A WOMEN’S wall has been put up at Delacombe Park Cricket Club, celebrating the achievements and milestones reached by the club’s women and girls. Allira Read is on the club’s girls team, which played its second season this year. She said that initiatives like the wall will “make a real difference and make it easier for women to join the club”. “Seeing the wall would make me feel like I can do it. It gives women the best opportunity to play and to help the club out,” she said. Bill Mallinson from the cricket club was one of the organisers…
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A PAVEMENT treatment process being used on the Golf Links Road Upgrade project is expected to save around 4000 cubic metres of pavement material. Crews are currently using a process called “foamed bitumen stablisation” on pavement for the road. The operation involves pulverising the existing pavement and mixing it with water, air and bitumen. The process is supposed to expand the material up to 10 times its original volume. The 4000 cubic metres of pavement material expected to be saved from landfill by using the process will be reused for the project down the line. Frankston MP Paul Edbrooke said…
YOUNG readers who turned the most pages during Public Libraries Victoria’s Big Summer Read program have collected their prizes. Frankston’s most proficient young reader, Nathan, won an iPad donated by the Lions Club of Frankston. The two runners up Merrin and Mathys took home passes to Holey Moley Mini Golf and Strike Bowling. Lions Club of Frankston president Julie Swan said that the club made the donation because “reading is vitally important for children and the Big Summer Read highlights the value of literacy.” Frankston mayor Nathan Conroy congratulated the readers who took part. “Research has shown that kids can…
PEOPLE suffering from cancer and heart conditions have been signing up for walking basketball games at Frankston Basketball Stadium. The walking basketball program is growing, with 14 participants now registered. Brian started playing the game this year. He is suffering from stage 4 cancer and is undertaking chemotherapy, but says the weekly games are helping his health battle. “It’s a selfish thing really. For my own sake, I need to raise my fitness as much as I can. And stuff like this really helps,” Brian said. “If I can get to a stage where I get exhausted, then a fraction…
A COMMUNITY battery will be built in Carrum Downs if Labor wins the upcoming federal election, Dunkley MP Peta Murphy says. More than 2000 houses in Carrum Downs are fitted with solar panels, but just one per cent of them have a battery. Ms Murphy says the installation of a community battery will “allow local households to feed solar power into the shared battery during the day and draw from it at night – cutting electricity bills and emissions, and reducing pressure on the grid.” “Local households who might be unable to install solar, like renters and people living in…