WORKS to improve the Carrum foreshore precinct are getting underway. The three stage project is being funded by Kingston Council. The first stage will see the Beauty Spot Memorial upgraded. Paths, seating, picnic tables, garden spaces, and a feature art sculpture will be built at the memorial. Those works are scheduled to be completed in the middle of the year.In winter, council will begin work on the extension of the Carrum Boardwalk to Patterson River. The boardwalk will be extended further north with improved connectivity to the Patterson River Path, the Stephens Street car park, and the beach. The extension…
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NEW bedrooms and outdoor areas are now open at the Frankston Youth Prevention and Recovery Care Unit.The first stage of the redevelopment was finished last month. It included work on three refurbished bedrooms, a new bedroom pod, and outdoor areas.The Frankston mental health facility, operated by Peninsula Health, offers 24/7 care for people aged between 16 and 25. The state government allocated the money for the redevelopment – it is spending $141 million to build five centres and refurbish three more statewide. Victorian mental health minister Ingrid Stitt said the spending on mental health facilities followed Royal Commission recommendations. “We…
Compiled by Cameron McCulloughWITH the passing of the old Bay View Hotel, Frankston, another connecting link of the past will have ceased to exist.However, time and progress insist upon these changes if one would keep abreast of the times, and the new proprietor of the Bay View Hotel, Mrs. McCarthy, evidently belongs to the more modern school, and, in addition, has great faith in the future of Frankston, in as much as she is prepared to spend over £10,000 in the erection and equipment of a really first-class, up-to-date hotel, in place of the old one, that has more than…
A FIRE broke out at Frankie’s Coffee and Eats in Carrum Downs last week.The blaze was sparked at around 7.40pm on 2 May. Five trucks from the Skye and Carrum Downs CFA units attended along with Fire Rescue Victoria crews. They declared the scene under control a little before 8pm.In a statement, the CFA said a bin was the cause of the fire. “CFA responded to a structure fire at Carrum Downs at around 7.40pm on 2 May,” the CFA said. “Crews extinguished a fire in a bin inside the structure. Victoria Police was also called to the scene. The…
ARTIST Ian Hay has won the 2024 Rick Amor Drawing Award. The awards are presented annually by the McClelland Gallery in Langwarrin. The winning piece will now be submitted into its collection. More than 150 people applied for the award. Ian Hay was announced the winner last week.Award judge Nick Mourtzakis said Hay’s drawing, titled …and somewhere else tomorrow “compresses and measures its forms in quanta of square millimetres with a beautiful precision. The work is fraught with speculative and possible resolutions and seems to develop in an entirely improvised way toward an inevitable conclusion.”“While representing diverse and varied approaches,…