Police have arrested a 25-year-old Wodonga man in relation to an incident in Mentone yesterday. It is alleged a female was assaulted and a 10-month-old child was taken from a Mentone address about midday. A pursuit was initiated across a number of south eastern suburbs before it was terminated for safety reasons. The man was arrested at a service station on Hume Highway near Donnybrook about 6pm by members of the Special Operations Group. The baby was located and did not require any medical treatment. Two other males were taken into custody at the service station, a 20-year-old Skye man…
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KINGSTON Council is appealing for members of the community to come forward and provide feedback for how they would like to see the Mordialloc Freeway project delivered. Earlier this year the $375 million project was announced as a “nine-kilometre freeway that will link the Mornington Peninsula Freeway at Springvale Road in Aspendale Gardens to the Dingley Bypass in Dingley Village.” Two contractors were being considered in May, with an announcement on the successful bidder to be made by the end of the year. A Kingston Council statement has outlined that they would like to see that “sensitive interfaces of Braeside…
ARTWORK from the Kingston for Human Rights children’s art competition are set to be displayed at Shirley Burke Gallery from 7 December until 27 January. School children were asked to put their hands up and take to the canvas to create pieces that reflected the theme for the year, respect and trust. St Joseph’s Primary School students Jasmine Seymour and Elizabeth Pond were two students who got to work to create an artwork for the competition. “The message of our artwork tells us that no matter what we look like, or who we are, we all equal, unique and special…
THE AGL Peninsula Film Festival returns to entertain the crowds on screen and stage this February, and for the first time introduces Musiqua, with live music at Hastings Foreshore. Now in its eighth year, the festival will run from February 1 – 3, 2019 and features a ticketed launch at Rosebud Cinema on the Friday Feb 1, the popular FREE short film festival at the Village Green in Rosebud on Sat Feb 2 and is expanding to include a new music festival at Hastings, Musiqua, on the Sunday Feb 3. The FREE short film festival is the highlight of the…
By Fran Henke LIFE as a bank teller was not Rondelle Douglas’s dream. She loved to draw as a child. When events took a challenging turn (divorce) the mother of three decided to return to Victoria and rediscover those drawing skills. “I was always intrigued by illustrations for stories and articles in magazines,” Ms Douglas, now living at Dromana, said. “So, in 2011, I enrolled at Chisholm Frankston for a Diploma of Visual Arts, Illustration”. This involved working in a variety of mediums, learning how to work to a brief. Rondelle began to appreciate how Illustration course staff helped students develop…