Features
-
Melton & Moorabool Community Calendar 4-10-2016
Melton & Moorabool Community Calendar 4-10-2016 The classics in Melton The annual Melton car-swap meet and classic car display will run from 8am-1pm on…
-
My Moorabool: Kevin Healey
Kevin Healey longed for a sense of belonging when he lived in the ‘burbs. He tells Sumeyya Ilanbey his love for feeling part of the…
-
Melton & Moorabool Community Calendar – September 27, 2016
Melton & Moorabool Community Calendar – September 27, 2016 Get to the trots for a good cause Enjoy an evening of harness racing while…
-
Melton resident Carolyn MacGavin shares her love of music
Carolyn MacGavin, 69, has been on the airwaves for the past three decades, sharing her love of music and quirky facts about famous musicians. She…
-
Community Calendar – September 20, 2016
COMMUNITY CALENDAR Secure your number plates Get your child’s car seat fitted and checked, and have anti-theft screws attached to your number plates: from…
-
Community Calendar – September 13, 2016
COMMUNITY CALENDAR A passion for potions Learn the art of potion making, how to conjure up slime, magically inflate a balloon and create dragon’s…
-
Bacchus Marsh’s Geoff Threlfall on never looking back
Bacchus Marsh Great War centenary committee secretary Geoff Threlfall made a tree change from Melbourne’s northern suburbs 17 years ago and, as he tells Laura Michell,…
-
Community Calendar – September 6, 2016
COMMUNITY CALENDAR Subcontinental cooking Come along to learn and taste delicious Pakistani and Indian cuisine at a cooking demonstration session on Wednesday, September 7,…
-
Citywide search works for Ric Brown
For the past 28 years, Ric Brown has been behind the wheel of a truck … but he was always looking for ways out. About…
-
A lead role out of Africa for Deruka Dekuek
After Deruka Dekuek fled South Sudan, she vowed to help improve the lives of other African young people. “I didn’t want to see them in…
-
My Melton: Val Fisher and Tania Verocci-Penberthy
Val Fisher and Tania Verocchi-Penberthy are part of the newly formed Melton Singers Group. They tell Sumeyya Ilanbey about the mental health benefits of singing.…
-
What’s on Melton and Moorabool
Nail it Melton South Community Centre is offering classes in first aid (Saturday, September 3) and acrylic nails (Tuesday, September 6, and Saturday, September 10)…
-
Joan Mitchell long life recognised
Life hasn’t always been a smooth sail for Joan Mitchell, who celebrated her 100th birthday on Monday. The Melton woman was born at an orphanage…
-
Mazi McBurnie on writing nine books in less than nine months
Mazi McBurnie, 71, has written nine books in less than nine months. She tells Sumeyya Ilanbey she fell in love with Bacchus Marsh after moving from…
-
Community Calendar – August 16, 2016
COMMUNITY CALENDAR Barn for bookworms Select from a wide range of pre-loved books in the historic Old Forge, near the Blacksmiths’ Cottage Museum, 100…
















