Join in the search for gold in Warrandyte

IN terms of distance, we’re about 100m from where gold was first discovered in Victoria - Andersons Creek, in Warrandyte.

- Kelvin Eldridge

New CFA station planned for Warrandyte

A NEW, permanently-staffed CFA fire station in Manningham will be built.

- Kelvin Eldridge

Yarra River thriving in Warrandyte

IT’S been a bumper winter and early spring for the Yarra River.

- Kelvin Eldridge

Lower Plenty Hotel birthday celebration

Yesterday we all went to the Lower Plenty hotel for a birthday celebration. The Lower Plenty Hotel is a family favourite and we are pretty confident the food will be good and we'll have a good time.

The youngest in the group tried winning a prize on the claw machine managing to score quite a few lollies in the process. With a little help from a an older cousin they won a lovely green lizard which made their day.

Everyone enjoyed their meals which were generous in size. Mine was a chicken parmigiana with vegetables. Yes I am trying to keep the weight off. I suspect the deep fried crumbed cauliflower which was lovely didn't help though.

The one thing that really impressed me is with the birthday cake. With some restaurants you get the feeling you're going to have an issue. They do after all miss out on getting orders for desert and have extra plates to wash. But the Lower Plenty Hotel made no fuss and helped us make it an enjoyable celebration.

Well done to the friendly team at the Lower Plenty Hotel.

Kelvin Eldridge
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FOR more than 15 years, former Catholic priest Peter Chalk had been living a quiet life in a secluded Japanese village in the shadows of Mount Fuji.

Victorian drycleaner Peter Murphy, who was one of the first to blow the whistle on Chalk when the priest was working in the parishes of Warrandyte and Park Orchards in Melbourne's east in the mid-1970s, said: "That's disgusting, that's just beyond belief."

- Kelvin Eldridge

Parents' campaign for more buses in Manningham

Warrandyte mum Cathy Lucas said her son Ryan also endured a two-hour bus journey each way between Bulleen Heights School and their Warrandyte home as the bus went to Box Hill and Eltham first.

- Kelvin Eldridge

Warrandyte parents' warning on road risks

On the first anniversary of Byron Constable’s death, his parents, Philip and Di, hope their story of pain and grief will help prevent the needless loss of young lives on the roads.

- Kelvin Eldridge