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  • Teacher leaves Colac to help NT youths

    COLAC teacher Mick McCrickard is moving to the Northern Territory to help indigenous youths, ending 16 years of work at a Colac school.

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  • Welfare worry as Colac’s jobless rate hits 9.1 per cent

    COLAC’S unemployment rate has hit 9.1 per cent, four points higher than in 2010 and more than three percentage points higher than the national rate.

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  • Cancer centre appeal gathers momentum

    COLAC people have thrown support behind a new cancer centre fundraiser, with families and businesses helping to raise more than $80,000 in four months.

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  • Stay patient in busy holiday traffic: police

    COLAC district police officers are urging motorists to be patient while driving this festive season.

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  • Loving daughter crusades for dementia awareness

    FORREST’S Helen Speirs says she wants people to have a better understanding of dementia, a disease which her mother Shirley has battled for the past six years.

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  • Young volunteers keeping beach safe

    APOLLO BAY will rely on a young brigade of volunteers to patrol its beach this summer.

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  • District reindeer make special deliveries for Christmas

    REINDEER on a Colac district farm are giving birth in time for Christmas.

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  • ‘Last-resort’ options to escape bushfires

    BIRREGURRA, Gellibrand and Beeac have new “last-resort” options for bushfire shelter, after five years of planning and lobbying.

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