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Allan Does It Again!
q Mark Robinson, a Year 12 HSC student at Nambucca Heads High School delivers his Design and Technology Major Work to teacher Hollie Pellatt.
By Andrea FERRERA MARK Robinson, a Year 12 student at Nambucca Heads High School, required his dad, Michael, to take his HSC Design and Technology Major Work to school for marking. Au contraire to copping out, the lad had built an 18ft sailing boat and needed Dad’s expertise driving the trailer to shift the boat from A to B. “I was inspired to build a sailboat when I went on a family reunion to the Whitsunday Islands in Queensland and stayed on a yacht for seven days on the seas and loved it,” Mark told News Of The Area. “While there, Dad and I were looking at the different sailboats and thought it would be a cool idea to build one from scratch.” They bought the plans online from The Stevenson
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Work underway to restore Nambucca’s fire affected flora and fauna
By Andrea FERRARI A NAMBUCCA Valley Landcare project to restore the area’s flora and fauna after fire damage is now underway in the severely burnt forested headwaters of the Nambucca River catchment. CONTINUED Page 2
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