Housing talks underway
Pakenham MP Emma Vulin and Cardinia Council mayor Jack Kowarzik met with Housing Minister Harriet Shing and other local housing and homeless services at Living and Learning Pakenham on Friday 5 April, as part of a ‘roundtable meeting’ discussing local housing needs.
Ms Vulin said Orange Door, Windermere, MindAustralia, Launch Housing, Community Links Pakenham, Homes Victoria and all principal providers in the housing and homelessness sector, along with Cr Kowarzik, were looking forward to touching base with Ms Shing again post July.
Ms Shing said the meeting was part of an ongoing conversation about the struggling community.
3MDR’s turning 40 in 2025
Mountain District Radio Inc, 3MDR 97.1fm is celebrating 40 years of community broadcasting in 2025 and will be producing a special series of podcasts to celebrate the colourful history of the local radio station.
On the scorched earth in the aftermath of the horrific Ash Wednesday bushfires in February 1983, a group of Hills locals got together and got the ball rolling on setting up a radio station for the purposes of emergency broadcasting.
3MDR is encouraging anyone who was involved in its early days, such as committee members, volunteers, presenters and long time listeners, to contact 3MDR to share their stories of how the station came into being.
If you, or someone you know has had any involvement in 3MDR’s early days, contact the office on 9752 5678 or office@3mdr.com
Honouring domestic violence victims
The West Gippsland Arts Centre forecourt will be lit up purple and a candlelight vigil held to remember the lives of women and children lost to domestic and family violence.
Community members are invited to attend the vigil in the Arts Centre forecourt, beginning at 6pm on Wednesday 1 May.
Launched by Safe Steps Family Violence Response Centre, the annual candlelight vigil is held in communities around Australia on the first Wednesday in May to honour and remember the lives of women and children taken by domestic and family violence.
