Star Weekly looks back through the pages of our predecessor, The Advocate
40 years ago
April 9, 1975
Within two years, Sunshine will not have a single unmade road. That’s the guarantee given by Cr Howard Brown, who holds Sunshine council’s engineering portfolio. He said not only would there be no unmade roads in Sunshine, but a beautification program would be well under way throughout the municipality. Much of the proposed work in the next two years was possible through government grants and money from the Regional Employment Development Scheme.
30 years ago
April 10, 1985
Sunshine council will pay the travelling costs for the mayoral couple, Cr and Mrs Ian Mill, to attend a peace conference in Japan in August. Stormy scenes developed at last week’s council meeting before this recommendation by the Town Clerk, Graeme Pearson, was adopted on the Labor majority vote. At one stage, Cr Mill produced his World War II medals as proof that he had fought for Australia and helped bring peace to the world.
20 years ago
April 12, 1995
A 27-year-old mother of two from Taylors Lakes is lucky to be alive after a collision with a stolen XD Falcon driven by a 14-year-old boy in Ballarat Road last Tuesday. Mrs Dance Stojanovska was driving home from work at a Footscray footwear firm when the collision happened shortly before 4.45pm. “I was going no more than 45km/h or 50km/h because there was traffic ahead of me,” Mrs Stojanovska said, adding that the XD Falcon then appeared from a street on her right.
10 years ago
April 12, 2005
Victoria’s first sole-purpose remand centre at Ravenhall will be the only prison in the state to have a legal resource centre to help offenders prepare for their trials. The 600-bed maximum security remand centre, next to the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, is due for completion early next year. Construction began in July last year as part of a
$334.5 million corrections long-term management strategy designed to reduce the number of Victorian prisoners.
