It may still be spring but the organising for the Orbost Autumn Festival and Community Art Exhibition 2020 has begun with committee members dedicated to making sure next year’s festival will bring locals to support it and provide visitors a wonderful experience.To be held over the Easter period, the festival will give local producers and groups the opportunity to showcase their products and...

Garry ‘Carree’ Carr’s beard is long. Very long. Not for much longer.Garry is nervous about this Sunday, when, sometime between 3 and 5pm at the Marlo Hotel, his long beard will come clean off. It’s all for a good cause, one close to his heart; quite literally.The Heart Foundation is the reason Garry is making this decade’s shave so public. Inspired by the work of Heart Foundation he wanted to...

A fantastic crowd of around 1000 celebrated the opening of the 100th St Andrew’s Uniting Church Flower Show last Friday with plenty of fanfare and a spectacular feast for the senses.Around 280 school students from surrounding primary schools and Orbost Secondary College welcomed the crowd, singing and performing a number of songs.A twist on the song, I am Australian, saw its first verse and...

Love was in the air at Orbost Regional Health’s (ORH) Waratah Lodge last Friday and was all for a good cause – raising funds to find a cure and to help those living with motor neuron disease (MND).Brides Revisited was a “beautiful, beautiful day”, Jenni Broadley, who along with fellow ORH staff member, Jules Henderson, coordinated the day, which Jenni said was an “overwhelming success”.“We have...

Big Bonang Arvo is on again, on Thursday, October 31, with a smorgasbord of health and other services on offer.The isolated border communities of Bonang, Tubbut, Deddick, Delegate River and Bendoc are far from the health services most people take for granted. The nearest Victorian doctors are two hours away down the challenging Bonang Road, further for people in Tubbut and beyond.Their proximity...