Quilt for Gallipoli
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
BEACONHILLS College Year 10 student Madison Schenk is taking a custom-made quilt to Turkey this Anzac Day as part of the Gallipoli...
Bridge to experience
BERWICK Bridge Club members enjoyed a week of play starting on Friday 10 April, where Heather Saunders and Dianne Nicol took out first place...
Berwick lays claim to first VC hero
WHEN Albert Jacka shot to fame in 1915 as Australia’s first Victoria Cross winner of the Great War, the people of Berwick were quick...
General rests in peace
PRECEDE
In the middle of last year two local historians discovered an unmarked Berwick grave belonged to highly decorated Gallipoli veteran Brigadier-General Cecil Henry Foott,...
A District Remembers
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM AND RUSSELL BENNETT
MASSIVE crowds have gathered around the district to pay their dawn tributes to Australia’s Anzacs.
At the Pakenham service, Major...
Crash driver speeds off after argument
By CASEY NEILL
A DRIVER slammed into a stationary vehicle and sped away following what appeared to be an argument in Pakenham on Thursday morning.
Witnesses...
Wounded warrior was a gun recruiter
By GARRY HOWE
THE district’s first Gallipoli hero, Private Ernie Gardiner, fought back tears as he stood to address the crowd in a packed and...
Life ripped from the pages
By BEN CAMERON and DANNY BUTTLER
“They are getting killed all around me I have escaped so far ...“
This Tuesday 27 April, 1915 entry into...
Dairyman had his fill of war
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
“There is no glory in war. War, like old age, is not to be desired, but human nature being what it is...
Anzac Day – just carry on
LOCAL Anzac events will not be affected by the terror raids in nearby suburbs.
Counter-terrorism officers raided properties in Eumemmering, Narre Warren, Hallam and Hampton...
Harp among top designs
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
A PAKENHAM student making headway in the state’s creative scene will exhibit his unique engineered art form at a highly esteemed exhibition...
Champion horse riders
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
CHAMPION Berwick horse riders have taken out first place at a recent national school equestrian event.
Year 11 Haileybury students Amelia Coad and...
Levi Syer’s plea hits parliament
More than 37,000 signatures demanding the Meningococcal B vaccine be made free were delivered to Victoria Parliament on Wednesday morning by the mother, schoolmates,...
