CHRISTMAS is looming and the tireless volunteers at Peninsula Mums for Families in Need are bracing themselves for high demand. The charity service, established by mother-of-three Jodie Harris, makes Christmas special for disadvantaged people living in the Frankston/Mornington Peninsula region. In four years, demand for food, clothing and essential goods has grown to such an extent, the charity has been forced to find a new home and now works out of warehouse in Seaford that comes with a large rent bill each month. The volunteers now wrap about 2000 presents and 300 food hampers for families in need every Christmas,…
Author: Bayside News
VISITORS to Frankston and the peninsula’s bay and ocean beaches may have noticed the prevalence of bluebottle jellyfish. The common bluebottle, Physalia utriculus, is smaller and less venomous than its Atlantic cousin Physalia physalis – or Portuguese man o’war – but it can still produce a painful sting. While they may look like a single marine creature they are actually colonial organisms known as siphonophores, with separate animals specialised for food capture, digestion, reproduction, and one that makes up the gas-filled float. The animals cannot function alone and the whole can only survive as a colony. The floats can grow…
A BRICK veneer house in Frankston North was destroyed by fire late Wednesday night. Police have deemed the fire, in Mallee St, 10pm, Wednesday 7 December, as “suspicious”. Arson chemists were expected to attend Thursday. Four fire trucks from Frankston, Patterson River and Carrum Downs CFA brigades fought the blaze which is believed to have begun in the kitchen. Frankston senior station officer Doug Broom said the Housing Commission house had suffered “significant structural collapse and was 70 per cent involved in the fire” when crews arrived. He said crews initially thought three people may have been inside and searched…
MISSING Person Squad detectives have charged a 49-year-old man regarding the disappearance of Karen Rae. Ms Rae, 48, was last seen leaving her Adib Court home in Frankston North at about 7pm on 15 April, 2015. Last Friday (9 December), a search of the roadside along the Frankston Freeway was commenced by SES under the direction of police. Human remains, that were yet to be identified at time of publication, were located in bushland beside the freeway in Frankston North on Saturday 10 December. The Langwarrin man has been charged with one count of murder and has been remanded to…
PENINSULA Health has received an award for its Preventing Tobacco Use campaign as part of the Mornington Peninsula Junior Football League Goes Smoke Free project. The award was announced at the 2016 VicHealth Awards ceremony at Federation Square last week by Health Minister Jill Hennessey. Also attending were Shadow Health Spokeswoman Mary Wooldridge, Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber, VicHealth chair Fiona McCormack and VicHealth CEO Jerril Rechter. The Preventing Tobacco Use project is a partnership with the Mornington Peninsula Junior Football League, Good Sports, Quit Victoria, and Mornington Peninsula Shire Council, with the league the first sporting league in the…