A FRANKSTON student is one of the first recipients of a new VCAL scholarship launched earlier this year. McClelland Secondary College student Aleks Radenovic, 16, has been awarded a Lynne Kosky Memorial Scholarship from the state government to help him work towards his goal of becoming an industrial electrician. The Year 10 student plans to study the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) instead of the VCE next year and the grant will enable $5000 annually to be directed towards his education costs. Teacher Rowly Richardson said Aleks’ mother passed away after an eight-year battle with cancer and he now…
Author: Neil Walker
A PLAN to build an apartment complex housing 157 apartments in Seaford was given the go-ahead by Frankston councillors at this month’s public council meeting. Councillors narrowly voted four-three to approve the planning application by Planning Horizon Australia for a 12-metre high four-storey building at 78-83 Nepean Hwy after an at times feisty debate about the project’s merits. There were 32 objections from community members about the development with many feeling the apartment complex was an inappropriate overdevelopment in the area. A council officers’ report had recommended the planning permit be granted subject to conditions including the management of acid…
DUNKLEY will have a new elected representative after the next federal election. That result a certainty after Liberal MP Bruce Billson announced last week he is quitting politics. In a statement released last Tuesday (24 November) Mr Billson said he will not seek re-election and “decided it is the right time to ‘hang up the campaign R.M. Williams’ [shoes]”. The former small business minister’s exit from politics follows a 20-year stint as a parliamentarian including 12 years as either a cabinet or shadow cabinet minister. Mr Billson was axed from cabinet by incoming Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull after Mr Turnbull…
WHILE footy fans sit with their feet up waiting for the new season many players are already putting in the hard yards to get up to speed for preseason training having been awarded a scholarship to the AFL Academy. Luke Davies-Uniacke, a 16-year-old midfielder at Keysborough’s Haileybury College, has his eyes on the prize of an AFL playing career and is determined to keep improving his game to try to make his dream a reality. In 2011 The News reported the then under-12 player represented Victoria at the School Sport Australia Championships in Canberra and Luke has hit every mark…
A VISIT to Gallipoli four years ago inspired the Reverend Victor Haste to plan a commemoration garden for Anzacs at St Nicholas Anglican Church in Mordialloc. Rev Haste made the journey to Turkey with his wife Barb and came home determined to do something locally to acknowledge and recognise the service and sacrifice of those who fought and died at Gallipoli during World War I. “Like most Australians who go there to visit the battlefields and attend the dawn service I felt quite moved by what I saw,” he said. Anzac centenary funding made Rev Haste’s plan a reality and…