LAST weekend’s scheduled Point Leo Vintage Surf Day will now be held on Sunday 23 November. The same deadly and damaging storms that caused the cancellation of the Sunday 26 October vintage surf day saw two surfers die off Frankston beach and calls for help made to emergency services across the peninsula.“Due to a very bad forecast for our vintage day and the grounds being underwater, we have had to move the day to Sunday 23 November,” event coordinator Phil Newman told exhibitors last Thursday. He said the more than 40 exhibitors already booked for the day would be asked…
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SMOKING has been banned within 50 metres of lifesavers’ flags at Point Leo. The statewide ban came into effect this week along with a $140 penalty. Smoking is now banned over summer at all patrolled beaches on the Mornington Peninsula. The ban was introduced by the state government to protect beach users from secondhand smoke and to reduce children’s and young people’s exposure to smoking, which may influence their adult behaviour. The government says that smokers will initially be encouraged to self-regulate when near the red and orange flags. No smoking signs will be installed at beaches. Similar bans are…