MAKE this summer the start of a lifetime lifesaving journey. That’s the call from Frankston Life Saving Club as it seeks new surf life savers. Club lifesaving director Ash Presser said the club wants to boost volunteer numbers to pitch in and help those who get into aquatic strife at Frankston beach. “All sorts of people are surf life savers. They come from all walks of life, in all shapes and sizes,” Mr Asher said. “No matter if you are young at heart or simply young. There’s a role for everyone on and off the beach.” Frankston Life Saving Club…
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AN ASPENDALE school has seen years of work on its Sustainability Precinct since 2013 featuring an outdoor kitchen, vegetable gardens and animal enclosures pay off with two big wins at Sustainability Victoria’s ResourceSmart Schools Awards. St Louis de Montfort’s School was named the ‘School of the Decade’ and ‘Leadership School of the Year’ this month by Sustainability Victoria. Pupils and staff at the primary school have worked diligently on looking after the food and produce gardens and animals that live within the St Louis de Montfort School’s grounds. A kitchen made from converted shipping containers solar panels and wetlands enclosures…
POLICE are searching for a man who allegedly stole a tips jar from a Mentone store on Monday 25 September. At about 12.40pm, a man stole a muffin from the Como Parade West store as well as the jar containing about $250. He is described as Caucasian, late teens to early 20s, with long brown hair. He was wearing a black hoodie with a blue left sleeve, track pants, blue and orange runners, grey LA baseball cap and carrying a grey and red backpack. First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 1 November 2017
FRANKSTON RSL Remembrance Day services will be held on three days this month. The events will commemorate the 99th anniversary of the end of World War I. Remembrance services will be held at: Frankston Memorial Park Cemetery, corner Moorooduc Highway and Cranbourne Rd on Sunday 5 November at 11am Frankston War Memorial, Beauty Park, High St, Frankston on Friday 10 November at 1.30pm Frankston RSL Memorial Garden, 183 Cranbourne Rd, Frankston on Saturday 11 November at 10.45am The services will honour the memory of the fallen and the since departed who served their country during past wars and conflicts. The…
Compiled by Brodie Cowburn “PLEASE keep on sending us all the cigarettes you can”, was the message received the other day from a commanding officer at the front by the Over-Seas Club Southern Club Tobacco Fund. “I write this on behalf of all the men under my command,” he continued, “and I can safely say that every other would write you the same thing, in the meantime, please accept my sincere thanks for the case of Australian made cigarettes. They are a boon and a blessing.” *** IT has been officially reported through the Red Cross Bureau that Pte Arnold…