VIEWERS of A Current Affair have dug deep and donated more than $500,000 to the family of Andrew Lehane, the Carrum Downs mother-of-two killed in September after being hit by an illegal monkey bike outside the Carrum Downs shopping centre. Widower James Lehane was interviewed by A Current Affair last week and said the generous donations would ensure his young son and daughter could go to “a good school”, since this was a reason his wife worked so hard. Caleb Jakobsson, 18, is due to face court in January over the fatal collision. First published in the Frankston Times -…
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A woman from Carrum Downs involved in a vehicle collision last Monday (9 November) died in hospital on Thursday morning. The 47-year-old mother-of-two’s car was hit by a stolen BMW driven by a 15-year-old boy at about 7.40am on the Monday morning on Governor Rd, Mordialloc. The woman died at The Alfred hospital. The Ford sedan she was driving was struck at the intersection of Spray Ave by a BMW four-wheel-drive allegedly stolen from Doncaster the previous Wednesday. The BMW was on the wrong side of the road and was being driven at high speed. A 15-year-old Patterson Lakes boy who…
WORK on new pedestrian bridges over Kananook Creek has finished after three-and-a-half months of construction. The bridges – at Beach St and Fiocchi Ave – replaced ageing structures for safety reasons at a cost of $280,000. Then Frankston mayor Cr Sandra Mayer officially opened the bridges last Monday (9 November) alongside representatives from the Long Island Residents Group, the Kananook Creek Association and Cr Colin Hampton. “We are proud that we have been able to replace the ageing historical pedestrian bridges on Kananook Creek with timber replicas of the originals,” Cr Mayer said. “We have received really positive feedback from…
THEY’RE creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky, they’re all together ooky … but they’re not the Addams Family. Frankston Theatre Group has its own family house of horrors to spotlight later this month. Its ‘Tiptoe Through The Tombstones’ play will hit the stage at Mt Eliza Community Centre in the last week of November and first week of December. The comedy chiller spoof features a crusty lawyer and his secretary encountering the Tomb Family, “an offbeat bunch” whose home features cobwebs, secret corridors and a rising number of bodies in the cellar. Play director Joyce Sedunary said she was…
JAZZ virtuoso James Morrison will again headline next Sunday’s Proudly Frankston’s annual Long Lazy Lunch, this time under the big top on Frankston Park oval. The world acclaimed musician and composer, who played with legendary performers Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Don Burrows and BB King, will bring along his JM Academy Band to join Frankston High School’s Stage Band. For the past two years Morrison, performing with Frankston High students, has brought audiences to their feet with trumpet and sax renditions of jazz classics and his own compositions. Tickets are still available for the South East Water-sponsored feast of music,…