Monthly Archives: May 2015
For the Anzacs
PAKENHAM Red Cross members attended the local dawn service and laid a wreath at the cenotaph on Anzac Day.
The Mobile Blood Bank will be...
Looking at the early years
BERWICK Pakenham Historical Society will meet at 8pm on Friday 1 May, at the museum on the corner of Princes Highway and Main Street,...
Tension at the tables
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
BERWICK Bridge Club Results enjoyed a great week of competitive play.
On Friday 17 April, 10 tables were played. First for...
Simple scan a life saver
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
THE Rotary Club of Pakenham will be conducting the bowel scan program over the month of May.
The club will make...
City key to engineer
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
AT Ron Chidgey’s mayoral reception earlier this month, the recently retired Casey engineer was presented with a key to the...
Students land at Hillview
AS PART of the centenary commemoration of the Gallipoli landing, the students from St Columba’s Primary School in Bunyip visited the residents at Hillview...
Beth’s garden in full bloom
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
GARDENING is more than a chore for Beth Clisby. It’s a hobby, a passion, and has most-recently won her a...
Tynong turns out for Anzac
By ROMAN KULKEWYCZ
ABOUT 300 people turned out for Tynong’s commemorative service at 10.30am on Anzac Day.
It was a school day for the...
Shots from the trenches
By DANNY BUTTLER
LANG LANG Rifle Club commemorated the centenary of the Gallipoli landings in unique fashion, firing vintage .303 rifles from World...
Warhorses visit the aged
By ROMAN KULKEWYCZ
HILLVIEW Bunyip Aged Care residents were thrilled when they were visited by a couple of magnificent horses last week as...
Whistle’s signal for slaughter
By GARRY HOWE
A HAUNTING shriek twice rang through the Anzac Day service at Upper Beaconsfield on Saturday.
RSL Sub-branch president Eric Chaplin put...
Memorial day shows growing awareness
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
THE picturesque Memorial Gardens in Tooradin were the perfect setting for a moving Anzac service on Saturday morning.
The memorial was...