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...
The real facts of Gallipoli
By MAJOR GUY WARNOCK
I WOULD like to speak this morning about the way we view what we commonly refer to now as...
Service hears of casualty clearance flood
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
ANZAC Day saw hundreds of people gather before dawn at the war memorial in Main Street, Nar Nar Goon.
Spilling onto...
School’s service branches out
A PARTICULARLY special Anzac Day service was held at Lang Lang Primary School last week.
The school planted a Gallipoli oak seedling in a ceremony...
Age of Anzac is unbowed
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
AMONG the many attending Anzac Day services on Saturday morning were over 200 residents gathered at Cardinia Waters.
Held at the...
Berwick at a standstill
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
THERE are not many occasions that could bring the whole of High Street to a standstill, but Berwick’s Anzac Service...
Their names remain among us
By GARRY HOWE
EACH year Willem and Margaret Boon gather at the Beaconsfield cenotaph on the Sunday before Anzac Day to listen to...
Across board in unison
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
EVERY Thursday morning, a group of singers gather at Pakenham Community Centre to share lunch and a love of music.
The...
Vantage viewing, vanishing tip
THE mystery of the disappearing dirt at Toomuc Reserve captivated the Gazette this week.
On Wednesday, an anonymous walker said that large mounds of dirt...
Councillor in ‘cuckoo land’
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
POT shots aimed at a councillor caused a commotion at last’s week’s Cardinia Shire budget proposal.
Councillor Colin Ross, the only...
Going strong on 101
TURNING 101 years of age is a feat most don’t achieve.
But waving the banner of good health and longevity is Elsa Wiltshire who has...
Maddy memory kept alive
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
FAMILY, friends and well-wishers gathered on Sunday to remember Maddison Murphy-West, the 20-year-old found dead in her Pakenham home in 2013.
The sun...
CFA funding war fuels political firestorm
Victoria’s professional and volunteer firefighters are demanding a parliamentary inquiry into the state’s bushfire preparedness, accusing the Allan government of underfunding the Country Fire...
