Tag: Editors Picks
Tributes flow for Dandenong legend Max Curtain
By ALECIA PINNER
THE Journal has been
flooded with visits and calls from locals who have wanted to share their
memories of William Maxwell (Max) Curtain,...
Dandenong Market: Rent-row stallholder walks out
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
DANDENONG Market will finally open on Sundays in October – but it
won’t be in time to save a stalwart stallholder who has...
Dad slaps daughter's bully
By DAVID SCHOUT
A NARRE Warren
South father has been fined for taking his daughter’s problems into his
own hands and slapping a school bully over the head.
Dandenong...
St James Church to turn 150
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
UNLOCK the doors of Dandenong’s oldest church and a surprising
history is revealed within its atmospheric stained-glass interior.
Inside St James Church, a 149-year-old...
Dandenong's Tupu lives Army Reserve dream
AFTER three years in the Army Reserve, the dream of Dandenong's Tupu Tanuavsa to be deployed overseas was realised last month.
Private Tanuavsa was sent to...
Pink comes to Dandenong
By DAVID SCHOUT
ONE of the best Pink cover artists is coming to town on August 9 for an exciting show at the Dandenong Workers Social...
MamaLand comes to the rescue
By KATHLEEN BELSTEN
THIS is a modern fairytale, a story of hope for an underdeveloped
country, in which South Sudan is Cinderella and Stella Lado...
Hallam girls just never lose
By DAVID SCHOUT
HALLAM Secondary College’s Senior Girls Football team has
continued its amazing undefeated run, notching its 40th straight win to
claim a second consecutive AFL...
Our Alice in dreamland, as Rangers play Opals
By DAVID SCHOUT
ALICE Kunek was a fresh-faced 16-year-old when she first pulled on a Dandenong Rangers singlet in 2007.
As a young member of the...
What's on around Great Dandenong
BLUE AND WHITE DANCE
The Campion Old Boys’ Association is holding its annual Blue and
White Dance. Next Generation and DJ Phillip are the live acts....
Contest a dream for whiz Joshua
By KATHLEEN BELTSEN
COMPUTER whiz Joshua Stevens is one of only three Australians to
win the chance to compete in the finals of an international computer
software...
Barrow load of fun at Silverton Primary School
By DAVID SCHOUT
YOUNGSTERS Christopher and Jack were barking up the right tree
when they and fellow Silverton Primary School students planted 250 trees
in their...