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The Wichita songman

19/4/2014

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PicturePhoto: Bernadette Walker
Composer Larry Hills draws on his American heritage of choral singing to delve deep into the history of his adopted Australian community. ​


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A woman of the world

8/3/2014

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Cherie Smirl wanted to make a difference in the world but before she could do that she had to come to terms with her own place in it.


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A citizen of the Powlett

8/2/2014

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​Paul Speirs realised he couldn’t save the world but he could help to save his own catchment, taking nature as his guide. ​


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South Gippsland Snapshots

30/1/2014

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On Australia Day, GILL HEAL celebrated those who grasp the opportunity to make a difference.
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Joan and Gordon Henry preserved the last of the Bass Valley ecosystem . Photo courtesy of Landcare

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Reading between the lines

21/12/2013

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GILL HEAL looks back at the first 18 months of the Bass Coast Post and sees democracy at work, with its rights and obligations.

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The great defender

16/11/2013

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From the personal to the political, Hazel Swift walks a straight line. Gill Heal meets a woman known to many simply as The Cat Lady.


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Not a blackboard in sight

18/10/2013

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PictureJack, front, and Cade on their Claymation set.
When students turn teachers, new worlds open for the teachers and the taught. A visit to Bass Valley Primary School was a lesson in learning for former teacher Gill Heal.


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The outside view

5/10/2013

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Photo: Jim McFarlane
Twenty photographers, 20 perspectives shot over two weekends ... MAPping Wonthaggi takes a fresh look at our familiar world. ​

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The alchemy of light

21/9/2013

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The films were always wonderful but what he loved most was the flickering beam that came from the projectionist’s room. Keith Stevens looks back on a lifetime in cinema. ​


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Welcome to our house

31/8/2013

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PictureJan Bourne and LearnShare facilitator Lee Dent.
Sparks can fly – in the best sense – when people work together, Jan Bourne believes. ​


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The search for order

30/6/2013

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PictureHartley Tobin
Meryl and Hartley Tobin’s passions are very different, but they both bring a meticulous approach to their subjects.


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Someone to watch over us

9/6/2013

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When the unthinkable happens and people are trapped in mangled cars, members of Loch’s rescue unit are quickly on the scene. Gill Heal spoke to one family who will never forget their kindness to a loved son and brother. ​

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A pearler, stitch by thrilling stitch

19/5/2013

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PictureDress: Anna Kentwell; model: Brittany Watters; photographer: Holly Parker; artistic director: Caleb Hooke.
Anna Kentwell’s seaweed dress encrusted with pearls nestled in flowers of coral was a labour of love and imagination. ​


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Back from the brink

26/4/2013

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PictureTom Loughridge, 1969
They left for Vietnam as boys and returned a year later as battle-scarred men. Gill Heal reports on one man's experience of trying to settle back into a life of farming and footy.


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Throwing caution to the wind

6/4/2013

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There is a tide in the affairs of man, Shakespeare reckoned, and you only get one chance to catch it. Liz Alger was determined not to miss her chance.​

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The charm of the temporary masterpiece

20/2/2013

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By Gill Heal

“SAND is solid,” says sand sculptor, Ricardo Alves-Ferreira. “The trick is to make it look ethereal.” And over days and even weeks he wields a variety of tiny palette knives, smoothing, cutting, rendering, carving tonnes of wet sand to achieve just that result.


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Courage under fire

3/2/2013

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As Bass Coast’s volunteer firefighters face one of the most dangerous fire seasons in years, Gill Heal asks what motivates them to put their lives on the line for strangers.
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Wonthaggi firefighters pictured at the site of their new fire station in White Road. From left, Alistair Lowe, Nathan Stebbin, Stuart Zaffrese, Kim O’Connor, Tye Donohue, Peter Schmidt (CFA regional director), Stephen Piasente, Damian O’Connor, Paul Kennedy, Andrew McCormick, Kathryn Sloan and Michelle Koralewski.

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Salt of the earth

13/1/2013

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For almost a century, Harry Cleeland and Cape Woolamai were inseparable. Gill Heal recalls a gentle, graceful man much of whose life was governed by the sea but who
admitted he preferred to stick to shore. ​


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The show must go on

8/12/2012

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When a regional show official said his show was the only one in South Gippsland that would survive, Rosemary Loughnan decided to prove him wrong. Thirty-five years 
later, the Bass Coast Summer Agricultural Show goes from strength to strength.


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A man of many parts

13/10/2012

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PictureStanley McGeagh and Judy John
Born in Belfast, trained in a British drama school, actor Stanley McGeagh has naturally got plenty of the blarney. He’s also a fair dinkum Gippslander, reports Gill Heal .


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An open mind goes with the territory

22/9/2012

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Former full-time political activist Moragh McKay has found common ground with Bass Coast farmers through her work with Landcare. 


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Raise the curtain and let the magic begin

15/8/2012

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Six musicals in seven years and every one a triumph. Gill Heal wonders how Wonthaggi Theatre Group director Karen Milkins Hendry does it. ​


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Land of hope and toil

20/7/2012

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For Les Kirk, schoolbooks never stood a chance against the allure of a Fergie tractor. In the first of a new series of profiles, Gill Heal reports on a man who’s part of a Krowera farming dynasty.


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