EMERGENCY service workers will be among those told that they are able go to work even if they are identified as COVID-19 close contacts. The state government has announced that from this week, emergency services, education, critical utilities, custodial facilities, transport, and freight workers will be made exempt from close contact home isolation requirements so that they can go to work. Workers in the food production sector have already been announced as being eligible for exemptions. The new rules come into place from 11.59pm on 18 January. The state government says that workers can be asked to go back to…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
LIFESAVERS are pleading with people to avoid swimming near Patterson River after a number of dangerous incidents this summer. Dozens of local swimmers have had to be saved from the water over the summer period. On one particularly bad day on Sunday 2 January, fourteen people had to be rescued from the mouth of Patterson River. Two people were taken to hospital. Carrum Surf Life Saving Club has urged people not to swim near Patterson River, saying it is “never safe”. Carrum SCLC’s Sunday patrol captain, Cath Paulsen, said “there is a steep drop-off due to the river channel and…
FUNDING for car parking at Kananook Station has been budgeted by the federal government. The project is expected to cost $18 million to taxpayers, with funding to be drawn from the urban congestion fund. Car parking at Seaford and Kananook stations was promised by the federal government in the leadup to the 2019 election, although those plans were eventually scrapped. Frankston Council soon approached the federal government seeking to rectify the issue. The car park will now be built on land purchased by Frankston Council by the Frankston Basketball Stadium. Urban infrastructure minister Paul Fletcher said that the car parking…
JOYCE Musgrove has seen Chelsea change a lot in the decades she has lived there. Ms Musgrove’s daughter Kaye has been working with her mother to publish her memoirs. The book provides a glimpse into the life of a much loved local resident. Ms Musgrove moved to Chelsea with her family when she was just nine-years-old. Now at 92 she still resides locally, living in a nursing home in Bonbeach. Kaye Musgrove also published her father’s memoirs a few years ago. The memoirs of Ms Musgrove take the form of letters. Her parent’s memoirs started as a Christmas gift idea…
KINGSTON residents are being asked about potential changes to the current outdoor fire pit ban. A contentious ban on outdoor fire pits currently stands across homes in the Kingston municipality. In response to community feedback, council is currently consulting residents about changes to the law. Kingston mayor Steve Staikos says that council has “received a lot of feedback from people who would like to legally and safely use a fire pit in their backyard”. “We also understand that our local ban was first introduced to address health concerns around open fires and burn-offs,” Cr Staikos said. “We have taken this all…