CRUNCH time is coming for young sports star Chelsea Ford. The 13-year-old from Frankston North is in the Victorian girls’ under-13 soccer team, has won five out of six boxing bouts and swims in a squad. While there is no doubting her capabilities in each of these sports, her mother Cathy Steele says Chelsea must soon decide which one to pursue. Before the deadline for that decision, Chelsea, who plays for the Peninsula Strikers, will represent Victoria in the under-13 girls’ national soccer championships at Coffs Harbour on the New South Wales north coast. “She needs to make up her…
Author: Keith Platt
PART of the answer to parking problems at Frankston station could lie further north at Kananook. Frankston MP Geoff Shaw says increasing the parking area along Bardia Ave near the Kananook station would ease pressure on Frankston. “This is a viable option for reducing commuter stress concerning parking,” Mr Shaw said. He said parking was Kananook was “very limited” with commuters often choosing Frankston station “simply to get a car park” or risking a fine by parking in private gardens. “While the possibility of an increase in the amount of parking spots available at Frankston station is being investigated, an…
HOUSING Minister Wendy Lovell is being called on to make it easier to evict nuisance public housing tenants in Frankston. The decision by Frankston Council to meet and lobby Ms Lovell follows harrowing accounts of drug use and intimidation and violence against residents living near houses provided by the Department of Human Services. Councillors believe the city has more than its fair share of low-cost public housing. Demand for changes to the way DHS handles its tenants comes at the same time that figures show the state has slashed $247 million from its spending on social housing. Frankston and parts…
FRANKSTON Council has given the go ahead to another key part of its major foreshore development plan – a new building to house Frankston Yacht Club, a cafe and a restaurant. The three-storey building bringing more commercial development to the Waterfront “precinct” near the pier is being allowed with reduced car parking requirements and despite being identified as “not wholly consistent with the purpose” of the use of Crown land. It was “considered unlikely to impact adversely on any protected vegetation”. Objectors claim photos used to justify clearing represented “the least quality vegetation”, although this was denied by consultants hired…
IN the past year, about 1000 sick, injured or orphaned native animals and birds have found themselves being cared for in Frankston. Sometimes far from their bushland homes, the creatures are fed and housed before being released back into the wild. However, Animalia Wildlife Shelter, run by Michelle Thomas and her family, is also in need of some aid. It is expensive to run the shelter, which operates with the help of 40 volunteers. “Many of the injured wildlife are babies needing to be hand-reared when their mothers are killed by natural disasters, motorists and electrocution,” Animalia’s media liaison officer…