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Sylvia Van de Velde will be the newest addition to the centenarian club when she celebrates her 100th birthday on Thursday, surrounded by friends and staff at Gippsland Health's Wilsons Lodge.

Attention thespians of Gippsland, and absolutely everybody else, Melbourne performing arts company, The Dog Theatre, is bringing internationally renowned theatre group Born in a Taxi to our region for the first time, for not one but two shows of The Waiting Room.

The redevelopment of Sale Oval has officially been unveiled to the public following two years of construction.

Gippsland wool growers have again shown both their generosity and their care for community by donating a total of 340kg of the country's finest wool.

Thanks to COVID, all of us have struggled in one way or another, mentally, physically or financially. For many of those who were hit hard financially by the pandemic, the only way to ensure their children would have a gift to open on Christmas Day was by using layby. On the last Saturday of November 2021, almost exactly one month until Christmas, Sale's own Secret Santa made her way down Raymond Street, stopping into Toyworld Sale and Toys Galore & More. Kerryn, better known as 'Secret Santa', approached the counters at Toyworld Sale and Toys Galore & More with a generous gesture of good faith that would change Christmas for many unsuspecting families.

Elias Saliba has brought a taste of his heritage to the Loch Sport community, and it's quite a long way from his place of birth in the far north of Syria, but his kebabs have already made a mark since his food truck became operational in April.

For the first time, the Briagolong Mechanics' Institute committee hosts 'History at the Hall' on Sunday, June 19 from 1.30pm.'History at the Hall' offers the Wellington Shire community the opportunity to immerse themselves in local history as the Briagolong Mechanics' Institute committee opens the doors to one of the oldest standing buildings in the region.

Winter. Some love it, some hate it, and in the chilly, wet, windy months from June through August, not a day goes by when you don't say the two words, 'it's' and 'cold'. The East Gippsland Winter Festival started on Saturday, with the commencement of the F/LAMP Exhibition marking the first of many collaborative events in Gippsland's east this winter.

Gippsland Grammar's rowing team are drying their paddles and boarding a plane, first stop the UK, second stop Italy.

Gippsland Art Gallery is proud to introduce Fragile Earth, a new series of biennial exhibitions that will each explore different aspects of our changing climate and its effects on life on earth.The first of this series, Extinction, explores the complexity of our current ecological crisis.In response to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, artists from the Gippsland collective CARE (Concerned Artists Resisting Extinction) and other invited artists consider the rapid loss of species, habitats, and ecosystems collectively through their art.With great sensitivity, the artists poetically express the fragile stories of the sixth extinction and work conscientiously to illustrate the relevance of ecology and nature conservation through artworks that are compelling and heartfelt.This moving and powerful exhibition features a range of approaches to the subject of species extinction, from painting, sculpture, and printmaking, through to video art, installation and performance.Artists include a strong contingent of well-known local names such as Nadine Lineham, Frank Mesaric, Lee Darroch, Lesley Duxbury, Susan Fraser, and Judy Dorber, alongside acclaimed national and international figures such as Sam Leach, Janet Laurence, Leila Jeffreys and Jonathan Delafield Cook.As part of Fragile Earth: Extinction, the Gallery will be hosting the Fragile Earth Symposium: Extinction in Conversation on July 30 and 31.This weekend-long symposium will bring together a range of artists, advocates, academics and authors to discuss how we cultivate responsibility for ecological practices and thinking.Special guest speakers will address issues pertinent to our time in history such as: How do we articulate the loss of species, habitats and ecosystems? How can we build collective knowledges and poignantly document the crises of extinction? How might we crosspollinate fields of knowledge to build and cultivate ecological practices? This symposium will be an opportunity to hear from our leading thinkers on climate change and species extinction and to participate in the discussion around the steps we take to mitigate the risks and losses.For details about this timely exhibition and event bookings please visit the Gallery's website: www.gippslandart gallery.com.

North Gippsland Football-Netball League, East Gippsland Football-Netball League, Sale Netball Association and the Gippsland League were among the 64 teams competing in Netball Victoria's Eastern Association Championships Competition in Traralgon last Sunday.

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