FOR more than 60 years the peninsula group of the Uncle Bobs Club has raised money for the Royal Children’s Hospital. The group’s main event has been the 29 kilometre Good Friday wheelbarrow push from Sorrento to Safety Beach. This year a highlight was the presentation of a plaque to club stalwart Clem Kleinig who, at 84, participated in his 50th consecutive year on the barrow. This achievement was featured in a recent edition of the Uncle Bobs Club magazine. In 1956 Clem Kleinig moved from South Australia to Crib Point after marrying local girl, Val Lake whose mother was…
Day: July 17, 2018
AN off-duty paramedic who stopped to pick up takeaway after finishing her shift was allegedly slashed across the chest with a box cutter in a random attack at Rosebud, Friday night 13 July. Detective Senior Sergeant Alan Paxton, of Mornington Peninsula CIU, said the woman, 46, was “putting the kids in the car” outside a shop in Point Nepean Road, Rosebud, when a man allegedly rode up on a bicycle, grabbed her from behind and assaulted her, 6.30pm. He then rode away. “It all happened very quickly,” Detective Paxton said. The woman was taken to Frankston Hospital where she received…
TECHNICAL reports supporting applications to build a gas pipeline from Crib Point to Pakenham will be available at “community sessions” at Balnarring, Hastings and Crib Point. The proposed $160-$200 million 60 kilometre pipeline is required to carry gas from a floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) planned to be moored at Crib Point by power supplier AGL. AGL announced last month that it has signed an agreement for the pipeline with APA as well as another agreement to prepare the berth at Crib Point for the 300 metre long FRSU (“Contracts ‘advance’ AGL’s gas plan” The News 12/6/18). Since that announcement…
A 17-year-old footballer suffering concussion was airlifted to the Alfred Hospital from Tyabb Airport on Saturday afternoon. Chelsea Seagulls under-19s player Tristan Giuliano was injured during a game against Tyabb at Bunguyan Reserve. Chelsea Seagulls president Michael Davis said Giuliano has been cleared of serious injury. ”He was airlifted to the Alfred Hospital and has been cleared of any spinal or head injury. He was taken based on a concussion and suspected injuries relevant to that, and was released from hospital on Sunday night,” Mr Davis said. Mr Davis thanked Tyabb Football Netball Club “and our extremely professional trainers Charlotte…