HELP is at hand for those who feel they are drowning in mounting debt. A new website and mobile phone app launched late last month to offer free financial guidance can be the first step to put consumers back in charge of their finances. The financialfirstaid.org.au site is the brainchild of FMC Mediation and Counselling Victoria, a not-for-profit provider of federal government-funded family and community programs. The online site and app provides access to information split into three categories: ‘I need help right now’, ‘I need to understand’ and ‘I want to know more’. Easy-to-read information about how to recover…
Author: Bayside News
A SO-CALLED “Good Samaritan” was punched to the side of the head while trying to stop a fight outside a Frankston supermarket on Saturday 22 August. The force of the blow knocked him unconscious to the ground – fortunately onto grass – and he was later taken to The Alfred hospital with severe facial lacerations. The attack occurred after two men, 20 and 23, had a minor verbal altercation with another man in the Ashleigh Ave, Karingal, store at 6pm. After the three men went outside the victim, 20, was allegedly kicked and punched on the footpath. The “Good Samaritan”,…
A CARRUM Downs house was extensively damaged when a 67-year-old woman crashed her car – and another car – through the front bedroom wall, Thursday, 8.50pm. The incident occurred when the woman drove her Toyota Camry up Protea St and along a pedestrian access track. The force of the collision shunted a second car through the bedroom window of the house in Botany Drive. The woman told police she had blacked out before the incident. Carrum Downs police, Frankston SES and Carrum Downs fire brigade crews attended. No one was injured. Council building staff later assessed the house for structural…
LANGWARRIN conservationist Ella Boyen has used an $11,500 grant from the federal government’s 25th Anniversary Landcare Grants program to develop a community information sharing website, run public workshops and coordinate group activities to maintain and improve the Langwarrin Woodlands. Ms Boyden has coordinated workshops on planning an ecological burn, wildlife survey and habitat improvement. She is currently part of a small group of passionate locals forming a new Langwarrin Landcare group. Despite being close to a suburban area, the woodlands has a rich range of habitat and animal life. The land varies from swamplands, to a riparian zone and open…
VOLUNTEERS mingled with state politicians on Monday at the launch of a report on climate change in Frankston. Titled Six Steps to Climate Leadership, and published by Environment Victoria, the report shows how the state government could be a leader on climate change and clean energy – but is currently falling behind. MPs Sonya Kilkenny (Carrum) and Tim Richardson (Mordialloc) attended the event to hear from peninsula Environment Victoria volunteers and supporters from a variety of community groups. Environment Victoria community organiser Adele Neale said she asked people why they cared about climate change and cutting pollution. “Frankston locals are…