Imperials gather for reunion
MORE than 40 people attended the Imperials Cricket Club vote count and premiership reunion on Saturday night. Memorabillia and photos were placed around the room to help people re-live the memories.
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Students and Sudanese put on feast
MIRBOO North Secondary College students in the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning program joined with women from the Sudanese community to put on a dining experience on Tuesday. The students have been focussing on the theme of immigration this term and a group from the class, headed by Tori Kriska and Kailah Bartlett, chose the […]
Jobs axed
THE drastic loss of suppliers has been blamed for the savage job cuts at Leongatha’s Murray Goulburn factory. South Gippsland Shire mayor Cr Warren Raabe said the job losses are devastating for the district. He’s very worried about the ripple effect through the community. “Farmers are all suffering from the high Australian dollar. It’s horrible,” […]
Arty Gras shows off
DESPITE the inclement weather, Arty Gras was another great success for Mirboo North over the weekend. All of the parade floats and activities arrived; even the Australia Fair grand organ, which had to come from Melbourne, arrived to lead the parade on Saturday. One of the organisers, Ian Southall, said the parade was one of […]
Nashos reward Don’s dedication
DON Earl is a proud man. He recently received the highest honour available to a National Serviceman in Victoria, but sees the award as being more about his mates and the service they gave to Australia than his own contribution. The Korumburra man was presented with the Gordon Murphy Award by the Victorian branch of […]
$70m sparks lotto rush
NO ONE from South Gippsland walked away with the $70 million first prize in last week’s Oz Lotto draw but it didn’t stop us from trying. Deb Watchorn from Leongatha NewsXpress said last Tuesday was the biggest day the agency has had since taking over the lotto outlet two years ago. “Most of the day […]
Time to accept change: scientists
SOUTH Gippsland is one of the areas in Australia that will be least impacted by climate change. That was the view of Neil Rankine of Groundswell Bass Coast, at a climate change forum in Wonthaggi last Wednesday. The Wonthaggi man said while the climate was warming, South Gippsland was still receiving rain due to its […]
Major dinosaur find
MIKE Cleeland goes prospecting a couple of days a month, looking for fossils and bones on behalf of Museum Victoria. One day in 2006, he was on the San Remo back beach with Dr Tom Rich, the museum’s senior curator of vertebrate palaeontology. With a background in geology, Mike knew what layers of rock to […]
Steph still stranded
THE PUBLIC transport pain continues for a Leongatha woman, who is still unable to travel by V/Line bus to Melbourne with her scooter. Despite having regularly travelled on the bus in the past, Steph Spokes, who suffers from Multiple Sclerosis, and her partner John Hulls were told en-route they were no longer welcome on the […]
Year away opens doors to world
THE world is a bigger place for 17-year-old Abby Butler since she returned from a year living abroad. The Inverloch girl has contacts all over the globe and back home, she is a more self assured person. Abby lived in the United States of America for a year as an exchange student through the Rotary […]