A MURDER on the waters of Port Phillip Bay is the mystery inside a new fiction novel. Death on the Ferry Hygeia is a new novel from Langwarrin author Will Spokes. The murder mystery is set just after the first World War at a charity event aboard the Port Phillip Bay excursion ferry Hygeia. Spokes said that the novel is inspired by the works of legendary author Agatha Christie. “I’m a fan of crime and murder mysteries like most people. One of the great titles in this genre is Murder on the Orient Express. Because of my interest in the…
Author: Bayside News
CHICAGO comes to Frankston this week. The acclaimed jazz musical Chicago will open at the Frankston Arts Centre this Friday. The satirical show, set in the Windy City during the 1920s, examines crime and corruption. PLOS Musical Productions will stage the show. The show is the company’s first since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rachel Rai has been cast as lead Roxie Hart, an aspiring vaudevillian who is sent to jail after murdering her lover. Rai said that playing the role is “a dream come true”. “Performing [Chicago] after being off stage for a couple of years is absolutely…
LESS than a quarter of eligible Frankston residents are signed up to be organ donors. Langwarrin resident James Irvin is urging people to sign up to donate their organs. If it weren’t for organ donation, he may not be alive today. Irvin underwent a kidney and pancreas transplant in 2015. The procedure was needed after it was discovered he had end-stage renal failure after a routine physical for work. After a year on the waiting list, Irvin received the news that a donor kidney had become available. He soon underwent the life-saving operation. “You don’t have the words to thank…
A NEW centre to help save endangered small mammals has opened at Moonlit Sanctuary in Pearcedale. The Small Mammal Conservation Breeding Centre was officially opened last week. The centre is designed to help maintain the population of critically endangered small mammals. The centre’s work will begin with the Pookila (pictured main). The small mammal’s population is in decline due to factors such as drought, feral predators, and bush fires. Breeding pairs have been matched up at the centre. It is hoped that the offspring can be released into the wild. Moonlit Sanctuary founder Michael Johnson (pictured with a squirrel glider)…
MARGARET Fulton – ‘the first lady of Australian food’ was born in Scotland in 1924, moving to Glen Innes, NSW with her family when she was just three years old. After her schooling years Margaret moved to Sydney to pursue her dream of becoming a cabaret performer, however she ended up living next door to a “lady” of the night and working in a nuts-and-bolts factory, a job she couldn’t get away from quick enough and finally landing as a position as a cooking teacher at The Australian Gas Light Company. Her career as a food writer was soon to…