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Growing centre’s country charm

THE town of Mount Evelyn has evolved in recent years into a bustling traders’ hub.
Be it food, recreational facilities, that country town feel or home and garden supplies, Mount Evelyn has it all.

Edge Martial Arts
EDGE Martial Arts has been providing martial arts tuition to students of all ages since 1989.
Edge has a strong community focus and prides itself on being a family club – catering for children through to adults with an extensive variety of martial arts classes.
It’s through this community and family focus that has allowed Edge to grow to more than 550 students, affirming its place as one of the most highly respected martial arts clubs in Victoria.
Edge specializes in teaching mixed martial arts, Muay Thai kickboxing, wicknastics, weapons and boxing at its full-time dojo in Mt Evelyn – which has wall-to-wall matting, up-to-date modern equipment, specialised areas and great facilities.

Mount Evelyn Garden and Produce
MOUNT Evelyn Garden and Produce provides a large range of products for all garden, irrigation and stock feed needs.
Staff can supply and deliver professional, trades persons or home handymen with all the materials needed to get the job done.
Materials include sand, soil, screenings, mulch, crushed rock, potting mix, fertilisers, sleepers, cement, concrete, mesh, garden tools or wire fencing for the garden or poly pipe and fittings, PYC/stormwater pipe and fittings, valves, automatic controllers, impact/pop up sprinklers, micro irrigation, garden hose fittings and pumps for irrigation – Mount Evelyn Garden Supplies is the one stop shop.
There is even stock feed for the farm and domestic animals including poultry, horses, pigs, goats, alpacas, bird, dogs, cats.
Hay and straw is also available.

Mount Evelyn Community Bank
Mount Evelyn Community Bank is expanding and branching into other areas.
The success of the Mount Evelyn branch has enabled the bank to open a new branch at Canterbury Gardens Shopping Centre.
While Bendigo Community Bank branches offer a full range of banking services – there is still so much more on offer from the bank.
It is now the communities of Bayswater North, The Basin and Kilsyth’s turn to experience the bank’s unique and exciting local service.
The community bank is a service that helps to build strong communities, is underpinned by good old fashioned customer service and a competitive suite of financial products.
What makes the community bank so unique is that it gives its profits back to the community.

The Cake Connection
With the overwhelming popularity of cake making shows, it has become more important than ever to receive proper training for all budding enthusiast.
Wendy Mazzella from The Cake Connection has more than 23 years of experience in the industry of cake making and decorating.
What started out as a hobby quickly became her passion and now Wendy is an award winning decorator in many shows.
She has taught many students over the years that have gone onto other areas in the industry.
Her students are never too old or young to learn the skills to enable them to work from home or to just learn for a hobby.

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