A GROUP of friends from Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula are discovering the beauty and serenity of some of the Mornington Peninsula’s best-kept secrets while they train for the upcoming Wild Women on Top ‘Melbourne Coastrek’ walk. Frankston South woman Sarah Watson is one of 12 friends who have been enjoying parts of the peninsula they never knew existed while training for the 60km charity walk, in between dodging Tiger snakes, brushing past kangaroos and echidnas, and marvelling at the beauty of the coastline. “We’ve been doing walks around Cape Schanck and Point Nepean and without doubt one of the…
Author: Bayside News
A $35,000 fibreglass cabin cruiser appears to have been deliberately torched in Seaford early on Friday 14 October. Police are investigating the blaze which broke out at 2am in the garden of the Seaford Grove property. A crime scene guard was established around the remains of the 6.2 metre Savage half-cabin boat sitting on its trailer and an arson chemist was called in. A neighbour woke the 45-year-old owner and alerted him to the fire. Their attempts to douse the flames proved fruitless. Anyone with information should call Detective Senior Constable Richard Brown, Frankston CIU, 9784 5555. First published in…
A MAN arriving back at his Chelsea home saw an unfamiliar utility parked in his neighbour’s driveway, and then saw torchlight in an upstairs bedroom on Friday 14 October at about 10pm. The man then realised the torches had been switched off when he parked his car in Newington Parade. He saw a passenger in the ute and noticed the garage door had been propped open, with another man walking from the house back to the ute. This man is described as Caucasian, aged in his 20s with short hair, tattoos down his left arm, is of slim build and…
A DISPUTE over a disabled parking bay led to a verbal altercation and then a physical assault outside Lakeview shopping centre, Patterson Lakes, Saturday afternoon. A Patterson Lakes woman with a permanent disability told police she had been unable to find a free disabled parking space at the centre, 2.50pm, 15 October, forcing her to drive around longer than expected. The woman, 58, saw a free space and parked, but noticed a car without a disabled sticker in the next bay. She had a verbal altercation with the female passenger whom she alleges threw a drink at her. The driver…
ONE of Carrum’s most dedicated grassroots footy volunteers has been declared a Champion of the Code. Carrum Labor MP Sonya Kilkenny nominated Katherine Gillespie-Jones for an award at a special reception at Government House to pay tribute to the hard-working volunteers who make local footy tick. Katherine joined fellow Champions of the Code from all over Victoria to watch the 2016 AFL Grand Final Parade, before taking in the NAB AFL Under-18 All Stars Match at Punt Road Oval, and then lunched at one of the Grand Final live site pop-up restaurants. The Western Bulldogs broke its 62-year premiership drought…