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…
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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.…
A SALES assistant at a Mordialloc supermarket was abused and then sprayed on the arm by a customer whose bag she had been asked to inspect, 11.43am, Thursday 6 April. Police were told the 17-year-old salesgirl had been asked by her supervisor to inspect the handbag before the woman left the store. However, when approached, the shopper became abusive, angrily shoving her handbag across the counter, saying, “You haven’t had a good enough look.” The shopper, 39, then allegedly reached into her bag and pulled out a perfume bottle which she twice sprayed at the girl’s arm. The girl pressed…