03 5662 2294 www.thestar.com.au Tuesday, November 19, 2019
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IN SPORT
THE STAR WINS VICTORIAN AWARD
FUNDRAISER TO PAY MCEWEN’S LEGAL FEES
LARA LEADS THE WAY
POLICE PURSUIT Mirboo North’s Helen Davey is among the business leaders calling for more cops after her hardware shop was ram raided last week, as this CCTV footage shows. More on pages 6-7.
MEENIYAN MOURNS Brad Lester
THE South Gippsland community is in mourning after the loss of a well loved community man in a two-car collision at Leongatha yesterday (Monday). John Mackie, 79, of Meeniyan died and his wife Marilyn, 74, was taken to hospital after their vehicle collided with another car on the South Gippsland Highway just after 3am. The couple are well known throughout the region through their former business Mackies Coachlines, the Meeniyan-Dumbalk United Football Netball Club, Country Women’s Association, Red Cross, South Gippsland Historical Automobile Club and dairying. They celebrated their 50th wedding an-
niversary in 2017 and in a reflection of their community spirit, the occasion also served as a fundraiser for Red Cross. Emergency services were called to the accident on the South Gippsland Highway south of Leongatha Hospital just after 3am. Police said Mr Mackie died at the scene while Mrs Mackie was taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The driver of the other vehicle, an 18 year old man from Leongatha, was the only occupant. He was trapped and was airlifted to The Alfred Hospital. He remained in a critical condition as The Star went to print yesterday. Police were yet to determine the exact cause of the collision.
Major Collision Investigation Unit detec-tives are investigating and traffic was divertedd around the scene for some time. The Mackies’ son Robert Mackie thankedd emergency services for their assistance, in a comment on The Star’s Facebook page. Others to post comments paying tribute too John were: • Brad Takacs-Thorne: “... a good bloke inn every way.” • Janine Moscript: “Your Dad was a truee gentleman Rob.” • Wendy Brown: “I have such fond mem-ories of bus trips with them both on many y occasions.”
COMMUNITY MAN: The late Johnn Mackie.
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