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CHILDREN can explore magic, circus skills, theatre, drawing, and sculpture at Kingston Arts Centre’s school holiday creative workshops. The Creative Lounge program has an actionpacked schedule featuring a Lego robot-making workshop, playwriting and performing workshops and knitting for young beginners. “Creative Lounge was designed to give local youngsters the opportunity to explore their creative side while having fun during the school holidays,” Kingston mayor Cr Geoff Gledhill said. “The amazing activities help entertain, challenge and engage young people and help develop their love of the arts.” The Creative Lounge July program includes an arm knitting winter workshop, Drawn 2 Print sessions with artists Jodi Helliwell and Juliet Collins teaming up for drawing skill activities and screen printing techniques, a Robo Warrior Challenge, with pairs building a Lego Mindstorms Robot and to battle others in the battle arena, a two-day Page to Stage workshop with award-winning playwright Kieran Carroll guiding participants through the process of writing and starring in a 10-minute play and a Magic Class Australian School of Magic class by magician Cath Jamison. The Creative Lounge is at Shirley Burke Theatre, Parkdale. See kingstonarts.com.au or call 9556 4440. Bookings are essential for all sessions.
On the cards: Magician Cath Jamison will teach a Magic Class Australian School of Magic class at the Shirley Burke Theatre in Parkdale.
Kingston trio’s trip to Canberra Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au THREE Kingston Council representatives headed to Canberra this month for the National General Assembly hosted by the Australian Local Government Association. Council CEO John Nevins, mayor Cr Geoff Gledhill and Cr Paul Peulich attended the three-day annual conference for council delegates from across the nation on 14-17 June. Cr Gledhill said the conference provided information on a broad range of topics including how local government can better work with other levels of government to provide services to disadvantaged people and how to improve community engagement, gov-
ernance and ethics. Councillors met with federal ministers and their representatives to discuss waste, recycling and resource recovery, supporting local car component manufacturers impacted by the automotive industry closures and development of a food manufacturing hub in south-east Melbourne. “We also had a pretty good chat with Greg Hunt about what we’re doing out in the Green Wedge,” Cr Gledhill said. The federal Environment Minister’s father, Alan Hunt, was planning minister in the Hamer government and played a pivotal role in implementing state government policy on green wedges. The mayor said councillor delegates spoke to both side of politics at the assembly.
“It isn’t just one side that we want to speak to. We want to look at things from a delivery point of view and not a political point of view,” Cr Gledhill said. Council also lobbied federal government representatives for the National Broadband Network to be rolled out urgently in Kingston’s industrial estates to support businesses and jobs creation. Deputy Prime Minister and Infrastructure and Regional Development Minister Warren Truss also addressed the assembly delegates. Australian of the Year Rosie Batty addressed the delegates about The Luke Batty Foundation’s Never Alone campaign to help women and children affected by family violence.
The cost to have the three Kingston representatives attend the assembly was $7682, in the same financial ballpark as neighbouring southeast councils Mornington Peninsula Shire and Frankston who spent $7028 and $7617 respectively on travel and accommodation to send three representatives each to Canberra.
THREE youths on a rampage from Berwick to Mentone last week stole several cars, burgled houses and were involved in two hit-and-run crashes before being nabbed by Kingston detectives. A young woman driver is in a serious condition in hospital after being involved in a collision with one of the youths in a stolen car. The 15 to 17 year old males, of Bentleigh and Dandenong, are alleged to have stolen a car in Berwick on Thursday evening before filling up and “doing a drive-by” in Clyde without paying for the petrol. The next day (Friday) from 8-10.30am they allegedly burgled a house and stole another car from Hill St, Bentleigh East, before being involved in a hit-run incident in Warrigal Rd. They dumped this car and drove off in the first stolen car to allegedly burgle a house and steal another car, a Peugeot, in Russell Ct, Mentone. Leaving the scene in two stolen cars the youths panicked when they realised police were in hot pursuit. One, in a Mazda Tribute, sped off on Beach Rd and turned sharply into Marina Rd, Mentone, narrowly missing an elderly pedestrian crossing the road. He then turned into Balcombe Rd but lost control and veered onto the wrong side of the road, smashing into an oncoming Nissan Pulsar sedan driven by a 21-year-old woman. She reportedly suffered serious, but not life-threatening, injuries, and was taken to The Alfred hospital. The offender then allegedly ran off along Balcombe Rd and was later found by police hiding on a house roof. He was remanded in custody to appear at Melbourne Children’s Court at a later date. The other youths in the Peugeot were arrested later on Friday in Dandenong and bailed to appear at Moorabbin Children’s Court at a later date. The youths face three charges each of theft of motor cars, theft of petrol, and two counts of burglary. The youth driving the Mazda also faces multiple driving offences, as well as conduct endangering life, evading police, recklessly causing serious injury and dangerous driving causing serious injury. Detective Acting Sergeant Steven Cornwill, of Kingston CIU, is appealing for witnesses to the incidents. They should call 9556 6111. He is especially keen to talk to the elderly man who narrowly avoided being knocked down in Beach Rd. Stephen Taylor
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