DURING a pandemic that changed life as we know it, people involved with the local Meals on Wheels program kept on working hard. Some things have changed, with contactless delivery and other COVID safety measures introduced, but staff and volunteers have continued to deliver hot meals to residents. The Meals on Wheels service delivers an average of 5,500 meals per month, which includes 1500 per month to charity Community Support Frankston. Frankston councillor Brad Hill said “the service is incredibly important and that’s why redeployed council staff have filled any vacant volunteer shifts to ensure services continue without any impact…
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THE first stage of the Karingal Hub Shopping Centre expansion is nearly complete. The revamped fresh food precinct area will open this month, complete with a Coles, Aldi and a Woolworths. A Pacific Asian Supermarket, Bakers Delight, Ausea Seafood, Lindens Fresh Meats and Poultry Plus, Roll’d, Ferguson Plarre Bakehouse, Walkers Doughnuts, and Matchbox will also open. The precinct will open 26 June. The full redevelopment of the shopping centre is set to cost $160 million, with a new centre court and fashion precinct to open in August. A Town Square area will open later in the year ISPT is the…
A STRIKING display of a Frankston pianist performing is on show at the Frankston Arts Centre. Andrew Farrell first started playing on a pianola gifted to him by his grandparents. He went on to study classical piano, and has been performing ever since. A shot of Mr Farrell playing has been included in the Life is Music photo exhibition at the Frankston Arts Centre. The exhibition features photographs taken between 2017 and 2019 of performers playing at Frankston Music Festival events. Festival past director Robert Thurley said “there are some iconic pictures and they draw the energy that was on…
Frankston Crime Investigation Unit detectives charged a man following a series of car thefts in Seaford yesterday morning. Officers were called to a Seaford business about 5.10am after it was reported three cars had been stolen. Police located the first car abandoned in Carrum Downs and the second in Roden Court, Dandenong. The third car was sighted by members of the public who performed a citizen’s arrest on the male passenger, before police arrived shortly after. The female driver fled the scene and has yet to be located. A 30-year-old Chadstone man was charged with three counts of theft of…
A MAN is wanted by police after he exposed his buttocks to two young girls on a Frankston line train. Police say that the man approached the two girls on the train at around 6.50pm on 20 March. He allegedly exposed his buttocks and made inappropriate comments towards the girls. The man boarded the train at Caulfield, and departed at Bentleigh Station at around 7pm. Transit Crime Investigation Unit detectives have released an image of a man they wish to speak to about the incident (pictured). Police describe him as “Caucasian, approximately 35-years-old, about 180cm tall with a shaved head,…