Artists give works for hospice
More than 40 artists have donated original works of art to support Peninsula Home Hospice. Their “traditional to contemporary” works will be sold through a silent auction art show, Unframed-Art. ...
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Expert called in to help with pool
AN industry expert will be brought in to help manage the lead up, as well as after, the opening of the Rosebud Aquatic Centre. The five-year fee-for-service management model adopted by Mornington Pen...
Screen time breaks barriers
A DONATION of three iPads to nonverbal students at Mornington Special Development School is allowing them to communicate with their families, teachers, carers and friends – some for the first time. T...
Family Fun Day at Rye Tennis Club
Rye Tennis Club is opening up the courts to offer a Free Tennis Day to the public. The club will be welcoming people of all ages who have never played before through to tennis regulars to the club o...
Baby formula binge
A shoplifter with a penchant for baby formula is being sought by detectives. The man, pictured, entered the Woolworths supermarket at Bentons Square, Dunns Road, Mornington 5pm, Saturday 9 March, and...
Shelley shows her dee-termination
MORNINGTON’S Shelley Heath made her debut for Melbourne Football Club’s AFLW team on 9 March. The 18-year-old, who finished school last year after attending Mornington Secondary College, was dr...
The Bob Dylan and Tom Petty Show: True Confessions Revisited
IT was February 1986; Tyson was the heavyweight champ, Reagan was president, but the real action was at Kooyong…the night Tom Petty supported Bob Dylan. Re-live that incredible line up at The Bob Dyl...
History becomes her
JO Cooper is a woman with a firm grasp on history. The Peninsula Grange resident who celebrated her 102nd birthday on Saturday 9 March with family and friends, lays claim to being born in Sorrento as...
Refugees face difficulties settling in
Human rights advocate and lawyer Nyadol Nyuon spoke of her family’s difficulties of adjusting to a new society after being brought to Australia from a refugee camp in Kenya. Ms Nyuon, who was born in...
Carts earn for charity
THE billy cart derby organised by Point Nepean Men’s Shed went off without a hitch, Saturday 16 March. “We could not have asked for a better day,” organiser Terry Phippen said. “We had all 20 carts i...
