Bands stay calm under pressure
By ALANA MITCHELSON
KOOWEERUP-based band Panicking overcame stage nerves to be crowned this year’s champions of the Pakenham FREEZA Push Start Battle of the Bands...
Students chip in for planting event
By ALANA MITCHELSON
BEACONHILLS College Berwick and Berwick Toyota partnered to take part in the largest nature care and tree planting event in the country.
National...
Bush food at morning tea
Beaconhills College will throw its doors open for its annual open morning at the Pakenham and Berwick campuses on Tuesday 16 August.
The free event...
Winter food drive in top gear
By ALANA MITCHELSON
PARKLEA’S Winter Food Drive has already received more than 150 kilograms - three trolley loads - worth of food donated by generous...
Push to deport gangsters
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
YOUTH gangsters on non-permanent visas who are found guilty of invading families’ homes should be deported back to their country of origin,...
4Cs ‘can’ do it
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
A CLOTHES basket overflowing with tinned tuna, salmon, chicken and cans of soup was donated to a Pakenham crisis centre helping people...
Knight draws on heroes
GUESTS at the sold-out Cardinia Casey Biggest Ever Blokes Lunch can bid for a unique piece of sporting memorabilia, thanks to the generosity of...
Two-way vegie project
BRIDGING the divide between research and practice was the theme of the day during the launch of a new Growing Vegetable Businesses project.
Growing Vegetable...
Kinders in double figures
By ALANA MITCHELSON
THE Kinders Together Association celebrated its 10th birthday on Monday 22 July.
Kinders Together project development co-ordinator Di Price said the not-for-profit community-based...
Quality quilts on show
By ROMAN KULKEWYCZ
THE popular annual Hillview Quilt and Craft Show will run over three days from Friday 19 August to Sunday 21 August, opening...
Nurses get trauma training
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
DOZENS of maternal and child health nurses working with Cardinia Shire’s most vulnerable families will undergo specialist trauma training.
The training will help...
Good Guy in real estate
By GARRY HOWE
WHEN a company buyout of all The Good Guys stores left Dan O’Loughlin pondering his future, he didn’t have to look far...