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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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  • Residents celebrate honour of top street

    FORBES STREET residents are celebrating their efforts to maintain and improve their gardens and homes after claiming the honour of living in Colac’s Street of the Year.

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  • Objectors pleased with quarry’s permit rejection

    COLAC OTWAY Shire councillors have voted to deny a planning permit for a proposed quarry at Birregurra, to the delight of Birregurra landowners.

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  • Six-month funding reprieve for Colac youth worker

    COLAC’S youth worker role will continue for the next six months despite a lack of State Government funding, Colac Area Health’s chief says.

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  • First stage of highway opens at Waurn Ponds

    ROADS officials unveiled the first section of the Princes Highway duplication between Winchelsea and Geelong this week.

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