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Family cat shot, left for dead
A COLAC family is heartbroken after a cruel pet-hater shot their family cat and left it for dead.
Young chef wants Jamie Oliver Colac visit
COLAC district teenager Troy Manning plans to open his own restaurant one day and says a Jamie Oliver pop-up kitchen would benefit Colac.
School becomes fire hazard
A COLAC woman says authorities’ neglect of former Colac High School buildings could create a fire hazard.
Colac principal at Premier’s forum
A COLAC school principal will join Premier Dennis Napthine at an education forum next week to tackle south-west Victoria’s low Year 12 retention rates.
Colac wants TV chef Jamie Oliver
COLAC community leaders are inviting celebrity chef Jamie Oliver to set up a pop-up kitchen in Colac to help fight obesity and diabetes.
Immunisations among state’s worst
ONE in eight Colac and district children start school without full immunisation, giving the shire one of the worst immunisation rates in Victoria.
Sheer luck saves crash driver
POLICE say a Melbourne woman survived a high-speed car crash south of Birregurra “by sheer luck”.
Pregnant mum flees fire
A 38-WEEKS pregnant former Colac district woman feared she would go into labour as she prepared to flee raging fires.