Committee For Lorne: A word from the Chairman – July 19, 2018

Ah well – another big week in Lorne albeit middle of winter, the last weekend of school holidays and so many activities focusing on local community participation, it’s a great time of the year and when you have a weather pattern like last Saturday and Sunday, there are no boundaries to what you can do in Lorne. With schools resuming earlier this week a little of the “buzz” has disappeared from town, and while many locals are preparing to visit other parts of the country and the world, Lorne certainly doesn’t “stop” through the cooler months like I remember so well in my youth.

At the local football on Saturday Lorne played host to the Irrewara-Beeac Football and Netball Club on a cloudless, still, but cool, Saturday afternoon with a scattering of visitors and prominent local non-permanent residents. Great as always to have The Governor of Victoria the Honourable Linda Dessau AC, with her husband Tony Howard QC, supporting their beloved Dolphins at the Stribling Reserve Oval albeit a strange task for them both as the visiting team wore the Essendon coloured guernsey where they are both staunch corporate supporters.

Talking about some of our notable part time residents it was appropriately bought to my attention the Federal Minister for the Environment and Energy The Honourable Mr Josh Frydenberg MP was spotted cleaning up around his waste bins after our infamous cockatoos had completed another evening raid on Sunday at the family’s Lorne residence – Good on you Josh!

Don’t forget to mark in your diaries an important event coming up as the Parents Club of the Lorne School send an open invitation to their next fundraising event. At the Lorne Senior Citizens Hall, the team will be hosting a Movies and TV Quiz night on the evening of the 11th of August. Being hosted by Lorne’s very own Rusty Berther the evening will feature games, prizes, trivia, dancing and fun so go to www.trybooking.com/398520 to secure you spot now.

Whilst on the school, we were saddened to hear the resignation of school principal Karen Biggelaar who is returning to Ballarat where she has been appointed Principal of a large, multi-campus school for special needs students from kinder to year 12. Karen will be a loss to our school and also to the Committee for Lorne where she was active member and great advocate for Lorne – Karen, we wish you well!

In closing I feel sure that the entire Lorne and wider community are with me in passing on condolences and the warmest of wishes to the entire Armistead family with the very sad passing of Fiona. A life taken too early of a member of one Lorne’s generational and most respected families. – RIP Fiona.

Ian Stewart
Chairman – Committee for Lorne