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We are hosting a Community Breakfast on Tuesday the 17th of November at the Portland Golf Club starting at 7.30am.

Please download our flyer for more information

Portland is set to become the location for Australia's first commercial-scale wave energy project with 19 megawatts of wave powered generators to be rolled out in the next 5-6 years. This will create hundreds of jobs and further strengthen Portland's reputation as Australia's renewable energy capital.

Read on in the following links to learn much more about this exciting development for Portland and Australia's burgeoning renewable energy industry.

News
Media Release
The Observer - Spectator
The Warrnambool Standard
iPrime
Fairfax Media

Reference
The Australian - Business
Clean Energy Council
Sustainability Victoria

The Glenelg Shire has two new positions for immediate start - One in Childcare, and one in Aged & Disability. Please view the file for more information

Sharp Airlines will commence trial airline services connecting Victoria and South Australia on Monday 12 October. Services will be from Avalon and Portland to Adelaide return three times per week.

As part of this expansion new flight schedules for all services have been released, please visit the website to access the new schedules as some services have changed, effective from 12 October.

The expansion and change in flight schedules is a result of customer feedback and Sharp Airline’s ongoing commitment to provide the very best in regional airline services.

Sharp Airlines aims to provide greater flexibility and options for passengers, this is the first step in Sharp Airlines expansion.

Dear Members,
Here are some wonderful, cheap workshops being conducted by SED Consultants on behalf of the State Government.

Please ring Fiona if you wish to attend.

All the best,
Anita Rank
Executive Officer.


We advise the Local Business Big Opportunities Workshops are moving from Heywood to Portland.

We confirm that Workshop 2 and 3 will now take place from 6pm on Wednesday 9 September and Wednesday 23 September

at Richmond Henty Hotel – Turrett Room (left hand side of Bistro), 101 Bentinck Street, Portland.

Should you have any queries in this regard please do not hesitate to contact our office.

Kind regards,
Fiona Carey
SED Consulting Southwest
118 Koroit Street
WARRNAMBOOL VIC 3280
Ph: +61 3 5561 5746

Business, Industry, Education & Community Representatives can be our guests at a breakfast to be hosted by the Committee for Portland.

HAVE INPUT INTO PORTLAND’S TRADE TRAINING CENTRE PLANS!

SHARE YOUR SKILL SHORTAGE & EMPLOYMENT NEEDS!

Wednesday, July 22 - 7.30am for 7.45am at SANDILANDS

To secure your place phone Anita Rank Committee for Portland 0407 802 302 or Pam Stringer Glenelg & Southern Grampians LLEN on 5523 4207

An invitation to the March 19th Member's Dinner has gone out to all Committee for Portland members. Steve Moneghetti will feature as guest speaker in what should be a very enjoyable night

The 2009 Committee for Portland meetings calendar is now available. To see details on

• Board meetings
  
• Members breakfasts
  
• Network dinners
  
• AGM
  

Click the link below to download.

Read about what's going on in January, including our visit from Jacinta Allan, training offers, new members, and our little secret that's just been let out of the bag!

Our Newsletter for December 2008 is now available for download. Please click the link below to download.