THE international Clothesline Project in Frankston was launched Monday to raise awareness of family violence. A clothesline on show at Cube 37, Frankston Arts Centre, 10-13 October, is being used to illustrate the Week Without Violence campaign. It will then be displayed at different parts of the Mornington Peninsula over the next year. T-shirts with anti-violence messages will be on show made by women and children impacted by family violence. Frankston and Mornington Peninsula Family Violence Network is concerned about the high rates of family violence and believes the humble clothesline is a great way of raising awareness in the…
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THE Peninsula Dragonflys are encouraging breast cancer survivors to row, row, row a boat. The colourful dragon boat cruises along Patterson River at Carrum most Saturday mornings crewed by a team of women rowers. The Dragonflys, part of the Dragons Abreast organisation, offer breast cancer survivors a chance to meet others with similar experiences and have fun while exercising. The women are putting the call out for new crew members to head along and give rowing a go later this month during National Paddle Month. Peninsula Dragonflys vice-president Linda Young said the club will celebrate its 10th anniversary next year…
OPINION By Christine Richards FIRST, the bureaucrats put me in a straight-jacket. Smiling, they looked into my eyes and assured me they cared deeply and wanted to hear everything I had to say. Before I had finished my second sentence, they all walked out of the room, closed the door and sat down in the next room. All I had to do, they said, was yell through the locked door. That’s what it felt like dealing with the state government’s planning and transport bureaucrats tasked with transforming the Frankston train station. Before the 2014 state election, the Labor Party announced…
WORK will begin next month on the construction of a new Carrum Family and Children’s Centre at Roy Dore Reserve. Kingston Council has awarded a $3.6 million contract to Clayton South builders DURA Constructions to build a new centre to replace the existing Rene Anderson Kindergarten, Carrum Child Care Centre and Carrum Maternal Child Health Centre. The Carrum Family and Children’s Centre has been funded in partnership by Kingston Council ($2m) and the state government ($1.6m). Kingston mayor Cr Geoff Gledhill said the new centre will provide an extra 33 kindergarten places, 39 long day-care places, maternal and child health…
A CHELTENHAM man has been charged with aggravated burglary, theft and obtaining property by deception. Police allege that early Sunday morning 13 September he broke into a house in Sherwood Av, Chelsea, while the occupants were asleep upstairs and stole a laptop, car keys and the victim’s wallet. They say the man then made numerous fraudulent purchases on a stolen credit card. The next day, police executed a search warrant on a Cheltenham house and arrested the 31-year-old. Detective Senior Constable Carly O’Donnell, of Kingston CIU, said police seized other items from the man’s home which were identified as being…