Community News

Yea’s Carols In The Park and barbecue – due to be held on Thursday night (Dec, 13) – has been cancelled. The cancellation is due to the wet weather predicted by the Bureau of Meteorology. Rotary Club officials have confirmed the cancellation of the event. (For a short while, moving the event to the Yea

Upper House results for the 2018 State election have been declared following computerised calculations at the Melbourne Showgrounds this afternoon. Northern Victoria Region 1st elected: Gepp, Mark. Australian Labor Party 2nd elected: Lovell, Wendy. Liberal 3rd elected: Quilty, Tim. Liberal Democrats 4th elected: Maxwell, Tania Maree. Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party 5th elected: Symes, Jaclyn. Australian

The Alexandra District Health Annual General Meeting was held on Thursday, November 22, at the Alexandra Golf Club. Moira Kelly of the Children First Foundation was this year’s guest speaker. Moira shared stories about her work with children and their families from developing countries and her work in bringing them to Australia for life changing surgery.

Working hard on Saturday to promote local Labor candidate for the Federal seat of indi, Eric Kerr, were Alan Griffiths (especially well known in Kinglake and Yea) and Alan Daniel (especially well known in Buxton and Alexandra).

In the World War II years of 1941 and 1942, the boys from Ivanhoe Grammar School evacuated to Yea. ‘Beaufort House’ became their home, their classrooms included the Yea Recreation Reserve grandstand, and their Sunday worship was at ‘St Luke’s Church of England’. The Church, currently celebrating its 150th anniversary year, is looking to rise

Murrindindi Shire Council’s Resource Recovery Centre operators Janet Layfield, Roger Scorah and Dimii Kontos salvaged a discarded Christmas tree from the Alexandra Scrap Shack. The creative trio also made a variety of decorations from recyclable items. The tree can be seen at the Alexandra Community Christmas Tree Festival.

Rotary Club of Alexandra’s students’ award night. was held on Wednesday (Dec. 5). The awards recognise citizenship and involvement in the student’s community. There was one from each of  Alexandra, Buxton, Eildon, Marysville , St. Mary’s Year Six primary school students, and Alexandra Secondary College Year 12. Yhe awardees for 2018 all were outstanding young

Eildon MLA Cindy McLeish has been today (Thurs.) chosen as Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. The Age reports that Ms McLeish said the party had much work to do to reconnect with the community and strengthen its brand. It also needed to work towards greater diversity, she said. “That’s

A total of $3000 in vouchers is being distributed this month to local veterans, Yea-Kinglake RSL Sub-Branch has announced. Yea-Kinglake RSL Appeals Manager, Sam Murauer, thanked the community for their support to the recent RSL Poppy Appeal and Remembrance Day Commemorations. “The 2018 Poppy Appeal raised over $4700 from the Yea, Flowerdale and Kinglake districts.

A CONSORTIUM of companies has been formed to construct ‘Kinglake Village’ by late 2020. ‘Kinglake Village’ is being described by developers Roscorp as “an architecturally-designed community hub. It is planned to include “premium local dining, artist-friendly atelier spaces, commercial space for local businesses to lease and a place where small business mingles with well-known retailers”.