BAYSIDE police will be working with the public to keep the peace this summer as the mercury climbs and beachgoers start flocking to the foreshore. Visiting the Mordialloc police station last week, Mordialloc MP Tim Richardson and Police Minister Lisa Neville praised officers for their work to support community safety. As part of Operation Summertime police will focus on public order issues, including beach parties, drunkenness and drug use, use of fireworks and other anti-social activities at the beach. The beach patrol and a bike patrol units will run right through summer to respond to incidents. Ms Neville said that…
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DANGER to swimmers off Kingston beaches from passing jet-skis could be reduced if planned boating zone changes are introduced as part of a by Parks Victoria review. The state government agency is seeking feedback on extending swimming-only areas off beaches by up to 60 metres at several bayside and peninsula beaches. A Boating Zone Review proposes wider exclusion zones for jet-skis off Aspendale, Bonbeach, Carrum and Chelsea beaches. Feedback is also being sought on jet-ski use along Patterson River. “Parks Victoria is inviting beachgoers, swimmers, paddle craft users, vessel operators, local residents, local businesses and the broader community to provide…
PUPILS are standing up for the rights of refugees via a children’s art exhibition at Shirley Burke Theatre, Parkdale. The event will be opened by artist and peace activist William Kelly, 7:30pm, Saturday 10 December. Mr Kelly, OAM, is a former dean of the Victorian College of Arts and a guest lecturer at Yale, Oxford and Cambridge universities, as well as other institutions in Europe, South Africa, US, Eastern Europe and Australia. He is the only visual artist to be given the prestigious Courage of Conscience Award (Boston, US). Other recipients include Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Muhammad Ali…
BUDDING photographers are grabbing their cameras and heading for the beach for a chance to win a share of over $7000 prize money in the Kingston Council’s annual Lens Mist photography competition. Now in its seventh year, Lens Mist helps celebrate Port Phillip Bay’s beaches and foreshore environment. “The innovative competition challenges artists to capture an image that evokes Port Phillip Bay while responding to the theme: ‘Our changing environment’, the mayor Cr David Eden said. “Kingston is proud to support local artists and the annual Lens Mist event is a fantastic opportunity for photographers to share their talent.” Photographs…
AWARD-WINNING author George Ivanoff will cap off another year of Author for All Seasons sessions at Mentone Public Library this weekend. The Cheltenham resident will talk about his Royal Flying Doctor Service books, “a high-octane adventure series for children”, written in partnership with the high-flying medical service. Each book is a standalone story and the series does not need to be read in any particular order. Ivanoff, who has had several books aimed at a Young Adult audience published, recently won an Honours Award at the KOALAs, the New South Wales annual children’s choice awards for his You Choose: Alien…