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Call to introduce child protection

By Loretta Wilmink • Nov 12th, 2008 • Category: Diversions, News

A Colac youth housing officer wants state and federal governments to introduce child protection workers into schools to help prevent homelessness.Time for Youth housing support worker Teresa Robertson helps Colac and district youths aged between 15 and 25 stay off the streets.“My core business is to keep youths out of the homelessness service sector,” Ms [...]



Timboon students finished in top 10

By Loretta Wilmink • Nov 12th, 2008 • Category: Diversions, News

Timboon college students have finished in the top 10 per cent at a national mathematics problem solving competition.Timboon P-12 College maths teacher Lynn McDonald said Year Eight students finished in the top 111 schools at the Australasian Maths Olympiad.Ms McDonald said the Year Eight students had to complete five problem solving activities for the Olympiad.“I [...]



High-flying competitors

By Stephanie Gaut • Nov 5th, 2008 • Category: Diversions, News

A Colac district teenager who enters her dog in jumping contests for fun has finished second in a state competition.Alvie’s Tearnu Graham and her dog Dusty contested a Victorian dog jump competition at the Geelong Show. Tearnu and Dusty finished second in the state final of their section of the dog jump competition.Tearnu, 17, said [...]



Young leaders will receive awards

By Stephanie Gaut • Nov 5th, 2008 • Category: Diversions, News

More than 20 Colac and district secondary college students are among about 1200 students across Australia who will receive a leadership award. Eight Colac and district schools have nominated 24 students for the Australian Defence Force’s Long Tan Leadership and Teamwork award.The awards, named after the Battle of Long Tan, recognise values such as determination, [...]



Highest honour for Colac Scout

By Loretta Wilmink • Oct 29th, 2008 • Category: Diversions, News

Colac’s Ben Cardinal has received Scouts Australia’s highest award, the Queen’s Scout.Ben, 18, received his award from the Governor and Chief Scout of Victoria Professor David de Kretser.“It’s an achievement. It’s good to be the first one in 27 years to get it in the Colac region,” he said.Ben, the son of Carolyn and Cliff [...]



Lasers will light up music

By Stephanie Gaut • Oct 22nd, 2008 • Category: Diversions, News

Organisers of Camperdown’s Corefest will introduce a new laser show at Friday night’s concert.The dance room at Corefest will house the new laser effects and a DJ will play popular dance music as an alternative for the younger Colac and district revellers.Corangamite Shire Council’s cultural development officer Catherine O’Flynn said the dance room would have [...]



Waste-wise college awarded

By Georgina Howden-Chitty • Oct 22nd, 2008 • Category: Diversions, News

A Colac district school has received acknowledgment for reducing waste.Apollo Bay P-12 College has received Waste Wise Certification through Barwon Regional Waste Management Group.The school’s sustainable schools co-ordinator for the Aussie Vic Program Peter Geekie said waste-minimisation practices were “an integral part” of the school’s operations.“Environmental education is a part of our curriculum and is [...]



Help student to help

By Stephanie Gaut • Oct 8th, 2008 • Category: Diversions, News

A Colac Year 12 student needs Colac and district residents’ help to fund an overseas aid trip later this year.Trinity College’s Sophie Hampshire has raised about half of the $2000 she will need to cover her costs when she goes to Samoa at the end of the year.Sophie, 17, said her trip to Samoa was [...]



Support has paid off

By Cayley Robinson • Oct 8th, 2008 • Category: Diversions, News

Helping a secondary school student raise money to attend a science forum has paid off for Colac’s Shaylah Black, 10.Shaylah won first prize in a raffle raising money to help Colac Secondary College student Sean Richardson, 17, attend the National Youth Science Forum next January.Colac West Rotary Club is sponsoring Sean’s trip to the Canberra [...]



Teens choose headline act

By Loretta Wilmink • Oct 1st, 2008 • Category: Diversions, News

Melbourne rock band The Getaway Plan will headline Camperdown’s Corefest 08.Corangamite Shire Council cultural development officer Catherine O’Flynn said The Getaway Plan won a vote by the shire’s young people to play at this year’s gig.“Out of more than 300 votes, The Getaway Plan won by 28 votes,” Ms O’Flynn said.“The Galvatrons came second,” she [...]