Fast pace against problem
Emergency services have been groaning under the ever-growing weight of mental-illness patients. A PACER team - a psychiatric nurse coupled with a police officer...
Veterans drive back home
As the Anzac Centenary approaches, an ex-serviceman is heading a nationwide convoy for veterans - not for those who fought long ago, but the...
Dog’s on death row
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
CORNERSTONE Contact Centre is backing a homeless woman’s impassioned plea for Greater Dandenong Council not to “heartlessly” kill her beloved...
Blazing bravery
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
Police team dived in to rescue elderly residents...
FIVE Springvale police officers who saved elderly residents from a fast-spreading fire in...
Hair today but gone tomorrow
By CASEY NEILL
“SIT down, sit down - I’ll fix you up.”
Barber Pasquale ‘Peter’ Feola has been uttering these words in Springvale for...
Young artists are proud as peacocks
Athol Road Primary School pupil Ivan is a spitting image of his self-portrait, which won a commendation at this year’s Dandenong Show.
For the...
Kids hand it to their kinder
SANDOWN Park Kindergarten in Springvale is turning 50.
It will celebrate with a party for current and former kids, parents and staff from 6pm to...
Locked toilets fail to deter boozing inconvenience
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
PUBLIC convenience is being reduced for Palm Plaza drinkers - who themselves have been viewed as a public inconvenience.
Last week...
We say plastic’s fantastic
By CASEY NEILL
DANDENONG’S Corex Plastics Australia is more than a manufacturer.
Managing director Simon Whiteley sees it as a “custodian of polymer”.
“We see...
Vision of world hopes
By CASEY NEILL
PETULA Fletcher has experienced first-hand the difference her child sponsorship is making.
The Springvale pharmacy owner, her husband Chris, son Alexander...
Refugee with little still has a big heart
By CASEY NEILL
A NOBLE Park real estate agent is singing the praises of an Afghan refugee following an unexpected good deed.
Jenny Sudra...
Ministry on the menu
By CASEY NEILL
GREATER Dandenong families are cooking a path to better health - thanks to Jamie Oliver.
The Journal joined in a Jamie’s...
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Eagles bitten by Sharks
Beaconsfield came out on the wrong side of a roller-coaster ride against undefeated Park Orchards on Saturday going down by 18 points in a...
