TWO dogs at the centre of a long-running court battle were destroyed on the orders of Frankston Council last week. The dogs, bull mastiff-cross Charlie and shar pei-cross Sharni, escaped from a Frankston backyard late last year and had been held in a council-run pound while their fate was decided (‘Decision dogs council’, The Times, 7/7/14). Pet owners Shannon Holt and Evan Jeremiejczyk had taken council all the way to the Supreme Court in a bid to save the lives of the animals. Lawyers for Companion Animals principal Anne Greenaway acted on behalf of the owners in their legal fight.…
Author: Neil Walker
FRANKSTON councillors are threatening to protest on the steps of parliament to force the state government into doing something about crime in their city. At last week’s council meeting, frustrated councillors slammed successive state governments for allegedly neglecting to care about crime in the city – particularly around the train station. Councillors agree drug addicts needed rehabilitation help but are concerned about “a cluster” of six pharmacies near the station that dispense opioid replacement therapies such as methadone. They note a “secondary market” of dealing in methadone to fuel drug habits has sprung up in the city centre and some…
KINGSTON Council is pushing ahead with its plan to restructure its community consultation process to replace the existing village committee forums. Feedback is being sought on a ‘revised community consultation structure’ which would see village committees replaced by “project and theme based” committees. The new groups would look at specific community concerns and report to council. However, critics of the new consultation system believe this would ensure council could decide which problems are publicly aired. Village committee representatives were able to bring problems to councillors’ attention at monthly council meetings open to the public. Kingston Mayor, Cr Paul Peulich, admitted…
UPDATE 24/6/15: Lorraine Wreford subsequently issued the following statement on 31 May 2015 via her Facebook page. Read more here. “Some remarks attributed to me publicly have been taken as reflecting adversely on David Eden. I want to make it clear that I had no intention of reflecting adversely on the integrity of David Eden and I know of no basis for any such reflection. I am glad to say that Cr Eden enjoys a fine reputation and represents his community in a fine manner and I apologise if ever I said anything that suggests to the contrary.” LABOR opposition…
THE fate of two dogs who escaped from a Frankston backyard late last year remains unclear despite council initially declaring a final decision on whether to “humanely euthanise” the animals would be made last Friday (update: the dogs have been euthanised – see Frankston Council statement below). The dogs, bull mastiff-cross Charlie and shar pei-cross Sharni, have been held in a council pound since November after they killed a cat while on the loose. The animals’ owners, Shannon Holt and Evan Jeremiejczyk, who live in Frankston, had taken their attempts to save the dogs all the way to the Supreme…