By Brendan Rees TWO Victoria Police detectives from the Frankston Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team have won a community service award for their work engaging with secondary schools across Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula.Detective Senior Constable Richard Thomson and Sergeant Byron Smith received the 2024 XLI Victoria Police community service award for their exceptional efforts in holding forums with schools. Their forums held with school staff ensure students, teachers, parents, and staff know how and where to seek help. This included presentations on what a crime involves if a young person is subject to any type of concerning…
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FOR artist Emma Davies, the enchanting beauty of the Mornington Peninsula is not just a backdrop; it’s a wellspring of inspiration that helps create her creations. The Frankston South resident uses material like bird net, baler twine and things in her garden as well as acrylic paint and other materials to form intricate textiles.“I think one of the reasons why I do work with these sorts of materials is because you can work with it instantly, unlike a medium like clay or something where you’ve got to wait for it to dry and fire it and stuff like that,” she…
VENDING machines dispensing free pads and tampons are set to be installed across the Kingston municipality. Kingston mayor Jenna Davey-Burns says that council is working alongside the state government to implement the “free pads and tampons in public places program.” The dispensers are being rolled out at 700 sites statewide, with Kingston’s libraries set to be among them. “We know period poverty disproportionately affects women who are unemployed, university and TAFE students, women who are experiencing homelessness, those women displaced due to family violence, migrant women, and the LGBTQIA+ community,” Davey-Burns said. “Through the installation of the vending machines in…
THE Mordialloc Sailing Club’s St Ayles Skiff will set off on a long voyage this week. The club’s six metre skiff, inspired by the traditional Scottish Fair Isle skiff, took members a year to build. In 2022 the boat’s crew rowed from Mordialloc down to Portsea with a Coast Guard escort, travelling 110 kilometres over 7 days. On Tuesday 27 February the skiff was scheduled to set off from Port of Sale, and is set to land in Lakes Entrance on 1 March. Six skiffs, with 40 crew between them, were expected to set sail on Tuesday. Each boat weighs…