Oral History / Friligianika

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History > Oral History

submitted by Clarence River Historical Society on 30.05.2006

Spiro Notaras, carried the Torch into the City of Grafton

"Even today I realise the honour the Council placed on me to carry the Torch.

My involvement with the Olympic Torch Relay commenced in early 1956, when Councils ‘YiI asked for potential runners who could run one mile in under six minutes to nominate.

At the time I was involved in various sporting organisations, firstly the Woolgoolga Surf Life Saving Club which in the summer months I competed in beach sprinting, swimming and rowing. In the winter I played rugby ...