NEWS DESK Smith Family talks SOUTHERN Peninsula VIEW Club members will meet at the Rosebud Country Club, 10.30am Thursday 13 May. Staff from The Smith Family Frankston will talk about the work they do to support disadvantaged students and will show letters of appreciation from schools supplied with library bags earlier this year by the club. Members will also hear about how the Bendigo Bank’s Rye and District Community Financial Services provides money for the library bags and stationery to prep students. VIEW clubs around Australia raise money for The Smith Family’s education program. Treasurer Sue Purnell said the southern peninsula club sponsored five students and aimed to increase that number this year. Details: secretary Sue Ackland, 0407 850 385.
Internet upgrades RESIDENTS of Hastings, Mornington, Rosebud and Somerville are in line to receive network upgrades to their internet services. Flinders MP Greg Hunt said the NBM upgrades meant services in these areas would be improved from fibre-to-the-node to fibre-to-the-premises. He said this would allow users to access gigabit download speeds, on demand, bringing the number of premises receiving upgrades to 1.1 million. He said it was important that those self-isolating due to the pandemic, or otherwise unable to travel, would be able to more easily work from home or interact with businesses online, as well as access the goods and services they need and support the Mornington Peninsula and our nation’s economy.”
Flinders Art returns THE 53rd Flinders Art Show is at the Civic Hall, Flinders, on the Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend, Friday 11 to Monday 14 June. The show was cancelled last year – for the first time since its inception in 1967 – due to the COVID-19 lockdown. Book for the opening night at the community hall by logging into trybooking.com/BQOBS or flindersartshow.com.au
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Job well done: Frankston Hospital staff Kaitlin Jewson, Diner Mohamed, Andy Hukin and James Hunter-Smith meet Kunyung Primary School students Teddy and Sienna, Will, Lennox, Matthew and Cammie, Sierra, Will, Alex, Elijah. Picture: Yanni
Student recognition for ‘hospital heroes’ KUNYUNG Primary School students have put on an art display to show their gratitude to the “wonderful frontline workers” at Frankston Hospital. Art teacher Arlene Drummond had earlier invited the “hospital heroes” from the emergency department, ICU and the COVID ward to send in head-and-shoulders photos of themselves. Grade 1-2 students then discussed how artists can express their feelings and ideas through their art. The hospital’s medical staff featured in the
portraits visited the school last week to see the show and voice their appreciation. “We decided to draw a portrait of a hospital hero and the students had to express their gratitude with their background design,” Ms Drummond said. “Their classroom teachers got on board and helped the students write letters of gratitude to their hospital hero.” Ms Drummond mounted the artworks and attached the students’ letters to the backs of their portraits. “Our preps have been involved in making
big, colourful flowers to add to our display,” she said. The students’ works are on display in the school’s Gratitude Gallery of Hospital Hero Portraits and the flowers are in the Gratitude Garden. “I am going to deliver the portraits to the hospital as a gift for the doctors and nurses involved to enjoy,” Ms Drummond said. Kunyung Primary is an International Baccalaureate school which encourages school and wider community action. Stephen Taylor
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Mornington News
11 May 2021