Many clubs, hotels and restaurants have had to make changes to their service with the threat of coronavirus (COVID-19) to Lakes Entrance and surrounds.The Lakes Entrance Bowls Club has had to make the difficult decision to close its doors for the foreseeable future.This includes the entire venue and all bowls competitions until further notice.It had been highly recommended by Bowls Australia and...

Lakes Entrance local, Steven Pryke, last week made the journey to Hobart, Tasmania for the third round of the Australian Bass Tournament bream series, winning the Der-went River event.Pryke, in unfamiliar waters, each day man-aged to reel in his full limit of five bream to the scales, bringing more than 5kg of bream to the scales to narrowly take the victory by 80 grams over Hobart local, Adam...

Mike Goodluck, who owns the Bairnsdale and Lakes Entrance McDonalds stores, has been humbled by his fellow store owners throughout Victoria and Tasmania.“At short notice we changed our meeting venue to the Bellevue in Lakes Entrance so funds could be injected into our local economy,” Mike said.Sixty people arrived last Mon-day and went to the Central Hotel, the Lakes Entrance RSL and the Lakes...

One-hundred-and-thirty people attended Lakes Entrance Action Development Association’s (LEADA) open meeting last Thursday at the Central Hotel.“It was a very good turn up,” LEADA president, Bruce Hurley, said.“LEADA appreciates the support it has and is receiving. The support gives strength to LEADA’s advoca-cy to all three tiers of government.”Panel members, Federal Member for Gippsland, Darren...

The launch of the Lakes Entrance/Port Melbourne sister relationship was held last Thursday in the Port Melbourne Town Hall.The sister relationship was formed following the devastating bushfires, Port Melbourne Business Association (PMBA) rallying around the town with events, including a weekend away, being held to assist the East Gippsland town’s economic recovery.Led by the PMBA, businesses,...