MORNINGTON Racecourse is “putting the peninsula on a plate” with a new food and beverage regime that supports local businesses, farms and workers. Under a five-year program with Chisholm Institute 50 trainees each year will gain on-the-job experience working across race days and events. As well as new management and staff, the racecourse is working with 30 businesses – from wineries, fruit and vegetable farms to meat and smallgoods suppliers – to ensure that what’s served up on the plate represents the produce available on the peninsula. Under the guidance of the new head of food and beverage operations, Paul…
Author: Bayside News
TWO women have died mysteriously within days of each other in a Seaford street. In the first instance on 28 July a woman living in Carder Av died in what police said were “non-suspicious circumstances”. A TV news report that night described her death as “mysterious”. In the second instance a woman died the day after crashing into two parked cars and a fence in Carder Av, late on Tuesday 2 August. Police said the woman driving a Toyota lost control and crashed, 9.30pm. The 26-year-old was taken to Frankston police station where she returned a blood alcohol reading of…
A CAR was almost cut in half when it crashed into a pole outside Frankston Hospital in wet conditions, early Tuesday (2 August) morning. A man was driving the Ford sedan with two female passengers when it skidded off Davey St, 5.30am. Frankston SES incident controller Philip Holt said the man had managed to get free by the time rescue crews arrived. He said his crew took an hour using a hand winch to prise the car from the pole to rescue the trapped passengers. “It was a good effort because there had been significant impact and a power line…
A WOMAN lost control as her car spun more than 360 degrees and slammed sideways into a truck at Patterson Lakes, Monday 1 August. The truck was parked on the path leading up to the Thompson Rd bridge and workers were standing at the front ready to work on the steel barriers when the accident occurred, 10am. The truck’s tray made a “significant intrusion” into the body of the car, putting the woman, in her early 30s, in danger, SES incident controller Philip Holt said. SES crews moved the truck forward and used the jaws-of-life to cut her free. She…
THE police operation Secure Gateway on Frankston-Dandenong Rd, Carrum Downs, last week resulted in arrests for a variety of traffic and criminal offences. Senior Sergeant Justin Watson, of Frankston police, said 16 officers from the Shadow taskforce, highway patrol and CIU, made five arrests for possession of drugs, theft of motor cars and assault, in the operation on Friday and Saturday nights, 29-30 July. Police made another five arrests for outstanding warrants and other matters, such as driving stolen cars. He said seven vehicles were impounded and a further 23 drivers fined for various traffic offences. “Police will be holding…