A WOMAN in her early 20s was airlifted to The Alfred hospital from Somerville oval last week after the car in which she was a passenger crashed into a power pole. After being assessed she was found to be “not as badly injured as first thought”. Police said the late model Holden station wagon was travelling at up to 100kph in a 60kph zone along Frankston-Flinders Road, in the early hours of Saturday 5 January. They said they were not pursuing the car but caught up to it only after it crashed at the intersection of Bungower Road. The driver,…
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A STABBING was reported to Frankston Police at the notorious Ambassador Hotel site on 8 December. Police were called to the infamous hotel at 2am. They said nobody was willing to help them with their inquiries. Police said the victim was “not forthcoming” with information. The Ambassador Hotel has a long history of drug use and violent incidents. Numerous stabbings have been reported at the site in the past. A man stabbed in the back at a unit at The Ambassador complex was airlifted to Melbourne’s Royal Melbourne Hospital with life-threatening injuries on 10 April 2018. An 18-year-old woman was…
DESPITE publicity and the pleas for parents to use common sense, every year in Australia more than 5000 children are rescued after being left alone in hot cars. In the year to the end of August, Ambulance Victoria was called to 1587 cases of people locked in cars in Victoria – the majority being toddlers and babies. Last week, Mornington Peninsula Shire Council and Kidsafe Victoria launched its Kids in Cars awareness campaign at Seawinds Community Hub, Capel Sound, ahead of the annual influx of an estimated 140,000 visitors over the summer holidays. The temperature inside a parked car could…
AUTHOR Nevo Zisin will visit Frankston Library on 4 February as part of the Midsumma Festival. The writer is coming to Frankston to speak about the book ‘Finding Nevo’, an autobiography which delves into Nevo’s experiences with gender. Nevo was assigned female at birth, and after beginning the process of transitioning at age 17, now identifies as non-binary. Nevo works as a youth leader and runs programs and workshops at schools, and also works with the Jewish community on issues of gender and sexuality. The 21 year-old author published the book in 2017. The Midsumma Festival is a three week…
THE Peninsula Youth Music Society has held their 39th annual summer music school for young students to hone their musical ability. Keen musicians met at Mount Erin College to practice and get ready for a concert held at the Frankston Arts Centre last Friday. Nora Morrisroe from the Peninsula Youth Music Society said “this year 100 students have been engaged in making music with their new found friends, some have just begun their joy of exploring sounds and creating music, others have extended their skills and found fun in improvisation, others have been trying to find the instrument that best…