20 years ago
January 7, 2000
Jobs are at risk as Geelong’s stage two water restrictions devastate gardening-based businesses across the region.
Some have laid-off workers and others yesterday warned a big drop in garden product sales could force them to close.
15 years ago
January 7, 2005
Geelong’s poorest families are digging into their life savings to help out victims hit by the Asian Tsunami as the region’s giving to two local appeals nears $200,000.
The generosity and size of donations has staggered Tsunami appeal coordinators in Geelong.
10 years ago
January 8, 2010
After years of mosquito hell on the Bellarine Peninsula residents and visitors have finally found relief this summer.
Barwon Coast Committee of Management’s Bob Jordan, who manages two caravan parks in mosquito prone wetlands at Barwon Heads and Ocean Grove, said tourists were enjoying relief since the mosquito management program was intensified.
5 years ago
January 9, 2015
A Geelong tax agent lived the highlife at Crown Casino by drawing funds from trusting clients to feed a massive gambling addiction, the Geelong Magistrates Court heard yesterday. Looking ashen faced, after a night in custody, the woman glanced over a Perspex screen toward family members as the court heard that she could have stolen up to $700,000 from clients, many of them elderly.
