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Light through the darkness
IT’S been five years since Black Saturday and memories of Victoria’s blackest day are still strong. In the lead up to that fateful day, we…
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Connection of shared grief
By JESSE GRAHAM COMMUNITY members are being asked to come together to reflect on a tragedy now five years past this Friday as part of…
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Support from the ashes
By KATH GANNAWAY BOTH Yarra Glen and Marysville Men’s Sheds rose out of the ashes of Black Saturday. Men needed somewhere to go, something to…
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Generosity’s the cornerstone
By KATH GANNAWAY WHEN the Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal officially closed in April 2009, more than $379 million had been donated. That built to…
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Days for a graze
By JESSE GRAHAM FOR a gratuitous graze of local produce and a weekend of entertainment and delicacies, there’s just one week left to wait as…
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Cutting lingering stress from trauma
By KATH GANNAWAY A SERIES of workshops to be held in Yarra Glen in March and April aims to help people affected by the 2009…
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Pumped up to fight to end
By JESSE GRAHAM A Narbethong firefighter and inventor has taken experience and stories from the Black Saturday bushfires and turned it into a potentially life-saving…
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Forefront of fire
By KATH GANNAWAY A HEALESVILLE resident working at the forefront of bushfire management has been awarded the prestigious Australian Fire Service Medal in this year’s…
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Trash treasured
By KATH GANNAWAY A WARBURTON family has called for a community conversation around hard rubbish collection in Yarra Ranges after their daughter’s new bike was…
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New to school for prep parade
By JESSE GRAHAM and KATH GANNAWAY CHILDREN across the Yarra Valley walked through primary school gates for the first time as students last week joining…
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Military milestone
By MELISSA MEEHAN SIX months before the start of World War I, 3000 citizen soldiers arrived in Lilydale for combat training. Now 100 years later,…
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Crews keep eye out after fire
By KATH GANNAWAY A FIRE that wiped out a logging coupe and machinery near Powelltown last week had fire crews on site and on stand-by…
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