FANS of the Big Banana and Big Prawn can now wash down those offerings with a visit to the Big Tinnie. The nine-meter-tall beer can has been unveiled at Wolf of the Willows Brewing in Mordialloc. The huge structure holds the brewery’s malt grain. Wolf of the Willows co-founder Scotty McKinnon said “we just figured that if you’re going to install a huge silo, you may as well have some fun with it, so we painted it up like a big beer tinnie, arranged a ribbon cutting ceremony, and invited the local mayor. Luckily for us, he’s got a sense…
Author: Bayside News
Police are investigating following a fatal crash in Frankston this yesterday afternoon (Tuesday 10th January). It is understood a car crashed into a streetlight, tree and fence outside Franciscan Avenue about 4.30pm. Sadly the 34-year-old male driver, and sole occupant of the car, died at the scene. Police will prepare a report for the Coroner. Anyone who witnessed the crash, has dashcam footage or information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential report online at www.crimestoppersvic.com.au For the current provisional lives lost tally please see https://www.police.vic.gov.au/road-safety-0 Victoria Police News – Tuesday 10 January 2023
Moorabbin Crime Investigation Unit detectives have arrested two men following the theft of a car with a toddler inside at Chelsea on Sunday 8 January. Detectives have arrested an 18-year-old Narre Warren man and a 20-year-old Clarinda man in a Frankston Shopping Centre just after midday today. Investigators have been told a grey Volkswagen SUV was parked outside a grocery store on Nepean Highway just before 4pm. It’s believed a man parked his car and left it running with his two-year-old boy inside while ducking into the shops before an unknown male got into the car and drove off. Officers…
UNTIL 19 February, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery has a great mix of exhibitions and events. Julian Opie is a major international artist whose work often depicts figures and landscapes reduced to their essential outlines and flat colours fields. Judith Alexandrovics is a Melbourne artist whose oeuvre spans the decades since the early 1970s until 2019. MPRG’s current exhibition draws these two artists together so that visitors can see common threads throughout their work. Exhibition curator Angie Taylor says, ‘Both Opie and Alexandrovics create a snapshot of people in unremarkable moments such as walking through the city, making their way to…
THE federal government is seeking organisations to install its planned community batteries. Labor committed to funding the community batteries before its election last year. One of the planned batteries will be in Carrum Downs. On 30 January the government will begin considering applications for grants. Funding of up to $500,000 will be available to be used on the construction of community batteries. Energy minister Chris Bowen said that battery technology would help cut energy prices and reduce emissions. “One in every three Australian households have solar panels – the highest rate in the world – but far fewer have batteries…