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AROLD Tulloch and George Hol- return to their jobs ford were used to having as butchers, bakers, groprinter’s cers, farmers ink on their hands, not or printers. human blood.

They would never marry; never father chilThe Dandenong lads worked together as dren and never be comforted by the warm emprinters at the Journal before they signed up brace of their mother’s arms. for war in 1914.

The Journal and its rival newspaper at the Both soon found themselves in the hell time, the Dandenong Advertiser, that was Gallipoli. remain precious conduits of those men’s Harold and George survived voices, thoughts - as we know and remember to tell the tale and feelings. this Anzac Day, many did not.

Through letters, diaries and messages home we have a graphic The carnage at Gallipoli, and moving account cated across Europe betweenwhich was repli- of the extraordinary as well as the more mun1914 and 1918, tore the heart out of many country towns like dane moments of life as a soldier during the Dandenong.

Great War. Townsfolk farewelled One hundred years after the historic landas they embarked to fight their young men ing at Anzac Cove, this week’s Journal is lands surely knowing that in far-off foreign many would never devoted to honouring return. That they would and remembering never their boots and play country again pull on the locals who gave so much. football; never Lest we forget.

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received a positive public response. “abomination of what “If it was a one-off for a is a beautiful you’d say that price was few weeks public space” appearing. quite high,” But Cr O’Reilly said he said. approving the signage was part of “They’ll be used for special the process to occa- choose the civic square sions. For the number of name. uses “Councillors were briefed intend to get out of the letters, that we that the I don’t successful think that price is too high name would be at all. in large letters in the civic presented “I think it’s an effective square,” he way of insaid. troducing our new name.

“I can’t recall if Cr “I’ve checked on Facebook as present at that particular Brown was well. There’s hundreds of briefing or likes on the not.” photos.

Cr Matthew Kirwan said “From what I can gather, the sign only one person that doesn’t there’s should have been more interesting – like it.” not white and with a better Cr Brown said there was finish. no con“But it achieves the purpose sultation with councillors of not prior to the only telling me the name of the square

but also promoting it as a place whole community,” he said. for the homelessness, families affected by family violence, crime, On the Journal’s Facebook children gopage, ing to school hungry Brad Woodford said the etcetera? Grow sign was up and striking and impressive do the job you were elected and to nice touch to a spectacular added a do,” she said. new development.

Cr Brown said he’d move a no“Finally, Dandenong has some co- tice of motion at the 13 July council lour and a place to be proud of,” he meeting calling for the letters to be said. removed because “a public burning “I am a big fan of it. And, would be in breach of a local law”. the record, I am not a bogan.” just for “It’s an ugly waste of civic space,” Sarah Whelan said the council had he said. more significant issues to address “I’m glad it’s going to than a sign Cr Brown be pulled deemed an down and removed abomination. but there are so many uses for those letters. only “Are you at all concerned with “Ultimately it’s a waste of money.”

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YOUR VOICE FOR 150 YEARS

DANDENONG JOURNAL

Looking through the pages of our history ❚ Narelle Coulter IT IS hard to imagine what Harvey Roulston would make of the Dandenong Journal 150 years after the first copy slid off his printing press in 1865.

The full-colour publication, with its digital photographs, modern Futura masthead and Facebook feedback would certainly have been unimaginable to a newspaper man in the 19th century.

Not to mention the Journal’s online incarnation as an e-newspaper, with its own website.

Hopefully, what would be familiar to Harvey Roulston is the Journal’s ongoing dedication to balanced, fair reporting and to the community it serves.

By 1865 barely 30 years had passed since the area’s first white settler Joseph Hawdon had arrived in 1834.

Industry and enterprise were just taking root and 1865 saw a tannery built on Kidd’s Road and a whip making business open its doors.

That year the municipal leaders borrowed £3000 to build a stone bridge across Dandenong Creek.

In 1861 there were 40 houses in the township and the population was 193.

The year 1865 was also significant nationally because it was when Melbourne overtook Sydney as the country’s most populous city, brought on by the rush for Victorian gold, and America was embroiled in the civil war.

Amid all this, Irish immigrant Harvey Roulston decided to found a new newspaper, which he called The South Bourke and Mornington Journal.

The earliest known picture of the Journal office in Walker Street, Dandenong.

Roulston had learned the newspaper game as an apprentice compositor on the Londonderry Sentinel.

After arriving in Melbourne in 1853 he found work at the Melbourne Argus.

Twelve years later Roulston was his own boss when in August 1865 the first edition of the Journal rolled off his press in Richmond.

The newspaper’s link with the Roulston family would last more than 70 years.

By 1875, Roulston was feeling threatened enough by the Sword brothers who had launched a rival newspaper, the Dandenong Advertiser, the year before, that he moved the Journal to a building in Walker Street, Dandenong.

At that time the Journal cov-

ered an enormous geographical area presenting readers with news from Hawthorn, Boroondara, Templestowe, Nunawading, Berwick, Brandy Creek, Oakleigh, Moorabbin, Cheltenham and Frankston.

Tragically, early copies of the Journal were destroyed by a devastating fire in the paper’s printing works in 1876 and the oldest existing edition is from 10 January 1877.

As was the custom in those days, the front page of that edition was devoted entirely to advertisements for, among other things, Dunbar’s Hotel in Dandenong, the Dandenong branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia and A. Griffith Shoe and General Blacksmith.

Inside the newspaper carried advertisements for ‘Clarke’s world famed blood mixture’ which prom-

ised to cure a litany of ailments such as ‘ulcerated sores on the neck, blackheads or pimples on the face, scurvy sores and cancerous ulcers’ and Baker’s perplexing sounding ‘Anthelmintic nuts, or children’s worm cakes’.

Harvey Roulston had six children, all of whom were involved with the Journal at various times.

In 1892 he transferred ownership to his two spinster daughters, Lilias and Florence, with his youngest child, William Fenton Roulston, as printer and publisher.

On 14 February 1896 Harvey Roulston died suddenly at his home in Pultney Street of “exhaustion following upon anasarca”.

He was 68.

Continued page 70

Family is proud of historical link with the Journal THE celebration of the 150th year since Harvey Roulston first published the Journal is not just a celebration of the newspaper’s long and proud history but also a celebration of the region and the community it has served over that 150 years.

The Journal has served a region that was once a vital gateway to Gippsland, a strong market town and once established as a satellite city to Melbourne. Melbourne’s second city.

Today this region has transitioned into a bustling multi-cultural region.

Dandenong itself has had a significant transition and is now ready for its next stage of importance to this region.

For a newspaper to reach 150 years in Melbourne is a significant milestone given our city’s relatively short history and the Journal has played a vital role in the local community as its voice and its main communication tool for so many decades.

Our family company, Star News Group, has its own proud history spanning 106 years in the south east of Melbourne.

So when we were offered the opportunity to purchase the Journal only two years ago we saw it as a perfect fit.

The Journal has had a number of owners over the years and for many years one of those owners, Greg Dickson, worked closely with my grandfather Herb Thomas because they had neighbouring newspapers.

As the region grew and as newspapers became swallowed up by the bigger companies, so did the Journal when it was purchased by Rupert Murdoch.

Syme and Fairfax, via the Age,

then owned the Journal for many years.

There are also many staff who have worked at the Journal and each have many stories to tell.

Of course, the longest serving was Marg Stork whose amazing career at the Journal began in 1939 when she was 15 years old and continued until her death just last year.

Thank you to our readers and advertisers for your support and we trust you will continue to support the Journal for many years ahead.

- Paul Thomas, managing director, Star News Group

Your Journal is a voice for us all WELCOME to this special 150th edition of the Dandenong Journal.

Turn through the pages of this commemorative edition and you will see the modern face of Greater Dandenong.

The Journal asked 150 people the simple question: ‘What do you love about Greater Dandenong?’

Their answers were illuminating, surprising, affectionate and thoughtful, but above all they were full of enthusiasm for this vibrant, growing, multi-cultural city.

These impressions of our modern, hi-tech city echo the voices from the past who knew and loved a very different city.

This special commemorative edition revisits those voices as it charts the history of Dandenong and the Journal since its first incarnation as the South Bourke and Mornington Journal in 1865 through the stories of those who worked at the paper, those who have appeared in its pages, and the valuable advertisers who have supported it for so long.

This special sesquicentenary celebration doesn’t finish with this paper.

There is also a window display to enjoy at the new Dandenong Library and a short film which features Dandenong identities sharing their thoughts and memories of the Journal.

The film will be shown throughout August on the big screen in Harmony Square and can be viewed on the Journal website.

A huge thank you to all those involved with this project.

The editorial, advertising and creative teams at Star News Group have created a newspaper that, I believe, does justice to this historic milestone.

Thank you to all the contributors who have shared the story of their connection to the Journal.

And thank you lastly to Chris Keys and the team at the Dandenong and District Historical Society. Most of the historic photographs in this edition have come from the society’s archives and their historical research has been invaluable.

A journey along the “inky way” is how former owner and editor Greg Dickson described his long tenure at the paper.

This special commemorative edition continues that “inky” journey and I hope readers keep dipping into it for weeks, months and years to come.

– Narelle Coulter, Editor

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Committee for Dandenong

“I love Dandenong for the diversity of its people – the food, culture and vibrant community that they bring. I am the child of Dandenong migrants and welcome the many new communities that make Dandenong their home.”

JIM MEMENTI Greater Dandenong councillor “My fondest memories of the Journal go back to the days when I was a kid growing up and playing football in Dandenong. I was always looking forward to getting the paper each week so I could check the football results from the previous weekend. Now in my adulthood and especially more so as a local councillor, I read the Journal to find out what is happening in and around Greater Dandenong. With more than 150 different nationalities sharing their culture, faith, festivals, language, food and beautiful clothing, Greater Dandenong is spoilt for culture, cuisine and experiences. All of these things are seen as a great source of strength and vitality for our city and I’m proud to call Dandenong home.”

JOHN KELLY Greater Dandenong councillor “I was born in the town. My dad was born in the town. All my kids have been born and raised here. Dandenong’s in our blood. I’ve run a business here for 40-odd years. I’ve been given a lot by this city and I really do appreciate it.”

MATTHEW KIRWAN Greater Dandenong councillor “It is an unpretentious place – most people treat each other as equals. It accepts that life can be a battle but with family and friends and neighbours we can get through life’s troubles together and have happy and meaningful lives.”

JAN ASHER Dandenong and District Historical Society “Dandenong has a diversity of shops and eating places , and has a great history.”

❚ Narelle Coulter

Marg Stork, the Journal’s beloved reporter for more than 70 years with her trusty typewriter. 122071 Picture: ROB CAREW

VETERAN reporter Marg Stork dearly wanted to help celebrate the Journal’s 150th anniversary.

Sadly, she fell just short, passing last June aged 92.

Marg was diminutive in stature but she was lion-hearted when it came to her beloved Dandenong Journal.

Marg, as she was affectionately known, was the heart and soul of the Journal for more than 70 years.

She joined the newspaper in 1938 when she was just 15 and still a student at Dandenong High School, and never left. She was still filing her popular A Moment with Marg column just weeks before her death in June last year.

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MARG STORK local charity Wallara. Marg was never caught swearing but “used to put money in because it was such a good cause”.

Her work ethic was legendary.

Former colleague Phil McLeod remembers being daunted by Marg’s prodigiously long story lists when he first arrived at the Journal.

“At my first editorial meeting in (editor) John Wood’s office I was feeling pretty good about having four or five strong news stories,” Phil recalled.

“Marg kicked off the meeting and proceeded to give details on about 20 stories from news, obituaries, to wedding anniversaries, sport, and human interest.

“Feeling a little embarrassed and somewhat inadequate, I did some creative accounting on my story count at the next meeting to at least match, or get anywhere near Marg’s tally.

“Things were looking promising when Marg admitted to having a pretty quiet week, but still had about 10 more yarns than the rest of us.

“I was caught out later when Woodsy asked me what my fictitious stories were about.

“In the end I realised I couldn’t possibly produce the amount of stories Marg did and that it was just a fact of Journal editorial life.”

Marg’s last visit to the Journal

Marg’s career spanned a world war, the Cold War, council amalgamations and huge social and technological change.

But through it all, Marg’s philosophy never changed: everyone had a story to tell and every story was important, no matter how big or small.

She was fond of saying that her professional longevity was due to her love of people.

“People tell me things,“ she said in an interview with her long-time editor John Woods in 2012.

“Like the taxi driver on the way here today told me about how he came from India, all about his children, his family”.

Marg resisted the technological revolution, shunning computers in favour of her trusty Olympia typewriter.

When computers first appeared in the Journal office, Marg tried working on one for a while, before reverting to her beloved typewriter.

It was the job of a junior reporter to take Marg’s typed stories and transfer them into the paper’s computer system.

No-one seemed to mind. Marg was a beloved figure, revered for her kindness, both in the office and in the wider community.

In the early days, surrounded by men, Marg instituted a swear jar.

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Over morning tea, she spoke to young journalists just starting their careers with Star News Group, parent company of the Journal.

She spoke about the days when the Journal was written and printed on-site in Scott Street and when people would line up outside clutching threepence waiting for the newspaper to hit the street.

Marg spoke of working until 2am to ensure the paper was “put to bed“ and of collecting news on her bicycle, never missing a visit to Dandenong’s fire brigade, stopping for a chat with the police, and calling in on the school principals and church leaders.

She typed up countless wedding reports, announced the birth of hundreds of babies and farewelled prominent citizens with heart-felt obituaries.

Every story was important to Marg.

When he was a news editor deciding what would and wouldn’t make that week’s paper, Phil McLeod remembers Marg pulling up a seat beside him to ask when a particular story of hers would be running.

“She said she had promised that it would get a run, and that after a few weeks when it hadn’t, she felt

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“She prided herself on her honesty and integrity with the people she dealt with.

“Sometimes I just had to be firm and tell her I couldn’t run the story because of a lack of space, and that there were more important stories.

“But to her every story was important, and so were the people they were about.

“I had to be tough with her at times, but then she would give me this look.

“I’d feel guilty about being so grumpy and short with her and the next thing I know I’m telling her to ring the person concerned to tell them we would be running the story this week.

“She could play me like a fiddle at times.”

The schoolgirl whose dad bought her first typewriter at Dandenong Market when she was 10 became the epitome of a great community journalist, whose body of work is unlikely to be surpassed.

Marg had a signature closing line in telephone interviews.

Someone might have won an award, or reached a milestone in their lives and after getting the full story she would sign off with: “I wish you all the luck in the world.”

And she meant every word of it.

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Murder on the streets

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I was not going to let her remains be thrown down the tip like bloody garbage…

WILLIAM BOYLE

The barrel can even be seen in family photos taken at birthday parties since ’83, next to people enjoying themselves.

He told anyone who asked that the barrel was full of toxic glue that he used in his job as a carpet layer.

In February 2008, a Victorian Supreme Court jury found Frederick William Boyle guilty of murdering Edwina on the night of 6 October 1983, when she was just 30 years old.

He unsuccessfully claimed that he came home to find his wife dead in bed.

But the court found that Boyle had strangled her with a necktie and shot her in the temple with a .22 rifle.

In his testimony Boyle said he “was not going to let her remains be thrown down the tip like bloody garbage”.

1993 – Three shot on gun shop THREE years before Martin Bryant’s Port Arthur massacre thrust the issue of gun control into the Australian spotlight, there was John Lascano.

On 21 August 1993, Lascano walked into the Springvale gun shop and shot three people dead before setting the store on fire and making off with guns and ammunition.

Lascano was convicted the next

Newshound on the trail of crime HUGH Buggy was known as the ‘oracle’.

So detailed were the crime reporter’s records of murder investigations that, after his death, police wanted his clipping books for their own library.

Hugh served on the editorial staff of the Dandenong Journal later in his career, which had previously included stints at the Truth, the Argus, and the Melbourne Herald and Sun. He was fascinated by crime.

Hugh witnessed three hangings and, according to the late Journal scribe Marg Stork, who used to sit opposite him, Hugh spoke with “personal authority on anything from Squizzy Taylor to the Albury Pyjama Girl Mystery and the Inverloch Murder”.

“Criminals respected Hugh like they respect Father Brosnan,” Marg wrote in 1995. year of killing the gun shop owner Paul Taylor, his 17-year-old daughter and a shop assistant.

An initial article about the fire was published in the Dandenong Journal on 23 August 1993 which said that three victims were “found in the debris after the explosionriddled blaze began at 12.15pm and was brought under control about 30 minutes later.

“Police immediately treated the deaths as suspicious and the homicide squad was called in,” the article read.

2000 – Victim still missing SPRINGVALE solicitor Keith William Allan hired the wrong bloke.

Law clerk Julian Michael Clarke had a gambling addiction that needed to be fed.

After Mr Allan hired him in 1995, Clarke began stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the business to satisfy his penchant for a punt.

By May 2000 the Law Institute was knee-deep in an investigation into the firm’s disappearing funds and Clarke needed a fall guy.

Clarke figured it would be easy to pin the crimes on his employer and he paid drug dealer Costas Athanasi about $93,000 to organise the murder. For help, Athanasi sought a favour from long-time friend Sudo Cavkic.

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“And he could talk to them with the same characteristic frankness as the top brass in the police force.”

Hugh began his career in journalism as a junior reporter on a South Melbourne paper after studying arts part-time at Melbourne University.

He knew meticulous shorthand and possessed a “picturesque turn of phrase”.

“He was an inspiration to countless dozens of young journalists,” Marg wrote.

“He had a fund of stories which never failed to draw an appreciative and impressionable audience.

“If you didn’t know anything, you asked Hugh.

“He was the oracle.”

Avid Journal reader and Narre Warren resident Alan Croy remembers meeting Hugh Buggy at the newspaper’s Scott Street

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The raiders then stole a 2011 white Toyota Kluger, a 2000 black Holden Commodore sedan, and a 2007 green Jeep Wrangler from the property – one from the garage, one from the nature strip and one that was parked on the street.

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The Dandenong man lunged at the 51-year-old Somerville victim with a kitchen knife about 10.45pm on 1 August, causing non-serious lacerations to the victim’s neck.

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The then-minister said African refugees were forming gangs, getting involved in nightclub fights and drinking in public parks.

Samuel Kuot, president of the Sudanese Community Association of Australia at the time, hit back, saying Mr Andrews’s comments were discriminatory and had inflamed feelings against his community.

At his funeral, Liep’s mother Martha Ojulo told mourners that her son had regarded himself as Australian, not Sudanese.

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The $1 million-plus park had been delayed by a last-minute safety audit, resulting in a safety fence being installed around it.

The park includes a three-metre plus vertical bowl, street course and snake run.

2007 – Bashed to death IT WAS 2001 when Liep Gony and his family fled war-ravaged Sudan for Australia in search of safety.

Six years later in September 2007 the 18-year-old died in hospital after he was bashed and left unconscious on a sidewalk in Noble Park.

In 2009 Clinton David Rintoull, 25, was sentenced to 20 years’ jail with a non-parole period of 16 years for murdering Gony.

Rintoull’s co-offender, Dylan Giuseppe Sabatino, 22, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was jailed for 10 years with a non-parole period of six years.

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“My memories of him, such as they are, are of an older, kindly, avuncular, well-spoken gentleman, perhaps with a touch of whimsy,” Mr Croy said.

“And I felt there was a sense of a touch of history with him, a connection with the past, contributing to a well-groundedness that I believe he had.

“Hugh added life and energy to Dandenong. He wasn’t a carboncopy, paper cut-out, made-to-regulation, colourless, one size fits all non-entity.

“He had an identity and, more importantly, his writing and what he wrote about had an identity.”

Hugh died in the mid-1970s and his picture hangs proudly in the Melbourne Cricket Club’s Hall of Fame.

– Lachlan Moorhead

Keith William Allan was killed on 28 May and his body was never found.

The killers may have got away with the murder had it not been for curious police officers who saw Cavkic drive pass their police car in the dead lawyer’s Mercedes Benz at 2am on a near-deserted road and decided to follow him.

They arrested Cavkic in a dead end street in Altona Meadows and found a spade in the back seat and a tin of petrol in the front.

In 2007, Clarke, Athanasi and Cavkic were found guilty and sentenced to terms ranging from 28½ to 24 years.

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Guillotine video chopped GREATER Dandenong Council has pulled a video depicting human executions from its civic square big-screen.

A visitor to the square noted a short scene of still-images within the video that featured an etching of a human head held up in the air to a watching crowd at a guillotining, and a photograph from behind of a group of people being hanged.

The School of Life educational video titled Are you Romantic or Classical? was shown about 10.40am on 29 July at the council’s Harmony Square big-screen.

A council spokeswoman said the video may have been screened up to twice a week from mid-May to 4 August – without public complaint.

The council’s corporate services director Mick Jaensch said the video was pulled last week after an internal review found it “could cause discomfort with some members of the public”.

They were crimes that resonated throughout Greater Dandenong. Journal police reporter Lachlan Moorhead looks back at some of the darker stories that have unfolded in the Journal.

1983 – Skeleton kept in barrel EDWINA Boyle disappeared from her Dandenong home in early October 1983.

Her husband Frederick William Boyle always told his two daughters that their mum had run off with a truck driver and was living under another name.

She wasn’t found until 23 years later in 2006 when her skeleton was discovered in the barrel that Frederick Boyle always kept by his side.

Whenever he and his daughters, Careesa and Sharon, moved house, the barrel moved with them.

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What do you love about Greater Dandenong?

DON CAMERON Cornerstone Contact Centre co-ordinator “I love the sense of hope and new beginnings that new Australians bring to our city as they make a fresh start in their new country. I love the food, clothing, sights and sounds of the Dandenong market. I love it that my children can meet people who were born in places all over the world without leaving their own city. I love that so many people volunteer in organisations that help others. We are predominantly working class but still have so much to share with others.

Most of all, I love the way the Christian Church works together to achieve so much to bless others. There is no place like Dandenong and I love it.”

BRUCE KITCHEN Victoria Police Inspector

“Dandenong is the home of cultural diversity. I love attending the community locations such as the Dandenong Market, Dandenong Plaza, Springvale shopping/ restaurant precinct and other local shopping strips and experiencing the warmth and engagement of different cultures. For the past 40 years I have had a strong relationship with the local community, being educated locally, living and raising a family and working here for most of my career. I am proud of the many businesses, volunteers, educational institutions, religious leaders, service providers and emergency services that continually contribute to improving our community. Cultural diversity working as one: that’s what makes Dandenong a place that I love.”

IAN MAXWELL Dandenong Rotarian

“I grew up in Doveton, went to Doveton Primary and on to Doveton Tech. My first job was at the butcher in Doveton.

I have a special memory of catching the old Comair Grenda bus in to Dandenong and having lunch in the Coles cafeteria in Lonsdale Street with my mum. I have been around Dandenong a long time so it is close to my heart.”

MARGARET WEIGHTMAN Dandenong and District Historical Society “The shops and the trees make Dandenong a pretty city.”

MAYA DATT Dandenong

“I bought a house here and everything’s just walking distance. I don’t need money for a taxi, I don’t need money for a car.

I love the shops around. You can get everything that you want to buy.”

Now and then and still here ❚ Former editor Peter Simcock TEN years ago when I wrote some words for the Journal’s 140th anniversary I commented that it was easy to wallow in nostalgia, to think that things were better “then”.

It wasn’t the case in 2005 and it’s not true now.

Better, but different. Things certainly are different in 2015, rarely would there have been a decade that encompassed more change in the paper’s fortunes.

Now with new owners and having returned to its traditional format, the Journal has emerged stronger, as vibrant as ever and as committed to its values and community.

I no longer work in the newspaper industry but rarely is there a day that I don’t think of the Journal or of the more than 30 years I spent with former owners Fairfax Community Newspapers.

The many friends I made both from within the Journal and from the wider Dandenong community are a constant reminder of the struggles, laughs and times we spent together.

Anniversaries are times to both look forward and back.

Ten years ago Marg Stork wrote that “I have watched the Journal grow from small beginnings… I hope it never loses its true role, that of a community newspaper.”

Marg reported for the Journal for more than 70 years and with her death in 2014 the community lost a unique asset. I doubt her type will be seen again.

Marg was one “out of the box” but the Journal has long attracted characters and people with an ability to serve the community above and beyond.

Two that spring to mind are

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former owner Greg Dickson, whom I only knew late in his life, and editor for more than 30 years John Woods with whom I worked.

John, now retired, is still very active and has a keen interest in the Journal and local papers.

Then there are the characters.

Sub editors Peter ‘Deafy’ Stewart, and Jim Bruce, photographers Barry Palmer and Stuart Penberthy, reporters Adam Hankin, Lynne Harper and Phil McLeod, advertising staff Jim Conway, Kristina Leckenby and

Georgie McLeod and production workers Allan Clarke, John Handley and John Russell.

All contributed to the mix that was the Journal.

What will the next 10 years bring? There will be more change, new people and fresh ideas.

But I am sure the Journal will still be there, reporting on the events and people of Dandenong and the south east suburbs.

Congratulations to the Journal and its staff on this significant anniversary. May there be many more of them.

Continuing an important job IT IS with great pleasure that I congratulate the Dandenong Journal on its 150th anniversary.

This historical milestone is a proud a c h i ev e m e n t and a testament to the dedication and hard work of the Dandenong Journal staff dating back to your paper’s first edition in 1865.

Readers from the City of Greater Dandenong, and further afield when the Dandenong Journal covered Mulgrave, Dingley and surrounds, continue to read your paper for its outstanding news service.

Local content and in-depth reporting underpin why newspapers remain important.

Journalists represent the community’s right to free speech, acting as the watchdogs, informers and voice of the voiceless.

That has not changed over 150 years.

It is perhaps even more relevant today than ever before as people’s thirst for news and information grows.

The Dandenong Journal is a great example of how newspapers have also evolved with the times to ensure readers have access to local news and information at the click of a button.

I commend your newspaper on supporting the local community and I wish the Dandenong Journal all the very best for the years ahead.

– Daniel Andrews, Premier of Victoria

Stories are printed into history AS MAYOR of the City of Greater Dandenong, I, along with my fellow councillors, extend our sincere commendation and congratulations to the Journal on achieving 150 years in print.

Over the years you have reported on many stories, made announcements and documented many items of news that are now noted down in history.

You have successfully survived and prospered in a dynamic and changing environment and should be very proud to be celebrating this auspicious anniversary.

The City of Greater Dandenong applauds you on achieving this historical landmark milestone.

Congratulations to all the team who are involved in this publication.

We are proud to celebrate with you the past, the present and the future.

– Sean O’Reilly, Mayor, City of Greater Dandenong

A newspaper for the ages CONGRATULATIONS to the Dandenong Journal from The Age! To reach 150 years is a remarkable achievement: it’s a tribute to the community which has supported the paper, and the thousands of staff who have served them with great journalism. Newspapers are an important reflection of their readers – their stories, their businesses, their passion and their politics. The Journal can be justly proud that it has done just this for a century and a half.

– Andrew Holden Editor, The Age

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Shining light of news ❚ Former Editor John Woods I WAS privileged to be editor of the (Dandenong) Journal for more than 30 years, during a time in which there were, of course, many and varied changes in how it was produced and also its appearance… but not its basic mandate: serving its readers and advertisers not only via content but equally, if not more importantly, community involvement.

And that’s what has to this day enabled the Journal to not only survive for an incredible 150 years, but maintain its stature as a shining light in Victoria’s newspaper industry.

The only disappointment I now harbour is that the paper is no longer Dandenong-based – I have vivid memories of the 1960s and ’70s when it was produced from go to whoa from a ramshackle building in Scott Street and when literally hundreds of people queued up on a Wednesday afternoon to buy the paper as it came off an equally – by today’s standards – ramshackle press, capable of somewhat slowly churning out only 16 pages at a time. And that was when the overall size of paper was at least 64 pages.

It was somewhat disappointing that because of the company’s growth, some of that immediate face-to-face involvement with the community was lost when the office moved to Dandenong South.

It also meant that for the first time in the paper’s history, thirsty staff were domiciled without a hotel at the back door!

There aren’t many organisations in the Dandenong area which,

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I have vivid memories of the 1960s and ’70s when it was produced from go to whoa from a ramshackle building in Scott Street and when literally hundreds of people queued up on a Wednesday afternoon to buy the paper as it came off an equally ramshackle press…

JOHN WOODS

over the years, have not relied on the Journal for support, a tradition which continues today. It was, and still is, the quintessential local newspaper. In that respect, little has

changed since the first issues rolled off the presses in 1865.

But change there has obviously been. You’ll get the picture if, for instance, you can imagine your local

newspaper today having a seemingly zillion classified advertisements on its front page. Or no photos, or pages inside the paper each containing literally dozens of stories. Yes, dozens.

The Journal was a sold weekly newspaper when I joined the staff, with between 18,000 and 20,000 copies being bought directly from our Scott Street office or from newsagents. It also continued to enjoy many profitable years after it became a free publication and went bi-weekly (Monday and Thursday).

During this time, the company was able to employ – and help train – many young journalists hoping to make a name for themselves in the newspaper business. Quite a few did including Nikki Savva, Daryl Timms, Peter Ellingsen, Craig Dixon, Frank Quill and Andrew Holden, now editor-in-chief of The Age which, by the way, is just 11 years older than The Journal.

And, of course, there was the redoubtable one-of-a-kind Marg Stork who was working for the newspaper when I joined and was still doing so until her death last year. There was very little Marg didn’t know about her beloved Dandenong – and there were few people who did not know her.

She and former owner-editor Greg Dickson knew what made a local newspaper tick and gave the people what they wanted via their wise words and community coverage.

That mantra is at the heart of any local newspaper worth its salt. And it certainly has applied to the Journal… for a magnificent 150 years.

Furore over hellraising ‘Pommie bludgers’ headline ‘POMMIE BLUDGERS’ screamed the Journal’s front page headline on 21 March 1974.

The furore that followed still bemuses then editor John Woods.

“British migrants,” read the first paragraph “were described yesterday as ‘bludgers’ by a top Dandenong clothing manufacturer”.

“The manufacturer said: ‘From

sad and long experience British migrants are the worst offenders of the job-dodgers we have in Dandenong’. The manufacturer added: ‘I hope to God the Immigration Department doesn’t bring in too many of them’.

“It was the biggest furore I ever caused,” Mr Woods said “as the story and its follow-ups certainly proved!”

Bomb threats, abuse and warnings of legal action swiftly followed.

The next week the Journal devoted three pages to the reaction from “irate Britishers”, including a phone call from a woman who threatened to “come in later with a bomb in my hand”.

Then Immigration Minister Al

Grassby also weighed in phoning the Journal to say that hanging labels on migrant groups was “unAustralian”.

Forty years later Mr Woods is still keeping mum about the identity of the mystery manufacturer.

“Only Marg (Stork) and I knew the identity of the businessman.”

– Narelle Coulter

What do you love about Greater Dandenong?

NATALIE IRVINE Volunteer of the Year

“I love living in Greater Dandenong because of its rich diversity, in shops, restaurants and the Market. The new Council /Library complex is a modern well utilised resource. The public transport is excellent, and the open parks around the City give lots of places for quiet contemplation.”

MAS MAI Multicultural Citizen of the Year “I love everything about Dandenong. I love the library, where people can go to study to get more knowledge and all the sporting programs in the area for young people.”

KELLY APPLEBEE Greater Dandenong Sportsperson of the year “I love that Dandenong is very community focussed. It brings families and cultures together. I came originally from East Gippsland and I’ve felt and connected to Dandenong.”

GAYE GUEST Noble Park

“Greater Dandenong was where the city used to meet the country. Proud of its heritage now it continues to evolve and has become a rich tapestry of culture, heritage and sporting facilities with essential services in place. From every point of the compass it is the gateway to many other tourist destinations – Melbourne, Gippsland, the Dandenongs, Port Phillip Bay and the Peninsula.”

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What do you love about Greater Dandenong?

GLENYS COOPER Chairperson Dandenong Retail Traders Association “Dandenong, and Central Dandenong in particular, is so diverse with many ‘hidden’ treasures in our own back yard.

The variety on offer is quiet unlike any other retail or business centre that I know of. For anyone visiting or working within Dandenong, go out and explore, venture into the retail stores, visit the coffee shops and enjoy. I do!”

TOM STEIN Dandenong and District Historical Society “The Dandenong Town Hall, which retains only the front facade of the original, evokes many pleasant memories of Wednesday and Saturday dances with Aub Garbolini and his Swingmasters big band during the 1950s and which provided a venue for young people to meet possible partners of the opposite sex.”

RAY CARTER Dandenong and District Historical Society “The way that the town hall has been transformed into the Drum Theatre. The fabulous fruit and vegetable market and the food that’s served there and the way that people from different places can live together here. I love my Jayco caravan and the fact that I can have it serviced right here where it was made.”

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Greg kept giving ❚ Casey Neill GREG Dickson made a lasting impression on Margaret Ladner - and on Dandenong’s most disadvantaged.

Margaret worked for the council’s home care team and visited Greg once a week to help tend his house while he cared for his ailing wife Daphne, known as Zig. “His wife got Alzheimer’s. Zig was a beautiful woman,” the Dandenong and District Benevolent Society manager said.

“He wouldn’t let anybody help him in the home and eventually they talked him into getting home help.

“I was told he might be difficult.

“I loved the man from the minute I first spoke to him.

“If I was off sick he wouldn’t have anybody else.”

Greg lived in a large home on Pultney Street.

“There was a window with a table and a chair. Every morning, there was a rose in a jar on the middle of the table,” Margaret said.

“When Zig woke up he’d have her breakfast and a rose.

“I could cry thinking of Greg Dickson, I really loved that man.

“I asked him why he wouldn’t put Zig in a nursing home, because he wouldn’t let me do anything for her.

“He said ‘she’s my wife. If it was me, she wouldn’t put me in a nursing home’. “He was an amazing, amazing man.”

Margaret said they’d take smoko together.

“He didn’t smoke and I didn’t

Margaret Ladner with her Home Care badge – the only item she has to remind her of her time with Greg Dickson. 140235 smoke. But he’d say ‘Smoko time, Scotty’ – because I’m Scottish he called me Scotty – and he’d put Scottish music on,” she said.

“These are the things the man did that nobody else would think of.

“And we’d sit there and he’d show me all the photos of the Dandenong Journal. He told me how it worked.”

One day they were speaking about awards and Greg revealed he’d been offered a Queen’s honour.

“He said ‘Margaret, I don’t need medals to say what kind of man I am’,” she said.

“I’ve never forgotten that.

“He turned it down.”

Margaret arrived to clean Greg’s house one Wednesday 22 years ago to find he’d died in his sleep.

“I stopped working. I knew I’d

never find another Greg Dickson,” she said.

“Zig was put in hospital. I went up to see her.

“Her eyes lit up when she saw me and I thought ‘she knows I’ve got something to do with Greg’.

“She died three weeks later.”

Home care recipients weren’t permitted to give their carers gifts or include them in their will.

“He used to give me a cheque a month for the society. He knew I worked here one day a week,” she said.

“Before he died he told me he couldn’t leave me anything but he’d make sure there was a way to get through to me. He did.

“When he died he left about $3000 a year here and it still comes in every year.”

Down the lanes of memories TWO neighbouring central Dandenong laneways pay tribute to local businesses past.

The Journal office was once a weatherboard building at 1 Scott Street, Dandenong, where the Nu Hotel stands today.

Stalwart reporter Marg Stork once recalled long queues of people late on Wednesday afternoons waiting to buy the 72-page Journal for twopence.

“I was proud when the lane beside 1 Scott Street was named Dickson Lane,” she wrote.

The name recognised the paper’s late owner and editor, Greg Dickson.

McQuade Lane honours the family that established the Albion Hotel, which still stands at 329 Lonsdale Street.

The two-storey brick hotel was built in 1891 for Peter McQuade on the site of what’s believed to be Dandenong’s first store, which Alexander Bowman started in 1852.

The store later became the Mornington Arms Hotel, which Charles Dobson purchased in 1882 and re-named the Albion.

Peter McQuade was the proprietor in 1889 and the McQuades soon replaced the early one-storey timber building with the present two-storey structure.

The hotel has been in the possession of the McQuade family continuously since that time.

The verandah has been removed, but the facade has remained largely unaltered.

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Students are encouraged to be independent learners, self-motivated and curious about the world around them. Our teachers and support staff inspire and nurture our students to achieve success, explore the best possibilities for their future and strive for excellence in every endeavour.

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We have created a place where all our students can achieve personal success and our innovative House structure encourages students to develop a sense of belonging and connection to the school.

Visit our Dandenong High School website www.dandenong-hs.vic.edu.au or call 9792 0561 for detailed information about open days, information nights & school tours.

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Along the ‘inky way’ ❚ Narelle Coulter LEGENDARY Journal editor Greg Dickson was a fresh-faced “boy from the Mallee” in 1939 when he purchased the newspaper that would become his passion and his legacy.

At his funeral 54 years later, former Dandenong Mayor Maurie Jarvis described Greg as “one of Dandenong’s best-loved citizens ever”.

“He earned the respect of the community because he was always so unassuming, so quietly efficient and he was always ready to give freely of himself in the service to our community,” Mr Jarvis said at the time.

He then joked that he would rush to grab the “first” Journal each Wednesday morning “so I could read exactly what I had said in the council chamber at the previous meeting”.

Greg’s “reporting was extremely accurate and everything he wrote was in true context.”

Greg Dickson was an old-style editor and proprietor. He wrote stories, edited copy, laid out the newspaper, got ink under his nails manning the printing presses and helped distribute the finished product.

He inherited his love of newspapers from his mother, Flora.

Flora and Alfred Dickson bought the Ouyen and North West Express, a small paper in the heart of the Mallee in 1918. When Alfred fell ill and died several years later, Flora took over running the Express.

At 13 Greg was already honing his craft writing all the sports reports for the Express. At 14 he was acting assistant secretary of the Ouyen Racing Club.

Zig Dickson and her brother-in-law Des working the Buhler Press in the 1960s.

Greg eventually left school to help his mother full-time at the Express.

When Flora sold the Express in late 1938, Greg decided to buy his own newspaper. Luckily for him, William Bennett was ready to sell the Journal.

“Every reporter hopes for the day when he might have his own paper and run it the way he thinks it should be run,” wrote Greg in his farewell when he retired as editor in 1964.

“I was lucky – I set out to buy a paper in Yarrawonga and wound up buying one in Dandenong!”

Greg and his wife Daphne were married in Ouyen in 1939, shortly before they moved to Dandenong.

Daphne, a nurse who was fondly known as Zig, and Greg became a formidable team at the Journal.

Zig became one of the “backroom boys” helping run the big

Long-time Journal owner and editor Greg Dickson. press that printed the Journal at the rear of the Scott Street office and carrying heavy bundles of papers.

Paying tribute to her, Greg wrote that his wife worked “long hours on

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a man-sized job, while cheerfully putting up with being ‘married to a newspaper’.”

Often the press would break down. Then it was all hands on deck as Greg, Zig and the rest of the team worked through the night to ensure the paper always “hit the streets”.

When Greg bought the Journal, the circulation was 950.

By 1961 paid circulation had risen to 6500, making the Journal one of the largest circulating provincial newspapers in Victoria.

In 1939 Marg Stork was a teenager and at the beginning of her long career with the newspaper. He was her editor and mentor for 25 years.

In 2013, just a year before she died, Marg wrote about Greg for her column, A Moment with Marg.

“Greg did not believe in sensationalism. His reporting was concerned with people and their daily lives. Their ups and downs and all aspects of community life.”

Greg sold the Journal to Rupert Murdoch’s Cumberland Newspaper Group in 1961, staying on as editor.

He ‘retired’ in 1964 but continued contributing news, sporting and social items to the paper up until his death in 1993.

In his final address to readers as editor, Greg described his career as a journey along the “inky way”.

Before signing off, Greg noted that in 1965 the Journal would celebrate its century.

“It has been a pleasure to contribute in some small way to its achievements. May it go to even greater success – and may it always merit it.”

JUDY GRANT Dandenong and District Historical Society “Having not been involved with Dandenong before I started working for the Historical Society. Since then I am fascinated with the history of Dandenong both past and present.”

LEANNE PEARSON Dandenong and District Historical Society “I love the vibrancy, the multicultural flavour there’s so much diversity, it’s got a real vibe now, I love the vibrancy, the colours and the people of Dandenong.”

JILL WALSH Committee for Dandenong “Greater Dandenong has created a unique sense of community – across manufacturing, retail and service providers. In my space – manufacturing – this town is an amazing mix of businesses who network and support each other.

The city has showcased Dandenong in the creation of a main street that would do Paris proud! I love the pride and the sense of excitement I feel each working day, whether it’s a brilliant new employee, an idea, a technical problem solved, there is always an expectation of an opportunity about to unfold.”

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Dandenong and District Historical Society “One thing I like about Dandenong is that all the newcomers – many from wartorn countries – can live freely in peace and harmony. They are free to celebrate their differences, and their own cultures.

They can earn a living, and eventually develop to their full potential and become valuable citizens of Dandenong.

Even becoming Mayor of this great city.”

KARA DUNN Dandenong and District Historical Society “I love the vibrant diversity and the revitalisation, I’ve watched Dandenong change over the last ten years and it’s completely transformed into a place that people want to come to.”

JO SILVER Council worker

“I love the colours, I love the people, I love the food ,I love that it’s completely different to where I live and it’s so warm and friendly.”

NORMAN Hampton Park

“The Civic Square. It’s beautiful.”

It still feels like home ❚ Lachlan Moorhead MOTHER and daughter pair Barbara Haw and Julie Timms share more than just a family bond.

Barbara and Julie have both worked in newspapers for most of their lives and spent several years together as part of the classified advertising team at the Dandenong Journal.

These were years, during the golden age of the ’70s, that both women are quick to say were some of the best of their lives.

“We only had television and radio to compete with so papers were huge and the advertising was huge and it was just really exciting,” Julie said.

“I mean, it still is, it’s just different now, back then walking through classifieds you wouldn’t be able to stop and talk to anybody, the phones were just bang, bang, bang, whereas now we’re more having to chase business, rather than being an inbound.

“It was a great time.”

Barbara’s memories of the Journal are similarly of a place that was always buzzing with activity, where cigarettes smoked in ashtrays at each person’s desk, and where a tea break was often spent discussing that day’s drama at the pub around the corner from the newspaper’s Scott Street offices.

“When I first started the advertising, manager Des Gillick, his phone would ring and I’d answer it, and I’d say ‘Des Gillick’s phone and they’d say ‘oh, it’s Mr Walders here from so and so, is Des there please?’”

Barbara said.

“Once you work somewhere where you’ve got deadlines, I don’t think... it’s just you’re always pushing, so the next deadline, once one deadline’s gone that’s not it, you’ve got another deadline coming up so you’re always looking for things.”

And while Barbara has now settled into retirement – with far less dancing on bar tops – things have come full circle for Julie.

She was working for Star News Group in Pakenham when the company bought the Journal 2013 and is back on her old patch.

“It was like coming home,” Julie said.

Julie, left, and her mum Barbara, loved their days working together Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS at the Dandenong Journal. 141798 “I’d say ‘just a moment’. I’d put the phone down, run down the passage, out into the bar and tell him he’s wanted on the phone. And Des would say ‘here, hang onto me beer.’

“People probably wouldn’t believe it, but it’s true!”

That wasn’t the only time Barbara wandered down to the bar.

Julie remembers her mother sharing a drink with an Australian singing icon and Dandenong native.

“I remember you going out drinking with bloody Johnny Farnham,” Julie said to her mum.

“You were dancing on the bar at the pub in Dandenong!”

Barbara and her late husband Geoff grew up in Dandenong before moving to the country where Geoff, Julie’s dad, worked as a farm labourer.

But the family moved back to Dandenong when Julie was about 12.

“The one reason we shifted back into Dandenong was because we couldn’t see a future for our children in what we were doing,” Barbara said.

“My husband’s mother needed a bit of help and we bought a house, it was like two units, so we could help take care of her and then the kids were able to get on with their lives.”

Julie also met her husband, Daryl, at the Journal, a veteran journalist who himself worked at the paper before moving to the Herald Sun, where he has been for the past 27 years.

“I ’spose it’s in our blood. I love the deadlines, I love... just the atmosphere, it’s just different to another job,” Julie said.

Barbara was given a special cake by her Journal colleagues to celebrate her 50th birthday in 1984.

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ELEANOR SANMI GUEL

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“I love the shops. I live near the shops, the market, the hospital and the police station. I like Dandenong.”

LYNNE FERRIS Dandenong Show secretary

“The Dandenong Show, which still offers a traditional agricultural show, adapted to the present for the large city we have become, but celebrating the ways of the past. Many of the volunteer committee members have connections to the first families who lived and worked in Dandenong and the surrounding farming communities and who continue to honour the heritage left to them by their forefathers.”

IAN MCDONALD Former Dandenong mayor

“After Presiding at Citizenship Ceremonies from 1982 to 1993, the “pleasure” you could see on faces as our friends received their Certificate, and almost every day I meet up with these “friends” who well remember our first meeting, these friends are honoured to be ‘Aussies’.”

STAND-UP comedian Col Elliott has graduated far beyond being Lyndale High School’s class clown.

Elliott, 66, sprung onto the national and, at times, international stage with irreverent song and characters in the 1970s – etching him into the public imagination with racy contemporaries Rodney Rude and Kevin ‘Bloody’ Wilson.

He grew up in Lyndale’s concrete Housing Commission estate in the 1950s a few years after his family sailed out from England.

In those streets Elliott played cricket with kids in the neighbourhood, like the Journal’s former editor and scribe Phil McLeod.

He and his mates also liked to push a stick through ‘dunny flaps’ to poke people sitting on their backyard toilets.

Elliott recalls going to Lyndale High School with another successful, perhaps straighter-laced, entertainer John Farnham.

When at school, Elliott didn’t do stand-up but was responsible for some unbridled dramas at one of the fetes.

Beforehand, principal “Mr Munroe” asked Elliott to hold pony rides.

Elliott’s choice of horse was the 14.2-hand unbroken filly Cindy that was kept in his family’s back yard.

She was normally mild-mannered except for being frightened of large vehicles.

Unfortunately, just as Elliott rode Cindy to the school gates on fete day, a Grenda’s bus rounded the corner.

She bolted in terror and “wrecked

Col Elliott, second back row, eighth from the left, with Lyndale State School classmates in 1961. the joint”, Elliott said.

The pair hared towards a group of Highland dancers who were forced to jump from the stage with kilts, swords and bagpipes flying.

Elliott managed to hang on as Cindy scattered several stalls, galloped across sports fields and jumped a barbed wire fence.

Cindy and Elliott caught breath when she stopped in a nearby cabbage paddock.

After getting shouted down by a group of teachers, Elliott asked: “Does this mean it’s not ‘on’ for the pony rides?” There was no reply.

Elliott’s brand of humour still sells out venues. Part of his enduring value is “it’s not PC (politically correct),” he said.

He tells how he considered himself too young when he became a grandfather.

Col Elliott, a Vietnam veteran, sporting his naval service medals. 142489 “Then I found a grey pubic hair.

I didn’t freak out, not like the other people in the lift.”

There are some who say he’s not

sensitive, much like other men, he said.

“I said to my wife that’s bulls***.

What about your brother – he cries after sex. Mind you, he’s still in prison.”

He said he takes aim at Scots, Irishmen, Italians, kamikaze pilots and especially Kiwis – “the difference between a Kiwi and a photo is the photo is developed,” he adds as an aside.

Giuseppe Lasagne, one of his many stage characters, is based on a mate’s father, an Italian market gardener who he remembers with affection.

“The show’s not offensive – it’s the way you tell the gag.”

His well-known show opening runs along the lines of “if you’re offended by politically incorrect material, strong language... now might be a good time for you to f*** off.”

“It gets a huge laugh,” he said.

The springboard for his comedic career was entering a Melbourne TV talent show Kevin Dennis New Faces in 1973.

As he recalls, he hoped he would win enough money to buy a set of new tyres.

His cleaned-up-for-TV routine ended up winning the final, which funded the tyres as well as a keg of beer for his friends.

One of his first ever gigs was at the former Dandenong Redlegs football club. Elliott received $10 plus all he could drink as payment.

“I took my brother along. We got value.

“You can’t print what I said (at the gig). It wasn’t even considered nice then.”

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DANDENONG CLUB 1579 Heatherton Road, Dandenong 3175 P: 9792 1963 W: www.dandenongclub.com.au The award winning Dandenong Club was formed in 1955 by a group of local businessmen and was established at a premise in McCrae Street, Dandenong.

The original site of the Club now lies under The Dandenong Plaza.

In 1984, the Club was approached by Dalgety’s who were interested in purchasing the site to build a Shopping Centre. Those negotiations broke down and the Club continued until 1986 when the land the Club is now situated on became available.

Further negotiations resulted in the construction of a new premises which commenced in February 1987. Works were completed later that year and the new Club was officially opened by Councillor Jeannie Wood JP, on the 6th December 1987.

Located on the corner of Stud & Heatherton Roads just off the Monash freeway, 30 minutes from the CBD, we are proud to offer quality services and a welcoming and safe environment. Our facilities are among the best offering a sports bar, café, restaurant, function rooms, entertainment, TAB facilities, nine sporting sub-clubs, wireless internet and ample secure car parking.

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Your Community Introducing a 2nd weekly Yoga class - Sunday 5:30pm – 6: 30pm.

Cost: Gold Coin and Mats Provided

English for Work Classes Springvale Multicultural Men’s shed for men wanting to get better skills in English, get a better job, go for further study. Small class teaching English for beginner & intermediate students. Computer classes also available. Phone Springvale Neighbourhood House on 9574 6399 for more information.

Springvale Neighbourhood House Phone: 95483972

Men’s Shed Our NPCC Yoga group is so great that we are introducing a second weekly class. Classes will now be held every Thursday from 9:30am – 10:30am, and now on Sundays from 5:30pm – 6:30pm. Our teacher, Shea is very experienced and teaches traditional and modern Yoga methods for all ages and abilities. Come and join us. Yoga for All Ages - Healthy body Healthy mind.

Noble Park Community Centre: Ph: 9547 5801

1945 – 2015 - Springvale Learning and Activities Centre celebrates 70th Anniversary!

We are looking for people were involved with Springvale Community Youth Club (1945-1982) and Springvale Community Centre from 1983 and up to 2005. The history goes back as far as the first half of last century.

We would like to hear from the descendants of those who were involved with the Youth Club. We would also appreciate any photos of Springvale in 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s that we could use to help us visualise how Springvale has changed over the years. Please, contact us on 9547 2647.

Springvale Learning and Activity Centre. Ph: 9547 2647

Noble Park Community Centre Art Show - Entries Now Open In 2015, the Noble Park Community Art Show will be celebrating its 10th year. To honour this amazing event, we hope to make this show the best one yet.

Join us in this unique and important Community Event.

Entry Forms can be downloaded from our website http://www.nobleparkcommunitycentre.org.au/ art-show-0, or via our facebook page https://www. facebook.com/nobleparkcommunityartshow. You can also drop into the Centre and pick up a form from the foyer. A very special thanks to all of our valued sponsors and welcome to our newest Sponsor RACV.

Men’s Shed activities – Introduction to Furniture Making is to be conducted on a Wednesday and Thursday. Are you interested in meeting other people interested in working with wood? You will learn how to make projects that you are able to take home and work with others on community projects. The Men’s Shed is open to both men and women with men only activities being conducted on particular days. We are also looking for volunteers to help out in the Men’s Shed. If you are looking for something to keep you busy, come and talk to us. Ring Dandenong Neighourhood House and talk to us on 9792 5298.

Dandenong Neighbourhood House: Ph: 9792 5298

Multicultural Women’s Sewing Group Learn to cut a pattern, use a sewing machine and hand sewing. Thursday’s 9am to 12 noon. New people are always welcome! Cost $3 each week. Phone 9548 3972 for more information.

Springvale Neighbourhood House: Phone: 95483972

Beauty Blitz Taster Course Gain an understanding of the beauty industry and pursue a career in beauty. Topics include skin care, makeup application and care, retailing skills, techniques and products.

Wednesday: 1pm - 3.30pm Keysborough Learning Centre. Ph: 9798 7005; Email: info@klckeys.com.au

Garden Club The Noble Park Community Centre Garden Club meets weekly and has a range of activities from garden shows, garden planning, organising guest presenters, and special gardening workshops.

When: Every Friday Time: 9am-11am New members are always welcome, if you are interested in joining the Garden Club, please call 9547 5801 or email info@nobleparkcommunitycentre.org.au Noble Park Community Centre: Ph: 9547 5801

Wellsprings General Meeting Friends of Wellsprings are reminded to save the date on Thursday 10 September for our General Meeting at 2pm. We’re looking forward to seeing you there.

Wellsprings for Women Ph: 9701 3740

Course Opportunities Computer – beginner, intermediate, advanced. Community services, business, training and assessment. There are some limited opportunities to join this month.

Contact 9547 2647 to secure a place.

Springvale Learning and Activity Centre. Ph: 9547 2647

Pre-employment – Get that Job! Do you think you do not do well in an interview? Do you need help on how to apply for a job online?

This program offers skills that helps in finding and retaining employment. Also included is an introduction to online learning to assist in finding opportunities for your lifestyle. The groups work together to support each other to get that job you want and then make sure that you keep that job.

Topics include: •฀Essential฀job฀search฀digital฀literacy฀skills •฀Skills฀to฀manage฀continuous฀learning •฀Resume฀writing •฀Cover฀letters •฀Use฀of฀the฀internet฀for฀life฀and฀work •฀Job฀search฀skills฀development •฀Keep฀your฀job Dandenong Neighbourhood House: Ph: 9792 5298

Dandenong Neighbourhood House - 34 King Street, Dandenong - www.dandenongnh.org.au Keysborough Learning Centre – 402 Corrigan Road, Keysborough – www.klckeys.com.au Noble Park Community Centre – Memorial Drive, Noble Park – www.nobleparkcommunitycentre.org.au Springvale Neighbourhood House – 46-50 Queens Avenue, Springvale – www.snh.org.au Springvale Learning & Activities Centre – 1 Osborne Avenue, Springvale – www.springvalelac.org.au Wellsprings for Women – 79 Langhorne Street, Dandenong – www.wellspringsforwomen.com Jan Wilson Community Centre – Halton Road, Noble Park North – 9795 9279

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RON BURGESS

❚ Narelle Coulter

Dandenong basketballer/ referee

ON 26 MARCH 1975 the Journal announced an exciting new pop column, Pop Corn, to be penned exclusively by singer Ronnie Burns.

“Ronnie Burns, one of Australia’s biggest names in the pop business, has joined the Journal staff,” announced the paper on its front page.

Inside, Burns launched his column with “A big hello! To all the beautiful people who read this paper – It’s a thrill to be able to write a few lines each week, and to reach you in a way that’s somewhat different from singing”.

At the time Ronnie Burns was one of Australia’s most popular singers with hits such as Smiley and True True Lovin’.

Today Burns and wife Maggie run a respite charity for disadvantaged children at their farm near Cradle Mountain in Tasmania.

And although he can’t remember writing Pop Corn, Burns does remember 1974 being a big year both personally and professionally.

He and his wife were expecting their first daughter and had moved out of his parent’s Elwood home, a home mate Molly Meldrum also shared.

“So much was changing in our life. We moved to the Dandenong Ranges to set up an alternate lifestyle, growing our own food, for instance.

“I was still working in TV and singing in clubs and all that.”

He said he wasn’t surprised to be reminded of his writing gig with the Journal.

“I guess because it’s become a way of life and we’ve made so many friends there.

I came to Dandenong to live mainly because I was working at Heinz… I guess the general friendship and the involvement by those around us that made us stay where we were.”

HELEN HEATH Interfaith Network

“The reason I love the City of Greater Dandenong is because of the people in the community. We are many faiths but we are one people. We embrace diversity and in a spirit of welcome to all including refugees and those seeking asylum, we share a rich dream and the hope of a better community. All that is good about us as human beings can be found in this hidden treasure. With passion we cherish this precious gift and are proud to call the City of Greater Dandenong home.”

KHALID KATIKNG Greater Dandenong Youth Think Tank “The community, the sense of belonging, the good culture we have. It’s great to be part of it.”

Ronnie Burns at his farm in Tasmania.

Above: Pop Corn with Ronnie Burns was launched in the Journal in March 1974.

“Quite often so many things we were doing was slightly left of field, like modelling, running cooking classes for the Gas and Fuel, – we’d do all sorts of things.”

Burns said he had always loved writing and was sure he would have felt “honoured and privileged“ to be invited on board as a guest columnist.

“I would have loved doing it because I had been asked to do it.

I would have thought that because you (the Journal) had accepted me it was a privilege and an honour to give my spin on (pop music).

“The creative Ronnie would have come through for Pop Corn making people laugh.“ He said he was proud to be in-

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cluded in the Journal’s 150th edition.

“I’m chuffed that there is a record of that.

“At that time the music industry was rocketing along and there was great joy and love in what we were doing.”

To find out more about Burns’s children’s charity go to www.appinhall.com.

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IN THE late 1940s the Journal published a series of cartoons by Alec Brierley under the heading Looking Back on the Good Old Days.

The detailed sketches are humorous vignettes of Dandenong’s early history accompanied by a short yarn explaining the historical context of the moment captured in ink.

One of the cartoons titled Local industry - 1866 shows people holding their noses in disgust as they pass ‘Dandenong Tannery’.

In his accompanying text Brierley wrote “A tannery, one of the first outside Melbourne, was established on a slope in Gordon Park, facing Kidd’s Rd. It was a doubtful boon to the community, as up till that time it had been generally believed there were no blow-flies in the district!”

Alec Brierley began putting his

1866 - A TANNERY, one of the first established on a slope in Gordon Park, facing Kidd’s Rd. It was a doubtful boon to the community, as up till that time it had been generally believed there were no blowflies in the district! own interpretation on Dandenong’s early history after reading George F. Roulston’s book, Dandenong’s Ear-

ly History. Another cartoon shows Dandenong’s first school as a tent beneath a tree.

The headmaster rings a small bell watched by four students ready to start their lessons.

In the caption Brierley wrote “1851 – The First School Established – The school was started in a tent situated in Langhorne St. on the Church of England grant of land between the present church and Laurel Lodge. There were seven pupils at first, three of whom, being late on this particular morning, were naturally left out of the sketch”.

The Dandenong and District Historical Society holds many of Brierly’s original sketches.

In this special edition of the Dandenong Journal we reprint many of the cartoons.

We hope readers enjoy them as much as Brierley’s readers did in the 1940s.

TRISH KEILTY Avocare director

“Arriving in Melbourne in 1974 from Ireland, I have seen major changes over my 40 odd years. The change in nationalities over the years, as one of the most multicultural cities, I love the people, the diversity of food and culture, the way the city has grown, the Market, the new colourful Shire Offices, yes Dandenong is alive and well and I am proud to be a major part of its makeup.”

CHRISTINE TOTH Dandenong Primary School principal “I love living in this city and wouldn’t live anywhere else. The city is a vibrant place with a proud and strong history. There is a positive energy that comes from the families and their aspirations for their children. There are many organisations working hard in this city to improve everyday life for its residents.”

DANI ZEINI Pavilion

1870 – MUNICIPAL BATHS: Swimming was one of the recreations indulged in by young and old alike, at least by the male sex. The costumes seem a little unusual to us. However, some of the latest ladies’ bathers would have caused some eye-brow raising if worn in those days, too. Here we have depicted a typical Sunday afternoon group. Any likeness to particular relations is purely accidental.

1858 – THE DANDENONG BREWERY: During this year a brewery was established in Thomas St. Dandenong; with equipment brought from Irelandt. It was, however, a short-lived venture which, strangly enough, finally languished from lack of local support. How truly are sins of the father visited on the sons.

“I grew up in Dandenong all my life.

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What do you love about Greater Dandenong?

STUART McGIFFORD Salvos

“It bears witness to the fact there’s more that unites humanity than divides it, there is so much to love about this place and its people. This city is an unpretentious breath of fresh air, where people can share and celebrate their culture and enrich us all. Our diversity is a great blessing to all in our city and around it.”

HOLLY GORDON Wellsprings

“Wellsprings for Women sees the beauty of Greater Dandenong in the rich and colourful diversity of its residents, both new and established. At Wellsprings and through the council, local businesses and quality public spaces, this diversity is witnessed and celebrated daily.”

PAUL DANIEL SES

“I love the multi-cultural nature of our community, including the people that SES assists and the variety of ethnic groups represented by our members who volunteer with Greater Dandenong SES. I also love the great working relationship between the various emergency services.

Greater Dandenong should be extremely thankful for the work done by Victoria Police, CFA, Ambulance Victoria and VICSES.”

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Love boat couple ❚ Narelle Coulter IT IS hard to imagine 1000 freerange chickens roaming in Noble Park, but that is Mary Bertolini’s earliest memory of the suburb she has called home her entire life.

Mary’s Italian immigrant parents, Mr and Mrs F. Ermacora, moved from Carlton to Noble Park in the 1940s when they bought a five-acre farm.

Mary grew up on the farm, went to school in Noble Park, worked for many years at a fruit shop then a deli in the area and she and husband Sergio bought up their own three sons in the house on Buckley Street they built shortly after their marriage.

Their home, with its verdant backyard vegetable patch, is increasingly being surrounded by multi-storey unit developments as Noble Park is transformed by the push for higher density living to accommodate Melbourne’s burgeoning population.

Noble Park is unrecognisable from the suburb of Mary’s childhood when she helped tend the chickens, played cricket on the unmade roads and enjoyed bonfire and cracker night with friends.

“It was good growing up here. In those days it was freer. Heatherton Road was just a dirt track in those days. The area was just bush when we came here.

“Mum looked after the chooks and would sell the eggs to the grocers shop in Noble Park.“ The family had two milking cows and Mary’s mum made cheese which was also sold to Italian

Mary Bertolini, outside her home in Buckley Street, Noble Park, with husband Sergio.

Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS Right: The Journal reported Mary and Sergio’s wedding. friends. Her dad grew vegetables.

“When I was older I remember selling cucumbers door to door.

“There wasn’t much around in ‘Struggle Town’ as Noble Park was referred to. The ice cart bought ice because we didn’t have refrigerators. The milk man drove a horsedrawn cart.”

Mary attended Noble Park Primary School and Dandenong High School and after worked at Rino Rech at his continental grocers near the corner of Heatherton and Chandler roads.

In 1958, Mary’s parents sold the farm and with the money the family took a trip to Italy when Mary was 20 years of age.

On the return journey, Mary met Sergio who was immigrating to Australia.

“It was like the Love Boat,“ laughed Sergio with a cheeky grin.

Mary added: “There was group of us who used to hang out together on the ship. It was actually while we were having dinner in Genoa that we first met.

“It was only after we left the boat probably that we realised we had feelings for each other.“ Initially Sergio hated Australia.

“Too many snakes and kangaroos,” he laughs now.

They were married on 6 October 1962 at St Anthony’s Catholic

Church. Unusually, the bride arrived before the groom. “He lived with my cousin and was busy playing cards,“ Mary laughed.

Their wedding was featured in the Journal under the heading “Shipboard romance for young Italian couple“.

As a wedding gift, Mary’s parents gave the couple a block of land on Buckley Road mainly because her father didn’t want Mary moving to Queensland.

The couple built their home in 1963 where they raised sons Stephen, Adrian and Daniel.

“I’ve lived here my entire life and I don’t want to move,” Mary said.

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What do you love about Greater Dandenong?

BRIGITTE BILLIMORIA

❚ Casey Neill

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“I have lived in Dandenong for 45 years.

A lot has happened in those years in Greater Dandenong and Dandenong itself. I love shopping in the Plaza, Tirhatuan Park in North Dandenong is my favourite park to walk in. Greater Dandenong also has a great number of community groups and I am involved in Toastmasters and the Dandenong Evening VIEW Club because I enjoy meeting people from all walks of life.

Dandenong truly is my home town – my children grew up here and now I find there are loads of activities and really interesting places like the Drum Theatre to visit with my grandchildren.”

SCOTT ROBERTS Highway Patrol

“Greater Dandenong is such a culturally diverse and vibrant community. It presents a rewarding area to police with new challenges arising all the time. It is renowned for the depth of experience it provides personnel and its dynamic nature attracts keen staff and retains those that relish these challenges.”

EDDIE BOTHA Noble Park artist

“I like the multi multiculturalism,people are friendly and I like the parklands.”

DELIVERING the Journal gave at least one paperboy a strong work ethic he’s carried through life.

Sean Whitaker now calls Drouin home, but grew up in Narre Warren.

He was 12 years old when he started a morning paper round 30 years ago.

“The Dandy Journal was one of the ones we did,” he said.

“It came out twice a week back then, I think.

“I did it for nearly three years.

“I used to get paid the princely sum of $12 a week, which isn’t really a lot of money considering you had to get up at 5am and ride your bike in the freezing cold.”

Sean was finished by 7am and went off to school. The early starts didn’t bother him.

“My parents said they couldn’t believe that they’d hear the alarm go off and it would only go for one ring and I’d be up and I’d be out of bed and I’d be out the door within five minutes,” he said.

“It didn’t matter what the weather was like.

“I think I just enjoyed the routine and commitment you had to make with it, which obviously sets you up for work down the track.”

Sean would deliver about 70 papers each round.

“On the front of your bike you used to have a milk crate that you’d latch onto the handlebars of the bike and that would be chock-a-block full,” he said.

“The papers probably weighed as much as I did!”

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He recalled a few stacks, scrapes and bruises.

“Bikes aren’t meant to carry that weight on the front, so the common thing was the gooseneck that held the handlebars used to snap,” he said.

“So you’d be riding along and suddenly the whole thing would fall off the front – including your handlebars – midway through your round.

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“We all worked out which were the best parts to have on your bike to make it the strongest.

“Most of us would have a separate bike that you would use for your paper round (rather) than your normal bike.

“You had your good bike and you had your working bike.”

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“There was one person who used to leave me 20 cents out every day if I dropped their paper at their front door.

“I could get 10 per cent extra for my entire week just by taking one paper to that person’s front door.

Decades down the track, Sean is still making sure people get their hands on a copy of the Journal.

He owns the Genesis gym in Dandenong and has a stack of newspapers delivered each week. “Clients pick up the paper here,” he said.

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SCOTT BRENNAN Springvale police officer

“In policing, Greater Dandenong is dynamic, evolving and provides unique opportunities not presented in other locations. It provides significant challenges but these challenges bring out the best in many people. I’ve had the privilege to meet and work with some truly quality people from all walks of life who have opened my eyes. The Greater Dandenong of today is far removed from the Greater Dandenong I was introduced to in 1987 and is reflective of current Australia, its multiculturalism, emerging trends and direction. It is a living and evolving barometer of current and future Australia.”

ADRIAN BODEN SEMMA

“I love: the diversity of the people I deal with; the incredible diversity of technology and innovation I see on a daily basis; the can-do attitude and willingness to move the area forward; the level of social awareness and commitment of the people I deal with; and the food!”

MOHAMED ABDULLE Noble Park

“The city has very good public transport, lots of schools and places of worship like churches, mosques and temples.”

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Jack and the Journal Journal columnist Jack Johnson is the author of ‘When the Clock Strikes’, a memoir of growing up in Dandenong in the 1930s. To celebrate the Journal’s 150th anniversary, Jack reflects on his long association with his much-loved “local paper”.

MY MEMORIES of the Dandenong Journal go back over 80 years to 1935. Myself, my two brothers and sister and our parents lived at 88 McCrae Street, next door to the first St Mary’s Primary School.

Among the many great kids we met there were the Bennett family, one boy and three girls. They lived on the other side of McCrae Street on the corner of Wilson Street, in a Californian bungalow-style house that still remains today.

Mr Bennett was manager of the Journal. I think he had previously been with the Argus newspaper in Melbourne.

It was the time of the Great Depression and our mother was a committee member of the newly formed Catholic Women’s Social Guild. Her friend and fellow committee member was Tot McQuade, who owned and ran the Albion Hotel.

There was very little money for anyone, so the guild could only hand out practical donations like food and clothing, blankets and furniture. Mum would give me lists written on sheets of writing paper, which I would take to the Journal office, which at that time was in a small shop in the back of the Royal Hotel.

The Journal would print these notices free of charge. They would tell needy people what help was

“

Former owner and editor Greg Dickson was one of the most incredible and decent men who has ever stood in front of a printing press…

JACK JOHNSON

Author Jack Johnson. available, how to contact the guild ladies, or Father Little at St Mary’s Presbytery.

I remember all the Journal offices.

My friend at St Mary’s Tommy Black took up a printing apprenticeship at the Journal’s Scott Street office.

Many times when I went to see ‘Blackie’ I would got up the narrow lane past the backyard of the Royal Hotel and in the much-used door that opened onto the printery.

The amazing Marg Stork was a close friend over the lifetime she worked at our local paper.

Former owner and editor Greg Dickson was one of the most incredible and decent men who has ever stood in front of a printing press.

Then the Journal moved to larger premises on Frankston-Dandenong Road where I did a lot of the original plumbing. I also worked on the beautiful home of the Dicksons in Pultney Street and later at the art gallery Greg built next to the house for his and wife Zig’s art collection, which was so extensive it had far outgrown the house.

The move to Frankston-Dande-

nong Road was a little sad for most locals. I remember Marg Stork saying that she and the other staff greatly missed those personal visits to the office in Scott Street.

They also missed bumping into people as they shopped in Lonsdale Street or had a quite drink or meal at the Club Hotel, just across the old laneway that is now Dickson Lane.

I think in my lifetime in Dandenong, two of the most outstanding and lasting things I have seen are the Journal and the Dandenong and District Historical Society and their close connection over many years.

I had lived a third of my life when the Journal celebrated its first 100 years and now as it celebrates its 150th year I am in my last years.

This local paper has been part of all our lives: it has announced our births, celebrated our coming of age, recorded our engagements, highlighted our weddings and mourned our passing.

Two of my sons delivered the Journal in the 1970s and I have had a lifetime with the Dandenong Journal as my local paper.

I think the Dandenong Journal is a great local paper and, although I no longer live in Dandenong, it is still very much my local paper.

Jack’s column Jack Looks Back appears each month in the Journal.

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NEWSPAPER photographs have been with us for more than 100 years.

Until then, only line block images had been used to illustrate the stories of the day.

It must have been a proud day in January 1911 when the first photo appeared in The Journal. It was of well-known identity of the day W.H.A Rodd.

“I do like the new town hall and library.

I like the colours and it’s a very clever design. I think it looks like an immigrant ship bringing people to Australia.”

NARGES Narre Warren South

“I like it because it’s a really good area.

A lot of my customs are around here so I feel more comfortable. I quit my other job to work here in Dandenong. I’m usually always here. I love the feel of Dandenong.”

MYKY DU Greater Dandenong Youth Think Tank “It’s a place of opportunity. There’s an opportunity for everyone to express themselves.”

AMELA Dandenong

“Multiculturalism. All the different nationalities – there’s no other city has it as much as we do. All the different cultures – it’s beautiful.”

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Journal photographer Stewart Chambers took this award-winning photograph of Um Khalil in 2014.

Thankfully one thing never changed; our readers’ interest in photos has never waned…

ROB CAREW

Wearing robes and chains, he looks every bit like the modern day Mayor of Dandenong but he was, in fact, about to be officiated as the District Chief Ranger which was then described as a “high and honourable position” certainly worthy of the very first photograph in the Journal.

It is interesting that even then, the word ‘photo’ was already commonly used for ‘photograph’.

This tells us that by that stage photos had made their way into readers’ hearts and had become a popular part of everyday life.

In the romantic age of wooden

Rob Carew won best news photograph at this year’s Community Newspapers of Australia Awards with this poingnant shot of a blind ex-serviceman and his guide dog. cameras with bellows and light sensitive film, when photographers always wore hats and tripods were commonplace, a photographer was an elegantly dressed man about town who rubbed shoulders with the dignitaries and stalwarts of the day.

By 1911, the iconic Box Brownie

had already been a part of life for more than a decade.

Interestingly it is now about 10 years since the introduction of consumer digital cameras. After an entire century the only real change has been film to digital and paper to screens.

Everything else is just detail; improvements in cameras, lenses, the printing process and viewing platforms.

The next major development in newspaper printing was to be the introduction of colour and in October 1991 – 80 years after the first photo,

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What do you love about Greater Dandenong?

ZAKI

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News photographers can still head out every day with a spring in their step knowing that this is still the best job in the world…

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“It’s multicultural and there is lots of shops that I’m interested to buy from and there are some restaurants that I really like here – some Afghan restaurants.

I used to study at Chisholm TAFE here.

I love Dandenong because there’s low racism here. I feel comfortable.”

LACHLAN Carrum Downs

The first photograph to appear in the Journal in January 1911 of W.H.A Rodd.

Veteran Journal photographer Rob Carew.

the first colour advertisement appeared in the Journal.

In line with progress and new processes, newspaper photographers moved from the darkroom onto the editorial floor to join journalists and the editorial team.

Computer screens replaced en-

largers and the revolution of sending pictures wirelessly from the field has taken over – the age of online newspapers has arrived!

Newspaper photographers everywhere have embraced these amazing changes in particular the opportunity to communicate to the world

from anywhere and in ‘real time’.

Nevertheless, those of us who were lucky enough to have worked through this time of transition will forever miss the heady days of the darkroom.

The dark room was a mystical place to work and see your pictures come to life.

It was an inner sanctum, a place

to engage in lively conversations, and was generally heaps of fun... the home of the photographer, a room where journalist, editors and subs would find any reason to visit... it was a place of escape – a place where magic happened, another world.

Thankfully one thing never changed; our readers’ interest in photos has never waned.

In fact, today’s online audiences drive the need for increased photographic content which they consume in volumes never before seen.

Because of this, as they have done for more than a century, news photographers can still head out every day with a spring in their step knowing that this is still the best job in the world!

“The buildings. They look fabulous – the new ones at the square and the old one where the clock is.”

FRANCES Noble Park

“The people. Everyone here is just so friendly and welcoming. I only got here three months ago and everyone’s so nice.

I’m from Dublin.”

FRAIDON Noble Park

“It’s a nice area. I just came here from Sydney. I like the architecture and the environment. I like the library, as well.”

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CHRIS KET Noble Park

“I love the Greater Dandenong region for its cultural diversity and the variety of fresh food shopping. From the Springvale fish markets to the delicious Afghan charcoal kebabs in Dandenong, It’s a great place to live!”

PAUL KEARSLEY Greater Dandenong business group manager “Greater Dandenong to me represents a vibrant and exciting face of a truly multicultural society, one that we can all be proud of, one to promote to the rest of Australia and the world and one that I want my kids to enjoy and be part of.

The culture of Greater Dandenong is the people, the food, the festivals, the markets and the local businesses.”

PAM DYSON Noble Park Secondary College principal “What I love most about the City of Greater Dandenong is the diversity of cultures and how they are so harmonious and they celebrate those cultures together.

The food is also fantastic. I find the City of Greater Dandenong a very welcoming place with such wonderful people. I’m so lucky to be working in a school like this. The kids are so appreciative. I’m privileged to be in this position.”

City’s colourful character FORMER Dandenong mayor Frank Holohan has long been an avid reader of the Journal.

He was first featured in the paper when he and wife Majella were married in 1962.

Frank also appeared regularly during his local government career, even belting out a fortnightly column called The City Speaks on his typewriter during his mayoral term.

A collaboration with editor John Woods in 1985 produced the Journal’s first colour front page.

“The colour page came about because of an agreement with John Woods that if I could get $10,000 from Nissan he would place the announcement on the front page in colour,” Frank said.

“Well, Nissan came good with $10,000 as the main sponsor and on that day we raised over $50,000.”

Frank said John Woods was always referred to as “the 13th councillor as he always seemed to get the inside information”.

Frank’s favourite part of the paper has always been It’s None of Our Business But… However, one thing still puzzles him.

“Where John Woods and his sidekicks got their information from is one of the many mysteries that have been around Dandenong for many years. I may have to plead guilty to a few leaks!

“The Journal always had a photographer at all functions and events and on the Monday when we got to council an envelope would be on our desk with large black and white copies for us to keep.

Frank Holohan with the first Journal colour front page.

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It is my belief that the Journal was a friend to all councillors and staff in the years I was in council… FRANK HOLOHAN

“Some of us got lots, particularly if you were the mayor.

“One year the joke was that the Journal was printed on the back of my photograph.

“It is my belief that the Journal was a friend to all councillors and staff in the years I was in council.

“The reporting was always fair and responsible and, whilst sometimes we may not have liked it, if

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“What of that wonderful lady Marg Stork. She would, on many occasions, ring the mayoress of the day and just talk to her while putting together for publication the events that had been happening.

“She would always remember special events in your life that

needed to be remembered so another phone call would take place even many years after my retirement from council.

“It is great now to see the masthead of the Journal in its present form with news and sport in the Dandenong area back in print.

“In the past glory days of the Journal, Dandenong sporting activities, in particular Dandenong Football Club’s great days in the VFA, gave great reports of all the goings on.

“What a pleasure it is to now go to the paper holder out front each week and take out the Journal and sit in the sun and catch up on all the local events.”

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God was by our side

What do you love about Greater Dandenong?

LEANNE McREADY

❚ Cam Lucadou-Wells A CAR torn in two by a train at a Noble Park level crossing, its driver Michael Bojic, 23, emerged relatively unscathed after being cut out of the mangled wreck which was dragged 200 metres down the track.

Sharon Harris, who was first to come to the man’s aid, understandably has vivid memories of that surreal scene back on a Monday morning, 4 June 1984.

Ms Harris – who was described as a Dandenong “housewife” by the Journal at the time – had been knitting with a friend aboard the citybound train when it struck the car at the Corrigan Road crossing.

The crossing in those days was without boom gates.

“I felt a bump and looked out the window. There was car everywhere.”

She jumped from the train, tending to the trapped driver in “just a little bit of car” as hundreds of people looked on.

“People said ‘get out’ because the car had started to catch fire but I wouldn’t leave him.

“I saw him move and tried to keep him alert, to keep him conscious.”

The Journal reported in its front page splash of the incident that Ms Harris prayed for the man and tried to release his tension by holding his head.

“I prayed to God for the strength to hold him, and I prayed to God for Him to help the young man,” she told the Journal at the time.

“It was God who gave me the strength to do what I did.”

Greater Dandenong Retail Development Co-ordinator “The food and cultural diversity! It is always a challenge making a decision as to what to eat with the delicious, culturally-diverse authentic food offerings here. Lebanese, Afghan, Thai, Polish, Uyghur, Indian, African, Sri Lankan, Turkish … to name just a few.

That is why the council set up the Food and Cultural tours to give locals and visitors an insight into those hidden food and cultural gems.”

DAWN VERNON Greater Dandenong Neighbourhood Watch Sharon Harris with the Journal clipping of the crash. 142384 Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS Ms Harris reveals now that an emergency officer said they would not be able to save Mr Bojic’s legs.

He was incredibly proved wrong.

“The pieces of car were wrapped around his legs,” Ms Harris said.

“When they got him out of the car, his legs were not damaged at all.

They couldn’t believe it.”

Mr Bojic, when interviewed in hospital by the Journal, said he’d been “out of action” for two weeks due to an earlier car crash.

Sporting fractured ribs and a sore shoulder and head, he said: “I was driving back from seeing the company doctor to get an all-clear to re-

turn to work when the train accident happened.

“The doctor passed me as fit to return to work on light duties.”

Ms Harris said she later brought flowers to Mr Bojic in hospital.

She was surprised to hear him “bragging” that it was the second time he had been struck by a train.

The Journal soon after did a follow-up story, Ms Harris said, about the man’s failure to say thank you to his rescuer.

Twenty-one years down the track, there are plans to grade separate Corrigan Road’s level crossing which should eventually avoid a repeat of such horrific accidents.

How the crash was reported in the Journal.

“Well there is so much – we have everything. We are so close to the city, the Dandenongs – hills, beach, freeways, etcetera. We have a great market. I have been attending each week since I was only 2 – I’m now 69. I buy all my fresh fish, fruit and vegetables there. We have so many great places to eat – the variety from all countries in the world is amazing. I love that so many people from other countries choose to live here.

I had my dancing school for over 33 years in the City of Greater Dandenong.

I held my concerts for many years, too at the old Dandenong Town Hall – now the great Drum Theatre where my husband Reg and I are members attending many top-rate shows. We have a great hospital, one of the best in Victoria – three of my children were born there.”

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“The things I love about Greater Dandenong are: childhood memories and immediate family history; commenced my working career in Dandenong (and now back there after 20 years); food options; multiculturalism and the significant development over the past few years.”

AMBERLE SEIDL Noble Park North

“I like the new buildings that are going up as part of Revitalising Greater Dandenong, but I do miss the palm trees in Dandenong Plaza and Lonsdale Street.”

CONN CHRISTOFOROU Noble Park

“The one thing I hate with a passion in Victoria is the City of Melbourne. In Greater Dandenong, there’s no need for me to go to the city. Within 10 to 12 kilometres there’s everything I need.

There’s theatre, there’s shopping centres, there’s restaurants, local football …

I don’t need to go to the city.”

Original social media FOR Joy Kent the weekly publication of the Dandenong Journal was a social event.

As a young secretary at stock agent Dan Godfey and Co. in the 1950s, Joy would leave her office in Clow Street and join the line of people queuing outside the Journal’s Scott Street office.

“After finishing work at 5pm you’d line-up outside the old office in Scott Street to buy the Journal before you went home. You’d meet friends there and talk,” Joy recalled.

“Everyone read the Journal and all your friends read it. Everyone bought it. That’s how you knew who was having a kitchen tea and when the dances were on.”

Joy (nee Bramich), was born at Murray House, the forerunner to the Dandenong Hospital, and grew up in a house in Power Street. Her dad worked for the State Electricity Commission.

She attended Dandenong Primary School and after completing her education at Malvern Girls College, Joy returned to Dandenong to work at Godfrey and Co. Another weekly task was delivering the stock reports to the Journal office so they could appear in the next paper.

Joy met her husband Ray Kent through her work and naturally the couple’s engagement, kitchen tea and wedding all appeared in the Journal.

They were married on 21 February 1959 at the Methodist Church in Scott Street.

Ray grew up on a Cranbourne farm Maintop, where Settlers Run

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Legendary Journal reporter Marg Stork wrote the story on the couple’s wedding under the heading ‘Autumn rosebud bouquets’ noting that the “bride chose a beautiful Empireline gown of heavy faille, encrusted on the moulded bodice with traceries of hand-embroidered pearls”.

And that when they returned from their honeymoon, “the young couple will be at home to friends at 15 Barnett Grove, Noble Park”.

The couple lived in Barnett Grove for 19 years, raising three daughters – twins Bronwyn and Sharon, and Carolyn.

They then shifted around the corner into Gatcum Court, where they

resided for 36 years, before making a final move to the Long Island Retirement Village in Seaford last September.

Since retiring they have enjoyed caravanning trips throughout Australia and spending time with their six grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.

They are parishioners at the Noble Park Uniting Church and members of the Springvale Garden Club.

They were keen members of the historic Dandenong Croquet Club until its recent closure.

The couple still like to read the Journal and pick it up whenever they are in Greater Dandenong.

“I still remember (the Journal’s) Scott Street office,” Joy said.

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GREATER Dandenong 2015 Citizen of the Year Bev Douglas admits she feels “hard done by” if her weekly Journal doesn’t arrive in her letterbox.

“I’ve been in the paper three times,” she said, ticking off the milestones on her fingers.

“When I was married in 1968, when Springvale High celebrated 50 years in 2004 and on 26 January this year.

“I do look forward to looking at the Journal to see what is going on.”

And now Bev can count a fourth appearance as she tells her story to help commemorate the Journal’s 150th anniversary.

Bev has lived in Springvale for 60 years and spoke to the Journal about how her beloved suburb had transformed through the decades.

“It has completely changed from what it was in 1954,” she said.

Bev was nine when she and her family moved from South Silvan to Springvale for her father’s work.

He was employed to help lay the gas pipeline from Morwell to Melbourne along the Princes Highway.

“It certainly was a culture shock,” remembered Bev. “We had been on a few acres and we suddenly moved to the suburbs with neighbours on the other side of the fence.

However, Springvale in those days wasn’t without its own rural charms.

“I remember looking out the kitchen window at cows grazing on the Sandown Park estate.

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“I love the different cultures.”

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“I love it’s diversity, people and culture. ”

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Bev and Bob’s wedding appeared in the Journal on 23 May 1963.

Bev Douglas and her husband Bob today.

“I also remember when Springvale Road was one lane of traffic in each direction.”

Bev married husband Bob on 16 March 1968. A report of their nuptials appeared in the Journal on 23 May under the headline ‘They worked for the same bank’.

Bev has a clipping from the paper carefully stored among other personal papers, retrieving it when she read the Journal was looking to interview couples whose weddings had appeared in the paper.

The newlyweds “moved from one side of the railway track to the other” when they bought a house off the plan in Hilton Avenue.

“We bought in Springvale mainly because my family was here and because it was a new estate we could afford to build.

“I like the area. Our children

took gymnastics, dance and music lessons there.

When they graduated to other pursuits, Bev stayed on as a volunteer. That was more than 30 years ago.

She says anyone who walks through the front door is welcomed by a “friendly face and a greeting” and pays tribute to the dedicated staff, who provide a range of courses and community services.

She said she was grateful to be named the city’s top citizen for 2015, especially for the light the award had shone on the work of all those associated with the activity centre.

When asked to reflect on what she loves most about Greater Dandenong she said the “good community spirit”.

It’s a spirit Bev Douglas has done more than most to nurture.

grew up here. At the time there were a lot of young children around the area.”

Bev credits the opening of the Enterprise migrant hostel as changing the face of Springvale, creating the multi-cultural melting pot which exits today.

“The hostel changed the dynamics of the area.

“When you look back at old school photos you can see the cultural make-up (of the students) in those photos changed completely.

“Enterprise contributed an enormous amount to that.”

Bev was named Citizen of the Year for her tireless contribution to the Springvale Learning and Activity Centre.

She became involved with the centre, which started as a youth club in 1945, through her children who

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Journal reporter Russell Bennett talks to his grandmother, Gwen Jarvis, widow of former mayor Maurie Jarvis, and one of the City of Greater Dandenong’s Living Treasures, about her memories of the town in which she built a life for her family.

What do you love about Greater Dandenong?

Friends were our life SOME of my favourite childhood memories stem from my grandparents’ old double-storey, brick house on Jones Road in Dandy West.

It’s the house they raised my mother and her three sisters in, and was the centre of our family’s universe for decades.

We’ve long been spread across the state, but when we all came together as one, giant family it was at grandma and grandpa’s.

It’s been a while, many years in fact, since my grandma has lived there.

Grandpa passed away in 2003 with grandma then moving into the Valley Village Mews on Stud Road and then, ultimately, out to Pakenham where she currently lives.

She’s 92 years old now but her memories of what made the area so great in her eyes are still as vivid as ever.

“I loved the centre of Dandenong because that’s where Maurie was in and around council,” grandma told me recently.

“Mainly where the city offices were and the park all around there.

“Seeing the shopping centre develop was nice, too, but I grew out of that in the finish because I couldn’t get myself around as well.”

But from what I could gather, grandma’s love of the city never stemmed from anything made out of bricks or mortar.

“All the contacts we had were great,” grandma said.

“We had so many contacts that when I stopped going to events, people wanted to make a fuss that I’d been in a lot of

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“I love the coffee at Ginger Jones in Dandenong.”

The people there were all good to me, and I was good to them…

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GWEN JARVIS things, but I didn’t want that attention.

“All the friends we had were great – they were my life. The people there were all good to me, and I was good to them.

That was a part of my happiness; the contact with all my friends there.”

Grandpa came home with a copy of the Journal every week – not just for he and grandma to forensically examine, but for the rest of the family as well.

My guess is that it was a way for them to make sure the family was still connected to the town.

“We read everything in it,” grandma said.

“Maurie always made a dash for the sport at the back and I made a dash – if I could get the paper from him – for the news.

“We had one of the leading newspapers and following what the news said if we went out we could always quote from the various stories what was happening in Dandenong and the surrounding district.

“All the Dandenong people could – where else would we get our information?”

“It’s quiet. I’m from Manchester so to me it’s quiet here.”

MEGHA DARSHAN Carnegie

“People are really friendly. There’s lots of yummy food. It has become much safer than it used to be. Three years ago there were police everywhere and I wondered if it was safe. I’m not really scared now. I work in Dandenong.”

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One of the City of Greater Dandenong’s Living Treasures, Gwen Jarvis was intertwined with the community through the Truby King Infant Welfare Centre, the Dandenong West Kindergarten and Primary School, the Girl Guides, the YWCA, Dandenong Trinity Uniting Church, and Wallara.

“I love the fact it’s multicultural, the fact that so many people can come together. I like the openness of the area, and its accessibility to shopping. It’s not claustrophobic like many other surburbs.”

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1834

1865

1875

1881

First white settler Joseph Hawdon arrived at Dandenong

The first edition of the South Bourke and Mornington Journal published

by Harvey Roulston in Richmond

Harvey Roulston sets up printing works in Lonsdale Street

Dandenong State School No. 1403 opened

“I live in Hastings and I come to Dandenong for the library. It’s worth the travel.”

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1872

1876

494 residents in Dandenong

First Agricultural Show held at the Dandenong Market yard in Lonsdale Street

Fire destroyed all old copies of South Bourke and Mornington Journal held in the Lonsdale Street printing works

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What do you love about Greater Dandenong?

RONALD ANSON Norden Body Works director “Dandenong has now become a very big industrial centre, possibly the biggest manufacturing hub in Australia.

Dandenong today is a very multicultural society with over 100 languages being spoken. I am very lucky to have been involved in the Noble Park and Dandenong district since 1935.”

1890 Dandenong Town Hall opened

1901 2,500 residents in Dandenong

“Dandenong’s perfect. I’ve lived in Chelsea, other places ... Dandenong’s better.”

SEAN O’REILLY Mayor

“Right across Greater Dandenong people are united, friendly and welcoming.

We have an exciting multicultural community who offer an outstanding array of food choices, shopping options, festivals and events.”

LORRAINE ROWE Dandenong North

“I’ve lived here all my life. I don’t like to move. There’s buses where I am. It’s easy to get around.”

1922

1920

1919

1911

Electricity poles appear in Lonsdale Street

4,000 residents in Dandenong

Dandenong High School opened

First photo appeared in the Journal of local citizen W.H.A. Rodd

1910

1900

1908

South Bourke and Mornington Journal moved to Scott Street Dandenong

Linotype machine Telephone exchange established in replaced hand the Post Office in Lonsdale Street. composition First subscriber is the Albion Hotel

JULIE-ANNE Costume Factory

WILMA SOUTHERN

1939

Dandenong Benevolent Society president “I live in Hallam but I’m here every day.

I love the library. It’s changing, the face of Dandenong is definitely changing.

Some for the better, some not. But it’s not finished yet. It will be lovely when it’s finished. I’ve been here 50 years.”

1976

Marg Stork, aged 15, volunteered at the Journal starting a 75-year career

1945

1958

1961

Greg Dickson bought the Dandenong Journal from William Bennett

Grenda’s Bus Services established in Dandenong

Cattle market shifted to Cheltenham Road

Rupert Murdoch bought the Journal from Greg Dickson

“I love that they love to have dress-up parties.”

The Dandenong Journal moved headquarters to Frankston - Dandenong Road

MAREE ROSE Dandenong Op Shop

“I love the shopping – bargains!”

BEVERLEY DOUGLAS Citizen of the Year

“II have lived here all my life. I feel safe here and love the community spirit typified by the work done by the staff and volunteers at the Springvale Learning and Activity Centre.”

1927

1942

1956

1959

1970

South Bourke and Mornington Journal became The Dandenong Journal from 1 September

Dandenong and District Hospital opened

GMH plant established in Dandenong

Dandenong proclaimed a City

40,000 residents in Dandenong

New Cattle and Produce Market erected on a site bound by Clow, Cleeland and King streets

Digital photography introduced at the Journal

Dandenong business leader

“The business community. The majority of the people in the business community are the salt of the eart types who are running successful businesses because they work really hard, they take calculated risks, they look after their people and they come up with really good ideas. People with those four characteristics I love. To me, that’s what Dandenong is. I love the food. I love going out every day for lunch. The variety and the value – I love that part of it. I love the new civic building. I think it’s fantastic.

Dandenong Op Shop

“I love Dandenong because of the plaza and everything is here, the train station, bus stop.”

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2000

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The City of Greater Dandenong is born, joining Dandenong and Springvale councils

KAYE PETERSON Berwick

“I’ve always loved Dandenong. I was brought up in Noble Park. I don’t know what it is that I like about it. I’ve always enjoyed shopping at the plaza.

2015

2014

2013

2006

1996

1983

The Journal celebrates its 150th anniversary

City of Greater Dandenong Civic Centre opened

Star News Group purchased the Dandenong Journal

The State Government started its $290 million Revitalising Greater Dandenong project

126,179 residents in the City of Greater Dandenong

Fairfax bought out Syme and Co, the then owner of the Journal

149,518 residents in the City of Greater Dandenong

DAEQUON MONTREAL Dandenong SEABL basketballer

Town Hall is renovated and becomes the Drum Theatre

Marg Stork died on 10 June

“What’s not to love about it. The food, culture the people. Feels like home for me now playing in my fourth season with the Rangers. ”

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Auction Terms Price Inspect Agent

Sat 15th Aug at 12pm 10% dep-bal 70/90 days $390,000+ Wednesday 4.30-5.00pm Saturday from 11.30am Dennis Tzortzoglou 0438 341 066

IMMACULATE 4 BED HOME ON PRIME DEVELOPMENT SITE Set on approx 700m2 with a Residential Growth Zone, this property is great to live in with the potential of high density townhouse development. Fantastic central location.

Alternatively retain existing home & build another at the rear. Uses are subject to planning permit. Existing home offers 4 brs, gas heated lounge, sep dining, as new quality kitchen with WO, HP & DW, large family room opens to covered deck & rear garden. Includes quality ittings & 2 RC split system a/cons. Garage also itted with large ofice.

Auction Terms Price Inspect Agent

Sat 15th Aug at 1pm 10% dep-bal 90 days $500,000+ Wednesday 4.30-5.00pm Saturday from 12.30pm Neil Butler 0411 637 088

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15.2 53 Peter Street Springvale GREAT HOME - GREAT NEIGHBOURHOOD WITH DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL (STP) Set on a rectangular 533m2 lot this charming & spacious 3 br home offers a great location & huge potential for families, developers & 1st home buyers. Features polished loorboards, gas ducted heating & ducted cooling for year round comfort. Spacious lounge opens to modern kitchen with gas cooking & lots of cupboards, rear sunroom also ideal for home business. large rear yard with garage. ideal potential for 2 double storey townhouses with street frontage (STP). Quiet location close to schools & station.

104 Power Road Doveton FIRST HOME OR SUIT DEVELOPER Auction Terms Price Inspect Agent

Sat 22nd Aug at 11am 10% dep - bal 90/120 days $450,000+ Saturday 2-2.30pm Dennis Tzortzoglou 0438 341 066

Set on a block size approx 590m2. This 3 bedroom home & land parcel features timber loors throughout & gas appliances. Needs cosmetic work but excellent potential here as a irst home, investment or possible multi unit site(STP). Close to shops, schools & transport. Don’t miss this opportunity.

Auction Terms Price Inspect Agent

Sat 22nd August at 1pm 10% dep - bal 30/60 days Contact Agent Thursday 5-5.30pm Saturday 2-2.30pm Chris Drieberg 0411 737 303

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9 Sedgwick Court Lynbrook

9 Henty Street Dandenong Central

A TRUE FAMILY SANCTUARY Set on 605m2 lot in a great location close to schools, shops & station, this as new residence will impress!

Offers formal lounge leading to quality kitchen itted with stainless steel gas cooking & dishwasher. Huge adjacent living area opens to impressive tiled & covered alfresco area & landscaped garden. 3 double bedroom accommodation with luxurious full ensuite & WIR to master. Internal access from double garage plus extra drive for boat, van or truck. Quality porcelain tiling & carpets, ducted heating, ducted cooling & RC air conditioning complete this excellent property.

Auction Terms Price Inspect Agent

Sat 22nd Aug at 2pm 10% dep-bal 30/60/90 days $450,000+ Thursday 4-4.30pm Saturday 11-11.30am Bob Milkovic 0422 504 106

DEVELOPER’S OPPORTUNITY! PERMIT APPROVED FOR 18 APARTMENTS Only minutes walk to the market, plaza & CBD this 740m2 site has approval for 12 x 2 bedroom apartments & 6 x 1 bedroom apartments. Architect designed complex with 3 level building & basement carpark. Avoid delays & extra costs with this “ready to go” site. Finished project will sell well in this popular location. Not affected by infrastructure levy. Plans available for inspection.

Auction Terms Price Inspect Agent

Sat 22nd Aug at 3pm Negotiable $850,000+

By Appointment Neil Butler 0411 637 088

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18 Knox Street Noble Park

79 Shetland Street Endeavour Hills

MAGNIFICENT 923m2 BLOCK PRIME LOCATION

RED HOT VALUE AS 1ST HOME OR INVESTMENT

Great opportunity for multi unit development (STP) or renovate this 7 bedroom home & make it your palace on the fringe of Noble Park CBD. Original brick home features 2 double bedrooms with ensuites downstairs plus one other. Large lounge & separate dining & rumpus. 4 bedrooms upstairs with balcony plus attic or storage. 3 bathrooms & 3 toilets, hardwood loors & ducted heating.

Huge backyard with in ground pool & storage sheds. A driveway long enough for 6 cars or 2 trucks. Ideal for extended family or prime development site (STP).

Auction Terms Price Inspect Agent

Sat 29th Aug at 11am 10% dep- bal 30/60 days Contact Agent Wednesday 5-5.30pm Saturday 3-3.30pm Chris Drieberg 0411 737 303

Well presented 3 bed BV on huge 1700m2 block. Freshly painted this home includes gas appliances, new carpet & tiling. Ample built in robes & access to bathroom from master. Large double carport & pergola area for outdoor entertaining. Huge backyard has space for double garage, pool or even tennis court.

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Auction Terms Price Inspect Agent

Sat 29th Aug at 1pm 10% dep - bal 30/60 days $400,000+ Saturday 3-3.30pm Dennis Tzortzoglou 0438 341 066

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29 Doveton Avenue Eumemmerring Close to schools, shops & freeway access, this well kept 3 bed BV is set on an elevated 730m2 block with outstanding views. Existing home features ducted heating & cooling, spacious lounge, separate kitchen with gas cooking & modern bathroom. Potential for dual occupancy or 3 unit development (STP). Genuine vendor will sell.

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ATTRACTIVE RANCH STYLE ON HUGE APPROX 900m2 LOT WITH DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL This home with a wide 30m frontage is sure to impress.

Offers lounge fitted with gas fired log heater, quality timber kitchen, tiled dining area & sep family room.

Functional open plan living areas, 3 brs with full ens to master. The bonus is d/cooling & solar panels to minimize your costs. Large rear garden with gazebo, dble garage & c/port & lots of parking space. Easy walk to all amenities.

Tenanted at $370pw till 15/5/16 to excellent tenants. Earn income while obtaining plans & permits. Potential to erect two units behind home (STP) or ample room to extend.

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TERRIFIC 1ST HOME OR POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT SITE (STP)

Sat 29th Aug at 12pm 10% dep - bal 30/60 days $380,000+ Wednesday 4-4.30pm Saturday 2-2.30pm Nigel Raymond 0425 721 593

34 William Hovell Drive Endeavour Hills

VALUE PACKED BV IN PRIME POSITION Located in popular Rosewood Downs this spacious well maintained BV is set on a 688m2 lot & backs onto Thirhatuan park. Offers spacious lounge with formal dining, adjacent kitchen with lots of cupboards, wall oven & gas hot plates, family area opens to immaculate rear garden & covered patio. 3 double bedrooms with BIRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s & access to bathroom from master. Potential to also install an ensuite off master. Other extras include ducted gas heating, air conditioning, security doors & shutters & enormous high clearance double garage. Fantastic opportunity here!

Auction Terms Price Inspect

Auction Terms Price Inspect Agent

Sat 5th Sept at 11am 10% dep - bal 30/60 days $450,000+ Tuesday 5.00-5.30pm Saturday 11-11.30am Chris Drieberg 0411 737 303

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66 Somerset Drive Rosewood Downs Auction Terms Price Inspect Agent

Sat 5th Sept at 12pm 10% dep - bal 120 days $370,000+ Saturday 3-3.30pm Neil Butler 0411 637 088

LOCATION, DESIGN & VIEWS COMBINE FOR A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY Created by the original owner this individual open plan home offers a fantastic opportunity. Set on a 650m2 lot with direct access to Tirhatuan Park, the plan offers huge formal lounge & dining, large cupboard packed kitchen itted with WO, HP & DW, opens to enormous family/ rumpus room. Sliding doors open to surrounding covered deck for outdoor entertaining. Fitted with ducted heating & commercial grade air conditioning the home features full length windows to capture the uninterrupted views over the park & the Dandenongs.

Auction Terms Price Inspect Agent

Sat 5th Sept at 1pm 10% dep - bal 30/60 days $500,000+ Saturday 3-3.30pm Bob Milkovic 0422 504 106

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Modern Living at its Finest

Location, location, location!

These brand new apartments make a fantastic first home, investment or home to downsize into.

This very well presented 2 bedroom unit is ideal for any investor, first home buyer or anyone who is looking to downsize in the heart of Dandenong. Positioned within a short distance to schools, public transport services and central Dandenongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amenities including market and plaza.

Conveniently positioned within walking distance to public transport services and both primary and secondary schools.

All apartments comprise 2 bedrooms with the master bedroom encompassing a modern en suite and both bedrooms providing built in robes.

From the moment you walk through the front door you are sure to appreciate the good sized open plan living area, including two great sized bedrooms, one bathroom, one separate toilet, spacious kitchen including plenty of cupboard space, gas wall heater, electric stove and one single lock up garage.

With modern necessities which include open plan living, meals and kitchen areas, excellent sized balconies in all apartments. With the opportunity to still claim the $10,000 First Home Owners Grant, these apartments need to be on your shopping list.

With just 3 on the block there is no worries regarding Body corporate. This unit will satisfy the most fastidious buyer.

Inspection will impress. CALL TODAY!

PRICE: From $295,000 INSPECT: Wednesday 12th of August 2015 4:15pm-5:15pm Saturday 15th of August 2015 2:00pm-3:00pm

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FOR SALE: 149A Princes Highway Dandenong Ranko Delibasic : 0422 991 375 e: ranko.delibasic@delrealestate.com.au

PRICE: $260,000 plus INSPECT: Saturday 15th of August 2015 12:00pm-12:30pm

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FOR SALE: 2/74 James Street Dandenong Neb Delibasic : 0411 332 467 e: neb.delibasic@delrealestate.com.au

Ranko Delibasic : 0422 991 375 e: ranko.delibasic@delrealestate.com.au

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Raine&Horne Dandenong

9793 9793

Shop 101 Dandenong Plaza, 23 - 57 Walker Street, Dandenong

1/16 Stud Road, Dandenong

11/57 Clow Street, Dandenong

15 Menzies Avenue, Dandenong

3 Lowanna Street, Berwick

GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR FIRST HOME BUYERS AND INVESTORS. Last Unit on a big block on Stud Road, Situated in the heart of Dandenong For Sale View

By Appointment Agent Pradeep Ahuja 0408 160 701 Price $230,000-$250,000

The best 3 Bedrooms unit in the complex.

Made of Double brick with car space reserved is very safe for families even though it is Bang opposite Dandenong Plaza.

For Sale View Saturdays 12:45pm-1:15pm Agent Pradeep Ahuja 0408 160 701 Price $240,000-$250,000

ARE YOU READY TO MULTIPLY MONEY? 923sqm land with 4 units plan & permits approved (3 town houses & 1 single storey) ready to be built and multiply your money.

For Sale View Saturdays 11:00am - 11:30am Agent Pradeep Ahuja 0408 160 701 Price $665,000-$680,000

This immaculate 4 bedroom + study with double garage-is designed for a family to be very comfortable, land area 576sqm, In Berwick School Zone, Inspection a must.

For Sale View

By Appointment Agent Pradeep Ahuja 0408 160 701 Price $675,000 Plus Buyers

32 Lexton Avenue, Dandenong

5 Blossom Drive, Doveton

5/16 Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Malley Cres, Dandenong Nth

10/44 Potter Street, Dandenong

686 SQM EVEN SIZE LAND, WITH A 3 BEDROOM HOUSE IN GOOD CONDITION. LIVE, RENOVATE, DEVELOP OR SUBDIVIDE, YOUR CHOICE. For Sale View Saturdays 1:00pm-1:30pm Agent Pradeep Ahuja 0408 160 701 Price $440,000-$460,000

Priced to sell. This 655 sqm land having 3 bedroom house,suits investors to grab this large land for future developments, Tenanted at $305 per week For Sale View

By Appointment Agent Pradeep Ahuja 0408 160 701 Price $350,000 Plus Buyers

This solid brick residence has separate living and dining area, 3 good sized bedrooms, large laundry , a large private courtyard, perfect for entertaining family and friends.

For Sale View Saturdays 11:45am-12:30pm Agent Hanna Dang 0426 160 701 Price $330,000-$340,000

Sweet and simple, two bedroom unit, features electric cooking, gas heating, separate living area, separate kitchen with adjoining dining area very generously sized bedrooms For Lease View Wed 11:20-11:35am Sat 12:05-12:20pm Agent Mickey Ahuja 0428160701 Price $280 per week

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118 Walker st dandenong P: 9791 5922 F: 9792 2536

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Dandenong North

Dandenong

66 HuGHes cRescent

AN ENTERTAINER’S PARADISE!

Beautifully renovated four bedroom home featuring two separate indoor living areas, modern kitchen with quality appliances including dishwasher, renovated bathroom, decked front porch, decked undercover entertainment area, bar hut, Bali gazebo with table and seating, five car garage plus carport and workshop, ducted heating, evaporative cooling and many more features. Walk to schools, shops, parkland and bus stop. Minutes drive to Dandenong CBD, Freeway access and train station.

ENJOY LIFE HERE!

auction: saturday, 15th august, 2015 @ 12:30pm (if not sold prior) oPen: sold!!! PRioR to auction!

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Exhibiting modern, spacious elegance and modern luxury, this 69 square (approx.) home offers such a variety of living spaces and functionality, it’s difficult to know where to start. Formal lounge and separate dining room, huge family area with meals area and chef’s kitchen with granite benchtops, glass splashback and a full range of high quality stainless steel appliances. There is also a large bedroom downstairs, big bathroom with spa bath and toilet and internal access to the four car garage. Four additional bedrooms upstairs with full ensuite and a huge walk in robe to the master bedroom plus two additional bathrooms, three toilets and balcony. Features include central cooling and heating, high ceilings, downlights, extensive use of feature floor tiles and quality window furnishings throughout.

FoR sale: $950,000 to $1,150,000 oPen: tues 4:00pm to 4:30pm & sat 11:00am to 11:30am

Dandenong North

4/21 GRaHam-micHele Place

THERE’S NO TIME TO LOSE!

This well designed three bedroom, two bathroom townhouse is set in a quiet court but is just a quick walk to Parkmore Shopping Centre, the famous Shark Finn Inn restaurant, Eastlink access and more! Downstairs has two living areas and direct access to the garage while upstairs contains the three bedrooms, bathroom and ensuite. Private backyard with rear gate to access the shops and there is a children’s playground close by so everyone has their own space.

IDEAL INVESTMENT OR MOVE RIGHT IN!

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NOTHING TO DO BUT MOVE IN!

If you are searching for a home that has been well cared for and fully maintained over the years then this is the one for you! Three bedrooms, a central bathroom, a separate lounge and a timber kitchen with tiled meals area will provide your family with a fantastic environment in which to grow. The Axminster carpets are virtually indestructible but if you prefer timber floors, it’s just a matter of removing the carpets. Outside is a lock up garage, porch, vegie patch and room for the kids. Close to schools, transport, churches and more!

LOCATION IS THE KEY!

FoR sale: $469,000 oPen: thurs 4:00pm to 4:20pm & sat 1:15pm to 1:45pm

FoR sale: $419,950 oPen: thurs 3:30pm to 3:50pm & sat 10:30am to 10:50am

Dandenong Central

20 Raymond stReet

MODERN - SPACIOUS - ELEGANCE!

Dandenong

2/17 GRant stReet

HIDDEN TREASURE IN THE HEART OF TOWN!

This renovated three bedroom home in central Dandenong is the ideal property for those looking for a maintenance free property within walking distance of Dandenong Market, Plaza and railway station. Bright open living area with a garden outlook and access to the covered verandah for year round entertaining. New timber bench tops in the kitchen, neutral floor cover throughout and three bedrooms with a central bathroom. Add to this a garage, well designed brick paved gardens and an easy to handle yard size.

IT'S BIGGER THAN IT APPEARS!

2/31 Gladstone Road

VALUE FOR MONEY!

Spacious two bedroom unit located in the popular St Gerards School precinct. Offers renovated kitchen and bathroom, polished floors, tiled wet areas, large master bedroom, double shower cubicle in bathroom, all gas appliances, air conditioning, aluminium windows, roller blinds, security doors, private backyard and carport. Walk to schools, shops and transport. Quick access to Eastlink. Potential rental of $280.00 per week.

ONE OF ONLY THREE ON THE BLOCK!

FoR sale: $412,500 oPen: Wed 3:30pm to 4:00pm & sat 11:45am to 12:15pm

FoR sale: $260,000 to $280,000 oPen: Wed 3:00pm to 3:30pm & sat 11:15am to 11:45am

Dandenong

Dandenong

12/151 PRinces HiGHWay

MAKE A START HERE!

Tucked away at the back of this block of apartments is this ground floor home which would be an ideal first investment or residence for those who are on an entry level budget. It features an extra large bedroom with built in robes, neat lounge kitchen/meals area, combined bathroom/laundry and timber floor boards. Conveniently located within minutes walk to Dandenong CBD, train station and many other facilities. Bus stop at your doorstep.

INVEST OR NEST!

FoR sale: $180,000 to $195,000 oPen: Wed 4:00pm to 4:30pm & sat 10:30am to 11:00am

Dandenong

1/17 Grant street

2/46 King street

CORNER SITE!

What an opportunity! This 1950's style three bedroom timber home will suit the first home buyers with renovation skills OR the builder/developer wanting a multi unit site (STCA). Walk to the City centre and Schools in minutes!

IMPROVE YOUR LOT!

FoR sale: $320,000 to $350,000 oPen: Wed 3:00pm to 3:30pm

GREAT INVESTMENT OR FIRST HOME!

Located in the heart of the Dandenong CBD close to all amenities, this has a lot to offer! Featuring two good size bedrooms with built in robes, renovated kitchen and bathroom, new carpets and private carport.

LOCATION MATTERS!

FoR sale: $210,000 plus oPen: Wed 4:15-4:45pm & sat 12:30-1:00pm 1194665

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Winter certainly warmed up with 27 sales and a massive 63 listings for July!

Call our ofices today for a FREE market appraisal.

2/3 Trainor Court NOBLE PARK

1/17 Loller Street SPRINGVALE

1/29A Mackay Street SPRINGVALE SOUTH

14 Maroubra Avenue NOBLE PARK

6/7 Baileyana Drive ENDEAVOUR HILLS

1/10 Craig Street NOBLE PARK

13 Wallace Avenue DANDENONG

10 Janmara Court DANDENONG NORTH

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2/4 Jason Court NOBLE PARK

22 Theodore Avenue NOBLE PARK

SALES IN JULY

All sales made by Noble Park & Keysborough ofices.

5 Acland Court NOBLE PARK

9/467 Princes Highway NOBLE PARK

17 Ellt Crescent NOBLE PARK

4/2 Duncan Court NOBLE PARK

2/927 Heatherton Road

40 Shepreth Avenue NOBLE PARK

4 Abbey Court NOBLE PARK

SPRINGVALE SOUTH

20 Wall Street NOBLE PARK

6 Pearce Court NOBLE PARK NORTH

113A Church Road KEYSBOROUGH

1 Carson Street DANDENONG

11 McMahen Street KEYSBOROUGH

10 Frangipani Close ENDEAVOUR HILLS

10 Domain Drive KEYSBOROUGH

1/143 Noble Street NOBLE PARK

13 Surrey Close HALLAM

1/26 Noble Street NOBLE PARK

Disclaimer: Information contained herein is believed to be accurate at time of printing.

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DANDENONG NORTH 10 EASTON COURT Perfection for a large family - that is what’s on offer in this exceptionally grand home. You will be pleasantly surprised with this sublime entertainer in a prized court location which showcases space, style, seclusion and flexibility. This stunning home welcomes you to a magnificent wide frontage sitting on a block of approximately 994sq of gloriousness.

Welcoming you to a wide hallway, 5 BDRs (ensuites to 2 bedrooms), family bathroom, superbly zoned formal living, elegant library area, dining room, family room, kitchen and laundry. Step outside and enjoy BBQs in the immaculate gardens with family and friends.

Watch the kids run around on the massive lawn and enjoy the variety of fruits from the trees in the back yard. It’s the perfect setting for any sized family celebration.

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Saturday 22nd August at 12pm Contact Agent Thurs 5 - 5:30pm & Sat 2:30 - 3pm Photo ID required Jenny Sudra 0422 991 593 Tim Stickley 0409 215 540 NOBLE PARK / SPRiNgvale 8 7 1 0 0 0 0 0

Terms: 10% Deposit. Balance by Nov 8th, 2015 or after Jan 22nd, 2016

NOBLE PARK NORTH 2 POWIS COURT

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NOBLE PARK 2 ROMSEY STREET

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This home is destined to have real appeal on inspection with its presentation, great location and affordability. This light, bright and comfortable property features a huge lounge/dining and study area, kitchen with meals area, 3 bedrooms, laundry and bathroom. Step outside and watch the kids run around freely in the front gardens and backyard, entertain in the courtyard, plus a long driveway, carport for 2 cars & 2 open spaces for parking and a shed.

This spacious home sitting on an allotment of 731sq (approx) of prime residential land (Residential Growth Zone) provides great opportunity for developers wanting to secure their next project in a great location or buyers seeking the perfect investment for great rewards in the future. This weatherboard home features a spacious lounge, kitchen/ meals area, 3 bedrooms & a bathroom. Step outside and enjoy the big backyard, pergola, shed and more car parking spaces.

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Saturday 15th August at 1pm Contact Agent 10% Deposit. Balance 30/60 Days.

Sat 12:30 - 1pm Photo ID required Jenny Sudra 0422 991 593 Noble Park / SPriNgvale 8 7 1 0 0 0 0 0

PRICE TERMS INSPECT CONTACT

Saturday 22nd August at 2pm Contact Agent 10% Deposit. Balance 60/90 Days Thurs 1 - 1:30pm & Sat 11 - 11:30am Photo ID required Jenny Sudra 0422 991 593 Tim Stickley 0409 215 540 Noble Park / SPriNgvale 8 7 1 0 0 0 0 0

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Tucked in this quiet street in the Harrisfield pocket is this gem of a home – a versatile and unique find in the area. This original home is in great condition, but on a block size of 617m2 (approx) you have the choice to either renovate for a lifestyle of luxury or redevelop and build multiple dwellings (STCA). Whichever way you view it, you’ll be pleased with your future prospects.

DO NOT JUDGE BY THE COVER – if you do, you’ll miss out on one of the most fascinating, well planned and renovated homes in the area. It’s freshly revitalized for an easy living lifestyle. Beyond the elevated entry and porch, you will find solid timber floors throughout, three good size bedrooms with BIRs, a modern living with dining, open kitchen & a refreshed bathroom. Plus if you love to entertain, the undercover timber decked alfresco has plenty of room & overlooks the yard.

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Saturday 15th August at 11am Contact Agent 10% Deposit. Balance 30/60 Days.

Sat 10:30 -11am Photo ID required Kush Chetri 0425 199 192 Nalaka Weerakoon 0414 445 403 NOBLE PARK / SPRINGVALE 8710 0000

PRICE TERMS INSPECT CONTACT

Saturday 15th August at 12:30pm Contact Agent 10% Deposit. Balance 30/60 Days.

Sat 12 - 12:30pm Photo ID required Kush Chetri 0425 199 192 Nalaka Weerakoon 0414 445 403 NOBLE PARK / SPRINGVALE 8710 0000

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NOBLE PARK 59 MOODEMERE STREET Magnificently located & with attractive charm all through this residence, this home sits nicely on a spacious allotment of 575m2 (approx). Consisting of 3 spacious BDRs with BIRs, double garage, central bathroom, open plan meals & kitchen plus a stunningly neat backyard - perfect for outdoor events.

NOBLE PARK NORTH 4 AHERN STREET

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Nestled in “one of the best pockets in the South East” this must be on your radar.

The is on an elevated block consisting of 18m frontage & 30m length (approx) & has a WOW factor. Stepping inside you have everything you would expect from a cosy 3 BDR home, hardwood floors, ducted heating & roller shutters. It also has a good kitchen with meals area, a large lounge room while outside you’ll notice the huge pergola area - perfect for entertaining & family functions.

METHOD PRICE TERMS INSPECT CONTACT

Saturday 22nd August 11am $450,000+ 10% Deposit. Balance 90 Days Sat 12:20 - 12:40pm Photo ID required Mehmet Atesel 0419 333 553 Nalaka Weerakoon 0414 445 403 NOBLE PARK / SPRINGVALE 8710 0000

Saturday 15th August at 2pm INSPECT Sat 1:30 - 2pm PRICE $420,000+ TERMS 10% Deposit. Balance 30/60 Days.

CONTACT Kush Chetri 0425 199 192 NOBLE PARK / SPRINGVALE 8710 0000

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NOBLE PARK 1/5 DUNCAN COURT Neat as a pin, recently refreshed & with street frontage this is a home you would love to own.

Consisting of a spacious lounge, kitchen with an abundance of cupboards, a generous BDR with two mirrored BIR & updated bathroom, heating, carport and separate laundry that leads to a neat rear yard.

Tuesday 18th August at 5pm INSPECT Sat 10 - 10:20am Photo ID required PRICE $190,000+ CONTACT Kush Chetri 0425 199 192 NOBLE PARK / SPRINGVALE 8710 0000

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KEYSBOROUGH 9 HEDGELEY ROAD

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If you need space in every direction with ample parking on a block size of 666m2 (approx), this is for you! If you want to easily entertain in any weather condition in multiple areas inside & out, this is for you! If you want to be positioned in a quiet court with everything at your fingertips, this is for you! This Keysie classic has everything you’ll ever need, has so much to offer & is filled with plenty of hidden extras. For space, convenience & an easy living future, this it THE ONE!

“Wow” & “How’s The Serenity”. This home has not only been ‘renovated’ it has been lovingly decorated over the years to provide the vendors with every luxury & mod-con possible. The beauty of this home is the work has been done & you can move in immediately with your family and enjoy your new lifestyle. Features of this home include 3 BDRs with BIRs, spa, Western Red Cedar Hot tub, heated pool, Balinese outdoor weather proof entertaining area with Mirboo decking + more!

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Tuesday 18th August at 5pm unless sold prior $500,000+ Thurs 5 - 5:30pm & Sat 1 - 1:30pm Photo ID required Chang Wang 0450 706 668 Chee-ky Dunlop 0422 910 881 KEYSBOROUGH 8769 1888

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Saturday 15th August at 12pm $450,000+ 10% Deposit. Balance 30/60 Days.

Sat 11:30am - 12pm Photo ID required Jessejames Mariñas 0431 108 933 Chee-ky Dunlop 0422 910 881 KEYSBOROUGH 8769 1888

DANDENONG 9 EVERITT STREET

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You won’t believe it until you step inside – this home feels like it never ends.

Perched behind the white picket fence sits this lengthy home that stretches from beginning to end. The front half of the home is made up of the huge carpeted living and dining area + 2 carpeted BDRs & bathroom. But when you make it to the open kitchen, you’ll love the space in front of you. With the timber finishes in the kitchen, additional dining area, a 3rd bedroom + the 2nd living with direct access to the rear.

This beautiful modern home reveals an emphasis on style & a focus on light filled rooms throughout a welcoming floor-plan. This three BDR + study, 2 bathroom home has it all - MSTR with WIR & full en suite, BDRs with mirrored BIRs, central bathroom & study / 4th BDR. The open kitchen boasts caesarstone bench tops, plus has a relaxed lifestyle with separate living & dining areas and has access to the paved courtyard for easy indoor - outdoor entertainment.

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Tuesday 18th August at 5pm unless sold prior $490,000+ Sat 12 - 12:30pm Photo ID required Gadas Lamsodis 0423 884 819 Chee-ky Dunlop 0422 910 881 KEYSBOROUGH 8769 1888

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Saturday 29th August at 11:30am $450,000+ 10% Deposit. Balance 30/60 Days.

Sat 3 - 3:30pm Photo ID required Jessejames Mariñas 0431 108 933 KEYSBOROUGH 8769 1888

NOBLE PARK 390 Princes Highway 8710 0000 | KEYSBOROUGH 1/ 320 Cheltenham Road 8769 1888 PROUDLY SERVICING: Springvale • Endeavour Hills • Dingley • Waterways

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Come one and come all this lovely villa unit is perfect for first home buyers, investors, and those looking to downsize. This recently refurbished 2 BDR unit with BIR is so close to all amenities & is screaming out to the right buyer. Step inside this immaculately presented and light filled home and be pleasantly surprise with good size lounge, floorboards, LED down lights in living, ceiling fan, GDH, fresh paints, updated kitchen with gas appliances & bathroom – just move in!

Ladies & gentleman, THIS IS IT!!! A whopping 942m2 (approx) of outstanding land in a perfectly secluded, yet safe & central locale – the future site of multiple dwellings for the wise purchaser. With a huge 19 metre frontage, plenty of length to the rear fence and everything in between, this block is primed and ready for you to develop (STCA). It’s easily within walking distance of schools, parks and the station, all which make this large allotment the purchase where you can reap the rewards!

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Saturday 29th August at 11am $290,000+ 10% Deposit. Balance 30/60 Days.

Sat 11 - 11:30am Photo ID required Chien Le 0403 342 809 NOBLE PARK / SPRINGVALE 8710 0000

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Saturday 5th September at 11am $600,000+ 10% Deposit. Balance 30/60 Days.

Sat 1:30 - 2pm Photo ID required Belinda Robbie 0414 335 696 Nalaka Weerakoon 0414 445 403 NOBLE PARK / SPRINGVALE 8710 0000

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you can rely on our red carpet experience At Barry Plant we put you first. We will make selling your home a pleasant experience by taking you through a process so that you know exactly what to expect, when and why. (It’s called our red carpet experience.) And when it’s sold you’ll be very happy you chose an agent who made the sale of your home so smooth. To find out more or to arrange a free appraisal of your home, talk to us today.

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SPRINGVALE 56 STEPHENSON STREET

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What an opportunity - Dual Occupancy potential on 673sqm (STCA) & just moments from Springvale Central! Comprising 2 spacious bedrooms with BIRs, large formal lounge room, kitchen with adjoining dining area, air conditioning, heating, gas cook top & hot water, bright central bathroom, separate laundry & toilet, lock up garage, huge backyard offering plenty of room to build another one (STCA). The possibilities are endless!

METHOD PRICE TERMS INSPECT CONTACT

Saturday 5th September at 11am $470,000+ 10% Deposit. Balance 30-90 Days Sat 12 - 12:30pm Photo ID required Lee Phuong 0402 660 880 Tim Stickley 0409 215 540 NOBLE PARK / SPRINGVALE 8710 0000

NOBLE PARK 390 Princes Highway 8710 0000 | KEYSBOROUGH 1/ 320 Cheltenham Road 8769 1888 PROUDLY SERVICING: Springvale • Endeavour Hills • Dingley • Waterways

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Carlisle Home Atlantique 32 Mk II

Offers multiple family living areas and outdoor entertaining spaces • Evaporative cooling/heating throughout, 7.1 Daikin split Reverse to living areas • 3 living areas/Alfresco entertaining area with Merbau decking and cafe blinds • Situated in a highly desirable location close to prestigious schools, Tatterson Park with its woodlands and wetlands, golf courses, Parkmore Shopping Centre.

KEYSBOROUGH 182 Keylana Drive

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Auction: 22/08/2015 @ 2pm 10% Deposit Settlement 30/60/90Days Inspect: Sat 1:30pm - 2:00pm Contact: Corey (Khoi) Le 0417 311 491 Varun Ahuja 0404 954 492

$770,000+ Sat 12:30pm - 1:00pm Wed 5:30pm - 6:00pm Contact: Corey (Khoi) Le 0417 311 491 Varun Ahuja 0404 954 492

SPRINGVALE 13 Ellen Street

Wow! Location and Quality!

Conveniently located within walking distance of vibrant Springvale Central, this attractive home is also within close proximity of a vast array of desired amenities.

• 2.7m high ceilings, double size bedrooms premium carpets • Spacious lounge/ducted heating/ac cooling Roller shutters • Botanical garden/vegie patch/ water tanks First time on market, make it yours call us now.

SPRINGVALE 109/31B Buckingham Ave

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$350,000+ Saturday 3:00 - 3:30pm Photo ID Required Contact: Corey (Khoi) Le 0417 311 491 Varun Ahuja 0404 954 492

Potential for Dual Income - Endorsed DANDENONG 2/13 Falkiner Cres Plans Rear Unit

Close to Dandenong Hospital, Primary schools, Dandenong Oasis, parks and walking tracks this home would be suitable for singles or young families looking for a safe tranquil place to call home.

• Featuring 2 comfortably sized bedrooms with wall to wall carpet and built in robes, a kitchen itted with gas cooking and breakfast bench, and adjoining L shaped Lounge.

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Private 2 Bedrooms Home in Great Location

Built on an allotment of 602m2 approx. land (16.3m x 37m), great potential for future redevelopment either for building another town home/unit at the back (STCA) • Located close to local schools, shops, public transport and easy access to Eastlink • Other features include loorboards throughout and gas heating • Be quick and register your interests today!

$420,000+ Contact Agent Photo ID Required Contact: Corey (Khoi) Le 0417 311 491

Corey (Khoi) Le 0417 311 491

Very Motivated Vendor

• 5 star kitchen, including stainless steel European gas oven/cooktop, stunning waterfall Caesar stone bench tops and plenty of cupboard space • Open Lounge & Living area w/reverse cycle a/c • Springvale Central hub, where a multitude of restaurants, cafés and food stores are literally at your feet!

• Huge wrap-around L-shaped balcony

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Auction: 29/08/2015 @ 10:30am 10% Deposit Settlement 30Days Inspect: Sat 12:00pm - 12:30pm Wed 5:30pm - 6:00pm Contact: Corey (Khoi) Le 0417 311 491 Nik Sharma 0411 790 745

NOBLE PARK 24 Jeffers St

Short 10 minute drive to beach

Situated in a highly desirable location within walking distance of primary and secondary schools, including Haileybury and Lighthouse Christian School, there is also easy access to Parkmore Shopping Centre.

• Generous block 195m2 Approx, own drive way • High ceiling open plan family/meals designer Kitchen/stainless steel Appliances, central heating/splits cooling • This lovely home is sure to be snapped up

Nik Sharma 0411 790 745

$290,000+ Sat 11:00am - 11:30am Photo ID Required Contact: Corey (Khoi) Le 0417 311 491 Nik Sharma 0411 790 745

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SPRINGVALE 9 KEMP STREET gorgeous family Home on 700sqm Set on the high, elevated side of this desired street, you have a stunning brick veneer residence that provides pristine living on a large land allotment that could offer subdivisional opportunities in the near future. Being one-owner and only 30 years young, the home comprises of: • 4 spacious bedrooms catering for larger households • Light illed Kitchen adjoining dining & family areas • Polished hardwood loors throughout • High Ceilings, Ducted Heating, Air conditioning • Huge garage and north facing yard This is in an absolute prime location. With a rectangular allotment of 680sqm (approx), with no easements, a host of building possibilities are also available (STCA). Whether you choose to reside or purchase for future development, don’t let this slip through your ingers. Enquire further today.

ofice: Springvale Ph: 9546 8211

SPRINGVALE 7 BURDEN STREET 900+sqm of sPringVale golD! The ever growing market in Springvale offers another tremendous chance for the prudent buyer to secure a substantial investment that provides options galore. Only a few minutes away from Springvale train station, central shopping and local schools, this rectangular block measuring at 920sqm (approx), without easement, offers huge potential in building and further development into multiple dwellings (STCA). The weatherboard home is both stunning and gorgeous. It offers: • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms high ceilings and polished loorboards • Modern kitchen & dining area • Family room providing extra space • Double Garage and much more In a high demand pocket that has seen massive growth in value over recent years, get in now before it rises even further. Make this your wealth creator or retirement plan. Call today!

ofice: Springvale Ph: 9546 8211

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auction: Sat 15th August @ 1:30pm inspect: Wednesday 3:00 - 3:30pm Saturday 1:00 - 1:30pm mcdonaldre.mobi: ppty ID 6973253

Harry li 0414 216 699 shane ah-Kan 0433 301 502

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TRIPLE FRONTED BRICK VENEER ON 700SQM (APPROX) Located moments away from Yarraman train station, Greaves Reserve, local shopping and schools, is an opportunity to own this premier development site. Previously updated and well kept, the classic home is sitting on 697sqm, a flat, rectangular allotment ideal for extension or building multiple dwellings (STCA). The potential of this site there to be fulfilled and the growth in the area can be seen by all. The home itself has new concrete stumps, 4 car garage, ducted heating, air-conditioning, updated kitchen with new gas stove & range-hood, open fire place for a warm and inviting lounge hard wood floors underneath carpet & vinyl flooring, 2 toilets, extra sun-room for entertainment and much more. Desired location, huge land and solid home equates to this being your next astute real estate investment.

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Auction: Sat 22nd August @ 2:30pm Price: Auction $400,000+ mcdonaldre.mobi: ppty ID 8498757

Trevor Mendis 0411 631 531

Office: Springvale Ph: 9546 8211

auction: Sat 15th August @ 11:30am inspect: Saturday 11:00 - 11:30am mcdonaldre.mobi: ppty ID 8459557

Harry li 0414 216 699

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SPRINGVALE 6 OAKDALE COURT UNIQUE DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY ON 852SQM! An outstanding opportunity exists here for astute investors & builders/ developers to purchase a magnificent development site in the north part of Springvale. This wonderful block is approximately 850sqm, located within walking distance to bus stop, train station, local shops and just moments from Springvale centre and within easy access to Princes Hwy. Currently tenanted at $1217 pcm, the existing weatherboard home comprises of 3 bedrooms, spacious lounge, roomy kitchen and dining + sunroom.

It is truly one of the best large parcels of land left in Springvale and inspections will impress & inspire. Prices on the rise means this is a great opportunity, make sure you seize it!

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Auction: Saturday 29th August @ 1:30pm Price: Auction $440,000+ Inspect: Saturday 2:30 - 3:00pm mcdonaldre.mobi: ppty ID 8511191

Harry Li 0414 216 699 Shane Ah-Kan 0433 301 502

Office: Springvale Ph: 9546 8211

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We Sell Keysborough We have been for over 60 years, and we’ll keep producing locally well into the future!

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AGENT’S CHOICE

NOBLE PARK

This brilliant home delivers a fabulous combination of location, size and a familyfriendly configuration.

Inside visitors will find a generous living space, a walk-through kitchen and meals area and three accommodating bedrooms.

The generous laundry, guest powder room and family bathroom, which includes a toilet, will ensure the day-to-day runs smoothly.

A substantial section of 536 square metres provides plenty of options for the family’s recreational activities, with potential redevelopment or expansion opportunities.

Close to the local schools, shops, public transport and EastLink, this well presented starter home offers possibilities aplenty!

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Auction Saturday 29 August - 1.30pm

A hop, skip & jump from the Reserve, this rendered & renovated 3 bedroom home offers an airy open plan, robe-fitted bedrooms & luxe extras including a glossy Euro app kitchen, a pol-porcelain bathroom & hardwood floors.

With s/s air-con, a separate WC & freshly-fitted laundry, even the outdoors have an expert edge with an auto-garage, a pergola-shaded BBQ area & a designer vegie patch.

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Contact Talia Mansell 0405 232 447 Shantelle Lay 0422 700 457

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Set on a block of approximately 530m2, the large family will absolutely adore the accommodation offered in this sensational residence. Featuring; 4 beds, 2 baths, 3 living areas, renovated kitchen, heating, cooling, low maintenance backyard, single carport and room for two more cars. Located in the heart of Keysborough. This is one beauty you simply won’t outgrow!

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Spacious open plan living, meals & kitchen domain Modern kitchen boasting s/steel appliances + breakfast bar Stunning entertaining paved patio area + solar-heated pool & spa Tropical-style landscaping

Auction 20 Aug 7:00pm Price Guide $750,000+ Inspect Sat 1:30pm

Shop 13 Narelle Dr, Aspendale Gardens S/C VIC 3195 03 8586 6411

Michael Choi 0431 063 855

Byron Elrod 0434 262 589

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Laura Voinea 0435 921 730

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Harcourts Unity 30 Douglas St Noble Park 03 8555 3828 http://unity.harcourts.com.au/

Springvale South 668 Heatherton Road

Springvale South 21 Ivory Crescent

This is a great opportunity to own a sweet home & build up your investment portfolio at the same on 745m2 (approx.) of land. By keeping the existing home & build 2 units at the back (STCA). This home offers 3 bedroom, kitchen adjoining meals area, lounge & bathroom with a corner bath, separated laundry & toilet. Extra features: high ceiling, timber floor, ducted heating, A/C, window shutters & solar panels. Call us for more information!

This stunning house located in the heart of Springvale South & convenience bus stop to Springvale SC & train Station. This beautiful home offers 3 bedrooms with WIR & full ensuite to master, BIRs to others, open living, well appointed kitchen, 2 bathrooms upstairs, a powder room downstairs. Other features: ducted heating & split system A/C, dish washer, balcony view, courtyard. Be the first to inspect and you will be impressed.

Auction Saturday August 29 at 11.00am View www.harcourts.com.au/VHU2268 Open Wed 4:00pm - 4:30pm Sat 11:00am - 11:30am

For Sale View www.harcourts.com.au/VHU2246 Open Sat 12:30pm - 1:00pm

Harvey Nhan P 03 8555 3828 M 0432 558 881 E harvey.nhan@harcourts.com.au Gina Beng Heng M 0401 337 966 E gina.bengheng@harcourts.com.au Harcourts Unity

Harvey Nhan P 03 8555 3828 M 0432 558 881 E harvey.nhan@harcourts.com.au Gina Beng Heng P 03 8555 3828 M 0401 337 966 E gina.bengheng@harcourts.com.au Harcourts Unity

Springvale Lot 2/17 Rosa Avenue

Land And Permit Ready To Build Your Dream Home!

Located in the heart of Springvale SC & walking distance to shops, schools, train station. This exclusive floor plan offers a well - designed 3 bedrooms double storey with open plan kitchen & master with full ensuite & WIR. This is the opportunity to build your home with all fixtures & fittings as your choice.

This is time for first all buyers! Contact us for more information!

Springvale 1,4,5,7,9,10,11,15,16/4 View Road Come in and discover our new modern apartments. This exclusive building offers 17 well designed apartments that are just footsteps away from restaurants, medical clinics, schools, public transport. All the apartments include features: porcelain tiles, kitchen stone bench tops, dishwasher, LED down lights, split system cooling & heating in bedroom, stainless steel appliances, balconies & court yards, car parks, cage storages.

For Sale View www.harcourts.com.au/VHU2264 Harvey Nhan P 03 8555 3828 M 0432 558 881 E harvey.nhan@harcourts.com.au Gina Beng Heng P 03 8555 3828 M 0401 337 966 Harcourts Unity

For Sale View www.harcourts.com.au Harvey Nhan P 03 8555 3828 M 0432 558 881 E harvey.nhan@harcourts.com.au Gina Beng Heng P 03 8555 3828 M 0401 337 966 E gina.bengheng@harcourts.com.au Harcourts Unity

Noble Park 1/1032 Heatherton Road

Noble Park 4/28 Allan Street

This front townhouse is built with an open plan Lounge/Dining adjoining Caesar stone kitchen, decorated tiles & breakfast bench. 3 robed bedrooms including main ensuite & a central bathroom. Additional features include: balcony, 2 split system A/C, ducted heating, powder room, under stair storage, plantation shutters & a single remote garage. A short distance to schools, Park, Springvale & Noble Park SC. An inspection will be delighted.

This spacious and bright home will suit downsizers, first home buyers, DIYers & investors. Positioned at the corner block with own drive way, it offers a spacious lounge, 2 bedrooms, kitchen adjoining dining area, a family bathroom with toilet & separated laundry.Outside, high fences & low maintenance courtyard gardens. Walking distance to shops, train station, swimming pool & schools. Additional include: carpets, shed & a single garage.

For Sale Price over $430,000 View www.harcourts.com.au/VHU2239 Open Sat 12:30pm - 1:00pm

For Sale Buyer over $300,000 View www.harcourts.com.au/VHU2235 Open Sat 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Gina Beng Heng P 03 8555 3828 M 0401 337 966 E gina.bengheng@harcourts.com.au Harvey Nhan P 03 8555 3828 M 0432 558 881 E hnhan@harveyre.com.au Harcourts Unity

Gina Beng Heng P 03 8555 3828 M 0401 337 966 E gina.bengheng@harcourts.com.au Harvey Nhan P 03 8555 3828 M 0432 558 881 E harvey.nhan@harcourts.com.au Harcourts Unity

Noble Park North 1/1 Springfield Court

Dandenong 16 Keating Crescent

This Spacious original home will suit downsizers, first home buyers, DIYers and investors. This delightful front unit offers a spacious lounge, 2 good size bedrooms, large kitchen, formal dining area and a family bathroom. A short drive to Waverley Gardens SC. Additional feature include: ducted heating, split systems air conditioner, floor board & a single garage. Book your appointment today!

Positioned in a quiet location, with easy access to the Dandenong bypass and close to Dandenong train station & Dandenong CBD. This spacious home offer 3 good size bedrooms, BIRs, kitchen adjoining to meals area, central bathroom & formal lounge. Further feature: carpet through-out, tiles in wet area, ducted heating, garden shed. Make this property on your list and come to the inspection.

For Sale View www.harcourts.com.au/VHU2248

For Sale Buyer over $420,000 View www.harcourts.com.au/VHU2237 Open Sat 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Harvey Nhan P 03 8555 3828 M 0432 558 881 E harvey.nhan@harcourts.com.au Gina Beng Heng P 03 8555 3828 M 0401 337 966 E gina.bengheng@harcourts.com.au Harcourts Unity

Harvey Nhan P 03 8555 3828 M 0432 558 881 E harvey.nhan@harcourts.com.au Gina Beng Heng P 03 8555 3828 M 0401 337 966 E gina.bengheng@harcourts.com.au Harcourts Unity

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AN INVITATION TO COME AND MEET OUR TEAM AWARDED “BEST TEAM OF THE YEAR”

Joseph Ngo, Judy Thanh Truc and LJ Hooker Chairman, Lesley Janusz Hooker at the Awards presentation.

LJ Hooker Glen Waverley/ Keysborough/ Box Hill/ Mt Waverley/ Doncaster/ Burwood has capped off a stellar irst year of business by being named LJ Hooker’s “best team of the year” at the annual state awards on Saturday night.

The award recognised the ofices commitment to excellence and professionalism, and providing buying, selling, investing and renting solutions for the Glen Waverley, Keysborough, Box Hill, Mt Waverley, Doncaster and Burwood community.

Principals Judy Thanh Truc and Joseph Ngo said they were thrilled to receive the recognition from their peers.

“When you start up a business, you strive to make it a success for staff and clients,’’ said Ms Judy.

“We’ve had an exciting year, and the support from businesses and the Glen Waverley, Keysborough, Box Hill, Mt Waverley, Doncaster and Burwood communities has been overwhelming.

“But to also be recognised within an industry-leading group is very pleasing and speaks volumes of the hard work of our team, from the sales agents to property managers and support staff.’’

LJ Hooker CEO Grant Harrod said the brand was committed to attracting quality business owners whose professionalism and expertise upheld the name and strength of the iconic brand.

“LJ Hooker is a business with a long, proud tradition. We continue to attract business owners who relate to our values, our commitment to excellence and providing real estate solutions in the community,’’ said Mr Harrod.

Contact LJ Hooker Glen Waverley/Keysborough/Box Hill/Mt Waverley/Doncaster/Burwood on (03) 8588 5288 or glenwaverley@ljh.com.au for an award-winning experience.

FREE LUNCH PROVIDED! SATURDAY 15TH AUGUST, from 12noon – 3pm

One Owner, Six Offices, all working for you.

At LJ Hooker Keysborough Ofice, 2/ 43-45 Fiveways Boulevard, Keysborough (facing Cheltenham Road)

Come meet your local real estate professionals and get free investment advice for all your property needs.

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Glen Waverley 29 Danien Street

Dandenong 69-71 McCrae Street

Glen Waverley 2/8 Hammence Street

Glen Waverley 62C Pepperell Avenue

Set on the high side of adorable Danien Street, overlooking the beautiful Dandenong Mountains, this elevated block of 754m2 approx. with over 30 meters frontage is truly a wonderful future dream home site!

Private Sale Contact Agent

70% sold - BE QUICK! Pick either a single or double bedroom from this three-storey luxury apartment complex in Central Dandenong!

These amazing apartments offer open-plan living with balcony access.

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Secure, spacious and in the Glen Waverley school zone, this beautifully presented 4+1 bedrooms, 4 toilets, 3 baths, street front residence is opulent with its spacious high quality finishes.

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Beautifully designed near new 4 bedroom double storey townhouse with its own street frontage. Only a short walk to Syndal station and shops, nearby the Glen Shopping Centre, plus a variety of renowned schools (STSA).

Private Sale Contact Agent

Nuria Jewell 0411 726 898 Shan Li 0411 365 898

Kim Le 0468 939 898 Emma Tuyet 0468 923 898

Shan Li 0411 365 898 Anita Meng 0411 358 898

Nuria Jewell 0411 726 898 Shan Li 0411 365 898

265A Springvale Road, Glen Waverley VIC 3150

2/43-47 Fiveways Boulevard, Keysborough VIC 3173

265A Springvale Road, Glen Waverley VIC 3150

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BOOTS OFF, FEET UP AND RELAX Would-be owners will be able to picture themselves sitting back and relaxing on the impressive verandah of the Homestead 30 taking in the peace and tranquillity of the rural hamlet or acreage.

That was exactly what the designers at Red Bluff Homes envisaged when they dreamed up the magnificent Homestead.

The home’s colonial appearance is perfect for a rural or semi-rural setting.

If it’s too cold to sit on the verandah, the new owners will be able to take off their gumboots at the front door, settle into their favourite chair and soak in the views framed by the large windows which run the length of the Homestead.

And if the home is orientated north, the living spaces will be bathed in winter sunshine.

Family space is ample with a rumpus room, family room, meals and kitchen areas all positioned to the rear of the home.

Create a hearty winter meal in the spacious kitchen with ingredients easily at hand in the large walk-in pantry.

The smart kitchen is at the heart of the

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At the end of the day, the residents will be able to retire to the peace and quiet of the wonderful parents’ retreat.

The master suite is generously proportioned with a large walk-in wardrobe and crisply appointed ensuite.

Buyers can choose to fold the separate formal dining room into the master bedroom, creating a truly impressive adult space.

Bedrooms two and three are tucked away at the opposite end of the house.

Buyers have the flexibility to configure the bathroom, toilet and storage space at the family living end of the home to suit their own needs. Four options are available.

Buyers also have a choice of four facades at no extra cost.

The Homestead 30, which measures 25.5 metres by 12 metres including verandah, starts at $215,000 on owners’ land.

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YOUR VOICE FOR 150 YEARS

DANDENONG JOURNAL

What do you love about Greater Dandenong?

JODIE ELLIOTT

Weaved into history ❚ Casey Neill

Maggie’s Bridal

“I love the positive outlook the council has on upgrading and changing the face of Dandenong. It’s ever changing.”

HEATHER PINDER Maggie’s Bridal

“I love meeting and experiencing all the different cultures, particularly here when they come in, all their cultures require something different. ”

KEN GRENDA Founder of Grenda’s Bus Service “What I love about Dandenong is its development from an early heritage market town to the centre of Australia’s manufacturing. The original big three manufacturers have gone, but have been replaced by a multitude of others producing a great diversity of product.

The labour required for these businesses has meant the growth of Dandenong into a vital cosmopolitan centre in which the old and new are admirably merged. Continued growth has meant employment opportunities and opportunities for new business. ”

THE Tharle family and the Journal have been intertwined throughout their time in Dandenong.

Both arrived 150 years ago and Dandenong and District Historical Society member Rodney Edwin Tharle remains a regular reader today.

His great grandfather Barton Barnaby Tharle and his wife Louisa Jane Bradley migrated to Australia shortly after they wed in the Isle of White in 1863.

They settled on land in Dandenong-Frankston Road, Dandenong, in early 1864 and later moved to McCrae Street.

They had nine children, including Barton Barnaby junior, who became a farmer and auctioneer.

He had seven children with wife Emily Jane Hunt and ran slaughter yards in Power Road, Doveton, and a butcher’s business in Dandenong.

In 1919 they brought their home in Macpherson Street from Jeffrey Macpherson.

It had housed the private Dandenong Grammar School, which Mr Macpherson ran.

Their eldest child, Barton, known as Bart, married Alva Sayers who played with the Dandenong Croquet Club for 40 years.

Bart started in the meat trade at the age of 14 and with brothers Frank and Victor (Vic) ran a butchery business in Foster Street after their father and uncles sold their butcher’s business in Lonsdale Street.

When Frank and Vic decided to leave the business, Bart carried on and at one stage operated four shops.

He bought meat for them until he was 79. He died aged 80.

Vic served on the Dandenong Council for several years.

Frank helped his son Bill run a butcher’s shop in Kirkham Road and their brother Leslie (Les) also worked at the butcher’s shop in Foster Street.

Their sister Mabel Louise (Mabe) was an enthusiastic knitter and made baby clothes for Wallara’s opportunity shop.

In her early life Florence (Floss) was employed at Alf Owen’s Hardware Store in Lonsdale Street and as a cashier at the family butcher’s shop in Foster Street.

She cared for her mother in their Macpherson Street home until she died.

Brother Brad Tharle ran a taxi service and delivered the first patient to the new hospital on the corner of Cleeland and David streets.

Edwin (Ted) was a keen footballer with the early Dandenong KSP football team and became an apprentice carpenter with Bob Boote when he left school, building many homes in the district.

He married Elva and settled in Hammond Road a few doors away from Frank before moving to Macpherson Street and building a home on the block next to Floss.

At one stage there were five Tharle family homes in a row in Macpherson Street.

All the Tharles were great gardeners and Macpherson Street won

Right: The Tharle family of Frederick, Leo Matthews, Mary, Clement, Barton, Louisa, Walter and Arthur Buttler in the 1920s.

Far right: Walter and Clem Tharle with friend Leo Matthews outside the family butchery in 1900.

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Ted later became a butcher with his brothers. Elva was made a Wallara life member for her knitting efforts for the charity and managing its opportunity shop.

Rodney (Rod) was their only child. He attended Dandenong East State School and Dandenong High School.

Ted’s uncle Walter Bradley Tharle donated the high school’s gates in 1930.

Rod used to shoot rats at the tip across the road from school with an air rifle, learnt to swim at the Dandenong Baths and on some sports days wagged school and swam in the Dandenong Creek.

He learned to dance at the Hemmingway in Dandenong West and met his wife Judith at a dance at Dandenong Town Hall.

They married at the Presbyterian Church in Dandenong in 1962 and set up in Cornelius Street, Dandenong.

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DANDENONG JOURNAL

What do you love about Greater Dandenong?

Start of the journey

MOHAMMAD ISARI Super Cheap Gift Shop

“I love the library and the Afghan bazaar.

All of Dandenong is nice.”

GAIL SELWYN Dandenong Library

“I’ve been working at the Springvale and Dandenong Libraries for 35 years and I just love the new Dandenong library.

I love everything about it.”

MELISSA MILLARD Dandenong Library

“The multiculturalism. I love being able to walk down the street and you see people in different outfits from their respective cultures.”

DEAN CROFT Dandenong

“We’ve got a nice park, Dandenong Park.

I play cricket there. The Dandenong Library is fantastic, it’s a huge improvement on the old one. Most importantly the crime rate has dropped down recently. You feel safe going out at night.”

❚ Lachlan Moorhead IF SHE hadn’t worked at the Dandenong Journal, Susan Riley reckons her life would have taken a vastly different path.

The Deputy Lord Mayor of Melbourne and respected publisher credits her time with the 150-year-old newspaper for instilling in her a love for the written word and a passion for connecting with the community.

As well as a short stint with the company to begin with, Susan was asked to come back and work for the Journal after living interstate for a period.

After joining the company for a second time in the late ’70s, Susan made the Journal her home for the next decade.

She has never forgotten the Scott Street office.

“I had many roles at the Journal, being in accounts and distribution ... a whole range of roles,” she said.

“What I learnt there was amazing – I didn’t think at the time that ink got in your blood, but it does.”

And ink has remained in Susan’s blood long after she left the Journal to pursue other exploits. The Melbourne City councillor delved into the world of publishing in the early ’90s and in 2015 still oversees around 11 pub-

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Community newspapers are exactly as it says – they are for the community, to please the community…

SUSAN RILEY

lications circulated throughout the city.

“I would never have had the guts to do that had it not been for the Dandenong Journal,” she said.

“I was PA to the Managing Director who oversaw 13 suburban newspapers back then, and they all reported back to my boss at the time.

“You can imagine what a lively, thriving place it was.

“It’s the best community spirit of anywhere I’ve ever worked, apart from Town Hall.”

When asked about her fondest recollections of the Journal, it’s a person, not a particular memory, that comes rushing to the front of Susan’s mind.

When Susan first started on at the Melbourne City Council 10 years ago, the late Marg Stork sent her a congratulations card.

“She was my hero. I always went to Marg,” she said.

“Marg was just one of those ladies who typed away on an old Olivetti, she never got into computers, and she’d type away on this old rattly machine and she had a mind that you’d only have

to say a person’s name once and she’d remember it.

“She was really in my eyes an amazing, amazing lady.”

While much time has passed, Susan is candid in her appraisal of the Journal and its influence on her life.

Quite simply she admits she wouldn’t be the Deputy Lord Mayor of Melbourne, and a publisher, without her grounding at the paper.

“I wouldn’t have ended up Deputy Lord Mayor, because through publishing the magazines in the city, I got to know the city,” she said.

Even more than that, she wouldn’t be the Susan Riley that the community has come to respect and trust.

“Community newspapers are exactly as it says – they are for the community, to please the community,” she said.

“Could I have gone into publishing without those skills – the answer is probably no, never, I would not have had the courage if I didn’t have that grassroots experience.”

Deputy Lord Mayor of Melbourne Susan Riley believes she is where she is today because of her experiences working at the Dandenong Journal.

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YOUR VOICE FOR 150 YEARS

Facing a human tide

What do you love about Greater Dandenong?

HAILE QERENSO

❚ Cam Lucadou-Wells THERE have been times when the waves of new arrivals drove Peter Jarrett crazy.

At flood’s peak, hundreds of people in a month have poured into the Southern Migrant and Refugee Centre, often moving from other parts of Australia, he said.

One day he asked a man who had come down from Sydney why he moved “down here”.

The reply was: “It’s friendly.”

As Mr Jarrett - the acting leader of the SMRC’s access and information team - now recalls: “From a new arrival’s perspective, that almost means everything.”

The region has a well-won reputation as a receptive and welcoming community.

A shining example was the Enterprise Hostel in Springvale that sheltered thousands of migrants and refugees between 1970 and 1992.

Around that hostel, services built up such as Springvale Community Aid and Advisory Bureau, a community-initiated hub of language classes, interpreter services and material aid.

“They weren’t all that well prepared but they spoke to each other and to the leaders in the community,” Mr Jarrett said.

It was a forerunner to the SMRC, which opened with federal funding in Walker Street in 1993.

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“It’s a multicultural area. It’s great seeing different people and learning different cultures.”

HARINDER SINGH Springvale

“There are a lot of things here in Dandenong – the plaza, the train station is pretty close. In Springvale there’s a lot of parks and we can go to the local football. I came here 18 months ago from India.”

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care and adapted to wave after wave of new arrivals.

One of the SMRC directors, Costa Azzam, who was at the opening, is described as the father of the centre.

“At the time there was nothing like this in Dandenong - just a couple of housing groups, a family service, the council.

“Dandenong is the hub of multiculturalism,” he told the Journal recently.

SMRC worker Natalia Micsu-

nescu remembers that hospitality when she arrived as a Romanian migrant 25 years ago.

“I didn’t know about settlement services in Romania – we didn’t have refugees,” she said wryly.

She said Greater Dandenong was a ready-made starting point for a new arrival’s life.

“When I took my son to school, the principal was so switched on as to how to talk with children with no English language skills.

“Historically migrants have been part of this community.”

The city has been adept at dealing with the “complexity of communities” such as Croatians and Serbs, Turks and Albanians, she says.

She cites Dandenong police’s sophistication in dealing with cultural complexity.

Mr Jarrett adds that employers have long been open to taking on migrants and refugees. In turn those new arrivals become employers themselves.

“Employers know they are going to work hard and stay at their jobs.”

What the next wave of new arrivals might be is anyone’s guess.

“Where there’s a war, generally six or seven years later you see refugees coming to Australia.”

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JASKIRAT SINGH Springvale

“I came here from India 18 months ago.

The redeveloped Springvale Railway Station is great. We play cricket every weekend – every facility is near the station.”

CAROL HERRON Doveton

“Everything, I suppose. There’s good shopping. I come here for the Market.”

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YOUR VOICE FOR 150 YEARS

DANDENONG JOURNAL

What do you love about Greater Dandenong?

ISAIAH SERU Tullamarine

“You see something new every day. I’m from Tullamarine so it’s quite a journey.”

CHRIS KEYS Dandenong and District Historical Society president “I like the diversity of the city. There is a magnificent array of nationalities and cultures in Greater Dandenong. Walking along the street you see such a wide array of nationalities, it’s wonderful.”

DAVID OWEN Pastor

“I have always wanted to travel and see the world but the opportunity has not presented itself. In Dandenong, the world comes to me.”

ANNA SCOTT Dandenong North

“I live in North Dandenong and I believe we have great council services. They’re always checking the footpath and fixing it. My husband’s very sick and I get a lot of support through the council. People don’t know how to access what’s out there. I grew up in Dandenong South then moved to the city, but moved back. I like living here.”

SEAN QUINN Glen Waverley

“Its beauty, its fauna, the environment...

It’s not too cold, it’s not too hot. There’s a fantastic mix of people. What more can I say? People are friendly and willing to do the right thing. Accessing roadways is very good.”

DIANA NGUYEN Actor/writer

“Like the Wizard of Oz, there is no place like home. The hustle bustle of car traffic on Buckingham Ave, the real foods of Vietnam with a 3 color drink, this is where I’ve created my shows. You can’t take the Springvale/City of Greater Dandenong out of me.”

TOM HUBERT Glen Iris

“I work in Dandenong. I like the thriving culture.”

MELENA STRUNZ Noble Park North

“There’s a really cool park just down Heatherton Road. It’s the best park ever. It’s got so much equipment for the kids. There’s a princess tower ... you could spend a whole day there with the kids being entertained – and it’s free.

There’s also a variety of food places in Noble Park. It’s like ‘where’s our next adventure?’.”

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Legal land of plenty ❚ Casey Neill LAW firm Macpherson and Kelley regards an advertisement in the Journal as its beginning.

Jeffrey Macpherson placed the advert on 4 October 1905, announcing that he had acquired William Brocket’s legal practice and was providing services as a barrister and solicitor.

He gave 237 Collins Street as his Melbourne office, the Royal Hotel in Dandenong as his local place of business and Macpherson Street, Dandenong, as his home.

“We say this is our beginnings,” M+K Victorian managing director James Sturgess said.

Charles Hyde Parker Kelley, also of Dandenong, became Mr Macpherson’s junior partner about 1914.

The firm became known as M+K when it acquired interstate firms but Mr Sturgess said there was now a push to return to the Macpherson and Kelley name.

“The current management of the firm are just the custodians,” he said.

“We want this firm to be going in another 100 years.

“We’re just here for a little part of the time and we’ve got a responsibility to make sure it’s better when we leave than when we came.”

In 1972 Macpherson and Kelley built the first high-rise building in Dandenong at 229 Lonsdale Street.

“We were there until 1 March 1999 when we moved into this Scott Street building,” Mr Sturgess said.

He said it was important for the

Jeffrey Macpherson’s first advertisement in the Journal.

“

We should be out there trying to make sure that this community is as strong as it possibly can be…

JAMES STURGESS

company to maintain a base in Dandenong where it began.

“There is a strong sentimental attachment and there are strong business drivers,” he said.

“Can I imagine a time when we’re not in Dandenong? No. “The business community is so strong and we feel part of it.”

M+K’s Rob Downing is the Greater Dandenong Chamber of

Commerce president, Mr Sturgess has run the Premier Regional Business Awards for 25 years and is on the Committee for Dandenong, and the firm has been a South East Melbourne Manufacturers Alliance (SEMMA) member since its inception.

“We genuinely want those organisations to be successful,” Mr Sturgess said.

“We’re just hanging off people’s coat tails. We’re not the drivers, we’re the beneficiaries.

“We should be out there trying to make sure that this community is as strong as it possibly can be.”

Mr Sturgess was studying a dual economics-law degree with a major in accounting at Monash University when the opportunity to work for M+K arose.

“I played football for the Monash University Blues and one of the partners here also played,” he said.

“He was snowed under with work and said to me one day ‘is there any chance you can come and work for us?’

“It was pretty easy for me to say yes because I didn’t have a job and I hadn’t quite finished my uni degree.”

But he had to spend five weeks in his hometown of Sale before joining the firm.

“Carting hay was my major earner for the year. I’d already committed to it,” he said.

“For five weeks you’d work from sunrise to sunset.”

Mr Sturgess said commercial law was a perfect fit.

“I can’t make caravans or waste trucks or electronic devices but I still find it fascinating to work out how people do it and how they also make money out of doing it,” he said.

“This is my dream job, there is no doubt about that.

“M+K in Dandenong is just an unbelievable land of opportunity.”

Industry that’s on a roll ❚ Casey Neill ONE of Ken Grenda’s earliest memories is sitting on the cabin roof of his father’s milk truck in the 1930s watching flood waters from Dandenong Creek lapping the Dandenong Town Hall steps.

“Grenda’s were a milk truck business from 1924 until 1945, with George Grenda starting with one truck and finishing with 14 trucks at its sale,” he said.

“Milk in cans was conveyed from dairy farms roughly between Oakleigh and Pakenham to metropolitan dairies.

“Suburbia finished at Oakleigh and Dandenong was a country market town.”

Ken said George sold the trucks in 1945 and bought six buses and four bus routes – Dandenong to Oakleigh, Dandenong to Beaconsfield, Dandenong to Chelsea and Dandenong to Cheltenham.

Lance and Ken Grenda joined the business about 1950.

“In the mid ’50s Dandenong became Australia’s fastest growth centre with the coming of three big manufacturers in General Motors Holden (GMH), International Trucks and HJ Heinz,” Ken said.

“The growth that followed caused Dandenong to transition from a market town with saddlery shops in Lonsdale Street – and even cattle being driven down Lonsdale Street to the cattle market on the corner of Cleeland and Clow Streets – to a manufacturing centre.”

Heinz, GMH and International were built after World War II as part of a large-scale government build-

Ron Chivers with an image of the iconic Dandy Pig. 113818 Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS ing project to move people to the eastern suburbs.

Former Heinz employee Don Poole said many other factories were built shortly after, as well as smaller businesses that supplied the factories with food and materials.

Heinz closing its doors in 2000 was “like the end of an era”.

“For those who worked there it was like being part of a big family.

A lot of lifelong friendships were forged during their time there,” Mr Poole said.

Dandy Hams and Bacon, too, fostered mateship and its neon Dandy Pig sign erected in the 1950s on Lonsdale Street welcomed the traffic that crossed Foster Street from Gippsland.

Forty years ago, Gerry Ryan started what would become Australia’s largest recreational vehicles manufacturer.

Jayco today employs 1000 people in Dandenong South – a long way from the eight people Gerry had making one camper trailer a

An early Grenda’s bus. day in 1975. Ron Anson established transport company Nordon almost 60 years ago.

“Dandenong has now become a very big industrial centre, possibly the biggest manufacturing hub in Australia,” he said.

And despite the car industry’s collapse, the region’s manufacturing

may continue to grow. Businesses are focusing on collaboration, value-adding and innovation to stay relevant.

The Dandenong on Wheels event earlier this year highlighted the buses, trams, trains, trucks and other vehicle items manufactured in Dandenong.

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FRANK MARUZZA Cranbourne North

“There’s a lot of things going on. There’s activities everywhere. The culture’s very diverse.”

JOHN WELLS Dandenong RSL

“I love Dandenong’s ability to respond to change, to reinvent itself as time moves on. It remembers its past but addresses its future boldly. From country market town to dormitory city to industrial suburb to dynamic and multicultural metropolis, Dandenong has kept true to itself and its better qualities have been maintained.

It is ever-changing, sometimes exciting and always interesting.”

COLIN ROBINSON President of the Springvale and District Historical Society “I like the area for its multiculturalism.

A lot of the cultures are encouraged to wear their costumes at special events, especially Australia Day and citizenship ceremonies.”

JOAN WANSTALL City of Greater Dandenong volunteer “I love the multiculturalism. We’ve got friends who live inner city they come here for restaurants and cafes because they love the variety and it’s such good value.

I love the Drum Theatre and Stockman’s Bridge.”

ROONA NIDA Barrister

“I love Greater Dandenong for its cultural and religious diversity as well as diversity of products and services, innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit and attitude of employees and employers.”

MARGARET McDONALD Dandenong Rotary

“Greater Dandenong is rich in diverse cultures. The regeneration of Dandenong, with the Drum Theatre and the fabulous lighting down the main street, has just rejuvenated the Dandenong that was the cattle market capital of Gippsland and surrounding areas. It’s been able to change. It’s a melting pot of most areas of the world.”

ROHULLAH RAHIMI Young Citizen of the year

“Imagine living in place where your cultural backgrounds and achievements are recognised and valued. A place where the city reflects modern technology while keeping customs and traditions alive. Imagine a city where more than 150 culturally and linguistically diverse communities live in peace and harmony.

You know I am talking about city of Greater Dandenong.”

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What do you love about Greater Dandenong?

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Quiet printer showed his depth of strength ❚ Narelle Coulter BARBARA EDWARDS said with a laugh that she knows more about her father, Harold Tulloch, from the pages of the Journal than she ever learnt from the man himself.

Harold ‘Occa’ Tulloch was one of the “backroom boys” at the Journal, one of the printers who managed the presses which clanked away at the rear of the old Scott Street office.

Harold was also a Gallipoli veteran whose first-hand account of the famous conflict was recounted in the Journal’s special Anzac centenary edition.

The son of blacksmith James Tulloch and Emma Webb, Harry was educated at Dandenong Primary School, where his name appears on the school honour board, before he took up an apprenticeship as a compositor at the Journal.

Political upheaval in Europe propelled the 24-year-old to sign up for war, board a troop ship for Europe and eventually disembark on a small peninsula in Turkey on 25 April 1915.

Corporal Tulloch’s letters to his Journal colleagues paint a vivid picture of that famous landing and the bloody trench warfare that followed.

“We kept in the boat till it grounded, then sprung ashore, or rather into water up to our waists, holding our rifles well out of the water, and waded ashore,” he wrote.

“Just as we got ashore shrapnel whistled over our heads and burst over the boat following us, causing about a dozen casualties.”

Barbara Edwards, who now lives in Pakenham, said her father never talked about the war.

“He was a very quiet man, very reserved,” she said.

“We actually didn’t see a lot of dad. He worked at the Journal and when he came home he was on duty at the fire station.

“He spent a lot of time polishing all the brass around the station.”

Her husband Jack added: “At night he would sit down and read Westerns. And on Fridays he always had a bag of chocolates to eat.”

Harold was 39 when he married Doveton girl Elsie Grahame, who was just 20.

Journal staff pay their last respects to Harold Tulloch in 1963.

“

Just as we got ashore shrapnel whistled over our heads and burst over the boat following us…

HAROLD TULLOCH

They had two children, Murray, now deceased, and Barbara.

The family lived at the Dandenong Fire Station in Mason Street where Harold was the station master.

He had volunteered with the brigade in 1917 shortly after returning from war and stayed for 37 years.

“Every time the fire bell rang Occa got off work,” said Jack with a laugh.

Barbara remembers delivering messages to her dad at the Journal office and of him taking calls from a distressed Elsie when Murray had absconded.

“Murray was a wonderer so when mum was on duty at the fire station and she couldn’t find him she’d have to ring dad. One time dad found him on Kirkham Road on his trike.

“For many years mum couldn’t leave (the house) because she had to man the phone.”

Barbara remembers volunteers lumbering up the bell tower in the station’s backyard during ladder training.

Cars built for the long haul ❚ Casey Neill PATTERSON Cheney is this year celebrating 100 years since its birth in Flinders Street, Melbourne.

The car and truck dealership has been a Dandenong fixture for more than three decades.

It all started when Mr S.A. Cheney became an assembler of US vehicles in 1915.

Bill Patterson bought into the business in 1972 and it’s been known as Patterson Cheney ever since. The Bertalli family now owns the company and employs about 170 people at its Cheltenham Road head office in Dandenong.

The company’s Dandenong operations were originally in Lonsdale Street and a truck dealership was just behind the post office. These combined in 1983 on the current site.

It last year celebrated 30 years in Dandenong and picked up two awards along the way – the Greater Dandenong Chamber of Commerce 2013 Premier Regional Business Award and Retail Award.

“I used to get on top of the tower as a girl and watch what was happening at the showgrounds or to escape from mum.

“There is no way she would go up there with all the neighbours watching.”

Because of their commitments at the station, the family never went on holidays together. However, Harold loved fishing and would go all the way to Woori Yallock to dig for worms.

“He would go off for a fortnight and never thought to ring mum,” said Barbara.

“Mum said to me their age difference didn’t matter but I think it did in later life.”

Jack and Barbara were married in 1957 and spent the following years as missionaries in the New Hebrides, now Vanuatu.

They returned home in 1963 for Harold’s funeral.

Jack describes Harold as a “quiet, accepting man”.

Legendary Journal reporter Marg

Harold Tulloch was 24 when he signed up for World War I. Stork paid tribute to Harold in 1995 when the Journal celebrated its 130th anniversary.

Marg called Harold a “Father confessor“ not only to young apprentices at the Journal but also young fire brigade recruits.

He was a “quiet, friendly man with a great depth of sincerity,” wrote Marg with evident fondness.

Long-time Journal editor and owner Greg Dickson included Harold on his list of the “fine, loyal bunch who worked with me rather than for me” in his farewell address to readers in 1964, “men of the sterling type of the late Harold Tulloch, whom I fortunately ‘inherited’ with the Journal.”

Harold Tulloch did not quite live long enough to farewell the longserving editor. He died the year before in the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital.

His coffin was carried on the back of a fire truck, passing the Journal’s old Scott Street office where staff had gathered outside to pay their respects.

His work as a compositor may have passed into distant memory but this “backroom boy” took a leading role in the story of the Journal and in the defining chapter of Australian history.

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Advertising on display ADVERTISING has been the lifeblood of the Journal for 150 years, paying for staff wages, printing costs and, once the paper became free, its distribution.

In the 1800s the entire front page of the South Bourke and Mornington Journal was devoted to advertising.

Rows of small advertisements promoted everything from banks, grocers, hotels and breweries to timber yards, shoe makers and blacksmiths.

In the 20th century car ads became more frequent and,

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later, real estate became an important part of the Journal’s business.

The Journal was the primary communication tool for real estate advertising for decades.

Today, advertising is as important as ever.

The Journal is lucky to have many loyal advertisers who still believe in the power of the press to make sure their message is delivered into homes throughout Greater Dandenong.

In turn the Journal has helped many of Dandenong’s iconic brands build their busi-

What do you love about Greater Dandenong?

nesses and contribute to the strong manufacturing and commercial base which underpins the city’s prosperity.

The newspaper has also been an important vehicle for governments of all levels to communicate news and information to constituents.

For this special edition, we have assembled a collage of advertisements from across the decades.

Some are funny, some are poignant and some cause a gasp in disbelief at the cost of living in days gone by. Enjoy.

LINDA GRENNAN Endeavour Hills

“I love the market – I go Tuesday and Friday. I’ve been going there for years and years and years. I always get my fresh fish there.”

TREVOR HARDING Dandenong Rotary

“We’ve been there since 1959 and it’s been fantastic from our point of view.

The atmosphere has changed but it’s still there if you want to participate in it. I do enjoy the market.”

JAN MAXWELL Dandenong Rotary

“I love Dandenong Pavilion and Belleti.

They both have beautiful coffee, the meals are good, the service is good, and the atmosphere. It’s a great meeting place.”

SUSAN COLLIER The Journal had a definite rural flavour in the 1950s.

“Take me, take me” implored this advertisement in the lead-up to Valentine’s Day 1993.

Advertisements for local gyms were popular through out the 1980s, as were leg-warmers.

It was the biggest news for Holden since, well, 1948 when this advert appeared on 11 January 1956.

Dandenong Rotary president “I love the diversity. I’m proud to live in Dandenong.”

JOHN DAWSON Dandenong Rotary

“I’ve been in service clubs in Dandenong for 56 years in total – 16 in the APEX club and 40 in the Rotary Club of Dandenong.

I’ve seen it change from a country town to part of a metropolis.”

DAVID SMITH Dandenong Rotary

“My family moved to Dandenong in 1952.

I’ve had an association for quite a long time. My mum and dad set up Nu-Tone Dry Cleaners in Dandenong, which operated until about six years ago. I’ve seen Dandenong change a lot. I’ve been in Rotary about 17 years and I’m also involved with Gateway Industries.”

The Journal promised readers “big hearted deals“ at Graeme Blanchard Holden on 29 May 1986.

This advert for Parkmore Shopping Centre was the first colour advertisement published inside the paper in its 126 year history. It appeared on Monday 14 October 1991.

JENNY SEMPLE SMRC

“I love the local people of Dandenong, the different communities, young and older people, the range of shops, cafes and restaurants, the cafes and small businesses in Thomas Street and the new facelift of Lonsdale Street, the new library and square. I love the market and all the hustle and bustle on market days. I love the commitment to the city and its people by the agencies and staff that work in Dandenong. I have worked here 18 years and feel very connected and loyal to Dandenong and its people.”

DAVID ROTHSTADT Principal Noble Park Primary School The reader who picked correctly picked the Brashs top 10 in 1971 won an LP and a drive-in pass.

Houses were selling for £2000 in 1956.

Wigs were all the rage in 1971.

“The diversity and the opportunity for a huge range of cultures to intertwine and learn together about the world.”

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What do you love about Greater Dandenong?

BOB PRESTT Noble Park

“I’ve lived in Noble Park for 50 years.

I just love it because it’s close to everything – there’s the railway station, the beach is only 20 minutes away and we can be up in the hills in a half-hour.

We love being multicultural, too.”

STAN CHANG SABA

JEFF PARKER St James’ Anglican Church

“It is most joyful to seeing so many migrants from different parts of the world coming to settle and live in Greater Dandenong, especially seeing them coming to shopping and dining in Springvale, and enjoyed a good family day at the Springvale annual lunar new year festival.”

JUDY PRESTT Noble Park

“We’ve got great neighbours. When we first got married we shopped around churches. What used to be Heatherhill (in Springvale) was the most welcoming of all the churches.”

BARRY BRADSHAW Club Noble president

“Club Noble has a close affinity with Greater Dandenong. First there is the opportunity to connect with the community and local organisations.

The number of different cultures creates a unique and exciting community environment. And the way people come together to support and promote community interests, there is a sense of belonging. The various sports venues and clubs throughout the city provide a great opportunity for both young and old to become engage in a number of sporting activities.”

YOUHORN CHEA Greater Dandenong councillor “It’s a fantastic council because it’s one of htemost multicultural cities and everyone can live together in peace and harmony. There’s no discrimination or prejudice at all.”

HANNA LIPISZKO Polish Rye Crust Bakery

“I especially like Dandenong Market.

I get all of my shopping done there.”

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Still makes good reading ❚ Narelle Coulter MANY of the major milestone’s in Joyce Polman’s life have been recorded in the pages of the Dandenong Journal.

A photograph of Joyce and husband Koos on their wedding day, appeared in September 1961 under the heading Dandenong City Soccer player and his bride.

“Leading Dandenong City soccer player, Koos Polman and his bride, formerly Miss Joyce Lorraine Lindsay, of 48 Potter St., Dandenong. They were married at St James’ Church of England, Dandenong, on August 5th. Joyce is a member of the staff of H.J. Heinz Co., Dandenong.

She and her husband now reside at 14 Grandview, Avenue, Dandenong,” announced the Journal.

“

Everybody said they had seen that photo in the paper…

JOYCE POLMAN

Joyce next appeared in the Journal in November 1973 when her fifth child, Trevor, was born at Dandenong Hospital on her birthday.

“Everybody said they had seen that photo in the paper,” Joyce said, looking fondly at the clipping of her proudly holding Trevor in the hospital in which she was also born.

When daughter Debbie wed in 1992, Joyce and Koos were in the family photo that appeared in the Journal. The happy couple and her proud parents were surrounded by members of the Dutch Male Choir, which performed at the wedding.

In 1994, two of Joyce and Koos’s grandchildren were among a group of babies sitting among cabbages that appeared on the front page of the Journal promoting the Bonnie Babes Foundation.

Last year Joyce was featured in the Journal again when she was snapped at Dandenong Primary School’s 140th anniversary celebrations.

And now she is in the Journal’s special commemorative edition.

Joyce grew up in McPherson Street. Her dad worked at engineering firm Kelly and Lewis and was a

gardener at Dandenong Park for a time.

Her parents were regular Journal readers.

Joyce remembers lining up to buy the Journal outside the old Scott Street office.

“I remember that little building.

Gosh you hardly had room to turn around.“ Joyce and Koos have lived in Apex Street, Dandenong North, for 42 years. The couple have five children and eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Joyce keeps her copies of the Journal safe in a little chest in the spare bedroom.

“I do look at them now and then.

They bring back a lot of memories.

It has been a journey.”

Stan was music man in tune with the times ❚ Casey Neill DANDENONG legend Stan Prior was born 125 years ago – just 25 years after the Journal.

He was a compositor at the Journal for 15 years from 1945 and appeared in its pages on dozens of occasions during his years with the City of Greater Dandenong Band.

“The Journal is a wonderful newspaper... factual, truthful and helping all sections of the community,” Stan had said.

“Even allowing for obvious changes in presentation over the years, it has always been a bright, newsy, community newspaper and the community has always been to the forefront of its reporting.”

After leaving the Journal in 1961, with his wife Mavis he ran printing company Prior Print from their Foster Street home.

He retired in 1981 at age 91, but appeared in the 1988 Guinness World Records book as the Most Durable Bandsman for still playing with City of Dandenong Band on his 96th birthday.

Stan’s father was a bandsman for 40 years and Stan started his musical career at age 14, singing in a church choir and playing the tenor horn.

He started his band life with the South Melbourne Band in 1904, was made a City of Greater Dandenong Band life member in 1975 and in 1978 received a Badge of Merit from the Victorian Bands League.

Stan was a Digger in both world wars, started an apprenticeship in the Government Printing Office in Hobart in 1909, farmed at Nar Nar Goon North and Tynong North, and played cricket from age 15 through to 70. In 1988 the council named the Dandenong Park sound shell in his honour.

“I am grateful every day of my life to be associated with people like you and I am overcome.

“But I hope I can enjoy a few more years with you all,” he said at a 100th birthday bash in his honour at Dandenong Town Hall.

He died aged 102.

Stan Prior at the opening of the Dandenong Park sound shell named in his honour in 1988.

City of Greater Dandenong SPORTS GROUND ALLOCATIONS 1 October 2015 – 29 February 2016 Council is seeking applications from clubs for the use of sports grounds and pavilions for the 2015-16 summer season. Applications are available from www.greaterdandenong.com Enquiries should be directed to Leesa Ray, Sports Liaison Officer on 8571 5386.

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What do you love about Greater Dandenong?

Home’s where heart is

KERRY BOLGER

❚ Narelle Coulter

Principal at Cornish College

WHEN Daryl Rayner started selling real estate in the early 1980s, brick veneer homes in North Dandenong and Hallam sold for between $35,000 and $45,000.

In Doveton, a solid family home would set buyers back about $18,000.

How times have changed.

Residential homes in Central Dandenong have now broken the magic $1 million mark.

Keith McLennan opened the original McLennan Real Estate office at 244 Lonsdale Street in 1936.

Just after World War II his son Merv took over and helped people buy and sell property until his death in the early 1990s.

Daryl Rayner joined Merv and his daughters in the business in 1980 and has never left.

In 1988, Daryl and fellow director Tony Rachele purchased the business, keeping the McLennan name.

The Lonsdale Street office was soon complemented by a second office when the firm bought Frank Holohan Real Estate in Langhorne Street.

Today McLennan Real Estate employs 32 staff and operates from a light, modern two storey office at 118 Walker Street.

Over more than three decades Daryl has seen the industry he loves change enormously.

“Pre-internet people came to

“Greater Dandenong enjoys a wonderful diversity of cultures. It’s a city committed to creating a level of cultural understanding and appreciation needed to ensure a sustainable future.”

KELLIE WALDEN Noble Park Football Club

“I love Greater Dandenong for its location: close enough to the heart of Melbourne, but far enough away for the suburban feel.”

PATRICK BOYD Banksia Campus Principal Keysborough College “It has been my great pleasure to have worked in and around Springvale and the City of Greater Dandenong for the past 30 years and to have taken part in the multi-cultural activities, varied cuisines and fantastic shopping opportunities which one would normally travel overseas to experience.”

DANIEL CHENG Springvale Asian Business Association “Became President of SABA in 2015, witnesses the completion of the Springvale station and the Springvale Asian Gateway. Also while Springvale is on the run and having the opportunity to work with a group of enthusiastic people who aim to build a better future for Springvale.”

MARK LANYON Dandenong’s No. 1 basketball fan “Greater Dandenong has everything for everyone. From our century old market to our modern Town Square. Sporting clubs, employment, festivals to celebrate our multiculturalism, and the wonderful, smiling people you see daily around town. Dandenong means family and friends to me.”

JOHN BASTON Principal Keysborough College “The strong sense of family and community is what makes this area such a vibrant and dynamic place to live and work. This, along with the determination of our eager young adults to achieve, makes it a pleasure for me in my role at Keysborough College and proud to be part of Greater Dandenong.”

SANDRA GEORGE SEBN manager

“There is nothing quite like the atmosphere of the business community when it gets together and it’s a privilege to work with so many great companies.

It is a community that cares – no matter what sector, everyone is willing to help those in need. Having served this community for more than four decades, it’s the people – I couldn’t imagine working anywhere else.”

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Lonsdale Street, Dandenong, in 1956. the office, sat and waited to talk to someone. We would then go through a manual stock list, pop them in the car and show them different properties. I haven’t done that in 20 years.”

He remembers photocopying and cutting and pasting together adverts for the Journal that would be collected by a sales representative.

“Now everything is done online.

We do it all ourselves now and send it to the Journal. It’s not proof read any more because we do it all ourselves.

“The Journal is 150 years, we’re 80 next year. It’s been an 80-year relationship.”

The other great change has been in the demographics of Dandenong.

“When I was a kid and started working here it was mainly Anglo

Saxon with Greeks and Italians thrown in after the war.

“McLennan had a lot of Greek and Italian clients, and still do.

“Now we’ve got the third generation, their grandchildren dealing with us.

“That’s the beauty of a business with this longevity, it’s the relationships you build over the years that make your business strong.”

Daryl said the latest wave of Afghan immigrant was now testing the waters of the property market.

“The Afghans are excellent tenants and they are now going on to buy property.

“They are also taking up a lot of the commercial leases opening hairdressers, restaurants and retail busi-

In prime position after farming start ❚ Cam Lucadou-Wells THE Facey name has been in central Dandenong for more than 100 years - and for several years was famous for its yellow real-estate advertising insert in the Journal.

Cranbourne farmer Frank Facey started the trade by buying a carriage-works business in a tin-roofed, wooden building in Pultney Street in 1913.

Mr Facey expanded into painting, trimming and clearing sales before entering into the real estate business in 1917.

The real-estate baton has since been duly passed down to his son, the late Angus Facey, then onto grandson Andrew who heads the business to this day.

In 1992, Facey’s residential real estate arm was sold to Michael Hall to trade as Hall and Partners First National in 254 Lonsdale Street.

The Facey name lives on as Facey Industrial Commercial – co-partnered by Andrew, football legend Graham ‘Josh’ Kendall and Mark Bond – in Clow Street.

Frank Barrett, an accountant

Founder Frank Facey on his wedding day. with Facey for nearly 30 years, said older readers would remember the late Angus Facey and wife Adele as keen Rotary, Uniting Church and Dandenong Music and Art Society members.

He said Andrew also set up a separate company, Parklea, a significant developer of housing and industrial estates in Narre Warren, Hallam, Berwick, Pakenham and Officer.

Just as Frank Facey left the family farm, so, too, is Dandenong rebranding itself beyond its agricultural roots.

Facey Industrial Commercial director Mark Bond, surveying the prominent tall buildings such as the Government Services Offices, the under-construction Australian Tax Office’s new digs, and the civic centre-library complex, said the future was exciting for the business.

“For a long time, Dandenong was just about industry and the commercial heart wasn’t a great part of it.

“We’re well and truly on track to change the amenity of the area with those offices.”

Infrastructure such as the EastLink tollway had helped drive development in the region and helped Dandenong re-establish its position as a government services hub.

Getting more government entities to set up in Dandenong was the next phase.

“Hopefully, the government will not be too Melbourne-centric and make Dandenong that hub it’s always been.”

Mr Bond predicted then there would be enough activity to entice more private investors to “want to be around such as significant area”.

Agents at the centre of hot property AFTER 34 years in real estate in Dandenong, Neil Butler knows a hot market when he sees one.

“The market is hot (in Greater Dandenong) but it’s hot everywhere,” said the director of Stockdale and Leggo, Dandenong.

Tim Retallack at Hall and Partners First National in Dandenong agrees.

Between them the agents have nearly 70 years of experience and have seen their industry and the area change enormously.

One constant has been the longstanding relationship between their agencies and the Journal.

“Everyone waited on a Monday for their paper to be delivered and

then my phone would ring off the hook,” said Neil.

Tim remembers the labour-intensive days before the internet when advertisements were prepared using scissors, glue and sticky tape.

Agents would cut out homes still for sale from the previous week’s ad and stick them to a sheet of paper with new listings.

Journal photographers would then drive around taking photos of the properties.

“They’d (advertising representatives) pick the ad up and sometimes it wouldn’t be ready. I remember a few mad mercy dashes down there (Frankston-Dandenong Road) in the car at the last moment.

“It was big procedure. One night I’d had a busy day and I didn’t start doing the ads until 10.30 that night.

I was there until 2am pasting it together.”

They have seen many ups and downs in the market but agree that at the moment Dandenong is “hot”.

“The market has discovered this area and it is well undervalued compared to neighbouring suburbs,” said Neil.

“It’s kicked on for sure. There is an influx of younger buyers looking for townhouses and units.

Tim agrees that the market is “alive”. “Dandenong is attracting a large number of investors, that has been the big change.”

Keith McLennan in 1936. nesses.” The Dandenong of Daryl’s youth was very different.

“In those days it was really like a large country town. Mum would go to the shops in the main street to grab a few things and we’d be three hours because everyone knew and spoke to each other.”

The Rayners and the McLennans were friends through church.

Daryl agrees that real estate has been good to him. His wife Delwyn now runs the company’s wealth management offshoot, Yellow Brick Road.

“I’m a people person, not one to be sitting about. I like to be out talking to people about their real estate requirements, having a cup of tea.”

They are proud of their patch THE Stickleys know Noble Park like the proverbial back of their hand.

The name has been synonymous with the region since the 1970s when Peter Stickley opened his eponymous real estate agency in Dandenong. Today son Tim Stickley is carrying on the family tradition as the director of Barry Plant Noble Park.

Stickley Real Estate opened in Noble Park in 1996 on the corner of Chandler and Heatherton Roads in a building once occupied by the locally famous Variety Corner milk bar.

The Stickleys joined the Barry Plant group in 2000.

Tim remembers the 1990s when Noble Park was full of “beautifully maintained homes on good sized blocks”.

“They were really proudly maintained by typical Aussies with big backyards.”

In the 25 years since many of those family homes have been sold and developed.

Tim describes Noble Park as an aging suburb.

“At lot of people who are selling now have lived here for 40 to 60 years. Families have grown up and the grandparents have stayed.

“This has been a multi-cultural area, with waves of migration bringing different groups who have rented then purchased and owned.”

Tim said Noble Park was increasing in price and popularity.

“It is now becoming a soughtafter suburb because of its proximity to services and the value on offer.

“We are seeing a lot of people move back to Noble Park. There is quality housing here and a lot of investment in the area.”

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In line to support my paper LONG-TIME reader Lynette Crouch wrote to the Journal about her how important the paper has been in her life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was born at the Dandenong Hospital on Anzac Day 1943, Lynette wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I lived opposite the showgrounds in King Street. I went to Dandenong Primary School 1403, then Dandenong High School. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went to the Dandenong dance in the town hall every Saturday and Wednesday night. I met my husband there. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My father was a motor mechanic at Brown and Andrews Garage in Lonsdale Street. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was in the Dandenong Fire Brigade for 45 years. I moved to Noble Park in 1965 when I got married. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember waiting in a queue in Scott Street at the Journal office after work on a Wednesday for the paper to be printed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The queue would be up to Thomas Street. My son and I delivered the paper for a few years in the 1980s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have got a few cuttings from the paper over the years â&#x20AC;&#x201C; my wedding photo, birth notices of my four children and death notices and write-ups. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have been reading the Journal all my life and I still look forward to receiving it on a Monday.â&#x20AC;?

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What do you love about Greater Dandenong?

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DIONYSIOS LIOSATOS

THROUGH rain, hail and shine, Merle Leak ensured her neighbours received their weekly copy of the Journal for more than 20 years.

Merle was a familiar sight around her Noble Park neighbourhood pushing her â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;jeepâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; full of newspapers and catalogues.

In 1991 Merle was featured in the Journal in the lead-up to deliversâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; day.

According to the paper, the day was held annually to â&#x20AC;&#x153;pay tribute to all those who deliver suburban newspapersâ&#x20AC;?.

Although Merle canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember anything special happening on deliversâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; day, she does look back fondly on her days of slipping Journals into letterboxes around her Page Court home.

Merle arrived in Melbourne from South Africa in 1984 and in June of the same year started working as a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;walkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for distribution company Salmat.

He patch was the area around Dunblane, Jasper, Bowmore and Callander streets, Noble Park.

Merle pushed a shopping â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;jeepâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; taking her one-year-old daughter along with her when there was enough space in the jeep. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eventually I got to know people in Callander who used to look after her,â&#x20AC;? she said with a laugh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Journal was heavy at that time and I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fit them all in the jeep so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have to make three trips, walking home each time to fill up with papers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You had to go out whatever the weather. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like it when there was a storm, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d often have to shelter

South Springvale soccer player â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dandenong Centre is being revitalised for shopping â&#x20AC;&#x201C; with its multicultural citizens it brings a cosmopolitan feeling.â&#x20AC;?

GACH NYUON Dandenong Stingrays footballer â&#x20AC;&#x153;The reason I love Greater Dandenong is because of how friendly and culturally diverse it is and not only that, I also enjoy being able to come in to Dandenong anytime for a feed or to shop and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always a lot on offer!â&#x20AC;?

COREY WILKINSON Keysborough 300-game footballer

Merle Leak was featured in the Journal in 1991. on peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s front porch.â&#x20AC;? Merle delivered the Journal on a Monday and catalogues on the weekend.

She remembers Christmas being â&#x20AC;&#x153;the worstâ&#x20AC;?.

She would work for six to eight hours a day, folding catalogues then delivering them.

A repair man in Mornington serviced her jeep every couple of years and replaced the wheels. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was lucky that I was never sick.

In all those years I only took four days off.â&#x20AC;? She eventually retired her jeep when arthritis meant she could no longer handle the physical demands of the job.

Merle is still an avid reader of the Journal and was delighted to hear of its milestone anniversary. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been very lucky,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew everybody. I saw their kids grow up. I just liked being out and walking.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked half my life and played my whole football career and Greater Dandenong has changed a lot over the 10 years and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve met great people here.â&#x20AC;?

CRAIG SLOCOMBE Springvale South Cricket Club captain â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always loved Greater Dandenong for the opportunity it provides young kids to play a range of sports â&#x20AC;&#x201C; its facilities and council support is fantastic.â&#x20AC;?

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JENNIFER RITH Athol Road PS school captain, 12 “Festivals are a big thing here in Springvale as we celebrate different occasions throughout the year.

The Summer Festival is where our multicultural community can come together annually and enjoy summer at Burden Park. The Snow Festival is also really fun in winter. It gives us a chance to experience the feeling of snow in the city. We really enjoy hosting festivals here and we find this is also a big part of our community. Having festivals mean we can all unite together as one large community.”

MARY LE Athol Road PS school captain, 12 “In the City of Greater Dandenong everyone supports each other and we respect and accept people of different cultures. It is fantastic to see so many facilities that we can use. I personally use the Springvale Library to borrow books of interest. I have heard the new library in Dandenong is pretty cool and I hope to get in to see it very soon. My friends and I use sporting grounds like Burden Park and Alex Wilkie Reserve to train for things such as soccer. We love using the Noble Park Aquatic Centre as a whole school because we go there to celebrate the end of each school year!”

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Veteran Channel Nine sports presenter Tony Jones has never forgotten his Dandenong roots.

❚ Lachlan Moorhead WHILE hosting morning radio recently, presenter Tony Jones was chastised on social media for commenting about Dandenong.

With his knowledge about the suburb questioned, the veteran Channel Nine sports presenter’s response to the online punter was simple.

“I was born there and grew up in Noble Park,” Jones tweeted.

“You were saying?”

Jones was born in Dandenong Hospital and spent his childhood moving to different houses throughout Noble Park and Springvale.

And the connections don’t stop there.

His grandmother, Margaret, used to put on theatre shows at Dandenong Town Hall and he was named after St Anthony’s Parish in Noble Park.

“I went to a few schools, we were a bit like gypsies,” he told the Journal.

“I went to Heatherhill Primary and then left there and went to Southvale Primary School and then Coomoora Primary (now Keysborough Primary) when it was brand new, and then for high school we moved interstate.

“It was a great area, a good area to grow up.”

Jones remembers family trips to Sandown Park Greyhound Track on a Thursday night when, as a kid, he would hunt for loose change.

“I used to walk around the bookies’ ring there and try and find money on the ground amongst all the tickets and all that sort of stuff,” he said.

Other memories synonymous with his childhood in Dandenong are embedded in Jones’s mind.

He recalls trips to Dandenong Market where he savoured the taste of a hot jam donut.

Then there’s his grandfather who used to search through the tip and set up a trash and treasure stall with the salvaged items near the Dandenong drive-in.

“We had a house in Treesbank Avenue. That one really does hold special memories for me,” Jones said.

“That’s where I remember Santa

Black Saturday tragedy strikes home TONY Jones tried calling Brian Naylor at his Kinglake West property but no one picked up.

It was 7 February 2009 and Dandenong born Tony and veteran Channel Nine broadcaster Peter Hitchener were in central Victoria covering the Black Saturday bushfires.

Their close friend and esteemed Nine News anchor Brian Naylor had a property in Kinglake but no one could reach him.

“I’d been trying to ring Brian and it went straight to message bank,” Tony recalled.

“So when we went past his street, the road that he lived in up in Kinglake – Hitch and I were in the same car, we had some production people with us – we just looked at each other and thought... there’s no way. coming and it was a big house and we had chooks out the back and I had this fantastic treehouse.

“I remember that house fondly and it wasn’t that long ago I drove past it and it just looks nothing like the house I used to live in.”

It wasn’t until Jones moved interstate and then back to Victoria that his career in the media began.

Thrown a lifeline at radio station 3NE in Wangaratta in his early 20s, newshound Jones then served a year-long stint at 3AW before being poached by Channel Nine where he clocks up 30 years of service next May. “This is what I say to young journos – there is a thing called being in the right place at the right time and there’s also a thing of making your own luck,” he said.

“Now when I came here in ’86, I was in a sports department with a number of guys and one of them was Max Walker who was our main newsreader.

“Well, Max’s star just went through the roof and in the end he

“But we didn’t know he was up there ’cause he had a farm down at Gippsland.

“So I rang his number again and again it went to a message bank and it was while we were onair that I remember my boss rang.

“He said ‘look. I know why you haven’t been able to get in contact with Brian’, and I said ‘oh you’re joking... ’” Tony ran to the police officers nearby seeking confirmation.

“There were all these burnt out cars and everything... it was like a horrible movie set, and the cops said they couldn’t confirm anything but I knew from their tone,” he said.

“And, unfortunately, it was true – Brian and his wife had gone.”

Brian Naylor presented the couldn’t commit to doing Monday to Friday news.

“So he moved on and then Peter Mitchell, from Channel Seven, he became the Monday to Friday reader.

“I’d been there two years and I’m reading weekends and then a year later I’m reading Monday to Friday, I was just absolutely blessed.”

Jones’s career highlights are almost too many to name but the various Olympics, an interview with Nelson Mandela and the failed Melbourne and Hawthorn football club merger rate a mention.

“February ’94 I was in South Africa for the first cricket tour to go back to South Africa and I interviewed Mandela in his office. That was pretty good,” he said.

“Some of the big local stories here... I reckon the merger, that was ’96, I think, Melbourne/Hawthorn, that was huge, just the emotion and the anger and the sheer angst and the passion, it was just phenomenal.”

But is it just fate that one of Tony

Melbourne edition of National Nine News for 20 years until he retired in 1998 to be replaced in the role by Peter Hitchener.

“They (Brian and wife, Moiree) were two really special people for this newsroom, and to me and my wife personally, because we would have dinner with them, and also their family was just fantastic,” Tony said.

The Channel Nine sports presenter reflected fondly on Brian’s influence on him, his family, and the newsroom.

And, of that tragic moment up in the mountains when he and Peter’s worst nightmare was confirmed, Tony said: “Hitch and I, we don’t really talk about it – it’s just too confronting.”

– Lachlan Moorhead Jones’s most memorable news stories saw him return to his roots?

Six years ago he went back to Dandenong to cover a yarn where an elderly lady from the senior citizens group found a gun in the toilet of a local TAB. “I remember we went out to the senior citizens group out Dandenong way, all the other TV channels were there, we all interviewed this woman, then when everyone left, I went down to the Dandenong Plaza and went to a toy shop and bought a toy gun and went back there and said ‘look, do you mind if we recreate it?’” Jones recalled.

“So we went into the toilet and recreated it and when it went to air I did it all in black and white, it looked like CCTV. “I just always remember that one. I use it sometimes as an example to other journos just to think outside the square a little bit.

“And when everyone else gets in their cars and drives away just duck off and do something else a little extra – go the extra yard.”

Stories keep the score ❚ Casey Neill BRUCE and Alan Collard have kept every story about the Greater Dandenong Band they’ve found in the Journal’s pages since 1965.

They have hundreds of articles in their collection, which they showed off in a recent photo shoot.

“I took me two and a half hours to go through them all,” Alan said.

“It was quite a trip down memory lane.

“It’s just out of our interest for the band.

“And I’ve always been one to keep articles and not throw stuff away.”

They’ve now entrusted Bruce’s grandson and Greater Dandenong Band president Tim Hellyer with the stories.

“He’s going to scan them all into the band computer records,” Alan said.

“He’ll classify them by date so they’ll be on file forever more.”

The brothers joined the City of Greater Dandenong Band in 1965 because it was struggling for players.

This year band president Tim inducted them into the band’s Honour Wall for their 50 years of service.

Bruce and Alan Collard with the Journal articles they’ve collected since 1965.

Picture: CHANTELLE RIORDAN

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SINGTONG CHAN Athol Road PS school vice captain, 11

St James’ Anglican Church was built in 1864, a year before the Journal was launched.

Dandenong Primary School in 1903.

Growing recognition THE Journal is one of a handful of institutions that have been constants in the life of Dandenong since the 1800s.

The 20 years from 1865 to 1885 were a time of rapid growth and civic expansion in Dandenong and saw the building of a permanent Anglican church, a gothic-inspired state school, a regional cattle and produce market and an agricultural show.

St James’ Anglican Church celebrated its sesquicentenary last year; Dandenong Market celebrates the same milestone next year.

Dandenong Primary School marked its 140th anniversary last year and the Dandenong Show will stage its 144th carnival in November.

St James’ parish first met in Dunbar’s Hotel in 1850, and moved to the present site in Langhorne Street in 1857. The foundation stone for the beautiful old church, in which worshippers still gather today, was laid on 5 July 1864.

The first state school was built on

Crowds flock to the 1918 Dandenong Show. the corner of Robinson and Foster streets in 1881. The gothic-inspired building took nine months to construct.

The school moved to its present site in Foster Street in 1881.

Today, the school has 320 students from 45 different nationalities.

The first Dandenong Show was held at the Dandenong Market site on 7 March 1872. The top prize on offer was three pounds for the best

draught horse. As it was too wet for the ploughing competition, this was held in May with 16 entrants. Sadly, the same year the society lost its foundation president William Keys, who drowned while trying to rescue cattle in floods at Bangholme.

By 1874, the prize money was 145 pounds, and in 1876, Victorian Governor Sir George Bowan attended the carnival.

In 1888 a new exhibition hall was erected.

The South Bourke and Mornington Journal reported that the new building was “substantial, commodious and handsome, situated on an elevated site, commanding an excellent view of the surrounding country and midway between the centre of the township and the railway station.

A long-felt want is now supplied by the beautiful building just completed, which undoubtedly has few equals in the colony.“ This year’s Dandenong Show will be held on 14 and 15 November.

Market icon ready to celebrate its own milestone Dandenong’s iconic market and the Journal were founded a year apart. As the market gears up to celebrate its 150th anniversary next year, marketing manager Briony Walker looks back at the history of another beloved Dandenong institution.

DANDENONG Market is Melbourne’s second oldest and second largest market.

Playing a central role in the development of the ‘Gateway to Gippsland’, Dandenong Market has supported local farmers and small business in the Greater Dandenong area since 1866.

Dandenong Market was officially open for business on 10 October 1866, in response to a petition from locals who demanded a local trading centre. Early market traders sold livestock, fruit, and dairy products, with many market traders travelling for days over treacherous roads.

One Gippsland farmer recalled “carting our butter, eggs and bacon to the Dandenong Market… The roads were still very bad; the journey always took three strenuous days”.

Popular items in the early days of the market included skins and hides

of farm and native animals, hay, honey and lard. The market was also well-known for its livestock markets, with cattle, horses, pigs, and poultry herded into the market every Tuesday for auction.

Much like today, the market was also a venue for music and live performances. In the late 1800s, a makeshift stage of tarpaulins and cloths were strung up to create a concert area, with lights and lamps borrowed for atmosphere.

By 1870, the market started operating weekly with up to 300 vendors and buyers in attendance, general merchandise traders travelled from Melbourne to sell city goods to the country visitors. Shops and businesses started opening around the market to service the growing amount of visitors and services such as the local library adjusted their opening hours to suit the market trade.

A poignant moment between a small boy and an elderly gentleman at Dandenong Market circa 1953.

As Dandenong Market grew along with the community around it, bigger premises were required, and in 1926 the market was relocated to its existing site on the corner of Clow and Cleeland streets where stalls included the still-popular fruit, vegetables, flowers, fish and meat as well as sewing machines, furniture and whips – perhaps less in demand these days.

A local observed at the time, “From here, there and everywhere along the roads converging on the market square, milch cows and fat cattle on the hoof, porkers, suckers and backfatters, baconers and vealers come in covered carts and motor vans… costermongers and hucksters bring in their wares… many dialects may be listened to all mingled in the jargon, “Buy! Buy! Buy!” – where anything from a needle and up to and only stopping short of an anchor, is thrust under one’s notice.”

Cattle herded into pens for sale at the market in 1924.

During the Great Depression in the 1930s, the market played a vital economic role, providing opportunities for locals and farmers to set up businesses with low overheads.

The market also played an important role during World War II, when, in June 1940, the army used the market as an army camp for more than 1000 men. The stallholders made room for the soldiers and moved to the adjacent pavements.

Over the years, the market has grown to support almost 200 traders selling everything from banana bread to broad beans, spices to saris and carnations to cane juice.

Dandenong Market is still famous for its hustle and bustle, with market traders spruiking the specials of the day and what’s in season.

The market is the heart of Dandenong life and remains a vibrant community asset that is loved by both the local and regional community.

Traders arrive by horse and buggy to sell their produce and wares at Dandenong Market.

“What I really like about our community is that I can go to bed and feel safe and not worry about the dangers. This is because I think our community is safe.

It is a very friendly community and is a fun place to be, with lots of amazing schools competing in friendly matches.

I would say Greater Dandenong is an amazing area and a great place to live.

The facilities around here are clean and most of the buildings are modern – showing that our community is up to date. I am really grateful for living in a safe community and being able to make new friends easily.”

JOHNNY NGUYEN Athol Road PS school vice captain, 11 “What I love about Greater Dandenong is its cultural diversity and how no matter who you are or where you’re from you are welcome in the community. In our community everyone knows each other and gets along, we don’t judge by race we see everyone as equals.”

BRIAN DUGGAN Noble Park Football Club scorer “The friendly clubs and the opportunity to play sport and the help that the City of Greater Dandenong gives to everyone.”

NATHAN VOGT Keysborough Cougars basketball coach “I love that so many people from such a diverse range of cultures can come together to get involved and support some of the different sporting clubs in the community.”

BARYALAI RAHIMI Dandenong restaurateur

“It’s a welcoming city. It’s really a city of opportunity, not just for food and culture but industry as well.”

GWEN JARVIS Former Dandenong mayoress “A whole host of things around the centre of Dandenong because that’s where Maurie was in and around council. All the friends we had were great – they were my life. The people there were all good to me, and I was good to them. That was a part of my happiness; the contact with all my friends there.”

MARGARET LADNER Dandenong and District Benevolent Society “ I meet the best and the worst of Dandenong. I’ve been in this job for 31 years. The people in Dandenong are very, very generous. They’re very good at helping each other. I think they’ve got the best council. The council should be praised. They look after the people.

They do a wonderful job.”

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YOUR VOICE FOR 150 YEARS

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What do you love about Greater Dandenong?

PETER BROWN Greater Dandenong councillor “What I love about Greater Dandenong is Tatterson Park, Keysborough,Tirhatuan Park, North Dandenong, Ross Reserve, Noble Park, Sandown Racecourse, the Drum Theatre and Civic Centre, Dandenong Market, and free on-street parking in Noble Park and Springvale.

And the people.”

ANGELA LONG Greater Dandenong councillor “It’s a great place to live, work and play, I have lived in north Dandenong for 44 years in the same house.”

Artist Sue Jarvis with some of her paintings back in 1984.

JANETTE TIMMS Dandenong Central Pharmacy “I love Dandenong because of our regular customers that come here all the time.

I just like helping the people in the area.”

SHARON HARRIS Disability advocate

“Our city is my heart . It gives me pride to represent our city and be a part of the Journal’s 150th anniversary . Our city is colourful as is the Journal , which represents our true values within its pages.”

BARAT ALI BATOOR Freelance photographer

“The City of Greater Dandenong has an excellent multicultural atmosphere that welcomes people of all colour and background. Its rich and vibrant culture is what I feel most attached to.”

SRI SAMY Friends of Refugee CEO

“I enjoy working in City of Greater Dandenong as it is a success story of a thriving multicultural community with people from over 147 countries living harmoniously, setting an example for rest of Australia.”

ROZ BLADES Greater Dandenong councillor “I love Greater Dandenong because of the people, the food and the vibrancy. I love attending all of the events I get invited to as a councillor. It is a privilege to be elected in a city with this much hope, enthusiasm and potential. I just love all of it!”

MARIA SAMPEY Greater Dandenong councillor “Being of Italian origin and coming to Australia at age seven, I think Dandenong is a great city to live in. It is the most multicultural city in the whole of Victoria with 140 languages spoken.

All cultures in our city live together in harmony and respect. I think that it is great to be able to meet, mix and learn about different cultures and beliefs.”

We loved our spirit of youthful excitement Artist Sue Jarvis, one of former mayor Maurie and mayoress Gwen Jarvis’s four daughters, tells the Journal what Dandenong was like in her formative years.

DANDENONG youths of the 1950s and 1960s had most of their lives centred around activities in the town, their city.

Dandenong was separated by paddocks from Melbourne, Berwick, Frankston and Ferntree Gully.

Most babies were born at Dandenong Hospital, as I was, in a singlestoreyed wing now gone.

A sense of community spirit and equality was endorsed by nearly all secondary students attending local schools – Dandenong High School, Girls Secondary College, Technical School and St John’s College.

Most parents worked locally, often in the many industries which existed then but don’t now – General Motors Holden, Heinz, International Harvester (now IVECO), the lace factory and, in my case, the Dandenong Bacon Factory.

I remember when the stock market moved from the site of the present produce market to Cheltenham Road.

People travelled miles to the produce market, as they do today.

Lonsdale Street was the place to meet friends, especially outside Coles, now Chemist Warehouse, on Saturday mornings.

Churches provided social and sporting activities from tennis to cricket to football, netball and basketball.

Many churches had tennis courts, as did ours, and I played regularly.

Dandenong High School, which I attended, provided a range of activities which were unparalleled at the time.

I sang in and conducted choirs, inspired by Estonian migrant girls who sang in parts unaccompanied.

Greek students had parents who sold take away food or vegetables.

Such was Steve de George’s famous fish and chip shop in Lonsdale Street.

Pizzas were unknown then and a visit to the Chinese cafe was a treat.

As a 12-year-old Girl Guide I remember hiking overnight beside a narrow Heatherton Road from Dandenong to Harkaway.

At the time, we passed nothing but farms because Endeavour Hills didn’t even exist.

As an older teenager I travelled on open hay bales with a church youth group to Keysborough, which was then nothing but market gardens.

I loved art and was one of the few local young people to be successful at the Dandenong Festival of Music and Art for Youth.

Later, as a trainee art teacher, my 1971 thesis, The Character of Nineteenth Century Dandenong, gained first class honours.

Early Dandenong Journals and the Dandenong Historical Society were invaluable but I also spent many hours on site.

Evidence of 19th century Dandenong is now much less than in 1971.

The town hall was the centre of the community for debutante balls, concerts, the Dandenong Festival, and Mother and Daughter or Father and Son evenings for sex education films were shown when we were young teenagers.

The cenotaph, now in Palm Plaza, was a small obelisk-like cream memorial between traffic lanes in Lonsdale Street.

I remember dad marching on Anzac Day, but there was not the crowds that attend today.

Closer to the time of World War II, returned soldiers were not remembered with such admiration as they are now.

The traffic was stopped for the march. All of it, whether cars, trucks or buses, went through the main street in the absence of the now Monash Freeway.

In my younger years, palm trees dotted along Lonsdale Street and outside the entrance of Dandenong West Primary school, which I attended.

When Queen Elizabeth travelled by train to Yallourn we were allowed as youngsters to line the railway line, not far from the primary school, with flags.

Of course, we couldn’t even see Her Majesty as the train sped by.

Generally the Dandenong Journal included articles on people we all knew.

The sports results were a must – selling many papers.

The paper’s black and white photographs were always elegant, often taken by local photographers from studios such as Beaver, Graham Southam or Athol Adams.

The Journal was, and still is, a true community paper – much like the Pakenham Gazette. I’m proud that my son, Russell Bennett, works on them.

Looking through the pages of our proud history From page 3 His obituary in the Journal noted that “His last illness was a somewhat brief one, heart trouble tending to accelerate his end, which was of peaceful character”.

“For a period of 30 years the deceased was closely identified with the affairs of this and the surrounding districts, but during the last few years of his life, did not take an active part in business matters.”

Harvey Roulston’s remains were interred in Dandenong cemetery.

By 1900 the Journal had moved to “more commodious premises in Scott Street” and by then the Journal was printed on Dawon Wharfedale press.

In 1910 the paper had expanded to six pages and proudly called itself the “best and largest penny paper in the district”.

The newspaper continued to evolve and between March 1926 and August 1927 changed its masthead and became known as the Dandenong Journal.

When Harvey’s son Bill Roulston died in 1938 the Roulston family’s connection with the paper ended and ownership passed to William Bennett.

Today Harvey Roulston’s grave lies neglected and largely forgotten in the Dandenong cemetery.

We can be thankful that the newspaper he founded lives on, still as much a voice of the community as it was in 1865.

Harvey Roulston’s family grave at Dandenong cemetery. 141165

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Bonds are our character Reporter PHIL McLEOD wrote for the Journal for 20 years. He covered footballer Darren Millane’s funeral, conducted one of the last interviews with author Frank Hardy and helped broker a truce between two warring street gangs to get a story.

THE Oxford dictionary defines the word journal as a record of news and events of a personal nature.

For 150 years the Dandenong Journal has had a ‘personal’ relationship with the city and its residents through depression, war, generational conflicts, life and death.

The differing style of its mastheads has reflected the city’s change from a grazing township and its reputation as the Gateway to Gippsland, to an industrial and commercial hub known and becoming known as Melbourne’s second city, through to today’s vibrant multicultural community in the City of Opportunity.

Dandenong has endured many challenges that have tested the character and fibre of its people.

It was named as a heroin hot spot by the then State Government, and the resultant crime made it dangerous for people to walk the streets. They lived in fear. It was personal.

The Journal launched a community war on drugs campaign and unashamedly hounded the government for more police and recourses to win back the streets.

The paper then asked its readers to dob in a dealer to police to rid the community of the purveyors of death and the destruction of people’s lives.

It was personal.

The paper and the community stood as one in fighting the heroin epidemic, and are making a similar stand today in their all-out assault on the insidious drug, ice.

The city also had to endure the emergence of a new criminal threat, American-style street gangs.

The most notorious was 3174, Noble Park’s postcode, who gained media-wide attention after several raids, or in gang terms, steaming, on several shopping centres.

Steaming involved gang members descending on a store en masse and while the majority distracted and intimidated the staff member, others cleaned the racks out of designer label sports clothing and shoes.

In the early days, the blue bandana wearing 3174 foes were the Dandenong-based MC3, red bandanas, and the Hills Posse from Endeavour Hills.

Opposing gangs met at a selected location for turf wars and to settle disputes.

At the height of the street gang crime spree, the Journal organised for the leaders of the two main gangs, 3174 and MC3, to meet at its office to try and broker a peace deal.

The two leaders had declined similar requests from authorities.

It was a small breakthrough and combined with the concerted efforts by the police, council, and government agencies, the threat from streets gangs steadily diminished. It was personal.

It became a little too personal for me on one occasion.

Phil McLeod, back left, with his Journal editorial colleagues in 1985: Lynne Harper (deceased) Peter Simcock, Jim Bruce (deceased) Petrina Dakin, Barry Palmer (deceased). Front: Pat Briscoe, Adam Hankin (deceased), Andrew Chapman.

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It was named as a heroin hot spot by the then State Government, and the resultant crime made it dangerous for people to walk the streets. They lived in fear. It was personal…

PHIL McLEOD

While covering the courts, I walked into the old Dandenong courthouse and ran into my younger brother.

I asked why he was there and he sheepishly admitted that he’d been charged with drink driving, and asked if I could keep it out of the paper because he hadn’t told our parents about it.

While contemplating what I was to do, a mate who I played cricket against, walked over and tells me he’s also been charged with drink driving and had a Dandenong councillor with him to act as character witness. He also asks me to not to cover his case.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, during my brother’s hearing I find out that he had a prior conviction for drinkdriving.

Things were looking grim and there was a real chance he might go to jail.

Fortunately, the magistrate gave him a hefty fine along with a lengthy cancellation of his licence.

My mate received a similar penalty.

I told the editor John Woods of my dilemma.

“What dilemma?“ he asked. “Put ’em both in the paper.”

Needless to say I wasn’t the most popular family member when the paper was delivered to our house, nor was I popular with my cricketing mates who let me know what they thought of me.

Funny, though, the people involved weren’t that fussed and we all laugh about it now. Don’t we, lads?

Move from gaslight was electric FOR many years some of the streets in Dandenong were lit by 33 gas lamps, which had to be lit and extinguished by hand.

This task was carried out for several years by Mr J. Cromie, manager of the works established in Hutton Street by the Dandenong Gas and Coke Co. Electric lighting took the place of the old gas lamps in 1914, the supply coming from a battery operated plant established in a powerhouse that stood at the corner of Clow and Stuart streets.

The electric supply proved unsatisfactory as the service developed, there being 55 street lamps of much greater power than the gas on the changeover.

Soon after the launching of the Yallourn scheme, the electricity commission took over the supply and from then on there was a steady improvement in street lighting.

– Journal, 18 March, 1959 Right: The first electricty poles to light up Dandenong’s main street.

The Journal recorded many of Dandenong’s most important events.

The funeral of former Collingwood champion and premiership player Darren Millane, who was recruited from the Dandenong area, was by far the biggest seen in modern times.

More than 5000 people packed the Dandenong Town Hall and thousands more listened to the service on loudspeakers outside.

The Journal also revealed the existence of the Romanian mafia, the activities of a paedophile priest at a Catholic school, exposed the crisis in the region’s mental health, and the level of child sexual abuse and the lack of resources to help combat it.

On the sporting front, it covered the demise of the Dandenong Football

Club, one of the most famous and bestknown clubs in Australia and, more recently, the inclusion of Dandenong Cricket Club fast bowlers Peter Siddle and James Pattinson in the Australian Test team.

It also covered the visits by the greatest boxer of all time, Muhammad Ali, Australia’s most famous author Frank Hardy, and numerous premiers, prime ministers, and members of the royal family.

But the main reason for the paper’s existence was for its readers.

It recorded the kindness and generosity of people who, on so many occasions, came to the assistance of the less fortunate, and those who needed a helping hand, often to the detriment of their own financial situation.

The Journal has had a generational influence on thousands of families.

Children have grown up with the paper and so have their children.

It’s been a constant in the life of so many and will continue to be so for future generations.

It’s a personal thing.

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YOUR VOICE FOR 150 YEARS

DANDENONG JOURNAL

Habit of a lifetime ❚ Georgia Westgarth THE Dandenong Journal might not be their local newspaper anymore, but Judith and Keith Bramich make sure they are kept in the loop.

Having grown up in Dandenong, many of the couple’s most treasured memories were made in Doveton and Noble Park where they bought their first home.

Now residing in Wodonga, Keith and Judith met and were wed in Dandenong and are proud to have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary last year.

“We were married on 15 April 1954 at the Scots Church Dandenong and honeymooned in Healesville.

“Ten years ago I didn’t think we’d even make our 50th because of Keith’s illness – it was very special to celebrate our 60th anniversary together with our family,” Judith said.

Setting eyes on each other at a church dance, Judith was 15 and her husband-to-be 18 years old.

Judith described her first love interest as tall, dark and handsome with big brown eyes.

“He’s just a kind man, he’s been a

“

Ten years ago I didn’t think we’d even make our 50th because of Keith’s illness – it was very special to celebrate our 60th anniversary together with our family…

JUDITH BRAMICH

very good and kind man – I did well,” she said.

At 82 (Keith) and 79 (Judith) years old, Judith said her number one tip for a long, happy marriage was communication.

“It’s about communication which can be hard – we always communicated very well, but Keith was terribly understanding and patient – he was patient for me, he was the stable one!” she said.

Two children, four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren later, Keith and Judith can show their family two very different but similar photos.

“When I was 16 years old Keith was my partner at my debutante, we danced together,” Judith said.

With some prior experience walk-

ing his beloved out in a white dress, things didn’t go to plan the second time around.

“It wasn’t the wedding we planned for in August because my parents were moving to Sydney but it was still good – we had to make a lot of quick changes and it was freezing cold but didn’t rain,” she said.

Judith said her published wedding photo in the Dandenong Journal was a nice surprise.

“I didn’t know it was going to be in the Journal, I didn’t initiate it but I was thrilled when I saw it in the paper,” she said.

Still receiving snippets of interest in the post from her sister-in-law, Judith said they would regularly read the Journal and still do.

Keith and Judith Bramich with their rescue dog, Archie.

Lovestruck reader woos Sun Showgirl ❚ Narelle Coulter JOURNAL reader Peter Hartin sent in this photograph and clipping of his wife, Maureen, being crowned Miss Sun Showgirl at the 1959 Dandenong Show.

Maureen and the runnerup showgirls were featured on the front page of the Journal on 18 November 1959 being presented with their sashes by GTV 9 star Elaine McKenna.

When asked about his connection with the lovely young woman in the photo Peter replied “I fell in love with the winner and married her”.

“I always thought it was a terrific picture and so must have Greg Dickson, the then editor and owner,” Peter said.

The article described Maureen as a “young Scottish lass, who came out from her own

country only two and half years ago”.

At the time of her big win Maureen was a typist on the New Holland staff at Dandenong and “proved to be ahead of her rivals in general knowledge”.

The Journal noted that Maureen wore a “youthful buttoned-through frock of white waffle pique with two large pockets on the hemline”.

“A touch of spring was introduced with her little pink bow hat and pink shoes”, it said.

Peter and Maureen were married a few years later and went on to have four children.

And, yes, Maureen is still very good at general knowledge.

“Trivial Pursuit, she is the lady to have on your side,” her proud husband said.

The Journal reported Maureen’s win on its front page of 18 November 1959.

Elaine McKenna presents Maureen Hartin (nee Lynn) with her Miss Sun Show Girl sash. Runners-up that year were Eleanor Cooper and Laurel Kendall.

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PERGOLAS & DECKS CALL MARTIN

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ELECTRIC HOT WATER SERVICE REPAIRS SURGE PROTECTORS SAFETY SWITCHES SPLIT SYSTEM AIR_CONDITIONER INSTALLED ANYTHING ELECTRICAL RE-WIRING SPECIALISTS

Anthony 0422 836 936 Justin 0412 260 145

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Professional Carpet Steam Cleaning

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FREE QUOTES

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ALL TYPES OF GATES & FENCES • Automatic & Sliding • Ballustrading • Pool & Garden Fencing

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V Cleaning Services 1189314-CG26-15

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0411 703 873

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J.L. Hutt Electrical 24 HOUR SERVICE

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John’s Building

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Jason 1300 644 698

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Decking. Sanding.

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Window Replacements, Mirrors, Splashbacks, Pool Fencing, Shopfronts and Doggy Doors Prompt and Reliable.

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PROFICIENT

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0407 725 587

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Termite Proofing, AEPMA member, Commercial & Domestic

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Lic: 20982

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Specialising in Renovation, Carpentry, Rubbish Removal, Pergolas, All types of Plumbing, Tiling, Painting

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TIP TOP HANDYMAN SERVICES

9755 5720

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V Handy Persons

0419 514 977

BIN HIRE

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CHEAP GLASS REPLACEMENT Call Frank 0405 483 265

$2500

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General Classifieds section of Network Classifieds.

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Mirrors and Glass cut to size Shower Screen Repairs

â&#x20AC;˘ 2 Cubic Yard Bins from $130 â&#x20AC;˘ Order 2 Bins at once, receive a Discount â&#x20AC;˘ Fast Friendly Efficient Service

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We buy old cars 7 days a week

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Various bin sizes 2m 3m 4m 5m 6m Call Thai 0411 457 777 or 0411 457 778

1190594-RC28-15

Cutts Glass

Heng Heng Bin Hire

Cards Welcome

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General Notices

Real Estate

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NO LEASE ★

Singles Cabin - Bed Sitter (incl Kitchen) Caravans (ensuite) Caravans (no ensuite) Quiet secure park Close all facilities

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★ NO BOND

Ph 9546 9587

C1098234-JO43-13

Office Hours Mon-Sat 8am-6pm.

Sunday 10am-4pm 870 Princes Highway, Springvale

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1194801-ACM32-15

C1088813-JO35-13

ROOMS AVAILABLE, Single rooms. Gents only. 48 Hammond Road/45 Hemmings Street, Dandenong. Call John, mobile: 0417 336 906.

Find it in the

Celebrations

section of Network Classifieds.

Caravan & Cabin Park

V Houses & Units For Sale

NEED TO SELL? Looking for houses in local area.

Call Dave 0428 678 489.

V To Share DOVETON, 1BR, fully furnished, close to shops and bus stops, $160 per week includes bills.

Phone 0402 456 730.

Employment V Business Opportunities

V Public Notices and Event

Find local work in the

Employment

SINGER REQUIRED. Must have experience. 60s and 70s pop, rhythm and blues. SMS name and number to 0421 148 008.

V Positions Vacant

Call between 8am-5pm

BACKHOE and EXCAVATOR OPERATOR

1191002-HM29-15

Window Replacement Service Aluminum, Timber and UPVC Windows Free Measure and quote

9703 1530

Professional Services

New Ladies Relax from

1151475-LB35-14

Servicing all of Greater Melbourne

V Adult Services

$49 1144777-PB29-14

V Taxation/ Accounting

10 Graham Road Clayton

(at the end of the road)

9546 6444 1167615-LB51-14

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BRUCE SHAND, JP. Celebrant.

Specialising in home Weddings.

All areas. Phone 9879 6726. www.bruceshand.com.au

DESIGNER DRESSMAKER, Experienced and specialising in bridal evening wear. Any shape or style. 9546 4067. 0419 507 680.

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Mel 95 E3, 7days

V Personal

Dry split Red Gum $300 per ton.

Dry split Yellow box $300 per ton.

Split Mallee Stumps $330 per ton.

Mountain Ash $250 per ton.

Free delivery in the Dandenong metro area.

SEWING MACHINE industrial overlocker, Singer model 460 /21, four treadle, working well with nice table, $287. 0406 470 478 or 8752 1566.

ALL HOURS, On site computer repairs, upgrades, software, internet and networks. For small businesses and home users.

Reliable service. Phone Ian: 9799 8884.

V Garden/ Outdoor ALL TREE WORKS Pruning, shaping, removals. Mulching/sales, free quotes. John 0401 623 500.

PRUNING FRUIT TREES and roses, 3 generations' family experience. Jeff: 5941 3281, 0418 386 519.

V Massage Therapists ADVERTISERS, in this section are qualified practitioners and offer non-sexual services.

ANGIE'S PAMPERING massages.

Special, FREE hot body wash with Lomi Lomi massage, only $99, Tues, Thur, Fri, Sat. 169 Buckley St, N/Park. 0413669071.

RELAXATION MASSAGE, Monday Saturday. 10am-7pm. Phone 0412 628 856.

HOME MUSIC LESSONS, piano/ KB, all ages and styles, leisure or AMEB, caring teacher, reasonable rates. Phone 0408 382 955.

PIANO Kawai, polished teak colour with stool in VGC, $1,500.

Phone 0412 054 481.

Our Agency is seeking experienced production workers for ongoing casual work in food and plastics industries and must have experience in fast paced work. Braeside and Dandenong areas. Register in person between 10am - 2pm Mon to Frid at BT Recruitment, Shop 37, Level 1, Langhorne St, The Hub Arcade, (opp post office), Dandenong.

SHEETMETAL apprentice required. Must have experience in the kitchen industry & current drivers licence.

Wages negotiable. Apprentice must be reliable & punctual. Full time position with overtime. Ph: 9794 9300 or email: info@cutpricekitchens.com.au

Permanent position plus overtime. Dandenong area.

Phone 8787 8522.

TV Video Game Show Production Wonderworld Games, in Eumemmerring, has part time jobs for high school students 15+ interested in production work on a TV Gaming show.

For more info & to apply go to wonderworldgames. com.au/jobs.shtml

EXCAVATOR/TIPPER TRUCK OPERATOR05

FITTER AND TURNER Full time employment in small engineering shop in Oakleigh South. Must have Lathe experience, 7:30am- 4pm, 38 hours pw, plus overtime if needed, $20 p/h neg. 9562 6464.

Hairdressing

V Pets & Services

fully qualified barber/hairdresser, full time or part time position available, for more information call: 9547 5258.

ADVERTISERS PLEASE NOTE New rules apply to the advertising of dogs and cats for sale.

It is now an offence to advertise the sale of a dog or cat unless the microchip identification number of the animal is included in the advertisement or notice.

A registered domestic animal business may use its Council business registration number as an alternative.

section of Network Classifieds.

0477 210 810 between 7am-7pm

PACKERS LABOURERS PRODUCTION LINE

Operator wanted for 5 and 13 tonne excavator and tipper truck,HR/HC licence required.

Experience is a must. Immediate start.Ph: 0407 535 556

V Music /Instruments

Professional Services

For company in South East suburbs.

Experienced in Civil Construction; including footpaths, kerb & channel and drainage.

Labour involved.

Full time position.

No subcontractors.

Phone Adam:

EXPERIENCED CNC BRAKE Fully qualified and a 1st year PRESS SETTER OPERATER

MY SPACE

For further information, call 136 186 or visit www.dpi.vic.gov.au/pets

0410 544 526

CABINET MAKERS

- FULL BODY CARE Full body relaxation massage by young and mature asian female therapist. Shower facility. Vanity Crt, Room 33, 200 Thomas St, Dandenong. Katie 0402 420 986.

0431 156 192. Open 7 days.

Ph: 9706 4685/0419 304 555 Find your Local Specialist in our

Real Estate

V Dressmaking

EXERCISE TREADMILL, Health Stream, electronic programs, calories, pulse, time, distance, incline button, safety key, running/walking deck, air shock, front and rear rollers, fold up, easy move, as new, 1yr old, hardly used. $680. 0409 762 809.

V Computer Repairs

REDGUM SPLIT Free delivery all areas. For more information and the best wood please phone 0417 324 380.

Celebrations V Celebrants

Full Service from $80

FIRE WOOD

New Ladies Weekly

9555 8100

Red Lantern

V Firewood

1171577-DJ06-15

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AFFECTIONATE CARING GENT 65, medium build, tall, NS, light social drinker, with wide interests, would like to meet lady 55-70 for friendship/ future relationship. Height/ weight/disability no problem.

Phone 0451 668 042.

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COLORADO Highton, 2011, 2 door caravan, length 31ft (internal 25ft), roof mounted IBIS split system, 184L 3-way fridge, microwave, full oven, TV on swing bracket and antenna, QS bed, 3 bunks with personal DVD players, L shaped seating, extra 3ft checkerplated back stand-up change area, full ensuite, slide out gas BBQ, 2x gas bottles, 2x picnic tables, 16inch wheels with 2 extra spare tyres, twin battery system, full tunnel front boot, full galvanised front boot.

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IAN GRANT'S GRANT TOURER, 2007, Custom, 19ft, AC, 120ltr 3 way Domestic fridge, roll out pantry, center lounge and dinette, QS bed, TV, CD player /stereo, full battery system, solar panels, roll out awning incl walls and floor, front boot, dual gas bottles, roll out external BBQ, electric brakes, sleeps 2, seats 6, lots of extras, one owner, Seaford. $23,900. 0419 529 164.

JAYCO Freedom Pop top 2002 18ft. LG Mircowave, 90ltr 3 way fridge, 4 Burner cook top, grill and full oven, rangehood, Heron 2.2 Air conditioner/heater, double bed, water tank, twin 9kg gas bottles and cradles, security screen door, outside tap, power outlets, dual axles, electric brakes, roll out awning. Inside hot water unit, 2 extra 12 vault power plugs, 39cm TV with built in DVD player, antenna, full zip up annexe, spare pole carrier, outdoor caravan cover, portable flush toilet and shower with pump for instant hot water, recently serviced and new bearings fitted. Plus heaps more extras. Registration (P65711).

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REFRIGERATED TOYOTA HILUX, utility, 2014, odometer 3600kms, would suit new buyer, 2400L x 1800 x 1300H measured externally, 82mm fibreglass/polyurethane white gloss finish, checker-plate food grade slipresistant flooring, double rear barn doors with deep freeze multi-blade seals internal flush bulkhead light wired to the tail light circuit, steel frame, alloy mudguards, rear step and docking rubbers, SS Camlock on each door with 'Quicklock' handles, SS heavy duty hinges, SS door holdbacks, SS rear door frame, SS door sills, double seal gaskets on doors, tapered edge doors side door - passenger LH side, doors are key lockable.

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VISCOUNT, Supreme 1984, 16'6"x8', front kitchen, 4 burner stove, grill, oven, 3 way fridge /freezer, AC, plenty of storage, 2 bed, annexe, VGC, reg until 10 /15, 23717-y. $8,000ono. Call: 9548 1168, 0425 737 019, 0425 768 367. Noble Park area.

WINDSOR GENESIS 2010 Limited edition 21ft caravan. One owner from new. Dual axle, electric brakes, reverse cycle air conditioning, seperate toilet & shower, 3/4 sized fridge /freezer, wired for Solar, 12v 100 amp deep cycle battery, Anderson plug, full ensuite, washing machine, TV/DVD/CD stereo, bluetooth and outside speakers, Wynguard TV aerial, microwave, four seasons hatch, large boot at front. Hot water system, 12v water pump, rear view camera, 12v outside and inside outlet, under seat/bed storage, gas bayonet, full oven, awning.

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YOUR VOICE FOR 150 YEARS

Our brave new world in 2165 ❚ Mark Clancy THERE will be few, if any, white European faces in Dandenong in 150 years, and the city’s manufacturing hub in Dandenong South will probably consist of high-density homes to accommodate the city’s massively increased population.

That’s the vision of futurist Phil Ruthven who has attempted to predict what Dandenong would be like in 2165 when the Journal celebrates its 300th birthday.

“Forecasting is always difficult, especially when it’s about the future,” he said, quoting the caution of his profession.

He said Australia’s current population of 24 million was expected to grow to 200 million by 2165 and, of those, up to 1.2 million may call the City of Greater Dandenong home.

Mr Ruthven said Dandenong would follow other regions such as the Gold Coast and build upwards to accommodate the increase and reflect people’s ongoing desire for today’s inner-city coffee culture.

“I think it’s a lifestyle and workstyle choice. We’ve moved into a high density, high-rise world. We’re going up.

“Any homes that are left from our time will be in heritage areas.”

Mr Ruthven, the founder and director of social and economic forecaster IBIS World, said some people would live to 150 years and have 100-year working careers.

Thankfully, though, he said increased individual output, which has risen by about two per cent per year through improved technology, would mean that people would only need to work 15 hours a week.

They would mainly work in the service industries, which would be dominated by the health sector, although entertainment and hospitality would also be large employers.

Today’s Gold Coast may be Dandenong’s future.

He said Dandenong’s manufacturing sector would all but disappear as light industry moves away from the relatively recent do-it-for-me concept and back to do-it-yourself.

One hundred and fifty years ago, many day-to-day items were made as needed and the future would see that return as items are ordered ‘online’, as we now say, and created as needed on home 3-D printers.

“I would be very surprised if there was any industry in Dandenong in 150 years,” he said.

However train builder Bombardier may have a future as Dandenong becomes an innercity suburb of Melbourne which could be reached in about 10 minutes by high-speed rail, and driverless cars would have long become a standard transport.

Australia’s population is now increasingly Eurasian and over the next 150 years the change in the inhabitants of an already multicultural Dandenong would be one of the most pronounced in the country.

“A white-skinned European is going to be a rarity in 150 years,” he said. “In 150 years you’d have to describe us as Asian.”

And he said that what was under the skin was set to be another major feature of life in the future as the massive growth in

computing power took over everyday living.

But will there even be a Dandenong Journal newspaper 2165? Probably not.

He said that anyone reading this story in 150 years would see these pages as a quaint curiosity, such as people now look at parchment.

News delivery has always been technology based and the Journal’s relatively late entry into the online world would probably see the death of its printed edition.

Mr Ruthven said future generations would see ours as a particularly wasteful period epitomised by our use of newsprint and its increasing financial and environmental cost.

Hand-held devices would continue to dominate people’s interaction with the world although the under-skin haptic devices would take an increasing role.

Journal readers of the future may have their news, entertainment and education transmitted to their internal computer chips and instead of actively reading, watching or listening they may absorb the content through information osmosis.

But he added a note of caution. “It’s a brave man who says that something definitely will or won’t happen.“

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Frosty delivered magic ❚ David Nagel DANDENONG Football Club’s home ground at Shepley Oval was a magical place to be in the late ’60s and early ’70s – and there was one good reason for that.

A man called ‘Frosty’.

The club, formed in 1874, joined the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1958 from the Federal Football League, playing at the Dandenong Showgrounds until 1961, before moving to Shepley for the 1962 season.

But it wasn’t until the kid from Garfield, Jim ‘Frosty’ Miller, arrived in 1967 that the famous navy blue and red had its halcyon days.

Seriously, Frosty was a hero in these parts – and beyond.

Many of the faces that you see in a packed grandstand at Punt Road for the 1969 VFA grand final against Preston were from our neck of the woods.

From Garfield to Keysborough, from Pakenham to Dandenong, most of them were there to cheer on one man ... Frosty, who needed just one goal to kick his first century of goals in the VFA. The Redlegs went down to the Bullants by 12 points, but Frosty kicked seven and a star, which had been glowing since his debut for the Redlegs, well, it had arrived with the impact of Halley’s Comet.

Over the next seven years, Frosty’drew people into Dandenong’s home ground like bees to a honey-pot, and he delivered, kicking 883 goals, in a 183-game career that had many highs, the occasional low, and eventually, a medal named in its honour.

Frosty played in six premierships, two with Garfield, two with Dandenong, and two with Berwick, he kicked 29 goals in 11 games for Carlton and in 1978 he slammed home a remarkable 201 goals as the Wickers made it backto-back flags.

It’s easy to get carried away in these instances, but Frosty really was a hero to football lovers in our region.

“They were great days, I liked it, but the main thing was to forget about the other stuff and just play football,” Frosty said.

“Winning premierships is what it’s all about so they were the best years but I loved all my time at Dandenong.”

Of course the Dandenong Football Club is bigger than one man, winning a premiership in 1962 to be promoted to the top-flight of the VFA for the following season.

In a 10-year period from 1967 to 1976, the Redlegs played in six grand finals for two premierships, defeating Port Melbourne (1967) and Preston (1971).

But the glory days haven’t always been forthcoming.

By 1983 the club was $100,000 in debt – was in the wilderness – before fighting back, raising $140,000 and recruiting high-class players like Tony Elshaug, who led the Redlegs to a nine-point grand final victory over

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Winning premierships is what it’s all about so they were the best years but I loved all my time at Dandenong…

JIM ‘FROSTY’ MILLER

Werribee in 1991. But previous lessons had not been learnt and the club became insolvent in 1993, owing more than $220,000. A new club, the Dandenong Redlegs, was formed and played two seasons before folding as an entity

in 1994. Dandenong’s footballing identity has carried on since 1995 through the Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup. Players like Jeff White (Fremantle – 1994), Travis Johnstone (Melbourne –-

1997), Tom Scully (Melbourne – 2009) and Lachie Whitfield (GWS – 2012), all number one draft picks in the AFL; all forged their careers from Shepley.

But a man called ‘Frosty’ – he made it a magical place to be.

HARD work – on and off the field – has always defined Dandenong.

The working week was just a necessary distraction to get through to the weekend again where everyday men and women became icons or watched their stars on the local sporting scene.

It’s one of the only suburban cities in Australia that can claim obsession-status with just about every sport.

Football, soccer, cricket, basketball and the love of watching the greyhounds and racehorses circle our adjoining racetracks dominate the landscape, but there’s always a hidden gem around the corner waiting to be unearthed.

Multiculturalism brought to the town its great passions of soccer – which has surged to such an extent that the city can claim to be one of Victoria’s most popular for the code.

Dandenong Thunder has been the most successful and South Springvale had its recent run of national FFA Cup fame, while Dandenong City and Springvale White Eagles are just as lively in the NPL1 East and our state league teams continue to knock on the door for promotion.

Football remains the town’s underlying passion as Dandenong Stingrays, Noble Park and Keysborough carry on the passion for high-calibre football that was once instilled in the city by the mighty, and sadly now defunct, Dandenong Football Club.

Whether it’s the up and downs of the WNBL season, or baking under the harsh sun watching Sub-District, Dandenong District or Men’s and Women’s Victorian Premier Cricket – summer is just as vibrant for sport in town and it’s a distinction that will never change.

But our swimmers, hockey players, runners, high jumpers, lawn bowlers and the ultimate niche classic on Pultney St – Dandenong’s patient croquet contingent – are just as integral to the town’s sporting pulse.

Therein lies the joy of covering sport in the region – there is always someone achieving something amazing and their stories pump through the veins of Dandenong.

While demographics have shifted and the town has undergone renewal, it’s safe to say sport is woven into every facet of life in the City of Greater Dandenong and for that, it’s been my great honour to play a humble part in the town’s sporting obsession.

We’ve decided for this anniversary edition to focus just on the past – so herein lies Dandenong’s very select sporting highlights – whether joyous or tragic – that we believe have defined the town for the last century and a half.

Millane’s shocking death brought thousands to mourn SO HUGE was the outpouring of grief at the tragic loss of Collingwood football star Darren Millane in October 1991 that it brought central Dandenong to a standstill.

A crowd estimated at between 5000 and 6000 people packed the Dandenong Town Hall and its surrounds for what is still considered one of the biggest funerals held in Victoria.

Millane, who grew up in Noble Park, died when his car collided with the back of a slow-moving truck in Queen’s Road, Melbourne.

The previous year he was a member of the much celebrated, drought-breaking 1990 Collingwood premiership

side, playing out the finals series with a broken arm.

His death shocked the wider community.

Channel 9 newsreader Tony Jones, a Dandenong boy, knew him well – their mothers worked together.

“I couldn’t believe it when I first heard it,” Jones told The Journal. “I think 3KZ went with it first, and I don’t know whether they should have or not but it was just one of those things that was just impossible to believe.

“I go to Collingwood functions now and I bump into his mum and what have you … but it was massive.

We’ve seen some really, really big fu-

nerals but that one in particular was just enormous.

“I can sit here now and visualise the scenes outside the Dandenong Town Hall.”

“Just the enormity, the sheer volume of people that spilled out of that town hall. It was pretty big.

“I can’t recall … and God knows I go to a lot of them, but I can’t recall a bigger … Jim Stynes was pretty big, but just for the sheer emotion and the sheer volume of people spilling out of that town hall I can’t quite remember anything like that.“ At the funeral, former team-mates and officials at Dandenong spoke fond-

ly of the “loveable rogue”, known as Buzz locally and Pants after he moved to Collingwood.

The second of three sons to Bob and Denise Millane attended Noble Park Primary School and Coomoora High School, completing his secondary education at Chandler High.

He played for Noble Park, then Parkmore juniors and by 16 was playing senior VFA football with Dandenong, becoming the youngest player to captain the side.

An extraordinary sporting talent, he also once took all 10 wickets in a cricket innings as a junior.

The Journal front page on 10 October 1991 delivered the shocking news.

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Sure shot success ❚ Jarrod Potter SOARING to the top of Victorian soccer, Dandenong Thunder put the town on the map with a sensational 2012 season resulting in three highcalibre trophies going into the cabinet at George Andrews Reserve.

This was a town of soccer passion but never immense soccer success until this history-making side was gathered in Dandenong for one magic season three years ago.

The Victorian Premier League (VPL) Championship, never before won by Dandenong despite a couple of close calls, the VPL minor premiership and a knockout tournament victory in the Dockerty Cup. This three-peat is rarely achieved in Victorian soccer for good reason – it takes an inordinate amount of skill and luck to get through each stage and, most importantly, be able to win it all.

It goes down as one of the greatest efforts in Dandenong sports history for how hard each facet of the treble is to claim on its own, let alone together in a single campaign.

After storming to a 14-6-2 record in the regular home-and-away season, followed by a 5-4 penalty shootout triumph over the Port Melbourne Sharks in the Dockerty Cup finale, Dandenong had earned two of three legs of the sublime treble.

By then speculation circled the sport as to whether Chris Taylor’s men were good enough to etch their names into our state’s soccer pantheon by completing the treble.

The third piece of the puzzle was the hardest of all to attain – winning the VPL grand final.

Held at AAMI Park, the showpiece game on the FFV calendar became a back-and-forth master class between Thunder and Oakleigh Cannons on 14 October 2012.

Forced to battle on with just 10 men in the second half, as Craig Elvin was sent from the field with two yellow cards by the 59th minute, Dandenong had to keep the pressure up and continued pestered the Oakleigh defence like it was at full-strength.

The breakthrough finally came as it has a lot of times before this season – via the boot of wily Welshman Luke Sherbon.

Sherbon took a penalty in the 69th minute after Iqbal Jawadi was brought down in the box and the golden boot of the Welshman to push the Dandenong boys out to a 1-0 lead.

The VPL treble stands as the Dandenong soccer community’s achievement, which was won by the Dandenong Thunder in 2012.

A levelling penalty was awarded to Oakleigh captain Ricky Diaco after second half substitute Dane Milovanovic’s dangerous run was cut off haphazardly by Thunder’s Sean McIlroy.

The match-winner for the amazing treble came as Sherbon went on a beguiling run and put the through-ball to mercurial striker Nate Foster, who cannoned the ball in to the nets.

After 20 nervous minutes, holding on despite the Cannons firing off shots at will at veteran Thunder goalkeeper Stuart Webster, the whistle granted Dandenong Thunder the right to call itself the champion.

Thunder’s coach Chris Taylor – now guiding the wildly successful NPL side South Melbourne - could hardly believe how potent the attack was.

Luke Sherbon, Liam Kearney and Nate Foster at the front, the lynch-pin defence of Craig Elvin, Shane Rexhepi and Bryan Bran while youngsters Matt Theodore, Andrew Mullett and Iqbal Jawadi were the firebrands that were necessary to charge the side rapidly up the pitch.

Rexhepi – whose penalty shot won Thunder the Dockerty Cup – said to the Journal last week that the memories of that year will never leave him, even long after he’s moved on from the team.

“As it was going along just the way that we

were playing and the confidence that the boys had and that winning spirit – I knew from the start that we were going to create history,” Rexhepi said.

“You just had that feeling that you’re not going to lose and you’re going to win every game that comes across you – whether it’s a cup final or playing against the bottom team.

“You always look back and smile and sometimes people post videos up on Facebook and I watch the grand final every now and then and I still get goose bumps.

“Think to myself that there is no better feeling than winning cups and winning grand finals with your best mates and team mates and you just want to do it again and again.”

The halcyon days of the Thunder are in recess for the time being after the FFV handed down a monstrous fine and lock-out penalties for the incident at the VPL grand final.

There are only a handful of players remaining from the golden era as the scandal surrounding the lighting of flares at the VPL grand final decimated the club’s resources and eventually its player base.

Hopefully one day the side can scale those heights once again that made the Thunder one of the mightiest in Victorian soccer.

Talent by the score EVERY week Stud Road is graced with scores of basketball talent – from the smallest of junior point guards to the mighty centres that dominate the SEABL and WNBL. But basketball had to take the Dandenong community by storm gradually as it rose from a small scale school pursuit to playing in Australia’s peak competitions.

Basketball had been played in Dandenong for about a century with archival papers showing sides playing school championships in 1935 as Dandenong High School lost to MacRobertson Girls High School 8-51.

Dandenong basketball integrated into the public sporting community more seamlessly in 1959 when Dandenong Basketball Association was formed and a few years later... the Rangers – although not yet named as such – were born.

Ron Burgess – who was made a life member of Basketball Victoria in 2007 and awarded an Australian Sports Medal – was there to see the start of Dandenong Rangers’ growth as a club.

He coached the inaugural side in the mid1960s before handing the reins to champion Harlem Globetrotter Willie Anderson in the South Eastern Conference Series.

“I was the first player-coach of the first Dandenong Rangers side and we weren’t known as Dandenong Rangers then,” Burgess said.

“They became Dandenong Rangers when we joined what was known then as the Pacific Conference.

“We were playing in the lower divisions and that was around 1965-1966 and we had the St Kilda ruckman Brian Mynott in our side.

“Dandenong men were declared Metropolitan in 1965 and we then had to compete in Albert Park in the second division championships.

“Then I coached the side up until about 1969

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and then they went into Division 1 – because we were runners up in Division 2 – and the exHarlem Globetrotter Willie Anderson took over as coach.”

From the humble roots half-a-century ago, the Rangers have flourished.

Burgess’ men would take the 1966-67 Division 1 title at Basketball Victory Country Championships before switching to the metropolitan competition and the Dandenong women also claimed that championship.

Rangers women were never far behind the men and most would say they have become synonymous with Dandenong basketball after making their biggest step yet in 1992 to join the Women’s National Basketball League and have earned three titles to date – 2004, 2005 and 2012.

Penny Taylor, Emily McInerney, Alison Downie and Larissa Anderson have been some of the greats to grace the WNBL courts and Dandenong continues to put up champions year on year, with a fourth flag never too far away on the horizon.

The Dandenong men caught up with a pair of BIG V championships in 2006 and 2007 and have become a fearsome presence in the SEABL. It’s here where men’s and women’s championship sides as well as junior Victorian Championships and D League pennants currently call home.

Dandenong looks to the next generation – Aimie Clydesdale, Lauren Scherf, Rachael Antoniadou, Anthony Drmic, Mason Peatling, Marley Biyendolo and Michael Wearne among others – to make their impact in the game, its testament to people like Ron Burgess, Charles Ryan and other behind-the-scenes administrators and coaches that allowed the association’s best and brightest to shine.

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The delivery may be different but the score’s still on the board THE Journal’s sport section has come a long way in 150 years.

Initially just strip columns as part of the ongoing sea of typeface and column inches, sport was once nestled in the pages and had to be searched out with a magnifying glass.

Pictures were a rarity and individual reports stood out as a true luxury.

Peering back into history as far as we could - with the first surviving edition of the South Bourke and Mornington Journal dated 10 January 1877 – shows that sport remained a massive part of the town’s history throughout the entire 150 year history of this publication.

Our oldest inkling was a horse racing snippet – fitting for this paper as we continue to get out to Sandown Racecourse to support the finest galloping down the straight.

“The weather lately has been anything but suited to the sport-seeing public, nor yet quite a success for the promoters and managers of sports,” it said.

“But better luck next time. The Bass races were held on the 1st and were very poorly attended.”

Short, sharp and to the point. The eloquent waxing and flagellation of sports reports that – I’ll admit has become part and parcel of my repertoire - is completely absent from the old reports.

Just the facts - there wasn’t room for much else in these jam-packed pages.

For football we can gaze back to May that same year with the condition of the ground and hospitality of the Dandenong team more important than the score, best on ground or any match highlights.

“A team from St Kilda met a Dandenong team to indulge in a game of football on Thursday last,” the article read.

“The visitors were too much for the locals. After the game the visitors were treated like princes at Dunbar’s hotel and left well pleased with the manner in which they were received.

“A large portion of the game was played either in or through water and there is no doubt of the pluck displayed on both sides.”

Notice the “Thursday last” in particular. Everything up until very recently was done retrospectively as ladders, scores and fixtures took their sweet time to reach the Journal.

A correspondent’s report from 1877 suggested the Dandenong footballers should refine their techniques on the field, but later highlighted “Smith, E Swords, Brocklebank, Crosie and Dobson” who “did good service”.

“It may not be out of place to mention that the Dandenongites would do well with more practice in the park instead of kicking in the street,” the correspondent wrote.

We’ve focused our gaze to just the Greater Dandenong area, and expanded our coverage to shift with the times in the sports section.

It’s amazing to know that this glimpse into our history shows that where we’ve come from and where we’re going isn’t all that different – the readers wanted their sport and the Journal always delivered.

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Forged by air tragedy ❚ Jarrod Potter

The Dandenong Journal was full of stories about the Lyndale footballers who lost their lives in a plane crash in 1993.

UNITY pulled Lyndale Football Club through its darkest day nearly 22 years ago.

Friday 17 September 1993 left a Dandenong-based sporting club rocked to the core after six members - five players and one past player/ supporter - died in a light plane crash.

A light-hearted idea - an interstate end of season trip to Tasmania - turned quickly into despair and devastating grief as the club had to say goodbye to six beloved figures.

Lance Baxter, Mark Baxter, Scott Young, Kevin Conner, Dean Prendergast and lifelong Lyndale supporter and past player Glen King died when their 10-seater Piper Navajo crashed on approach to Launceston Airport.

Four other players were injured in the crash and would never pull on the maroon and gold jumper again pilot Roger Rodriques, Scott Blakely, Ken Stewart and Allan Fisher.

Other members of the party also had a nightmare flight when the

door of a different aircraft twice blew open as Murray Collard - future president of the club - struggled to hold it shut as an emergency landing on Flinders Island was necessary.

Collard and Terry King remembered the weeks after the crash were focused on consoling loved ones as returning to the field the next season was the furthest thing from their minds.

“It was more getting back to all the families and helping work through the emotions behind it,” Collard said.

“Getting back to seeing everyone - we were over there for a little while in Tassie - and by the time we got back everyone was distraught.

“At that stage I don’t think we really wanted to talk about it (football) - we were just laying the boys to rest and worrying about the welfare of their partners.

“It wasn’t later until footy started up - there were more people keen to play footy as they wanted to dedicate the year to the boys we lost.”

The grief didn’t send the players

- it wasn’t as easy as some people think it was just because of the calibre of players we lost.

“It made us pretty determined given the boys we lost - we had a sense of respect that we could be a successful team and club.”

Every 17 September unites the Lyndale FC community as friends and family go to Sandown Park Hotel and have a drink in memory of their mates.

“Every sort of year we get together with the family members of the boys who passed away - go down to the pub and see some of their kids that have grown up,” Collard said.

“That’s the day we tell all the stories and the yarns and it’s a good day - we try and stay a bit more positive for the families as it’s their loved ones that they’ve lost.”

A memorial to the six men sits proudly on the wall of the Lyndale clubrooms and the Pumas faithful from that time have ensured that while the game must go on, those left behind will never be forgotten.

away; it only strengthened bonds at the club.

The Pumas rallied around each other and stuck through one of the worst moments in local football history to forge a strong club in honour of their mates.

The club ensured the players’ legacy with their numbers - 1, 4, 13, 15 and 45 - immediately retired and it remains that way to this day.

The accident helped rally new recruits to the Lyndale cause in 1994 - with the incoming brethren helping push the Pumas to the premiership in 1995 - but King it was still impossible to replace the men who lost their lives - both on and off the field.

“We had a pretty good pre-season and it made everyone at the club a bit more determined to show we could have some success as we lost some pretty young, important players to us,” King said.

“Those we lost had won best and fairests and were captains and it’s like losing five of your best 20 players.

“People flocked to the club - but some of them you couldn’t replace

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Bright history of achievement NESTLED in the midst of Dandenong’s central sporting avenue on Pultney Street – between the football and cricket ovals and the fading memories of the bowls and croquet clubs – is a series of orange monuments to the legacy of Dandenong’s sensational sporting history.

Nearly 10 years ago - with the Commonwealth Games gracing Melbourne in 2006 – the council decided the city’s best sporting heroes needed to be immortalised.

After sending out nomination requests and culling the list down to the best of the area, the council finalised a list of 14 sportspeople or clubs that led the city through its amazing athletic acumen.

There are the names that are utterly familiar and need no further explanation – Jim ‘Frosty’ Miller, Damien Fleming, Noble Park Football Club, Dandenong Rangers WNBL team and swimming superstar Tammy Van Wisse.

But the Sporting Heroes of Greater Dandenong weren’t just the elite or most recognisable – but the people who best exemplified spirit – grit, determination and expertise were just as important as the stars we were used to watching.

Olympic Games weightlifter Robert Kabbas, who also leads Australia’s medal count at the Commonwealth Games in the sport, Jayson Sutcliffe, who made his name as Australia’s first elite roller skater to win a world championships’ medal, cyclist Michael Ford and runner/cricket David Goodman are some of the names most people wouldn’t immediately think of when going through the annuls of Dandenong sporting memories, but deserved their places in the heroes list for their sublime achievements.

Maurie Kirby – the 3XY/Channel 9 commentator who loved racing, greyhounds and Golden Glove Boxing – was one who excelled off the field, but captured the nation’s ear expertly.

Margaret Ann Anderson, Australia’s great badminton champion, champion lawn bowler Marion Stevens and finally the Dandenong City Bowls Club also grace the list.

Where it all started ❚ Jarrod Potter RED leather on willow is the sound of a Dandenong summer.

Cricket is Dandenong’s code of choice for the hotter months and it’s hard to not drive past any reserve in the area not full to the brim with cricketers – both up-coming and out-going, old, young and everything in betwixt.

For as long as there’s been turfed-grass in Dandenong, the Journal has been around to fill in the cricket reports, dating as far back as its archived editions to 1879 as Dandenong and Springvale battled it out for local supremacy.

But throughout all the years and all the competitions, there is one name above all that defines the toil-then-toil-some-more attitude of Dandenong region cricket - Damien Fleming.

Fleming went from scouring the Journal as a budding young Blood to find his figures or name in the goalkicking, to seeing his name in the national spotlight as one of Australia’s finest bowlers.

But he would’ve been just as thrilled to get a run for the senior side.

“It was fantastic and with the Dandenong Journal there were always the results on the weekends or whatever day you could look up - always made sure you’d kick a couple of goals or get some wickets and runs so you’d get your name in the paper,” Fleming said.

“Realistically, you never think you’re going to get there (representing Australia) – when I was

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The Springvale South swing sensation - whose acumen at aiming for the “avenue of apprehension” earned him a hat-trick on Test debut as well as a World Cup victory in 1999 – will never forget where it all started at Harold Road – and those people – like Peter Mathison and Craig Slocombe – who pushed him and countless other cricketers along the path.

“Playing senior cricket when I was 13 – playing with all the Cleanaway boys with the tatts and guys having beers on the field and all that sort of stuff – but that made me feel really welcome and it was a great initiation into men’s cricket,” Fleming said.

Following his formative years at the Springvale South Cricket Club, Damien’s fast and accurate bowl-

ing saw him quickly progress to the state side and onwards to the baggy green where he excelled across 20 Test matches and 88 one day internationals before a recurring shoulder injury put an end to his first class career.

But there was a longing to win a club flag – something he’d never achieved with his grade side South Melbourne Cricket Club – and in the 2005-06 season his return to local cricket to play Sub-District for Noble Park proved a stellar choice as the side collected the flag.

“I wanted to win a flag at senior level – obviously had a lot of success for Australia and we won a Shield and a one-day final for Victoria but I never won anything for my club team South Melbourne,” Fleming said.

“So my cousin-in-law was the president of Noble Park Cricket Club – Craig Ortland – and he said ‘you’ll come and play one more

year when you’re finished’ and I said ‘yeah, yeah, yeah’ never thinking about it.

“But then I called him and said I was keen to play... and we went on and won the final against Malvern, so it was just a fantastic year.”

Fleming took the path he believes has strengthened Dandenong cricket – with juniors encouraged to rise quickly through the DDCA senior ranks while the elder brigade stick around to cultivate the new prospects.

“I think it helps younger players, if they’re playing Turf 1, Turf 2 as teenagers, I think it prepares them for when they get to grade cricket,” Fleming said.

“So the competition and also with local cricket, as opposed to Premier cricket, older players will stay around and mentor and I know a lot of the Springvale South guys, their sons get into the great culture and the same with Noble Park.

“I’m sure that’s like that throughout most of the DDCA clubs, so make sure it’s easy for kids to play the game of cricket, but also the competition needs to be strong to further their cricket, hopefully all the way to Australia.”

Since Grassmere CC won that first DDCA flag in 1931-32, the league has pushed through cricketers into the higher ranks and as the league extends to Beaconsfield this season at its southerly point and Parkdale towards the beaches, you’ll never dull the sounds of Dandenong’s vibrant cricket community as the next generation is always champing at the bit to get ready for the next season.

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