16/03/2010 LEONGATHA’s Peter McNiven and team brought home the third place trophy for the Mini Challenge at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide on the weekend.
The team only completed one test day prior to the event.
It was Peter’s first event in a Mini Challenge car.
“If you had said to me that we could bring home a podium last week I wouldn’t have believed you. We are all rapt,” he said.
“With a lot of damaged cars throughout the weekend, as on all street courses, keeping a cool head

16/03/2010 By Matt Dunn
BASS COAST mayor Peter Paul believes the Federal Government must commit money and resources to help fight the effects of climate change.
Cr Paul attended the National Seachange Taskforce conference in Byron Bay, NSW, recently and saw first hand the most devastating aspects of coastal erosion.
“We’ve got to be cognisant of the issues surrounding sea change in planning. It’s not something you can just wave a wand at. This

16/03/2010 By Jane Ross
THE tension between desalination plant consortium AquaSure and protest group Watershed Victoria has exploded.
Each accuses the other of dirty tactics.
AquaSure chairman Chloe Munro has issued an open letter to Watershed accusing some of its members of intimidating, harassing and embarrassing its staff at the desalination information office in Wonthaggi.
Watershed denies the allegations and has issued its own open le

16/03/2010 Newly introduced liquor licensing laws threaten local events and festivals and have left a bad taste with local winery owners.
Lyre Bird Hill Winery and Guest House’s Owen Schmidt said fees to attend festivals have gone up dramatically.
“It’s up to $90 for an occasion and that will make us consider whether we do some of these smaller ones,” he said.
They go to about 12 festivals a year, creating a bit of a hole in the budget for the small Koonwarra winery.
Festivals

16/03/2010 By Matt Dunn
POLICE are investigating major crimes at both ends of South Gippsland, with an armed bank hold-up at Mirboo North and an alleged gang sexual assault of two girls, aged 13 and 15, in Wonthaggi.
A heavily acne scarred man, who held up a bank in Mirboo North last Thursday is being hunted by police, who have asked for public assistance to help track him.
The man entered the Bendigo Bank outlet on Ridgway Street at about 2pm