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Burglaries linked A SERIES of thefts in Patterson Lakes overnight Sunday and Monday morning, 18-19 June, led to three houses being broken into, a luxury car’s window being smashed and another car burgled. The dog squad and police air wing were called in to help in the hunt for the offenders. Sergeant Nigel Fox, of Kingston CIU, said detectives were investigating possible links between the break-ins as they occurred around the same time and in neighbouring streets: Inner Harbour Drive, North Shore Drive, Gladesville Blvd and Illawong Court. Police said the offenders may have scaled fences in the gated community, which borders Patterson River. The side window of a MercedesBenz, parked in the garage of an Inner Harbour Drive property, was smashed overnight Sunday 18 June. House keys may have been stolen as the offender allegedly entered the house and stole cameras and an iPad. When the owner went to investigate the $70,000 vehicle was missing. The garage door of a property in Gladesville Blvd was forced open, 5-6am Monday, and a Dell laptop, three cameras, projector, cordless drill, $100 in coins and garden implements stolen. A North Shore Drive resident in bed upstairs awoke to the sound of a sliding door downstairs being jemmied open, 6.15am Monday. She turned on the lights and heard someone running off. Nothing was
stolen. Two cars in Illawong Ct was broken into a pair of sunglasses stolen around the same time. Late on Monday, a 25-year-old Highett man was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated burglary, theft of a motor vehicle, three counts of theft from motor vehicles, possessing a controlled weapon, two counts of possessing drugs of dependence, trafficking drugs of dependence, handling stolen goods, benefitting from the proceeds of crime and driving while disqualified. He appeared at Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday (19 June) and was remanded to appear at the same court on 17 July.
Cash order refused A MAN held up a kitchen knife and demanded money at an Edithvale service station but the attendant refused to hand anything over, 8.30pm, Saturday 17 June. The attendant, 25, was outside the Station Rd premises moving bins when he saw the man lurking around the corner. He went back inside just as the man entered. When his demand was refused the offender turned and ran out of the store. The offender is described as Caucasian, 30s, 162cm, with his face and head covered by a hoodie. He has some facial hair. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stopper 1800 333 000.
Good vibes: Ross Woodward has brought his life-long love of popular music – and his massive collection of CDs and vinyl – to the peninsula’s radio station RPP-FM. Picture: Gary Sissons
More music a near-impossible mission Mike Hast team@baysidenews.com.au ROSS Woodward remembers the first record he bought as an 11-year-old in 1974 – Abba’s first UK hit single Waterloo. He bought the band’s second UK hit, too – Mamma Mia, which topped the charts in early 1976. Another early buy was Slade Alive just to show the preteen was also into raucous sounds. For the British boy these early purchases were the start of a magnificent obsession with popular music that has lead to a massive collection of vinyl records, then CDs and now back to vinyl again – and a show on the peninsula’s radio station RPP-FM on Friday evenings at 6 o’clock. Woodward is perhaps best known in
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the region as the founder and owner of public relations company Media Key, based in Frankston, which started in 1991. He lives in Mt Eliza with his family – and many thousands of CDs and records. Woodward came to Australia for a holiday in 1987 and never left. He scored a job as a journalist with the ABC in Melbourne and later worked for the Herald Sun and The Age before becoming a public relations officer at Mount Royal Hospital in Melbourne and then on the Victorian government’s “Life. Be in it.” fitness campaign, which became a national campaign in 1977. It starred “Norm”, a middle-aged man with a prominent beer belly. Woodward walked into the office of RPP-FM in Mornington earlier this year and presented his radio show idea to sta-
tion manager Brendon Telfer, himself a former ABC employee. Telfer was looking to revamp the drive-time slot on Fridays, 6-8pm, and Woodward’s show, Mission Impossible, was accepted. The name? “It’s impossible to fit all the songs I want to play into a two-hour slot,” Woodward said with a laugh. The radio presenter said his musical tastes are eclectic. Woodward said he wanted to “share my love of amazing tunes with others and inspire people to make their record collections even bigger”. He said his kids are into electronica music. “They think pop is dead. I don’t. But one thing is that they educate me about what’s being created today.” Mission Impossible is on Friday nights 6-8pm on 98.7 FM or streaming online at rppfm.com.au
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