MCCLELLAND Secondary College students enjoyed a theatrical performance with a serious message last Thursday. The 270 students in years 7, 8 and 9 attended Monash University’s Peninsula campus, Frankston, as part of the LEAP Higher Roadshow’s theatre-in-schools performance. Described as being dynamic, hard hitting, high energy and interactive, the show by theatre company Gibber combined humour, music, multi-media and popular culture to encourage students from low socio-economic communities to aspire to professional careers. The performances aim to dispel preconceptions or negative attitudes towards learning beyond the compulsory education period. “For this fun, engaging roadshow, we focused on outer metro and…
Author: Stephen Taylor
FRANKSTON residents are being urged to dob in monkey bike riders and think twice before buying their children one for Christmas. The call from Frankston councillors follows the death of Carrum Downs woman Andrea Lehane after she was hit by an unlicensed monkey bike rider outside the Carrum Downs shopping centre on 23 September. The No Monkey Bike message has been put on YouTube, with images of the bikes being crushed at a scrap metal yard to ram home the message: break the law and lose your bike to the crusher. In an open letter to residents, the mayor, Cr…
KINGSTON’S elderly residents will have access to high-quality “ageing in place” residential care in their neighbourhood after Kingston Council last week selected not-for-profit organisation Southern Cross Care (Victoria) to take over its residential aged care services. This followed a public tender process. The mayor Cr Geoff Gledhill said the tender evaluation panel unanimously found Southern Cross Care would provide the highest-quality accommodation, care and services. “I’m pleased to announce our elderly residents will be cared for by such an experienced, award-winning not-for-profit group,” he said. “Kingston Council is one of the last remaining Victorian local councils to deliver residential aged…
A CARAVAN parked on the Rosebud foreshore and later found to be stolen was a holding pen for property stolen from residential and holiday homes from Carrum Downs to Rosebud. Inside the caravan and in a stolen Ford Econovan police found an Aladdin’s Cave of missing items valued at thousands of dollars. The light-fingered “owner” of the vehicles, of Frankston North, was last week charged with 13 counts of burglary, theft, car and caravan stealing, and obtaining property by deception. He was remanded at Frankston Magistrates’ Court on Friday 23 October to reappear at a date to be fixed. Detective…
MORDIALLOC Labor MP Tim Richardson has asked the Minister for Police to visit Chelsea Police Station “to hear from local police officers and get an update on some of the priorities in my local area”. This comes after the National Police Remembrance Day on 29 September, and also after the release of reports highlighting the mental health toll on police. Speaking in Parliament, Mr Richardson told the minister, Wade Noonan, that police do “an incredible job of protecting our community and keeping our local communities safe”. “Sometimes it is a thankless task, with officers placed in unpredictable and dangerous situations,”…