EDITHVALE Family and Children’s Centre was opened last week by Families and Children Minister Jenny Mikakos, Kingston mayor Cr Geoff Gledhill and Mordialloc Labor MP Tim Richardson. The $6.5 million centre – close to the Edithvale Recreational Reserve’s junior sporting facilities – aims to create a family and children-focused service precinct. Families will receive 110 four-year-old kindergarten places, 110 three-year-old kindergarten places, maternal and child health service, early childhood intervention services and long-day care. The project was built to ensure local children’s services had the space and flexibility they needed to deliver 15 hours of kindergarten a week, as well…
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AFTER four years of planning and fund-raising the Frankston RSL’s Johnny Famechon statue project is getting closer to reality. Stephen Glassborow will soon finish sculpting the 2.1 metre clay model and is getting ready to make the mould for the 600kg bronze pour. When complete the statue will look exactly like the 2.1 metre clay model. Former triple world boxing champion Jeff Fenech, Famechon and son Paul, and statue coordinator Gary Luscombe, met at the artist’s studio last week to see how things were progressing. Famechon was world WBC featherweight champion 1969-70 and Fenech WBC featherweight champion 1988-89. After the…
Frankston Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating the theft of property at a local basketball match on 8 April. It’s believed a woman attended the hall on Warrandyte Road, Langwarrin around 7.30pm while it was being used for competition basketball. The woman accessed a room where officials keep their belongings and stole a handbag and two mobile phones. It is believed the woman arrived and left the area in a grey Ford Territory. Some of the stolen property was located in the carpark of a fast food restaurant on Lee Street, Frankston later that night. Investigators have released images of…
Frankston Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating after a large amount of cigarettes were stolen from a Karingal tobacco store on Anzac Day. Four men have forced open a roller door to a store at the Ashleigh Avenue Shopping Centre using a jemmy bar about 3.05am. They obviously hadn’t done their research, as they soon realised they had broken into the wrong store and left without taking anything. The bumbling thieves had better luck on their second attempt and forced entry to the roller door of the tobacco store and left with a doona cover filled with a large number…