Community

Countdown to Christmas at San Remo’s carols by the bridge

A BIG crowd turned out for one of the last carols nights of the year, on the San Remo foreshore last Friday night. And with a varied line up of talent on stage, the weather playing its part, and the backdrop of the Phillip Island Bridge and Western...

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Michael Giles

21 Dec 2024

Community

Mental Health and youth suicide must be a priority

INDEPENDENT candidate for Monash, Deb Leonard is advocating for improved mental health services and suicide prevention strategies in the region, following many conversations with community members. Deb Leonard recently met with Donna Kerr from...

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Sentinel-Times

20 Dec 2024

Community

Stockyard Creek ready for Pearl Park music festival

GRAB a partner, pack a picnic, slap on a hat and don your dancing shoes for the free Pearl Park music festival at Stockyard Creek in Foster. One hundred musicians are expected to hit the stage under the beautiful canopy of Stockyard Creek’s Pearl...

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Sentinel-Times

20 Dec 2024

Community

True West comes to State Coal Mine this January

WONTHAGGI Theatrical Group presents True West, a play, by celebrated American playwright Sam Shepard. True West is a societal observation of its time with the WTG production faithfully honouring Sam Shepard’s brilliant script. Consumed by sibling...

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Sentinel-Times

19 Dec 2024

Community

Alfred Health partnership boosts local nursing experience

BASS Coast Health (BCH) is partnering with major Melbourne health service, Alfred Health, in an innovative secondment program. Registered Nurses from Alfred Health have been working at BCH’s Wonthaggi Hospital on secondment, helping to enhance...

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Sentinel-Times

18 Dec 2024

Community

Small towns suffer from deliberate destruction alongside our larger ones

CRIMINAL activity in South Gippsland is up 8.5 per cent from last year, the largest increase seen in property offences, and our smallest towns are not going unscathed by these incidents. Locals in Poowong have been disappointed and disheartened by...

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Cape Paterson cut down to size

Consultation opens Wednesday to confirm Cape Paterson town boundary THE people of Cape Paterson, led by the Cape Paterson Ratepayers and Residents Association celebrated Christmas early this week with the announcement that their town would not be...

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Michael Giles

17 Dec 2024

Community

Rotary mural brings joy to patients and visitors

PATIENTS and visitors to Wonthaggi Hospital can now enjoy a bright, colourful and captivating mural in the courtyard of Kodowlinun acute ward. The mural, entitled Manna Gum Retreat, was painted by Inverloch artists Amanda Watts and Raewyn Petracc...

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Sentinel-Times

16 Dec 2024

Community

Foster hospital commits to joining Gippsland health network

ANNOUNCEMENTS in recent weeks by neighbouring health services, Bass Coast Health (BCH) and Gippsland Southern Health Service (GSHS), that they want to join the Bayside Local Health Network and not a Gippsland group of hospitals has not altered the...

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Michael Giles

13 Dec 2024

Community

Four-storey office block for San Remo

STAFF in a proposed four-storey office block, to be located at 151 Marine Parade, San Remo, on the site of the former Jim’s Bait and Tackle, will get a commanding view over the Phillip Island Bridge and Western Port while they work. The planning...

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Sentinel-Times

13 Dec 2024

Community

Rain can’t dampen Woorayl Lodge Fete

By Andrew Paloczi INCLEMENT weather on Saturday forced a reshuffle at Woorayl Lodge. The decision was taken at 7am to move its Fete indoors, and that call came up trumps despite the stress of extensive reorganisation in limited time. “I’m...

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Andrew Paloczi

13 Dec 2024

Community

Newhaven College helps St Vinnies support the community

IN ADDITION to the assistance provided to people experiencing poverty throughout the year, St Vincent de Paul volunteers have been working tirelessly to create Christmas food hampers and gift assistance for those in the community who are...

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Nicole May

12 Dec 2024

Community

Mulch goes down at new Loch playground

THE NEXT stage of the brand new Loch playground has been finished with ten volunteers spreading 32 cubic metres of mulch on a rainy Saturday recently. Five of the volunteers were from the Loch Memorial Reserve Committee and five were local community...

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Sentinel-Times

12 Dec 2024