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About: Jack Parsons

Posts by: Jack Parsons

December 3, 2020

Borough Bendigo a no-no

THE last bank in the Borough has shut its doors with Bendigo Bank in Queenscliff announcing the closure of their branch. The bank shut its...

December 3, 2020

This Girl Can Week in full swing

City of Greater Geelong is partnering up with the Victorian division of This Girl Can, a powerful campaign designed to promote, encourage, motivate and...

December 3, 2020

Environmental projects win big

TWO local coastal environmental projects have won awards at the 2020 Victorian Marine and Coastal awards last week. The Barwon Estuary Project won in the...

December 3, 2020

16 Days of Activism spreads awareness

THE Borough of Queenscliffe and Surf Coast Shire Council have announced their support for the Respect Women: 'Call it Out' - 16 Days of...

December 3, 2020

16 Days of Activism spreads awareness

THE Borough of Queenscliffe and Surf Coast Shire Council have announced their support for the Respect Women: 'Call it Out' - 16 Days of...

December 3, 2020

Mysterious debut EP from Ocean Grove artist

There is a mysterious new artist lurking around Ocean Grove who goes by the name Swim Lanes. It's four tracks of uplifting, video game dream...

November 26, 2020

Local legend releases debut album

Torquay raised, East Geelong resident Bec Goring released her new album Beware this month. The eight-track release is a collection of hard hitting songs that...

November 26, 2020

Bellarine primary school leading the pack

QUEENSCLIFF Primary School is setting a trend as one of very few primary schools in the area that have made Indigenous studies part of...

November 26, 2020

Treasure on our doorstep

Local group Bellarine Landcare have united with a host of local environmental groups to organise a webinar event exploring and elevating the Ramsar wetlands...

November 19, 2020

Lonny lights up

CHRISTMAS lights have been hoisted around the giant Norfolk pine tree between Point Lonsdale and Queenscliff in preparation for the much loved community tradition. The...

November 19, 2020

Local bakery number one

ROLLING Pin Bakery in Ocean Grove, Queenscliff and Leopold has achieved its biggest ever win at the 31st Official Great Aussie Pie Competition. Success is...

November 19, 2020

Coastcare back in the dunes

OCEAN Grove Coastcare is back in action having filled a staggering 30 bags with weeds following a weed pull in the dunes to take...

November 12, 2020

NAIDOC Week in the Borough

NAIDOC Week celebrations continued this week despite COVID compromising the usual festivities. This year the theme 'Always Was, Always Will Be', pronounced "Yannan-ik Yannan-iyu" in...

October 29, 2020

Surf Coast and Bellarine will rock again

LIVE music can again be enjoyed in small numbers outside, as restrictions ease in regional Victoria and local music venues the Torquay Hotel and...

October 29, 2020

Hope Song goes digital

SURF Coast playwright and author Janet Brown's theatre production The Hope Song has been released online by a Sydney production company. The video has been...

October 29, 2020

Ocean Grove zeroes in on BMX track

OCEAN Grove is one step closer to having its own purpose-built BMX and mountain bike park after Corangamite federal member Libby Coker announced her...

October 29, 2020

Local organisations unify to protect clifftop habitat

MAKESHIFT hangouts have been identified and piles of rubbish collected from forcibly cleared bushland along the Jan Juc clifftop. A coalition comprising Victoria Police, Surf...