Mt Evelyn News
This year the Mt Evelyn Football Netball Club welcomes their first Mt Evelyn Senior Women’s Football team. Comprising of 19 team members so far, ranging from ages of 17 to 43, they’re looking at a team of 25 by the start of the season in April. Graeme Northey, President of the Mt Evelyn Football Netball…
The Mt Evelyn Community Meal is running again this year after its successful beginning last March. This year the Community Meal is being organised by Mount Evelyn Community House and will be held on Saturday March 4 from 6pm to 9pm on the grass/rotunda area next to Community Link on Wray Crescent. Everyone is welcome…
February 25 sees the first Mt Evelyn Community Market of 2017. Held at the Mt Evelyn RSL Hall, 49 Birmingham Rd, the market is packed full of small local businesses and supports the RSL through stall fees, devonshire tea and a sausage sizzle. The Mt Evelyn Community Market runs from 9am to 1pm on the…
Tuesday February 28 is the last day to fill out the questionnaire and get your submissions for the Mount Evelyn Recreation Reserve Master Plan Review draft in to the Shire of Yarra Ranges ‘Recreation and Active Living Team’. The full Mount Evelyn Recreation Reserve Master Plan draft can be read, and questionnaire filled out online…
Next Tuesday, February 28, is the last day you can send in your photos to be included in the See Mt Evelyn Photo Contest. There will be prizes as well as a peoples choice award, and 10 finalists from each category: Primary School, Secondary School, and Over 18, will be shown in an exhibition and…
The Mount Evelyn History Group (MEHG) incorporated in 2008, after functioning for some years as a subcommittee of MEEPPA. History Group members research, write and publish on all aspects of local history connected with the town. Publications include Tracks to Trails a History of Mt Evelyn, Aborigines in the Yarra Valley & Northern Dandenongs (new…
On December 8th, 1915 there were 38,500 Australian troops occupying trenches on Gallipoli, facing a larger Turkish force of some 80,000. Twelve days later they had all been evacuated from the Peninsula without any loss and without the enemy knowing. In hindsight their cunning escape had become the only success of the whole Gallipoli campaign….
The Mount Evelyn Community House has reopened after the Christmas break, and we have a really exciting calendar of programs, workshops and events for 2017. Operating from the Station House on Wray Crescent, the same building as the Mt Evelyn Library, the Community House is full of information and connections for all Mt Evelyn residents,…