Monthly Archives: May 2015
Disability issues on the table
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
CONCERNS facing people with disabilities and their caretakers were raised at a disability forum in Berwick last week.
Assistant Minister for...
Art’s all the fashion
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
THE worlds of art and fashion will collide at this year’s Yakkerboo Art show.
‘Wearable art’ will form a new category...
Dog pack kills sheep
By RUSSELL BENNETT
A GEMBROOK family is distraught after a vicious attack from what they believe to be a pack of dogs left...
Expo for one and all
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
CARDINIA Shire Council hoped last weekend’s Sustainability Expo would offer something for everyone, and it did exactly that.
Favourable weather saw...
School blows 20 candles
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
PAKENHAM Hills Primary School celebrated a milestone in style last week.
The school held a special assembly to celebrate its 20th...
Beauty bride decked with hope
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
SHE’S the Cockatoo beauty queen due to take on the globe with a message of hope and awareness.
Nicole Fidone, who...
Worthy cause is a little behind
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
THEY use natural therapies to treat a range of conditions, but ‘Salts of the Earth’ will work to cure a...
Chatting’s Chantelle’s forte
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
EVERY day at work, Chantelle Hohmann makes a point of sitting down for a chat.
The Pakenham resident works as a...
Cuppas count
By Kathryn Bermingham
EVERY cup will count when the Waterhouse family hosts morning tea later this month.
As part of ‘Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea’,...
Go, Collin, go
ALL praise to Councillor Collin Ross for trying to keep this year’s rate increase to no more than the consumer price index (CPI).
But alas!...
No end to the rises
I READ with much dismay the our council rates are again going to increase – up 5.5 per cent from last year and I...
Thanks of Anzac
TO THE people of Pakenham and surrounds. Wow, what a fantastic response for the Anzac commemorations in the local area.
On behalf of the...
Mixed views on machete ban
“It’s not the weapon — it’s the system.” That’s the resounding message from Cardinia and Casey residents following Premier Jacinta Allan’s fast-tracked machete ban,...
