CRISIS accommodation is now available for women, children and their pets fleeing family violence. The Eastern Domestic Violence Service (EDVOS) says pets can play a significant role in family dynamics and it is importance to also support them when women and children are fleeing family violence. EDVOS now has accommodation available at three crisis properties in Melbourne’s eastern metropolitan area that can safely accommodate women, children and their pets – each equipped with kennels, pet food and other animal amenities. The service is also working with Women’s Liberation Halfway House (WLHH) to provide the first specialist pet-friendly women’s refuge in…
Author: Bayside News
JORDAN Ablett is used to the spotlight as a model and community advocate, and now, the wife to AFL player Gary Ablett is taking on the cause of some of Victoria’s most vulnerable women, as the newest ambassador for The Babes Project. The crisis pregnancy support service, with support centres in Frankston and Croydon, announced Jordan’s new role on International Women’s Day and said the passionate campaigner would help shine a spotlight on the importance of support to empower pregnant women and new mums. “I’m so excited to be entrusted with such an amazing responsibility – I absolutely love the…
AN evening out at tenpin bowling ended with strikes of the wrong kind for an 18-year-old male bashed by a group of men. The 18-year-old was at Strike Bar in Frankston’s Beach Street at about 7.30pm on Saturday 3 March before heading to a nearby nightclub. He left the club at about midnight, being helped out of the premises by mates since he was “quite intoxicated”. Walking along Beach Street, the victim and two friends, a man and woman, became embroiled in “a disagreement” with four males who threw the 18-year-old to the ground and kicked him in the head.…
NOTHING good ever happens after 2am is a phrase often banded around nightclubs and that seems to have been the case on Friday 9 March when a 29-year-old male driver allegedly engaged in some reckless conduct endangering life. The man from Ringwood East was seen performing a burnout outside the Rockstar Bar in a green Holden SS ute before heading northbound and losing control of the car and crossing all three northbound lanes of the Nepean Highway. The driver drove over a median strip and mounted a gutter and also collided with a post at Wells Road. The Ringwood East…
A COMMUNITY group helping Frankston people “who have nowhere else to turn for help” has commemorated its 50th anniversary. Community Support Frankston, originally the Frankston Citizens’ Advice Bureau, began offering help in the area in 1968 and is a place where food and shopping vouchers are available to those in need. CSF also offers information, support and advocacy for people with problems paying bills, housing costs or essential medical and essential medicines bills. The group is calling for more volunteers to try to help more people in the years ahead. “While our organisation is proud to be reaching such a…