GEELONG - If you are one of the 300 odd people fortunate enough to have obtained a ticket for this Sunday's sold-out performance by Geelong folkloric group LADO, then you're in for ''one helluva show'', says the man most responsible for teaching an entire new generation of Australian Croats the beauty and richness of Croatian folklore.

Sydney band ''StoNaSat'' last Sunday night launched a new CD album at a packed out Punchbowl Croatian Club. The Croatian Herald's social correspondent MARIJA SESAR was on hand to interview the popular ''StoNaSat'' band member and personality, Perica Frketic.

MELBOURNE - Prior to this year's Australian Open, rising young Croatian tennis star Marin Cilic had never won a match at one of the four international Grand Slam tournaments. Although not even a month into 2008, however, this year has already heralded the arrival of the Medugorje born teenager on the Men's professional circuit in a big way.

''I stress that there is no ill-feeling between the Jewish and Croatian people, but rather these false reports arise from certain individuals with their own agenda. I think that there are many similarities between the Croatian and Jewish people, one obvious being our religious beliefs regarding the old testament of the Bible, with the works of Moses and Abraham. We also fought for many years in order to have our own independent nations....''

MELBOURNE - After it was exclusively revealed in a recent edition of the 'Croatian Herald' that the Croatian Community Credit Union (CCCU) was on the verge of merging with the Ukrainian community's Karpaty Credit Union, the CCCU's chairman Milan Cindric was contacted for an interview in order to shed some more light on the burning issue.