THE inaugural Carol Friday Scholarship for Excellence has been awarded to maternal and child health nurse Michelle Richardson.
The scholarship was established in the name of Carol Friday, the dedicated Victorian MCH nurse who passed away, alongside her son Grieg, aboard Germanwings flight 4U 9525. Carol was a MCH nurse in Casey at the time of her death.
Carol’s husband David Friday and daughter Alex presented Ms Richardson with the award last week.
She has worked as a nurse and a midwife across rural and remote areas, including in Aboriginal communities and in Papua New Guinea.
The scholarship will allow Ms Richardson to complete a master’s degree at La Trobe University.
WAS a Casey councillor striving for local music cred or did they just make a faux pas?
For some reason the councillor kept referring to the CBD as the “CDB” during a recent council meeting.
Star News is reliably told the CDB was a popular band hailing from the Dandenong region.
So kudos for the hip music plug, councillor – whether advertent or not.
SEEMS like some councillors are shying away from splurging on artworks for the under-construction Bunjil Place regional art gallery.
Debate raged on the council’s art acquisition policy with some councillors dead against paying for artworks to display in the $126 million cultural precinct.
Under the policy, the gallery can be filled by travelling exhibitions, loaned works from large galleries and private collections and a trust fund built at least in part by benefactors.
Any artworks purchases have to be approved by councillors. Sure to inspire debate as colourful as a Jackson Pollock.
NOT a great faith in media from reps of both sides of the mosque debate at a council meeting on 26 April.
Star’s reporter was continually quizzed on his identity by the public outside the civic centre.
Upon revealing his credentials, he was greeted with reactions ranging from disgust to a friendly pat in the shoulder.
On top of that, The Age copped a big spray from mayor Sam Aziz for its reportage of the mosque proponent’s claim that the council caved into xenophobic elements on the issue.
