A REVEREND named a Citizen of the Year by Frankston Council last year says he is disappointed council will not financially support a mobile kitchen trailer to dish out meals to homeless and disadvantaged people. Rev Angel Roldan attended the monthly public council meeting in January and asked councillors to support a mid-year council budget request to contribute $8000 towards a custom-made trailer for an existing Life-Gate food van. Rev Roldan and wife Pastor Ulli Roldan, co-founders of charity Life-Gate, based in Frankston’s Olsen Street, jointly received Frankston Council’s Citizen of the Year award in January 2017. Councillors were advised…
Author: Neil Walker
NEWLY available data proves what long-suffering Frankston line commuters have often suspected – the train line is the most unreliable across the Melbourne metropolitan network. Public Transport Victoria figures released last week under a new online system aimed at greater transparency around train running times. The statistics showed passengers on the Frankston line copped 862 cancelled train services in the past 12 months or so from 2 January 2017 until 31 January this year. A further 634 trains that ran skipped scheduled stops at stations along the line during the same period. The PTV figures reveal trains on the Frankston…
ENVIRONMENTAL investigations will begin with a view to building a safe boat harbour for vessels during heavy weather at Olivers Hill. Federal Dunkley Liberal MP Chris Crewther announced this month that stage one of a project to build a safe boat refuge will involve “hydrological, planning and other environmental studies. The studies will determine the further detail for stage two of the project, being the construction of the project”. A federal grant of $500,000 will go towards the studies and part of the construction of the harbour at Olivers Hill. Mr Crewther said The Safe Boat Refuge will include safety…
CHAMPION boxer Johnny Famechon is finding a newfound appreciation of his sporting achievements among younger generations in the wake of the unveiling of a sculpture in his likeness and honour at Frankston’s Ballam Park. The 72-year-old former boxer visited the Mt Eliza Boxing Centre late last month after the statue’s official unveiling and was greeted with lots of questions from children about his boxing heyday in the late 1960s when Famechon was a champion of the world. The longtime Frankston resident has inspired and mentored young people since retiring from boxing in 1970, the year after taking out the World…
BAYSIDE households hit with a power outage during the last weekend of January will get compensation from electricity provider United Energy. Customers in suburbs including Mordialloc and Chelsea who had no electricity for three hours or more during a widespread power outage across Victoria on Sunday 28 January will receive a one-off payment by the end of this month. Customers who were off supply between 3 and 20 hours on 28 January will receive $80, those off between 20-29 hours will get $120 and households without power for more than 30 hours will receive $180. The state government said network…