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A smashing success By Dongyun Kwon
Opening day of the Coldstream Boxing Club.
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The Coldstream Boxing Club (CBC) had an opening day with a special guest on Thursday 25 April. Many community members have supported the free training facility through donations. “We had a barbecue thanks to The Meat-Inn Place Lilydale Butcher who sponsored sausages and the parents who helped cook the sausages,” coach Hayden ‘H-Bomb’ Wright said. “Every kid got a pair of boxing gloves thanks to the donation from the Bosker Boxing Equipment.” The CBC will have a boxing ring soon thanks to the donation from Robyn and David from Coldstream Cafe Roadhouse. The special guest was Harry Garside who is a bronze medallist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Garside said it’s “exceptional” to have a gym in Coldstream free for kids. “I remember how many lives boxing saved, growing up at the Lilydale Community Youth Club,” he said. “A lot of kids from broken homes in the area came to the boxing gym and that was their safe space.” Turn to page 10 for more
Painful memories By Callum Ludwig
Yarra Glen resident and clinical psychologist Dr Rob Gordon OAM has dedicated his life’s work to supporting victims of disaster and said the news of Mr Sokaluk’s release can stir up the feelings from that day for the victims. “They probably put it aside, hopefully for all this time but there are probably very
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An arsonist responsible for contributing to the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires has been released from prison, with a local trauma psychologist advising that local residents affected by the disaster can be ‘taken back’ to the expe-
rience by this news. Brendan Sokaluk was released on parole on Tuesday 30 April, having served 14 years of a 17-year and nine-month sentence on the condition he stays in secure accommodation 80km or more away from his former town of Churchill in the Latrobe Valley.
strong feelings of anger and helplessness about such a thing happening which, presumably for many people, caused a huge change in their life in various ways and it’ll take them back to those really raw, painful feelings,” he said. Continued page 3
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