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DECEMBER 2013
*IMPORTANT ANCIENT SEAL
FOSSIL NEXT TO BMYS:
The Age
reports Museum Victoria’s welcoming a
collector’s recent discovery
.
*PERMIT TO MISUSE
LANDSIDE RESERVE:
Objection

to application to kill 8 trees,
and use Reserve as a work site for
nearby lot

NOVEMBER 2013
*BEAUMARIS RESERVE: BCS Inc. letter asks for
sandy entry road to sports ground not
to be gravelled, but left sandy and
unkerbed.
OCTOBER 2013
*A ‘NO’ CASE FOR
MARINA:
BMYS Ltd’s postal
ballot of members has a ‘YES’ case
only. For fairness, BCS Inc. offers a ‘NO’ case. 

*BIRDS AT LONG HOLLOW
RESERVE:
8:30 am to noon Sunday
2013-10-27, Birdlife Bayside will have
bird-sighting

walks for all ages.

*AMENDMENT C112: BCS

Inc. supports

Planning Scheme Amendment C112
for Council’s regeneration burns in
bushland reserves.

*FETE: BCS Inc’s Stall No. 35 at
Beaumaris

Primary School’s fete on Sunday,
20 October, has plant
sales
, information
and recruiting.

SEPTEMBER 2013
*2013 AGM: See minutes of AGM,
Celeste

Ward’s pictures, the new 2013-14
Committee
, and Ted Pearce’s Honorary Life
Membership
.

*SPRING HEATHLAND
OPENING:
Gramatan

Avenue Sanctuary is open 2-4 pm
on every Sunday in September 2013.

AUGUST 2013
*COMMUNITY CENTRE
RESERVE
: Bayside Council leaflet
on weeknight 5-9 pm lighting of soccer
ground using four 30 metre poles.
*VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT AS
HEATHLAND OPENINGS GUIDES:
Citywide

letter
welcomes help, and asks for details

on this form.

*INVITATION DECLINED: BCS Inc. officers
declined to attend Council’s concrete bicycle
road
opening, until recently all
bushland.

JULY 2013
*MISUSE OF LANDSIDE
RESERVE:
BCS

Inc. response to Council letter
defending storage of builders’
materials on the Reserve

*BCS INC. BULLETIN: The

July 2013 issue of the BCS Inc.
Bulletin
is accessible here.

*ARTICLE ON BCS INC.
CELEBRATION
: See Winter issue of
Bayside City Council’s Banksia

Bulletin P.

14 article on our Celebration.

JUNE 2013
*BEAUMARIS RESERVE:
Bayside City Council proposals
to cover dry sandy areas with bitumen,
& remove 6 trees are

bad.

MAY 2013
*CLIFF TOP TRACK VALUES:
Murray
Thompson MLA’s video
champions
the values of this track seaward of
the bicycle road.
*HONORARY LIFE MEMBER:
May’s BCS Inc. General Meeting
admitted Mrs Patricia Sinclair as its
10th-ever Honorary

Life Member

*60TH

ANNIVERSARY OF
BEAUMARIS CONSERVATION SOCIETY
:
Sixty people, who enjoyed
marking the occasion
, were
present.

*
HIGHETT GRASSY WOODLAND PUBLIC MEETING: A public

meeting is being held on 9 May 2013 to
help save this
woodland.


APRIL
2013
*
BEAUMARIS
COLLEGE
: BCS Inc.
letter

to the Premier asks that the
college land be kept
for a school.

*
DRAFT RICKETTS

POINT & LANDSIDE MANAGEMENT
PLAN
: BCS

Inc. submission on this draft

plan has been lodged.

*
MISUSE

OF LANDSIDE RESERVE: Bayside City
Council is condoning

storage of
building m
aterials,

etc. on this Crown land
reserve.


MARCH 2013
*
RESIGNATION OF ZONE 1-4
LEADER:
A vacancy
exists
for this position
following the resignation of Ms
Gillian Davidson.

*
RICKETTS POINT LANDSIDE
CLEANUP DAY:
BCS Inc. invites volunteers
to assis
t
on Sunday, 3 March 2013.

JANUARY 2013
*
INDIGENOUS

TREES REMOVED FROM FORESHORE: Video of wide
swathe of Beaumaris trees felled for a
bicycle road.

 

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