Mornington
GET YOUR
FREE TV GUIDE INSIDE!
DOWNLOAD 3MP FROM THE APP STORE OR GOOGLE PLAY
An independent voice for the community
Your weekly community newspaper covering Mornington, Mount Martha and Mount Eliza
FREE
Tuesday 15 August 2023
For all advertising and editorial needs, call 03 5974 9000 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au
Girls shine at finals time MORNINGTON Football Netball Club is celebrating an unprecedented milestone this year, with all six of its girls’ junior and women’s seniors teams making the finals. The achievement comes eight years after the club first fielded a women’s team and five years since Mornington Junior Football Club fielded its first girls’ side.
In junior girls football, the club is represented in under-12s, under-14s and under-16s and has 61 registered players. In senior football, the women are represented in divisions one, two and three and have 94 registered players. “We’re incredibly proud of what the girls and women have accomplished
this year,” the club’s women’s football director Harvey White said. “They have achieved great things in only a few short years, and we have one of the largest numbers of registered female players in Victoria. “The next step would be to introduce an under-10s and under-18s program giving the junior players a full pathway to senior football and
Mornington Football Netball Club will be looking to work with Mornington Junior Football Club to establish this in 2024.” The club is looking for more players across all age groups and abilities for next year. Anyone interested should contact Harvey White on: womensfootball@morningtonfnc.com. au
Picture: Gary Sissons
Taking to the streets to help homeless Liz Bell liz@mpnews.com.au WELFARE services, Mornington Peninsula Shire Council and residents took to the streets of Rosebud on Friday for a walk and rally to call for an end to homelessness on the peninsula. The walk came as the peninsula’s only crisis accommodation looks set to close. The event was a collaboration
between Fusion Mornington Peninsula, Mornington Community Support Centre, Western Port Community Support, Southern Peninsula Community Support and the shire. The walk started at 4pm at Rosebud pier and went along Pt Nepean Road and past Memorial Hall, to finally gather for a rally at the sound shell, where there was a welcome to country and speakers. The event finished around 6pm.
Southern Peninsula Community Support CEO Jeremy Maxwell said the walk was an important way to raise awareness of homelessness. He said at least 1000 people in the community were experiencing homelessness, but if areas close to Frankston were included the number would “probably double”. “In the recent census the shire moved from sixth worse area to the fourth worse area for rough sleeping
in Victoria,” he said. “This is not a race we want to win.” Maxwell said there was only one crisis accommodation centre on the peninsula, The Ranch Motel, Mornington, which was jointly operated by Mornington Community Support Centre and Southern Peninsula Community Support and used by several agencies. It’s operations were financed through donations, but it would close because the owners were redeveloping.
It is estimated that at least 16 per cent of the peninsula’s homeless are rough sleeping every night, many on the foreshore. More than 4000 residents are on public housing waiting lists, but there are just over 1400 social housing properties. Maxwell said government initiatives include 34 new public housing properties, with about half being at the construction phase. Continued Page 8
CLOSING DOWN SALE HIGH GRADE FASTENERS MILD STEEL ALUMINIUM STAINLESS STEEL FABRICATION
COME AND SEE THE CHICKENS ROAMING FREE IN THE PADDOCK!
BARN DOOR SALES MONDAY TO FRIDAY 8AM - 4.30PM AND SATURDAYS 8AM - 12.30PM
UNTIL SOLD OUT LAST DAY - THURSDAY 17 AUGUST
FREE LOCAL DELIVERY orders@baysideboltsandsteel.com.au
Shop 3/26 McLaren Place
1/6 KENJI STREET MORNINGTON
Mon - Fri 9.00-5.30 Sat 9-5 Sun 10-4
PH: 0407 126 548
Mornington OPEN 7 DAYS
03 5976 8868
www.denorhomewares.com.au