FRANKSTON Life Community are teaming with council to help collect Christmas gifts for visitors to Frankston Life Community lunch. Unwrapped gifts can be left under the Christmas tree for donation at Frankston Library. A crowd of nearly 600 people are expected to attend the lunch at the Arts Centre on Christmas Day. A team of nearly 150 volunteers will be on hand to help out. Frankston Life Community CEO Pastor Mark Whitby said “Christmas is an important time of the year to think about those less fortunate in our community.” “For many in our community, Christmas isn’t a happy time.…
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POLICE presence at schools in Frankston and on the Mornington Peninsula will soon increase to issue fines to speeding drivers. A Frankston Council statement said that “due to ongoing complaints and incidents” there would be an increase in police “patrolling local school zones and issuing fines to drivers doing the wrong thing.” Frankston mayor Cr Michael O’Reilly said “keeping kids safe as they get to and from school is everyone’s responsibility.” “Reducing your speed from 60kph to 40kph to travel through a 400 metre school speed zone only adds around twelve seconds to your overall travel time. This reduction in…
THE Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) has this week started its summer water quality tests at Frankston and Mornington Peninsula beaches. The forecasts over the next four months will cover eight peninsula beaches and four at Frankston. EPA chief environmental scientist Dr Andrea Hinwood said last year’s forecasts for peninsula illustrated how conditions could vary from beach to beach. “Last season, good water quality was forecast for Sorrento beach 81 per cent of time – the second highest score [out of 36 beaches in Port Phillip],” she said. “But a few kilometres away, Rye beach had forecasted good water quality…
THE re-elected state Labor government announced their new cabinet on 29 November, with local MPs being promoted to parliamentary secretaries. Frankston MP Paul Edbrooke will be working under Lisa Neville MP as the parliamentary secretary for police and emergency services. Mr Edbrooke said in a Facebook post “it’s a huge honour to be appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Police and Emergency Services. Lisa Neville MP is an incredibly effective minister and I can’t tell you how much I am looking forward to working beside her. “I have worked alongside ambos, SES, police officers and firefighters for a long time. I know…
FRANKSTON Council has made a plea to re-elected Frankston MP Paul Edbrooke to make funding commitments to their ‘Future Frankston’ projects. Council last week released a statement which heaped praise on Liberal candidate Michael Lamb for committing to council’s four major projects. “Council is delighted that Michael Lamb and the Victorian Liberals have met each of the four priority funding requests made in the lead up to the state election,” said mayor Cr Michael O’Reilly. “This is a fantastic achievement following months of extensive advocacy and we’re proud our work alongside relevant stakeholders has resulted in this positive outcome for…