* Frankston North

These wards are known as North-West Ward ( covering mostly Seaford, Frankston North and parts of Frankston ), South-West Ward ( covering the southern parts of Frankston and Frankston South ) and East Ward ( covering Langwarrin and Carrum Downs ).

He was educated at Monterey High School in Frankston North and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Frankston North, also known as The Pines, is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 37 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district.

At the 2006 Census, Frankston North had a population of 5, 492.

Frankston North landmarks include the Pines Forest Swimming Centre, Long Island Country Golf Club, and the former site of Monterey High School, which was removed in the early 1990s when the High and Technical schools were combined and moved to the former Technical school site.

Frankston North is a working class suburb, nicknamed The " Pines " because of the former Ministry of Housing Pines Estate which made up the bulk of the suburb.

The approximate size of Frankston North is 5. 2 km < sup > 2 </ sup >.

The 2001 Census of Population and Housing data collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics states that 5, 771 persons lived in Frankston North as at 2001.

In 1983 the City of Frankston purchased a former Ministry of Housing rent office at 2 Candlebark Crescent, Frankston North.

A petition, signed by 1, 879 residents of Carrum Downs and presented to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1997 further sought action to begin " construction of suitable facilities in Carrum Downs with the view of relocating Monterey Secondary College from its present location in Frankston North ".

Many other streets in Frankston North are named after exotic and native species.

The Club was formed in 1964, not long after the establishment of a housing commission estate in Pines Forest / Frankston North.

Frankston North is home to a 50 metre heated outdoor six-lane swimming pool.

Due to the population of the City of Frankston increasing rapidly in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, a local chapter of the club was established for Frankston North.

The meeting unanimously resolved that a new Club should be formed and that it should be known as the Rotary Club of Frankston North.

During 2003 an extensive Cultural Mapping exercise was developed in collaboration with the community of North Frankston.

* Pines Exhibition: A portable display showing The Pines, Frankston North, its past and present.

To be shown at the Mahogany Neighbourhood Centre in Frankston North, and other venues.

East Ward councilor Jane Hill said that there was " No reason for ( the ) Pines stigma " and said that its reputation existed only in the minds of a minority of Frankston residents.

Frankston North Community Renewal will build on the initiatives of previous community strengthening programs that have been delivered in the area over the past five years, including Pines Connecting the Community, Best Start and Communities for Children.

* Frankston North is home to two retail shopping strips: one at the Western end of Excelsior Drive known as the Excelsior shops, and another on Mahogany Avenue known as The Pines Forest Shopping Centre.

* Frankston North-The Pines is serviced by Neighbourhood Watch which is broken up by five separate areas each with its own Co-ordinator and their Zone Representatives within a Committee consisting of a Newsletter Editor, Secretary, Treasurer and an Overall Co-ordinator / President ( Stan Doric JP the initiator in 2004 ) current to 2010, liaison during this time with Victoria Police ( Frankston City ) Co-ordinator L / S / Const Sharron Coburn. The areas are known as FRK 22, FRK 23, FRK 24, FRK 25, FRK 26 and are bound by Frankston-Dandenong Road, Pines Flora & Fauna Reserve, Ballarto Rd, Peninsula Country Golf Club.

* The Pines / Frankston North Cultural Mapping Project

Unlike other Melbourne radio stations that were based in the inner city areas, 3MP-as the callsign " MP ", which stands for Mornington Peninsula, implies-was based in the south eastern suburb of Frankston, originally in the Bayside Shopping Centre.

She was originally buried with her daughter in Fosterville Cemetery in Anderson County near Frankston, but her son, Quanah, had her re-interred, and reburied next to him at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

At the 2006 Australian Census, Frankston had a population of 34, 457.

It is the seat of government and administrative centre for the local government area, the City of Frankston which had an estimated population of 130, 462 at 30 June 2010.

However, a crossover was installed near Richmond to allow Sandringham trains to cross to the tracks used by the Frankston and Pakenham trains, which had access to the underground loop.

By the 2000s the service had settled down, with the A class locomotive and a single MTH carriage sent between Frankston and Spencer Street on a regular basis for refuelling and maintenance.

MacDiarmid, who emigrated with her family in 1987 from the Scottish Highlands to Australia, had been playing tennis after work with two friends at ( what was then known as ) Flinders Park in Batman Avenue, East Melbourne before walking to Richmond station where they found that they had just missed a Frankston line train.

The Frankston Freeway was designed to accommodate Mornington Peninsula Freeway from the northern section, and it has had a missing Frankston Bypass for decades ( Vicroads having decided that traffic on the route was not heavy enough to merit a Frankston Bypass, the middle section of the freeway ), and at this stage the Frankston Freeway serves as the missing link between the two Mornington Peninsula Freeways.

It was also possible that the bodies were of a young Victorian couple, Deborah Everist and James Gibson, who had been missing since leaving Frankston in 1989.

In the 1970s it was duplicated to just south of Sages Road and during the 1980s the rest of the road was duplicated, this was to serve as an alternative to building the Frankston Bypass.

*: Paul Denyer, 21, was responsible for the deaths of three young women ( Elizabeth Stevens, 18, Debbie Fream, 22, and Natalie Russell, 17 ) in the town of Frankston, Victoria during 1993.

A proposal in the 1970s to sandmine the remaining bushland met with community uproar and the Eureka Flag was raised on Trig Point ( the site from which the Frankston area was originally surveyed ) and the area claimed for the people of Frankston.

20px Frankston Freeway is a very short stretch of Melbourne freeway that was designed to upgrade Wells Road to freeway standard in the 1970s and provides a link from suburban Melbourne to Frankston.

The Zorros were popular in the Melbourne music scene of the early 1980s, playing at venues such as the Crystal Ballroom, Exford Hotel Russell St Melbourne CBD, Sydenham Hotel Richmond, Pier Hotel Frankston, Sorrento Hotel, Piccadilly Hotel Kings Cross, Le Tote Fitzroy, Derby Hotel Nth Fitzroy, Katunga RSL Numurkah, Macy's South Yarra, Prince of Wales St Kilda, Duke of Edinburgh St Kilda, Roxy Sth Melb, 465 Club Spencer St, Tiger Lounge St Kilda, Bombay Rock Brunswick, The Champion Hotel Fitzroy, Barleycorn Hotel Collingwood, The Club Collingwood, Hearts Carlton, The Stockade Carlton, The Central Club Richmond, Bananas St Kilda, the Market Hotel Prahran, Geelong Hotel Geelong, The Rehearsal Redfern, The Esplanade St Kilda, Floyd's Canberra, ANU Canberra, The Stockade Canberra, Port Melbourne Park, Princess Hill High, Hunt Club Hotel Merrijig, Brunswick High School.

Frankston has received numerous honors and awards for his work:

In recent years, Frankston has been an outspoken advocate for reducing the role of telecommunications companies in the evolution of the internet, particularly with respect to broadband and mobile communications.

In July 1998, Liberal MP Peter McLellan, Member for Frankston East, resigned from the party in protest over alleged corrupt Liberal Party Senate preselection, changes to WorkCover and the auditor-general ’ s office.

Frankston was named for Frankie Miller, a young woman who donated land for the downtown city park.

The peninsula extends from the mainland between Pearcedale and Frankston in a south-westerly direction for about at a width of about.

In addition, the local MP for the Federal seat of Dunkley, Bruce Billson, is also working with local councils with a view to applying pressure on the state government for the Frankston Bypass to be built.

The demonym for a person from Frankston is a " Frankstonian ".

The Bracks Labor Government later compulsorily re-purchased the land and offered it for free to the City of Frankston.

Operated by Frankston City Council, the centre is used by schools from surrounding suburbs for sports and recreational activities.

At the end of November 2005, Vicki McClelland from Frankston North was unanimously elected mayor by her fellow councillors for a two year term.

The Frankston North Community Map was launched by Jude Perera, MP for Cranbourne on 20 June 2006.

This program is funded by the State Government and there are currently eight Community Renewal sites around the state, of which one is Frankston North, the project team for this site are project manager, Tricia Folvig and project officer, Orma Ringberg, who are located at the Mahogany Centre.

The associate editor of The Age, Shaun Carney pointed out both the Liberal ( Bruce Billson ) and Labor ( Helen Constas ) candidates for the local federal seat of Dunkley at the 2004 Federal Election attended Monterey High School, now known as Monterey Secondary College in Frankston North.

His son Gary Guy played for Melbourne and Mark Czarnecki who played for Melbourne, Dandenong VFA and Frankston VFA.