Author: Brodie Cowburn

OVER 100 Jet skis departed from Patterson River on Sunday to ride down the Mornington Peninsula in protest of recent council push back against the sport. The riders left at a little after 10am, and spent the day navigating the coast line right up to their final stopping point in Rye. The ride was organised by Victorian Jet Ski Club president Jimmy Chaanine, who issued a passionate plea to a group of nearly 3000 fellow jet ski enthusiasts on Facebook Live prior to the event. “Speaking to a few of the boys this morning, I think it’s time we put…

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PROVINCIAL SORRENTO have easily beaten Pearcedale after setting a mammoth target at home at David Macfarlane Reserve. Twin centuries from Robert Wilson and Leigh Poholke set the Sharks up with a huge score of 5/268. The two put together a stunning 159 run fourth wicket stand. Poholke hit seven sixes on his way to his maiden century for the Sharks. Jake Roberts dismissed both batsmen. Pearcedale couldn’t get close and ended up over 100 runs short at the end of their innings, finishing at 8/166. Robin Parslow claimed four wickets and a run out. At Harry MacDonald Oval Baxter have…

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MISS McKenzie, the boys friend, who takes a kindly and practical interest in the waifs and strays of the Boys’ Home on the Mornington road, on Saturday last 11th int. at 3 pm., gave a treat at the residence of Mr and Mrs . Forster of ‘Beachleigh’. There were a number of visitors present: Mesdames Sharkey and Chapman, Misses Clay, Walker, McDonald, ex-Corp. Syme, ex-Corp Mayor, Mr J.. Porster, Mr Bingham, Lance Corp Hard, Anzac, the hon. Supt. Mr W. Minton. The boys were under the care of the Matron, Mrs Minton and Miss Giddings.  The little orphans to the…

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A YOUNG boy has survived a drowning scare at the Peninsula Aquatic Recreation Centre on 8 January. Police and ambulance were called to the centre just before 4pm when a five-year-old was pulled from the 1.2 metre deep pool. Frankston Police said the child had been under the water for one minute and 58 seconds before being rescued by a lifeguard. The boy was given CPR and revived before being taken to Frankston Hospital where he was treated for water inhalation. Police said the boy was at the centre with three siblings, and was being watched by his grandmother and…

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FRANKSTON and Mornington councillors have met behind closed doors to discuss the plan to electrify the Frankston line to Baxter. There had been some discrepancy between Frankston and Mornington councils on the issue, as Mornington Peninsula Shire have pushed to see the track extended beyond Baxter all the way to Hastings. Mornington councillors resolved in November to call on “all political parties … to commit to extending electrification of the Frankston railway line to Hastings in the current Baxter electrification business case”. “The idea for a staged extension, starting with Baxter, leaves the possibility of waiting decades for the electric…

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