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LOCATOR GEELONG WEST
ARMSTRONG CREEK
104B Shannon Ave, Geelong West
HEAD OFFICE Monday to Friday 9am-5pm Office 5229 7655 Wayne 0417 331 822
Metricon blitz NAOMI and Adam Kosic were still settling into their new Metricon-built home at Lara when devastating news struck their family. A heartbreaking diagnosis of advanced cervical cancer for 33-year-old Naomi Kosic turned the family’s new life on its head. The couple had been desperately saving to landscape their backyard for their children, aged 11 and 7, to play in when the news struck. An initially grim prognosis gave Naomi anywhere between six months and five years to live so she underwent immediate chemotherapy and radiation treatment. The spirited Naomi is doing her best to retain an ordinary life, continuing to volunteer for Gee-
long West St Peter’s Sports Club when she can. “It’s important for our children to live life like normal. I’m a really positive person and a gogetter so it takes a lot to get me down!” she said. It was at the sports club that Naomi’s story inspired fellow parent and Metricon sales and marketing manager Simon Lofts to hatch an idea. Simon and Metricon general manager Phil Barrett arranged for the company’s 15 site managers to perform a “backyard blitz” makeover worth about $9000 of Naomi and Adam’s yard. “This will at least give this family a better quality of life. It was also a great team-building exercise for the builders,” Phil said.
Metricon gained project contributions from Shojun Concrete, Carpet Call, Flinstones Gardens Supplies, Dulux Barwon Timber, Hardings Hardware, Bunnings, Halliday’s Heating and Cooling, Grossmans Sand and Soil, Southern Star Windows, Claytons Kitchens, Ecowaste, Anco Seed and Turf, Bowens Timbertruss, Dahlsons, Dunnies R Us, Leprechaun Landscaping and Faggs Mitre 10. Naomi and Adam are grateful and humbled by the generosity of Metricon and the community. “Vitamin D is really important during the treatment and it will be nice to relax out there with the kids,” Naomi grinned.
ESTUARY ESTATE
Lot 1041 Barwon Heads Road
Leopold - The Cooland Estuary Estate - 22 Parafin Drive Torquay - Surfview Estate Torquay - The Hurcules, 8 Eton Road 12pm-5pm
Jason Cantrell 0418 825 820 Richard Maultby 0408 243 624
LEOPOLD
LEOPOLD
KENSINGTON ESTATE
ESTUARY ESTATE
Christies Road, Leopold Mel Ref: 454 H11 Open Monday-Friday 12pm-5pm Saturday & Sunday 11am-5pm
28 Paraffin Drive, Leopold Mel Ref: 468 C6 Open Friday to Wednesday 12pm-5pm
Phone 9328 0320 www.burbank.com.au
Sales Enquiries: 0408 424 871 www.hotondo.com.au
TORQUAY
LARA
WARRALILY ESTATE Monday-Friday 12-5pm, Saturday-Sunday 11-5pm
www.vinmarhomes.com.au
Phil Barrett, Simon Lofts, Naomi Kosic, Adam Kosic and Scott Svoboda at the Metricon home, Lara.
GEELONG BELLARINE SURF COAST
LARA
Phone 5221 1447 www.gjgardner.com.au
CURLEWIS
CURLEWIS PARKS ESTATE 34 & 36 Anstead Ave
Open 7 days 12 Noon-5pm Phone: Chad Baker 0433 220 998 Jared Baily 0401 867 797 www.hotondo.com.au
LEOPOLD
THE QUAY ESTATE
GRAND LAKES
Longshore Street, Torquay Mel Ref: 493 G12 Open Mon-Thurs 12pm-5pm Saturday & Sunday 11am-5pm
East Lakes Boulevard, Lara Open weekdays 1pm-5pm Weekends 12pm-5pm
Mel Ref: 468 C6 Open Mon-Fri 12pm-5pm Saturday & Sunday 11am-5pm
Phone 5282 4549 or 5282 5807 www.dennisfamily.com.au
Shayne Jenkins 0423 616 227 Georgia Pohlman 0423 033 059
Phone 9328 0339 www.burbank.com.au
PARAFFIN DRIVE
METRICON
www.metricon.com.au
1054420-KG47-12
1053462-KG47-12
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