Frankston
Frankston
24 November
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2014
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5973 6424 or email: team@baysidenews.com.au www.baysidenews.com.au Top of his game: Tyrone Wilk receives his basketball scholarship cheered on by his team mates and coach Neil Craig. Picture: Gary Sissons
Tyrone’s goal A YOUNG basketballer with a big future took centre stage at Monash University Well Being Centre, Peninsula Campus, on Thursday. Tyron Wilk, of Carrum Downs, was awarded a full scholarship that will allow him to participate in all future testing and other programs offered by the academy. The Ballam Park Primary School pupil is the first athlete to receive a full scholarship. At 12, Tyrone “moves like LeBron James”, coach Neil Craig said. “He has shown outstanding leadership potential. Basketball is his passion and he just a brilliant young man.” Tyrone has been part of the academy since its inception. He has been a representative basket baller at Frankston Blues Basketball Club for the past three years, where he is coached by Craig. In the first part of the scholarship program, shooting guard Tyrone will be put through a bio-mechanical basketball shooting program. Mornington Peninsula Sports Academy, in partnership with the university’s Peninsula campus, offers athletes extracurricular programs centred on high performance sports training. Athletes can improve their knowledge, rigor and strategies through competitive sports practice, and bridge gaps in their leadership and communication skills. Stephen Taylor
Parties pledge to win votes Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au BOTH major parties have promised major investment in Frankston to try to convince voters to back their candidate in this week’s state election. The Liberal and Labor parties have pledged tens of millions of dollars to upgrade Frankston train station and its surrounds, provide more funding for Chisholm TAFE and increase health services spending at Frankston Hospital.
Opinion polls favour the Labor Party to win back government after the defeat of the Brumby government in 2010, but a week is a long time in politics and the Liberals could still retain government. Premier Denis Napthine must hope the innately conservative Victorian electorate do not decide to make his Coalition the first one-term government in the state’s history and give him another chance to impress having taken the reins when his predecessor Ted Baillieu stepped down early last year. Labor opposition leader Daniel
Andrews, or Dan as he now prefers to be called, seems poised to lead his party back into government but faces criticism concerning Labor’s refusal to give their costings for about $32 billion worth of pre-election pledges to Treasury for assessment. Mr Andrews has said Labor’s costings will be “signed off” by accountancy firm Moore Stephens before polling day this Saturday 29 November. Frankston and the marginal bayside seats of Carrum, Mordialloc and
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Bentleigh along the Frankston line will be crucial in determining which party forms government. Former Liberal, now independent, MP Geoff Shaw’s frequent clashes with Premier Napthine have ensured the Frankston result will be a highprofile one at this state election. Liberal candidate Sean Armistead and Labor hopeful Paul Edbrooke have struggled to escape the shadow of Geoff Shaw at times during the pre-election campaign but there is little doubt that one of those two will be Frankston’s
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