AN ongoing review of Kingston Council’s waste collection service does not include changes to weekly pickups.Kingston Council is drafting a new “waste strategy”, aiming to divert 80 percent of waste from landfill by 2030 in line with Victoria’s statewide target. In a statement, Kingston Council said “at this stage, there are no proposed changes to standard kerbside bin sizes or collection frequencies for garbage, recycling, and food and garden bins. However, the Victorian Government has set a goal for mandatory separation of glass by 2027, and food and garden waste by 2030.”Currently Kingston Council collects landfill rubbish weekly. Some Victorian…
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Police will prepare reports for the Coroner following the death of two men in Frankston this afternoon. Emergency services were called to Frankston Beach on Wednesday 22 October to reports of two men in trouble in the water. A search of the water was conducted, with the Air Wing locating the pair unresponsive in the water just after 5pm. Both men were winched back to shore but could not be revived. At this stage, the pair are yet-to-be formally identified. https://www.police.vic.gov.au/two-deceased-frankston
A FUNDRAISER for children living with heart disease will take place in Frankston this weekend. The annual Two Feet & A Heartbeat walk takes place at Ballam Park Primary School on Saturday, 25 October. Participants will be walking four kilometres in honour of the four deaths from childhood-onset heart disease each week, or eight kilometres to mark the eight babies born each day in Australia with a heart condition.HeartKids CEO Marcus Sandmann says that money raised through the walks, which take place across the country throughout October, will be used “to increase accessibility to HeartKids support services and programs in…
Compiled by Cameron McCulloughMR. P. WHEELER, J.P., conducted a magisterial inquiry on Monday last into the circumstances surrounding the death of Percy Evans, aged 49.Raymond Victor Dawson, labourer, deposed that on Saturday, 17th October, at 7pm, he was driving along Hastings road to Somerville, about 3 miles from Frankston, when he saw the body of a man hanging by a rope from a gum tree near the roadside.Witness did not cut the body down, but hurried to Mr. J. Williams’ residence nearby. Mr. Williams was not at home and witness then phoned for the police.Evidence was adduced to show that…
A FRANKSTON-raised pilot has lived out a childhood dream by leading a Royal Australian Air Force, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, and United States Air Force mission of F-35A Lightning II jets.Flight Lieutenant Patrick Kane led the mission during Exercise Bushido Guardian 25 in Misawa, Japan. He said the experience was a dream come true.“It was always the fast jets – that’s the only flying I was interested in,” Kane said. The F-35A Lightning II is the ADF’s first fifth-generation air combat fighter. It is capable of supersonic flight while retaining stealth, has 9G manoeuvrability, and is also equipped with advanced…