Brimbank Cup
Thirty-two soccer teams will take to Balmoral Park, Lennon Parkway, Derrimut, on February 13 from 6pm to battle it out for the coveted Brimbank Cup.
■ 9249 4526
Brimbank cyclists online
Brimbank Bicycle Education Centre (formerly Green Gully traffic safety centre) at Keilor Downs has a new website and Facebook page:
www.brimbankbicycleed.com or on.fb.me/1JSLhuS
Overnewton jazz festival
The Great Gatsby Picnic at Overnewton Castle on February 22 from 11am, features outstanding jazz musicians. Pack a picnic or buy one. Tickets: $25 adults, kids $10. Adult entry includes a glass of bubbly.
■ 9331 6367 or info@overnewtoncastle.com.au
Sunshine has pho fever
Tickets are on sale for Sunshine Pho Fever. It’s over three nights, 6.30-9pm, from March 1-3 as part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. At Bo Ba Tea, 233 Hampshire Road, Sunshine. Tickets: $45.
www.melbournefoodandwine.com.au
Parkland storytime
Enjoy free storytime and fun activities in a beautiful park. Children welcome. Bring a rug, hat, sunscreen and morning snack. Next storytime is 10.30am, Tuesday, February 10, at Tom O’Brien Reserve, Matthews Street, Sunshine.
■ 9249 4296 or email library@brimbank.vic.gov.au
Art exhibition
Sunshine Art Spaces gallery at 2 City Place, Sunshine, is holding its first exhibition for 2015 – Perspectives: Past, Present and Future, by western suburbs artists Emilly Milosevska, Tegan New and Lillian Maxwell – until February 22.
■ 9249 4600
Bus service for widows
Bus company CDC Victoria runs free transport for a group of Brimbank widows to Keilor cemetery on the first Tuesday of every month, except November. Pick-up at St Albans market.
■ Chloe Black, 9390 0111
Older residents would love a visit
The MS community visitors scheme needs volunteers in the west to visit elderly residents in aged-care centres once a fortnight. Volunteers who speak other languages, particularly Spanish, are wanted.
■ cvsrecruitment@ms.org.au or 9845 2729
Young parents meet
Parents aged 16-25 wanting to meet others and share in children’s outings and other fun activities meet in Laverton on Mondays, 10-11.30am; Altona Meadows, Mondays, 1-2.30pm; and Sunshine on Fridays, 12.30-2.30pm.
■ Mary, 0409 758 932
Social seniors
Taylors Lakes Probus Club meets at Taylors Lakes Hotel, 10am-noon, fourth Monday of the month.
■ 8307 2038
