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Amy’s vision looks to help
By CASEY NEILL A BLIND girl in a Thai orphanage spent most of her days sitting in a corner before Amy Maidment came to her…
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Working hard for dream
By CASEY NEILL AMIR Mohammadi was 12 months old when his parents fled war-torn Afghanistan to seek safety in Iran. Today he’s living in Dandenong,…
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School makes the grade
By CASEY NEILL CORNISH College last week welcomed its first Year 11 students, just three years after it almost closed its classrooms for good. St…
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Rasher reunion
By CASEY NEILL BRING home the bacon. That’s the call from Ron Chivers, who’s urging former Dandenong Ham and Bacon employees to help document the…
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March slams atrocities
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS ABOUT 70 South Sudanese Australians marched through Dandenong’s streets last Wednesday, decrying the recent outbreak of hostilities in their newly-independent homeland. Members…
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Preps open to learning
GROWING enrolments have inspired an innovative new Prep space at Athol Road Primary School. The Springvale school will have 72 Preppies in its classrooms this…
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RSL jackpot
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS NOBLE PARK RSL is ramping up its pokie-machine battery to purportedly boost its veteran welfare services. The Victorian Commission for Gambling and…
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Blue hue hoon
By CAMERON LUCADOUWELLS A BUSINESSMAN has captured hair-raising video footage of a hoon driver’s car losing traction as it circled a roundabout at Fiveways industrial…
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Bail buster remanded
A SPRINGVALE man who has broken bail four times has been remanded following his latest arrest. Police arrested Omar Amr, 23, from Springvale South, following…
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Raid nets drugs and taser
THREE people are facing charges after a raid in Dandenong North located drugs and a taser. Dandenong Tasking Unit officers executed a drugs warrant at…
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Residents topple high-rise plan
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS A RESIDENTS campaign to drive future high-rise development out of their suburbs won some ground last month. Greater Dandenong Council rejected a…
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Future builder
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS BACK in 1976, there were no grand designs for then-graduate engineer John Bennie to spend the next 38 years in local government.…
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