TWO Monterey Secondary College educators have won big awards for their hard work. Monterey Secondary College principal Peter Langham and teacher Jessica Cridland were winners at the recent 2022 Commonwealth Bank Teaching Awards. Langham was appointed acting principal in 2019 amid a time of unrest at the school. He was the third principal appointed for the year. Since then the school has recorded its best VCE results in a decade and improved the completion of senior certificates from 65 per cent to 100 per cent. He was named one of twelve winners of the teaching fellowship award. Cridland was handed…
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A MURDER on the waters of Port Phillip Bay is the mystery inside a new fiction novel. Death on the Ferry Hygeia is a new novel from Langwarrin author Will Spokes. The murder mystery is set just after the first World War at a charity event aboard the Port Phillip Bay excursion ferry Hygeia. Spokes said that the novel is inspired by the works of legendary author Agatha Christie. “I’m a fan of crime and murder mysteries like most people. One of the great titles in this genre is Murder on the Orient Express. Because of my interest in the…
CHICAGO comes to Frankston this week. The acclaimed jazz musical Chicago will open at the Frankston Arts Centre this Friday. The satirical show, set in the Windy City during the 1920s, examines crime and corruption. PLOS Musical Productions will stage the show. The show is the company’s first since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rachel Rai has been cast as lead Roxie Hart, an aspiring vaudevillian who is sent to jail after murdering her lover. Rai said that playing the role is “a dream come true”. “Performing [Chicago] after being off stage for a couple of years is absolutely…
LESS than a quarter of eligible Frankston residents are signed up to be organ donors. Langwarrin resident James Irvin is urging people to sign up to donate their organs. If it weren’t for organ donation, he may not be alive today. Irvin underwent a kidney and pancreas transplant in 2015. The procedure was needed after it was discovered he had end-stage renal failure after a routine physical for work. After a year on the waiting list, Irvin received the news that a donor kidney had become available. He soon underwent the life-saving operation. “You don’t have the words to thank…
A NEW centre to help save endangered small mammals has opened at Moonlit Sanctuary in Pearcedale. The Small Mammal Conservation Breeding Centre was officially opened last week. The centre is designed to help maintain the population of critically endangered small mammals. The centre’s work will begin with the Pookila (pictured main). The small mammal’s population is in decline due to factors such as drought, feral predators, and bush fires. Breeding pairs have been matched up at the centre. It is hoped that the offspring can be released into the wild. Moonlit Sanctuary founder Michael Johnson (pictured with a squirrel glider)…