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Wednesday 22 March 2023
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Theo lands the winner Theo Pearson, 9, had a lot to celebrate this week after winning two categories in the Dawnbreakers annual Snapper Cup competition. Theo won the awards in the junior section of Saturday night’s prizegiving ceremony – Heaviest Gurnard and Third Heaviest Snapper. His fish weighed in at 940 grams and 6.18kg respectively. Theo’s mum Anita says he was chuffed and surprised with the wins. While it wasn’t the most successful day of fishing, with plenty of anglers not landing a single fish on the 4 March competition day, the handful of fish that Theo’s boat landed was enough to net the win. Dawnbreakers competition master Gareth Nicholson said on the evening that, while there were less fish
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Theo Pearson, 9, took out two award categories in the Dawnbreakers 2023 Snapper Cup. Photo: Supplied.
Tania Levett yelled at her two children and threw her arm in front of them to stop them heading over a pedestrian crossing in Richmond when a driver ran a red light. She says impatient drivers are increasingly racing through the lights after they go red at the same time pedestrians get the ‘green man’ to cross, and says it is dangerous. Tania and her children aged eight and 10 were crossing over Gladstone Road at the intersection with Queen St when a car raced through on red. “The green man came up and we all started to go, then I looked up and realised a guy had blatantly gone on a red light. I managed to get my arm out to stop the kids while yelling at them to stop. It gave us all a bit of a fright.” She says she wouldn’t allow her children to cross at the lights unsupervised because of the number of drivers ignoring red lights. She was also wary about her older son using the crossing, although nearly 13 and, she considers, street savvy. “I drive through there all the time and I’m always seeing people going on red lights. Once people have been doing it, they think it is okay and it becomes common.” “The green man isn’t long enough either – elderly people don’t even get halfway and it starts flashing and that causes drivers to get impatient.” Tania says the intersection needs to be rethought as it gets blocked with vehicles and drivers get
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