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Call for input into skate park stencil plan

Cayley Robinson — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:34:20 +0000

Youth leaders have urged skate park users to voice their opinion about a project to paint artwork at the park.
Colac Otway Shire Youth Council is running a stencil art workshop to decorate the Colac skate park.
Recreation Arts and Culture manager Marg Scanlon said the 2009 Colac Otway Shire Youth Council would continue the work of its predecessor and consult skate park users about the proposed artwork at the park.

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Demonstrations mark milestone

Cayley Robinson — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:35:17 +0000

A Colac agricultural dealership will celebrate a milestone this week.
Colac JB Scott has a demonstration day on Thursday to celebrate its second anniversary.
Sales consultant Jeff Yates has invited Colac district farmers to attend a barbeque lunch and hot-roast roll dinner and see the range of farm machinery available.
Mr Yates said the day would feature a range of tractors and farm machinery, with dealership representatives on hand.
“We will have the availability of a Silvan representative who can help with technical knowledge,” Mr Yates said.
“Silvan were linked with spray equipment for a long time but now it’s spraying, cultivating and harvesting equipment as well,” he said.
Mr Yates, who grew up in Colac, has 45 years experience working in retail in the Colac district.

DEMONSTRATIONS: Colac JB Scott’s Jeff Yates, left, and Adam McCrickard are celebrating the businesses second anniversary with a barbecue and demonstration day this week.

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Gas station plan for city

Cayley Robinson — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:14:46 +0000

Colac might get a liquid natural gas fuelling station for heavy vehicles under plans to build a $150-million liquefied natural gas plant in the Colac district.
Industrial gas company BOC, the South West Sustainability Partnership and regional transport companies are working together to establish Victoria’s first micro LPG plant near Port Campbell.
The plant would supply up to six re-fuelling stations in south-west Victoria.
South West Sustainability Partnership executive officer Barrie Baker said Warrnambool, Hamilton and Portland had been identified as locations for re-fuelling stations to accommodate 120 heavy vehicles converting to LNG.
He said Colac would be a possible location if industry leaders supported the proposal.

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Colac primary schools cross country

Cayley Robinson — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:10:54 +0000

The Colac Herald captured all the action at the Colac Primary Schools cross country contest.

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*FRIENDS: Good friends, from left, Stephanie McGlade, Briahlee Tann, Katrina Filice, Leah Clarke and Emily Vaughan from St Mary’s Primary School enjoyed a day out at the cross country.*	*SUPPORTERS: St Mary’s Primary School pupils, from left, Jack Theodore, Jack Cronin and Riley Thompson watch their friends cross the finish line.*
*SMILE: Colac Primary School Grade Six pupils, from left, Phoenix Du, Alannah O’Donoghue, Madelyn Alexander and Paige Gray smile for a photo at the inter-primary school cross country.*	SUNNY: Enjoying the sunny weather at an inter-primary school cross country carnival are Sacred Heart Grade Six pupils, from left, Courtney Lemke, Riley Stephens, Georgia Finn and Mercedez Hickey with Colac West Grade Four pupil Ajanna Omachen.
*PODIUM: Colac South West pupil Tahlia Whytcross, centre, won the 12-year-old girls’ cross country with Sacred Heart pupils Riley Stephens, left, second and Georgia Finn, right, third.*	*NUMBER ONE: Apollo Bay Grade Six pupils, from left, Kyle Clemmens, Jacob McKenzie, Peter Zeuschner and Bayley McMullen indicated where they’d like to finish the race.*
GO WEST: Colac West Primary School pupils, back row from left, Simone McLowed, Victoria Wilcox, Hannah Lugg, Kiera Hammond, Grace Stewart and Alysha Morrow, front, Kaden Beckett, Liam Hammond and Rudi Garner.

Mates rally for sick friend

Cayley Robinson — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:20:00 +0000

A group of mates are rallying together for a Colac man suffering from a terminal illness.
The Colac Gun Club will host a fundraising shoot this weekend to raise money for shooting enthusiast and family man Glenn Hamill.
Mr Hamill suffers from inoperable brain tumours.
Best friend Jay Bethune said this weekend’s shoot and a major event in July would raise money to support Mr Hamill’s wife Sherri and children Holly, 7, and Brody, 4.
Mr Bethune said doctors operated on Mr Hamill last week.
“At the end of the day it’s an aggressive tumour, all they are doing is buying him more time for his kids,” he said.

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MATES: Rallying together in support of a mate, from left, Steve Tevelein, Mick Fenn and Jay Bethune have organised a special fundraising shoot for Glenn, Hamill who has terminal cancer.

Ambulance conflict could cause strike

Cayley Robinson — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:43:06 +0000

Colac paramedics have 12 days to vote on proposed industrial action that could result in Victoria’s first ambulance strike in 36 years.
Paramedics across Victoria received ballot papers this week after an arbitration commission granted permission for a protected action ballot.
Colac paramedics have until June 3 to vote on one of 18 actions, including strike action.

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Reward for work

Cayley Robinson — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:10:35 +0000

A busy 12 months has paid off for a Colac business woman.
Brooke Johnstone juggled studying at Geelong at night while running her business Hot As Nail Design in Colac during the day.
Miss Johnstone has won a state award for her studies and business venture that started with her doing clients’ nails in her mother’s kitchen.
Within 12 months Miss Johnstone had completed certificates in nail services, spray tans, eyelash extension, a bio-gel refresher course, Certificate III in beauty service and opened her business.
She received the Hair and Beauty Industry Association of Victoria’s award for Most Outstanding Certificate III in Beauty Services at a gala event in Melbourne.

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AWARD WINNER: Brooke Johnstone.

Station evolves its care

Cayley Robinson — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:06:13 +0000

One of Colac’s original ambulance station managers has reflected on “primitive” care, plane accidents and 50 years in the industry.
George Jackson moved from Geelong to work as a station manager at Colac’s ambulance station on June 1, 1959.
Mr Jackson said his role involved managing the station, driving the ambulance and attending to patients.
He said ambulance equipment from the ‘50s and ‘60s included oxygen and basic first aid equipment such as bandages and wooden splints.
“We didn’t have any painkillers in those days, it was very primitive,” Mr Jackson said.
Colac’s ambulance service had two ambulance vehicles, a 1958 Ford Mainline and a 1951 Ford Twin Spinner.
Mr Jackson, who now lives at Rosebud, said the Colac Ambulance Service covered an area from Winchelsea to Cressy down to “the top of the Otways”.
He said he started seeing improvements to paramedic services within his first few years in Colac.
“The doctors taught us how to look after a patient and to get them to the hospital in a better condition,” Mr Jackson said.
“In 1961 I started doing first aid classes for the locals,” he said,
Mr Jackson said he attended three plane crashes during his first six months in Colac, including an accident involving a crop duster at Cressy where the pilot walked away with minor injuries.
He said the Colac and district community supported the ambulance service after it first opened at its Connor Street station.
“A ladies’ auxiliary raised a lot of money while I was there,” he said.
Mr Jackson said ambulance officers and paramedics pushed for better training and equipment while doctors helped with training and experimented with painkillers.
He said he witnessed the industry evolve from primitive beginnings to the modern service it is today which has emerg-ency drugs and high-tech medical equipment as standard.
Mr Jackson worked as the Colac Ambulance Station manager for six years before accepting a position at Dandenong where he worked until he retired in 1990.
He said he and wife Rona and children Lynda and Andrew still had friends in Colac.

AMBULANCE HISTORY: An article in The Colac Herald on December 4, 1959, about a plane accident at Cressy, attended by Colac ambulance station manager George Jackson.

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Doctors honoured for their rural work

Cayley Robinson — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:02:48 +0000

Two Colac district doctors received honours at the Victorian Rural Doctor’s Awards.
General practit-ioners John Beaumont from Lorne and Ruth Stewart from Camperdown received awards for their outstanding contribution to rural communities.
The doctors were nominated for the award by peers, patients and community members and Victorian health minister Daniel Andrews presented the awards at a ceremony in Melbourne.
Dr Beaumont began working as a GP at Lorne 25 years ago after working in different medical specialities at hospitals in Melbourne.
He said his desire to live in the bush and love for a diversity of medical disciplines inspired him to work in a rural practice.
Dr Beaumont said a career as a rural doctor was rewarding and he recommended young doctors consider rural medicine because of the variety of work and lifestyle associated with living in the country.

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Champion’s lifetime of experience

Cayley Robinson — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:34:27 +0000

More than 50 years of showing cattle has turned Irrewillipe’s Jim Carson into a master breeder and helped him win back-to-back champion dairy cow titles.
Mr Carson has won the Champion Dairy Cow of the South-West award with his jersey cow Glenbrae Astounds Dolichos the Fourth.
Judges named the four-year-old jersey the winner after she collected more champion dairy cow titles at western district dairy shows than any other cow.
Mr Carson said Dolichos’ awards included champion cow of all breeds at the Geelong, Colac, Noorat and Warrnambool shows and reserve champion at Heytesbury and Camperdown shows.
He said she also finished second at Cobden Herd Improvement’s
all-breed on-farm challenge.
Mr Carson said he expected Dolichos, who runs in a 600 cow herd, to produce more than 8000 litres of milk this year.
The Irrewillipe dairy farmer said he had been involved in showing cows since he was a child.

WINNER: Dairy farmer Jim Carson.

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