Bella

It’s beginning to look a lot like a first Christmas

FOR MANY, A first Christmas for a new, young family changes everything. A lot of parents know, when you have children you need to readjust your plans, who you can see and when, spend extra money and put in that little bit of extra work to make this...

Alex Gretgrix

Kristy Serpell: the attack of the barre

WITH FOUR DAUGHTERS, a part-time job and a business on the side, Kristy Serpell doesn’t get much time to herself. But when her physiotherapist recommended she try clinical Pilates to help with her core strength after having a baby last year...

Ivy Jensen

Glenn Percy: The one per centers

NINE YEARS AGO, Glenn Percy was just starting to enjoy retirement after 42 years teaching in Echuca. But fate stepped in with a shock diagnosis. Cancer. And not just any cancer. Glenn joined the 1 per cent of men diagnosed with breast cancer...

Ivy Jensen

Glenn Percy: The one per centers

NINE YEARS AGO, Glenn Percy was just starting to enjoy retirement after 42 years teaching in Echuca. But fate stepped in with a shock diagnosis. Cancer. And not just any cancer. Glenn joined the 1 per cent of men diagnosed with breast cancer...

Ivy Jensen

Meredith Hodder: Calling in the Heavy Weights

COMFORT ZONE is a great place to be, but nothing changes if you stay there. Just ask Rochester’s Meredith Hodder, a nurse unit manager at Echuca’s hospital. If she hadn’t of taken a deep breath and forced herself to enter her first ever...

Sophie Baldwin

Rick Wilcock: Secret Men’s Business

These days the topic of men’s mental health can still be taboo. But CHARMAYNE ALLISON found the best counsellor for some men isn’t actually a counsellor at all – he’s a mate who can lend an ear over a beer. RICK Wilcock is a sort of mate –...

Charmayne Allison

Nicole Dilubenzi: Out of Africa

Like so many refugees, Nicole Dilubenzi has lived much of her life on the run, fleeing violence and unrest from Congo to Lesotho to Namibia before finally making her home in Echuca, the community that has embraced her and is now backing her dream of...

Charmayne Allison

bella + beau Pawcation Accommodation Package Competition Terms and Conditions

bella + beau Pawcation Accommodation Package Competition Terms and Conditions 1. Instructions on how to enter and prize information forms part of these Terms and Conditions. Participation in any competition is deemed as acceptance of these Terms and...

Riverine Herald

Get ready for our new-look Bella

THE WORLD is changing and as you can see, so is Bella/Beau.

Riverine Herald

The prodigal sharpshooter says she’s coming back

DAVID CHAPMAN solves the mystery of that very tall space Echuca netball club had to fill in the goal circle after its stunning last-gasp 2018 A-grade grand final victory THE TOWERING PRESENCE of Sheridan Townrow may be absent from under the netball...

David Chapman

The first step turned into a career

Senior writer IVY JENSEN caught up with some of Echuca’s frontline policewomen and discovered their roles really have moved to the forefront — but it has been a long and pioneering role. WHEN BERNADETTE BROOKS joined the Victoria Police 32 years...

Ivy Jensen

This is no dream, it’s really wonderland

Everyone talks about living the dream but ANDREW JOHNSTON caught up with a Disney devotee from downtown Echuca who has discovered Wonderland really exists — and she is part of it. WALT DISNEY WAS obsessed with dreams. With good reason, as he would...

Andrew Johnston

I could have danced all night

It’s not just rock and roll when there is a long way to the top. If you ever so much as thought about that being a tough act, you ought to try something such as Broadway jazz dance. For one wannabe from little Bamawm it has been a goal for the past...

Riverine Herald

Patience the key to unlocking special talents

The Special Olympics XI National Games was held in Adelaide in April last year and FRASER WALKER-PEARCE spoke to one special lady who helped prepare Echuca-Moama athletes for the big event. THE WORD SELFLESS springs to mind when talking to Margaret...

Fraser Walker-Pearce

The sheer joy of being heartbroken

Growing up as one of 10 children would be crowded enough for your average individual but for one woman - whose family always managed to find room for one more - a lesson that has given her a role in the rescue of so many young lives Having your...

Charmayne Allison

Polly is a class act on a small stage

Small country schools bring their own challenges — such as teachers mastering prep to year six curriculums all at the same time. Polly’s school might just have a principal and her, teaching a total of eight students across the seven years, but is...

Kimberley Price

Being different is brilliant if you embrace it

Her music career began at her mother’s knee and has evolved from a farm outside Echuca-Moama to a Parisian home and a red-hot ragtime act which is proving a tour de force in the world’s most tour de force city. When Heather Stewart reflects on where...

Charmayne Allison

Getting the hang of a start-up business

Kiralee and Sammara Pascoe talk about their venture into a home jewellery business using that most basic of artistic elements — clay. And they appear to have identified a niche market, quickly building a national client base through social medi...

Vivienne Duck

Faye was on a mission

She might have been an old-fashioned stay at home mum — except she hardly had time to stay there. Faye Berryman was simply too busy doing stuff. For anyone and everyone. And she isn’t showing any signs of slowing down Faye Berryman is best...

Lachlan Durling