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Festival to show the way
DANDENONG Market will host the area’s first Children’s Sustainability Festival next March. The Greater Dandenong event is touted as a fun day where the community…
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Good work for golf day
GOLFERS raised $4000 for Dandenong Hospital’s children’s ward at the seventh annual Good Guys Dandenong charity golf day. More than 100 golfers took to the…
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Brokers to make work link
DANDENONG is now home to a pilot program to help disadvantaged people gain and keep employment. South Eastern Metropolitan Region MP Inga Peulich said the…
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True new blue
POLICE on the beat are wearing a new hue. Greater Dandenong officers put on the new dark blue Victoria Police uniform last week. Superintendent Derek…
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Collection for heartfelt cause
A SPRINGVALE worker has spearheaded a Christmas collection for a cause that is close to her heart. Windermere ambassador and former Richmond footballer Matthew Richardson…
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Social Holden found
A FEVERISH social media campaign has helped recover a distinctive customised Holden that was stolen from a central Dandenong car park. Owner Brett Baynham of…
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A Polish Christmas
By CASEY NEILL POLISH Rye Crust Bakery’s menu brings a part of Poland to Dandenong each day. Now its efforts to share a European Christmas…
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Have you seen Tommy?
A NOBLE Park boy, aged 14, has been missing for more than six weeks. Police are appealing for help to find Tommy Nazourdine, last seen…
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Half way across
CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS WHAT’S going on under the surface at Springvale railway station is set to make a big difference for the suburb above ground. Peter…
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Officer bridges the gap
By CASEY NEILL “FOOD for the soul” is how Sergeant Joey Herrech describes forging ties between Greater Dandenong’s multicultural community and police. “You’re empowering people…
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Fate not sealed
CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS Students urged to break out of their postcode box… TWO primary schools are at the forefront of changing Dandenong and Noble Park’s reputations…
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Cooking corner
By CASEY NEILL ASYLUM seekers are cooking up a storm in Dandenong each week. Men, women and children, mostly from Afghan, Iranian and Tamil backgrounds,…