AFL SYDNEY Swans captain Luke Parker played his 200th AFL game this season. He has won a premiership, made the All Australian team, finished second in the Brownlow voting, and won two best and fairest medals. Despite his many achievements in the AFL, a lone senior outing for the Langwarrin Football Club still ranks high on the list of Parker’s best memories. Before making the move to New South Wales to start his AFL career in 2011, Parker pulled on the blue and white guernsey he had grown up wearing for a solitary senior game. “It was an incredible memory,”…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
CARETAKER period has kicked in for Victorian councils, with elections now just one month away. Frankston Council entered caretaker period on 22 September, after holding their final ordinary meeting the night prior. Caretaker mode prohibits councils from making certain types of decisions and from producing materials which could affect voting at the election. Nominations for the council election also closed on 22 September. The local government elections will take place by postal vote. Election material will be sent out by mail between 6 October and 8 October. Campaigning will be made more difficult this year by the current COVID-19 restrictions,…
THE Mentone Hotel is set to reopen next year. The building was purchased by Momentum Developments in late 2014. An original plan to convert the building into apartments without a substantial pub space was abandoned in 2018 after community pushback (“Mentone Hotel saved’, The News, 18/4/18). Paul Huggins from Momentum Developments said “the restoration of the hotel is well underway, and the heritage listed building will be stunning when it’s completed.” “People will be blown away by the hospitality space,” he said. “It is important we get every detail right and that is not just limited to the commercial business,…
THE death toll from a COVID-19 outbreak at the Bupa Edithvale nursing home has reached 17. Figures released by the Department of Health last week showed that 17 residents at the Edithvale home had died after testing positive to COVID-19. A total of 44 residents and 32 staff at the site had tested positive for the virus as of 11 September. Of the 44 cases among residents, 25 were considered resolved. All cases in staff were listed as resolved. In a statement released earlier his month, Bupa said that the alert level at their home has been lowered to “active…
THE number of local residents living on the JobSeeker payment has risen by thousands since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Figures released by the Department of Social Services showed that the number of residents in the Frankston municipality receiving the JobSeeker payment grew by around 4000 between March and July this year. It is understood that around 10,000 local residents are currently receiving the payment. Dunkley MP Peta Murphy says there was a 45 per cent increase in JobSeeker recipients and a 51 per cent increase in Youth Allowance recipients in her electorate between March to July. She said…