THE first Kingston Farmers Market at its new home will be held next weekend. The popular market has relocated from Highett to Kingston Heath Reserve. Suburban Rail Loop works will overtake the market’s old home. Kingston mayor Hadi Saab said that Kingston Heath Reserve would a good home for the market. “Home to the Botanic Gardens, the reserve provides a tranquil, leafy-green space with natural shade, extensive paths, public toilets, and plenty of seating. The market will be a great addition to the Cheltenham community, offering a range of stallholders supporting local Victorian farmers and artisanal producers. Same local traders,…
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THE WOMEN’S Spirit Project’s “spirit of transformation” program will begin running at Carrum soon. Women’s Spirit Project offers programs to women who have experienced hardships in their lives. The aims of the programs are to help those women improve their health and wellbeing, introduce them to new friends, and provide them with advice to help them achieve their goals. The program has previously run on the Mornington Peninsula. An 11-week program will begin in March at Roy Dore Reserve in Carrum. Women’s Spirit Project founder Jodie Belyea said the program “is designed for women aged 25 years or older who…
MORDIALLOC life saver Jemma Holt has been crowned one of the best junior life savers in the country. Jemma Holt competed at the Royal Life Saving Society’s Australian Pool Lifesaving Championships last weekend. She finished first in the under 16s individual category, taking home the Joan Johannes Memorial Trophy. Holt’s sister Paige also performed strongly. She finished second in the under 19s category. Despite being aged just 15, Jemma Holt has accumulated 10 years of life saving experience. She said “I spent a lot of this winter training hard for pool lifesaving because COVID-19 meant a lot of pool lifesaving…
The Water Police Squad is joining forces with some of Victoria Police’s key specialist units in a major effort to bolster safety over the Australia Day weekend. The effort – also involving the Air Wing, Dog Squad and Public Order Response Team – will see police blitz the water and foreshore across Port Phillip Bay. It will run from Thursday to Sunday. Passive alert detection dogs will be deployed to boat ramps across the weekend to sniff out vessel operators thinking of taking to the water impaired. They’ll be supported by local police conducting preliminary breath tests and licence checks.…
Detectives from the Echo Taskforce have charged a man and seized firearms, drugs and ammunition as part of a targeted investigation into drug and firearm trafficking. A warrant was executed at a residential address in Frankston early morning, Tuesday 24 January. Police subsequently seized a sawn-off shotgun, ammunition, an imitation firearm and quantities of what appear to be cannabis and crystal methylamphetamine. A 27-year-old Frankston man, believed to be an associate of the Outlaws OMCG, was charged with prohibited person possess firearm, possess category A or B longarm, possess cartridge ammunition, possess imitation firearm, possess cannabis, possess methylamphetamine and commit…