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Felicia Chalmers

Meerkats on a charity prowl

THEIR 1988 Nissan Patrol is almost ready and their meerkat suits are complete. Now, it’s time to reach their new fundraising goal. Swan Hill’s Hadyn Bailey will take part in this year’s Variety Bash with his brother Robin Bailey and...

09 Apr 2021

Sport

More gold for Shadbolt

BEVERFORD high jumper Liam Shadbolt has done it again. The 13-year-old won high jump gold on the weekend at the 2021 Little Athletics State Track and Field Championships. It follows a string of records and gold medals at athletics events across the...

19 Mar 2021

News

Setting out on a path to truth

A TRUTH telling commission will start the healing process for many Aboriginal people, according to Wadi Wadi/Wamba Wamba woman and First Peoples’ Assembly member Jacinta Chaplin. The assembly and the Victorian Government announced...

12 Mar 2021

News

Harmony Day gears up for its comeback

Felicia ChalmersSWAN Hill Harmony Day organisers have their fingers crossed that the popular community event will make its comeback on March 27. Last year’s event was cancelled due to COVID, just two weeks before it was due to run. Since then, the...

12 Mar 2021

News

Caring for mums from Melbourne to Tanzania

NARELLE Tunks has made a treechange in a massive way, leaving her role as Nurse Unit Manager at the busy Epworth Hospital birth suite to live outside Wakool with her partner Andy. But she continues to run a Tanzanian charity, even during COVID. I’ve...

05 Mar 2021

News

Always doing good for our community

GOODIE Hiensch and her husband John moved to Ultima after semi-retiring and travelling Australia. In 2018, she drew on her own past experiences of sleeping rough to help start A Good Kitchen in Swan Hill. I volunteered for Vinnies in the op shop...

05 Mar 2021

News

Dairy innovator and loving mum

Sally Bethune is a mother of five boys, makes and markets dairy products with her husband Paul and once got a job by singing ‘I’m A Little Teapot’…Paul and I are both at management level given the size of our operation. But in the 15 years I’ve...

05 Mar 2021

News

New date for food trucks

THE Swan Hill Food Truck Festival will now be held from November 12 to 14. The festival was due to run last month, but COVID regulations meant it had to be postponed. Tickets pre-purchased for the February dates will still be valid for November. If...

05 Mar 2021

News

From IT to the building industry

MONICA Ellis is a mother of two young boys, a keen netballer and she’s just about to embark on a career in the building industry. You have been working at Swan Hill Rural City Council since 2010 in human resources and then IT. What’s the motivation...

05 Mar 2021

News

Vaccine dates still unclear

SWAN Hill’s 170 aged care residents will be the first people in our community offered the COVID vaccine. But it is still unclear exactly when that will be. The national vaccine rollout started across Australia on Monday using the...

26 Feb 2021

News

Leap with beef

HAYLEY and Matt Pattison have taken the leap into marketing their own beef, and they’re not looking back. With their young children, Troy, Levi and Zali, they farm Poll Herefords and Angus Hereford cross at their Burraboi property...

19 Feb 2021

News

Rain an ‘obvious’ choice

Felicia Chalmers WILL Balkin is an apprentice motorcycle mechanic and an aspiring Finke Desert Race rider. Now, he’s also a Heywire story writing competition winner. The 17-year-old from Moulamein was one of 35 nationwide winners announced last...

19 Feb 2021