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…
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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,…
MORDIALLOC Life Saving Club came away from the 2024 Australian Surf Life Saving Championships as big winners.The 2024 edition of the competition was held on the Sunshine Coast between 13 April and 21 April. The Mordialloc Life Saving Club attended, and came home with two gold medals, two silvers, and four bronzes.Mordialloc LSC’s Samantha Barrow won gold in the 45-49 beach flags and silver in the 45-49 female beach sprint. Jamison Cox won gold in the U15 male beach sprint , then won bronze alongside Flynn Curry, Addison Lewis, Charlie Squires and Amon Tarr in the U14 and U15 mixed…
FREE plants will be given away at four events this month. The plant giveaway program is run by Kingston Council. Kingston residents can take up to five free tube stock native plants per household.Around 1000 plants will be handed out. The giveaway events will be at: Visit kingston.vic.gov.au/environment/trees-plants-and-nature-strips/autumn plant-giveaway for more information. First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 1st May 2024