A MURAL spanning 40 meters at Chelsea Station has been completed. The mural, titled Art Pass Reimagined, was painted by artist Anu Patel. It replaces another mural by Ms Patel at the pedestrian underpass of the now-demolished Chelsea Station. The mural was funded by the Level Crossing Removal Project in partnership with Kingston City Council. It features black swans on a pond. Students from Chelsea, St Joseph’s and Bonbeach primary schools helped develop the mural in workshops. Ms Patel said that the artwork was a team effort. “Amazingly we’ve had some people who were involved in the project 10 years…
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FRANKSTON’s entry into the 2021 Australian Street Art Awards won a top prize. The Frankston street art walking tours were named the best street art tours in the country. The gold award was handed out on the eve of this year’s Big Picture Fest, which takes place this week. In their justification for the award, the judges said that Frankston’s street art tours contribute “significantly to making Australia a more vibrant, creative and interesting country – somewhere visitors want to explore more keenly”. They said that the annual Big Picture Fest is an example of how street art “can operate…
A WOMEN’S wall has been put up at Delacombe Park Cricket Club, celebrating the achievements and milestones reached by the club’s women and girls. Allira Read is on the club’s girls team, which played its second season this year. She said that initiatives like the wall will “make a real difference and make it easier for women to join the club”. “Seeing the wall would make me feel like I can do it. It gives women the best opportunity to play and to help the club out,” she said. Bill Mallinson from the cricket club was one of the organisers…
A PAVEMENT treatment process being used on the Golf Links Road Upgrade project is expected to save around 4000 cubic metres of pavement material. Crews are currently using a process called “foamed bitumen stablisation” on pavement for the road. The operation involves pulverising the existing pavement and mixing it with water, air and bitumen. The process is supposed to expand the material up to 10 times its original volume. The 4000 cubic metres of pavement material expected to be saved from landfill by using the process will be reused for the project down the line. Frankston MP Paul Edbrooke said…
YOUNG readers who turned the most pages during Public Libraries Victoria’s Big Summer Read program have collected their prizes. Frankston’s most proficient young reader, Nathan, won an iPad donated by the Lions Club of Frankston. The two runners up Merrin and Mathys took home passes to Holey Moley Mini Golf and Strike Bowling. Lions Club of Frankston president Julie Swan said that the club made the donation because “reading is vitally important for children and the Big Summer Read highlights the value of literacy.” Frankston mayor Nathan Conroy congratulated the readers who took part. “Research has shown that kids can…