THE Portland Neighbourhood House location in the CBD is up and running – with plans to extend the range of services. Now run by Kyeema Support Services, after the closure of WorkSkills, the office at Shop 7, Pioneer Plaza (on Percy St opposite the post office) complements the longstanding Portland Neighbourhood House at 40 Waratah […]
GRAEME Tonkin, in his own words, is always up for an adventure – and his most recent one might have topped them all. The Gorae farmer, wife Jenny and their Geelong-based son Jayden were all recently in Scotland for a unique motoring experience. Graeme and Jayden Tonkin were the driver and navigator respectively of a […]
WHILE most of the action at the Julia Street Creative Space takes place at ground level, look up a bit and there is now somewhere for community to gather. An upstairs room adjacent to the artist residence has recently been substantially renovated. Julia Street Creative Space convenor Robyn McDonald said the room, decorated as you’d […]
NOT often does the entire student and teacher cohorts of every school in the Portland district converge on the one place, but last week they did to celebrate NAIDOC Week with the theme For our Elders. From preps to final year students, around 2000 children filled the Portland Foreshore on Friday morning and, for the […]
PORTLANDERS lined the Cape Nelson Road railway overpass over the weekend to watch the first passenger train into the city for decades; somewhat behind schedule, but here. And despite the unforeseen delays leading to an ingloriously late start, Seymour Railway Heritage Centre Inc. (SRHC) John Crofts was delighted to see what he said were “wall […]