Three…top quotes from 2017
1. “We’ve got employers yelling for people,” said SEBN manager Sandra George at the launch of the Dandenong-Doveton Community Revitalisation project in March.
“It just doesn’t make sense,” she said of the area’s high unemployment.
2. “There’s nothing like being in a war zone to make mates,” Graeme Kirk said in April.
The Noble Park RSL member caught up with the mates he made while serving his country in Vietnam and Malaya on Anzac Day.
3. “If it wasn’t for you I’d probably be dead.”
Dandenong Acting Sergeant Russell Bratton said in June that hearing these words from a recovered drug addict was one of the highlights of his career.
