ROC-solid start, Scotty
By DAVID NAGEL
A GRUELLING pre-season under second-year coach Scott Eastwood would appear to be paying off for ROC with an impressive 14-goal win in...
He was only 19
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
PAKENHAM identity Robert Fox was remembered as a “guiding light” by those gathered to commemorate his life this week.
The long-serving member of...
Take 10
With Gary Elliott, president of the Pakenham RSL sub-branch.
Tell us a bit about your time in the services.
I’m a National Serviceman called up for...
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...
Celebrations begin after well-earned pennant joy for Garfield
GARFIELD BOWLS
Celebrations erupted at the Garfield Arena last week after Garfield 1 returned home from the Morwell Bowling Club with the Division 4 Midweek...
