(MILEAGE): is a group of residents and agencies in West Heidelberg who are working together to raise awareness about mental illness.The group has come together based upon their experiences with mental illness and the need to reduce stigma and provide awareness in the West Heidelberg community.This group meets regularly to work on projects that raise […]
Local Chinese Talk About Health
Older Chinese adults, people from The People’s Republic of China with little English, and those people with lower education attainment, have particular problems in using the health system. My concerns are that these people do not have the proficiency to communicate with the doctors in GP clinics and hospitals about their illnesses, unless doctors speak […]
Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival (Duan Wu Festival) is a significant event in the Chinese calendar. Many Chinese people throughout the world celebrate the Festival with dragon boat racing and eating of rice dumplings. It commemorates the death of Qu Yuan, a Chinese poet and Minister in the state of Chu, who drowned himself in protest […]
Chinese New Year Festival
People, who identify with Chinese ancestry, celebrate Chinese New Year from the New Year Eve to the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar in Australia, China, South East Asia countries and all over the world. The Whittlesea Chinese Association (WCA) and local residents celebrated Chinese New Year, Year of the Ox, […]
Beauty Sleep
By Arthur B.W. Yong and Rachel Alcock When we talk about sleep, we feel tired and go to bed. On average, most people sleep seven or eight hours a day. Out of curiosity, Arthur spoke with many of his friends about how many hours do they sleep a day? The answers varied from three to […]
Whittlesea Multicultural Community Council
by Arthur B.W. Yong JP Since 1998, a number of individual residents from Whittlesea’s culturally and linguistically (CALD) communities have been working with the local service providers, local, state and federal government members and council staff to establish a Whittlesea Multicultural Community Council (WMCC). WMCC is a proposed peak body, which seeks to represent the […]
Cooking is fun and entertaining
By Arthur B.W. Yong JP, Dr. Keong Choong, Peter Green Food is an important part of our life. You wonder why people cook. People cook because they have to eat and do not have to starve. Housewives cook meals for their families. Some people cook as an occupation. Arthur Yong recalled that growing up in […]
Rosanna Golf Links Primary School Once a Farm, Now a School
When I drive past Rosanna Golf Links Primary School it brings back childhood memories. The site was part of a 17 acre (6.8 hectares) property owned by my parents, Bonnie and Harry Banfield. My little white pony grazed over the area, and later when I was older and had outgrown Silver, my horse Percy did […]
Panton Hill Primary School Honour Board
Information for the following article from local historian Danielle Clode with permission. In 2008 the World War 1 Honour Board located at Panton Hill Primary School was refurbished. (From grant funding received under the Restoring Community War Memorials Grants Program 2006-7). Part of this project was a research project into the names on the board. Some […]
Morang South Primary School No. 1975
“The Morang South Primary School opened on 1 November 1877 under head teacher Thomas Doyle. The neat bluestone building, with attached four-room residence, had been erected by Richard Davies at a cost of 796 pounds 18s.6d. It stood on four acres formerly reserved for a cemetery. Although the school was designed to accommodate fifty pupils […]