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Digger disaster By LACHLAN MOORHEAD Six-year-old Bella is fighting leukaemia. 146938 Picture: CONTRIBUTED
Community joins in fighting for Bella SHE has a beaming smile, a loving family, leukaemia and a whole community behind her while she fights the blood disease. Bella Allan is six years old and was diagnosed with T-cell leukaemia in September after ongoing colds, temperatures, swollen glands and spleen. Since the diagnosis Bella and her mum Alison Allan basically call the Royal Children’s Hospital home after treatment immediately started.
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Now constantly hooked up to an IV drip, Bella is undergoing intense chemotherapy and will be fighting the cancer for the next few years. “Treatment for girls with leukaemia is usually three years but this will depend on her response to treatments and if she will require a bone marrow transplant,” Ms Allan said. A personal trainer and Australian boxing silver medallist and elite female champion, Ms Allan said boxing was getting her through the devastating time.
“I will be competing next week on the Gold Coast for the opportunity to win the gold medal at the Australian championships,” she said. “Boxing has played a huge part in my life and it is something that is getting me through at present - it’s the best form of therapy.” The Cranbourne family of five have been overwhelmed with the community’s heart-warming response to their beautiful Bella’s sudden illness. “There’s been so much love and
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support for not only Bella but the entire family,” Ms Allan said. “Everyone from sporting clubs, schools, the entire boxing community in Victoria and Australia wide, gyms etc, the list is endless.” To help raise funds for the Allan family while work commitments get put on hold to be at Bella’s bedside, visit the ‘Fight for Bella’ Facebook page. A cocktail fund-raiser night will be held on Saturday November 28 in North Melbourne.
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CASEY Council will review plans to rename part of Clyde North in memory of a specific World War I Digger after a local historian unearthed evidence the soldier may never have lived in Clyde at all. A council spokesperson confirmed on Friday that Property, Rates and Valuations manager Peter Gillieron was reviewing the name McPherson in “light of the information uncovered by the historian”. At last week’s council meeting the City of Casey outlined its plans to meet with the Metropolitan Planning Authority (MPA) to discuss the renaming as part of the ANZAC Commemorative Naming Project. But at the request of Star News, Jane Rivett-Carnac, from the Narre Warren and District Family History Group, found no definitive links to confirm a man named McPherson, or his family, lived in the Clyde area during that time period. She believes a misunderstanding arose after listings in National Archives referring to Clyde actually appeared to be shortened references to the suburb of Clydesdale near Daylesford, to the north-west of Melbourne. “If someone has only checked the WWI record search at the National Archives they could easily be confused by four men out of 360-plus with the surname McPherson enlisted showing their place of birth as Clyde,” Ms Rivett-Carnac said. “However if you then read the relevant digital records for these four men you find they are born at Clydesdale in central Victoria (Herbert James, John, James and Charles Allen).” These names were indeed the same people council had identified as being born in the “Clyde area” and who served in WWI - John McPherson, James McPherson and Herbert James McPherson. An MPA spokesperson told Star News earlier this week that officers at the City of Casey undertook research into local families that had served in WWI, and provided some suggested names for Precinct Structure Plan areas to the MPA, including McPherson.
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