A friendly hand is just the treat
Ocean Grove Bellarine Parkinson’s support group enjoyed a talk from Parkinson’s Victoria clinical nurse consultant Victor McConvey.
Mr McConvey spoke to around 70 people at...
Fighting injustice for 40 years
By Rhonda Matheson-Browne
For 40 years, a visionary group of Ocean Grove locals been a spiritual force behind Oxfam sales, raising $132,000 to fight extreme...
The name on everyone’s lips
Mr Grubb continues to offer great early evening family dining options for locals and a lunch menu that has something for everyone.
The team at...
A last flush of sunshine
There’s been some lovely autumn sunshine over the last few weeks, mainly when I have been working, so I could only look longingly out...
All on board for 40-year celebrations
During the early months of 1977, local surfers Doug Showell, Graham Cox, Errol Aitken and Bob Berg approached Leigh Middleton, proprietor of the Sunshine...
Works to begin on $24 million aged care facility
TLC Healthcare has awarded the contract to build their redevelopment project at Homestead Estate in Wallington to Ireland Brown Constructions and principal consultants Baldasso...
All-round sports performer
Amalee Freestone received an Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) Local Sporting Champion award from Sarah Henderson at a presentation recently.
This was for being selected...
Trivia night carries the fight
Locals Ros Claringbold and Lloyd Smith are taking part in the 2017 ChallengeMD! Goldfields 400km Bike Ride to raise funds for Muscular Dystrophy.
Ocean Grove...
Something good happens when these ‘legends’ gather
By Justin Flynn
A group of close-knit mates has helped raise $825 for Beyondblue in the form of a Baby Boomers reunion, held at Easter.
The...
90 years young
By Justin Flynn
Magda Lowey has just turned 90 and loves her life more each day.
Magda has lived in Ocean Grove for 39 years after...
Brimming with dam fine habitat
It’s been a busy few weeks for me so I haven’t had much time to go out and about, and when I have had...
Big screen adventure
Ocean Grove video editor Alex Evans played a major role in Tim Bonython’s epic new surf movie, The Big Wave Project: A Band of...