Articles tagged: Milestones

Events celebrate school centenary
Camperdown College will celebrate 100 years of providing higher education to the community this weekend with an array of exciting events at the school.

Big birthday for juice bar
Colac’s Take A Break café will celebrate its second birthday this month with a range of great specials, as its owner reflects on an eventful two years.

Bulla site celebrates birthday milestone
Bulla’s chilled operations plant in Colac’s Forest Street really is the cream of the crop of Australia’s dairy industry.

Colac postie’s historic day
Wayne Ladhams has seen it all in 50 years as a Colac postie, but he says it’s the people who have made the job worthwhile.

Forty years of historical work for group
A Colac history group has reached its own historic moment.

Ringing in a huge milestone
It there’s one thing you can count on in Colac, it’s that the church bells will ring out at 10.57am every Sunday.

Country concert back at Colac
Colac Comeback Country will return this weekend, just in time to celebrate the music group’s 25th anniversary.

COPACC celebrations continue with radio coverage
Colac’s arts centre’s 20th birthday celebrations this week continue with a history exhibition and a morning of radio broadcasts.

COPACC is still the ‘jewel in the crown’ after 20 years
Theatre, gallery, meeting place, cinema, council chambers, emergency hub and COVID vaccination site. Colac’s arts centre has been all this and more.

Exhibition celebrates COPACC’s big birthday
Colac’s arts centre is celebrating its 20th birthday with an exhibition looking back on the past two decades of arts in Colac.

Couple’s love lasts a lifetime
It was the spring of 1955 when John and Fay Higgins first became acquainted at Colac Presbyterian Church.

Crossing guard still going strong after 35 years
Colac’s Lorraine Black has helped generations of children get to school safely in her 35 years as a school crossing supervisor - a “lollipop lady”.

100 YEARS OLD: World peace wish for birthday
A WINCHELSEA woman who served as a nurse in the Second World War hopes for continued world peace as she enters the second century of her life.

DIAMOND DUO: Colac husband and wife mark 60th anniversary
A COLAC husband and wife have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with family and friends.

Yacht club set for milestone celebration
COLAC Yacht Club leaders hope to attract more than 100 past and present members for the club’s 130-year anniversary celebration in April.

Tennis legend retires after six decades
GEORGE HUGGINS has been the heart and soul of tennis at Elliminyt for more than 60 years.

Colac man’s long-distance charity cycle
A COLAC man will cycle from Adelaide to Geelong in support of young people with disabilities.

Roo set to make history with 100th goal for season
SOUTH COLAC forward Ben Cox is on track to become just the 20th footballer in Colac District Football League history to reach triple figures.

Blue to hang up boots after 600-game career
A 600-GAME football career evokes fond memories for Winchelsea stalwart Trevor Wilson.

Milestone for decorated goaler
NETBALLER Amy Ellis says winning a eighth club premiership in 2015 would be a fitting way to end to a memorable career with Colac Imperials.

Milestone game for Eagle
A WESTERN EAGLES netballer has an astonishing record for someone who only picked up the sport in her late teens.

First coach has fond memories of club
THE WESTERN EAGLES’ first senior football coach says he has fond memories from his time at the Irrewillipe-based club.

Colac cyclist celebrates 100th birthday
CHAMPION Colac cyclist Les Parker will turn 100 tomorrow, and credits his long life to an active lifestyle.

Milestone celebration for champion shooter
CHAMPION Colac Shooter Keith Hay has spent over 53 of his 90 years as captain of the same sporting team.

