Having fun with Wally and teachers Robyn and Janneke were Bayles Preschool students (from left) Mitchell, Finlay, Chase, Makayla, Cory, Luke, Caitlin,FUN was certainly on the agenda when the Gazette’s Wally Wombat visited Bayles Preschool last Wednesday.
The children welcomed Wally with cups of tea and teddy bear biscuits and he joined in with games and story time.
STUDENTS at Cockatoo Primary School last week dragged out their loudest shirts to raise money for World Vision.
Teachers also got into the spirit of the outrageous shirt fundraiser, describing it as a great success.
MARY Crowley credits the smoke alarm with saving her life, but the safe escape of a couple of precious peronsal items from a fire that all but destroyed her Bayles house last week is more difficult to explain.
Despite most of her possessions being burned, a muchloved portrait of Mary’s late husband Steve was left almost unscathed.
The frame in which it was housed was burnt, but the artwork itself remains in pristine condition.
Also escaping the flames was a tapestry embroidered with a motto that Mary’s mother was fond of saying.
Mary said she had taken the message of the words to heart, trying to live by its sentiments.
It reads:
“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behoves any of us, to speak ill of the rest of us.”
Mary describes herself as a very positive person and was thrilled to have two such irreplaceable items survive to become foundations for when she makes her new home.
Perhaps someone was watching over her.
IT may have taken six hours and a crane to get the job done, but Berwick Medical Imaging MIA now has a stateoftheart CT scanner.
The twotonne Multislice CT scanner is valued at close to $1 million. It was lowered into the Langmore Lane clinic last Thursday morning, after the metal decking of the clinic’s roof was peeled back to create an opening to lower the scanner through.
Chief medical imaging technologist at the clinic John Pellizzari said the new machine would provide significant benefits to cancer, musculoskeletal and neuroradiological patients, among others.
“The high resolution imaging capability of our new CT Scanner means our local referring doctors and specialists will benefit from the high quality diagnostic outcomes we can achieve for their patients,” he said.
“The local community stands to benefit greatly by having local access to this facility and knowing that they have a much better chance of finding the cause of their health challenges.
“I think it will mean a higher quality health care service particularly in imaging, with better diagnostic outcomes from our end which will provide local doctors with more accuracy in planning for treatment,” he said.
MUSIC, dancing, wine tasting and cooking demonstrations – when spring finally comes, the adult literacy class at Living and Learning in Cardinia (LLINC) plans to ensure the new season is heartily celebrated.
A September Spring Festival on Thursday, 1 September will feature a host of activities celebrating Adult Learners’ week.
The festival will be held at the LLINC headquarters in Henry Street, Pakenham.
