NEWS DESK
Antiques stolen from house
A MODEL boat valued at $4000 was among antiques stolen from a Tyabb house early on Sunday 6 November. The display boat, pictured, was among jewellery and other items also valued at “many thousands of dollars”, Mornington Peninsula CIU’s Senior Sergeant Alan Paxton said. The model is 170cm long and named Riva Aqua Marina. No one was at the Mornington-Tyabb Rd house when the thieves struck. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000.
Injuries from fights A FIGHT behind a Mornington hotel left three victims with head injuries, 1.15am, Saturday 5 November. Mornington Peninsula CIU’s Senior Sergeant Peter Drake said words were exchanged between a group of five Polynesians in their early 20s and three Caucasians in their late 20s in the hotel. A one-on-one fight was arranged in a laneway car park but, in what turned out to be an all-in brawl, one of the older trio received head injuries, another was knocked unconscious, and the third suffered punches to the head. An ambulance took the injured men to Frankston Hospital.
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Mornington News 15 November 2016
Busy bee: Historian Val Wilson celebrates 80 years.
In another early-morning incident, a man leaving a Sorrento hotel was bashed by a group in their late teens, Sunday 6 November. Nothing was stolen in the unprovoked attack on the 21-year-old. Anyone with information is urged to call Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000.
Mt Eliza burglary A MT ELIZA man returning home from work, Tuesday 8 November, discovered a TV set, PC and jewellery had been stolen. Thieves had entered the Glen Shian Lane house through the garage and then accessed the house, police said. They ransacked cupboards and drawers before making off with the $1300 haul. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000.
Medical break-in THIEVES rummaged through cupboards and drawers at a Crib Point medical centre before stealing a TV set, between 3-6 November. The Stony Pt Rd premises was unoccupied at the time.
History in the making MORNINGTON historian and author Val Wilson celebrated her 80th birthday at the Mornington Hotel recently with 60 of her friends and family. For the past eight years Ms Wilson has run tours of the pioneer graves at the Mornington Cemetery off Craigie Rd and is researching the stories behind some of the pioneers buried there. In 2014 she wrote a book containing the biographies of everyone on the honour roll at Mornington Memorial
Park, in Barkly St, to commemorate the centenary of the beginning of the World War I. Ms Wilson is on the committee of the Mornington and District Historical Society and is life member of the South Mornington Junior Football Club. She was awarded the Order of Australia medal in 2015 for service to the community of Mornington as an historian, and she shows no sign of slowing down.