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Phil Kettle

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

Community

Making a difference with bat and ball

GROWING up in the 1960s in Cardross, my summers, for me and like a lot of others that I grew up with were totally dominated by cricket. The Cardross Cricket Club was an intrinsic part of our community, as I’m guessing it was for all the other teams...

13 Oct 2024

Community

Water life to world stage

“I ALWAYS knew there was something more than just being born, growing up, getting married, having kids, then dying.”For Trevor Perry there has been and still is. Mr Perry is living a life that even he as a young boy couldn’t have...

08 Sep 2024

Arts & Entertainment

From the local Eisteddfod stage to Broadway

“Without doubt I owe a lot to the teachers and members of the Preforming Arts Community of Mildura,” said Earl Marrows. He was born in Mildura in 1995, the middle child of Mark and Jo Marrows.“My two brothers and I had the most amazing life growing...

25 Aug 2024

Business

Leading the charge of corporate change

ANNE Ward says that she owes a lot of what she has achieved to her parents who would always tell her that being a girl meant that there were no limitations or restraints on what she could achieve. She grew up on a fruit block at Cardross, attended...

18 Aug 2024