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Murder charge after body find
All fired up: Peninsula Health’s Andie Murphy with, left, Victoria regional good sports manager Bill Karametos and Mornington Peninsula Junior Football League coach-coordinator Stuart Gay.
Butt out is health message PENINSULA Health has received an award for its Preventing Tobacco Use campaign as part of the Mornington Peninsula Junior Football League Goes Smoke Free project. The award was announced at the 2016 VicHealth Awards ceremony at Federation Square last week by Health Minister Jill Hennessey. Also attending were Shadow Health Spokeswoman Mary Wooldridge, Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber, VicHealth chair Fiona McCormack and VicHealth CEO Jerril Rechter. The Preventing Tobacco Use project is a partnership with the Mornington Peninsula Junior Football League, Good Sports, Quit Victoria, and Mornington Peninsula Shire Council, with the league the first sporting league in the region to go completely smoke free.
“The work we continue to do around smokefree environments is very important, as we see our sporting clubs as the heartbeat of our community,” Peninsula Health’s Andie Murphy said. “Supporting this change now will strengthen the health and wellbeing of our youth and their families in the future. We encourage other sporting clubs, leagues and associations to join us and make a commitment to be smoke free.” Mornington Peninsula Junior Football League is going smoke free to provide a healthy and safe area for players, parents and spectators to enjoy the game, president Andrew Souter said. “This is being achieved with the help of Peninsula Health who are extremely passionate about the cause.”
Picture: Gary Sissons MISSING Person Squad detectives have charged a 49-year-old man regarding the disappearance of Karen Rae. Ms Rae, 48, was last seen leaving her Adib Court home in Frankston North at about 7pm on 15 April, 2015. Last Friday (9 December), a search of the roadside along the Frankston Freeway was commenced by SES under the direction of police. Human remains, that were yet to be identified at time of publication, were located in bushland beside the freeway in Frankston North on Saturday 10 December. The Langwarrin man has been charged with one count of murder and has been remanded to appear in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Friday 16 December. Grisly find: Above, SES search bushland beside the Frankston Freeway. A man has been charged with the murder of Karen Rae, pictured right.
Frankston Times 12 December 2016
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