Hayley Hermon recently graduated from the University of Tasmania.IT has been an eventful time for former Pakenham and Berwick resident Hayley Hermon.
Hayley recently graduated from the University of Tasmania with Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws degrees.
The daughter of Ken Hermon and Vicki Nardella, Hayley began her education at the Pakenham Consolidated School before moving to Berwick and Berwick Lodge primary schools and completing her secondary education at Berwick Secondary College.
Hayley has returned to Victoria, where she has settled into employment as an articled clerk with law firm Mills Oakley in Melbourne.
She has also delighted her family with news of her engagement to longtime friend Andrew Preston, who she met at university in Tasmania.
THIRTY five Beaconhills staff from the Berwick campus have fastened on pedometers for six months as part of the 2005 Global Corporate Challenge, a health and fitness initiative targeted at corporate Australia.
The challenge brings together two ambitions common to many people – getting fit and travelling the world.
By recording the steps participants take during their everyday activities over six months, they are taken on a virtual tour of the globe.
More than 10,000 people from across Australia, Asia and the United States are taking part in this event, which focuses on helping people improve their health and encourages participants to work as a team to achieve a common goal.
Random prizes are awarded by major sponsors throughout the five months as an encouragement to participating companies.
Funds raised through the challenge go towards further National Heart Foundation research and an accompanying study at Deakin University into the cause and effects of cardiovascular disease.
CARDINIA’S actionpacked school holiday activity program is back in the September school holidays, with a variety of fun and exciting lowcost events for primary school children.
Bookings open this month, with enrolments taken between 2226 August.
Vacation care program coordinator Kate Beadel said the program would include lowcost activities at Cardinia Shire’s four centres in Officer, Pakenham, Beaconsfield and Pakenham Hills, as well as optional excursions at extra cost.
“This school holidays we have everything from gymnastics, dance classes and an interschool sports carnival, to a visit to Lego Education Centre in Moonee Ponds, and a tour of a real working mine and power station in Morwell,” she said.
The programs are always popular, and families should get an enrolment form by phoning 5942 2100.
SOME children are sure taught the value of the sporting dollar early.
An under nine player at one local sporting club recently had a sure goal stopped by a teammate, who then turned around and promptly scored.
The scorer’s parents are apparently encouraging their offspring to play the sport by paying their child for each goal scored.
THE Red Cross Blood Bank will be at the Cardinia Cultural Centre in Pakenham next Monday and Tuesday, 15 and 16 August.
Blood is in increasingly short supply in the region and donors are desperately needed.
Regular donors are urged to give blood and firsttimers would be most welcome.
