Frankston www.heartkids.org.au
An independent voice for the community
FREE
Your WEEKLY community newspaper covering Frankston, Frankston South, Karingal, Langwarrin and Seaford For all advertising and editorial needs, call 1300
Monday 12 May 2014
MPNEWS (1300 676 397) or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au
Drumming up healthy tucker
Eat to the beat: Woodleigh School Year 4 pupils Jett (left) and Osel are proud of their smashing pumpkins and red hot chilli peppers. Picture: Gary Sissons
WOODLEIGH pupils are literally gobbling up their studies. The Frankston school’s junior campus pupils often eat the outcomes of their outdoor learning experiences. The rewards are not always immediately apparent, but when they do arrive they contribute towards “nutritionally exciting meals and lead happy and healthy lifestyles at school and at home”. Woodleigh was one of the first schools to join the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation, which has just signed up its 500th kitchen garden school. “At Woodleigh School our program aims to build students’ self-confidence in the garden and the kitchen so they can learn the vital life skills of growing, harvesting and cooking their own nutritionally exciting meals and lead happy and healthy lifestyles at school and at home,” junior campus head Rodney Davies said. “The kitchen garden program is achieving wonderful results and we are pleased to be part of an initiative that is helping to make pleasurable food education accessible to every Australian primary school.” The kitchen garden program began at an inner Melbourne primary school more than 13 years ago and has since spread into every state and territory in Australia. The foundation’s vision is to see food education made accessible to every Australian primary school through an experience-based kitchen garden.
Reclaiming the streets By Keith Platt A PRIVATE investigator hired by Frankston Council is conducting interviews with fed-up residents to find out how unruly public housing and rooming house tenants are affecting their lives. A group of Frankston residents is demanding action to address bad behaviour and law breaking by the tenants and has called a public meeting to identify measures to replace crime with
“a safe and confident community”. Operating under the banner FUNC (Frankston United Neighbours Connect) the seven-member committee drawn from four different streets believes it is time residents asserted their right to live without fear for themselves, their children or their properties. They are compiling diaries of unlawful behaviour in their streets and sending texts to warn of robberies or threatening behaviour.
Some have installed surveillance cameras to monitor intruders and council has been urged to install and monitor CCTV cameras in streets with high crime rates. “People have to do something to protect themselves,” a single mother of two teenage children told The Times. Holding back tears, the woman recounted documented episodes that have forced residents of Daly St, Frankston, to stay indoors.
Twenty one of the street’s 24 houses had reported thefts, including number plates from cars and $13,000 worth of tools from a car parked in a driveway. “I’ve seen people removing plates from cars and objects thrown through windows. I’ve lived here for eight years, but it’s got a lot worse in the past two years. “There are drug and alcohol affected people and some with psychological problems. How does this happen?
“Rooming houses just pop up without any notification to existing residents. Some people want to move, but that’s the easy option. It’s not right that the good people have to leave.” Problems caused by tenants of houses run by the Department of Human Services reached a head earlier this year with council urging the Housing Minister Wendy Lovell to make eviction easier. Continued Page 6
WHAT’S ON AT NEPTOURS
WINDOW TINTING
& ASSOCIATES PTY LTD PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
MORNINGTON
CATALOGUE SALE
ON NOW
HURRY... HUGE SAVINGS!!!
THE BIGGEST DISPLAY OF
MATTRESSES BEDROOM FURNITURE AND ACCESSORIES ON THE MORNINGTON PENINSULA BEDSHED MORNINGTON SUPERSTORE Peninsula Homemaker Centre, Cnr Nepean Hwy & Bungower Road Phone 5973 6333 • www.bedshed.com.au
CARS
ES
HOUS
$
*
55
$
FROM
199 *
PER SQ E METR
ÌTax Returns Advisors ÌBusiness 21 Half Price ÌUnder ÌOn The Spot Tax Refunds
Basic, Business, Rental Properties
MENTION THIS AD FOR A
5% DISCOUNT!
THE KING & I *CROWN CASINO – MONTHLY* Casino’s bus program with a Tues 8th July (a) $115 (p/s) $100 great BUFFET lunch (all) $30. LES MISERABLES Only persons over the age of 18 Wed 27th August permitted. (matinee) (a) $105 (p/s) $95 LAST THURSDAY EACH MONTH SHOWBOAT Wed 20 Aug - all $140 QUEEN VICTORIA MARKET AZTEC EXHIBITION (MUSEUM) Tue 10th June - all $25. Tue 29 July - $60 Shop for all the bargains we do not have down here. We even CRAFT & QUILT SHOW supply a couple of Eskys for some Fri 27 Jun All $55 of your perishables. MATTHEW BOURNE’S SWAN LAKE WICKED THE MUSICAL Wed 22 Oct (matinee) (a) $120 Wed 9th July (matinee) (a) $120 (p/s) $115 (p/s) $95
Window Films
ESTABLISHED SINCE 1996
*SPECIAL CONDITIONS APPLY
03 5977 0878
www.toptint.com.au
Ph: 9769 6660
Neptours –Coach Tours
Shop 61 Station St Mall, Frankston
P.O. Box 260 Rosebud Vic 3939 Office: Factory 4/11 Trewhitt Court Dromana Vic 3936 Ph: 5987 2011 (a) Adults (p/s) Pensioner/ Student (ch) Child Under 12
Open Evenings & Saturdays
www.neptours.com.au