The Aspendale Gardens Community Service (AGCS) will be running several events and activities to celebrate National Families Week next week. Building on the theme ‘Stronger Families, Stronger Communities’, the AGCS will present two talks about preventing child injury and practical parenting tips and facilitate a community collection for charity Mummies Supporting Families in Need. “All families are different but ultimately we all at one time or another face the same challenges and experience the same joys during our parenting journey,” AGCS community development coordinator Angela Costigan said. “National Families Week offers a great opportunity for families to connect with each…
Author: Bayside News
OFFENDERS used concrete paving stones to smash their way into a Braeside factory to steal go-karts and parts valued at $10,000 at 1.10am last Thursday (5 May). They also set fire to a filing cabinet outside the Kevlar Cl premises, possibly as a decoy to the robbery, Mordialloc police said later. The thieves stole a vintage go-kart, dragged a second go-kart from a workshop and removed the engine from another go-kart which they dropped onto the floor before running off. Police also found a child’s car seat and burnt-out toolbox on the nature strip. CCTV footage is being examined for…
WHEN a child in the City of Kingston gets sick they will most likely be treated at Monash Children’s Hospital, a place many families are unaware even exists. However, Paterson Lakes mother Vanessa Miranda knows this special part of Monash Medical Centre too well. Her daughter Taylah was diagnosed with leukaemia at the age of 14 at the end of 2014, and Vanessa will always be grateful for the life saving care and treatment at Monash Children’s Hospital. Vanessa cannot forget the day she found out Taylah had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. “We entered a new world that day. A world…
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate missing 16-year-old teenager Destiny Rowe. Investigators have been told Destiny was last seen in the Frankston area on Thursday 5 May and has not been seen since. Destiny is known to frequent the Frankston CBD area and may be staying with friends. Police and family are concerned for her welfare due to her age and the length of time that she has been missing. Investigators have released an image of Destiny in the hope someone may know her whereabouts. Destiny is described as 155cm tall with a thin build and blonde…
A NATIONAL skate competition at Mt Eliza, Saturday 21 May, will have categories for skateboarders as well as scooter and BMX riders. The free event will be held at the Mt Eliza Skate Park, Emil Madsen Reserve, Wooralla Drive, which has the peninsula’s largest skate bowl. The competition is sponsored by Mornington Peninsula Shire and organised in partnership with the Impakt Freeza youth events committee and the YMCA. The competition is part of the YMCA’s National Skate Park League and provides a development pathway for amateur skate and BMX riders. The winners from the skateboard section will join finalists from…