A Word from Watto - May 2012

At 1000 hours Wednesday April 25th 2012, some 56 women, men and children attended our Preston Beach ANZAC Memorial Service held at our community centre’s ANZAC memorial Wall. This service gave our community an important opportunity to pay tribute and respect to those Australians and New Zealanders who fought and died in many fields of action around the world so that others could live in freedom. To me ANZAC Day is a day to join my fellow Aussies, of all race, colour and creed in remembering and giving thanks to the men and women for the sacrifices they made. After the formalities we enjoyed morning tea, biscuits, later a BBQ and a few throffies. I would like to thank all those involved with the formulation of our program, this year’s venue setup, service formalities, morning tea, and sausage sizzle – truly a great community team effort.

Preston Beach Proposed Bench Chair Locations for Public Viewing

The Shire of Waroona has been very supportive to our community and provided an allocation of bench chairs to showcase some of the tranquillity Preston Beach exposes. At this stage during our recent general meeting it was moved to table four (4) suggested preferential sites to the Shire which have no invasion of residential privacy. Suggested sites are as follows:-

• A - End of Panorama Drive approx 20 metres north of last power pole north/east view of old farm and lake area;

• B - The Point or Spit at end of walk trail from Mitchell Road heading north. Good 260 degrees view of bird life during late autumn, winter and spring. Has small sign with arrow pointing east "Observe – Conserve". DEC approval would be needed;

• C - End of Hillview Court, excellent view of north/eastern area, of golf course, lake and hills;

• D - Heading west along Mitchell Road half way between shop and beach just as the road slowly descends on left hand side - good Ocean views.

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It’s Curtains for the Old Curtains at the Hall

New roll-up blinds have now been purchased and fitted to replace our old un-serviceable curtains at our community Hall. This was moved and has now come to fruition with Bob the blind-man doing a great professional job.

The Four Wheel Drive that Had a Dive They say a picture tells a thousand words, well this one does when it depicts just how rough the ocean high tide can be at Preston Beach when it erodes the beach embankment. Over the past several months the Rangers and other local beach goers have witnessed extreme high tides reaching the sand dunes, cutting sections of the beach out leaving large voids between the dunes and beach area. Extreme caution should be taken when driving along the beach when these conditions are encountered. Caution, common sense, slower speed and appropriate selection of beach track is the go. Look to the right of the photograph and you can see the preferential track to take - the unsuspecting driver of this vehicle didn’t. Most importantly no one was injured in this incident. Remember "local solutions for local problems, if you’re not part of the solution then you’re part of the problem"
Angry Anderson.

John Watson
President Preston Beach
Progress Association