FLINDERS Christian College student, Molly McDonald, has been given the chance to take her next big step in her football career with the St Kilda Football Club officially securing the young gun last week. The Year 12 student and captain of the Carrum Downs Flinders campus was pre-selected by the Saints from the Women’s AFL National Academy where the 17-year-old winger showed elite-level endurance and a damaging turn of pace. McDonald, who also plays with the Dandenong Stingrays, said she was stoked to receive the offer. “I’m pretty excited about it all,” Molly said. “I’ve always wanted to make it…
Author: Bayside News
SARAH Blasko, Tia Gostelow and Jackalope’s Rare Hare confirmed for Victoria’s favourite food, wine and music gathering off the back of a sell-out event in 2018, The Peninsula Picnic returns on Saturday 30 March, 2019 with an unprecedented line-up of Australian music acts, local restaurants, wineries and producers, bringing together the best of the peninsula to the one location, for one day only. Lead by indie rock five-piece The Rubens, playing alongside beloved song writing legend Sarah Blasko, indie prodigy Tia Gostelow, Latin outfit San Lazaro, and up-and-coming folk artist Fraser A. Gordon, music lovers will be wooed by the…
SORRENTO and Mt Martha beaches recorded the highest number of boating offences during the Water Police’s Operation Jetwash. Thirty-one offences were detected at each of those beaches in the operation which targeted unsafe behaviour over the holiday period. Twenty-five offences were detected at Rye, 24 at Martha Cove and 22 at Frankston during the six-day blitz. As the name of the operation suggests, the police’s major focus was on jet skis and their owners’ behaviour. More than 220 infringements were issued including 53 for speeding – the most common offence. This included 39 for exceeding five knots within 50 metres…
FRANKSTON councillors have voted to confer with emergency services about the possibility of cutting off vehicle access to Station Street Mall. Councillors voted nearly unanimously to explore cutting off vehicle access, a move that Cr Colin Hampton said was important to ensure the area is “as pedestrian friendly as possible”. The Station Street Mall is home to a number of restaurants and other businesses, and vehicle access is currently allowed for the whole stretch of the mall. Under the proposed changes, a turnoff to the Bayside Shopping Centre car park near the Young Street entrance would serve as the cut…
KINGSTON CIU detectives are investigating a spree of attempted thefts from motor vehicles in Patterson Lakes, 23 January. Police said that a man attempted to break into three cars on Palm Beach Drive, trying to steal tools from utes and vans. Police said they believe the man was driving a large black ute while attempting to commit the thefts. The man was wearing a jacket, shorts, and white runners with black laces. He is described as being of European appearance, in his early 30s, with dark wavy hair and an unshaven face. Police have released images of the man they…