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Phil Kettle

Driving change after surviving violence

ON January 26 in 2023, Conor Pall’s mother accepted on behalf of her son the Mildura Young Citizen of the Year Award. The award highlights the importance of young people leading local, grassroots initiatives to push for change. Mr Pall...

19 Jan 2025

Community

Her blood is Italian, but her heart is Australian

Petronella Cavallaro is a well-known local identity that has a passion for family, art and life. By Phil KettleLIKE many other Italian families, Petronella Cavallaro’s kin left Calabria out of need rather than from want. And like a lot of other...

12 Jan 2025

Community

Motorbikes, trains and planes: the Ian Crump story

THE Crump name is synonymous with motorcycle speedway. Phil Crump a legend of speedway, not only in Mildura and Australia but also internationally. Phil’s son Jason who followed his father into motorcycle speedway and went on to win...

05 Jan 2025

Lifestyle

Confidence is the expectation of a positive outcome

SUE Watson recognised from an early age, that some of life’s events impact on your health and wellbeing, whether the event happened to you or a loved one. “A traumatic event in your life can cause a variety of difficulties and may...

22 Dec 2024

Lifestyle

Writing without fear, editing without mercy

One of the region’s greatest journalist’s looks back and where he’s come from, and where he’s going. ALAN Erskine’s career as a journalist spanned about 50 years, beginning at the Sunraysia Daily as a cadet, where as he said he had...

15 Dec 2024

News

Living a busy life

THERE are very few times in life when you can walk away from meeting a person for the first time and be in total awe of them. At 91, Elwyn Frankel is such a person. While Elwyn may not have lived life in fast lane, she has and is still...

08 Dec 2024

Lifestyle

It’s all about having heart

TEN years ago this week, Graeme Tulloch was doing what he did as part of his normal day-to-day personal fitness routine, and that was to go for a bike ride. Little did he know then that it was going to be a life-changing ride that would...

01 Dec 2024

News

When life is about facing the music

FOR Rick Stephens, a life without music would be a life without emotion, something more and more relevant in today’s modern world where a lot of us don’t like to say what we feel. Instead, we go to music to help us through what we don’t understand...

24 Nov 2024

News

For the love of coffee

MANY of us love coffee! There is no doubt about that. Apparently, three in every for Australians, or 75 per cent, enjoy at least one cup of coffee per day, and 28 per cent of those that partake in consumption of a coffee drink three or...

17 Nov 2024

News

About the Red Cliffs District Historical Society

THE society was formed following a public meeting in 1984 to fulfil the role of preserving and recording the history of Red Cliffs and district. Initially the meetings were held at the town’s RSL but in 1994 members were granted...

10 Nov 2024

News

Family remembers contribution

REMEMBERANCE Day from this year on, will have significantly more meaning for the descendants of Archilles John Lawrence Daunt. Linda Hickey, who is one of Mr Daunt’s grandchildren who have made the trip back to Red Cliffs to present...

10 Nov 2024

News

A familiar voice to many

PAT Silcox, the newly appointed operations co-ordinator at Mildura’s 106.7 Hot FM, describes himself as being a radio nerd for as long as he can remember but with an unbridled passion for the airwaves. “I’ve always had a love for...

26 Oct 2024