Plastic Lions worth a penny
THE Ocean Grove Barwon Heads Lions Club announced its final tally for its recent bushfire appeal last Friday - $7,000 in just two weeks.
Club...
Dave, Dave and Des
VICTORIAN comedy icons Dave “Hughesy” Hughes, Dave O’Neil and Des Dowling will return to Barwon Heads for a one-night show this Friday.
“It was so...
Bunnies will be busted
BELLARINE Landcare will launch a campaign to control rabbit populations next month, which a local expert says are nearing “plague proportions”.
Chairman of Bellarine Landcare’s...
Cathy saddles up
By LUKE VOOGT
MOTHER of four Cathy Slevin is one of several Ocean Grove cyclists who will ride in the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road...
Our team at the fires
By LUKE VOOGT
SEVERAL volunteer firefighters from Ocean Grove travelled to the Otways this summer to help fight bushfires that devastated the region.
First Lieutenant Steve...
It’s the camp of fun
FOUR Ocean Grove youngsters enjoyed five days of fun and adventure at the Licola Wilderness Village this month.
Surfside Primary’s Lauchie enjoyed the giant swing,...
Medal detectors
By LUKE VOOGT
MP Sarah Henderson recognised three local primary students as “leaders of tomorrow” last month, awarding them the Corangamite Medal.
Wallington Primary’s Bayley Herbert...
Sisters of the art
By LUKE VOOGT
OCEAN Grove’s Lynette Weeks is one of “Four Sisters” exhibiting their art this year, in a series of galleries in the Bellarine...
Search for necklace
AN OCEAN Grove resident is desperately searching for a sentimental necklace, which may have been accidentally donated to a local op shop.
Karen, who did...
Snakes are about
BARWON Coast is asking beachgoers to stay clear of dunes and keep their distance from the region’s copperhead snakes.
“At present the lowland copperhead snake...
Netball’s new page
By LUKE VOOGT
FANS of netball fiction will rejoice this year, with Ocean Grove writer Bernadette Hellard set to release two new books in her...
Chemistry on the line
By LUKE VOOGT
WALLINGTON local and new mother Amelia McCutcheon launched a free online tutorial this month to help VCE students improve their chemistry.
“I want...