SURFERS who have been part of the 20-year history of the Maladiction Longboarders are getting ready for a reunion in October. The club started with members riding longboards, or malibu boards, when most of their surfing colleagues’ feet were firmly planted on something shorter than the minimum nine foot and a bit. (Surfers are among the last identifiable socio group to more frequently use imperial measure – feet and inches – rather than metric). Most Maladiction contests are held on reef breaks at The Pines, Shoreham, although small swells will see them relocated to beach breaks at Gunnamatta or Rye.…
Author: Bayside News
MEMBERS of Mornington’s Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society will attend their regular monthly Friday evening talk on the work of Edvard Munch’s work The Scream on Friday 7 July and then, the next day, Saturday 8 July, they will hear a presentation at Beleura House and Garden entitled Rubens to Rembrandt: The Art of Brabant, Flanders and the Dutch Republic. ADFAS offers members and their guests an opportunity to learn more about the arts. Lectures are held at the Peninsula Community Theatre, Wilsons Rd, Mornington, 5.30pm on Friday evenings. The hour-long lectures are illustrated and are followed by light…
FISHERIES Victoria has called for public comment on proposed new rules to reduce the killing of stingrays, skates and guitarfish but an action group wants killing completely banned. Fisheries is proposing cutting the bag limit from five rays a day a person to one; a 400-metre exclusion zone around human-made structures including jetties, piers and break walls; and a ban on killing rays over 1.5 metres wide. The 800-member Project Banjo action group, led by Safety Beach resident and scuba diver PT Hirschfield, says the changes “would be a move in the right direction” but the group wanted a complete…
A 42-YEAR-OLD man has had his car impounded for 30 days after he was pulled over by police for drink driving in Karingal on Thursday night. Police intercepted the man’s Ford Falcon in Mimosa Court at 11.30pm. He was breath tested and allegedly returned a reading of 0.203 per cent. He was also allegedly driving without a licence. The man is expected to be charged by summons to appear at Frankston Magistrates’ Court. In another incident, a 25-year-old woman allegedly returned a reading of 0.095 per cent after being pulled over and breath tested on Playne St, Frankston, 3.30am, Friday…
POLICE are hunting a man who grabbed the arm of a 17-year-old Carrum Downs girl and tried to force her into his car. Detective Senior Constable John Melhuish, of Frankston CIU, said the girl was walking along Carrington Cr, about midday on Tuesday 27 June, when the man driving a silver Mitsubishi sedan pulled up alongside her. He attempted to coax the girl into the car by offering her a lift home and then, when she refused, got out and grabbed her arm and tried to force her inside. The girl resisted and ran home and police were called. She…