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Trading Up By Geoff WALKER IT is becoming more common for females to launch themselves into the ‘down and dirty’ careers once reserved for men. Olivia McDonald from Lemon Tree Passage, a year 10 student at Hunter River High sees a possible future as a motor mechanic. “My father is into tow trucks and I enjoy helping him,” she said. “I’m very grateful for being given the opportunity of work experience at Tanilba Bay Automotive. This way I can see what it’s really like to be a mechanic.” Meanwhile, year 11 Tomaree High student Toby White has already made up his mind. “I just love cars,” he said. “I help my dad and would very much like to follow this pathway in life.”
q Toby White and Olivia McDonald with Cathy Murray: young people eager to learn a trade.
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Neighbourhood Watch By Rachael VAUGHAN
NEIGHBOURHOOD Watch was an initiative that was run actively in towns Australia wide, for the better part of the 80s and 90s.
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Long term Medowie residents will remember the successful and passionate team of residents and community members who ran the Medowie Neighbourhood
Watch and associated Safety House program right up until 2009. Medowie’s Neighbourhood Watch committee was the last NHW committee to operate formally in the Port Stephens
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the program fold, but there is potential for a revisit to the days of the old Medowie Neighbourhood Watch with a Port Stephens Councillor CONTINUED Page 2
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