* 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.

Frankston North, " The Pines ", had a reputation during the 1970s and 1980s for being a " high crime " suburb.

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.

In December 1998 the organisation moved into the purpose-built Mahogany Community Centre ( owned by Frankston City Council ).

Frankston North Community Group

The Frankston North Community Group is a political lobby group that aims to represent the needs and requirements of Frankston North residents at council meetings and through official channels.

A number of community projects have been a product of the Frankston North Community Group.

Frankston North Community Map

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.

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 Community ( Renewal ) website

Given the rank of Lieutenant, he was posted to the Army School of Physical Training at Frankston, Victoria, to act as a divisional supervisor of physical training.

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

Frankston was actually named after Frank Miller who owned the land when the railway was built.

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.

Despite its similar area and name, the City of Frankston is a different entity to the former City of Frankston which existed from 1966 until 1994, which was a continuation of the former Shire of Frankston and was abolished under the Kennett local government reforms.

The City of Frankston was created in 1994 out of the remains of three abolished councils — all but the suburb of Mount Eliza from the former City of Frankston ; the suburbs of Carrum Downs, Langwarrin and Skye from the City of Cranbourne ; and part of Carrum Downs from the City of Springvale.

The major part of the City was first incorporated in 1860 as the Mornington Roads District, which became a shire in 1871 and was renamed Shire of Frankston and Hastings in 1893, losing its western riding to form the Shire of Mornington, which has since been amalgamated into the Shire of Mornington Peninsula.

Frankston was officially proclaimed as a City on 24 August 1966.

However, after statewide local government reform, the suburb was moved to be part of a new, larger City of Frankston

Prior to European discovery, the Frankston area was populated by Indigenous Australians known as the Kulin people.

The estate was the earliest officially recorded settlement in Frankston, and was located to the east of Port Phillip, in what is now known as the locality of Karingal.

The ' Clarke Reserve ' was established in 1909 as a State Pine forest called the Frankston Pine Plantation.

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.

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.