THE Rotary Club of Chelsea has partnered with a Braeside businessman to save the lives of underprivileged children through an everyday household item – soap. The club is working with Michael Matulick, founder and CEO of Soap Aid, and hotels around Australia, to improve hygiene for communities in need around the world. The innovative charity collects, sorts and even cleans up discarded soap from hotels and produces hygienic bars of soap for re-distribution, coupled with education on hygiene practises. Rotary Chelsea president of the club Peter Batten said the club was proud to be partnering with Soap Aid in humanitarian…
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THE site of the former Ambassador Hotel function centre is being advertised as being for sale again. KBL Commercial has listed the 325 Nepean Highway site, zoned Commercial 1, for sale as a “development site” with “plans and permits for 37 apartments, six 1 bedroom, 27 two-bedroom and four 3-bedroom apartments”. Mortgagee Jack Gringlas, of the Jadig Group, has been trying to sell the site since February for about $2.5 million after successive plans by prospective property developers fell through. Mr Gringlas had the function centre, long regarded as an eyesore by Frankston councillors and a magnet for drug dealers…
HOMELESSNESS and mental illness in Frankston are being tackled through a program that includes the acquisition of 16 properties for people in need. Frankston MP Paul Edbrooke said the state government will buy ten properties and lease six under a Rapid Housing Assistance program for people in need. They had also funded $3.5 million to partner with ‘Haven Home Safe’ to provide accommodation in Frankston for people with severe mental illness. The funding package will support 19,000 people at risk of or experiencing homelessness over the next five years, providing targeted support for especially rough sleepers, young people and veterans.…
MORE than 500 bottles and 118 shopping bags weighing more than 146kg were removed from the base of Olivers Hill during a recent clean-up day run by Frankston Beach Patrol. The volunteer organisation picks up rubbish every month from different locations along Frankston’s coast line, and this month conservation organisation Sea Shepherd Marine Debris Campaign volunteers helped the group pick up rubbish. Frankston Beach Patrol manager John Billing said Sea Shepherd’s Trent Williams contacted him a few months ago and asked if they could join us for one of the patrol’s clean-ups. “Knowing that Olivers Hill can be particularly challenging,…
A COUPLE in their 30s was arrested during a routine police check in Wandella Rd, Mt Martha, early Monday morning last week, and later charged with a range of offences. The man and woman in their early 30s, of Carrum Downs, were seen sitting in a car, 2am, by Mornington police. The man was allegedly found to be wanted on five outstanding warrants. He was charged with going equipped to steal, theft from a vehicle, carrying a false licence, and possession of a drug of dependence. The woman was charged with possession of the drugs ice and GHB. They appeared…