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A for effort Covid may have put a halt to the school Book Week parades this year, but that didn’t stop the Spencer family of Bunyip. The Gazette caught up with former journalist and author Lia and her children this week to talk about their favourite reads - and children Louis and Stella got into the spirit of the occasion. SEE PAGES 16-17
Exposure site Pakenham recorded one case of Covid-19, a Knox-based police officer who lives in town. Woolworths Lakeside Square, Cardinia Road and Village Way, Pakenham was listed as a tier two exposure site. A case attended the venue on Tuesday 17 August from 6.20pm-7.15pm. STORY PAGE 2
Captain America keeping little piggies safe in Book Week at Bunyip. 247833
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Rubbish outrage! Residents throughout the Cardinia Shire are “disgusted” and fed up with the large amounts of rubbish that are piling up throughout the area and are calling on the council to take pre-
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ventative measures to curb the problem. If you’ve driven along the Princes Highway towards Nar Nar Goon recently, it would have been hard to miss the mountains of unwanted waste left discarded on the side of the road, with mattresses, office chairs and all sorts of
junk overflowing in a huge heap. But that’s not the only spot illegal dumpers have been targeting lately. Tonimbuk resident Robert Hansen lives in a pristine, leafy part of the shire that backs on to the Bunyip State Park, and he’s been horrified
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