Lockdown hits community events

A WIDE range of events and activities has been cancelled or postponed due to the seven-day statewide lockdown.

Most organisers are yet to announce new dates.

• Among those events and activities not going ahead as scheduled are:
• Revitalising Ridgway – painting the town in Mirboo North.
• Korumburra Scouts fundraising market.
• Arawata Hall trivia night.
• Inverloch Lions market.
• Coal Creek Community Park and Museum – closed for the duration of the lockdown.
• South Gippsland Shire Council’s Big Art Small Halls program – council is working with artists and venues to make alternative arrangements.
• Gippsland Community Leadership Program’s 25 anniversary celebrations scheduled for Friday, June 4 at Lardner Park – postponed to a date to be advised.
• Milpara Community House – face to face classes cancelled, online classes going ahead. Still providing Centrelink services and emergency foodbank.
• Free monthly community meal at Anglican Parish Hall, Korumburra, scheduled for Friday, June 4 – cancelled.
• StartUp Gippsland tech entrepreneurs workshops scheduled for Leongatha this weekend will now be held online.
• Op shops are closed.
• Fashion show scheduled for Kongwak Hall on Thursday, June 3.
• Australian Government Mobile Service Centre making its way around Bass Coast and South Gippsland – visits will be rescheduled.

Need to let the public know whether your community event has been postponed or is able to go ahead? Drop a note in the comments below.