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Sandringham Foreshore Newsletter Winter Issue June 2013
SANDRINGHAM FORESHORE ASSOCIATION (SFA) Founded January 2007 ABN
42947116512 A CHARITABLE NOT FOR PROFIT VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION SFA
PO Box 52 Sandringham 3191 E-mail: [email protected]
Website www.sandyforeshore.net.au From the president of SFA Dr
Vicki Karalis
In this issue, SFA are proud to profile Ray Lewis a long-term
Bayside resident who is passionate about his local beaches and
environment. We are privileged to benefit from his ongoing service
and dedication to the community and his constant attendance to the
needs of our Bayside foreshore. Ray plays a major role in educating
all ages (from young to old) about marine life, flora, fauna and
beach processes through Marine Care Ricketts Point in Beaumaris. We
thank you Ray for all your hard work - it is truly valued by the
community!
http://www.sandyforeshore.net.au/
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We are also pleased to announce that we have secured a meeting
with the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Ryan Smith
(organised through our local MP Murray Thompson) together with
regional director of DSE Rodney Warren. The meeting will allow us
to discuss the concerns of cliff erosion of the Sandringham beaches
that we continue to witness over summer and autumn periods, and to
set up a community reference group. We are confident of achieving
some real outcomes to address these ongoing problems. We are
extremely grateful to Minister Smith, Rodney Warren, our local
Council, Mayor, Councillors and especially Murray Thompson for
their ongoing interest and support in our efforts to help protect
our foreshore in Sandringham. The SFA committee have been extremely
active in meeting with relevant parties and coastal experts. We are
privileged that one of our committee members Helen Gibson was able
to make contact with Associate Professor Ian Goodwin of the Marine
Climate Risk Group, Climate Futures and Department of Environment
and Geography, Macquarie University, to discuss some of the
circumstances of the Sandringham beaches, and of the existence of
the coastal reports that were written for SFA in the past. In
response he has provided us with a template for discussion with DSE
and coastal experts. We are also grateful to receive on-going
support from Dr Wayne Stephenson who is now based in New Zealand at
the University of Otago and to this day, continues to support and
liaise with us. Below are sample old photos of our local beach that
will interest you. Thank you to Garry Allen, a local resident and
committee member of the Beaumaris Conservation Society, who helped
me source these and many other photos through our State Library. We
also thank Shirley Joy, a local resident of Sandringham for
providing some original historical photos. If you have any
historical photos of our beach, we would love to see them. Please
contact us. Recently I was proud to attend the Beaumaris
Conservation Society 60th Anniversary celebration dedicated to
their long-standing members who have worked hard on a voluntary
capacity to help conserve, restore and protect the environment
especially in the Beaumaris region. [See photo of the BCS
celebration below]. Do you have any environmental news or stories
you would like to share with SFA members in our next newsletter? We
would love to hear from you. Yours with kindness, Vicki Karalis
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Sandringham Harbour -note the water reaching the revetment
wall
Hampton Beach looking at Hampton Lifesaving club Rose
Stereograph Co [c1920-1954].
http://digital.slv.vic.gov.au/view/action/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=423542.xml&dvs=1369133888339~984&locale=en_US&se
arch_terms=&adjacency=&divType=&usePid1=true&usePid2=true
Sandringham Harbour - note the sand siltation Description: Pier
and foreshore, Sandringham. Date: 1963 Source: Leader Collection
http://localhistory.kingston.vic.gov.au/htm/imgal/1.htm
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South of Picnic Point
Beach and Baths, Sandringham. Date(s) of creation: [ca. 1914]
postcard : printed, b&w ; 8.8 x 13.8 cm. approx. Reproduction
rights owned by the State Library of Victoria.
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/gid/slv-pic-aab43963
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First Beach, Sandringham Rose Stereograph Co [c1920-1954]
http://digital.slv.vic.gov.au/view/action/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=409355.xml&dvs=1369133346850~625&locale=en_US&se
arch_terms=&adjacency=&divType=&usePid1=true&usePid2=true
Sandringham Beach Date(s) of creation: [n. d.] 1 photographic
print : gelatin silver ; 16.8 x 21.5 cm. Reproduction rights
owned by the State Library of Victoria
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/gid/slv-pic-aab73752
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Sandringham, Victoria Date(s) of creation: [ca. 1910-ca. 1940] 1
photographic print : gelatin silver ; 12.5 x 20.5 cm. Reproduction
rights owned by the State Library of Victoria.
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictures/gid/slv-pic-aaa41321
Sandringham. Melbourne. Date(s) of creation: [1928-1929]
photograph : gelatin silver ; 6.2 x 8.9 cm. Reproduction rights
owned by the State Library of Victoria
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/gid/slv-pic-aab73757
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Beach opposite Tennyson St
Rudd, Charles 1849-1901 photographer. Sandringham Beach Date(s)
of creation: [1892-1900] photograph : printing out
paper ; 13.6 x 20.5 cm., on printed paper mount 19.3 x 23.3 cm.
Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of Victoria.
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/gid/slv-pic-aab53764
Sandringham beach, opposite Sandringham Hotel 1910,
http://digital.slv.vic.gov.au/view/action/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=2807672.xml&dvs=1369132779918~944&locale=en_US
&search_terms=&adjacency=&divType=&usePid1=true&usePid2=true
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Beach opposite Edward St
Sandringham Beach Date(s) of creation: [ca. 1909] postcard :
printed, col. ; 8.8 x 13.8 cm. approx. Reproduction rights owned by
the State Library of Victoria.
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/gid/slv-pic-aab38829
Beach Scene near Sandringham, Melbourne. Date(s) of creation:
[ca. 1910] postcard : printed, col. ; 8.8 x 13.8 cm. approx.
Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of Victoria.
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/gid/slv-pic-aab42988
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Red Bluff Cliff
Date(s): [ca. 1910 - ca. 1920]
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/52037
Sievers, Wolfgang, 1913-2007 photographer. Red Bluff, used by
Sandringham Council as a rubbish tip. Date(s) of creation:
1963.
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/miscpics/gid/slv-pic-aab28011
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/52037http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/miscpics/gid/slv-pic-aab28011
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Bayside City Council SFA value our relationship with Bayside
City Council who meet with us on a regular basis to raise any
concerns about our local beaches, and to discuss areas that require
attention. If you have any concerns, feel free to write to us:
[email protected]
Draft Bayside Coastal Management Plan 2012/13 Sandringham
Foreshore Association thanks Bayside City Council for early
consultation with the community in developing the draft Bayside
Coastal Management Plan 2012/13. Committee members of SFA attended
all of the workshops. These events were well attended by a number
of passionate and enthusiastic locals all sharing an interest in
thoughtful management of our foreshore zones. The draft CMP will be
produced and, once endorsed by Council, will go out for
consultation prior to being adopted. Completion is expected in June
2013. The Coastal Management plan can be viewed by visiting the web
link:
http://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/Draft_Discussion_Paper_for_public_comment_December_2012.pdf
For more information contact the Open Space Coordinator Simon
Finlay on 9599 4444 and refer to Council's website:
http://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/opencoast.htm Banksia Bulletin
Banksia Bulletin relies on volunteered contributions from our
wonderful community. Please find the latest edition of the Banksia
Bulletin by visiting the web link:
http://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/environment_banksia_bulletin.htm
mailto:[email protected]://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/Draft_Discussion_Paper_for_public_comment_December_2012.pdfhttp://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/Draft_Discussion_Paper_for_public_comment_December_2012.pdfhttp://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/opencoast.htmhttp://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/environment_banksia_bulletin.htm
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Congratulation to the Beaumaris Conservation Society for their
60th Birthday celebration held on 19th May 2013 Photo by Pauline
Reynolds Guest speakers included Murray Thompson MP and Bayside
City Council Mayor & Councillor Stephen Hartney
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Order of Australia medal awarded for Services to Ageing and
Technology. Convener, Citizen Science; Marine Care Ricketts Point,
Beaumaris; CEO Greypath Pty Ltd. By Cristian Silver, Editorial
board member of SFA and local resident
Profile of Ray Lewis OAM
Looking west over the bay at Ricketts Point, the May morning
tide is low and the crisp air still - offering an expanse of tidal
rock pools to view from the shoreline. Its there that I find Ray
Lewis, former president of voluntary organisation Marine Care
Ricketts Point Sanctuary, business professional, community activist
and author.
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An authoritative figure in his volunteers jacket, Ray doesnt
waste time covering a broad time span and quantity of environmental
and community pursuits: RAAF service, and business & community
activity lends him a progressive air, though he softens as a
wattle-bird arrives at his hand: This is the Father again he knows
what he wants, obliging with a serve from one of the sugar-sticks
on the table. Born in Perth in 1936, Ray spent youthful days diving
and swimming around the port of Fremantle, gaining the knowledge
that comes from familiarity and time taken to observe the
transience of marine life. Service in the RAAF saw him graduate in
1957, with a Military Science degree, followed by a postgraduate
degree in Business Studies from the University of Melbourne. Ray
mentions the geological history of Port Phillip Bay; of rich
swamp-life, waterfalls and freshwater lakes. Long before European
occupation the Bunnerong people lived around this idyllic setting,
and long before them, a sub-tropical pre-history continues to
reveal itself in the fossil record. We see the bay in only one of
its many forms. Asked to write a short community guidebook about
the Dromana foreshore, Ray finished with Dromana Beach, a natural
and social history, and an approach that proves invaluable in
reaching the broader community. Other published works include
Bayside Beaches (2007); Best of Bayside Marine Photographers
Journeys (2012); Marine Volunteering in Victoria and his regular
contributions to City of Baysides Banksia Bulletin. Hes even formed
a World Wildlife Wiki. Ray has also - after longstanding
involvement, contribution and support to government and community
projects for seniors - founded the Greypath Lyceum
(www.greypath.com) as an online
http://www.greypath.com/
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network of support for seniors to help enrich their lives
through skills development and creative education. Consolidation of
environmental interest groups is necessary, Ray believes, to gain a
stronger voice by numbers. Recreational fisherman, preservation
societies, field groups and the like: If you could get [them] to
form a human chain, right around the bay Its a picture that
presents some challenges between special interest groups, but as
often proved, community activism for other causes, governments,
both state and federal, tend to take notice. Especially near
elections Discussing development of foreshore assets, Ray is
adamant that you dont give them an extra foot! For they will take
it, and pretty soon a skink or water rat has to cross a road to get
home. Realistic and objective activism against inappropriate
development gives Ray a competitive edge. Its lethargy as he puts
it, which allows so much to be taken, manipulated or allowed to
deteriorate. Many of us often unwittingly - let others do all the
work, only to lament the loss of our precious open spaces when they
are gone. Its often visitors who remind us how important places
like our bay are. Ray remembers a group of elderly Germans, who
during one of his walking groups, told him how special this is, how
lucky we are to have it at any time, for free. And this is true. As
I continue my walk, the dog enjoying Ricketts Points designated
dog-off-leash area, there are artists painting the arc of coastal
heath toward Beaumaris Bay, children having a birthday picnic,
cormorants fishing and lorikeets chortling amongst the banksia.
Even a stirring rendition of What the World Needs Now blaring from
the public restroom does little to diminish the setting of Ricketts
Point.
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Ray settles into the business of another meeting. One more for
the cause of his many interests to help improve and enrich the
lives of others.
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RAY'S IMPRESSIVE CV: GENERAL BUSINESS & COMMUNITY ACTVITIES
by Ray Lewis 1980 85 PRESIDENT Electronics Mfrs Assn 1980 84
DELEGATE Defence Industries Council (WA) 1980 84 COMMITTEE Defence
Suppliers Assn 1981 PRIME MOVER Project Manager and MD high tech
circuit board plant 1982 REPRESENTATIVE WA Government to New
Zealand 1982 85 COMMITTEE Technology of Manufacture WA 1983 WA
REPRESENTATIVE Australian High Tech Mission North America 1984 - 85
COMMITTEE State Defence Projects Committee 1984 85 INDUSTRY REP.
State Govt. Enquiry Electronics 1984 86 COMMITTEE Electronics
Industry Assn 1984 88 CHAIRMAN Technology/Defence Committee WAACI
1985 CHAIRMAN High Tech Industry Guide 1985 86 CHAIRMAN EIA
Manufacturers Committee 1985 86 MEMBER Ministerial Defence Projects
Committee 1985 90 COUNCILLOR WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry
1989 VICE PRESIDENT WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1989
MISSION LEADER WA Lighting Industry Site Tour of USA 1986 MEMBER
Steering Committee VSLI Design Facility 1987 MEMBER Federal
Government Think Tank Components Mfrg. 1987 MISSION LEADER
Australian Defence Industries Trade Mission to the USA 1987 88
CHAIRMAN WACCI Centenary Committee 1988 PRIME MOVER & DIR
Universal Defence Systems Pty Ltd 1991 93 PRESIDENT/DELEGATE State
Political Party Branch 2001 CONVENER Victorian Ageing and
Technology Forum 2002 - 03 PRESIDENT Elder Abuse Prevention
Assocation 2002 - 06 BUS. MENTOR Rural & Peninsula Disability
Services 2005 - 06 MEMBER Kangerong, Ward Advisory Group 2006 - 07
MEMBER Kingston Council Positive Ageing Steering Committee 2008
VICE PRESIDENT Marine Care Rickets Point Sanctuary 2009 - PRESIDENT
Marine Care Rickets Point Sanctuary
Community Related Activities by Ray Lewis Since 2001
1. Various and continuing speeches and personally run free
public seminars on technology and ageing.
2. Co founder and inaugural Presidency of the Elder Abuse
Prevention Association of Australia.
3. Continuing construction and full time application to a web
site (www.greypath.com) whose
first and key objective is to: "Empower seniors and to enrich
the quality of our lives."
4. Development of an on line through life learning institution,
the Greypath Lyceum, that carries an increasing number of free
courses for seniors. The free Creative Writer Course being the most
successful so far, with 1000+ students from 20 countries.
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5. The establishment of an on line National Ageing Issues Think
Tank as a contribution to the
national debate on ageing and its implications for Australia.
(2004 - 2006)
6. Author of Dromana Beach a social and natural history
community project, and Recollections of the RAAF College Years
1949- 1960. Promoting environmental awareness via Bayside Beaches
published late 2007.
7. Newspaper articles on ageing and technology, marketing to
seniors, and submissions to
various public investigations such as the recent Senate enquiry
into Through Life Education.
8. Joint founder of the Victorian Education Ageing and
Technology on line forum.
9. Developed on line information gathering system to support the
Centre for Education and Research into Ageing (CERA) studies in to
ageing and falls. Similar support for NARI research students. Part
author of final paper, published internationally. Data assistance
to ANU, and three or four other universities on ageing
research.
10. Supported the Cancer Research Council of NSW in effecting
500 valuable cancer attitudes poll
form completions from seniors. Supported many other Ph D
projects nationally mostly in assisting to locate seniors for
research.
11. Fund raising support for the Dromana Foreshore Committee via
the establishment of a
marine art show and public marine life presentations.
12. Creation of many IT & Media projects for Swinburne
University graduating students 2003 2008+
13. Occasional guest speaker to graduate students Swinburne
14. Deakin University Live in Summer School Marine & Coastal
Ecology
15. Business mentor to the Rural and Peninsula Disabilities
Service from 2001 - 2006.
16. Creation of a World Wildlife Wikipedia to capture wildlife
carers knowledge
17. Creation of video for Seniors. What You Need to Know in
Retirement - 2008, taken up free
of charge by Metro community TVs aged interests segments
2010.
18. Member Kingston Council Positive Ageing Committee 2006
2007
19. Senior Achiever of the Year Victoria 2007
20. Member and President - Marine Care Ricketts Point -2007 -
2013
21. Awarded Coastcare Coastal Hero Medal 2008
22. Keynote Speaker 4th Annual Elder Abuse Symposium - 2008
23. Regular public presenter/speaker on matters of marine
ecology 2005 +
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24. Awarded OAM for aged and community services - 2009
25. Regular environmental contributor to Bayside Councils
Banksia Bulletin 2009 +
26. Ongoing volunteer creation and production of various marine
educational videos and digital stories for the Marine Education
Centre at Ricketts Point Sanctuary 2009+
27. Volunteer producer and concept creator and funder, of a DVD
to help save the Wathaurong Aboriginal Language, gifted to the
Victorian Aboriginal Language Corporation. 2010 -11
28. Instigator of the establishment of two new marine care
volunteer groups around Port Phillip
Bay 2008 and 2009. Williamstown and Point Cook.
29. Provided key data from the Greypath website over three
years, to Australian National University study on ageing and
technology 2010- 2012
30. Co-author with Dr Beaumont and Dr Foskey of a lengthy
seniors and media paper, published
in the World Gerontology Magazine on Seniors and Technology.
2011
31. Author 250 page illustrated book.- Marine Volunteering in
Victoria 2011
32. Initiator of Children with a Disabilitys (CWD) marine
experience programme at Ricketts Point 2011
33. Qualified - Multicultural Coastal Guides Course November
2011
34. Created annual Winter Solstice Walk, a public marine
educational event - June 2011+
35. Creator of a world first, hands on, marine experience event,
for Deaf Blind People, April 2012
36. Author Best of Bayside Marine Photographers Journeys 2012 to
showcase and promote local marine photographic skills.
37. Conceived and ran a Melbourne Bayside environmental interest
symposium called Gnargee
38. Author Marine Education Centre Volunteers Handbook 2012,
39. Representative for 1100 environmental volunteer groups via
Vic Environmental Friends Network inc (VEFN) on the Victorian State
Governments Environmental Advisory Committee, 2012- 2013
40. Appointed Optus Independent expert on seniors and technology
Ad. campaigns. 2012- 2013
41. Developed and continues to promote the Citizen Science
concept for Victorian Marine and Coastal Volunteer groups and
provided on ground local science support to various University
projects from Hons to PhD students. 2010 +
42. Convener and Prime Mover a foreshore based Marine Science
Education and Community Centre development. 2012 +
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We hope you have enjoyed reading the SFA Winter June 2013
newsletter. Yours with kindness, Dr Vicki Karalis, SFA President
Assistant editors, SFA Newsletter: Helen Gibson & Cristian
Silver SFA committee members: Alison Horton, Vice-President
Adrienne Smith, Secretary Craig Francis, Treasurer Helen Gibson
Paul Hede Laurie Evans Ruby Campbell-Beschorner