K rock’s suburb star wins $10,000

A PORTARLINGTON resident became $10,000 richer in the blink of an eye in the culmination of K rock’s $500,000 Suburb competition.

Held at Wallington’s Flying Brick Cider Co early on Thursday last week, the radio station’s event saw 100 people standing on a grid numbered 1 to 100, each representing a suburb or locality from across Geelong, the Bellarine and the Surf Coast.

K rock morning hosts Tom, Lingy and Loggy (Tom Lewis, Cameron Ling and Lauren Temuskos) drew out the name of the lucky winner, Natalie Pike from Portarlington, who automatically won $10,000 and had the chance to win $500,000 by picking the correct number out of 100.

Despite her choice of number (21) being the wrong one, Ms Pike was thrilled with the result.

“That’s still fantastic!” she said. “Oh my goodness, I’m speechless.”

The Sharp Group director of marketing, sales and hospitality Lyndsay Sharp said it was “a seriously awesome morning”, with more than 150 people in attendance.

“Natalie from Portarlington was ecstatic. She also had her two children there, who were also beside themselves with excitement.”

She said Tom, Lingy and Loggy were at Flying Brick Cider Co from 6am-10am, doing an outside broadcast and roaming around chatting to entrants and guests. “It was K rock’s biggest ever campaign – seven weeks in total with a massive prize to boot.”