FRANKSTON RSL’s Anzac Day services, Tuesday 25 April, will continue to commemorate those who went into battle during World War I. This year’ services will be at the new war memorial and cenotaph at Beauty Park, Frankston. The dawn service will be at 5.45am between the end of Baxter Av and High St. The gunfire breakfast will be after the dawn service, between the war memorial and the lake. The commemorative march will begin at 11am from the corner of Yuille and High streets, Frankston. Organisations marching will muster at 10.30am at the starting point. The march will proceed down…
Author: Bayside News
ROTARY’S Alternative Schoolies trip to Cambodia is leaving on 26 November and is open to students graduating from year 12. The cross cultural visit will take the students to Phnom Penh and Siem Reap where they will volunteer for various projects. Rotary past president Judy Rebecca said funds from a 2014-15 schoolies trip provided money for a classroom to be built, and toilets and running water installed. Students also teach English and dental hygiene, help with gardening or whatever jobs are needed. Students also experience all of the South-East Asian country’s cultural highlights, as well as such sombre realities as…
FRANKSTON mayor Cr Brian Cunial says the council’s draft 2017-18 budget and five-year council plan “overcome impediments caused by the state government’s rate capping to deliver services and capital works that our community needs and deserves”. This was the second budget to be framed under the revenue restriction, which this year impose a two per cent cap on rate increases. The draft budget and council plan are on public display, with members of the public able to have their say until 5pm, Friday 12 May. The budget provides $3.27 million to maintain and improve Frankston’s road and bridge network; $2.38…
CHILDREN attending Sunday school at Aspendale Presbyterian church in 1927 received their religious teaching while sitting under a tree. It was adults only inside the church. In the past 90 years much has changed. The original church building is now used as a hall for such community activities as play groups, dancing classes and meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous. The newer church building – completed in the 1970s – is still busy on Sunday mornings and while the electric organ remains, a small band plays the music. Children are actively involved and the service is relaxed. The new minister, the Rev…
BURGLARS stole up to $50,000 in cash, designer clothes, handbags, jewellery and a safe from a Patterson Lakes house, sometime between Friday 24 March and Sunday 26 March. Also taken was wine from the owner’s prized Penfolds Grange collection. Police said the thieves knew what they were doing and had switched off the house’s electronic CCTV systems both inside and out before entering through a rear door which the owner is adamant was locked. The two-storey house – sometimes vacant while storm damage is being repaired – was “completely ransacked” by the thieves who had eyes for only the best.…