A GROUP of keen shoppers gathered outside the Salvation Army Thrift Shop doors at 1.30pm Friday, waiting for it to open for the first time in six weeks. Now located at 56 Percy Street, Salvation Army volunteers have been packing, moving and unpacking for weeks, getting ready to open the new shop doors. Salvation Army […]
THE Friends of the Great South West Walk are this week celebrating four decades of the magnificent 260km circuit through the south-west landscape. President Jen Johns said it is a very special occasion for the community group, and particularly founding member Bill Golding, now in his 80s, who did much of the work to make […]
THE Upwelling Festival was a blast for the community, with something for everyone. On Saturday morning, the festival kicked off with a well-attended free breakfast and the Blessing of the Fleet, after the traditional ceremony was in some danger of being cancelled earlier in the year, but was saved by the Portland Mission to Seafarers […]
THE Portland Squash and Racquetball Club played out its championship games last week with Chris ‘Toff’ Thomas claiming both the squash and racquetball titles in the men’s competition while Leanne Pitman was the women’s squash winner and Kerri-Anne O’Keefe took out the racquetball crown.