Forty years ago
December 4 1974
Sunshine City’s health department has been swamped with requests for courses of polio vaccine. Last Wednesday afternoon when
The Advocate hit the streets with the news of Sunshine’s first polio victim in 15 years, residents jammed switchboards at City Hall and extra staff had to be called to cope with queues at the counter.
A year’s supply of consent cards, which have to be signed before vaccine can be given, was used within hours.
Thirty years ago
December 5 1984
Unemployed single mothers with little education are increasingly becoming the poorest and most oppressed citizens of the western suburbs. They are surviving on pensions and emergency relief in the form of food, clothing and furniture handouts.
The hard facts come from charity and government organisations in Altona, Werribee, Footscray and Sunshine and follow on from a survey conducted by the Mission of St James and St John.
Twenty years ago
December 7 1994
These three youngsters are among upwards of 100 who will benefit from this year’s Fairfax Community Newspapers appeal for gifts of toys for western suburbs children.
The children are from families being helped by St Anthony’s Family Service in Footscray. Sister Kathleen McSweeny, of
St Anthony’s, said most of the families being helped barely had enough money to buy food and essentials.
Ten years ago
December 7 2004
Community demands for a third pool in the first phase of the Sunshine Swim and Leisure Centre redevelopment are expected to be debated at tonight’s meeting of the swimming pool focus group.
Preliminary concept plans for the redevelopment by architects Peddle Thorp, released by Brimbank council late last week, propose only two pools. However, they leave open the possibility of a third pool at a later stage.
