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Digging in for the community By Shamsiya Hussainpoor
Jacqui Townsend looks after the Dig In Grocery in Emerald.
Picture: SHAMSIYA HUSSAINPOOR
The support from the Emerald community for the Dig In Community Grocery continues to grow as more locals discover just what it has to offer. Emerald resident Jacqui Townsend has been the bright face greeting customers at the not-forprofit shop run by Emerald Community House (ECH) and the existence of the store has been immensely rewarding for her and the community. “I love my job, because I’ve met so many great people, everyone is really appreciative - it’s just a really good and nurturing relationship between customers and the shop,” she said. Stocking local produce every week straight from the farm or the ECH gardens, there is also a free food section and bread donations from a local bakery and the local Woolworths. Turn to page 10 for more
Five armed teens, one 14, arrested and remanded after car chase
Crime spree ends of dollars worth of cigarettes, as well as cash, when they hit six locations from Glen Waverley to Montrose. Travelling in what was said to be a stolen BMW, the teens fled the final location in Boronia where police chased the car through inner suburbia and the CBD before police carefully rammed the vehicle to prevent any harm to
pedestrians and other drivers. The five teenage offenders were taken into custody and were remanded to appear before the children’s court at a later date. Detective Inspector Rod Neylan said it was a “successful outcome” to something that could have been “a lot worse”. The type of offending seen in this incident
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A group of teenage boys had their eastern suburbs crime spree disrupted after a police chase through Melbourne’s CBD. The five teens, aged 14 to 17-years-old, were first spotted after an attempted armed robbery in Belgrave South,a which triggered a range of offending across the outer east. Police will allege the teens stole thousands
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