Transporting locals to flower and garden show
Take a bus trip to the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show with the Heyfield Community Resource Centre on Wednesday, March 29.
At just $60 per person, which includes bus and show entry, with pick up available from Sale, Maffra, Heyfield, Rosedale and Traralgon, the Heyfield Community Resource Centre is offering Gippsland locals a no-fuss trip to witness the best landscape and floral talent from Australia and around the world alongside an extensive array of garden retail products.
The Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show at the Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens is a massive celebration of lifestyle and the great outdoors, with a significant focus on emerging lifestyle trends; the show is set to inspire crowds with breathtaking floral displays and spectacular Show Gardens.
Call 5148 2100 to book your no-fuss bus trip to the 2023 Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show with the Heyfield Community Resource Centre.
Sale Music Festival returns
THE Sale Music Festival – also known as Picnic On the Green – is a free annual community event for the whole family.
Normally held in the Sale Botanic Gardens, 2023’s festival will take place at the Port of Sale precinct on Sunday, March 12.
Commencing at 11am, a fabulous line-up of amazing musicians is being promised, taking to the stage to provide entertainment until 7pm.
Harry Hook starts the ball rolling, followed by Matt Peter Fry, SweetLIP, the Davidson Brothers, Danny Spencer and the Todd Cook Band, finishing up with Cara Schaefer & the John Gibson Band – music to suit everyone’s tastes.
Bring your own picnic or choose from a selection of food available, including a barbeque, devonshire teas, ice creams & drinks, salads & sangas, kebabs, milkshakes & coffee. Picnic hampers can be pre-ordered at Padula’s, Raymond St, Sale.
Pack your chairs and picnic rugs, and be prepared to settle in for the day. There will be plenty of activities for the kids, including storytelling, making musical instruments, and ‘Bug Blitz’ once again.
The laid-back atmosphere won’t disappoint, overlooking the magnificent Port.
You may even want to take a ride along the canal in the Rubeena!
Truck convoy for kids
A TRUCK convoy headed to the Wellington Shire this weekend.
The East Gippsland Truck Convoy is a charity event held every four years
For more information, send an email to egconvoyforkids@gmail.com or visit the official Facebook page.
Bedggood’s Coffee Morning and Walk in the Garden
On Wednesday, March 8, join in for a coffee and stroll through the garden at Homelea, Maffra-Tinamba Road as part of Maffra Football Netball Club’s 2023 Mardi Gras.
Tickets cost $10 and include morning tea.
With trading tables, raffles, door prizes and games, this event is an opportunity to add some flare into your mid-week routine.
Call or text Brooke on 0422 116 759 for event information.
Charity gala
A BETTER Life for Foster Kids will be holding our inaugural annual charity gala this month.
This is your chance to support a great cause and have a spectacular night out at the Sale Memorial Hall, enjoy live music, dancing, a welcome drink on arrival and a three-course meal prepared by the Tinamba Hotel (winner of the Chef Hat award two years running). Live music by Beats Workin will set the scene for a relaxed and enjoyable evening.
We’ll be launching our ‘Cuppa a week’ campaign so that we can keep doing what we do, helping children in out-of-home care with the trauma of leaving the family home and all they’ve known.
This promises to be a fantastic night.
Where: Sale Memorial Hall, 88 MacAlister Street, Sale.
When: Friday, March 31. Arrival is from 6.30pm.
Included: welcome beverage, live music, and three-course meal.
Tickets are strictly limited and will sell out, so get in quick.
Follow our events page to stay up to date with all of the latest information at https://fb.me/e/2glf4Ad9g
Tickets can be booked at https://www.trybooking.com/CFTEL
A Better Life For Foster Kids works to improve short and long-term physical, educational and psycho-social outcomes for children in foster care and kinship care.
Music in Maffra
MAINLY Music has started for term one in the Geoff Webster Centre, Thomson Street, Maffra – opposite Maffra Primary School.
Mainly Music is held each Thursday morning during school term starting at 9.30am.
Gippsland FM seeking broadcasters
GIPPSLAND FM is the local community radio station based in Morwell.
Expressions of interest from local groups or individuals who would like to participate in broadcasting or related activities are now open.
An information session will be held at 7pm on March 8 to explain the process.
You can register for this event by sending an email to secretary@gippslandfm.org.au or by posting your name and contact details to Gippsland FM, PO Box 579, Morwell, 3840.
If you are unable to attend the information night but would like to find out more – contact us just the same.
Anyone in the community is welcome to join – however, the station is very keen to encourage more women and younger people into our organisation.
The station is also keen to attract local people who wish to produce programs that connect or serve the various groups within our community.
Lunchtime
OUT for Lunch has resumed at the Sale Baptist Church.
Come and enjoy a two-course lunch and a movie.
$10 fee and bookings are essential.
To book, phone the church office on 5143 2727.
Out for Lunch events occur on the second Wednesday of every month.
Back open
SALE and District Family History Group rooms have reopened.
Meetings are usually held on the second Friday of the month.
The group meets in the historic Temperance Hall at 78 Macalister Street, which will be open to the public every Tuesday and Friday from 1pm until 4pm.
For information, ring 0428 411 603, or view the group’s Facebook page.
Count those pennies
SALE & District Stamp & Coin Club was formed 25 years ago, with the first meeting held upstairs at the Sale Cinema.
The club now meets at the Gippsland Veterans Centre at the Sale Memorial Hall, Macalister Street, Sale.
Meetings have various topics including postal history, thematic collections such as cats, birds, trains and dogs, together with traditional collections.
A monthly newsletter is circulated to all members highlighting the club’s activities.
The club has a circuit book program where books of stamps are circulated to members, with the opportunity to purchase those ‘little treasures’.
The highlight of the year is the annual fair held in November in the Sale City Band Hall.
For more information, phone Laurie on 0419 132 824.
Join Probus
ARE you looking to expand your social connections with like-minded ladies from your local community? Probus might be exactly what you are looking for.
The main purpose of Sale Ladies Probus Club is to cater for not only retired or semi-retired ladies, but also wives of Probus men.
The club meets at 10am on the fourth Monday of the month at the Sale Greyhound Racing Club, usually with a guest speaker after morning tea.
Members can enjoy a mid-monthly lunch, held at different venues; a book club, a walking group, and getting together to enjoy a coffee and chat each Friday morning, currently at The Gippy Nook.
Other activities and interest groups have existed in past years, and new members may reignite these.
To learn more, phone the publicity officer, Trish, on 0418 104 840.
Community is welcome at St Paul’s
St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral, Cunninghame Street, Sale is open to the public weekly on Wednesday through to Saturday, from 2pm to 4pm.
The community is welcome to come in for quiet prayer, or to see our historical building with stained glass windows and various objects of historical significance.
For more information, phone the Church office on 5144 2020.
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