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Woman Of The Year By Sarah STOKES
ANNA Bay’s Carmel Northwood has been named as Port Stephens Woman of the Year. Kate Washington, MP, presented Carmel with the NSW Government award at a ceremony on Friday. Carmel is the President of Port Stephens Koalas and dedicates endless hours to caring and saving koalas from extinction. Since joining the organisation in 2010, Carmel has worked with Port Stephens Council to regenerate koala food corridors as well as representing Port Stephens Koalas at the NSW Wildlife Council. Carmel is also involved in a lot of the administration, working as a koala educator as well as helping to progress
the plans for a local koala hospital. This week Carmel will attend the NSW Local Woman of the Year Award with Kate Washington for the next round. Kate Washington told News Of The Area: “Carmel shows so much dedication to the job of saving Port Stephens’ koalas.” Kate also spoke of how Carmel and the team’s work is amazing in the effort, care and kindness they show. The public’s awareness and concern of the koala’s plight has grown immensely in recent years. In the past five years, koala numbers have dropped from 1200 to 200 – an enormous fall. The work is often heartbreaking as not all the
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Carmel Northwood with Kate Washington MP.
Mission Accomplished
By Jo FINN
THE first thing you notice about John Coutis is certainly not what you remember him
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When John was born he was “the size of a drink bottle” and his legs were rendered useless.
The doctors told his parents that he was going to die. As John, now 47, made abundantly clear to the
enthralled students at St Michael’s Primary School, “I love it when the doctors get it wrong.” Thirty years ago, John
made the choice to have his legs amputated, seeing them as a hindrance. Now his mode of transport is a pretty cool
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