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Youths linked to three fires
2016 PENINSULA HEALTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
POLICE believe the same two youths lit grass fires in Somerville, Hastings and Frankston over the weekend. Although not causing a great deal of damage the fires on Saturday afternoon, 26 November, tied up CFA volunteers and could have spread to neighbouring properties, police say. Somerville detectives believe there is a link between the offences, with the youths possibly catching a train on the Stony Point line between fires. Grass was set alight behind a property in Church St, Hastings, 5.40pm, burning down a fence. Hastings CFA crews attended. Witnesses said they saw youths lighting the fires. A grass fire was lit near George St, behind the Somerville Recreation Centre, 6.30pm. Police later spoke with a 15-year-old youth but no charges were laid. Earlier, a fire had been lit in a public reserve beside railway tracks at Leawarra Parade, Frankston, 3.304pm. Detective Senior Sergeant Miro Majstorovic, of Mornington Peninsula CIU, asked that anyone with information on the fires call Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000.
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of Peninsula Health will be held on Friday 2 December at 2pm at the Frankston Arts Centre, Davey Street, Frankston. The business of the meeting will be to receive the Annual Report from the Board of 'LUHFWRUV LQFOXGLQJ WKH ¿QDQFLDO statements and Auditor’s report, a report on the health services provided to the community in 2015/2016 and a report on the proposed health services to be provided in 2016/2017.
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Help for hospice’s new home PENINSULA Home Hospice has received $536,000 from the federal government to help fit out its recently completed building in Main St, Mornington. Dunkley MP Chris Crewther said he was proud to have been able to
Helpers helped: Dunkley MP Chris Crewther at Peninsula Home Hospice with CEO Rachael Bovenizer, hospice board chair Helen Fairlie and treasurer Tom Pickford.
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advocate for the service and secure the funding. “This is terrific news for this notfor-profit organisation which provides much needed home-based palliative care support in our community.” Details: www.peninsulahospice.com.au
Liquor, cigs taken A MT MARTHA liquor store was broken into and cigarettes and alcohol stolen, early Thursday last week. Mornington police said thieves cut padlocks to enter the IGA liquor outlet in Lochiel Av, about 3am. A staff member said “a lot” of cigarette cartons and bottles of spirits had been taken.
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Western Port News 29 November 2016