Community

Prom Coasters can expect a transformed experience at Tidal River, with a new operator announced for the beloved General Store and volunteers and rangers this week completing a major planting effort around the new visitor centre.

Representatives from the South Gippsland Landcare Network were among dozens of regional groups from across Victoria who gathered at Parliament House in Melbourne recently to make the case for sustained government investment in community-led conservation.

A rare opportunity to learn one of the world's oldest continuous art practices is coming to Foster next week, with Gunaikurnai, Latji Latji, Bidwell and Gudnitjmara man Adrian (Ringo) Morgan leading a free emu egg carving workshop at Manna Gum Community House as part of NAIDOC Week.

The sun was shining and the breeze was light, so volunteers at the VICSES Foster Unit were surprised that their pagers went off three times the Sunday before last!

More than a century ago, a man named John Gunn designed a postcard to promote the township of Toora to the world. Now the Toora Family History Group is asking locals a simple but thought-provoking question: if you were designing that postcard today, what would you include?

Many picture the Prom Coast as pristine windswept beaches, rolling ocean waves and sand dunes. Summer holidays and surf!

If recent open days at the Toora Lions Club’s new den on Stanley Street are anything to go by, the official grand opening on Saturday 20 June will surely attract an even greater crowd to the newly bought premises.