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Chef has big plans for Birregurra
ACCLAIMED chef Dan Hunter plans to use his culinary talent to take Birregurra to the international stage.
Teenager airlifted to hospital
PARAMEDICS airlifted a Simpson teenager to a Melbourne hospital after a single-vehicle car crash.
Sowing seeds of hope in Kenya
BIRREGURRA’S Kate Lidgerwood plans to create a permaculture garden in Kenya “big enough to feed and educate an entire school”.
‘Bright, bubbly, beautiful’ girl killed
COLAC has lost “bright, bubbly and beautiful” Chloe Holmes, 21, who died in a car crash south-west of Colac.
New Liberal MP has big job
COLAC Otway Shire mayor Lyn Russell says she looks forward to working with Liberal Sarah Henderson, who has claimed victory as the Member for Corangamite.
Henderson poised to win Corangamite
LIBERAL Sarah Henderson appears set to become the member for Corangamite and says the prospect of joining Tony Abbott’s incoming government is “exciting”.
Council inquiry still possible
A STATE politician has pushed ahead with calls for an investigation into Colac Otway Shire Council, despite a council claim he had changed his position.
Orphan joeys keep wildlife carers busy
COLAC district wildlife carers Ron and Carola Anstis have their hands full looking after eight orphaned joeys.