Day: October 4, 2016

WHEN the women of ancient Greece stage a sex strike for peace, sparks fly and the comedy “pops-up” everywhere in Lysistrata, a bawdy anti-war comedy by the playwright Aristophanes. The play kept audiences laughing, and squirming, for 2500 years. Lysistrata is a comic account of a woman’s mission to end the Peloponnesian War. She convinces other women to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands as a means of forcing them to negotiate a peace treaty. The play will be held 8pm, 7, 8, 13, 14 and 15 October, at McClelland College Performing Arts Centre, 26 Alexander Cr, Karingal (enter off…

THREE men have been charged after being caught at Number 16 Beach, Rye, with 169 abalone. Fisheries officers who stopped the men at 11pm on Thursday 23 September found the abalone in their four-wheel drive. “The men, aged 32, 36 and 40 from Malvern, Mt Waverley and Vermont South, were not deterred from fishing in what were cold, rough and windy conditions,” acting director of fisheries education and enforcement, Brooke Hall, said. The men will be charged on summons with taking a commercial quantity of abalone during the closed season; taking abalone from the protected intertidal zone; taking and possessing…

Thieves forced the back door of a Dromana house and stole an iPad and a PlayStation sometime between 28 September-1 October. The Lombardy Av house was ransacked while the owners were away. Police said the offenders apparently stayed at the house, “taking their time, opening cans of food and bathing”. Anyone with any information is urged to call Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000. First published in the Western Port News – 4 October 2016

A BITTERN man has been arrested after allegedly breaking into a Bittern house and stealing items valued at $3000, 1.30pm, Friday 30 September. Mornington Peninsula CIU detectives said the owner of the house, in Frankston-Flinders Rd, returned home to find the house ransacked and the TV set missing. She saw a man standing in the front garden beside bags of goods and called Triple 000. Police later charged a man, 35, with burglary. He will appear at Frankston Magistrates’ Court at a date to be fixed. Anyone with any information is urged to call Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000. First published…

FUNCTIONS and events, including morning melodies, breakfast, dinner dance and silent auctions, have helped Lifestyle Community’s Homeowners Committee, Hastings, raise $4656 for two blood testing machines for Frankston Hospital’s oncology day unit. On top of this, the Lifestyle Communities village management, through a foundation set up after a founding director died of cancer, matched this amount to give a combined total of $9330. The cheque presentation on Thursday 29 September at Lifestyle Communities, High St, Hastings, was attended by the Lifestyle committee and management, and representatives of Peninsula Health. “During their treatment, patients regularly need to have their blood tested,”…

FRENCH Island’s koalas are about to get a helping hand from Parks Victoria and government land and environment officers. Over the next six weeks, vets and support staff will be catching koalas, assessing their health, and treating up to 400 females with a contraceptive implant to help stabilise the local population. Thirty healthy koalas will be moved from the island to Tallarook, 100km north of Melbourne, to test the area’s suitability for more translocations. “French Island’s koalas are currently in good health but, without intervention, their over-abundance will affect their welfare, ruin trees and destroy native habitat,” Department of Environment,…

MINIMISING controversy while running for the vacant Watson ward seat on Mornington Peninsula Shire Council has not come cheap for a least one candidate, and the shire. Just weeks before nominating as a candidate in this month’s elections, Lisa Dixon took the unusual step of withdrawing a request she and her partner Ken Ingersoll had made for a planning scheme amendment to allow them to keep aeroplanes on private property abutting Tyabb airfield. The shire says Ms Dixon and Mr Ingersoll had paid a $798 application fee for the amendment and that the processing the amendment had taken “approximately one…