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World beater buries the competition
By CASEY NEILL SPRINGVALE Botanical Cemetery has been named the best in the world for 2013. It’s the first cemetery outside the USA to win…
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Cool way to beat the heat
COOL rooms will be up and running in Greater Dandenong tomorrow and Friday to help residents beat the heat. City of Greater Dandenong today (Wednesday)…
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Taxi trap
By NICOLE WILLIAMS THE closure of a Springvale taxi company has been blamed on cheap fares and rising petrol prices. But Minister for Roads and…
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Community ‘angel’
By CASEY NEILL “I CALL Sri Samy the angel of Friends of Refugees, not without justification.” Trevor Grant, the Springvale-based group’s spokesman, said he’d met…
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Quilting a creative patch
By CASEY NEILL EVERY Tuesday there’s an air of excitement and enthusiasm at Dandenong Neighbourhood House – the quilters from Wallara have arrived. When the…
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Skilled on a world stage
NATIONAL champion panel beater and Chisholm graduate Dayne Ciborowski has returned to the TAFE’s Dandenong campus to judge the next generation of apprentices. The Cranbourne…
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Hunt for thief
A 62-YEAR-OLD man was assaulted and robbed in Dandenong last month. The man had finished withdrawing money from an ATM outside Dandenong Lotto on Thomas…
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Lawyers find charity cash
By CASEY NEILL TWELVE days of festive fun at M and K Lawyers in Dandenong will raise more than $2000 for charity. The office decided…
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Casting Christmas goodwill
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS WORKERS at Nissan’s metal-casting plant in Dandenong South have sacrificed their Christmas bonus hampers, instead pooling the funds for the Red Cross…
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Hopes for an annual event
ROTARY Club of Dandenong South East has raised more than $3000 for brain cancer research to honour a former member. The club held the first…
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Diversity is our community
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS VOLUNTEERS are regarded as the lifeblood for “turning disadvantage into advantage” at the Asylum Seeker’s Resource Centre. The centre had grown out…
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Santa of smiles
“HENRY couldn’t care less about having a photo with Santa, but I do,” smiled Janine Irwin as she watched her autistic son pose for photographs…
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