Dame Elisabeth Murdoch’s Cruden Farm will once again host McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery’s annual fundraising event on Saturday 19 March. Picnicers will be entertained by Mrs Mippy dixieland jazz band, Dukes of Debonaire, the Beckitt Brothers & The Frankston High School Senior Stage Band – Directed by Leon de Bruin. This is the only event at Cruden Farm that takes in the gardens at twilight. Bring your picnic basket, rug, table & chairs and sit back and enjoy the ambience and surrounds of the beautiful gardens and lakes whilst being entertained by a variety of bands across two locations…
Author: Bayside News
Each year Frankston is taken by storm as the city is immersed in the stories, music, sport, dance, food, film and arts of Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese cultures. The annual month-long Ventana Festival is a highlight of the city’s calendar providing authentic insights into the cultural diversity of Spanish-speaking countries. With events and activities for all ages, such as, a pop up film festival, concerts, bilingual storytelling, craft and costume displays, soccer, capoeira, luche libre (Mexican wrestling), and educational workshops, each year Ventana gets bigger and better. Ventana’s Street Fiesta on March 12 is a dazzling display of colour, flavour, song and…
THE saying ‘one man’s trash is another man’s treasure’ will be put to the test by some amazing installations at this year’s Ventana Fiesta. Ventana, which means ‘window’, is Frankston’s month-long celebration of arts and culture inspired by emerging and celebrated movements in Latin America, Spain and Portugal. According to Frankston mayor Cr James Dooley, the 2016 Ventana Fiesta will have a theme of ‘trash’, focusing on movements that promote sustainability and the new trend of ‘upcycling’. “There has been an exciting trend evolving in Latin America, Spain and Portugal, which encourages people to look at trash from another perspective…
PREMIER Daniel Andrews visited Frankston Hospital last Thursday morning (18 February) to officially open a new eight-bed Rapid Assessment Chest Pain Unit expected to treat up to 2000 patients per year. The new eight-bed unit means specialist cardiologists can assess people with chest pain earlier and faster, to ease pressure on the emergency department. The extra beds at Frankston Hospital mark 92 out of 101 beds and points of care opened as a result of the Labor state government’s $200 million Hospital Beds Rescue Fund. “In less than a year, we will deliver 101 new beds and points of care…
PENINSULA Community Legal Centre has established a fines clinic to help people unable to pay fines. The move was necessary because of “the alarming increase in the number of people coming to our centre with out-of-control outstanding fines”, the centre’s principal lawyer Victoria Mullings said. “The financial and social costs of this problem are wide-ranging, and may include severe penalties such as loss of driver’s licence, wheel-clamping, cancellation of registration and potentially even imprisonment.” Ms Mullins said a “growing tide” of people in Frankston had run up thousands of dollars in fines and associated administrative fees. “The scale of the…