Play Duration: 50 minutes 33 seconds50m Brought to you by Recent severe weather has wreaked havoc on Victoria’s coastline, exposing an issue that has been building over decades.     It’s triggered those in coastal communities such as Inverloch to question what is being done to meaningfully counter further erosion. In this episode, The Conversation Hour team wades through the muddy waters of how best to prepare against the encroaching sea.  Thousands of locals in Inverloch have signed a petition asking the state government to protect the town's main beach and surf lifesaving club. (Supplied: Aileen Venning ) Download the ABC listen app to text and call your favourite live radio Ian Rasmussen and Terry Hall from Lions Inverloch Dawn and Ian Rasmussen Gippsland ‘Lions of the Year’ IT’S a big year for the Inverloch Lions Club which has been rewarded with the Gippsland ‘Lions of the Year’ award selected out of sixty-five clubs from Mallacoota to the Mornington Peninsula including the Latrobe Valley Inverloch Lions has raised three-quarters of a million dollars for local charitable projects and events since the club began twenty-four years ago and has almost completed an eighty thousand extension to their Inverloch storage shed “We raised twenty-one thousand dollars last year for distribution to thirty-two clubs including scouts and schools,” said committeeman Terry Hall The extended storage shed at the Inverloch Recreation Reserve will allow trailers and equipment currently garaged in member’s homes to be stored in a single location Club stalwart Dawn Rasmussen was honoured as a ‘Melvin Jones Fellow’ acknowledging thirty years of voluntary service as a member of Lions Senior Citizens and Leongatha Daffodil Festival The Inverloch Lions Club’s major fundraiser is the Inverloch Community Farmers Markets at ‘The Glade’ on the last Sunday of each month Continuing to grow from strength to strength the market boasts sixty sites in summer and a regular thirty to forty stallholders over winter “Market day starts with signs around town then the marking out of sights on Saturday,” said volunteer market manager Ian Rasmussen “Then it’s up at seven the next morning to greet the stallholders.” Over summer the market can attract between two and half thousand and three thousand people every weekend in January Twilight markets from 3pm to 8pm over the summer assist with fundraising for the Inverloch RSL the Inverloch market can attract fifteen hundred visitors The Inverloch Lions Club is now looking for a generous plumber with time to spare to assist their on-site builder and electrician in finishing the wash area and toilets in their new extension Financial contributions towards purchasing materials and equipment needed for the installation of a disabled toilet can be made through the Inverloch Lions Club website at inverlochlions.au/den We use cookies and other technologies to understand and improve your browsing experience. 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CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) Bass Coast Shire Council is calling on the community to respect and protect the local environment after signs erected following recent acts of environmental vandalism along the Inverloch Foreshore were defaced In response to the poisoning of coastal vegetation along the Inverloch Foreshore path in the vicinity of Toorak Road and Ramsay Boulevard Inverloch the Council recently installed two signs warning against acts of tree vandalism “These signs acknowledge the act of vandalism and occupy the space as if there was vegetation until it regrows,” Council said in a statement our Maintenance Team has been unable to clean the signs without damaging the sign The existing signs will remain in place until replacements can be sourced.” Following further deliberate poisoning of vegetation in the area the Council says it will install an additional sign further along the foreshore “The Inverloch Foreshore is a much-enjoyed part of our community attracting visitors and contributing to our local economy These actions impact on the beauty of the foreshore and increase the risk of coastal erosion threatening the long-term sustainability of the beach and surrounding community assets,” the Council said “Council urges everyone to respect and protect our environment for current and future generations.” Information and Events for Local Councils throughout Australia Contact us: newsdesk@insidelocalgovernment.com.au