AN appeal has been put out for dashcam footage to help police identify a driver who rammed a marked police vehicle, Saturday 18 May. Members of the Somerville Highway Patrol were on Cranbourne Road at around 2am and had checked the speed of a brown Land Rover Discovery. The police car did a u-turn to follow the vehicle, which stopped at a red light near Lee Street. With both vehicles stopped at the red light, the brown Land Rover reversed into the police vehicle, causing extensive damage to the front of the car. The car then fled towards Frankston. The…
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THE Food for Thought Mini Fair will plant itself at the Frankston Arts Centre this weekend, offering guests tips and tricks for clean eating and making good environmental choices. Host of SBS program Gourmet Farmer Matthew Evans will be the drawcard of the event. “Wasted food has a big impact on your hip pocket and the environment,” the mayor Michael O’Reilly said. “The Gourmet Farmer, Matthew Evans will kick off the event as our special guest speaker with tips on creating great meals that are good for the environment, as well as for you. “Around 40 per cent of the…
THE Rotary Peninsula 2.0 Birth Tree project has raised $5000 to go towards the special care nursery at Frankston Hospital. A plaque was recently unveiled as part of the project at Montague Park, with the names of 69 babies born in 2018. One of those names was of young Tyler, who was helped by the hospital as an infant. Tyler’s mother Kelly Perkins said that Frankston Hospital had helped her son when he contracted meningitis at six weeks old. “When Tyler was born he had to spend a few days in the Special Care Nursery on CPAP, a breathing machine,…
GRANTS of up to $5000 will be available for Frankston business owners to put towards refurbishing their shopfronts. The state government and council joint initiative is designed to help clean up the aesthetic of Frankston. Business owners can apply for the Facade Improvement Grant matched dollar-for-dollar per shopfront. Frankston mayor Michael O’Reilly said “this is an awesome opportunity for business owners in a defined area of the Frankston city centre to receive assistance to improve the look and feel of their business.” “Improving facades has proven to positively influence the perception of an area and encourage an overall improvement to…
A FRANKSTON council push to introduce a pet ownership test has not been resolved at the May MAV state council meeting. At the meeting of the councils, Frankston Council submitted a motion that read “that the MAV advocates to the Victorian State Government for the need to introduce a mandatory Responsible Pet Ownership Test for the public to complete (to an acceptable standard) in order to own given pets. The completion of the said test could be enforced via a number of mechanisms (i.e. annual pet registrations, completion of purchase etc.).” No resolution was adopted as a result of the…