FRANKSTON Council is holding a survey to help better understand its citizen’s needs. Council will choose 2,250 households at random to take part in the voluntary survey. Council says data collected from the survey “may inform service reviews, activities to improve residents’ experience of Frankston City, activities and services involving health and wellbeing, to inform advocacy to government in areas including transport, strategic priorities and plans in health, wellbeing and housing, activation of the Frankston City centre and tracking progress on priorities identified in council’s strategic plans.” The mayor Kris Bolam said “the voluntary survey will provide us with an…
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SHORTLISTED works for awards will be exhibited at McClelland Gallery in Langwarrin from next month. The pieces on display are in the running for awards totalling more than $50,000. Drawings, watercolours, and ceramics will be in contention. The top prize, the Rick Amor Drawing Award, is worth $20,000. Three winners of the Splash Contemporary Watercolour Award will be chosen, receiving $10,000 each. A tertiary arts student will receive $3000 for a ceramic artwork. Funding for the awards were from the Fornari Bequest, artist Rick Amor, and Mary and Lou Senini. McClelland director Lisa Byrne said the exhibition is “an important…
THE mayor’s reading challenge will begin soon. The challenge runs through August. It is in its eleventh year. Children aged up to five are welcome to get involved. Those who take part in the challenge go into the running to win prizes. Frankston mayor Kris Bolam said “Australian research has found that children who are read to six or seven times a week have a literacy level almost a year ahead of children who are not read to at home, and tend to learn more when they start school.” “The mayor’s reading challenge is a great opportunity to read to…
THE future of Moorabbin Airport is up in the air. Submissions closed on Monday 12 July for Moorabbin Airport’s draft Master Plan. Among the objectives listed in the Master Plan are “growing flight training activity to 1,800 students per year, an increase of 450 students from 2020 levels and forecast as the safe maximum achievable within airspace capacity constraints of the airport”, “investing a further $300 million in aviation and non-aviation activities by 2029”, and “simplifying the airport’s planning framework by reducing the number of land use precincts from seven to five, and aligning associated zoning and planning controls for…
A MAN has been arrested after a police investigation into a package of drugs found in the mail. Police were told that a “suspicious package” was arriving to Victoria by mail on 1 July. As part of their investigation into the package, police executed a warrant at a Cheltenham house. At the house, police allegedly seized $12,000 of cocaine, $30,000 of methylamphetamine, 25 litres of 1.4 butanediol, a substance believed to be MDMA, a taser, electronic equipment, and more than $40,000 in cash. Police later charged a 30-year-old man on 9 July with attempt to traffick a commercial quantity of…