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I urge all citizens, men women and children of the greater Mount Evelyn area to Rally at Midday on November 24th. in the ‘Youth Park’ behind the Scout Hall at the end of Station Street. As your democratically elected Ward Councillor and Mayor, along with other Community Representatives, we will send a large, long and loud message to Woolworths that they are NOT welcome in our village and together we will empower ourselves to save Mount Evelyn against the onslaught of this corporate giant to retain the Mount Evelyn we have always cherished and loved. Make no mistake this is about the future of this village as we know it and I implore each and everyone of you to be present at this crucial crossroad in our history. Only together can we defeat this ‘invader’ and only together can we preserve the character and our way of life for future generations. My message has never changed – I do NOT want another Supermarket built in Mount Evelyn ‘on my watch’. Only in our Unity can we rise up and defeat this unwelcome intruder – I can think of No Safer Way!
…….I would like to thank you all for your support and attendance at the recent RAW Rally held in the Youth Park on November 24th. That you took the time to divert your attention away from the Street Party and obviously the Federal Election for just under an hour on a hot day showed your commitment to a Woolworths ‘Free’ future for Mount Evelyn. Only with that ongoing support will we be able to change the tide of development that promises to swallow up our town as we know it. I would encourage each and everyone of you to post a ‘comment’ on this site so that ‘RAW” becomes a bigger ‘RAW”, and that that RAW becomes a ‘Roar’ of such magnitude that it will be heard in the Boardrooms of Woolworths and that they will receive the message carried loud and clear from this Rally that…’ you are not welcome in our town’. Let them hear this message by a RAW Comment, a letter to a newspaper, a call to a radio station, a Christmas or New year Card to the Managing Director that this town stands united in the face of this intruder. It is imperative that this action continues across the Festive season and into the new year. A new year of such resolve that it will repel any corporate invasion by Woolworths and a new year where the decisions will be taken out of the hands of your democratically elected Local Council. The Safest Way is No Way!...... Cr Tim Heenan
People of Mount Evelyn. Our date with destiny has arrived. We always knew there would come a ‘crunch’ day when we would have to face this monster and slay it. This is not only a battle for the present but for the absolute future of this village. This is the final battle for Mount Evelyn as you know it and it is incumbent on each and everyone of you to have your say either personally or by banding together and appointing a spokesperson. I am heartened by a new round of optimism which has been injected into this Community’s fight by the Incorporation of the Mount Evelyn Design & Development Overlay – Amendment C 56 (DDO). I know it has been a long time coming and is overdue but with it’s approved wording it may just be what we need to keep the ‘invaders’ out. This community owes a deep measure of gratitude to MEEPPA especially to Franc and Clare who we all know wrote the DDO at every re-draft, never gave up, kept the fight going in our darkest hours both at ‘home’ and in at VCAT and who will for the fourth time provide another chance for all of us to join the Last Stand at a Public Meeting on March 12 at 7.30 p.m. at the Mount Evelyn Public Hall. In early February Woolworths unleashed the plans of their long awaited monstrosity and I don’t think any of us were surprised to see that they want to take over our village with a development that is about one third the size again of the original application and nearly 3 times higher than the DDO allows. The amended plans are unsatisfactory for more reasons than the original application and I think we all realise now that they are promoting a plan that wants to take over the entire village centre rather than building within the amenity and scale of what we have at present. At 7.30 P.M. on March 12 I want to see every Man, Woman and Child who does not want this development to crowd into our Public Hall, I want to see the main street choked with cars and I don’t care if I have to walk from home but I want absolutely as many people as possible to fill our village, the streets outside the Hall and them some more. In conclusion I commend this website to you and ask everyone who visits here to leave a comment no matter how small or insignificant you think it is and tell these ‘Wooly Bullys’ to go home, you are not wanted, you are not invited and that our village is a NO WAY NO GO zone for any of your undemocratic or unauthorized concepts NOW or into the future. Cr. Tim Heenan
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