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17 hours of heroic efforts By Abbey Cannan It was a night four paramedics won’t forget, working 17 hours straight on a cargo ship out to sea where they managed to bring a man back from the dead multiple times. It was a crisis scenario beyond a worst nightmare when a patient went into cardiac arrest multiple times out on an international vessel. Continue page 3
Brad Stokes, Prudence Snedden, and Joshua Lee have been named as finalists in the prestigious state-wide 2022 QBANK Everyday Heroes Awards.
Queen of the surf By Phil Jarratt
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When Peppie Simpson paddled out into raging seas near Port Macquarie for her final at the Australian Surfing Championships last month, a large dolphin jumped right in front of her and she knew everything was going to be OK. “No, no, I didn’t think it was an omen that
I was going to win the title,” she laughs, back home in Noosa. “I just knew I would be safe, that my board wouldn’t snap and I’d make it back to shore in one piece.” But of course she won – Peppie usually does – and added the Over 60s Australian Women’s
Longboard trophy to the Over 50s one she picked up in 2019, not to mention the dozens of senior women’s titles she’s won up and down the coast over the past couple of decades. As her fellow competitors will tell you, when Peppie pulls on the contest jersey she’s a force to be reckoned with.
But it’s more a love of the ocean than of competing that drives this 62-year-old grandmother. “I’m not really competitive by nature but I have the ability to focus when I’m in a comp and that helps,” she says. Continue page 4