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Filmmaker’s dedication to honouring great people
Emerging Apollo Bay filmmaker Jackson Hayat wants “honouring people doing great things” to take centre stage during his career in the industry.
PHOTO FEATURE: Auskick and Net-Set-Go action at Birregurra
The Colac Herald’s photographer Joel King stopped by the junior sport at Birregurra last Thursday.
Speeder had cannabis in system
A young mother caught driving with cannabis in her system on the way to a funeral won’t drive for the next year.
Larpent digs in preparing for national ploughing titles
Competitive ploughers from across Australia will keep tradition alive when they converge on the Colac district for national and state championships this week.
Special milestone for water watchers
A community water monitoring program has celebrated 30 years in the Colac district.
ARTS FOCUS: Each piece has its own beauty
Lorne artist Andrew Allen says his stoneware pottery is so much more than just an object to drink and eat out of, designing each piece with its own individual beauty.
Learning on the job
Seamus Fillmore doesn’t view his move back to Apollo Bay as a break from study after deferring a university course to work in a field close to his heart and grow his knowledge on the job.
School bands create special bond
Connecting two school bands in the district is helping budding young musicians from Apollo Bay and Colac learn under new mentors and have a new platform to perform.