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Tuesday 16 January 2024
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Sleigh surprises school students FOR the last seven years Ian Becker has been putting smiles on the faces of students at the Frankston Special Developmental School by dressing up as Santa. For his Santa duties in 2023, Becker has put his carpentry skills to use by building his own sleigh. The sleigh is powered uniquely by a disability scooter. Becker said his annual visits to the school makes the children happy. “They loved it,” he said. “I’ve been doing it there at least seven years - my sister-in-law was the bursar there for 45 years and when she found out I was doing Santa things she asked the principal if I could come. “I have a beard I let grow to a decent length before Christmas. I have been doing it for 20 years now, I used to do it at our church.” Becker, a carpenter by trade, said the sleigh took him a week to build. He was assisted by an elf, his grandson James (pictured with Becker left). Picture: Supplied
Rising sea threatens coastline Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au RISING sea levels will pose a huge risk to Frankston’s coastline this century, according to a state governmentcommissioned report released last week. The “Port Phillip Bay Coastal Hazard Assessment” report was published last week. The lengthy technical report assessed potential damage to Port
Phillip coastlines if sea levels rise by 1.4 metres. Patterson Lakes is one of the areas most at risk on the eastern side of Port Phillip, according to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation report. “Coastal hazards in the Frankston City Council will occur along the bay coastline and inside Patterson Lakes,” the report read. “The highly urbanised and low-lying areas of Greater Geelong, Werribee,
City of Port Phillip and Mordialloc to Frankston were deemed most at risk from hazards posed by sea level rise. (...) For the Borough of Queenscliffe and City of Bayside the area of inundation approximately doubles between present conditions and 1.4 metres of sea level rise whereas for the Cities of Hobsons Bay, Greater Geelong, Frankston and Mornington Peninsula Shire the inundation area undergoes an approximate two to three-fold increase for a 1.4 metre sea level rise.”
The CSIRO report states that the Kingston Council area faces a “tenfold” inundation risk if the 1.4 metre sea level rise model is applied. It read that some parts of the Kingston Council area are not properly equipped for that scenario. “Much of this increase occurred in the Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands between Mordialloc Creek and Patterson River indicating that existing coastal protection structures would not be effective for 1.4 metre sea level rise,” it read.
In the Mornington Peninsula Shire municipality, the area around Martha Cove, the Balcombe Estuary Recreation Reserve, and the foreshore from Rosebud to Dromana were listed as inundation risks once sea levels rise. A map of the potential impacts of a 1.4 metre sea level rise by 2100 shows the entirety of Frankston Beach at risk of erosion during an extreme weather event. Continued page 6
