WELCOME to the first instalment of a new weekly column in the News called It’s None of Our Business But…..
NOOBB is a little bit cheeky, a little bit irreverent, and aims to bring to light the funny, the quirky and the slightly ridiculous.
Readers are welcome to contribute photographers or snippets of news, the funnier the better. Email dailyeditor@starnewsgroup.com.au.
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MANY happy returns were the order of the day at the Casey Cardinia Business Awards on 22 October.
The owners of last year’s Business of the Year, Highview Accounting Services, had welcomed a baby that day.
City of Casey Mayor Mick Morland led the gala dinner guests in a rendition of Happy Birthday for host Jean Kittson, on the eve of her 60th birthday.
And in his opening speech, Cr Morland asked the crowd to wish his wife Kay a happy birthday for that day.
“This is the last time you’re going to see me because my wife informed me that she’s going to kill me when I get home,” Cr Morland said when he returned to the stage.
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WHEN a Star News journalist from Warrandyte, a mere 40 kilometres away from the City of Casey, runs into a fellow school student from ‘Wazza High’ in of all places – a Narre Warren kindergarten – it’s all eyes bulging – “Fancy seeing you here!”
An unexpected meeting, but it goes to show urban sprawl is upon us and more and more eastern suburbs kids are moving out south!
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THE editors of the Age seem to have let one slip through the keeper this week.
Readers were intrigued when an opinion piece for the national newspaper discussing the national anthem opt-out controversy reported the school in question, Cranbourne Carlisle Primary, was located in Broadmeadows.
We would have thought that the school’s suburb location is pretty self-explanatory.
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THE Casey mayoral elections turned from serious to hilarious on Monday when a particular councillor was unable to fit a medallion over his head.
Wayne Smith was elected co-deputy mayor along with Mick Morland this week, but the chamber erupted into laughter when new mayor Sam Aziz couldn’t fit Cr Smith’s chain over his head.
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ONE Star News reporter had an interesting experience at a charity dinner last Friday.
While reporting on the ACE Foundation’s inaugural fundraising dinner, the journalist found himself on a table with some intriguing characters, including a career magician and a Jerry Lewis impersonator.
