THE Better Health Network in Parkdale has received a $2.6 million upgrade. The Parkdale site hosts specialist medical services, dental and allied health, nursing and counselling services, aged care support, and disability services. The new facilities at the not-for-profit are now open.The money was used to build new multi-use rooms for primary care therapies and treatment, a new reception area, telehealth-enabled consult and treatment rooms, and a self-service kitchen. An outdoor space for garden therapy and sensory programs has also been refurbished.The project was undertaken by the state government, which allocated taxpayer money towards it through its “Metropolitan Health Infrastructure…
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SCIENTIST Hans Brunner, who helped exonerate Lindy Chamberlain, died last week on Thursday, 25 April.A large portrait, that he has referred to as representing “the other me”, has been entered in this year’s Archibald Portrait Competition.The 95-year-old sat for the portrait for Frankston South artist Lulu Clifton-Evans in a project she said was designed to portray his significant contribution to Australian culture, science and yodelling.Brunner and Clifton-Evans met with the now Chamberlain-Creighton in a Melbourne hotel last October to show her the portrait of Brunner with a microscope and his book on animal hair analysis that was written years before…
TWO men have been arrested after an alleged theft, assault, and car chase through Carrum Downs and Frankston last week.Police allege that a group of people inside a stolen Mini Cooper stole petrol from McMahons Road in Frankston at around 10.30pm on 25 April. The group were involved in a theft and assault at a restaurant on Hall Road in Carrum Downs about half an hour later, police say.Police say they spotted the car in Frankston at around midnight. They deployed stop sticks, but the car managed to evade them and drive onto Karingal Road.The Mini Cooper allegedly drove on…
Compiled by Cameron McCullough A SHOCKING fatality occurred at the railway crossing, between Baxter and Somerville, on Monday night, when Mr. Alfred Field, 45, market gardener, of Mornington, was killed, and Mr. John Twyford, 60, an orchardist, of Somerville, was seriously injured in a collision between a goods train and a motor truck, in which they were travelling to the Melbourne market.It appears that Field, who owns the motor truck, had been engaged by Twyford to convey a consignment of apples to Melbourne, ready for Tuesday’s market.The engine, which it is said was travelling tender first, struck the motor truck…
INDIGENOUS musicians and storytellers will be celebrated at a McClelland Gallery event next month. Celebrating First Nations will take place at McClelland Gallery on 18 May. Didgeridoo artists the Ganga Giri Band with the Djarlo Dance Group, musician Charlie Woods, Trudy Fatnowna Edgeley, and harmonic singer Carissa Nyalu are set to perform on the afternoon.McClelland Gallery director Lisa Byrne said “all First Nations communities and all families and friends of all ages and cultures are invited to enjoy the performances, check out the market stalls from local creatives, and participate in this unique and inclusive experience which will be an…