LOOKING out for those less fortunate in the Kingston community is not just for Christmas. Kind hearted Chelsea and Kingston residents have shown they truly care by donating enough food to the Your Pantry program, managed by Chelsea’s Community Church of Christ, to also help people in need after the festive season. The call for more food donations is going out again in the hope residents will again dig deep to help others. Church community support officer Fiona Bright says the Your Pantry program was planned to last just five weeks. “Since Christmas, we have helped around 34 people from…
Author: Bayside News
POLICE are treating as arson the burning of two boats on Mordialloc Creek early Monday morning (29 August). CCTV cameras perched atop boatman Leon Pompei’s shed showed two men in hoodies, track suits and masks setting the fibreglass boats ablaze, 4.20am, and then running from the scene. The fires took 40 minutes to bring under control with fire brigades blocking off Nepean Hwy to traffic to allow hoses to carry water from the seaward side of the bridge. Both boats were burnt to the waterline with firemen using pontoons to try to inhibit the spread of leaking fuel. An arson…
Frankston Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating the fraudulent use of a credit card in Frankston last month. The victim lost her credit card in a Beach Street shopping complex about 6.45pm on 29 July. The card was used multiple times a short time later to buy alcohol and groceries in Frankston and then groceries in Carrum Downs. Investigators have released images of a man and a woman, believed to be aged in their 30s, they believe may be able to assist with their enquiries. Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit…
Obituary Des Calverley, 21/11/1919 – 10/8/2016 DES Calverley was born in Wee Wee Rup, on the Murray Valley Highway about 10 kilometres south east of Cohuna. He lived in Leitchville, a dairying centre, until he was 14, when like many others he left school; a common practice in those days. In 1937 he went to live at his grandmother’s hotel in Brunswick and after the sale of this hotel, they moved to the Buckingham Hotel, Footscray. His working life was spent with the British United Shoe Machine Company in Fitzroy. In 1941 he married Marie (Mollie) Ryan and the partnership…
MORE than 14,000 children across Victoria, including preschoolers in Frankston, will have the opportunity to become maths masters thanks to The Smith Family’s early maths program called Let’s Count. The program, funded by a $542,000 state government grant, will see 16 early childhood educators from Frankston early learning centres help children and parents use maths every day. Victorian Families and Children Minister Jenny Mikakos met some of the educators and families at Frankston Preschool last Tuesday, alongside The Smith Family’s Victorian general manager Anton Leschen and Frankston Labor MP Paul Edbrooke. “This exciting and very welcome investment by the Victorian…