{"id":695,"date":"2008-11-14T03:25:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T16:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/?p=695"},"modified":"2022-01-31T14:27:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T03:27:42","slug":"drew-gin-comes-to-defend-threatened-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"Drew Ginn Launches Celeb Surf Challenge at Kilcunda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/http:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/history\/?cat=132\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/celebsurfjab2009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-698\" title=\"celeb-surf-jan2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/celebsurfjab2009-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Launch of Celeb Surf Challenge at Kilcunda Holiday Beach<\/span><\/strong><a href=\"\/events\/celeb-surfers\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>News from President\/spokesperson  of our sister-group Bass Coast Board-riders &#8211; John Gemmil &#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Triple Olympic gold medalist Drew Ginn, will be speaking out against Brumby&#8217;s water policy<br \/>\nat a press conference and surf event launch, <\/strong><strong>today<\/strong><strong> in Wonthaggi <\/strong><strong>on the South Gippsland coast &#8211; near site of the proposed highly contentious desalination mega-factory, before a civic reception at Wonthaggi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Drew will inform media &amp; locals of the importance of a fresh approach to fresh-water projects and the end to the threat to our coast my the desal  mega-factory.<\/p>\n<p>The Celebrity Surf Challenge  &#8211; Jan 3rd at Kilcunda &#8211; will be launched at this event.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Event was moved to Inverloch Surf Beach for appropriate sized waves-see our NewsHounds article]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launch of Celeb Surf Challenge at Kilcunda Holiday Beach News from President\/spokesperson of our sister-group Bass Coast Board-riders &#8211; John Gemmil &#8230;.. Triple Olympic gold medalist Drew Ginn, will be speaking out against Brumby&#8217;s water policy at a press conference and surf event launch, today in Wonthaggi on the South Gippsland coast &#8211; near site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3699,"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/3699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}