A FAULTY battery is believed to have caused the fire which destroyed a Chelsea SES transport vehicle last Wednesday (29 March). A Kingston Council worker saw smoke coming from a garage at Bonbeach Reserve, Scotch Parade, just after lunch and called the CFA. Units from Patterson River and Edithvale arrived to find the four-wheel-drive well alight. “Their quick response and great work isolated the fire to a single garage saving our maintenance shed and boat shed from any major damage,” Phil Wall, of Chelsea SES, said. “The vehicle is a right off and damage is being assessed to a boat…
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A PATTERSON Lakes man was punched to the back of the head during a parking dispute, 10.30am, Sunday 2 April. The man told Chelsea police he parked his car in a loading zone at Harbour Plaza shopping centre, Thompson Rd. When he returned he found another car parked hard up against his car, preventing him opening the door. When that driver – an elderly man – returned, the man said he began talking to him. Police said another man, not connected to either man, “had a crack” at the victim before punching him in the back of the head. The…
A SEAFORD woman allegedly attempted to use stolen credit cards to pay for 50 litres of petrol and various items at an Aspendale Gardens service station. All were declined. When the attendant requested she produce her driver’s licence and fill out a form, the woman allegedly handed him a licence with a photograph of an Asian woman, even though she is Caucasian and blonde. The woman, 31, then left the store and drove off with another woman in what was later found to be a stolen car. Police traced the licence to a staff member at Karingal Hub who said…
AUTUMN darkness may be falling but the Mentone-Mordialloc Art Group is brightening up its walls at the Mentone Activity Centre. The group’s Autumn Members Exhibition is being held 6-13 April, 10am-4pm daily and until 6pm on Friday 7 April. The not-for-profit organisation offers, managed by volunteers, art lessons and classes to all ages and abilities from teens to retirees. The art group was formed in 1956 and moved to its premises at Mentone Activity Hub, 29 Venice St, Mentone in April last year from Old Granary Lane. See mentone-mordiallocartgroup.org.au or call 9584 6376 for further information. First published in the…
ONE of a group of intoxicated men who allegedly caused trouble inside a Chelsea Heights McDonald’s and then loitered outside, vandalising trees and smashing windows at a Wells Rd unit block and a nearby gymnasium, has been arrested. The incidents occurred on Thursday 14 July last year but are only now coming to court. Witnesses said the offender threw frozen Coke over a customer and then followed him out to the restaurant car park, damaging his car and trying to fight him. He was one of four men who allegedly snapped four mature trees at their trunks and used star…