Russell Barker is a charter member of the Hellyer Brigade, and over his 40 years has seen fire fighting methods change dramatically. “When I first started all we had was beaters to bash the flames out and knapsacks,” he said. The equipment was less than ideal, with the beaters being made up of sticks with leather scraps on the end, with firefighters flapping the sticks at the flames in the...

Kerrie Fraser began her tenure at Kingston Bros 50 years ago, and has given 48 years of service in her time since. After leaving school in 1971 Kerrie picked up a job in the office at Kingston’s working alongside Shirley Cameron as she picked up the basics of running the books of the business. “When I started they had me on one of those real old manual accounting machines that take up half the...

Sarah Prior fell in love with Marrawah the second she saw it. Originally hailing from Northern California Sarah has lived all over the world, calling Marrawah home since 2007. First hitting the surf scene at 17, Sarah says she was a latecomer to the water having lived in forested  and rural areas growing up. Moving to Santa Barbara with a friend Sarah fell in love with the ocean and so...

The Circular Head Pony Club has assembled its team for the Prince Phillip Mounted Games north west zone competition set to be held in Inglis in mid May. The games consists of a number of different games and disciplines completed by the team in competition with other clubs, and is hotly contested each year. This season the club heads into the contest with one of its stronger teams to date, with...

Circular Head local Tessa Moodie is putting Circular Head, Tasmania and the courage of all survivors of family violence on the national map. From an early background of family violence Tessa has grown as a survivor to become a voice for those waiting to be heard. Tessa works as the Project Coordinator for Engender Equality Advocates for Change, initially starting out as an Advocate for Change...