Playgroup festive fun for little ones

Inverleigh Playgroup families celebrated the end of 2022 with a fantastic morning of face painting, bubbles, baby animals, festive food and a visit from Santa (none other than the editor of this publication!). After the challenges of running regular playgroup sessions due to COVID restrictions over the previous couple of years, it was great to see almost 20 families come together to enjoy this special event. All the best to families with children moving on to 4yo kinder, we really hope they’ve enjoyed their time at playgroup. Thank you to everyone who helped make the day a success by bringing delicious food and helping to set up and pack down. We look forward to another year of growth, fun and new connections at playgroup and hope to welcome many more families to our community. Come along if you can!

Inverleigh Playgroup welcomes all parents, grandparents and carers with children aged 0-4. Come along and try a session!

We run a weekly play session which brings families together to learn and develop through informal play activities and social interaction. Our aim is to provide a variety of expierences, toys and activities for children to enjoy, and create an inclusive atmosphere where care givers can have a hot drink, relax and build connections that last beyond playgroup. New members are always welcome, we hope to see you at a session soon!

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Inverleigh Playgroup Contact: Holly Windle 0432 632 130 (President)

When: Wednesdays during school terms

Time: 9.15 – 11.15am

Where: Inverleigh Public Hall

Cost: $5 per family

What to bring: Please bring a piece of fruit to be cut and shared, a drink bottle and a hat Tea & coffee provided

Hello all,

It’s early January when I am writing this and I know what a lot of you are thinking, wow, what was that!!!! Four to five days of high volumes of traffic through the township and on the highway, P Platers, Interstate plates everywhere, busy businesses in town, vehicles left in random locations about the area and lots of tired/emotional people and extreme traffic issues on New Years Day for Geelong bound traffic on the Hamilton Hwy. For those that do not know it was Beyond the Valley Music festival in Barunah Plains. Hopefully most of you avoided being on the roads during the time especially on New Years Day. Took me five minutes at one point just to get out of the station driveway.

I was really concerned about collisions as lots of inexperienced drivers with no knowledge of the roads would be attending the festival. Over the period of the festival I did attend two collisions involving people going to/leaving the festival including a roll over on New Years day and heard about two other collisions that Police were not called to but thankfully there appears to have been no one injured.

Put your experiences of the roads during the period in the memory bank for future years so you can hopefully avoid the roads as much as possible during the periods of high traffic volumes especially on New Years day. Detected a P Plater on election day 175 km/h in 100 km/h zone travelling East on the Hamilton Hwy Inverleigh and then was still at 153 km/h in the 80 km/h zone ap- proaching the sporting grounds. The vehicle pulled over outside the primary school, the driver was interviewed and the vehicle was impounded the cost of which was over $1000 in itself. The driver will receive a summons to attend Geelong court at a later date.

Stop signs have been installed on Dundas Street on either side of the Hamilton Hwy so please be aware of them and adhere to the requirement to stop. There have been several serious collisions at the intersection over the years so hopefully these can be avoided in the future now with the signs.

We had a theft of a motor vehicle from a rural property off the Hamilton Hwy around Stonehaven. I subsequently came across the vehicle driving West through Inverleigh but it took off and was unable to be intercepted and ended up in South Australia. Please be aware of suspect loitering around rural properties and keep your vehicles, sheds and houses secure because you never know when an opportunistic offender might be around checking for unlocked properties and vehicles.

There are Cameras at the Inverleigh Primary school now which capture behaviours in the school grounds out of hours so please be aware and if children are attending there let them know (They should only be there with a parent anyway).

Keep safe