Hockey club donates uniforms to orphanage BY LAURA GREEN FRANKSTON Hockey Club has donated 40 spare uniforms to an orphanage in Timor-Leste. The club donated the uniforms in March. They were meant for their women’s players, but were made in the wrong cut and colour. Friends of the club travelled to Timor-Leste to deliver the uniforms to Irmas Missionaires, a Catholic
Church-run orphanage in the capital city of Dili. Frankston Hockey Club vice-president Chris Wall said “rather than us throw them out, we thought we would distribute them to a new home.” Mr Wall acknowledged financial access to sports and sporting equipment could be difficult across the globe. “It was good to be able to relieve some of that burden to provide a uniform
OLD facilities at Monterey Reserve. Picture: Supplied
for those who can’t afford it,” he said. “We treat each other like family at our club and we were able to include people who we previously wouldn’t have thought of.”
FRANKSTON Hockey Club uniforms being worn at a Timor-Leste orphanage. Picture: Supplied
Sports works in long term plans ion, and $2.9 million for the Belvedere Reserve Linen House were proposed to be funded as part of council’s “Strategic Funding Reserve”. In November last year, a motion moved by Cr Kris Bolam to investigate funding projects at Pat Rollo Pavilion, Monterey Pavilion, Belvedere Bowls facilities, Linen House, and Eric Bell Pavillion kicked off a heated debate (“War of worlds over ward funding’, The Times, 25/11/19). Cr Bolam called the inclusion of the projects into the long term infrastructure plan a “great outcome but woefully overdue”. “This will elevate forgotten sporting and community precincts to a 21st century standard,” he said. “The cash injection will alleviate what has effectively been an infrastructure backlog in areas such as Karingal, Frankston North and Seaford. This burgeoning backlog has festered over many years due to inaction and the lack of funding assistance from other tiers of government so the council is now taking the lead and getting these important projects built and delivered.”
FRANKSTON Council has approved their long term infrastructure plan, which outlines a plan for the next decade of council spending. Councillors approved the plan unanimously at their June meeting. As part of the motion, councillors also ticked off methods to fund a number of local sporting projects. Council nominated two projects be submitted for a government sponsored low rate loan as part of the state government’s Community Sports Infrastructure Loans Scheme. They were $6.25 million for the Eric Bell Reserve pavilion redevelopment, and $3 million for Kevin Collopy pavilion works. If those submissions are unsuccessful, council has committed to fund those projects “as part of standard loan borrowings”. The motion approved by councillors also read that $1.98 million for the Belvedere Bowls Club pavilion and $2.84 million for the Pat Rollo Reserve pavilion would be funded as part of “standard loan borrowing”. $3.5 million for the Langwarrin Football and Cricket pavilion, $3.3 million for the Monterey Reserve Soccer pavil-
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Frankston Times 21 July 2020
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