40 years ago
November 27, 1974
Health authorities have appealed to all Sunshine residents to be vaccinated against polio.
Fears of polio spreading in the district follow the case of a 25-year-old North Sunshine mother who has been admitted to hospital suffering from the disease.
The woman, mother of three small children, has been admitted to Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital. It’s the first case of polio in the district for 15 years.
30 years ago
November 28, 1984
About $30,000 damage was caused to the St Albans Community Youth Club in a fire which raged in the early hours of last Saturday. St Albans CIB detectives are still investigating the cause of the blaze at the club in Main Road East, St Albans. The fire was spotted by police on patrol at 2.30am on Saturday.
Sixteen firemen from Footscray, Deer Park and St Albans fought the blaze.
25 years ago
November 29, 1989
Sunshine and District Community Hospital will soon close after 50 years service to the western suburbs, because of a lack of money. Originally, the hospital was to have been merged with the Western General Hospital’s Sunshine campus, but the idea was shelved because of the reported cost of $18 million. Now the 53-bed hospital is to be closed with the resultant loss of between 80 and 100 jobs.
10 years ago
November 30, 1994
The theft of a tin of charity money from the counter of a St Albans fish and chip show has appalled locals.
Two months of donations for handicapped St Albans man Lloyd Simpson, 48, were taken from Radia Serifovska’s West Side Fish and Chip Shop, in Main Road West, some time after 3pm on Saturday, November 21.
The money was destined for a desperately needed new wheelchair for Mr Simpson.
