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…
Author: Bayside News
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…
A TOW truck had to be called in to haul an expensive BMW RR motorbike from the muddy waters of Mordialloc Creek last week. Two motorcyclists are understood to have stopped on the bank to take photographs, 8pm, Wednesday 20 September, and the $25,000 bike inadvertently toppled in. Despite their best efforts, the bikers could not retrieve it that night; a couple of passing tradies were also unsuccessful next day. Photographer Gary Sissons was on hand when the tow truck arrived and connected a cable to the waterlogged bike. First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 27 September…
AN unlicensed driver had her car impounded after being caught driving down the wrong side of Peninsula Link, 4am, Wednesday 20 September. Members of the Frankston Highway Patrol narrowly avoided a collision with the woman who was driving south in the north-bound lane. They chased her for three kilometres and managed to pull her over at the Cranbourne Rd exit. The 48-year-old, of Somerville, claimed she had “swerved to miss a possum” and was unaware she was in the wrong lane. Senior Sergeant Mick Lamb, of Frankston police, said there was “real potential for a catastrophic outcome” in the incident.…
TWO female liquor store attendants struggled with two men who were attempting to steal three cartons of beer in Cheltenham, Saturday 23 September. The men entered the Station Rd store, 12.45pm, and selected two Corona and one Victoria Bitter cartons before attempting to walk out without paying. During the struggle two cartons were dropped, breaking some of the stubbies, and the men fled with only one carton. A witness chased them to Stanley Av but one produced a jemmy bar and raised it in a threatening manner. The men are described as: one Indian or Middle Eastern, 170cm, wearing grey…