Day: June 21, 2016

A BUY a plank offer will see donors names carved into the surface of a beach access boardwalk to be built at Pt Leo. Plans for the boardwalk have already been drawn and the Disabled Surfers Association Mornington Peninsula branch is close to raising money needed for its construction. The boardwalk will provide wheelchair access to the beach and a viewing platform for lifesavers and the public. While still $20,000 short, the DSAMP has received grants from Mornington Peninsula Shire and the Department of Infrastructure. Carving names into planks forming the surface of the boardwalk is one of several options…

FOUR women are setting off on a 100 kilometre walk tomorrow (Wednesday) to raise $15,000 for the Dogs for Diggers program. Leading seamen Freya Halliday and Kathleen Price, of HMAS Cerberus, personal trainer Lisa Beakley, and Navy wife Rachael Eslick, all 30, hope money raised on the four-day trek will buy several companion dogs for service personnel who are having difficulties coping with the stresses and fall-out of their military service. Many of these serving and former Defence personnel are on medication and some too anxious and distressed even to go to public places. But this all changes when they…

BUSES will replace trains on the Stony Point line between Stony Point and Frankston, Saturday 25 June to Sunday 31 July. Customers are advised to allow an extra 15 minutes travel time. The line closure is a result of level crossings being removed at North Rd, Ormond, McKinnon Rd, McKinnon, and Centre Rd, Bentleigh, on the Frankston line. The works prevent Stony Point line trains being taken to Southern Cross station for maintenance, effectively putting them out of action. V/Line provides two Sprinter cars for the Stony Point line out of a pool of 21 Sprinters. As part of the…

THE submarine Otama is again firmly held in place by its moorings of Crib Point, avoiding urgent action which could have included being sold for scrap. A decision by Ports Minister Luke Donnellan to fix the moorings follows desperate appeals from the Western Port Oberon Association for $50,000 to carry out repairs ordered by Park Victoria. However, the 14-year-old plan to make the Otama the centrepiece of maritime museum at Hastings remains in limbo because of financial difficulties. The association’s president Max Bryant puts the cost at $15 million and says that if either the state or federal governments provide…