Opinion

By VICKI HARRINGTON About 2200 people gathered at Strathdale Park on Mother’s Day to help raise funds for breast cancer research. The event was part of the Women in Super Mother’s Day Classic, a national event held across 74 locations around Australia. The amount of money rais..

Organisers are thrilled with the turnout for yesterday's 2013 Bendigo Mother's Day Classic. A record 2,000 people took part, many of them dressed in their best pink outfits. Committee member and major sponsor, Fernwood franchisee, Ben Cook said, "It is pleasing to see so many people tak..

By Vicki Harrington Fun runs and walks are renowned for raising incredible amounts of funds for various charities, but the benefits can reach much further. At the beginning of this year, Courtney Jones made a conscious decision to change her life. “I set a goal in January to do anything ..

By VICKI HARRINGTON Most of us have enjoyed our mother’s love directly but do we ever know how far-reaching that love can be? Norma and Ivan Barrett are retirees living a gentle, self-suffucient life on their little farm at Majorca, near Maryborough. They raised four daughters who hav..

Imagine an Australia with zero deaths from breast cancer by 2030. Sounds remarkable and perhaps hard to realise, but this is the main aim of the National Breast Cancer Foundation. The NBCF is the leading community-funded organisation in Australia raising money for research into the prev..

By VICKI HARRINGTON Every week a new headline appears attacking the increasing size and inactivity of many of our school-aged children. It is encouraging to find someone has taken the next step and done something about it. The Bluearth Foundation was founded by Australian businessman ..

By VICKI HARRINGTON Breast cancer is not discriminatory and not just an issue for older women. Kathryn Wright is proof breast cancer can occur at any age and vigilance does pay off. A week before Christmas last year, Kathryn and husband Michael were about to depart on a dream holiday to J..

It’s time to register for the fifth Bendigo Mother’s Day Classic to be held on Sunday, May 12 at Strathdale Park, Reservoir Road, Strathdale. Online registrations are already open at www.mothersdayclassic.com.au – choose the Bendigo event from the regional drop-down list. ..

AN auction to raise funds for an injured man has raised $300,000. The fantastic sum was raised with the help of Tweed Sutherland First National property manager Tamara Cox whose friend had an accident. Last October Bendigo resident Nick Woods fell while mountain biking with his fiance Bec McClea..

Cutting the edge of a dragon is a tricky business. “We’ve spent many hours of overtime,” manufacturing manager at Kattle Gear Nick Vowles said. “This kind of work is a lot harder than making cattle yards.” Mr Vowles and his workers Clinton Smith and Mark..

By CHRISTINE McGINN Bendigo will go mad celebrating the Madhatter’s Tea Party at this year’s 42nd annual celebration of the Eaglehawk Dahlia and Arts Festival. The community is encouraged to join in the festival fun between March 13 and 24 with activites for young and old inspired..

GREATER Bendigo council needs your help to name the new Red Dragon that will soon roar into Hargreaves Mall. Last year, children across the municipality voted to install the Red Dragon Play Space in the mall and now the giant dragon needs a name. The Name the Dragon competition opened this week ..

Seven years ago Bendigo business owner Lisa Smith was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in both ovaries. “I am one of the fortunate one in three to survive this silent deadly killer,” she said. Only by chance though – it was detected early during a pregnancy ultrasound in ..

Bendigo Health has named this year’s Kelly Weire Memorial winner. The award commemorates the achievements of the late Kelly Weire, who died in a plane crash in Papua New Guinea in August, 2009. Kelly was an occupational therapist who embraced every opportunity with passion and de..

ONE of the biggest race days on the Bendigo calendar will be held tomorrow and, as usual, it will be a popular family affair. The Marong Cup will be held at the Bendigo Jockey Club, with gates opening at 11am. The Marong Cup is not just about the horses, with a spectacular family day also the hi..

Next month sees the start of a series of concerts at the Sacred Heart Cathedral. The memorial concerts are in honour of Father Ivan Page who died last year. Father Ivan had a great love of the arts, history and music, and concerts in his honour are an considered an excellent way to remembe..

Floss Ah Dore’s long life has much of Bendigo’s history as its backdrop. Born in Maiden Gully on January 29, 1913, Mrs Ah Dore will turn 100 this week, witness to a century of extraordinary change. Educated at California Gully State School and a member of that suburb’s ..

WORK began this week on the rebuilding of the Anglican church in Kangaroo Flat, destroyed in an arson attack in December 2008. Bishop Andrew Curnow was on hand to turn the sod as the building started, with the new $1.8 million St Mary’s church expected to be completed by the middle of th..

A playground at the Bendigo Aquatic Centre has been decommissioned for safety reasons and will be removed. Community Wellbeing director Pauline Gordon said safety issues were reported to the council this week. “Fortunately no one was injured, but it will cost several thousand dollar..

The shortage of one-bedroom accommodation in Bendigo is most likely to impact on older people, according to a housing support service. “We are encouraging people who live in housing where they are not guaranteed affordable rent to plan ahead for retirement,” manager of Housing fo..