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Knitting teddies to cheer up sick kids RESIDENTS at a Frankston aged care home have been knitting teddies to help cheer up kids in hospital. Benetas St Paul’s Terrace residential aged care home residents have been working on the project. Keen knitter Maria Holloway has been spending the last month preparing “trauma teddies” which will go to kids staying in the Frankston Hospital Emergency Department. Benetas carer Connie Chaffey says that the bears have been received by the hospital and are ready for “cuddles as soon as they are needed.” “Maria came up with the idea for the local Frankston Hospital so she knits each unique teddy and I help by stuffing and stitching them together,” she said. “Maria loves making each individual teddy knowing it can offer a bit of comfort to an unwell little one.”
MARIA Holloway with her knitted trauma teddies. Picture: Supplied
FRANKSTON MP Peta Murphy with Frankston U3A president Andrea McCall. Picture: Supplied
Grants given out GRANTS have been handed out to 40 local organisations through the Dunkley volunteer grants program. Among the successful groups are AWARE wildlife rescue, Miscarriage Information Support Service, Beach Patrol Australia, Community Support Frankston, Frankston Fire Brigade, Rotary Club of Frankston, Frankston SES, U3A Frankston, and Women’s Spirit Project. Multiple other charities, sports clubs, and community services also received funding between $1000 and $5000. Dunkley MP Peta Murphy said “our local volunteers have worked tirelessly to support our community during the pandemic with many of them being on the frontline. This funding will assist them to purchase small equipment, as well as pay for fuel, transport and training costs.” “Our local volunteer groups play such an important role in our community, I’m very proud to be supporting them with this funding,” she said. Ms Murphy said that she would continue to advocate for federal funding to organisations which unsuccessfully applied for the grant.
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Frankston Times
14 December 2021
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