FRANKSTON Arts Centre welcomed back its first live audience in 258 days on Saturday 28 November for a musical performance of Spirit Lines: A Musical Reconciliation. Frankston City Manager Arts and Culture Andrew Moon said it was fantastic to welcome an audience of close to 100 invited guests as Centre staff trialled new COVID-safe practices. “The guests were socially distanced throughout the 800 seat theatre. Other safety measures included all audience members wearing masks, regular cleaning of touch points and new layout of the foyer space to improve traffic flow and encourage physical distancing,” he said. Originally programmed as part…
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A BODY was found at Pines Flora and Fauna Reserve on 3 December. Police were called after the discovery at about 11.30am. Police say that “the body is yet to be formally identified but is believed to be that of missing Langwarrin man Malcolm Bohmeyer.” Police are not treating the death as suspicious, and will prepare a report for the coroner. Mr Bohmeyer was last seen on 12 August. He left his Cranbourne Road home in Langwarrin to go on a bike ride, but tragically did not return home. Air wing, mounted branch, and uniform police officers joined the SES…
THE 100,000 swab tests conducted by Peninsula Health for COVID-19 are being described as a “significant milestone for everyone involved”. The “milestone” patient visited the drive-through screening clinic at the Frankston Hospital campus, corner of Hastings Road and Yuille Street, last week. “Thank you to every single person who has come forward and done the right thing – getting that test at the earliest sign of any COVID-19 symptom,” the operations director of Peninsula Health’s screening clinics Jodi Foley said. “As the coronavirus situation evolved in Victoria over these past eight months, so have we, continually adapting our service to…
THE federal and state governments have committed to $16 million in grant funding for St Kilda Football Club’s Moorabbin homebase. A new “Centre for Health and Wellbeing” will be constructed. It will be named after Danny Frawley – the former St Kilda captain who passed away last year. Health minister Greg Hunt said the centre will offer free and paid programs to promote physical and mental health. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said “before his passing, Danny and the club had been working towards this project to give the local community somewhere their physical and mental health could be front and centre.”…
RENEWAL fees for health and food registrations for businesses in 2021 have been reduced by 25 per cent. It is the latest measure introduced by council to try and get restaurants back on their feet after the COVID-19 pandemic. An expression of interest process to provide financial support to businesses to establish the required safety measures for parklets has also started. The mayor Steve Staikos said “council has been working with local businesses to help them expand their outdoor dining offering wherever it can be safely established, whether that’s setting up in our parkland, taking over laneways or side streets…