EDITHVALE Primary School students had the opportunity to thank their teachers this week for their hard work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers from the school paraded through Edithvale on 4 May as students and parents watched on and waved. Edithvale Primary School parent Michael Cummings said “it was just so cool to see the kids’ faces light up as their teachers and other school staff came past.” “The school has done an amazing job with its distance learning program, just superb, but there’s no substitute for face to face contact,” he said. “It was also great for the parents to…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
A WOMAN has died after an incident at a Dingley Village workplace last week. The 34-year-old was crushed to death inside a shipping container while unloading marble slabs, a WorkSafe statement read. The worker died on Thursday, 30 April. Director of RHF Stone in Dingley Village, Baki Bas, put out a statement on social media reading “on behalf of RHF Stone Management team, we are extremely sorry to inform you about the loss of one of our (…) professional and loyal team members who put her work first and sadly lost her life at work due to her dedication and…
FRANKSTON Council will be made to move to a single member ward structure at the 2024 election. Kingston Council is expected to be one of eight councils which will move to the single member ward structure at the 2020 local government elections. The Local Government Act 2020 was passed into in March. The act mandated the change to single member wards for a number of local councils statewide. Both Frankston and Kingston Council currently consist of nine councillors spread across three wards. The change will see individual councillors represent smaller wards. The state government’s move to enforce single member wards…
A MOBILE coronavirus testing site has opened at Bayside Shopping Centre in Frankston. The site is one of 10 new mobile sites that opened statewide last week. Fountain Gate in Narre Warren South and Chadstone Shopping Centre are also hosting COVID-19 test sites. The testing sites are manned by doctors, nurses, and pathology collection staff. Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said “this is about taking the testing to where people are out in the community.” “The more people we test the more we’ll know about the spread of the virus, which will help guide any decisions about potentially easing…
THE state government has announced a $77.5 million package to provide support to children in foster or kinship care. Carrum Downs woman Tay, now 21-years-old, lived in kinship care. She said that children in care who turn 18 during the COVID-19 pandemic may find themselves in a difficult situation, and need the extra support. “I found it hard to get the support I needed,” she said about her own experiences of growing up in kinship care. “Mum had passed away already and Nan was doing her best to bring me up, but there was a lot of struggle. I did…