Focus on the family
By GARRY HOWE
PETER Blackwood says he is not the same person he was four months ago.
He never will be.
His life was torn apart when...
Clarko in his corner
HAWTHORN was only hours into its 2013 premiership celebrations when Peter Blackwood’s phone rang.
It was coach Alistair Clarkson, who had found a few minutes...
Staff dig in for food drive
By REBECCA BILLS
EMERALD organisations are coming together to lend a hand to community members in need.
The Emerald Co-op, in conjunction with Barry Plant and...
Ben’s pool plunge pays dividends
By JARROD POTTER
LIFE’S greatest epiphanies manifest in odd ways. For Ben Hiddlestone, his grand epiphany dragged him from a desk in Tokyo, where he...
Kylie’s legacy
By GARRY HOWE
UPDATE
PETER Blackwood says he thinks of his wife Kylie every second of every day.
It breaks his heart to think of what Kylie...
Tackling mental health
By DANIELLE GALVIN
A SPECIAL police tasking unit will service Cardinia, Casey and Greater Dandenong as part of a new initiative to tackle mental health...
Gate open to danger
By DANIELLE GALVIN
A VANDALISED metal gate with broken chains has unlocked a world of hurt for Pakenham mother Nicole Newman.
Five years ago when she...
Kids service turns 21
IN 1992 St Margaret’s College teachers Marilyn Kelly and Penny Ntai started offering an early learning program.
Twenty-one years later the program is known as...
Berwick’s road to ruin
By NICOLE WILLIAMS
IT’S Christmas time and Berwick Village traders are battling roadworks again.
Just weeks before the Christmas trading period heats up, traders were notified...
Kmart tops shopping list
By DANIELLE GALVIN
ALL a group of Pakenham mums want for Christmas is the promise of a Kmart in their town.
Mum-of-two Rhyanon Sanders created a...
Walking paths inundated
By NICOLE WILLIAMS
WETLANDS are often a selling point for new estate, but one Officer estate is taking it to the extreme.
Residents are concerned that...
Two men hospitalised
EMERGENCY crews conveyed two men from Pakenham to Dandenong Hospital yesterday.
At about 2.30pm, police were called to a Leigh Drive house and a resident...
Groups mark down Collins’ legacy
Community groups have congratulated City of Casey planning director James Collins on his appointment as the new CEO of Cardinia Shire Council, though many...
