2856 Salt Contemporary Art 5258 3988 Swan Bay Environment Assoc. 040 045 009 Digby Moran Landscaping 0412 520 438 Seaview Gallery 5258 3645 Swan Bay Ladies Probus 5258 1871 Queenscliff Gallery 4202 0942. Nathan Hovey Landscaping 0411 571 482 Peter Macmillan lawns/gutters 0415 493 302 AUTO Rip View Landscapes 0419 890 082 Queenscliff Junction Motors 52581841 Queenscliffe Indigenous Nursery 0401 281 448 5258 4668 Steve Higgins Auto Elec. GLASS/GLAZIER BOAT REPAIRS/MARINE 52581305, Kev's Window, Door & Glazing 04185 19078 JRV Glass & Property maintenance 0439 497069 Queenscliff Marine Services COMPUTER SERVICES/REPAIRS GRAPHIC DESIGN 0412 460 987 Leonardo Design Agency BUILDERS Laurie’s Computers 0418 302178 0467 620 189 Clark Homes Leigh's Computer Services 0439 024870 Craig Fenby David McDonald 52584640 DJ’s Computer Help 0411 135733 HAIRDRESSERS/SALONS Dangerfiled Constructions 0419 392 537 Ian Warren 0418 599620 CONCRETING Seagalls and Buoys 5258 4854 GROW Build & Design 0424 389176 Ocean Grove Building Service 0418 525 452 Breisch Concrete Floors 0488 088 258 HEATING Michael Limb Builders 0423 175686 O’Dowd Builders 0417 891122 (polished) Classic Fireplaces & Barbecues Paul Riley 0410 650019. I & S Ransom Heating/Cooling Ray Threadwell 5258 1634 DENTAL 1800 007224 5222 1688 0408 520 981 5258 2388 0418 336 670 0418 525 095 BCH Dental Point Lonsdale HOME CLEANING - IRONING Queenscliff Dental DOG GROOMING/WALKING Bizzy Barker 0414 583708 / 5258 3708 La Petterie 5258 5441 Home & Garden Maintenance and BRICK LAYER DRIVING SCHOOL Domestic Cleaning 0412 107 558 Lyndsay Bradley 0407 309 749 Go With Greg 0416 770 695 The Rip December 2020 Page 34

LEGAL - SOLICITORS Labten 5258 1149 Advertise your business in Queenscliff Village News 5258 1828 the Rip Trade Directory for Peter Boyle /Lawyer 5258 1084, 0402 282190 just $70 for 12 months Bruce Arthur/Lawyer 52584847, 0402 133455 REMOVALS & STORAGE FREE with any 12 month McManus Lawyers 93184188 Drysdale Removals & Storage 0418 593 688 advert listing MEDICAL - HEALTH - MASSAGE ROOFING Phone 5258 4131 or email [email protected] Bellarine Community Health J.R Chapman Roofing HENDREY Point Lonsdale 1800 007224 0421962111 CONSULTING PTY LTD Point Lonsdale Health & Wellbeing 52584633 SEWING/REPAIRS INDEPENDENT Beck Gooderham Massage 0428 282921 Sewing repairs & alterations - Lisa 0431 401 010 PROPERTY VALUERS MELBOURNE Day Spa Queenscliff 5258 4233 GEELONG BELLARINE PENINSULA Point Lonsdale Medical Group 5258 0888 SURF COAST Greg Sly Optometrist 5256 1295 SECURITY DOORS/FLYSCREENS An Independent Valuation service providing comprehensive Pardeys Pharmacy 5258 1817 valuation advice & reports Point Lonsdale Physiotherapy 5258 4633 Screens Direct 0419 507 484 for all purposes including Capital Gains Tax Petrina Tierney Massage Therapist 0429 380 317 SIGN WRITING Superannuation Sound Bath and Yoga 0431 110 085 All Signs Signwriting Family Law Internal Accounting & Transfer MOBILE PHONE REPAIRS 0417 345 110 Estate & Probate Bellarine Mobile Phone Repairs 0429 123756 SPA & ACCOMMODATION Mortgage Valuations 0418 314 760 PAINTERS Lon Retreat & Spa 5258 2990 [email protected] Darin Frankpit 0400 000440 SPORTING CLUBS 5258 1523 www.hendrey.com.au 0438 717552 5258 1257 Ricky Moore Lonsdale Golf Club 5258 1150 Point Lonsdale S.L.S.C. 5258 4588 PLUMBERS 0418 524 268 Point Lonsdale Bowls Club 0409 562 976 0408 037 686 Q’Cliff Football/Netball Club 5258 1773 Barry Golightly Plumbing 0418 386916 Q”Cliff/Lonsdale Yacht Club 5258 4588 Annandale Plumbing 0418 509637 Queenscliff Croquet Club 5258 3272 AJM Plumbing Service 0455 363603 Queenscliff Sporting Club 5258 1773 TLR Plumbing 0418 100689 Point Lonsdale Tennis Club 5258 4344 Grant Priddle Queenscliff Bowling Club Mark Riley Plumbing Queenscliff Golf Club PICTURE FRAMING 0439 563355 SPORTS COACHING On the Point Picture Framing Tennis Fanatics - coaching PLASTERING - RENDERING TILING 0418 145028 0419 487860 Plaster - Bryant 0405 252103 Geelong Coastal Tiling Patrick McCarthy 0408 075330 & Waterproofing REAL ESTATE TRAVEL - TOURISM - FERRY Brian Capp – Property Advocate 0418 500 483 Travel With A Difference 5254 1279 Fletchers 5258 2833 Queenscliff Visitor Info centre 5258 4843 Kerleys Coastal Real Estate 5258 4100 Queenscliff Sorrento Ferry Service 5258 3244 Campbell Potts Real Estate 5258 1579 Neil Laws Advisory 0419 583633 VET - ANIMAL HEALTH Rob Hendrey FAPI CPV Bellarine Animal Hospital Independent Property Valuer 0418 314 760 5258 4862 Jeanette Ernst Licensed/Conveyancing WATER PUMPS & IRRIGATION 0407726260 RT Edgar 5258 1811 Just Water Solutions 5258 5193 RETAIL - BUSINESS OUTLETS 0438763462 WINDOW CLEANING Farmfoods 52584744 Eric Harvey - letsgowindowcleaning.com Ocean Bar & Cafe 5258 2441 0448 721399 Queenscliff Grocer 5258 1857 All White Window Cleaning 0488 493984 IGA - Pt Lonsdale 5258 4911 Darin Frankpitt 0400 000440 Lonsdale Tomato Farm 5258 2665 Peter Macmillan Window Cleaning 0415 493302 5258 1579 . [email protected] The Rip December 2020 Page 35

The Queenscliff Music Festival has pivoted into a pop-up summer music venue, providing a leg up to struggling performers and businesses. The Queenscliff Music Festival has provided Ella Hooper and Pierce Brothers (inset) will perform at QMF's new Pelican Bar a much-needed shot in the arm to artists and local businesses hard hit by the COVID-19 QMF transforms into pandemic, with a series of summer concerts. Pelican Bar The response has been The line-up of Pelican Bar includes: Ella The pop up venue, the Pelican Bar, has been amazing so far, not only Hooper, The Black Sorrows, Pierce Brothers, set up in Johnson’s Park, near the Queenscliff from our audience and Bob Evans, FOOLS and Tom Richardson,  Train Station, and will host upwards of 20 acts, the community, but from The Kite Machine and Nardia and Wayne Jury,  including The Black Sorrows, Ella Hooper, The Nicky Bomba with Sarah Carroll, This Way Kite Machine and the Pierce Brothers every artists as well North and Steve McEwan. Jimi Hocking & The weekend until the end of January. – Andrew Orvis McNaMarr Project will feature in a Blues Train Showcase,  The marquee tent venue incorporates a “The response has been amazing so far, not For a full line up of acts and dates, long onto fine dining experience, with meals prepared only from our audience and the community, pelicanbar.com.au by award-winning restaurant the Q Train, but from artists as well. Many were very and local craft beers, gins and wines from the pleased to get a call with a gig offer that’s for Queenscliff Brewhouse and Scotchmans Hill sure! It’s been a long time between gigs for Winery. many,” said Mr Orvis. The 21st Queenscliff Music Festival was “We’re also very excited and pleased to to have been staged on the last weekend of partner with The Q-Train -another local November. business, that like us, has been unable to trade this year. Working together on this Director Andrew Orvis said the Pelican project is giving both of our organisations an Bar, named after one of the fest’s iconic opportunity to do what we love, even if it’s not performance tents, was a way of giving back how we might normally do things. to the music industry and supporting local business. “This program in some ways reflects the usual feel and atmosphere of QMF. Many “The idea came about basically when I had of the artists have performed at the festival the realisation that the only way we could before. In a lot of ways, each show is just a possibly have any music this year was to have small taste of QMF, on a tiny scale! an outdoor dining venue, “he said. “We’ve had a desire all along to do something, whatever was possible this year, in the hope of utilising our staff, resources, expertise, and to generate whatever economic impact we can for our community. “We’ve been developing this idea since restrictions started to ease in Regional Victoria and it’s grown from there. “We see The Pelican Bar as an attraction that will bring tourists to our towns this summer. We’ll encourage them to stay and spend locally as well, especially as we’re only capturing them for a 2 hour show,” Mr Orvis said. “We realise that no QMF this year also has a significant impact on a lot of businesses, so hopefully this can support them in some way as well.” The first release of tickets proved hugely popular, with several shows sold out within hours, prompting the QMF to announce a second line up and providing some struggling artists with their first work since lockdown commenced. Q Train remains sidelined Owners of the award-winning Q Train “Waiting for these restrictions to ease has been restaurant have described waiting for an easing draining, sad and expensive. As a business, and of COVID-19 restrictions as “draining, sad and a family, we needed to start earning income and expensive.” employing our staff as much as possible.” Hospitality venue density restrictions mean The Queenscliff Music Festival’s new Pelican the business remains unable to resume, and Bar will deliver the business some relief. The may stay sidelined until at least February 2021. Q Train will provide catering for the concert series, which runs until the end of January. “It is this density quotient of one [person] per 4m2 that is keeping us closed, not the total “We’re so lucky that we’ve been given an number of patrons,” owners posted on the Q opportunity to work while restrictions would Train Facebook page. “Our carriages are not have otherwise prevented it,” owners said. large, so we simply cannot open under this density quotient. The Rip December 2020 Page 36

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Capturing the essence of Lon A study of Point Lonsdale’s back beach can experience the beauty of the landscapes and landscape will feature in an exhibition by the feelings the landscapes evoke in me when I Bellarine-based photographer Nikole Ramsay am immersed in them,” she says. titled Unfold. Aerial photographs were shot while flying The highly-regarded commercial and with local pilot Jeff Brooks. editorial photographer used a number of techniques to capture the “essence” of Lon - the “Experiencing a familiar landscape from award winning retreat tucked away within sand above is exhilarating and humbling. It changes dunes - including aerial, detailed landscape my perspective on everyday things and shots and unique layered ‘body scapes.’ reminds me of how small my life is and how big and awe inspiring the earth can be. The body-scape images are created through overlaying images into one, creating greater The exhibition will open at Lon on December depth and a deeper understanding of Nikole’s 3 and continue until January 26. own understanding of the landscape. An exhibition of shots by Bellarine-based “On my many visits to Lon, I became photographer Nikole Ramsay explores the aware of the gentle unfolding, unwinding coastal landscape around Point Lonsdale's and unravelling of my body and mind. In this Lon Retreat series of photographs, I use the female form to visually translate those feelings, so the viewer Colour and fun for Christmas 'Love at first sight' by Kate Smith (detail) A whimsical Christmas is on the cards at Seaview Gallery, with the the colourful pastels of Kate Smith, Christine Robinson paintings and Anne-Marie Gentile’s ceramics bringing a playfulness and fun. The exhibition, ‘Certain to Delight’ is the perfect way to end 2020, according to the gallery’s Colleen Kenwood. “Certain to Delight is a great description of Kate’s and Christine’s work. Both artists have a delightful whimsy about them,” she said. “Kate’s amazing pastel work is often elegant women with a quirky twist. Her work expresses her understanding of life’s magnificence and sometimes, indifference, while Christine’s work is mostly intuitive. “There are several recurring symbols which inhabit the paintings, cats, flowers, birds, trees, teapots and houses. “Ann-Maree likes to celebrate the mundane and draw inspiration from the everyday,” Colleen said. ! KEXAH!T\"#EI$B%SI&TM'(I#O)I%TN*H%+&),(&C#(H-$%R,.I/S(-&T.I-%N$6E0$)-(#R/((7#O$(.%-%B%+IN$1,\"S'(+O&%N %234A%5N$+N$'-/M$5, -A31\"R--EDE2E'\"GCEE,$MN$%TBIELRE @!!\"0 Seaview Gallery 86 Hesse St Queenscliff 3225 co,!n3\"t+#e(m$%%p4o5r\"a3&r6y'7(#6- t8)r)#a9\"#d*(6i+t7io:.n'('.a'3'l'+''-'7'g'-'l#'a;''s#'s<'''--'7'j'e&''w'&'9'e#'&l'#l''e,'*r'-'y'5''('*''6%##'#'w'#'':#s''e#'a'#'v'#'ie'#w#!g\"#a##l$le#%r#y#.&c#o&#m%#.a##u#'(|###e)*:5%s=ea%#v2i+e1w&2g,!-0a.l/\"le/>#r2yp0@#:1!5#e12f#t25e#l8.4n3#e6t?.4a>5u1!@@!!\"0 The Rip December 2020 Page 38