People and Lifestyle

Mosaic birthday magic inspired by Mary Grace

IT WAS a special occasion at Fish Creek Memorial Hall on Tuesday, a large number of people celebrating the 99th birthday of popular and creative local Mary Grace Whyte and the unveiling of stunning mosaic works she created with her daughter Isabel...

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Sentinel-Times

01 Apr 2025

People and Lifestyle

Country Cousins with Christine Webb

FOR OVER 15 years Christine Webb has been gathering stories from people who grew up on the land locally, during the time before technology took over the world. Having grown up on a farm in Korumburra herself, Christine initially trained to be...

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Courtney O'Brien

26 Mar 2025

People and Lifestyle

Airman son of Korumburra to be honoured at Australian War Memorial

SAMUEL Donald Whiteside known as Donald or Don to his friends left the family farm in Korumburra like many others during WWII never to return. On Saturday, March 29 the Australian War Memorial in Canberra will commemorate the service and sacrifice...

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Sentinel-Times

25 Mar 2025

People and Lifestyle

Vietnam War refugees remembered and celebrated

FIFTY years after the end of the Vietnam War Bass Coast has joined with former Governor General Sir Peter John Cosgrove to acknowledge the history of Australia’s Vietnam War refugees. The Australian Vietnamese Women’s Association in partnership...

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Sentinel-Times

05 Mar 2025

News

Bass Coast gardens weekend was good enough to eat

THE annual Bass Coast Edible Gardens weekend is done and dusted for another year, but what a fantastic event it was with the weather kind and lots of visitors and locals finding there way around to the 16 amazing gardens, 14 of them new to the...

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Michael Giles

11 Feb 2025

People and Lifestyle

Caregiver returns for a life in aged care

HAVING spent a lot of her childhood living in nursing homes, there was a degree of inevitability about Paula Viergrever’s career path. For the past two decades, Paula has been the heartbeat of care at Gippsland Southern Health Service as a nurse...

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Sentinel-Times

05 Feb 2025

People and Lifestyle

Melanoma survivor urges others to check for skin cancer

A WOMAN who never thought she would get a melanoma at her age is urging the community to inspect their bodies for skin cancer. Sharyl Brockett, a Social Worker at Bass Coast Health (BCH), endured two surgeries in 2019 to remove a deep melanoma from...

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Sentinel-Times

31 Jan 2025

People and Lifestyle

Local farmers donate hay for drought-ravaged South Australia

FARMERS experiencing one of the worst droughts in living memory in the mid-north of South Australia have received much-needed feed for their starving livestock donated by Woolamai farmers Paul and Andrew Kent. “We run beef and dairy and have...

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Sentinel-Times

30 Jan 2025

People and Lifestyle

Make sure your pets are part of your bushfire survival plan

CFA and RSPCA Victoria are urging residents to include pets in their bushfire survival plans, amid the significant fire activity already impacting Victoria this summer. Having bedding, food, and water ready to go for your furry friend could save...

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Sentinel-Times

24 Jan 2025

People and Lifestyle

Heart attack survivor reunited with first responders and paramedics

FATHER’S Day 2024 is a day 75-year-old Inverloch grandfather John McLennan and wife Pam will long remember. Planning to visit children and grandchildren in Melbourne the couple were just about to get into their car when John, a retired doctor...

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Sentinel-Times

20 Jan 2025

People and Lifestyle

Jan Elizabeth Parry (Fist)

• OBITUARY 5 December 1953 - 28 December 2024 THE esteem in which Jan Parry was held was evident from the large attendance at her Korumburra Showgrounds funeral on Friday, January 10. While the occasion was tinged with sadness, it was also...

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Sentinel-Times

17 Jan 2025

People and Lifestyle

Royalty congratulate Marie

RARELY does a letter arrive at the door from Australia’s King and Queen. Turning 100 on January 16 Marie Clement of Coronet Bay not only received a message of congratulations from Charles and Camilla but the Governor-General Her Excellency Ms Sam...

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Sentinel-Times

16 Jan 2025

People and Lifestyle

Sue Ritchie warmly remembered

• OBITUARY 12 January 1952 – 25 December 2024 SUSAN (Sue) Dianne Ritchie (Wyatt) was fondly remembered on Friday, January 3 at the Korumburra Showgrounds by friends, family and representatives of various organisations she enriched with her...

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Sentinel-Times

15 Jan 2025