Tag: Community
Pull up a chair for Lawson, Paterson bush yarns
COLIN Robinson is bringing to life some of Australia's bush literary heritage in a sound-and-sight exhibition in Springvale.
Some of his vast collection of old...
Rotary helping to beat bowel cancer
By KAREN COOMBS
THE Rotary Club of Dandenong's community campaign raising awareness of bowel cancer is saving lives.
Rotarian Trevor Harding, who has been organising the...
Speed limit review for Dandenong High
VicRoads will consider changing speed limits on Princes Highway near Dandenong High School. Greater Dandenong Council’s engineering services director Bruce Rendall said VicRoads told...
Anzac collector unbowed by brazen theft
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
LORRAINE Laughton was unbowed after being cruelly robbed of her handbag and her car while collecting for the Anzac Appeal at Endeavour...
Anzac spirit honoured from Dandenong to Gallipoli
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
NOTHING compares to marking Anzac Day at Gallipoli, says Greater Dandenong mayor — and current tourist in Turkey — Angela Long.
What's different...
Obituary: Dennis Ring, community builder
OBITUARY: Dennis Ring July 20, 1949-January 23, 2013
AN eloquent reflection of the high regard felt for Dandenong North's Dennis Ring was the crowd of...
Salvos benefit from gruelling bike ride
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
IT was a long and lonely trek, but at the end of Aaron Petersen’s 960-kilometre charity bike ride was a mob of...
What's on in Dandenong, Springvale, Keysborough and Noble Park
Jubilation: The Jubilate Choir — a group of 70 members of various nationalities and denominations — will perform at the Dandenong Christian Reform Church,...
Crickets: Chirp trick snares the mate
THE season for flannelled fools is just over but the crickets are still with us.
Chirruping away in the grass, they've added their cacophony that...
Anzac Day services Dandenong
ON Anzac Day, a dawn service will be held at the Pillars of Freedom memorial in Clow Street, Dandenong, from 5.30.
■ South Vietnamese ex-service...
Going the extra mile for dad, rock fishers
JASMINA Pedic will be running the equivalent of more than two marathons in two days for a cause close to her heart.
The elite soccer...
Plaque for Sprinvale charity worker
A plaque will be unveiled for one of Springvale's late 'living treasures' on Sunday. John Beus, a founding member of the Springvale Benevolent Society,...