Our Stories Part 5

Community Stories Continue

In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s the community runs a Miss Deans Marsh competition and one of the contestants ends up in the Miss Australia pageant, The Martians baseball team begins, the Hall committee buys more land – and then sells it, the Deans Marsh Community Cottage is created and Deans Marsh experiences the Ash Wednesday bush fires.

Throughout the 1960s and 70s as part of the annual Sports Day/Gymkhana, Miss Deans Marsh competitions were held. The 1963 winner Melva Armistead went on to compete in the Miss Australia contest. From the 1970s Miss Deans Marsh ran competitions in the lead up to Sports Day for both young women, and for the younger girls. Keep reading…