THE South Side Festival returns to Frankston next month. The festival will make a comeback between 8 May and 18 May. Neon lights will illuminate Beauty Park this year, in addition to a range of other lights shows and installations. Artist Joshua Searle will animate the Frankston Library forecourt with large-scale projections that celebrate Colombian traditions over the course of the festival. South Side Festival producer Freyja Macfarlane said “as South Side returns for its fourth year, we have worked to create a program that is exciting, intriguing, and inspiring, to captivate all ages and interests.” “Whether you’re a patron…
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A LARGER-than-life hot-air balloon sculpture – the giant Skywhale and Skywhalepapa – will grace the skies over Mornington in what promises to be a sunrise spectacle. Created by leading Australia artist Patricia Piccinini, the hot-air balloons will take flight at Dallas Brooks Park as the first light of day breaks over Mornington on 26 April from 5.30am to 7.30am. Measuring 34 meters long and 23 meters high, the Skywhales are twice the size of a standard hot-air balloon. The free community event is being hosted by Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery and presented by the National Gallery of Australia and supported…
THE federal government has promised to spend $10 million upgrading the Western Port Highway. With the election called by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, campaigning is now in full swing. Federal infrastructure minister Catherine King visited the Western Port Highway last week to make the announcement – she said the money would go towards building road barriers and a centre-dividing barrier. “We’re fixing roads right across the state; we’ve doubled our road maintenance funding to local councils, reinstated road maintenance indexation that was scrapped under the former government, and are investing heavily in our regions and cities,” King said. The money…
Compiled by Cameron McCullough SPEAKING at the annual meeting of the Frankston branch of the Protestant Federation last Friday night, the Rev. Walter Albiston indicated in a very decided manner his disapproval of the Federal Government’s action in permitting aliens to enter Australia.“I know,” said Mr. Albiston, “that Mr. Bruce is your local member, but I am not going to apologise for what I say on that account.”He then proceeded to “deal it out” to the offending Prime Minister and indicated that at an early date he would let Mr. Bruce know that his “sugar coated pills did not go…
THE redevelopment of Frankston Hospital has moved closer to completion after cranes at the site were dismantled last month. The project is on track to be done this year. When complete, the new clinical services tower will host a new inpatient services operating theatre suite, women’s and children’s services, cancer services, and mental health facilities. The new tower is expected to treat around 35,000 patients each year once fully operational. Four cranes have been operating at the site over the last two years. Frankston MP Paul Edbrooke said “local families across Frankston will soon be able to access more health…