ROSEBUD will host an international lighting extravaganza featuring some of the most loveable characters from Dreamwork’s animation in an Australian-first exhibition. Around 100, huge illuminated figures from the movies Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon and Madagascar will come to life and light up the Rosebud foreshore in April. Lights by DreamWorks is an interactive, walkthrough experience that will run for 30 days and is expected to attract more than 300,000 visitors. Modelled on the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival, Lights by DreamWorks also features a variety of scenographic pieces, LED furnishings, themed technology and learning zones, an…
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A CAR given to pioneering women aviator Amelia Earhart will be in Mornington next month as part of the RACV Great Australian Rally. The front wheel drive supercharged Cord was a present from Earhart’s husband, George Putnam, who had it painted in her favourite colour, “Eleanor blue”, named after her friend Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of the long serving United States’ president, Franklin D Roosevelt. The Cord’s owner, Terry Dowel of Beaconsfield, will exhibit his car at the rally which raises money for research by the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic…
SMOKING rates in Frankston and on the Mornington Peninsula are significantly higher than the state average – statistics Peninsula Health and local schools are out to improve. “Most people in our community would agree that no one wants their kids to smoke,” Kristen Young, health promotion practitioner at Peninsula Health, said. “But, for an issue with so much support, the score card on tobacco use within our local community is quite dismal.” The service is collaborating with Mornington Peninsula Shire youth services and Frankston Mornington Peninsula Primary Care Partnership to create the Smokescreen Project. It was launched last year at…
FRANKSTON bodybuilder Kim Parrott has been rewarded for her punishing training regime, frugal diet and persistent pursuit of her training goals. She has just returned from winning the world bodybuilding championships in Canada in November. In 2015, Parrott became the Female Figure Overall Champion for Australasian Natural Bodybuilding Fitness Mania. This qualified her to compete in the Ultimate Fitness Events World Championships Elite division in Toronto that year. Unable to go due to prior commitments, she set herself to compete again late last year, win again, and go to Toronto late last year. “In April I achieved my goal,” she…
A CHARITY providing showers for homeless people in Frankston and Chelsea is struggling to keep up with demand. Portable shower service, Clean as Casper, has been providing free warm showers near Community Support Frankston (CSF), and at Chelsea’s Church of Christ once a week for the past six months. But founder Steve Winterton said demand was high and the mobile service hoped to increase visits to Frankston and Chelsea to twice a week. He said a $10,000 grant under the Sunsuper ‘Dreams for a Better World’ program would go a long way towards helping the charity buy a new van…