WHEN artist Ariella Anderson and her family returned to Bundaberg in 1999 after a stint living in Israel, one local high school caught their eye.
“We saw Shalom and thought, ‘Oh great, a Jewish college’, only to find it was a Catholic college,” Mrs Anderson laughed.
The name originated back when members of the Diocese were learning Hebrew.
The three Anderson children, which Mrs Anderson believed were among the first non-Catholic families to go through the school, were welcomed.
“It was a nice cross-pollination, for my kids to learn about other religions and for the (other students) to learn about other religions,” she said.
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