SAGES Cottage Farm, Baxter, has been bought by not-for-profit service Wallara Australia to expand its training services for adults with different abilities. The not-for-profit organisation had been leasing the 38-acre property for the past three years from Menzies, a support service for disadvantaged youth. It aims to carry forward its vision for the farm and support some of the most vulnerable people in the community. “We’ve already engaged with Rotary, Frankston RSL, Brockhoff Foundation, Mornington Peninsula Shire Council and a number of corporates, all of whom are assisting us with the development of the site and the innovative programs and…
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Compiled by Melissa Walsh A TOMATO bottle was picked up on the beach a few days ago by Mr E. McComb, containing the following words. From the date on the note it has evidently been drifting about for a long time: “The finder would be doing a great service to me if he tell my mother (Mrs Sarratt, Claremont Avenue, Malvern) that all is well—Trooper Jas Sarratt, Albany, 29/10/14.” *** EX-COUNCILLOR G. Keast notifies in another column his reasons for not seeking re-election at the hands of the Centre Riding ratepayers. This advertisement was inadvertently omitted in our last issue.…
KNITTING is a thread that connects the community at Aspendale Gardens Community Service. People are invited to drop in to the centre on Tuesday mornings to sip some free tea and help knit some scarves, beanies, blankets, toys, childrens’ and babies’ clothing to be distributed to the needy. “The knitting mornings offer a wonderful opportunity for members of the community to share a cuppa and meet new friends while all the while creating knitted items that are desperately needed in our community,” community development coordinator Angela Costigan said. The mornings are part of the Knit One Give One (KOGO) initiative…
UP to 25 stolen “high-end” cycles were recovered when police raided a factory in Southern Rd, Mentone, Thursday 11 August. Senior Constable Chris Victory, of the Caulfield Divisional Response Crew, said some of the bikes – including Schwinn, Giant and Cervelo makes – were valued at $12,000 each. They were allegedly stolen from properties from Mentone to Seaford over several months. A 36-year-old man and an 18-year-old girl, of Mentone, have been charged and bailed to appear at Moorabbin Justice Centre on 17 October charged with trafficking and possessing drugs of dependence, handling stolen goods and dealing property suspected to…
CAR parts valued at $13,000 were stolen from a vehicle restoration factory in Mordialloc overnight Thursday last week. The business, Muscle Cars, of Japaddy St, was the victim of an arson attack in October last year and is currently unoccupied, although cars are sometimes stored there. Police said offenders entered through a gap in the fence and then forced a door in the office area after midnight, Thursday 11 August. They stole two superchargers valued at $7000, the brakes of a burnt-out 1967 Mustang valued at $5000 and four Go Jacks valued at $1000. First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc…