Peninsula Film Festival is thrilled to announce its new naming rights partner Cobs popcorn and together we are calling on filmmakers across the world to enter their masterpiece for PFF 2018! Enter your short film in the Cobs Peninsula Film Festival and you could win a share in up to $30K of cash and prizes and have your work seen by Industry heavyweights! 20 short listed films will be judged live on Saturday February 10, 2018 by top industry professionals with the winner taking out $5K in cash, second place $2.5K cash and third place scoring $1250 cash! There are…
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JANELLE Da Silva celebrated her hen’s day last year by persuading her friends to dress up and take up the Arthurs Seat Challenge. “I dragged all the women up Arthurs Seat with me,” she said. Ms Da Silva, of Frankston, says running gives her “a sense of freedom”, and has previously entered two marathons, two ultra-marathons and a 36 kilometre “trot” up Mount Rosea, in the Grampians. The Arthurs Seat Challenge is an annual 6.7km fun run, including a 3.2km climb with gradients of up to 9.5 per cent. This year the challenge will be held on Sunday 12 November.…
A FENDER Stratocaster Deluxe 2015, similar to the guitar pictured above, with a moulded plastic guitar case was stolen from a car in Frankston, Tuesday 12 September. The guitar’s serial number starts with US15 along with six more digits. Anyone with information is urged to call Detective Acting Sergeant Frank Olle at Frankston CIU, 9784 5590, or Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000. First published in the Frankston Times – 2 October 2017
VISITORS can marvel at a scribe’s steady hand and artistic flair at a new homegrown and home-based “museum of the heart” that has opened in Frankston. Chinese born calligrapher Mike Li, who arrived in Australia in 2013, is a master at drawing and painting Chinese characters and has been learning the skill since the age of five, six decades ago. Li’s work has been displayed at the Great Wall Museum in China. He said a recent visitor to the museum, with more than ten years’ experience in the art of Chinese calligraphy, was impressed and learned a lot from the…
Detectives from Major Collision Investigation Unit will investigate a fatal crash which occurred in Seaford this morning. Officers attempted to intercept a car on Overton Road about 1am. The car failed to stop, sped off and was last seen turning into Govan Street. Police patrolled the area and found the car which had crashed into a pole. The male driver ran from police on their arrival. Officers checked the car and found a deceased man in the back seat. A female passenger was located nearby. The deceased man is yet to be identified but the female passenger is assisting police…