CLIENT services formally provided by nurses at the former Royal District Nursing Service offices at Rosebud and Frankston are now being handled from Moorabbin. The service has given assurances that the change will not affect “service levels”. A revamp of RDNS operations across the state has also led to the loss of 45 full time nursing positions. The RDNS says there were no forced redundancies at Rosebud or Frankston offices, although seven management staff “chose to take redundancies rather than work within the new structure”. Australian Nursing and Midwives Federation Victorian branch secretary Lisa Fitzpatrick said the union had “given…
Author: Bayside News
Solidarity was the theme at Frankston’s IDAHOT Day flag raising ceremony at the Civic Centre flagpoles, Davey St, on Friday. The word stands for International Day Against Homophopia and Transphobia. Frankston Council hosted the ceremony and morning tea to support the international day on Sunday 17 May. The council raised the rainbow flag for the entire weekend in “solidarity with an inclusive community where all are welcome”. This event was supported by schools, Headspace Frankston and Victoria Police. First published in the Frankston Times – 18 May 2015
FRANKSTON police last week arrested and charged a Parkdale woman with possessing and making $50 notes at her home. Detective Sergeant Jason Hocking said police seized instruments and materials used to make the fake notes over a six-month period. He believes they were passed in the Frankston area. The woman, 21, has been bailed to appear at Frankston Magistrates’ Court in June. “Traders should be vigilant when receiving $50 notes and forward any suspicious notes to police,” Det. Sgt Hocking said. The federal indictable offence carries penalties of up to 14 years jail and $60,000 in fines. First published in…
A WOMAN was hit on the head with a piece of wood and then robbed by a man as she was leaving Bayside shopping centre on Friday 8 May. Senior Constable Ken Howard, of the Armed Robbery Task Force, said the woman, 62, was walking on Ross Smith Av when the man hit her from behind and knocked her to the ground at 6.20pm. The man then began rifling through her handbag. The woman initially thought he was trying to assist her but then realised he was her assailant and pulled the bag away. The man ran off with her…
Police are searching for a heartless driver who left a three-legged dog dying on the road during a hit and run collision in Frankston. Investigators have been told a 45-year-old man was walking his 11-year-old Jack Russell Chopper along Beach Street towards Cranbourne Road around 6.45pm on 10 May. As he crossed past an alley, a speeding car entered the alley from Beach Street, narrowly missing the man but hitting the dog in front of his horrified owner. The driver of the car failed to stop and left the dog lying on the road with critical injuries. She was taken…