February 2020 - Foster Community Online

2020 Foster Show a triumph

A clear and sunny late-summer’s day and markedly bigger crowds made the returned Foster and District Agricultural Show an undoubted triumph on Saturday February 22, 2020. While 2019 went by […]

Appear at the Toora Pear Party

BE sure to make an appearance at this season’s Toora Pear Party, to be held in the Toora Heritage Pear Orchard in Mill Street from 10 am to 4 pm […]

Berrys Creek Oak Blue cheese “best of the best”

BERRYS Creek Gourmet Cheese of Fish Creek’s Oak Blue is the nation’s “best of the best” after winning Grand Champion Cheese in the 2020 Australian Grand Dairy Awards held in […]

Car and driver hire service Butterfly Passenger Service is an independent, personalised transport service based in Foster available to all South Gippsland residents and visitors. This well-established personal transport service […]

Celebrating our local women – ‘Girls of our Town’ on International Women’s Day

TWO big celebrations are planned on March 6 and 8 this year when Corner Inlet women are invited to celebrate some amazing work done by local women to build a […]

Claim your Time Capsule envelopes

THE Foster and District Historical Society has prepared a list of envelopes that still remain unclaimed following the opening of the time capsule that was buried in Foster nearly 43 […]

Corner Inlet district schools return for 2020

THE Corner Inlet district’s four primary schools and Foster Secondary College returned for the 2020 school year on Wednesday January 29, with most reporting an increase in their enrolments. Foster […]

Foster Show Day this Saturday

MORE than 1000 entries have come in for the 112th Foster and District Agricultural Show to be held at the Foster Showgrounds this Saturday February 22, 2020. And, if the great […]

International Women’s Day

Who is this? READERS who know the answer also know how much she has worked for our community in Corner Inlet. This beautiful WAAF will be one of a Gallery […]

New CEO for South Gippsland Shire Council

AT its Special Meeting last Wednesday Council resolved to appoint Kerryn Ellis as its new Chief Executive Officer for the next five years. Ms Ellis is coming to South Gippsland […]

New-look Fish Creek kinder re-opens five days a week

Funded sessions for 3-year-olds start FISH Creek’s new-look kindergarten in Ryan Street has re-opened at the start of the 2020 education year after the South Gippsland Shire Council invested $367,155 […]

Pool and spa registrations required

SOUTH Gippsland Shire Council is alerting residents that all swimming pools and spas must be registered by June 1, 2020 under new laws introduced by the Victorian Government. The new […]

Rotary Club of Foster donation to South Gippsland Hospital

PROCEEDS from the Rotary Club of Foster’s wood raffles were kindly donated to the South Gippsland Hospital last week. President Leonie Clyne presented the $2,000 cheque to SGH CEO Chris Trotman […]

Streets of history and fun at 112th Foster Show

THERE will be plenty of streets lined with history, good fun and farming to travel along at the 112th Foster and District Agricultural Show, taking place at the Foster Showgrounds on […]

TCAT takes plan to shire

THE Toora Community Action Team (TCAT) took its 2020 Community Plan to the South Gippsland Shire on Wednesday February 19, 2020, showing details of five projects designed to benefit the […]

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