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Collapse Issue 408 - 12 Dec 2016Issue 408 - 12 Dec 2016
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Council refuses Patonga Hotel proposal
Dot celebrates 103 years
Campaign to eliminate plastics bags and water bottles
Bank branch reports sixth consecutive profit
Properties top $1 million in the past month
Peninsula fares well in planning backlog
Sewerage completed at Empire Bay
Four people washed off rocks
Three marine rescues
Time to investigate best solar power deals
Jenna to depart on Rotary exchange
Residents to have say on project priority
Monitoring requested for tennis courts
Five residential units approved for Ettalong
Shops converted to restaurant
President receives certificate
Action group calls for safer roads
PCYC buys archery gear
Marine Rescue life membership granted
Mary Mac's plans Christmas lunch
Christmas activities at shopping centre
Donations accepted for 'giving tree'
Christmas gifts wanted
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Money under the mattress?
It just keeps on getting worse
Hazardous tree needs immediate removal
Replace bureaucrats with workers, or forget the charade
No footpath
Stop bickering and get on with the job
Opportunity to focus on regional plan
Motorway project caused rail underpass canning
Is this what we call democracy?
Donald and Daffy turning in their graves
Vote for fresh ideas for the whole Coast
It don't seem much like Christmas
Same predicament as 12 years ago
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Launch attracts 200 people
Carols at Hardys Bay
Wagstaffe hosts Australia Day events
Four works chosen for Little Theatre season
Award for distinguished service
Raffle raises money for brigade
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Students may miss out if absent on first day
School wins prize for champion steer
School releases second cookbook
Funds for pedestrian safety
Class celebrates disability day
PCYC hosts Year 2 students
Stage 2 students' Christmas party
Students perform two plays
New sunshade for Pretty Beach
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Liesl Tesch wins Paralympic accolades
Trent Buhagiar extends his contract
Jemma is junior sports person of the year
Regional swim championship held at Woy Woy
Old surf club seeks new members
Age group winners in Sydney
Surf club has charity golf day
Jingle to be played at Peninsula pool
Volunteer of the month
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Surf club numbers were boosted by league players

Award for distinguished service

A Pearl Beach resident Professor Emerita Jill Roe has been awarded the Australian Dictionary of Biography Medal for long and distinguished service.

Prof Roe has written a biography of Miles Franklin, an Australian writer and founder of the Miles Franklin Prize for Australian literature.

Prof Roe acquired a cottage in Pearl Beach which was modernised in 2003 and since then has been her permanent home which she shares with historian Ms Bev Kingston.

Ms Roe was a founding member of staff at Macquarie University, where she taught British, Australian, and social policy history and supervised numerous research theses.

She also served on many committees and was Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University 1994-95 and later head of modern history at Macquarie, a position she held until retirement in 2002.

Her work on her personal history of the Eyre Peninsula where she was born, Our Fathers Cleared the Bush, was recently published.

Ms Roe's association with the Australian Dictionary of Biography dates back to her undergraduate days at the University of Adelaide.

Her first article for the dictionary on writer Ada Cambridge was published in 1969 when she was teaching history at Macquarie University.

Since then she has written another 19 articles on a wide range of characters.

Ms Roe was awarded the medal at a ceremony at Woy Woy Hospital.

Dr Chris Cuneen, from the Australian Dictionary of Biography Revised Project at Macquarie University, reading the citation said: "As an active member of the ADB's New South Wales Working party from 1988, Ms Roe has exercised exemplary committee skills in what was often a vigorous debating process.

"Ms Roe's long and distinguished connection with the ADB makes her a worthy recipient of the ADB medal."





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