August 7, 2020
Sweetheart’s new niche
(Rebecca Hosking) 212501_02
Lexi DeRock has found that her hand-crafted face masks are very much in demand. The owner and founder of Yankee Sweetheart, a retro beauty parlour in Geelong West, also makes and sells vintage-inspired accessories and has turned her hand to sewing face masks to match her dresses. “I thought, If we’re going to wear them, at least they can be cute and fun,” she said. After posting photos of her masks on Instagram, people started asked Ms DeRock to make one for them. “Once the government said they were going to be mandatory, everyone said: ‘Can you make me one very quickly?’” Her irst batch of 25 face masks, and a second batch of about 40, both sold out within a day. “I’m happy to take orders and make as many as I can, but I’m only one person and I can only do my best,” she said. Details: www.yankeesweetheartshop. com, https://www.instagram.com/ yankeesweetheartshop/ or look up “Yankee Sweetheart Geelong” on Facebook. Alesha Capone
COVID cases on the rise By Alesha Capone he number of active COVID-19 cases in Greater Geelong has tripled within a week, as stage three restrictions were reintroduced. he municipality recorded 131 active coronavirus cases yesterday, compared to just 44 active cases a week earlier. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, there were also 92 active cases in Colac Otway (compared to 54 a week ago). he Surf Coast recorded six active cases compared to three the previous Wednesday.
Eighty-three cases have been linked to the Australian Lamb Company in Colac and 31 to Golden Farms Poultry in Breakwater. A single case has been detected in a staf member at the Opal South Valley aged care facility in Geelong. Geelong council closed venues including sport and leisure facilities, city-managed playgrounds and skate parks, cultural venues and the Belmont Market at the weekend ater the state government announced a six-week stage three lockdown. Geelong council chief executive Martin Cutter said all of the council’s permanent
full-time and part-time employees would be ofered redeployment into other areas of the organisation. About 120 council employees are currently working in redeployed roles. “Employees will also be able to access their leave entitlements, including next year’s annual leave, if required,” Mr Cutter said. “We will ofer redeployment roles to as many casual employees as possible.” Geelong police arrested and ined several people for breaching pandemic restrictions in the past week, including a 26-year-old man armed with a knife in Shannon Avenue,
Manifold Heights shortly ater 1.40am on hursday. On Wednesday, a 36 year-old unmasked man was arrested ater he was seen behaving erratically in a Malop Street department store about 10.30am. he man allegedly made serious threats to injure the oicers and was also ined for breaching pandemic restrictions. On Monday, police arrested a 25-year-old unmasked woman near Yarra Street, Geelong ater she allegedly assaulted two police oicers and breached the directions of the Chief Health Oicer.
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