AN elderly woman was lucky to escape serious injury when her car drove over the cliff after a two-car collision on the Esplanade, Mount Martha, last week. The woman, 89, of Mount Martha, was able to push open the door of her Lexus sedan and crawl 15 metres back up to the road, 11.30am, Friday 4 June. The woman’s car went over the cliff after colliding with a Mercedes sedan being driven by a 77-year-old woman, also of Mount Martha, near Park Road. They were the only occupants. Neither woman was injured but both were taken by ambulance to hospital…
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AN off-duty PSO acted quickly to help control a fire which threatened homes in Langwarrin last week. A fire started in a bin on North Road at around 2am on 1 June. From there it spread onto a fence and continued to grow. Protective services officer Christine Burns noticed the fire as she drove home from work, and stopped to help. She worked to evacuate nearby homes before helping to contain the blaze with a hose while firefighters arrived. In the end nobody was hurt, and major property damage was avoided. PSO Burns said “having been a CFA volunteer for…
STATION Street Mall in Frankston has been named one of the state’s finest outdoor spaces by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. At a virtual awards night, the Frankston spot was crowned one of 18 winners. Station Street Mall won the award of excellence for civic landscape. The citation written by the judges read that “Station Street Mall is exemplary for its carefully considered and site specific response demonstrates the breadth of skills and leadership that landscape architects bring to issues of urban activation. A clear visual unity combined with a spatial diversity, beautifully detailed ensures this modest project is…
A CAMPAIGN by a young skater to have his local skatepark upgraded has been successful. Langwarrin Skatepark at Lloyd Park will soon be improved. 13-year-old Caiden led a campaign to have the park refurbished, which eventually caught the attention of council and local MPs. A federal government grant of $20,000 was announced for the project last week, which adds to a funding commitment already made by Frankston Council. Caiden said “expanding the skate park would be good for everyone. Not only does it support positive mental health, it also gives kids something safe to do.” Over 350 people signed Caiden’s…
THE state government will be lobbied to introduce laws which would punish spectators at hooning meetups. At a recent meeting of the Municipal Association of Victoria, a coalition of the state’s council’s, Frankston Council advocated for a motion to introduce new hooning laws. It wanted to see the introduction of legislation to create an offence for spectators or other people to attend a hoon event. The motion was passed by the MAV, which will now advocate the cause to the state government. The mayor Kris Bolam said ”local laws are relevant to individual council areas” and that “while police are…