Dandenong Journal Star - 22nd February 2016

22 February 2016

A Star News Group Publication

Sky rail protests mount

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Visit's kinetic energy KINETIC Elements is on a roll thanks to a $1 million grant. The Noble Park North manufacturer will use the Federal Government Entrepreneurs Programme cash on world-first technology to make textured titanium rolls for the printing industry.

Kinetic managing director Alex Engel, middle, explained the innovation to Assistant Innovation Minister Wyatt Roy and Bruce Liberal candidate Helen Kroger. See page 44 for the full story. 150139 Picture: ROB CAREW

■ Strange behaviour alerts police to drug trafficker…

School drugs A MAN has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking after being caught with 900 prescription tranquilizer pills in a Dandenong North high school car park.

Andrew Daniel Schulberg was searched by police in Lyndale Secondary College about 2.50pm on 6 March 2015 after reports of a male walking in the area “punching the air and acting strangely”, a court was told.

Schulberg was in possession of 900 diazepam tablets in their original packaging, without a match-

ing prescription, police prosecutor Senior Constable Tracey Arnold told the court on 15 February.

The accused admitted to police that he bought the drugs two days earlier at Dandenong railway station, presuming they were stolen goods.

Magistrate Gerard Bryant quipped that police were unable to accept there was the “equivalent of Costco” selling drugs at the station.

The accused claimed the drugs were for his personal use, though he didn’t have a prescription for diazepam.

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Schulberg was also caught with a gram of cannabis in his jeans pocket by Dandenong Magistrates’ Court security officers on 11 November.

On 8 January he was searched by police after being observed getting into a car without number plates in Potter Street, Dandenong.

Two foils comprising one gram of heroin were found in his underwear.

He was also in possession of a multi-tool pocket knife - which he said was for “work purposes” - and several foils of cannabis totalling

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Schulberg’s lawyer said there was no evidence that the accused was trying to sell the 900 tablets.

“He was planning on taking them over a very long time.”

The accused had been off drugs for five years after a previous recovery program.

Mr Bryant ordered an assessment for a community corrections order including an “element of community work” and attendance at a drug awareness seminar.

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Fluid police numbers on political front line

By CASEY NEILL THE number of Greater Dandenong front-line police officers dropped by 21 between September and December last year, figures show.

But Victoria Police has said the Police Service Area’s (PSA) staffing levels are normal.

The Opposition’s police spokesman and Eastern Victoria Region MP Edward O’Donohue contacted the Journal last week after Parliamentary Secretary for Justice Ben Carroll visited Dandenong Police Station to meet new custody officers.

“Whatever benefit is derived

from the custody officers will be offset by the loss of police,” he said.

“Daniel Andrews’s failure to appropriately resource police has caused a reduction of front-line officers.”

Mr O’Donohue provided quarterly Victoria Police statistics that showed the number of sworn fulltime equivalent police in the Greater Dandenong PSA dropped from 175 to 154 between September and December last year.

A Victoria Police spokeswoman said the force allocated resources at a divisional level, not a local level.

“Dandenong is part of South-

ern Metro Division 3 which also includes Cardinia and Casey,” she said.

“The number of positions in any area tends to fluctuate depending on movements and vacancies.

“Dandenong currently have their normal staffing levels.”

A spokesperson for Acting Police Minister Robin Scott said the State Government had not cut police numbers.

They said there were 13,302 sworn full-time equivalent police officers in December last year, up almost 150 from September.

Southern Metro has received

an extra 50 officers since October 2014, the spokesperson said.

“This government supports police and Mr O’Donohue is scaremongering,” they said.

“Our custody officers will enable more police to be redeployed to the front line - this policy is already having an impact.

“We have funded almost 700 police personnel in our first year of government, including 400 custody officers, 109 PSOs, 62 transit police, 88 counterterrorism specialists and eight forensic analysts to help police crackdown on clandestine drug labs.”

New custody officer says she's locked in

By CASEY NEILL

New Dandenong Police Station custody officer Ellen Rider. custody officer each work 10 eight-hour shifts a fortnight at Dandenong.

She’s looking forward to four more officers joining

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them in mid-March, with up to 19 expected to be in place by mid-year.

“I think that will make a real difference,” she said.

“It is quite busy here.”

Coming custody officers won’t have the background in the sector that Ms Rider benefits from, and she’s interested

North of Phillip Island!

A PIT bull has come to its owner’s rescue during a violent assault in a Dandenong home.

The two victims heard a knock on the front door of their Cleeland Street unit while they were watching television about 5am on Tuesday 16 February.

Greater Dandenong CIU Detective Senior Constable Bree Jarvis said one of them opened the door and saw two men.

A man that the victim recognised forced his way inside and hit him with a star picket, causing minor injuries.

Sen Const Jarvis said the victim then set his pit bull terrier onto his attacker and the dog bit his calf, causing extensive bleeding.

The intruders fled into a waiting car with a woman behind the wheel.

Anyone with information should phone Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Early-morning break-in A DANDENONG man disturbed an early-morning thief in his Market Street home.

Greater Dandenong CIU Detective Senior Constable Bree Jarvis said the thief entered the home via a front window about 4am on Monday 15 February.

He stole one pack of 40 cigarettes and a keyring with house, garage and car keys.

She said the victim woke up during the burglary and got out of bed in time to see the thief flee through the window.

He was described as African in appearance, about 16 years old and 185 centimetres tall and was wearing a black T-shirt and black pants.

Call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 with any information.

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DODGING spit, fists and verbal abuse is all in a day’s work for custody officer Ellen Rider.

The Noble Park woman worked at Melbourne Remand Centre for the past 17 years before completing an accelerated custody officer training course and starting work at Dandenong Police Station a few weeks ago.

There she processes and transports prisoners in order to free up police officers so they can spend more time solving crimes and liaising with the community.

Dandenong is the busiest station for prisoners outside the metropolitan area.

It can sleep 22 prisoners across seven cells - four at the station and three at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court.

An 80-metre underground tunnel links the two custody areas. It’s cold, stark and has a blue glow - and no end in sight when the solid entry door closes behind.

Tunnel access is via an elevator with a lockable glass dividing door that holds three prisoners, handcuffed together, separate from the officers transporting them.

It’s fitted with a CCTV camera and many more of them line the tunnel. Like the lift, they were new additions during recent renovations.

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to see how they’ll settle in.

She recommended the job to people with some life experience and a thick skin - drugs and bravado make for unpredictable and sometimes aggressive prisoners.

“You’ll get called stuff,” she said.

“They’re not my friends so what they say to me doesn’t bother me.”

Dandenong MP Gabrielle Williams and Parliamentary Secretary for Justice Ben Carroll visited Dandenong Police Station on Wednesday 17 February to see how Ms Rider was settling in.

“I’m loving it,” she told them.

“The other half’s never seen me so happy.

“The staff really do a good job here and they’ve been very welcoming.”

She said the job was challenging but the police had been supportive and appreciative.

Greater Dandenong Inspector Bruce Kitchen said the full benefit of custody officers wouldn’t be felt until more were in place.

“Internally the reaction’s very positive. They just want more of them quicker,” he said.

He expects custody officers to help with police recruit retention rates by freeing officers to get out on the road and do the work they enjoy.

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JACK JOHNSON IS THE AUTHOR OF WHEN THE CLOCK STRIKES, A FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF GROWING UP IN DANDENONG, HIS YEARS TENDING TO THE CITY’S PIPES AND DRAINS AS A PLUMBER AND BRINGING UP A FAMILY WITH WIFE FRANCES IN THEIR BELOVED HOME IN MACPHERSON STREET.

Lining up to use a phone, imagine that!

BECAUSE there was no public phone boxes in the street we would walk with mum to the old post office that had been built in 1879 to make a phone call.

At the post office there was a group of numbered public phone booths installed along the verandah of the post office.

Mum would book her call at the post office desk and when the call came through they would announce her name over the loud speaker and tell her which numbered box to go into.

When the allotted time had passed the exchange operator would cut in and say ‘are you extending?’ and if she was, mum would have to put more coins into the phone.

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When we moved to Cleeland Street the Monti family lived down the road from our house.

Members of the family worked at the telephone exchange for many years.

The youngest of them went to school with us at St Mary’s.

How different it is today, when little

kids have their own mobile phones.

These amazing little pieces of 21st century technology, most of them so small they fit into the hand of a third grader, can text messages, take photos, play games and watch television and have every ring tone, call sign and flashing light you could think of.

That post office was the one of our early childhood, and at that time the postmaster lived in the residence.

In later years the residence was used to enlarge the post office and the postmasters lived in private homes.

This was the same triangular piece of land next to the town hall on which the present post office building stands today.

It is of concrete slab construction as

are most of the commercial buildings of today.

For heating, most houses only had open wood fires and some families did part of their cooking on them. We cooked toast on ours with a long wire fork.

Some houses has an iron frame and hook which swung from the inside of the fireplace on which they hung a cast-iron kettle or boiler.

We did not have one of these frames, but we did have a couple of cast-iron kettles and a boiler which sat on the open fire to boil water when the kitchen wood stove was not burning.

It was for the wood stoves that we had to split the large logs to fit into the small fire boxes.

Some of the larger houses and hotels had cast-iron stoves which had double ovens and two fireboxes usually fired by coke.

On the end of some there was a built-in hot water boiler with a brass outlet tap like a water tank.

Some years later, after the war, when working with CL Godfrey, I would install many AGA and Rayburn slow combustion stoves on farmhouses around the district.

Those stoves had hot water boilers built into them to which we connected an insulated hot water cylinder usually on a stand in the laundry or on the farmhouse verandah.

for 1996 will also be presented with their awards at this time.

Children from all grades - from preps through to sixth grade - will use the new computers, she said.

The 16 classroom school has 24 teachers and students from 33 different migrant backgrounds.

“We are proud of our multi-culturalism. We have Bosnian children, Turkish - also students from Eritrea and Sri Lanka.”

24 hours in Greater Dandenong.

Melbourne water spokesman Paul Pretto said the water authority’s drainage system had “coped well” with the millions of litres that fell in Melbourne within a matter of hours.

“No urban drainage system in the world could have reasonably swallowed the intense rainfall Melbourne experienced on 4 and 5 February” Melbourne Water said in a statement.

However Dandenong-based researcher Alan Hood said almost twice as much rain fell in parts of eastern Melbourne in two days in 1934.

“So talk about one in 100 or one in 500 year flood is nonsense.”

LOOKING BACK 100 years ago 17 February 1915 Recruiting Recruiting Sergeant Pickett reports everything going favourably with recruiting in the shire.

Up to the present, 33 men have been accepted for active service and the sergeant is confident that within the course of a few days he will be able to announce that the Dandenong Shire has supplied its quota of 69 to the new army.

This reflects great credit on the shire, considering how it has been drained of suitable men during the past year.

50 years ago 24 February 1966 School is proud of its Students Dandenong High School is proud of its students, particularly the 67

successful 1965 matriculants.

Eighteen obtained first class honors, 65 second class honors.

To assist in school organisation, and in an effort to bring parents into close touch with the school problems, Dandenong High School in 1966 is substituting junior and senior assemblies for the traditional end of year speech nights.

The first of these will be held on Wednesday February 23 at 8pm.

All students in form 1 to 11 are invited to attend, and the school urges all parents of students in these forms to be present.

The first part of the evening will be used for the presentation of awards to those students who achieved creditable scholastic results while in forms 1 and 11 in 1965.

Winners of junior scholarships

20 years ago 19 February 1996 School Boots Up Computing joins three Rs Dandenong North Primary School’s 420 students have started the new school year on a hi-tech note.

The school now has a new computer room as part of a $200,000 upgrade last year, much to the delight of principal Kevin McKay and assistant principal Mrs Geraldine McKenzie.

The new room housed 15 IBM compatible multi-media computers costing about $40,000, Mrs McKenzie said.

There are also four laptops for the use of staff, and a laser printer.

5 years ago 21 February 2011 Researcher rejects ‘500 year flood’ Claims by authorities that recent flooding was a one in 500 year event have been described as nonsense by a local amateur weather researcher.

During the deluge that wreaked havoc in Melbourne’s south-east, more than 100 millimetres fell in

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Drive against sky rail

By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS RESIDENTS in Douglas Street, Noble Park, are mobilising against the possible destruction of nearby parkland by the proposed sky rail project.

Eric D’Cruz’s property is several hundred metres west of the Chandler Road level crossing, which is one of nine to be removed by the State Government’s planned elevated Dandenong-Caulfield rail line.

“I’ll fight it to the end,” the quietly spoken man said as he prepares to distribute No Skyrails petitions, posters and pamphlets.

For the past 24 years he’s enjoyed a vista of open woodland comprising tall red river gums - though it is often scythed by hurtling trains about 20 metres from his front door.

He’s got used to the train noise but is “shocked and in disbelief” by the prospect of a nine-metre tall sky bridge that will replace level crossings but also his view - and indeed some of those mature trees.

It’s not what he asked for, nor what he expected. Mr D’Cruz thought the tracks would be built under Noble Park’s three level crossings.

His neighbour Graham Ambrose was first swayed toward supporting the project by a visiting Level Crossing Removal Authority doorknocker who talked “some nice pie in the sky”.

Now he’s worried about the impact of “big drilling” metres from his house during construction and graffiti and vagrants that may blight his street.

“I’m prepared to be a part of a protest action.”

They and other neighbours met with state opposition leader Matthew Guy and Liberal Upper House MPs David Davis and Gordon Rich Phillips, as well as No Skyrails action group organisers in the street on 17 February.

Railing against sky rail are Eric D'Cruz, David Davis, Charles Beaucassin, Gordon RichPhillips, Graham Ambrose, Krishna Jadav, Matthew Guy and Jian Song.

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Picture: GARY SISSONS Mr Guy was impressed by Corrigan Road resident Chris Papapavlou’s pithy critique of sky rail in last week’s Journal “you can’t polish a turd”.

“You won quote of the year,” Mr Guy told the resident.

“They’re up in arms because they’re misled. I don’t think that will go away,” Mr Guy said, noting the Labor Party lost nearby seats when it broke a promise for an untolled Scoresby Freeway, which is now the tollway Eastlink.

Publicly-released illustrations of a two-track sky rail did not depict the true impact of three or four tracks, he said.

“It’s far wider than what the government is telling residents. It is consistently lying to residents.

“For (Premier) Daniel Andrews to say people were aware of this concept before the election is untrue - it’s treating people with contempt.

“He wasn’t saying there would be a sky rail several kilometres long.”

On Saturday, the action group made its voice heard at a community meeting held by the Level Crossing Removal Authority in Noble Park.

There was talk of possible community legal action against the project.

No Skyrails member Dianne Hunt said the movement was gathering momentum along the rail corridor - 4000 petition signatures, more than 800 Facebook likes and more than 1800 website views in three hours.

“We want the government to stop and get back to consulting.”

The government’s own documents warned that elevated rail was a “secondrate option”, Ms Hunt said.

A 2014 Office of the Victorian Government Architect paper titled Level Crossing Removals: Lessons Learned stated that elevated rail or road was “not a preferred solution”.

It would impact on “visual amenity, permeability, viability of activity areas,

value of land and appetite for future development”.

“They often provide a cheaper solution but a poorer outcome and therefore a false economy.

“Don’t ignore the broader costs and benefits of the project and long-term legacy of a once-in-a-generation infrastructure intervention.”

Level Crossing Removal Authority chief executive Kevin Devlin said the “modern elevated design” was selected because “we believe it is the best way to remove these level crossings and creates the best urban design outcomes”.

“Modelling by acoustic experts has identified that the proposed design will result in an overall decrease in noise compared to the current rail line.

“We will be working one-on-one with residents who back on to the rail line and will be looking at privacy and noise screening as well as vegetation and fence improvements.”

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Parking meter fees reduced PARKING meter fees in Warwick Avenue, Springvale, were reduced

by Greater Dandenong Council from Tuesday.

From 9am parking limits were increased from two to three hours and charges have dropped to a maximum of $1 for three hours.

Last month Greater Dandenong councillors reported that drivers had all but deserted the car park since $1.20-an-hour parking meters were introduced late last year.

Mayor Heang Tak said the council had responded to traders’ concerns.

“We have listened to traders’ issues and have acted quickly to address them.

“These particular car parks have been underutilised since the parking meters were introduced, so we hope this will help rectify this situation.”

Cr Tak said the council’s parking strategy was based on “internationally recognised best practice principles”.

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“Council’s action on this occasion demonstrates our commitment to those principles,” Cr Tak said.

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Servo crash man is fined AN ALCOHOL-affected unlicensed driver has claimed he fled from a Dandenong service station to find an interpreter after reversing his car into a diesel pump.

The Sri Lankan asylum seeker, 35, had unsuccessfully tried to communicate with the servo attendant - despite a language barrier - soon after crashing into the pump about 7am on 2 June, a court was told.

The “frustrated” and “aggressive” accused then left the Princes Highway servo on foot, police prosecutor Senior Constable Tracey Arnold said.

A friend who remained at the scene called the accused on behalf of police.

With the help of a Tamil interpreter, the accused agreed to submit to a breath test and recorded a reading of 0.109 -

more than twice the legal limit.

The man told police he’d drunk “two large high-strength beers”.

A defence lawyer told Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on 15 February that the man had never held a Victorian driver’s licence since arriving as an asylum seeker in 2012.

The man was unaware he needed a local licence when staying in Australia for more than three months, the lawyer said.

The lawyer said the Tamil man had left the servo to seek help from an interpreter out of frustration with the Sinhalesespeaking attendant.

Magistrate Gerard Bryant said the accused’s alcohol impairment was demonstrated - and aggravated - by his collision with a diesel pump.

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“The reason you have to get a licence you come to Australia is to demonstrate you have an understanding of our road laws which may be different generally from the road rules in your country of origin.

“You’re also required to demonstrate you can drive a car competently so you’re not to be a risk to yourself, your passengers and everyone else on the road.”

The man must wait 12 months, complete a drink-driving awareness course and apply to the court before trying for a licence.

He was convicted and fined $800.

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By CASEY NEILL TWO Springvale sisters are helping Victoria’s Vietnamese community mark a major milestone.

Thao Phuong Le, 21, and Xuan Phung Le, 20, appear in a photograph on display at the Vietnamese in Australia: 40 Years of Settlement exhibition.

It opened at the Immigration Museum in Melbourne in November and marks four decades since thousands of Vietnamese people started landing in Australia in 1975 after the Vietnam War. The organisers want the migrants’ descendants to understand their roots and the wider community to understand their stories.

Thao and Xuan became involved through volunteer work with the Dual Identity Leadership Program, a Vietnamese Community Australia - Victorian Chapter initiative.

“We’ve graduated from the leadership program but we’re still involved with the community,” Thao said.

They helped out with the Tet Festival for Vietnamese New Year and a soup kitchen project.

“We were bringing Vietnamese cuisine to the homeless,” Xuan said.

An Immigration Museum photographer captured the image of the sisters that appears in the exhibition.

They’re standing in front of a stained glass window in Monash University’s Robert Blackwood Hall.

Xuan Phung Le, 20, and Thao Phuong Le, 21, with their Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS photograph. 148312 Thao finished a Bachelor of Science majoring in physics and mathematics at the university last year and this year moved on to a masters of physics with plans to complete a PhD in the field.

Xuan is half way through a double degree in science and biomedical science.

“Our family’s always been a sciency family,” Xuan said.

Their parents fled from Vietnam after the war.

“They went by boat up to Hong Kong and from there they got to a refugee camp,” Thao said.

“They went to the Philippines, where I was born, and

after that they moved over to here.”

Springvale was their first home and where the sisters have grown up.

“I never felt like the odd one out,” Xuan said.

They planned to visit the exhibition as a family, though the gravity of the milestone hadn’t hit home.

“I think it will be important in retrospect,” Thao said.

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Members said the buses would bypass key infrastructure, including shopping centres and community hubs, and would leave out residential areas south of Keylana Drive and Westwood Boulevard.

“And there is no future infrastructure growth factored into the route,” KSAG spokeswoman Nina Kelly said.

“The route will not be rolled out until the second half of 2016.

“By that time the proposed Woolworths on Hutton Road

will be near completion and there will be no bus within 850 metres.”

Ms Kelly said buses would run every 40 minutes during the day and every 60 minutes after 7pm.

“Research provided to us shows a direct route with higher frequency - every 20 minutes has greater patronage,” she said.

“We believe people will still use their car to get to railway stations with this inadequate frequency.”

Ms Kelly said the Keysborough community had been fighting for the bus extension for eight years.

Multiple charges for speedster A SPRINGVALE South disqualified driver will be charged with speeding and drink driving in Springvale.

Casey Highway Patrol officers were targeting intentional high-risk driving through Operation Sumatra when they allegedly saw the 26-year-old man travelling east along Princes

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By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A TRAINING centre to reskill retrenched automotive workers will be established at Chisholm Institute as part of the State Government’s skyrail project.

Premier Daniel Andrews announced a New Employment Exchange and Training (NEXT) centre as a partnership with the TAFE on Tuesday 16 February It is part of the $1.6 billion skyrail project that will remove nine level crossings between Caulfield and Dandenong, including three in Noble Park.

The government claims the project will create 2000 jobs including at least 200 for apprentices and graduate engineers.

It was announced that the nine-metre tall rail sections

will be constructed from prefabricated beams that will be “pieced together over the busy rail line as it continues to run”.

“Removing level crossings using a modern elevated design means the trains keep running and the roads keep flowing saving passengers and drivers the chaos of major shut-downs on our busiest rail line,” Public Transport Minister Jacinta Allan said.

The centre will include a dedicated classroom and training space, a rail training centre and on-the-job training on the skyrail project.

The program will help reskill people who are in “industries in decline” and teach students from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds, ac-

cording to a government statement.

Senior high school students and pre-apprentices can apply for access to construction-based work projects and supervised work experience.

The program will also provide year 10, 11 and 12 students from local schools and pre-apprentices with access to construction-based work projects and supervised work experience.

Dandenong MP Gabrielle Williams said the initiative removed some of the state’s most dangerous, congested level crossings and guaranteed “the next generation of Victorians get the skills they need”.

The skyrail is expected to be completed in 2018.

Law review to clear the way ment review underway would clear things up and urged people to share their ideas on possible changes.

Ms Hutchins said ideas already submitted include simplifying electoral structures, increasing mayoral authority, and more community input into decision-making.

“This review provides us with the opportunity to refresh the role of local government in

Victoria,” she said.

The Dandenong forum will take place from 10am to noon on Wednesday 2 March at Drum Theatre, corner Walker and Lonsdale streets, Dandenong.

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IT’S NONE OF OUR BUSINESS BUT… A MAN was happy to debate his own “alcoholism” with a magistrate in Dandenong recently.

He said he had “helped” his “alcoholic” partner by sharing three bottles of wine that she brought home one night.

“She could drink the three bottles herself.

I stupidly thought I could help her like that.”

The magistrate questioned the man’s selflessness.

The man told the court that he was not an alcoholic though he attended alcohol counselling and AA meetings.

“What’s AA stand for?” the magistrate asked the accused.

“If you don’t identify yourself as an alcoholic why do you go Alcoholics Anonymous?”

The accused wore a neck brace, which he told the court was due to a drunken car accident on private property.

He had “skolled” a bottle of Southern Comfort bourbon after a family argument, he told the court.

“Yes it’s extremely excessive. I felt I had my heart ripped out and jumped on.”

The man still argued that his GP thought his drinking was “not that bad”.

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A Doveton man stood accused at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court of punching his partner in the mouth over an argument about sharing Coco Pops.

Facing a string of outstanding arrest warrants, the man however wanted to “get his life sorted” and turned himself in at Endeavour Hills police station, the court was told.

The ice use - which had coincided with his offending - had ceased for the past 10 months.

The magistrate was impressed with the man staying out of trouble for nearly a year and prepared to go back into remand by turning himself in.

The man was put on a community corrections order to support his continuing rehab.

A JOURNAL reporter drew the attention of metro paparazzi at Dandenong court house.

Covering a high-profile greyhound live-baiting trial, the reporter was flanked by rapidly approaching photographers snapping their cameras as he left the building.

The reporter - who by the way is no fan of the dishlickers - did his best to smile under duress and inform the excitable togs he was not a greyhound trainer.

THE Journal team’s thoughts are with Don Cameron and his family as he starts his battle with cancer.

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ABOUT 70 people joined Greater Dandenong Living Treasure Bill Warner to celebrate his 90th birthday.

The bash was held at the Uniting Church he has attended since he was four years old and his partner Eleonora and her family prepared the food.

The former councillor received “lovely cards” and champagne, wine and spirits.

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Inspector Bruce Kitchen said about half of car thefts registered in his area were actually thefts of two matching plates.

He spruiked the benefits of “shatter plates” used in the US and Canada that break when thieves try to remove them, but conceded the cost could prevent their introduction in Australia.

THE Monash Health Seekers and Asylum Seeker Alliance will vie for the second-annual Seeker Cup in a Twenty20 cricket match this, Sunday 28 February.

The Monash side won last year’s contest on the final ball so expect a fierce battle from 11am to 4pm at Oval 3, Greaves Reserve, Dandenong.

CHARITY collectors are needed to rattle tins in Noble Park North on Saturday 5 March.

Aus Audio Arts Association spokesman Vajira Ekanayake hopes to raise $2500 for the annual Red Cross appeal at Police and Jacksons roads between 10am and 4pm.

Call Vajira on 0401 178 436 to volunteer.

The Australian Government is committed to making this country a centre of innovation—where we turn ideas into successful products and services.

This will generate a new era of jobs and prosperity for all.

The National Innovation & Science Agenda includes initiatives that encourage ideas and create opportunities, including: • making it easier for innovative businesses to find investors and access funding • bringing research and business together to make ideas work • helping prepare ideas for market with grants and specialist advice • making it easier for people to take a risk and give their ideas a go • ensuring young Australians have the skills they need in technology, maths and science for the jobs of tomorrow.

The Ideas Boom. Building an exciting future for every Australian.

Former Journal employee Val Bravo (nee King) sent us this photograph of herself seated on a reel of newsprint in the office in 1969. Val was a fresh faced 16-year-old at the time. Val still works in newspapers as an account manager with Mornington Peninsula News Group.

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GREAT VALUE INVESTMENT PAGE 2 DANDENONG, NOBLE PARK, SPRINGVALE, KEYSBOROUGH, HALLAM, DOVETON, ENDEAVOUR HILLS

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GREAT VALUE INVESTMENT / 5 TAYLOR COURT, DANDENONG NORTH

SET in a quiet court position, this oneowner home offers great value as an investment or first home. Close to schools, shopping centre and transport, this property also has easy access to Monash and Eastlink freeways. Set on a 770m2 block, this property has the added bonus of a huge double brick garage with an internal toilet.

This is perfect for a tradesman or handyman. There is additional parking for three to four vehicles. The existing home offers three bedrooms with ample built-in robes, tiled bathroom, comfortable and family size kitchen/meals area.

The home also features all gas appliances, polished hardwood floors and security shutters.

The land size offers scope for a later extension or a possible dual occupancy development subject to approval.

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STOCKDALE & LEGGO DANDENONG, 9791 3177 NEIL BUTLER, 0411 637 303 PRICE: $500,000 PLUS INSPECT: WEDNESDAY, 5PM-5.30PM OR SATURDAY, 3PM-3.30PM OR BY APPOINTMENT AUCTION: SATURDAY, 5 MARCH, 1PM

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WE LOVE IT

DANDENONG NORTH With an exceptional façade and street appeal, this home will have you in love from the moment you lay eyes upon it.

It’s big enough for the largest of families and even has room for older relatives or extended family.

Set in this quiet street, you can enjoy two bedrooms, an open living and dining, large kitchen and a bathroom downstairs, while upstairs boasts three good-sized bedrooms, two balconies, a study / sunroom / kids play area and it’s all positioned on a block size of about 649m2. In such a premium locale and with so many attributes, this huge family home will be yours for many years to come.

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BARRY PLANT NOBLE PARK, 8710 0000 PHONG HO, 0432 031 601 7 PEARSON STREET AUCTION THIS SATURDAY: OPEN SATURDAY, 12.30PM - 1PM AUCTION: SATURDAY, 27 FEBRUARY, 1PM

KEYSBOROUGH Living life will be easy in this gorgeous Keysborough family residence beautifully presented and positioned in an enviable location. Set close to excellent local schools - with just a short walk to Wallarano and Keysborough primary schools and just a short drive to Haileybury College - owners will adore the plethora of lifestyle recreational options available to them: golf courses, parklands, beaches within close reach; in addition to great local shopping at Parkmore Shopping Centre and Dingley Village, plus, major arterials close at hand - all your needs are met with ease.

Featuring an open floor plan, spanning over one generous level - parents can chill out or entertain in style in the stylish formal lounge/dining area with picturesque garden vistas, plush carpeted floors and finished with a soothing colour palette. Relish relaxed, easy living in the adjoining casual family lounge/meals area with contemporary kitchen - finished with stainless steel appliances, breakfast bar and loads of cabinetry - this space oozes classic elegance with a fresh contemporary vibe. Offering excellent indoor/outdoor flow to the low maintenance private rear yard - alfresco entertaining will come naturally to future buyers and presents plenty of scope to add your own flair to the property.

Comprising four great-sized robed bedrooms, (Master with ensuite and built-in robe), each is highlighted by large sunny windows; and are serviced by a central family bathroom - contemporary in design and functionality, separate laundry and guest powder room. Lots of thought has been given to the design and build of this home - with sun-drenched windows, excellent quality finishes and a warm contemporary vibe - it ticks all the boxes.

POSTCODE

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ISELL GROUP, 8586 6411 LAURA VOINEA, 0435 921 730 INSPECT: SATURDAY, 9.30AM PRICE: $520,000 PLUS Monday, 22 February, 2016 DANDENONG JOURNAL 3

SALES & RENTALS

118 Walker St Dandenong P: 9791 5922 F: 9792 2536 N IORDAY T C TU ATUHIS SA

Dandenong North

3 DeiDre Street

PRESENTATION IS THE KEY!

This beautifully presented three bedroom brick veneer home will cater for the whole family. Freshly painted with new carpets, wall heater, split system air conditioning all less than twelve months old, this property won’t last long! Featuring dishwasher, gas hot plates, electric wall oven, built in robes to all bedrooms and separate laundry plus a 2 ½ space garage with internal access. The backyard features a full size vegetable garden and an abundance of mature fruit trees which needs to be seen to be appreciated. Located minutes walk to Dandenong Tafe, Dandenong Club and bus stop and a short drive to Monash Freeway access, Dandenong Hospital, Market, Plaza and Primary and Secondary Schools. OPPORTUNITY AWAITS!

For Sale: $550,000 plus oPeN: Wed 4:20pm to 4:40pm & Sat 11:20am to 11:40am

Dandenong

82 CleelaND Street

SUPER CENTRAL INVESTMENT WITH MANY OPTIONS!

Zoned Residential Growth Zone - Schedule 1 and sitting on a block of 820m2 (approx) with high exposure and in the Medical precinct of Dandenong, this property is ideal for a Medical Practice, to build your dream home or for multi-unit development (STCA).

Previously operated as a Dental practice, it features two consulting rooms, administration/reception area overlooking patient waiting area, staff rest room, storeroom, two toilets and six car parking spaces with extensive concreting at the rear of the property.

Positioned in the heart of Dandenong Central, a short walk to the Dandenong Hospital, Market, Plaza and Dandenong High School with easy access to public transport and a short drive to both Eastlink and Monash Freeways.

LEASE OUT - REDEVELOP - OR JUST MOVE IN!

Dandenong

5 NorMaN Court

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!

This tidy three bedroom solid family home won’t last long. Adorned with very generous sized bedrooms, all with built in robes, two living areas, two bathrooms and single lock up garage. Located in a high demand area of Dandenong, you have access to Eastlink, Dandenong Bypass, Princes Highway and seconds away from Dandenong South Primary School.

DON'T LET THIS ONE SLIP AWAY!

auCtioN: Saturday, 27th February, 2016 @ 12:30pm (if not sold prior) oPeN: Wed 5:00pm to 5:20pm & Sat 12:00pm to 12:30pm

For Sale: $520,000 to $560,000 oPeN: Wed 3:40pm to 4:00pm & Sat 10:40am to 11:00am

Dandenong

Dandenong

8 orgill Street

BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME!

13/38 KiNg Street

THE PENTHOUSE!

Walk to schools, parks, railway station and city centre in minutes!

This fabulous site of approximately 414m2 accommodates a period style two bedroom timber home currently leased on a monthly tenancy. Ideal home site or redevelop (STCA). One of the better central locations in Dandenong’s ‘Golden Mile’.

This almost new property is surely one of the best in town! The bright sunny North facing balcony is large and has sweeping views over the city and towards the Dandenong Ranges. NRAS approval is current which provides a massive return of approximately 6.7% per annum with rent and Government rebate. This is one for your investment portfolio or when the lease is up, you can move in yourself and enjoy living ‘on top of the world’!

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS!

VIEWS ARE FOREVER!

For Sale: $350,000 to $370,000 oPeN: Sat 11:20am to 11:40am

For Sale: $335,000 plus oPeN: Sat 10:40am to 11:00am

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Dandenong

WALK TO DANDENONG PLAZA!

IDEAL STARTER!

TOP APARTMENT!

4/67 McCrae Street

10/9-11 Weller Street

Located only 350 metres from the Dandenong Plaza is this unit featuring a large bedroom, lounge/dining off the functional kitchen with gas cooking, gas heating, front and back security doors and carspace. Currently tenanted to a long term tenant at$210.00 per week.

Central to transport and many other facilities.

For Sale: $210,000 plus oPeN: Wed 5:40-6:00pm & Sat 10:20-10:40am

Two bedroom apartment located close to everything including parks, shops, transport and school. Includes covered garage, built in robes, two balconies and a split system air conditioner with a bright sunny outlook. Ideally priced, as carpets need replacing and a good paint throughout will make a huge difference.

For Sale: $200,000 to $220,000 oPeN: Wed 3:00-3:20pm & Sat 10:00-10:20am

Dandenong

11/116 Princes Highway

2/21 Potter Street

Very neat ground floor flat featuring two double bedrooms with robes, large separate lounge room and separate kitchen/meals area with emprite gloss cupboards and sliding door to outdoor sitting area.

Currently leased to excellent tenants for $250.00 per week. Private carspace. INVEST NOW!

For Sale: $215,000 plus oPeN: Sat 11:00am to 11:20am

LONG TERM TENANT = SECURITY

Freshly painted two bedroom flat with built in robes and central bathroom. The lounge room has plenty of space and the kitchen has been re-tiled with new bench tops installed. With gas cooking and heating, this is an ideal property to add to your portfolio.

CENTRAL LOCATION IS THE KEY!

For Sale: $210,000 to $230,000 oPeN: Sat 10:00am to 10:20am 1217578

Daryl Rayner Director 0411 537 820

Mick Whelan Sales Manager 0416 003 505

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John Ratnam Sales Consultant 0414 556 517

Samuel Hanna Sales Consultant 0425 698 307

Frank Holohan Senior Consultant

9791 5922

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KEYSBOROUGH 161 Keylana Drive

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KEYSBOROUGH 384 Corrigan Road

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Family Home of Grand Proportions

Private Sale: $880,000+ Inspect: Wed 5:00 - 5:30pm Sat 2:00 - 2:30pm Photo ID Require

Pure Potential In A Prized Pocket

Private Sale: $500,000+ Inspect: Wednesday 6:00 -6:30pm Saturday 12:30 - 1:00pm Sat 12;30 - 1:00

The new age of family living is right here at this exclusive Keysborough address, with public transport close by and prestigious private schools within walking distance.

Designed for a carefree family lifestyle with a low maintenance front lawn, double garage with further driveway space, this accommodating four bedroom plus study, 3 bathroom streetfront home has an adaptable family it with parents and kids zoned on their own levels, with living areas upstairs and down.

Styled with cutting-edge interiors, starring an open plan state-of-the-art kitchen with granite bench tops, dishwasher and stainless steel appliances, this centrally heated and air-conditioned home features fully-tiled bathrooms Corey (Khoi) Le (including dual vanities for master ensuite and family 0417 311 491 bathroom).

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SPRINGVALE 29 Woodward Street

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NOBLE PARK 1A Cypress Court

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Pure Potential In A Prized Pocket

Private Sale:

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Private Sale:

$550,000+ Elegantly appointed on a quiet street with so much scope for more, this single storey home being offered for the 1st Inspect: time in over 55 years is waiting to be lovingly restored.

Wednesday 6:00 - 6:30pm Generous dimensions that boast unlimited potential for Saturday 1:30 -2:00pm homebuyers, investors or developers certainly present a Photo ID Require irm foundation for future success. A 586m2 (approx) land parcel suggests ine rewards will low to build a brand new home or dual occupancy project (STCA), whilst also providing an attractive leasing/living option.

Currently offering kitchen/meals area, 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and a spacious family lounge area complete with a reverse cycle AC and original space heater. Prominently situated in one of Springvale’s most in-demanded pockets Corey (Khoi) Le Nidda Gov loved for its close proximity to Springvale Central and 0417 311 491 0422 808 001 newly developed Springvale Station.

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The sky is the limit here in this meticulously well maintained 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom home, lying in wait for its next exciting chapter. A single owner home being offered for the 1st time in over 30 years, enthusiastic renovators may be tempted to launt their creative lair throughout the immaculate layout sitting on a spacious parcel of land.

Perfect for quick access to Parkmore Shopping Centre, for swinging on to the Eastlink up to Melbourne CBD or nailing the school drop off. This charming low maintenance brick home is ideal for young or growing families, irst home buyers, down sizers and astute investors.

Showcasing pristine condition kitchen with meals area, a light-illed bathroom and divine deco including original Ozan Kanbur Corey (Khoi) Le timber work.

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$450,000+ Combining an excellent design with quality ittings, this townhouse offers a genuinely luxurious yet contemporary Inspect: living environment that is only a stone’s throw from Noble Thursday 5:00 - 5:30pm Park’s diverse shopping precinct. With great access to Saturday 11:00 - 11:30am reputable schools, Waverley Gardens Shopping Centre, Photo ID Require Sandown Racecourse and Noble Park station provided

by Princess Highway and Corrigan Road, there is little keeping this residence from becoming a family residential delight.

The stunning interior begins with a light illed living, area featuring quality looring that lead to a modern kitchen with Caesar tone bench tops. Accommodation is abundant as walking up the exquisite stair case you will ind 3 carpeted bedrooms complemented by a generous bathrooms and Corey (Khoi) Le 0417 311 491 the master bedroom with ensuite and walk in robe.

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Hall & Partners HAMPTON EAST 14 Wishart Street AUCTION THIS SATURDAY

DANDENONG NORTH 17 Roslyn Court WISHART BY THE PARK! Live in or Develop?

Overlooking Parkland this Bayside property on land approx. 640m2 is defiantly a must see for buyers looking for multiple options in a prime locality. A real opportunity exists here to live in, create your new family home or maybe pursue a development idea (subject to permits).The existing home has been in the family for over 40 years, is currently leased & comes with 3 double bedrooms, 2 large living areas plus a large double garage. All year round comfort is assured with ducted gas heating & 2 air conditioners.This amazing property opportunity exists at this prime location just 14kms from the Melbourne CBD. See you there!

CLASSICAL ELIGANCE IN ROSEWOOD DOWNS This architecturally designed home was clearly built before its time. Positioned in the most sought after location of Rosewood Downs, this prestige 4 bedroom home has to be seen to be believed. Downstairs contains 2 large bedrooms with a bathroom and a separate toilet. Upstairs will lead you to another 2 master bedrooms both containing full ensuites and separate toilets.

3 large living areas, state of the art kitchen with dishwasher, ducted heating, air conditioning and balcony with amazing views. More features include large double remote garage with plenty of storage and wine cellar, immaculate gardens and an enclosed yard.

Auction: Saturday 27th February at 3pm Inspect: Wednesday 2-2:30pm Saturday From 2:30pm Contact: Tim Retallack 0419 391 804

Auction: Saturday 19th March at 1pm Inspect: By Appointment Contact: Leigh Hall 0401 408 580 Chen Liu 0451 384 722

DANDENONG NORTH 4 Paviour Court AUCTION

AUCTION

NOBLE PARK NORTH 5 Epsom Court FULLY RENOVATED BEAUTIFUL HOME This tastefully presented home consists of 3 large bedrooms with built in robes, luminous L shaped living area, modern style kitchen with stainless steel appliances , gas cooking & dishwasher plus an open plan meals area. All enhanced with stunning floorboards, ducted heating, evaporative cooling, roller shutters and a 2 car garage or huge second living area, the choice is yours! A spectacular outdoor entertaining area that includes large pergola with blinds, water tank, garden shed, solar panels and enclosed yard.

HUGE FAMILY HOME- WALKING DISTANCE TO WAVERLEY GARDENS! If you want to make your dream turn into a reality, then this 6 bedroom home is a must see! This stylish family home comprises of 6 bedrooms including 2 master bedrooms with full ensuite and spa bath, built in robes to other bedrooms & 2 large living areas.You are assured comfort with ducted heating, spacious kitchen with gas cooking, open plan meals and living area plus plenty of storage. All this enhanced with a great solar heated in ground pool, vegetable gardens, massive remote double garage and we cannot forget to mention the stunning views this home provides! Amazing location, within walking distance to Waverley Gardens Shopping Centre!

Auction: Saturday 19th March at 11am Inspect: By Appointment Contact: Leigh Hall 0401 408 580 Chen Liu 0451 384 722

Auction: Saturday 19th March at 3pm Inspect: By Appointment Contact: Leigh Hall 0401 408 580 Chen Liu 0451 384 722

ENDEAVOUR HILLS 2 Barnsley Drive AUCTION

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AUCTION

ENDEAVOUR HILLS 17/8 Monteith Crescent IMPRESSIVE HOME READY TO MOVE IN ON APPROX. 700 SQM Open plan double storey layout with high ceiling lounge room, formal dining room, & modern kitchen with gas cooking, dishwasher & adjoining meals area. Family room extending to a spacious rumpus room. 4 bedrooms, master with His and Hers wardrobe, full ensuite, 2 bathrooms plus powder room with separate toilet, & plenty of storage space. Additional features: gas ducted heating systems, air conditioner, alarm system, ducted vacuum, & solar panels, electric window shutters, covered pergola/entertainment area, double garage with remote control roller doors and access to the back through full size roller door, low-maintenance landscaped garden & 2 garden sheds.

BRILLIANT DOUBLE STOREY HOUSE FOR HOME OWNER OR INVESTOR Located within walking distance from the Endeavour Hills Shopping Centre, this double storey could be your next perfect home or investment property: 3 large bedrooms upstairs with BIR and WWC (Master with WIR) - Good size, cosy lounge room & Family / dining room adjoining the kitchen, Clean kitchen with gas cooking, dishwasher and wall oven - Good size family bathroom which is also a semi-ensuite to the master bedroom with separate toilet, plus an extra toilet downstairs for convenience, Gas ducted heating and ducted cooling, Paved backyard and low maintenance landscape & Double garage with exit to the backyard

Auction: Saturday 19th March at 12pm Inspect: By Appointment Contact: Alex Simule 0412 889 173

For Sale: Buyers Over $345,000 Inspect: By Appointment Contact: Alex Simule 0412 889 173

ENDEAVOUR HILLS 7 Keltie Rise

ENDEAVOUR HILLS 9 Rossiter Avenue PERFECT HOME ON PERFECT BLOCK! Located in a nice court in Endeavour Hills, this home sits on the high side of the road, offering inviting surroundings and good views. A good size bright lounge room, and dining room with Functional kitchen with gas cook top and stainless steel wall oven. Family room with meals area plus 3 large bedrooms with good quality floating floors (main bedroom with full ensuite and WIR). Central bathroom with spa bath and separate toilet, Ducted heating and split system air conditioner. 15 solar panels, new fences, large covered entertainment area, double garage with roller door to the backyard Water tank. Located within short distance from the Endeavour Hills Shopping Centre, close to the local schools, easy access to freeway, & public transport.

JUST A GREAT FAMILY HOME! Grand entrance hall leading to very generous living in 3 separate zones – Formal lounge, meals & family rumpus. 4 Very generous bedrooms including master of large proportions with double doors, full ensuite and WIR. Other bedrooms with BIR. Kitchen with huge benchtops plus dishwasher. Ducted heating, evaporative cooling plus 2 separate air conditioners. Clean and elegant laminated flooring right through the house. Double remote garage with internal access. Location just perfect!

Immediate neighbourhood of Southern Cross Primary School!

For Sale: Buyers Over $475,000 Inspect: Saturday 12-12:30pm Contact: Alex Simule 0412 889 173

For Sale: Buyers Over $520,000 Inspect: Saturday 12-12:30pm Contact: Walter Kubaik 0412 359 973 1217695

Dandenong 254 Lonsdale Street Mulgrave Shop 19 Waverley Gardens Shopping Centre Endeavour Hills Shop 62 Endeavour Hills Shopping Centre 6 DANDENONG JOURNAL Monday, 22 February, 2016

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HOME OF THE WEEK KEYSBOROUGH 2/424 CORRIGAN ROAD

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STUNNING, CENTRALLY LOCATED TOWN RESIDENCE This house-sized, 4 bedroom town residence provides family accommodation over 2 generous levels. It boasts the perfect floorplan with a generous, robed bedroom and a full bathroom downstairs. The home has an expansive timber-floored living and dining area, a large, well-appointed, family kitchen overlooking the timber-decked al fresco area, a fully tiled bathroom and separate laundry. Ascend the architectural, timber and stainless steel, open-tread stair to a stylish living area upstairs from which you can access the master suite which includes a WIR and an en-suite. There are 2 more bedrooms and a principal bathroom. There is also a private balcony up here appended to the master suite. The home also features ducted heating, refrigerated cooling to the living areas, polished hardwood flooring and a RC garage with internal access and a 2nd car park on site. Terms: VP. 10% Deposit.

Balance 30/60 days.

Auction: Saturday 27th Feb at 2pm Price: $500,000+ Inspect: Thursday 4:00 - 4:30pm Saturday 1:30 - 2:00pm

John Wysham 0418 322 618 Anthony Mondous 0417 508 189

SPRINGVALE 767 HEATHERTON ROAD

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THE HOME OFFICE This beautifully renovated 3 bedroom home plus a study will make dreams come true for the first home buyer. Sited on a very generous 587m2 (approx) north-facing allotment and enjoying a high-profile main road location, this comprehensively updated and detailed home is also currently used as a nail salon, but is ideal for just about any other home occupation / home office use (STCA). Set up ideally for the young and growing family; here you can keep an eye on the kids whilst generating income at the same time!

The home comprises 3 spacious bedrooms all having built-in robes and served by a fully renovated bathroom.

There is a separate study, a sunken formal lounge, a large dining area and a very spacious kitchen with plenty of cupboards, a dishwasher and a big 900m commercial-style stove. There is also a large, family meals area.

The vast timber-decked alfresco area under a pergola enabling year round entertaining. Also outside are a large garden shed plus a single car garage and a double tandem carport. Features include gas ducted heating and 3 air conditioners, gleaming solid hardwood floors throughout plus premium tiling to all wet areas. This excellent home is sited within a short walk of Aldi Supermarket and Springvale Plaza shops, train station, bus stop and schools. It is also just 5 minutes’ drive to East link and all other amenities. Perfect for young families, first home buyers and investors alike.

Price: $650,000+ Inspect: Saturday 11:00 - 11:30am Le Hoa Wysham 0418 566 133

KEYSBOROUGH 45 CLARENDON DRIVE

A4

SOMERFIELD SOPHISTICATION

Price: $700,000+ Inspect: Saturday 1:00 - 1:30pm

This magnificent, single storey, Carlisle home presents a most liveable floorplan which provides spaces for both quiet contemplation and rowdy family get-togethers. Accommodation comprises 4 generously proportioned bedrooms, the master bedroom with en-suite bathroom and fitted walk-in robe, a second, centrally located family bathroom, a spacious formal sitting room, a striking, open plan kitchen with 900mm stainless gas cooker, glass splash back, dishwasher, built in microwave and loads of storage plus a second, much larger and more casual living room and dining area which looks out to and opens onto a delightful, fully decked and covered al fresco area under the roofline just perfect for year round entertaining of your family and friends. Some of this home’s many features include a wide entrance, high ceilings, gleaming tiled floors throughout, ducted heating, down lights throughout, 2 car lock up garage with remote controlled door, extensive, wrap-around decking at the rear, landscaped gardens and much more, all complete on perfect, north-facing 400m2 allotment. This elevated, single storey home sits proudly on highly regarded Clarendon Drive in the well-established Somerfield Estate, and is a minute to beautiful parkland and bike tracks and just a very short drive to Parkmore shop, bus stop and East Link.

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AGENT’S CHOICE

DANDENONG NORTH Ideal first home or investment with dual occupancy potential on 631m2.

Squeaky clean and wellmaintained with nothing to do here; simply move straight in or rent straight out, this charming classic triple-fronted brick home with front verandah on a level flat 631m2 block is ideal to retain the existing home and build behind either now or in the future but could also be suited for medical or business purposes subject to council approval with excellent main road exposure. Presented in neutral tones throughout, with updated kitchen and bathroom, featuring gleaming polished hardwood floors, generous-sized bedrooms and lounge with separate dining area plus the added bonus of a rear

POSTCODE

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DANDENONG 96 LANGHORNE STREET Renovated home on a flat level 735m2 block, either live in & enjoy the guaranteed capital growth, retain the existing home & build at the rear or demolish & develop the site STCA. Offers large kitchen/meals area, 2 driveways & a large backyard on a blue chip location.

DOVETON 45 TARATA DRIVE Solid concrete home comprises spacious kitchen, polished floorboards, d/h, fire place & solar power system. At the rear there is a selfcontained bungalow with toilet & shower. All set on a block of land approx. 575sqm. Renovate & live or detonate & build townhouses (STCA).

DANDENONG 4 Langhorne Street 9706 7455

bungalow, large garage, gas cooking and heating. Ideally located opposite Lyndale primary school and close to Lyndale secondary, with bus at the doorstep, easy access to all major arterials including Eastlink and M1 freeways. Inspect today.

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3a 1b 1c 1e Saturday 27th February at 12 pm INSPECT Wed 5-5.30 & Sat 11.30-12pm Photo ID required PRICE Contact Agent Ari Oinonen 0402 349 644

3a 1b 1c Saturday 12th March at 11:00am INSPECT Wed 6-6.30 & Sat 11-11.30 Photo ID required PRICE Contact Agent Yasantha De Silva 0432 805 336

2B

Dandenong North 18 Gardiner

3A

PLANS & PERMITS FOR 2 UNITS!

In Room Auction

Huge profit potential with this 605m2 block (approx.) with plans and permits approved for 2 premium units!

Just build, lease out or sell and make the returns! Suit investors or large tight-knit families! The existing 3 bedroom house features formal lounge, 2 bathrooms, ducted heating throughout, kitchen with new benchtops and stainless steel apliances. Currently leased $1400 month.

Wednesday 9th March 6:30pm Sandown Regency, 477 Princes Hwy, Noble Park

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View Wed & Sat 12-12:30pm Clyde Lobo 0421 138 384 clyde.lobo@raywhite.com raywhite.com | 9547 0000

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20 Aldridge Street Endeavour Hills

5 Taylor Court Dandenong North

NOT ONE RED CENT TO SPEND

IMMACULATE BV ON HUGE COURT BLOCK

This home is fully renovated like brand new. Tiled entry leads to a formal lounge with meals area & split system a/c. Cupboard packed kitchen with stone bench tops, all new industrial gas stove & oven, DW & family area. 3 large bedrooms all with robes & walk through toilet & bathroom from the master bedroom. Extra features include ducted heating. New fences & fully landscaped yard, large double garage an outdoor decking area for entertaining complete this package. Located close to all amenities & 10 minutes from Dandenong Market & Plaza. Call now to inspect!

Auction Terms Price Inspect Agent

Sat 27th Feb at 1pm 10% dep - bal 30/60 days $425,000+ Tues & Thurs 5-5.30pm Saturday from 12.30pm Nigel Raymond 0425 721 593

9 Bickford Place Hallam

Close to schools, shops & freeway access, this well maintained home is sure to impress. Offers 3 double bedrooms with BIR’s, tiled bathroom with separate toilet, comfortable gas heated lounge opens to family size kitchen with WO & gas HP + spacious meals area opening to large rear yard with lots of fruit trees. Features all gas appliances, a/c, stunning polished hardwood loors & security shutters. Externally a huge brick garage with internal toilet, lots of extra parking & approx. 770m2 lot (with room to extend) complete this great package.

Auction Terms Price Inspect Agent

Sat 5th March at 1pm 10% dep - bal 60/90 days $500,000+ Wednesday 5-5.30pm Saturday 3-3.30pm Neil Butler 0411 637 088

63 Hinrichsen Drive Hallam

DEVELOPMENT OR INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY Huge 793m2 block with permit to build 3 bed unit behind existing BV. Otherwise site would suit 3 new units (STP).

Existing 3 bed BV includes spacious lounge, modern kitchen with WO & HP, good carpets & ducted RC air conditioning. Let at $320 per week until Jan’17. Rare opportunity here!

VALUE PACKED 1ST HOME OR INVESTMENT Auction Terms Price Inspect Agent

Sat 5th March at 2pm 10% dep-bal 30/60/90 days $400,000+ Saturday 12-12.30pm Jazz Singh 0430 992 269

Set on a large 650m2 lot this spacious 3 BV features a large lounge, cupboard packed kitchen with gas cooking, spacious family room plus full ensuite to master. All gas appliances including ducted heating. Large garage with rear access to garden plus extra parking. Let at $325pw but vacant possession is available. Surrounded by modern homes close to schools, transport & shops.

Auction Terms Price Inspect Agent

Sat 12th March at 12pm 10% dep-bal 60 days $400,000+ Saturday 2-2.30pm Neil Butler 0411 637 088

Auction Terms Price Inspect Agent

Sat 19th March at 1pm 10% dep - bal 60 days $600,000+ Saturday 12-12.30pm Neil Butler 0411 637 088

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19 Wren Drive Noble Park North

67 Glendale Road Springvale

FANTASTIC VALUE HERE!

FANTASTIC INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY

Well presented 3 bed BV in a prime location close to schools, transport & Waverley Gardens shopping centre.

Features a spacious lounge/formal dining, modern kitchen with WO & gas HP, family area opens to a huge covered patio. Includes ducted heating & split system air conditioning. Ideal 1st home or investment opportunity.

Auction Terms Price Inspect Agent

Sat 12th March at 2pm 10% dep - bal 60 days $450,000+ Wednesday 6-6.30pm Saturday 2-2.30pm Jerome Mulholland 0401 060 804

Huge 869m2 lot with spacious 3 bed BV plus separate 2 bedroom unit. Each has ample rear garden, gas appliances & parking space. Both are let & returning $31,000p.a. (Potential to increase). Ideal investment or potential to subdivide (STP) & re-sell. Land area also suitable for up to 4 units (STP). Central location close to schools, shopping centre & station. Don’t miss this!

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Keysborough 17 Len George Drive 591 m

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Spacious open plan living and meals domain A sophisticated & newly renovated kitchen boasting a plethora of vogue cabinetry Ducted heating, split-system & secure alarm system

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Excellent combination of formal & casual living spaces Stunning contemporary kitchen with stone surfaces, WIP, s/steel appliances Semi-outdoor entertaining area with additional kitchen facilities Upstairs living area and balcony space

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Price Guide $850K-$920K

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Inspect Sat 1:00pm

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Spacious formal & casual living and meals domain opening

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out to an inviting paved patio + study

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Ducted heating & 2 water tanks

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Generous kitchen with an ample amount of storage

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Four bedrooms, Master serviced by WIR & ensuite, family bathroom, 3 x toilets & separate laundry facilities Shop 13 Narelle Dr, Aspendale Gardens S/C VIC 3195

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Prime location within metres of Parkmore Shopping Centre 03 8586 6411

Auction 12 Mar 12:30pm Price Guide $600,000+ Inspect Sat 12:00pm

Byron Elrod 0434 262 589

Medina D 0432 193 343

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The perfect foundation for a growing family, or a starter home on your real estate journey 3 Bedrooms all with BIR’s, Open plan living area w/polished floorboards Modern Kitchen w/gas appliances & d/ washer (all Bosch)

Forest Hill 14 Jackson Street 2

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Superbly positioned family residence sits on a rectangular allotment approx 610m2 Spacious lounge providing comfort living Ducted heating throughout the house

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Kenny Pham 0433 373 454

Thanh Le 0411 499 905

Clayton South 15 Glenmorgan Close 3 n

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Brand new kitchen, freshly polished floors and painted

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Quiet cul-de-sac location ideal for family environment 287 Springvale Road, Springvale VIC 3171

Close to Westall Train station, Westall secondary and Monash University

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Auction 19 Mar 1:30pm Inspect Wed 2-2:30pm Sat 10:30-11am

Harry Li 0414 216 699

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PRESENTATION IS THE KEY This beautifully presented three-bedroom brick veneer home will cater for the whole family.

Freshly painted with new carpets, wall heater, split system air conditioning all less than 12 months old, this property won’t last long, says the selling agent.

It features a dishwasher, gas hot plates, electric wall oven, built-in wardrobes to all bedrooms and separate laundry plus a two-and-a-half space garage with internal access.

The backyard features a full-size vegetable garden and an abundance of mature fruit trees which needs to be seen to be appreciated.

It is located just a few minutes’ walk to Dandenong Tafe, Dandenong Club and a bus stop, and is a short drive to Monash Freeway access, Dandenong Hospital, the market, the Plaza and primary and secondary schools.

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MCLENNAN REAL ESTATE, DANDENONG, 9791 5922 SAMUEL HANNA, 0425 698 307 3 DEIDRE STREET INSPECT: SEE WWW.MCLENNANREALESTATE.COM.AU Price: $550,000 plus buyers

NOBLE PARK This is an opportunity to purchase a spacious family home in largely original condition, set on a generous sized section of 586 square metres with substantial underdeveloped surrounds.

It is a wonderful property that carries potential galore for a total renovation internally or alternatively a complete rebuild/redevelopment that leaves new owners to set the grounds with a modern footprint.

It boasts a generous open plan family lounge/dining area with combined kitchen, three bedrooms with wardrobes, and a full family bathroom with separate toilet and laundry.

There is plenty of scope to let the imagination run free and breathe fresh air into this solid family home.

Its huge rear yard with a single car garage is ideal for green thumbs, children and pets alike and with a solid construction this property is perfect for investors who are seeking a low maintenance rental property with high appeal.

Located within walking distance of local schools, Yarraman station and plentiful parklands, and within easy reach of EastLink and major arterials, this home offers great potential to savvy buyers.

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KEYSBOROUGH 13 MARGA PLACE

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Hand Crafted & Immaculate Family Home It’s not often you can live in a home that has been expertly built by an award winning builder, be so well positioned in the heart of Keysborough, close to the areas most exclusive schools and enjoy the quiet surrounds of the golf courses and wetlands all at your doorstep. That is what you can enjoy in this spacious, sun filled, supersized family home. Boasting 5 bedrooms, master with ensuite and WIR, multiple living areas, a spectacular kitchen with all of the bells and whistles, plus two outdoor entertaining areas including a versatile timber alfresco with an in-built BBQ & heaters. This is an entertainers dream and the perfect fit for a large family looking for a life of luxury. If you want a dream home on a block size of 600m2 (approx) that’s full of quality, class and charisma, this is the one! Terms: 10% Deposit. Balance 90/120 Days.

NOBLE PARK 260 CORRIGAN ROAD

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Saturday 19th March at 11:30am Contact Agent Wed 6 - 6:30pm & Sat 2 - 2:30pm Photo ID required Chang Wang 0450 706 668 KEYSBOROUGH 8769 1888

KEYSBOROUGH 16 MEADOWBROOK PLACE

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Corner Classic on 564m2 (approx) with so much Potential. Revitalise this charming home with some TLC, demolish and build your dream home or simply level the block and start fresh to build multiple dwellings (STCA). In such a prime position, this WB home on 564m2 (approx) is ready to be your next golden egg. The existing home enjoys 3 BDRs, 2 bathrooms (one is renovated), a good sized living, 2 carports + high ceilings for that extra bit of space.

Sun Filled and Renovated for an Easy Living Lifestyle.

From its gorgeous façade right through to the sun soaked rear yard & sunroom, this exquisite family home in a prime pocket is the perfect family package. Boasting 4 good sized BDRs, all with BIRs & ceiling fans, a renovated kitchen with a dual stacker dishwasher, solid timber floors, a huge living with cathedral style ceilings plus a sunroom to entertain all year long – you can’t look away.

METHOD

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Tuesday 8th March at 5pm unless sold prior $395,000+ Sat 11 - 11:30am Photo ID required Chang Wang 0450 706 668 KEYSBOROUGH 8769 1888

PRICE TERMS INSPECT CONTACT

Saturday 19th March at 1:30pm $580,000+ 10% Deposit. Balance 90-120 Days Sat 1 - 1:30pm Photo ID required Chang Wang 0450 706 668 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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KEYSBOROUGH 21 MALMO COURT Malmo’s True Entertainer in a Perfect Locale If you love to wine, dine and entertain on any size or scale and you love space in every direction, this has to be the home for you. With such an exceptional alfresco entertaining area, an endless amount of grass for kids & pets in addition to the dual living areas and everything in between, this has it all. Add in the bonus of its superb location where you have schools, shops, freeways all nearby not to mention ducted heating, ducted vacuum, a dual oven, multiple living rooms, great sized BDRs and it’s all on a block size of 664m2 (approx).

PRICE INSPECT CONTACT

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Saturday 27th February at 12:30pm AUCTION Wed 6 - 6:30pm & Sat 12 - 12:30pm Photo ID required Jeremy Phillips 0402 751 001 Chee-ky Dunlop 0422 910 881 KEYSBOROUGH 8769 1888

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DANDENONG NTH - ROSEWOOD DOWNS 12 FRANCESCO DVE Realise Your Dreams in Rosewood Downs Entertain on any scale, in any weather condition, enjoy the exceptional amount of space in every direction and make the most of this multi level, unique super sized family home.

Large families will love the indoor/outdoor entertaining on offer, all while you have zoned bedrooms throughout in addition to modern feel bathrooms, plenty of living areas, an oversized double lock up garage plus a secure swimming pool on a block size of 826m2 (approx). It’s all positioned in the esteemed and central locale of the Rosewood Downs Estate where schools, shops, parks, freeways and so much more are at your fingertips.

For an easy living lifestyle in an A1 position, make this large family home the one where you can build your own memories for years to come.

Terms: 10% Deposit. Balance 60/90/120 Days.

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Saturday 5th March at 12:30pm Contact Agent Sat 12 - 12:30pm Photo ID required Jessejames Mariñas 0431 108 933 Chee-ky Dunlop 0422 910 881 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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NOBLE PARK 3/66 CHANDLER ROAD

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KEYSBOROUGH 7 NARELLAN DRIVE

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Gorgeous Two Bedroom Unit that’s Ready to Go! What a gorgeous modern feeling, well maintained two bedroom unit, that’s perfect for investors, first home buyers, downsizers and smart buyers. Boasting two good sized carpeted bedrooms, master with a split system unit, a spacious sun filled living room, also with a split system unit, an open kitchen with a dishwasher plus room at the rear to entertain – this will be a hit for all.

Vibrant, Warm, Modern & Spacious - these are the words that come to mind when you set your eyes on this magnificent family home. Be welcomed by a low maintenance front garden while inside you’re greeted by a spacious living room & an open plan meals area accompanied by a bright kitchen. All 3 great sized BDRs are with robes & timber floors while the rear has an undercover retreat area with plenty of space on a generous land size of 540m2 (approx).

METHOD

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Tuesday 22nd March at 5pm unless sold prior $280,000+ Sat 1 - 1:30pm Photo ID required Steven Vavouras 0413 240 148 Tim Stickley 0409 215 540 NOBLE PARK / SPRINGVALE 8710 0000

DANDENONG NORTH 2/259-271 STUD ROAD

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Saturday 27th February at 12pm Contact Agent 10% Deposit. Balance 30/60 Days Thurs 6 - 6:30pm & Sat 11:30am - 12pm Photo ID required Kush Chetri 0425 199 192 NOBLE PARK / SPRINGVALE 8710 0000

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NOBLE PARK 4/18A ARDGOWER ROAD

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Under Instructions from the Mortgagee.

This recently renovated villa-unit is ideal for the 1st home buyer or retiree. The list of features include; a modern kitchen with Caesar Stone bench tops, a fully renovated bathroom, 2 toilets, 2 spacious bedrooms with BIR and a separate formal lounge.

The dining area off the kitchen is large enough to accommodate an 8 seat dining table and there is an under-cover area for out-door entertaining.

Contemporary, Central & No Body Corp! This versatile unit tucked at the rear of the complex will be a hit for all buyers. With space in every direction, high ceilings, downlights, carpeted robed BDRs, heating, a sun soaked open plan living & dining plus a feature filled kitchen – this has it all! Add in the bonus of a MSTR with an ensuite & WIR, an amazing private courtyard to wine & dine plus a remote lock up garage with an extra car space and this becomes the perfect package.

METHOD

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Saturday 5th March at 11am Contact Agent 10% Deposit. Balance 30 Days Wed 5:30 - 6pm & Sat 11 - 11:30am Photo ID required Daniel Pepperell 0418 105 105 NOBLE PARK / SPRINGVALE 8710 0000

PRICE TERMS INSPECT CONTACT

Saturday 19th March at 12:30pm Contact Agent 10% Deposit. Balance 30/60 Days.

Wed 6 - 6:30pm & Sat 10:45 - 11:15am Photo ID required Kush Chetri 0425 199 192 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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SPRINGVALE 19 Royal Avenue

CRANBOURNE EAST

Yes a proper five-bedroom home about three years young (built 2012) in a quiet Cul de sac location, with about 22 squares of living plus double garage.

Internally, ceramic tiling forms the entry through to the family/rumpus area, followed by another carpeted living area that is zoned away for privacy. Features include ducted heating and evaporative cooling to ensure your year-round comfort. A five-burner stainless steel gas cooktop with under bench oven, dishwasher and lots of cupboards caters for the budding chefs. Full ensuite and walk-in robe to master, Double garage with auto door and a great location.

POSTCODE

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FINNING FIRST NATIONAL REAL ESTATE, CRANBOURNE, 5996 1200 FRANK BARRETT, 0418 800 912 INSPECT: BY APPOINTMNT

To be auctioned on this day is this magnificent 920m2 site complete with plans and permits for 20 large apartments over four levels plus basement parking, consisting of: 1 x 3 Bed, 2 Bath (Penthouse); 18 x 2 Bed; 1 x 1 Bed Secure car parking including visitor spots.

All with balconies or court yard. Walking distance to Springvale Centrals shops, schools, medical centres and public transport.

To register your interest and obtain more details please contact the agents shown.

AUCTION Sat, March 19 at 11am VIEW Sat 12:00 - 12:30pm AGENT Theresa Huynh 0450 551 959 Bon Ta 0401 802 936

CENTURY 21 THERESA HUYNH 9547 7222

CENTURY 21 AGENTS. SMARTER. BOLDER. FASTER.

CENTURY21.COM.AU

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PRICE: BUYERS OVER $450,000

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Noble Park 8/28 Kelvinside Road A Brilliant Lifestyle Investment.

Secure first floor apartment. Beautifully renovated inside with large lounge, modern kitchen, gas appliances, 2 good size bedrooms, built in robes & an undercover carport at rear. Glowing parquetry floors to living & bedrooms, sparkling central bathroom with laundry facilities, gas heating & split level air con. Great location within easy walking distance to train station & more!

For Sale $269000 View Sat 12.00-12.30PM ljhooker.com

Noble Park 9546 1888 31-33 Buckley Street

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Noble Park 8 Bennett Court

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Auction Sat 27 Feb 3.00pm On Site View Thur 5.00-5.30pm & Sat from 2.30pm ljhooker.com

Shantha Puvaneswaran 0419 362 758 Noble Park 9546 1888 31-33 Buckley Street

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Noble Park 4/61A Dunblane Road

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Recently built. Spacious bedrooms, ensuite & walk in wardrobe to master bedroom & sparkling central bathroom.

Large open plan living/dining areas, sparkling kitchen, gas cooking, stainless steel appliances, internal laundry & powder room. Split system air-con, gas HWS, remote controlled garage with internal access & spacious courtyard.

Centrally located. Currently tenanted.

For Sale $410000+ View Sat 1.00-1.30pm ljhooker.com

Noble Park 9546 1888 31-33 Buckley Street

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Dandenong 1-5/6 Purdy Avenue

Renovated - Just Move In.

Modern Townhouses With Class.

For Sale Offers over $280000 View Sat 1.00-1.30pm ljhooker.com

Cleverly designed, affordable & purposebuilt. In the heart of Dandenong. Built in wardrobes, ensuite & bathroom, rumpus room or retreat. Ground floor with bright living area, kitchen with stone bench tops, stainless steel appliances, gas cooking, dishwasher, internal laundry, ducted heating & remote controlled garage. Soon to be completed.

For Sale $360000 - $380000 View Sat 11.00-11.30am ljhooker.com

Noble Park 9546 1888

Noble Park 9546 1888

31-33 Buckley Street

31-33 Buckley Street

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Noble Park 4/64 Chandler Road

Noble Park 2/1219 Heatherton Road

Spacious And Bright Villa Unit.

Smart & Stylish Living

Perfectly positioned villa unit. Featuring large living area with bay windows, sparkling kitchen, gas cooking & stainless steel appliances. Internal laundry, ducted heating, built in wardrobes, fenced back court yard, remote controlled garaging with 2 car spaces & much more. Located close to all amenities, schools, shops, Princes Highway & Eastlink. Currently tenanted with good rental return!

Just over 2 years old. Good sized bedrooms, built in robes, private balcony to master, large open plan living & meals area, stone bench top kitchen, stainless steel appliances, central bathroom, powder room, ducted heating, private rear court yard, garden shed, rain water tank & a remote controlled lock up garage.

Within walking distance to train station, shopping centre, schools & more.

For Sale $389000 View Sat 12.00-12.30pm ljhooker.com

For Sale $399000 View Sat 2.00-2.30pm ljhooker.com

Noble Park 9546 1888

Noble Park 9546 1888

31-33 Buckley Street

31-33 Buckley Street

All information contained herein is gathered from sources we consider to be reliable. However, we cannot guarantee or give any warranty about the information provided. Interested parties must solely rely on their own enquiries.

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Noble Park 1/5 Trainor Court Spacious lounge with air con & recently renovated kitchen with a stone bench top & modern gas appliances. Light & bright pastel colour scheme throughout.

Sparkling bathroom, separate toilet & internal laundry. Built in wardrobes to bedrooms. Ducted heating. Lock up garage & 2 car spaces. Court yard & rear decking under a large pergola. Secure location close to all amenities.

noblepark.ljhooker.com.au

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Spacious Townhouse!

This Could Be Your Lucky Number, Lucky Home!

This renovated home has formal lounge, dining, separate meals area, modern kitchen, large rumpus room, central bathroom, low maintenance yard, double garage with 2 rear roller doors & garden shed. Ducted heating, evap. cooling, fire place, alarm system, aluminium window roller shutters, quiet court location next to a reserve & a couple minutes walk to Keysborough College! Close to everything.

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PICTURESQUE 130 ACRES – GRAZING OR GETAWAY

40 PURvIS ROAd HEATH HIll Picturesque 130 acres of gentle sloping rises, comprising approx. 80 acres of grazing land and 50 acres of scattered natural bush.

Property fenced to run cattle – 2 dams.

Panoramic views to Baw Baw and Bunyip ranges from potential home sites.

100kms easy commuting to Melbourne CBD, 17kms from freeway exit at Longwarry, (10 minutes to rail services), 22kms to Drouin.

Internet Id: 9339233 AUCTION: Saturday 19th March 2016 11AM - On Site TERMS: 10% deposit - 30/60/90 days View property and more details at www.sej.com.au

5622 3800 Cnr Smith & Queen St, Warragul

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LIFESTYLE LIVING AT ITS BEST - ON 2.88 ACRES 37 Follett Drive, Nyora

Buyers are invited to visit Inspired Homes for a free design consultation and begin exploring the possibilities for their own knockdown rebuild.

Inspired Homes displays are at 3-5 Serene Way, Clyde North on the Berwick Waters Estate.

Phone 13000 homes (1300 046 637) or Andrew Stickley on 0411 473 662.

• Beautifully presented near new 4 BR home • Spacious French provincial kitchen • Entertainment area, private low maintenance garden • Rich dairy pasture surrounded by mature fir trees • Have a self-sufficient lifestyle • Here you can have a pony for the kids • Positioned in-between Yinnar and Boolarra • 10 mins to shopping, 10 mins Monash Uni Churchill, 20 mins Morwell, just over an hr from Pakenham

Web Id 9156073 OPEN FOR INSPECTION Sat 27th Feb 2016 at 10.30am – 11.30am 23 Antonia Rd, Boolarra Contact Jean O’Loughlin 0428 571 083 or Elders Leongatha 03 5662 3523 1217048-RC07-16

2.4 FARMLET 3 Bedroom Ranch Style Home on 2.4 acres with commanding views over paddocks and hills in backyard. 10 private pony yards off central laneway. 2 paddocks, fouling yard and loose box.

Mains water, sealed road frontage.

For Sale Inspect Contact

$400,000 Plus

By Appointment Ray Wilkinson 0417 515 649

Lang Lang - langlang@alexscott.com.au 35A Westernport Road. 5997 5599

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As the landscape of greater Melbourne changes, a knockdown rebuild is a perfect option when it comes to building a home.

Inspired Homes can build on land to match your precise requirements for clients who love their location but want a new home.

The company builds throughout greater Melbourne and selected regional areas and is known for its eye-catching flair, original design and a striking sense of energy and flow which visitors instinctively feel as they enter.

With a portfolio of designs from 20 squares to suit blocks from 12.5 metres, clients can choose to make changes to an existing design or custom build a home that ticks all the boxes.

Inspired Homes take a personalised approach to building new homes and design freedom does not come at an extra cost.

No box is left unticked as this company has a philosophy of ‘yes’.

Inspired Homes are solutions people and work in partnership with clients to create a home that gets the most out of the land and budget.

Clients should begin with the online Inspired Homes Creator Tool and select module variations to create their own unique designs at www.inspiredhomes. com.au/home-builder.

They can personalise their design as they sit down with managing director Andrew Stickley to make alternations to their plans or start a custom build project.

Whether they decide to alter plans or design their own, clients’ homes will certainly be one-of-a-kind when built by this company.

“Inspired Homes never build the same home twice,” said Andrew Stickley.

“We are all about listening to our clients and creating a home that is perfect for them.”

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NEW HOMES & LAND

PARTNERSHIP BUILDS STRENGTH

Auction Thursday 17th March at 12 noon on site 114 – 120 Old Princes Hwy, Beaconsfield

Best Site Ever

Outline indicative only

Huge highway profile – Land 4,578m2 Approx 2 Street frontages totalling 79.25m Rezoning opportunity (STCA) Part of Cardinia Council’s Beaconsfield Structure Plan Opposite school, close to shops Possible uses include: medical, childcare, showroom, petrol & residential (STCA)

9559 3888 nicholscrowder.com.au

Julian Vautin 0420 406 660 James Glen 0401 493 277 Matt Nichols 0418 186 488 358 South Road, Moorabbin VIC 3189

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It’s an exciting time for one of Australia’s most innovative home and property groups, the Burbank Group of companies.

It has joined forces with Urbanedge and Eight Homes to bring an even more diverse offering of homes to their rapidly expanding customer base.

Established more than 30 years ago, the Burbank Group is comprised of awardwinning builder Burbank Homes and a number of subsidiary companies covering the full spectrum of building services including land development, finance, self-storage, property maintenance and repairs, electrical, plumbing, software development and media production.

Urbanedge and Eight Homes are both award winning builders that, over the past 12 years, have established themselves as trusted businesses in the market.

Eight Homes, in just its third year of operation, has become a household name in Melbourne for easy, modern and affordable new homes.

Urbanedge is a leader in architecturally designed homes for the upper-end of the new home market.

“We’re absolutely thrilled to enter into this new partnership with Urbanedge and Eight Homes,” Burbank’s managing director Jarrod Sanfilippo said.

“Until now, Burbank Homes has been the home building company under the Burbank Group umbrella, and it’s very exciting to add two more building companies to the mix.

“At Burbank, we pride ourselves on offering a wide range of housing options and now, by combining the three companies, we will have a product mix that is able to service all segments of the new home market,” Jarrod said.

Urbanedge Homes and Eight Homes director Steve Maher is equally excited

JARROD AND STEVE ARE EXCITED ABOUT THE POSSIBILITIES. about the possibilities.

“In today’s very competitive market, I’m really excited about this strategic move for the group.

“We will have three very clear brand positions in the market, each with distinct competitive advantages which will be clear for customers.”

“I look forward to continuing to do what I love most, which is to develop new, innovative ways to serve our customers and give greater opportunities to the loyal and fantastic staff we have across both businesses. This partnership will be nothing but beneficial to our customers.

“By combining our complementary strengths from each business we will continue to drive innovation in the industry, delivering high quality products with unprecedented customer service,” he said.

As the businesses begin to work together over the coming months, it’s business as usual for customers and industry partners.

As Jarrod said: “This is not a change but rather an addition to the Burbank Group of companies.

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Apply now to be a 2016 Census Area Supervisor!

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The Australia Bureau of Statistics is seeking motivated and community minded project managers to work on the 2016 Census and make a difference in your community.

By JARROD POTTER

• Non-office based positions requiring travel • Casual temporary positions, with flexible working hours.

Area Supervisors are:

As an Area Supervisor, you will: • Recruit, manage and train a small team of temporary Census field staff • Implement and manage the Census delivery and collection processes and procedures • Undertake a range of administrative tasks, including the receipt, handling and storage of a range of Census materials • Earn $34.76 per hour (inclusive of 25% loading).

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This is the first year that City and Thunder will face off in an FFV league-competition after Thunder was relegated to NPL2 East after seven seasons in the top flight.

Thunder has bounced back from its NPL relegation with power-packed roster guided by new coach Huss Skenderovic.

Dandenong City is also ready and raring for a big season after finishing third in last year’s NPL1 East competition (now renamed NPL 2 East).

City coach Aaron Healey has recruited well, snaring the signatures of Halil Gur, Jarrod Blackbourn, Enes Sivic, Chris Potter and Gonzalo Freddi.

The first Dandenong derby will be Saturday 27 February when Dandenong City hosts Dandenong Thunder at Frank Holohan Soccer Complex from 3pm.

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Know your local community Hold a current driver’s licence Be comfortable using computer, tablet and mobile devices Comply with ABS work health and safety policies Hold Australian Citizenship or have the legal right to work in Australia.

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NAMED for City of Greater Dandenong sports super-fan, Dandenong Thunder and Dandenong City are set to battle it out on the soccer pitch for the newly announced Jim Memeti Cup. Paying tribute to councillor Jim Memeti and his great passion for promoting local sporting clubs and causes, the FFV NPL2 East pair thought it fitting to name the trophy after the Red Gum Ward councillor.

Cr Memeti was humbled by the clubs naming the Dandenong derby cup in his honour and said it was something that never crossed his mind. “(The clubs) are happy that I’ve committed so much to help at grass-roots football,” Cr Memeti said.

“I just feel it’s part of my job - I never set out to do things to

have things named after me.”

Thunder and City are part of the region’s overwhelming love for the round-ball game - with more Greater Dandenong clubs registered with Football Federation Victoria than any other municipality in the state.

With the ever-growing love of sport in the area, Cr Memeti wants to see players of all ages feature in Greater Dandenong sports community and get a chance to shine on and off the field.

“I’ve had some opportunity to lay sport when I was young and I believe every kid should have that,” Cr Memeti said.

“If they want to play at the highest level they should have that chance.

“I’m passionate about sport and youth in sport and that’s what it’s all about - to make a difference.“

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By CASEY NEILL A HAIR-RAISING event will return to Dandenong next month.

Colin Gibbons’s World’s Greatest Shave event at the Dandenong Workers Social Club last March attracted 65 people and raised more than $3000 for the Leukaemia Foundation.

He’ll do it all again from 1pm to 3pm on Sunday 13 March and hopes to donate even more cash.

“Hopefully this year we can triple or double the money,” he said.

The Dandenong man lost a lung to cancer 15 years ago and last year gave up his hair to help others who have been affected by the disease.

His daughter Yao, then 17, shaved her hair last year and will return with hair colour in hand to help out.

Dandenong barber Ian Bray will again

donate his services and “the club is 110 per cent behind us”.

“They’ve even asked for T-shirts for the staff to wear on that day,” Mr Gibbons said.

There’ll be a barbecue, a bar staff member will provide music and raffle prizes include scotch, a soft toy white tiger and a guitar.

“We want to make it a family day. Get down there and have some fun,” he said.

More than 31 Australians are diagnosed with leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma every day and an Australian will lose their life to blood cancer every two hours.

The Leukaemia Foundation funds research and free support for blood cancer sufferers and their families.

Dandenong Workers Social Club is at 48 Wedge Street, Dandenong.

Call Mr Gibbons on 0431 153 122 or visit www.worldsgreatestshave.com.au to get involved.

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IN BRIEF Cultural guidance A NEW guide to the diverse Indian culture is tackling community prejudice and conflict.

The Federation of Indian Origin Multi-Faith Organisations (FIMO) launched The Indian Interfaith Guide at Museum India in Dandenong on 7 February.

It covers social norms and practices of various faiths and is designed to help the courts, community organisations, individuals and others to proactively address potential causes of conflict, difference and prejudice.

The Confederation of Indian Australian Association (CIAA) joined FIMO in hosting the launch event which also celebrated Australia Day and Indian Republic Day. FIMO founder and trustee, CIAA chair and Australian Multicultural Council member Vasan Srinivasan was the evening’s MC and said Victoria had a proud multicultural history.

“It is incumbent upon all Victorians to protect this important legacy, built up over many generations,” he said.

“During internationally challenging times, there is an additional duty to understand the people with whom we share this country.”

The State Government’s Office of Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship (OMAC) funded the guide, which FIMO created with community input.

Limited hard copies are available from Museum India and a flipbook version will be online at fimo.org.au.

Awareness age GREATER Dandenong residents can help to shape the future of aged care in their own back yard and beyond.

Uniting AgeWell, which has a site in Noble Park, is establishing the AgeWell Community Advisory Committee (ACAC) with community members from Victoria and Tasmania.

Uniting AgeWell board chairman The Reverend Allan Thompson said it would be one of the first in the aged care sector.

“We want to hear first-hand the concerns, aspirations and ideas of the community,” he said.

“It’s through these insights we will ensure our services continue to support people to age well and have confidence in the quality of care and services they receive.”

The volunteer committee will meet quarterly from July, receive training and be reimbursed for transport expenses to attend meetings.

Call Nickie Arthur on 0437 248 672 or visit unitingagewell.or. Expressions of interest close on 29 February.

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PARAMEDICS treating an elderly man in Dandenong have had medical equipment stolen.

Greater Dandenong CIU detectives said the theft occurred in Curtin Crescent about 3am on Thursday 11 February.

A witness reported seeing a man approach the side of the ambulance, pick up a medical bag and run.

They described the thief as Caucasian, aged in his late teens to early twenties, and about 168 centimetres tall with a slim build and brown hair.

He was wearing a grey hoodie and lightcoloured shorts.

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Fair share of support

By CASEY NEILL SUPPORT is the secret to Beverley and Frank Aarons’s 60-year marriage.

“He looks after me, I suppose, and he’s always there,” Bev said when asked what she liked most about her husband.

Frank’s answer? “’Cause she argues with me all the time,” he said.

“We’re always there for one another.”

The Noble Park couple’s diamond anniversary celebrations in December included a trip to Albury with their daughters and grandchildren to play the pokies.

“We go over there for breakfast and we have lunch, then we have dinner,” Bev said.

“We play the pokies, we meet a lot of people we know, we listen to the bands.

“We have a wonderful time.”

Bev, 80, and Frank, 85, met the same way as many couples of their generation.

“We used to go dancing Sunday night,” Frank said.

“Opposite the Prahran Market they use to have a dance every Sunday night.

“The first night we met, I then didn’t see her for 12 months.

“Then we went to the St Kilda Town Hall dance and we met again.”

Frank was a featherweight boxer at

Frank and Bev Aarons on their wedding day.

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“He was going to take me out on a Friday night. We got on a tram - no car - and we got to town,” she said.

“I thought we were going to the pictures, and we ended up going to Festival Hall.”

Why did he decide boxing would make a good first date?

“Because he’s a very selfish man.

He didn’t give any thought to where

I’d like to go, he just took me where he wanted to go,” Bev said.

She was 15 when they met.

“We got married on the 17 December and I was 21 in the April, so I was a child bride,” she said.

The ceremony was at St Matthew’s Church in Prahran and Bev’s mum hosted the reception.

“We had to have it at home. Nobody had any money in them days to have flash weddings,” Frank said.

“We had 60 or 70 people at her

mum’s place and we had a good time.

“We didn’t go on a honeymoon. We bought a house.”

It cost them £2150.

“Six years ago it went for over $1 million,” he said.

Frank’s boxing career ended following a motorbike crash that nearly killed him.

“I was coming home from her place after training and a drunk come out of St Edgars Road, Prahran,” he said.

“He broke every bone in the left

side of my body.

“I made a comeback 12 months later but got a pain in my stomach.

“It was a duodenal ulcer. My doctor said to me ‘if you fight again you’re going to get killed. If somebody hits you, that’s it’.

“So I gave it away and started training greyhounds.

“I had the heaviest greyhound in Victoria, Jungle Bid. He was like a pony, he was.”

Bev and Frank are number one members at Sandown Greyhounds, and used to live nearby.

“We lived a couple of years up at Upper Ferntree Gully. It was beautiful up there, fresh air,” Frank said.

“It was too quiet for her.”

They’ve lived in Noble Park for the past 10 years.

“I’ve got two lovely daughters and four lovely grandchildren,” Bev said.

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Established in 1919, Dandenong High School is one of the oldest, largest and most culturally diverse Secondary schools in the state. During the past 5 years the school has undergone a period of intense change and redevelopment including a merge of 3 schools, the development of an innovative, collaborative learning model, the creation of a unique house structure and is nearing completion of Stage 3 of a 45 million dollar building project.

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The school has successfully maintained a balance between tradition and innovation and our vision is to create an environment where all students can achieve success. In order to foster a real sense of belonging and connection to the school students are grouped in 7 Houses with 300 students from Years 7 - 12 in each House, a leadership team of 4 and 25 staff. Students learn in groups of 50 with a team of 3 teachers in architecturally designed, and technology rich learning spaces and learning is personalised to meet each students need.

Using a model of Christ centred education within a safe and honouring environment, Maranatha seeks to inspire children to think Christianly about the world, and so use their God given gifts and talents for the benefit of others. We do this by employing talented Christian teachers who are highly qualified and well regarded educators with the ability to build quality relationships with students.

To be a student at Maranatha means to access opportunity through participation in a rigorous, technologically rich and engaging curriculum, an extensive local and international service program and a wide range of co-curricular activities. At Maranatha Christian School children are encouraged, challenged, and supported to become good decision-makers, responsible global citizens and lifelong learners.

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I have been a school principal for more than 30 years. In 1990, I was appointed to the position of principal of a new school to be opened at the start of 1991 – Thomas Mitchell Primary School. This school has grown from 286 students when it started to around 800 students in 2015.

There have been many significant changes at Thomas Mitchell in the past 24 years. Our community has evolved into a highly multicultural, complex and exciting learning environment. While we concentrate on teaching literacy and numeracy, we greatly value the cultures and languages of the 70+ nationalities represented at the school.

Parents and children are encouraged to value their ‘mother tongue’ language and culture at home while learning English at school.

All students learn an Asian language at school – Mandarin or Indonesian, and participate in Asian studies to prepare them for the future. Sports and the Arts – Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Science and History are all part of the complex curriculum now taught at school.

Thomas Mitchell is one of only 20 schools in Victoria to be a fully accredited school with the Council of International Schools.

This accreditation commits the school to continuous, rigorous improvement.

Our parent community is very supportive of our dedicated staff.

Parents are aspirational for their children, but reasonable and eager to help.

My great joy as principal is to speak to the kids each day. To see their smiling, happy faces as they arrive at school. To hear about and share the things that excite them. It makes me come to school each day!

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Cascade of culture DANDENONG Market’s Lunar New Year Festival was a day-long celebration of Asian arts and culture.

Traditional street foods, dance performances and more were on offer on Sunday 14 February.

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Traditional fried squid proved popular.

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By CASEY NEILL KINETIC Elements is turning around its fortunes with world-first rolls.

The Noble Park North manufacturer will use a $1 million Accelerating Commercialisation grant for equipment to make textured titanium rolls for the printing and packaging industries.

Kinetic Elements managing director Alex Engel said the Federal Government Entrepreneurs’ Programme grant would “make us a global player” and “is going to be good for the country, really”.

“We’ve been suffering a lot from cheap Chinese imports, so this new technology will allow us to compete with that,” he said.

“But more than that, it will open up OEM (original equipment manufacturer) markets for us.

“They’re much more environmentally friendly they’re fully recyclable, cheaper to produce, they improve the quality.

“It’s really win, win, win all round.”

Mr Engel said the new equipment should be up and running next year and in the long-term would boost its 30-employee workforce.

Laserlife has been in Noble Park North for 10 years and in business since 1968, and con-

ducted the research and development for the rolls.

“But once we got the patents we thought we should commercialise it under a new entity,” Mr Engel said.

“That’s where Kinetic Elements came from.”

Assistant Innovation Minister Wyatt Roy and Bruce Liberal candidate Helen Kroger toured the plant on 12 February.

“Kinetic Elements has used innovation to stay ahead of the curb and develop this worldfirst technology,” Mr Roy said.

“Through this exciting project, there is the potential for 18 new high-skill jobs to be created in the local area.

“Australia is on a strong path to become a world leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.

“Businesses such as Kinetic Elements are at the forefront of this development.”

Ms Kroger said the family business was a great example of innovation and enterprise in the community.

“Forty-eight years ago, the same business made rubber for stamps around the kitchen table,” she said.

“Today they are at the cutting edge of hightech manufacturing.”

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Company fined over underpaying truck drivers UNDERPAYING three truck drivers has cost a Dandenong South transport company more than $40,000.

The Federal Circuit Court penalty followed a Fair Work Ombudsman investigation and included a $34,500 fine against Openica Logistics and a further $7100 against its director Vladimir Taseki.

The workers, aged in their 50s, contacted Fair Work for help after being

underpaid living away from home allowances.

Two were not paid casual loading and one was not paid for all kilometres driven.

The underpayments took place between 2010 and 2012 and totalled $69,175.

The employees were back-paid in full after Fair Work started legal proceedings.

Judge Grant Riethmuller said the underpayments were significant, particularly

in the context of wages for truck drivers.

He said the living away from home allowance had been a feature of the relevant award since 1963.

“The respondents point out that the sleeper cabs in the trucks were assessed

by Work Safe as sufficient for fatigue management, although, clearly, requiring the driver to sleep in a cabin is an imposition beyond normal arrangements one

would expect for an employee, for example a motel room,” he said.

“It is clear that the living away from home allowance is intended to compensate a driver for these conditions.”

Fair Work Ombudsman Natalie James said the court’s decision sent a message that businesses could expect to face tough penalties for serious or repeat contraventions of their workplace obligations.

Plaza’s new chiefs move in DANDENONG Plaza will soon have a new owner.

GPT Group has agreed to sell the shopping centre to Sydney-based Armada Funds Management for $197 million, subject to Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) approval.

Settlement is expected on 29 February.

JLL’s retail investments head Simon Rooney negotiated the transaction and said it would be the fourth largest in the retail sector for 2015 and the second largest individual shopping centre sold for the year.

The centre has about 57,128 square metres of gross lettable area and includes Kmart and Target discount department stores, Coles, Woolworths and Aldi supermarkets, Reading Cinemas, 14 mini major tenancies, 142 specialty tenancies, 23 kiosks and car parking for 3248 vehicles.

GPT’s head of retail Vanessa Orth said replacing Myer and new leases with Target and Woolworth had preceded starting a sale campaign in September.

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WHAT’S ON Sky rail in focus FIND out more about the sky rail project at a Noble Park Community Action Forum-hosted information session.

Representatives from the Level Crossing Removal Authority will talk about the project, which replaces Noble Park’s three level crossings with nine-metre tall elevated rail sections.

■ Paddy O’Donoghue Centre, 18-34 Buckley Street, Noble Park. Wednesday 24 February, 6pm.

Pray for Cuba OFFER prayers to Cubans at collective churches event, the annual World Day of Prayer.

It’s celebrated in more than 170 countries and Cuba will this year be the focus of the world’s thoughts.

A committee involving Noble Park’s Anglican, Catholic and Uniting churches will stage the local event, using a formal service provided

by Cuban women.

■ St Aidan’s Anglican Church, 39 Wallarano Drive, Noble Park. Friday 4 March, 10.30am.

Morning tea provided. Call 0439 356 343 for more information.

Art’s in business ARTISTS can discover the secrets of a sustainable and fulfilling career in the arts through an Arts Business Success seminar.

The City of Greater Dandenong’s Hive Business Network and Drum Theatre will present the practical skills seminar.

■ Drum Theatre, 226 Lonsdale Street, Dandenong. Saturday 19 March, 9am to 5.30pm.

Tickets are $40. Visit www.drumtheatre.com

Dinner with a VIEW DANDENONG Evening VIEW Club will celebrate its 30th birthday next month.

New members are guests are welcome. VIEW stands for Voice, Interests and Education of Women and the group supports the Smith Family’s Learning for Life program.

■ Dandenong RSL, 44-50 Clow Street, Dandenong. Tuesday 1 March, 7pm. Bookings are essential. Call Brigitte on 9795 1222.

Festival of Colours THE AIII returns to celebrate the Festival of Colours for the eight year at Sandown Park.

There’ll be rides, food, stalls, powder colour, cultural dances and live music.

■ Sandown Racecourse, 591-659 Princes Highway, Noble Park. Sunday 20 March, 11.30am to 6pm. Entry is $5 per adult and free for children aged under 12 years. Visit www.aiii.org.au, call 0403 337 142 or email Simar and Harveer at last year's event. 135278 ylakshman@bigpond.com for Picture: GARY SISSONS more information.

Sunset cinema DANDENONG’S Harmony Square will host movie screenings during the warmer months.

■ Harmony Square, 225 Lonsdale Street, Dandenong. For all the sunset cinema screenings visit www.greaterdandenong.com.

Neighbourhood Watch forum THIS Neighbourhood Watch event will include guest speaker Inspector Bruce Kitchen who has more than 35 years’ service with Victoria Police and oversees the Greater Dandenong Police Service Area (PSA).

■ Paddy O’Donoghue Centre, 18-34 Buckley Street, Noble Park. Wednesday 16 March, 7.30pm to 9pm.

Ultimate ABBA Show GOLD is the name of the newest ABBA tribute show to hit Dandenong.

■ Drum Theatre, corner Lonsdale and Walker streets, Dandenong. Saturday 14 May, 8pm. Tickets are priced from $49.90.

Visit www.drumtheatre.com.au or call 8571 1666.

Alex Wilkie Nature Reserve DISCOVER the natural beauty of Alex Wilkie Nature Reserve at open days held every Friday and the third Sunday of the month.

Take a picnic and wander the grounds to view a variety of flora and fauna. Park rangers are available for guided tours.

■ Alex Wilkie Nature Reserve, Mackay Street, Springvale South.

Drum Theatre back stage tour JOIN Drum head technician Stuart McKellar for a free behind the scenes journey into the workings of a modern-day theatre.

Visitors may even meet the ghost.

■ Drum Theatre, corner Lonsdale and Walker streets, Dandenong. Friday 26 February, 12.30pm to 1.30pm. Visit www.drumtheatre. com.au or call 8571 1666.

Family fun at the library PLAYING with Lego, chess, puzzles and games together can improve literacy, numeracy, spatial awareness, socially appropriate behaviour and fair play.

A parent or carer must accompany children to this free activity. Sessions are not held during school or public holidays.

■ Springvale Library, 411 Springvale Road.

Saturdays, 11am to noon. Dandenong Library, 225 Lonsdale Street, Dandenong. Fridays, 4pm to 5pm. Call 1300 630 920.

Nature squared Street snapping LEARN the tips of photography and photo editing from professional photographer Fabrice Bigot through this five-week program.

Attendees are asked to bring a camera and a USB with three photos they have taken around Dandenong. Places are limited and bookings are essential.

■ Dandenong Library, 225 Lonsdale Street, Dandenong. Fridays until 18 March, 6.30pm to 8.30pm. $15 per class for adults or $12 concession. Call 8571 1666 or visit www. greaterdandenong.com.

The Public Narratives of Multiples GARNAR Lane houses seven purpose-built light boxes. The Public Narratives of Multiples highlights artist Marynes Avila’s ongoing research on multiples by examining multiplicity in architecture through digital photography capturing Greater Dandenong.

■ Garnar Lane, behind the Dandenong Civic Centre, 225 Lonsdale Street, Dandenong. On display until Thursday 31 March.

THIS exhibition by Neeni Durston explores the abstractions that can be found in nature.

All works have been created on a square format with the intention of connecting with the shapes and forms found in nature.

■ Langley Gallery, Benga House, Heritage Hill Museum and Historical Gardens, 66 McCrae Street, Dandenong. Until 4 March. Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 4pm and the first Sunday of the month, noon to 4pm.

Dong Sang THE Vietnamese phrase suggests that it is ‘two parts or several parts that are required to make a whole’.

The paintings in this exhibition feature scenes of Vietnam and Australia inspired by Mary Nguyen’s life in Australia and Australian landscape art and her life as a Vietnamese refugee.

■ The Drawing Room, Laurel Lodge, Heritage Hill Museum and Historical Gardens, 66 McCrae Street, Dandenong. Until 4 March. Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 4pm, and the first Sunday of the month, noon to 4pm.

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Excuses fail

By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A DISQUALIFIED driver has been told by a magistrate that he had run out of excuses and last chances when he was jailed for six months.

Aaron Reynolds, 37, who was living at a farm near Pakenham, repeatedly implored magistrate Gerard Bryant not to send him to prison during a hearing at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on 15 February.

“I’ll do anything,” he said.

Mr Bryant said Reynolds had been evading trial for months and provided “fanciful” and “implausible” excuses or reasons.

Earlier that day Reynolds had twice requested adjournments, first to get proof he was driving disqualified in Pakenham because of his pregnant partner’s medical emergency.

He then dispensed with his Victoria Legal Aid advocate and requested an adjournment to find a new lawyer.

When his requests were refused, Reynolds recommissioned the VLA lawyer and pleaded guilty to all charges.

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had been loaned to him by a mechanic, he’d been searching it for lost money and that the weapon and ammunition had been left by a male who had threatened him on two occasions.

Reynolds was also charged with driving with ice in his system on Dandenong Bypass on 8 July.

Four months later he was caught driving while disqualified by police on Princes Highway, Pakenham.

Reynolds told the court on 15 February that he could get a doctor’s letter to prove he had just dropped off his pregnant partner at hospital on that occasion.

Mr Bryant said Reynolds had made no such explanation according to a police summary but told police at the time that he was dropping the car off at his sister’s place.

Reynolds’s six-month suspended jail term for seven previous suspended-driving counts was invoked. He was also sentenced to a three-month concurrent jail term.

Reynolds was granted bail to appeal against his sentence at the County Court.

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person, drug driving and disqualified driving.

On 21 February last year, an observably “substance-affected” Reynolds crashed a Commodore into a median safety rail on South Gippsland Highway near Junction Village, the court was told.

He allegedly tested positive for ice and cannabis, though he claimed in a police interview he had only taken anti-epilepsy medication and Ventolin.

Reynolds told police that he’d slipped and hit his head on the steering wheel, causing the car to veer off the highway.

He later instructed his lawyer that the crash was caused by a blown tyre.

On 28 March he and two men were seen searching through a car in Dandenong, throwing items out on the street.

Police found syringes, empty zip-lock bags and a cigarette packet containing 13 rounds of 0.22-calibre ammunition as well as five more same-sized rounds in the car.

The rounds matched a working pen-pistol with a springrelease trigger which was also found in the vehicle.

A “sweating and nervous” Reynolds told police the car

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The FIM’s official entry list for the 29th edition of the production-based series features riders from 11 countries representing seven manufacturers - Aprilia, Kawasaki, Honda, MV Agusta, BMW Motorrad, Ducati and Yamaha - returning to the championship after a four-year absence with their all new Yamaha YZF-R1.

Ten Australians will compete, the biggest representation at Phillip Island in many years.

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Australia’s Phillip Island circuit. Picture: RUSSELL COLVIN 22-lap battle scheduled for the Sunday at 3pm.

WorldSBK will practise and qualify on Friday and Saturday with Superpole moving up the Saturday agenda to a 12.30pm timeslot, ahead of the 3pm race one.

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ries on track on Sunday to make it a bumper race-day.

Pre-purchase entry to the 2016 Motul FIM Superbike World Championship, Yamaha Finance round, at Phillip Island from 26-28 February will cost $115 for a three-day pass, $80 for a Sunday only pass, while kids 15 and under are free.

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Bloods take premiership

By JARROD POTTER DDCA - TWENTY20 GRAND FINAL DELIGHT and disaster - these were the contrasting fortunes in Springvale South’s Twenty20 premiership win over Buckley Ridges.

While the Bloods had a phenomenal outing - riding the luck and rattling over the Ridges cheaply after sending the hosts in - there was nothing that went right for D.J. Watson’s men.

It started with a lost toss, as Springvale South sent Buckley Ridges in on a greenish deck, and only got worse as skipper Watson (0) immediately fell.

Imports Sunsantha Pradeep (20) and Kunal Kapoor (15) made a quick fightback - as Pradeep put a couple of slapped sixes over the rope - but, alongside marquee Jaime Brohier (7), none of the top order particularly fired.

Wickets fell in clumps and worse still for the hosts, Buckley Ridges could not cash in off the part-timers.

Bloods’ skipper Brett Forsyth (1/11) - Springvale South’s marquee player - and Brayden Sharp (1/17) were miserly through the middle overs, holding Buckley Ridges down at the critical juncture.

Suren Ekanayake (18 not out) and Cal O’Hare (12) rotated the strike wherever they could, but couldn’t hit the boundary ball - all the more problematic on the postage stamp that is Park Oval.

A six and a four from Troy Aust (18 not out) set the bar at 121 for Springvale South to hunt down a second Twenty20 title in as many years.

The response was well-weighted from the Bloods as Forsyth (24 not out) anchored the effort and rotated the strike to his more powerful counterparts.

While the Ridges’ ground-fielding was solid, the chances did not fall their way at all.

Michael Vandort (44) rode his luck - avoiding an easy run-out, a stumping and a near-miss catch all in the same

Above: Springvale South celebrated back-to-back Twenty20 premierships with a seven-wicket grand-final win over Buckley Ridges. 150482 Pictures: JARROD POTTER Left: Heavy hitting off Nathan King guided the Springvale South chase. 150482 over - after he got onto the likes of Lukas Hoogenboom (1/21) and Watson (1/21) early.

Vandort’s dismissal only brought out more pain for Buckley Ridges.

Nathan King (46) viciously destroyed the opponents, but once again rode his luck with a couple of near misses on the rope.

O’Hare got finger tips to two fullblooded swats into the boundary, but

couldn’t hold on as it bobbled out of his hands.

King seized the second life to smash the next two balls into the trees to all but end the innings, leaving Forsyth to strike final few runs to clinch the Bloods their first 2015/16 cup.

It started with a good toss to win and Forsyth wanted to cash in with a run-chase and wait for the deck to even out.

“We normally think runs on the board - that’s how we won last year’s T20 grand final, but the wicket had a tinge of green,” Forsyth said.

“Didn’t want to waste a ball by going slow at the start, and we trust in the bowlers and fielders, and to play the cricket we want to our plan.

“I knew if our top seven batted those 15 or so overs out we’d get home and that was the case - it went to script I suppose.”

Young runner is on track for quick success

By RUSSELL BENNETT HOCK Meng Siau has always shown signs of being naturally fast - right from when he began to crawl as a little boy and his knees barely touched the ground.

But it wasn’t until last year that the young Haileybury student truly began to harness his god-given gift for speed.

Remarkably, Meng only started athletics training in June as a 12-year-old and before the end of the year he’d competed at both the state and national championships.

His first competition was in the APS (Associated Public Schools) titles where he came first in all three of his events the 100 metres, 200 metres and the 4x100 metre relay.

He then went on to the School Sport Victoria (SSV) Regional Championship where he won gold in the 100 metres and came fourth in the 200 metres.

His relay team also won gold in the 4x100 metre relay.

From there, it was the State Championships at Albert Park where he won bronze in the 100 metres and silver in the 4x100.

Then, in December at the School Sport Australia (SSA) national championships Meng and his Victorian team mates won bronze in the 4x100 and he

came fifth in the individual 100 metres with a personal best of 12.26 seconds.

Meng had just a five-week block to train for the national championships, and in that time - thanks to Haileybury athletics teacher Mark Reed - a specialist trainer was organised to help him prepare for the event.

“We also engaged a personal trainer for Meng whom we are also very thankful for his help,” said Shui Ling, Meng’s mother.

“Shannon, at Mordy Personal Training, was very quick to come up with a plan to help Meng strengthen his core muscles.

“Although Meng did not get a medal for the championship, he was at that time the fastest under-13 100 metre runner in Victoria.

“For that, we are very proud of him.”

Meng said he now wants to work on his starts off the blocks, so he doesn’t have to make up deficits in his races.

He’s got the natural speed but he needs to work on the technical aspect to take that next step.

From being naturally quick when he crawled as little boy to again showcasing his speed later in his childhood playing tiggy in the playground at lunchtime, it’s clear that Meng’s words aren’t empty.

“I just love to run,” he said.

Hock Meng Siau has the kind of raw, unbridled speed that can’t be taught. Now he’s aiming to refine his sprinting craft. 150488 Picture: RUSSELL BENNETT

It makes for another DDCA flag for the Turf 1 powerhouse and while Forsyth is a Dandenong mainstay, he was thrilled to play his part for the Bloods.

“I’m lucky I came from such a good club as we’ve got so many good players and so many nice people as well,” Forsyth said.

“It’s fantastic to get back and play with them and give a bit back to my club.”

Rangers climb through to win A MOUNTAIN of injuries, plus fitting together as a new look squad, didn’t halt the Dandenong Rangers racing into the WNBL finals.

The Rangers faced SEQ Stars on Sunday afternoon - after the Journal went to print - and the match impacted who the Rangers would face in the semi.

Dandenong could face Townsville, Perth or SEQ Stars in the first final showcasing just how close the league has been this season with the minor premiership up for grabs heading into the last round.

Dandenong has been boosted by the return of rising-star centre Alex Bunton who played limited minutes last week against Townsville.

For the first time this season, it clears the Rangers’ injury list - giving coach Larissa Anderson plenty of options heading into the first final.

The expanded 2015-16 WNBL finals will be fought out with a threematch grand final series starting on 12 March.

For more on Sunday’s match as well as the Rangers’ first finals, click onto to the Dandenong Journal website www. dandenong.starcommunity.com.au.

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Thunder strikes early gold

By JARROD POTTER NPL2 EAST - ROUND 1 DANDENONG Thunder came to play in its NPL2 East season-opener, rocketing to the top of the ladder with a 4-0 thumping of Nunawading City.

Showcasing its star last-minute super-signing, former Socceroo and A-League defender Simon Colosimo, in the first salvo, the Thunder completely shut the door on the visitors with the emphatic all-round performance.

Wasting no time starting its onslaught, the Thunder sizzled early as midfielders Kristian Sarkies and Daniel Bennett brought the forwards plenty of opportunities.

Dandenong had no trouble getting clear at the front but really struggled to hammer home its first-half shots as nearly a dozen would’ve been squandered through the first 45.

Dandenong had it on a string, only to hang them wide or chip simple attempts back at Nunawading City, but at least Dandenong had shots to miss.

The visitors failed to muster anything potent up forward as Colosimo and Faisal Sakhizada clamped down brilliantly.

While it was deadlocked at the break without a score, the two halves were chalk and cheese on the scoreboard as Dandenong roared to life mere minutes into the second stanza.

It started through Amir Osmancevic (49’ and 55’) dancing around the defence as the Thunder striker thumped home the first goal of the New Year.

Dandenong Thunder’s star recruit Simon Colosimo, left, got to celebrate his first night in Picture: JARROD POTTER the Thunder stripes after a four-goal victory. 150521 Osmancevic would cap off his brace soon after, while Daniel Bennett (61’) put the third away to dial up the visitors’ pain, but the best work was saved for Osmancevic on the fourth goal only seconds later.

Number 11 brought forward counterpart Veton Korcari (62’) another great opportunity as his next beguiling run down the left side badly opened up Nunawading City’s defences.

A sharp assist went through the traffic, finding

Korcari unmanned at the back and able to slot a textbook goal to ice the game.

With the exception of early missed opportunities, the only other thing the new-look Thunder line-up will have to figure out are the words to the club song.

The fresh faces cheered on as the veterans belted out the Thunder anthem in the rooms after the final whistle to the delight of everyone at George Andrews Reserve, especially the coach.

Last lunge for local finals

Panthers take their hardest knock

By JARROD POTTER VICTORIAN PREMIER CRICKET ROUND 16 (Day 2) SEASON’S end came a round early for Dandenong (191) following a demoralising thrashing at the hands of ladder leaders Fitzroy-Doncaster (6/382).

As hard as it was to be pasted on the field, the tough times continued in the change rooms as the group took a long, hard look at itself and its approach heading into the last clash of the year.

It started well enough for Dandenong as it steadily chipped away at the visitors’ top order - making inroads bit by bit as the top four departed after 131 runs.

But the Panthers couldn’t find the finisher; one more wicket to expose the tail earlier than expected for the visitors.

Needing one or two more strikes in the middle order to really through a cat among the pigeons, Dandenong instead was left to the devices of Lions’ middle order batsman Nat

Vardi (171no).

Taking on the opposition from ball one, Vardi had a field day as he shifted the tide back in the Lions’ favour in tandem with Liam Banthorpe (38).

The duo added 152 for the fifth wicket to take the points and then get some important time at the crease before finals.

Vardi went to tea having reached his maiden Victorian Premier Cricket century and continued the onslaught afterwards, smashing his way past 150 to really sink the boot in as he swatted the attack around with Trent Lawford (32).

Fitzroy-Doncaster batted on after 5pm, leaving more than a few people stunned at the ground, but soon came to their senses after one over from wicketkeeper David Alleyne (0/5). With frayed nerves all around Shepley Oval, the sides agreed to shake hands and leave it at a 191run deficit.

Dandenong’s finale is away to Greenvale to cap off 2015/16.

“We’ve got a lot of spirit there and a great combination of both experience and youth, but we’re one unit and it’s worked well,” Thunder coach Huss Skenderovic said.

“In the second half we came out ... worked on what was required and did the business.”

Having put pen to paper just before the transfer deadline, Colosimo was impressed by what he saw on field as the side flourished up forward.

“I thought it was excellent - you talked about the first half, second half ... all that went missing in the first half was putting them in the back of the net,” Colosimo said.

“I think we made more chances in the first than we did in the second, but I think the boys created anywhere between 15 and 20 good, solid chances and in a 90 minute game of football that’s what you want.”

The Thunder also presented a cheque for $3000 to the Cancer Council, raised at the preseason Qamil Rexhepi Cup named in tribute of the beloved Thunder administrator and supporter.

In other results, Dandenong City drew with Murray United 1-1 and Springvale White Eagles went down to Goulburn Valley Suns 2-3.

In the highly anticipated inaugural Dandenong derby, Thunder will battle City away on Saturday afternoon for a chance to win the Jim Memeti Cup.

Fitzroy-Doncaster’s Nat Vardi jumps for joy against Dandenong after reaching his maiden ton. 150520 Picture: JARROD POTTER

DDCA - ROUND 10 (Day 2) THE race to the DDCA finals finishing-line is still going as Heinz Southern Districts and Mordialloc are set to fight for the last spot.

Taking maximum points, Buckley Ridges (2/169dec and 2/138) tore through North Dandenong (131 and 172). Buckley’s fourth-innings run chase was on. The side needed to slap about 140 in the dying overs after a well measured response from the Northerners on day two set the scene. Jayson Hobbs (54) and Troy Aust (48) went ballistic to get the side all 10 points.

Lyndale (69 and 86) suffered at the hands of Hallam Kolora Park (153), continuing the tough trot towards Turf 2 with another outright defeat. Ben Montgomery (30no) was gallant in the second innings, holding out despite the Hawks’ best efforts. With Mordialloc and Heinz winning though, and only one-dayer left in the season though, the Hawks and Ridges respectively have bowed out of the finals hunt.

Springvale South (212) did its best to halt Heinz Southern Districts (7/256), but fell short in the end after Michael Davies (5/66) went on the warpath. Davies picked up his third five-for of the season to leave

Berwick (7/212dec) left scant regard for Parkfield (148 and 0/58) as the visitors hunted down the par target comfortably. Berwick’s middle order stood tall as usual with Ryan Crawford (49no) leading the way, while Jarrod Goodes (37), Josh Holden (36) and Nathan Pilon (23) all contributed down the order.

Dandenong West (184) did its best to hunt down Narre Warren (9/240dec), but in the end the Magpies flew too high for the Bulls to smash apart. Sam Bracey (71) continued his stellar season with another half-ton, but in the end the Bulls couldn’t generate a match-winning stand as Chris Edwards (4/33), among others, ran riot.

In VSDCA results, Noble Park (9/230) has the faintest pulse in the finals race after its victory over ladder-leading Mount Waverley (156).

The Bulls ran riot on day two, knocking over the top dogs with Andrew Berman (5/41) in particular impressing.

Noble Park will need to take an outright victory to eke its way into finals as it remains in a four-way deadlock with Kew, Preston and Coburg fighting for the final spot, currently held by Balwyn.

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New Stingrays show form PUSHING an extended squad through the wringer, Dandenong Stingrays started refining the list across three TAC Cup practice matches against Sandringham on Sunday.

The aim wasn’t to win, or to even get a great sense of game-style of the new-look squad.

It was about the players making an impression and holding their own at the next level.

Throughout the Under-16, Under-17 and senior matches some shone and others receded into the background as the Stingrays began the hard process of trimming their 80-strong list.

“We just put kids in positions we want to see them playing. We don’t care if we have five or six key forwards or bad match-ups, we just wanted to give the young boys a chance,” Stingrays coach Craig Black said.

“I think we’ve got some good depth, but you always look at the players that you’re missing you look at last year and think ‘we don’t have a Kieran Collins or a Jacob Weitering’, and we had the same thing two years ago with no Kyle Gray or Mitch White.”

Roaming defensively in the senior clash, the coach was pleased to not only see Reece Piper (Berwick) out on the footy field - considering the spinal injury he suffered in his TAC Cup debut last year - but also having a great impact on the last line of defence.

Piper played the link-up defender role to a tee and took some of the kicking-in duties to add another string to the midfielder’s bow.

Others to impress were key position players Tom Murphy, Mason de Wit and Jack Doman, while draft prospect Liam McKay was exceptional through the midfield from limited time-onground.

“Liam just showed the advantages of playing games as a 17-year-old in his second pre-season,” Black said.

Dandenong’s TAC Cup season opener is its traditional clash against Gippsland, on 26 March at Morwell.

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Personal touch to foster new footy stars A NEW football development academy based out of Berwick is set to become an absolute game-changer in the south-east.

Spearheaded by two of the best known figures in local football Aussie Jones and Travis Marsham the South East Elite Pathways Academy (SEEPA) will offer an elite development program for the 2016 season onwards and is open to every age bracket from the under-10s through to the under-17s.

It specifically focuses on the development of local talent and takes a personal approach through its coaching with an aim to improving the quality of the sport in the region.

Former St Kilda gun Aussie Jones is heading up the academy.

After playing more than 220 AFL

games, Jones has since gone on to hold a number of key roles in senior local, and elite junior footy.

His great mate Marsham, who most recently took Cora Lynn to the 2014 and 2015 senior premierships in the Ellinbank and District Football League (EDFL), also forms part of a massive coaching panel that includes the likes of former Richmond skipper Chris Newman, Collingwood legend Peter Daicos, former St Kilda big man Justin Koschitzke, AFL great Stan Alves, Frankston VFL coach Patrick Hill, former West Coast and Collingwood player Andrew Williams, and local footy icons Jock Holland, Ricky Clark, Brett Evans and Steven Kidd.

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Travis Marsham and Aussie Jones. 150287 - even the 15 and 16-year-olds who might’ve missed out on their schoolboy squads,” Jones said.

“If you’re the Stingrays and you have 10 kids who miss out in the 15s, but they come through an elite program like this and go back a better player, all it means is that their under-16 squad is going to be deeper and stronger.”

In addition to programs tailored

to their own football needs, players involved will also get nutritional information, career guidance and social media education. Local coaches will also be mentored.

“I reckon our footy that we produce in this area is so underrated massively so,” Jones said.

“We want to make sure the development of the kids is going to make it as strong as it should be in three, five, or 10 years’ time."

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MOTORING Stylish roadster classic

By EWAN KENNEDY FOR the first time in Australia the brilliant little Mazda MX-5 is offered with two different engines.

That’s chiefly to permit the importer to have a price leader (at $31,990) to tackle the Subaru BRZ and Toyota 86.

However, some drivers relish using their driving skills to get the best from small engines so the 1.5 has been selling well.

A few weeks back we tested an MX-5 with the 1.5-litre four-cylinder engine that produces a relatively modest 96 kW and 150 Nm. Now we have just spent a very enjoyable week in the 2.0-litre MX-5.

It has a pretty respectable 118 kW of power and 200 Nm of torque. Our test car was a Roadster GT 2.0 with a sixspeed manual gearbox.

The 2.0-litre has a starting price of $34,490 and comes with 17-inch alloys, Mazda’s MZD Connect system and LED daylight running lamps as standard.

While the second and third generations (1997 and 2005) were evolutions of the original 1989 NA series, the genfour designers have given us a modern shape based on the ‘Kodo’ design as seen in the rest of the Mazda range.

To our eyes the rear is rather generic, following the current global theme of round units tapering outwards into slim horizontal areas.

Brilliant Mazda MX-5 roadster has neat new look.

The MX-5 comes as a Roadster and an upmarket Roadster GT. The GT stands out visually in that the body colour continues over onto the tops of the doors into the cabin. It has black door-mirror housings. Automatic lights and wipers, climate control on the air conditioning, and keyless entry and start are standard in the GT. A 7.0-inch touchscreen with satellite navigation, internet radio, Mazda’s MZD Connect infotainment system has a 7.0-inch touchscreen and is operated by a Commander Control be-

tween the seats.

The 2.0-litre four-cylinder engine used in the MX-5 we reviewed has 118 kW of power and 200 Nm of torque.

Six-speed manual and six-speed automatic transmissions are offered.

Paddles behind the wheel of the auto do provide sort-of manual driving, but it’s not the same thing. Give us the manual any day.

The MX-5 received five stars for passive safety, but only a four-star rating in safety assist. A spokesperson for Mazda

Australia points out that “there has never been a sports car that has received a five star rating in the past”.

Again in the interests of chassis balance the seats are lower than before.

Getting in and out will be a challenge if your body has a few extra years on the clock, or your belly has gained some extra inches. Try before you buy…

Once settled into the low seats you will find they provide good support without being overly aggressive in their side bolsters.

Having 33 per cent more displacement than the 1.5 engine instantly endeared us to the MX-5 2.0. And ‘instantly’ is the right word to describe this sports powerplant - because the moment you hit the pedal on the right you get instant action.

Sure, turbocharged hot hatches produce even more oomph than a naturally aspirated unit like the Mazda but not un-

til the irritating lag has finally let you get the power you demanded seemingly an age back.

Even better, the little Mazda roadster sounds great as there’s no turbo to muffle the exhaust note.

A little more volume would be appreciated, but there are tough regulations about this sort of thing.

Keep the engine in the 4000 to 6000 range - it’s happy to get up to 7000 - on your favourite stretch of winding mountain road and your smile will grow by the minute.

The six-speed manual gearshift has short throws, is ultra smooth and is perhaps even better than in previous MX5s. Brilliant.

Operation of the soft-top roof is ultra simple. Undo a single catch in the centre of the windscreen header, fold the roof back and it clips down into the open position.

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