IN BRIEF

International Women’s Day
THE North Bellarine’s 2019 International Women’s Day event, hosted by the Terindah Estate Winery, is on Tuesday March 5 at 10.30am. The guest speaker is Bellarine Ward councillor Stephanie Asher, who was elected to the City of Greater Geelong Council in 2017. The Northern Bellarine International Women’s Day committee encourages women from Portarlington, Indented Head and St Leonards to head along. The event cost is $25, bookings are essential, and places are limited, so to avoid missing out book early. Tickets available now. Book through Try Booking at trybooking.com/ZWFU or just Google, North Bellarine IWD.

Caring for wildlife info night
A FREE information evening in Ocean Grove will teach you about attracting wildlife, and cohabitating with them, in your backyard. Caring for our Wildlife – The Backyard Basics will be held at The Pavilion on Thursday February 28 between 6pm and 7.30pm. This information evening can help with questions like: How can I entice possums out of my roof? Should I feed the birds in my yard? What type of habitat box should I hang? What do I do if I find an injured magpie in my backyard? Tea and coffee will be available on arrival. Please feel free to bring snacks. Please RSVP via email to [email protected].

OGCA seeks cooperative approach to network
THE Ocean Grove Community Association (OGCA) has requested the City of Greater Geelong look into “cooperative” funding support options for the Ocean Grove Principle Pedestrian Network. The association sent emails to all three Bellarine councillors and said, “We understand you are to be briefed by council officers on the Special Rates Charge soon. We would ask you to test them on what they have done to seek cooperative funding contributions from state and federal sources. If council officers have not tested such funding options we would ask you, on the residents behalf, to request they do so and on the residents behalf you assure yourselves that any efforts to seek cooperative funding contributions have been rigorous and not cursory.”