Auto team bowls in
ALL Makes Automotive proved once again to be the best community bowlers in Ocean Grove by taking out the Ocean Grove Bowling Club’s Community...
Support grows to shake the blues
By LUKE VOOGT
VAN Loons will offer some garden “re-leaf” next month with a weekend supporting depression charity Beyond Blue.
It’s the second time the nursery...
Cafe digs deep for the kids
LOCAL mums and tots got behind the Royal Children’s Hospital at Hello Birdie on 23 March, raising much-needed money for its Good Friday appeal.
Nikki...
Residents help resolve Big Issue
By LUKE VOOGT
THE Big Issue seller Peter Hodge returned to The Terrace this month, thanks to a campaign by Ocean Grove residents.
Pete said locals...
Common sandpiper makes its way
By JEN CARR
THERE'S been so much happening over the past few weeks, I can hardly keep up with it all.
At least there has been...
Silver-tongued poets
By LUKE VOOGT
LOCAL wordsmiths rejoiced as the Ocean Grove Poetry Appreciation Group celebrated its 25th birthday at the Uniting Church on 18 March.
In a...
Ramsay visits Grove
LOCAL state politician Simon Ramsay stopped by Ocean Grove on 15 March to promote the Liberal Party’s “Costwatch” campaign.
The Member for Western Victoria...
New ward for Bellarine
THE Bellarine could have its own ward by October, after the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) released recommendations for a council restructure.
The final report, released...
Havoc blows in
By LUKE VOOGT
STRONG winds wrought havoc in Ocean Grove and the Bellarine on 18 March, felling several trees and causing traffic hazards on major...
Rainbow of cash
BY LUKE VOOGT
OCEAN Grove’s Eliza Ansell added a rainbow of colour to her hair this month, raising $1,522 for leukaemia research so far in...
Residents wake to blaze
By LUKE VOOGT
RESIDENTS of a Sunset Strip house woke in shock at about 1am, 17 March, to find their car ablaze in their carport.
Smoke...
Ian on a time-surfin’ safari
By LUKE VOOGT
IAN Duckworth’s "Ocean Grove Surfing the Sixties", is a journey in time to when Kombis cruised the coastline and Mals dominated the...