Premier leads service dedication
“IT WAS dark, deafening, scary and ultimately tragic as it often is. It was deadly and devastating, it was Ash Wednesday.”
The words of Premier...
Toxic weed mystery
IT STARTED as a sunflower - or so Les Abreheart thought.
The Garfield resident was watching the ‘sunflower’ grow with interest for three months until...
Battle scars
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It was 30 years ago that the Ash Wednesday bushfires ripped through the region, leaving behind a trail of heartbreak and destruction. In the...
In the thick of it
THE Shelton family didn’t lose any loved ones in the Ash Wednesday fires but the loss of their home and business still changed their...
Photo par excellence
IT IS one of the most iconic photos to come out of Upper Beaconsfield on Ash Wednesday, and it was taken among panic and...
Scars remain
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FRANK Sansom is not a religious man, but he reckons Ash Wednesday gave him a fair idea...
Hell on Earth in hills
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Caption: Six of these 21 Narre Warren firefighters died in Ash Wednesday.
IT WAS a recipe for disaster in the...
With a little help from their friends
BLIND and vision-impaired students from the Insight Education Centre are making friends with junior school students at Beaconhills College in Pakenham while taking part...
Disaster relief in hind sight
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caption: Red Cross supplies arrive at Pakenham Hall in the days following Ash Wednesday.
JUST hours before a deadly fire made its way toward...
Seamless move for op shop
IT ONLY took two weeks to open the new Garfield Op Shop after the old one left town and moved to Pakenham.
Helen Davey is...
Flames tale retold
ANN Fogarty’s story of Ash Wednesday and the months of recovery that followed would give anyone goose bumps.
It took 10 years of looking inside...
Twins turn best mates
THAT first day of school is an exciting day for many young children, but eight Preps from Beaconsfield Primary School had an extra reason...
Following the family tree
The saying “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” perfectly captures Adrian Funston’s life—a story of steadfast dedication and community spirit inherited from...
