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DRESS For Success has moved from Bayside Shopping Centre to Frankston’s Ross Smith Avenue. Volunteers including Simon Linardi, left and Johan Seah, right, helped DFS event manager Jenny Wright paint the new base. See page 8. Picture: Gary Sissons
Shifting sands head south Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au THE high-profile sand sculpting exhibition that lured millions of visitors to Frankston is leaving the city. The annual sand sculpting exhibition, hosted at the Frankston waterfront for the past decade, will not return next summer. Failed negotiations between com-
mercial event organiser Sandstorm Events and Frankston Council about making the sculptures exhibition an all-year round event are believed to be partly behind the decision for the event to leave Frankston. Sandstorm Events did not return calls from The Times before publication but council did confirm the sand sculpting exhibition’s exit. “The end of the major event contract with council coincided with a change in
management structure, which unfortunately means that the exhibition as we know it is not returning to Frankston next summer,” council stated on the Frankston & Peninsula District Ratepayers Page & Regional Political Forum page on Facebook, where news of the event’s exit first appeared. The statement was made by “Frank Stone”, a council Facebook account verified by The Times as being legitimate, and it also said: “We worked
collaboratively with Sandstorm Events over the past three years to support their bid for a year-round permanent attraction, which unfortunately was not able to be realised. “Council appreciates the great attraction they brought to our waterfront every year. The sand sculpting exhibition was hugely popular and over the 11 years that Frankston’s waterfront was the home of sand sculpting over 1.2 million visitors enjoyed their mag-
nificent and detailed carved artworks.” An announcement on Sand Sculpting Australia’s website says Boneo Maze on the Mornington Peninsula will be “the new home of Sand Sculpting Australia” from December this year. The move to Fingal on the southern peninsula is a return home of sorts for the sand sculpting exhibition. Frankston snared the event from Rye 11 years ago. Continued page 8
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