Shark has Surf Coast parents keeping
set up Western Composting Technology a decade later.
“I established my business in Corio ... and most of my company’s employees live in the suburbs and towns in the Windermere Ward.”
He said renewing existing infrastructure such as schools and housing, and pushing for investments in a new health service and higher education facility, would be his highest priority. “I agree with chief administrator Dr Kathy Alexander that the biggest issue for Geelong at the
moment is social inequity,” he said.
“The needs of people in our northern suburbs will no longer come sec- ond to others in the city.”
Mr Dickens said he was a strong supporter of the G21 Regional Opportunities for Work (GROW) initiative, which aims to lift jobs in local areas of disadvantage.
He is a member of numerous industry bodies, such as VECCI, Geelong Chamber of Commerce, Geelong Manufacturing Council, Committee for Geelong and Committee for Greater Shepparton.
Mr Dickens joins previously announced Windermere candidates Anthony Aitken, Tony Ansett, Kylie Gryzbek and David Withington.
MEANWHILE, Girl Guides stalwart Anne Brackley has announced WAVES of hysteria have swept through Lorne after Tuesday’s shocking shark attack, with some parents banning their children from the coast.
In a radical reaction to surfer Marcel Brundler’s neardeath experience, a number of children have reportedly been she will contest the council ward of Bellarine at October’s election.
Mrs Brackley’s 40-plus years of leadership with Girl Guides Victoria was recognised at this year’s Queen’s Birthday national awards.
She is well known in the Drysdale area for her work as the co-ordinator of the SpringDale Neighbourhood Centre since 2003.
Mrs Brackley stood for election in the Cheetham ward in 2012, polling more than 41 per cent in a direct contest with incumbent councillor Rod Macdonald. She joins Portarlington’s Trent Sullivan as the only publiclyannounced candidates for the sprawling ward of Bellarine. withdrawn from a beachside safety swim course near Torquay next week.
It comes despite Victorian Fisheries yesterday re-opening the Cathedral Rocks beach where the 4m predator attacked.
Mary Harriet – a parent who has decided to keep her son out of the water – said it was simply a “precautionary measure”.
“We try to get him swimming as much as possible but I don’t want to take the risk” she said.
“If there’s one (shark) hanging around, there’s probably more.
“Nobody wants to take that risk if they don’t have to.”
Beaches along the Great Ocean Road were on high alert throughout January as dozens of sharks, believed to be great whites, were spotted in the span of a few days.
Lorne Surf Livesaving Club president Peter Murrihy urged beachgoers to remain calm in the wake of Tuesday’s attack.
He suspected Geelong’s surfers would be undeterred.
“(It) doesn’t seem to phase the surfers, they always go back,” Mr Murrihy said.
Lorne Surf Shop staff member Ollie Condon was just me-