A former Colac woman says it was an honour to be in central Victoria to help people during the Black Saturday bushfires. Susanne Maguire, nee Spokes, lives at Inverleigh and is a volunteer with the Country Fire Authority’s Inverleigh Rural Fire Brigade. Mrs Maguire has multiple sclerosis but does [...]

1. When I was about six we lived on a farm and I fell into arsenic sheep dip. It was pretty bad. 2. My older brother drowned when I was seven. That’s why I don’t like people mucking around with water.
3. When I was eight years old I had septic arthritis [...]

A former Colac couple is living in Ireland and touring Europe. Cassie and Greg Hammond moved to Dublin a year and a half ago. “We were retracing roots for Greg,” Mrs Hammond said. “We wanted to visit where his dad was born and meet his family [...]

1. I am a certified level-one snowboard instructor. I have been snowboarding for 12 years and I’ve never had any injuries from it.
2. I have travelled around most of Europe and lived overseas in the UK, Canada and America. I have worked at four different ski resorts; Whistler and Big White in Canada, [...]

Two former Colac men are working as avionics technicians with the Royal Australian Air Force. Steve Hicks and Evan Legg enlisted for the air force on the same day and are working at Edinburgh, near Adelaide. Mr Hicks, 24, and Mr Legg, 21, joined the air force in August [...]

A former Colac woman has completed a university degree and offered advice to Colac and district students considering further education. Courtney Audsley appeared in The Colac Herald as a primary school pupil in 1999 when she participated in a University of New South Wales computer skills competition. [...]

A former Colac printer is enjoying life at Warrnambool without letting poor health hold him back. Charlie Keane lived in Colac and managed Colac Herald Commercial Printing for 13 years until 2004. Mr Keane’s wife Glenda was a typesetter and graphic designer at the Colac Herald and the couple’s [...]

A former Colac worker said friends, family and fond memories of working in Colac drew him back to his former home every year. Bruce Missen of Brighton in Adelaide was born at Beeac in 1931 and suffered from hereditary deafness from birth. The youngest son of Felix and Ida [...]

The daughter of a former Colac football coach has made her home in the part of Australia known as the heart of Australia Felix. Sharon Gill, the daughter of Denis and Margaret Morrissy, lives in Casterton in Western Victoria. “Although I have lived in this area for a [...]

A former Colac radio announcer is now a presenter on one of Australia’s top radio sports programs. Former 3CS radio announcer Dan Lonergan now lives in Melbourne and is a sports presenter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Grandstand program. Lonergan worked at 3CS Colac as a newsreader, [...]