VIVA Corio!
It might not have the same ring as Elvis Presley’s anthemic Las Vegas hit but it’s the name Shell’s refinery will receive when its sale to new owner Vitol is finalised next month.
Well, it will be Viva Energy Australia Corio, to be precise, but the lyrical syntax of the full name probably has a few too many syllables for easy use.
IS it possible Geelong’s historic centre of town is returning to life?
The intersection of Moorabool and Ryrie Sts, a meeting place for generations of Geelong denizens, is receiving a breath of fresh air with top-floor digital video screens on Telstra’s corner building.
Meanwhile, the sale of the landmark T&G Building opposite is finally under contract and, diagonally opposite, another historic building is returning to life as a restaurant with a day spa upstairs.
The fourth corner still hosts a colourful rug and carpet emporium, which, despite numerous closing-down sales, seems immune to closure.
At least some things never change.
New science suggests a geothermal minefield to Geelong’s west might throw up some new hotspots.
Researchers in Melbourne have just turned up three volcanic newbies out toward Hamilton but the area they call the Newer Volcanics Province, stretching from here into South Oz, could soon turn up more.
It’s all because scientists have used in tandem four previously unconnected research tools. Double Take’s staff volcano correspondent tips Stony Rises, just past Colac, as the place to watch.
With all its nighttime subterranean gurgling, long-time underground fires and cavernous rock formations, it’s a monty something infernal’s going on there.
AND a warning for oldies to keep a weather eye out for home maintenance deals that sound a bit too good to be true.
One Corio lovely tells this desk she was cleaned out by a bloke she paid to clean up the exterior of her home.
Police hadn’t heard of the bloke but a word of warning: don’t pay up until the job is done and dusted.
