(From Noeline Hogan)
After 9 years as Parish Priest at East Wimmera, the longest serving Catholic priest in Birchip since Fr. John Barry’s 41 years at the start of the 20th century, Fr. Eugene McKinnon, has accepted a transfer to the Sebastopol, Redan and Linton Parish in Ballarat.

Having been appointed to many parishes in his early years as a priest, incl