THE signs are everywhere. Honour boards and plaques are on sports clubrooms’ walls, in hospitals and on school walls. Chances are Seaford engraver Barry Rea had a hand in a sign’s upkeep. The 47-year-old craftsman has been engraving, making and etching signs for nine years at his Superior Etchworx business. “I’ve been doing handcrafts all my working life,” he said. “I started with a leather goods manufacturing business and people always have something they want to challenge you with … I really love the challenges.” Challenges range “from ridiculously small to ridiculously large”. “I’ve etched the back of a watch…
Author: Neil Walker
A DEAL to ensure the future residency of disadvantaged families and individuals at Seaford Beach Cabin Park could soon be sealed. Frankston councillors voted behind closed doors after last month’s public council meeting to offer cabin park owner Michael Hibbert a new five-year lease term with a further five-year option to be considered in 2020. A long-mooted land swap deal – with a Crown land portion of the site, 860 square metres of land facing Kananook Creek, being exchanged with council receiving 675sqm of freehold land facing Nepean Hwy – has been dropped. Mr Hibbert said he is working through…
INTEREST is building in the $50 million revamp of Frankston train station even if construction has not yet begun. Frankston residents had their say at a public forum last Wednesday evening at the Frankston Arts Centre. The forum was hosted by Frankston Council ahead of its submission to the state government’s Frankston Station Precinct Taskforce, headed by Frankston Labor MP Paul Edbrooke. Members of the public at the meeting hoped the redevelopment of the station and its surrounds will lift Frankston’s reputation and discourage anti-social behaviour around the station. Mr Edbrooke is certainly not short of suggested ideas for the…
ST KILDA Football Club could be on its way back to Moorabbin. Kingston mayor Cr Geoff Gledhill confirmed council has had “a couple of discussions with them [St Kilda]” when asked by The News. The Saints quit Moorabbin in 2007 amid a disagreement with Kingston Council over the redevelopment of the Linton St facilities. The club had wanted to move 80 poker machines from Linton St to South Rd premises. St Kilda subsequently agreed to base its training headquarters at Seaford’s Belvedere Park after Frankston Council agreed to make a financial contribution to the Seaford sporting precinct. Kingston Council pushed…
DOGS are in with a sniff of returning to Frankston’s city centre after councillors narrowly voted to fully investigate reversing a 20-year ban. Council officers will prepare a full report on overturning a ban on canines in Frankston’s central streets after a four-three vote at last Monday’s public council meeting. Frankston mayor Cr Sandra Mayer has led the pack in pushing the ban reversal despite not being a dog owner herself. Cr Mayer said “other people” had asked her to raise the dogs ban on their behalf. “I have been approached on more than one occasion to undertake a review…