Lakes Entrance resident, Maria Kyriakou, has been cooking for 50 years and clearly loves it.So much so that she decided to compete in the popular SBS television series The Chef’s Line which returns to screens on August 6 at 6pm.The concept behind the series is for home cooks to compete against restaurant chefs, which is obviously no mean feat.Maria, who is Australian born, but of Greek heritage,...

The men at Gippsland Lakes Community Health’s (GLCH) Men’s Shed in Lakes Entrance were the delighted recipients of a cheque for $3000 last week, thanks to the generosity of the Metung Bloodhounds.Bloodhounds members Lou Moore, Louise O’Loughlin and Karin Liedke met the group of men at their shed in Jemmeson Street to of- ficially deliver the cheque and take a tour of the shed.The kind donation...

There is nothing quite like the sound of swing music to get your feet tapping or even gliding across the dance floor and the next show in the Cafe Culture Series 2019 is all about swing.With “Just Shows To Go” celebrating its 20th birthday program, organisers have splashed out on the full sound of the seven-piece band, Dr Crask & His Swingin’ Elixir.You can hear the full splendour of Dr...

The Lakes Entrance Basketball Association Pelicans took seven teams to Morwell for the final tournament of the season recently.The under 10 girls were in A grade and played extremely hard in every game they played, but they came up against some very tough competition and were unable to record a win for the weekend.The future looks bright for the girls and the club is hopeful the team can stay...

Gippsland Ports has announced that Chris Waites has been appointed to the position of chief executive officer (CEO) to succeed present CEO, Nick Murray, who will retire in September 2018 after 10 years in the role.In making the announcement, Gippsland Ports chairman, Geoff Hocking said: “The board is very pleased to have recruited a person of Chris’ s calibre, experience, knowledge, technical...