Community

Trees and catchments are a match made in heaven and this National Tree Day West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority (CMA) is celebrating the power of trees and the key role they play in keeping catchments healthy.

Prom Coast Ecolink is calling on the community to help restore Wet Forest habitat along Battery Creek in Fish Creek, with a family-friendly planting day, bush walk and barbecue planned for Saturday 8 August.

The variety of projects coming through the Corner Inlet Men’s Shed workshop is always a source of astonishment, but the restoration of an old wardrobe for a local lady became the subject of some animated discussions and deserves to be recorded as a special case.

After delighting audiences with stories, creativity and imagination for many years, Fishy Stories is looking for some new faces to help shape its next chapter.

A sword rusts in its scabbard, and buildings are much the same. Left unused, they slowly lose their purpose. But tucked away in the hills behind Toora stands a little hall that has spent more than a century refusing to surrender to time.

A life-saving community defibrillator in Fish Creek will remain ready for use thanks to a generous donation from the Rotary Club of Foster, which has funded a new battery expected to last four years. Funds were raised through the annual Promontory Produce and Craft Market

If the promise of seedlings, smiles and snags sounds like your idea of a good Sunday morning, the Corner Inlet Landcare Group wants to see you on 26 July. This year marks 30 years since National Tree Day began in 1996, and in that time Australian communities have planted almost 28 million trees.