Lifestyle

‘Demystifying Dementia’ by aged care specialist, educator and choir director, Rose Capp, is a non-fiction book, published in 2024, which should be read by everyone.

Living off of flowers is a tricky business, even for insects who have made it their sole survival strategy.

In part one of our profile of the Royal Standard in Toora, we featured its history up until the 1950s. But it’s the latter half of the twentieth century that witnessed the biggest changes for Australian pubs with the demise of the “Six o’clock swill" and allowing

For such a small town, Toora, out east on the South Gippsland Highway, certainly held its own back in the day when it came to pubs per capita.

Lynne Muir of Waratah North and Karin Ruff of Yanakie met through the Walkerville Walkers group. They are both active volunteers with Friends of the Prom, as newsletter designer and president respectively. Lynne and Karin are also members of a local circle dancing group.

Toora is blessed with a main street, supporting side streets and an inner pattern of connecting laneways. Four of these streets or lanes are named after members of one rather elusive family – the Sheppards.