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Pools for Prevention
F or Merewether couple Phil and Marie Hewitt it’s two down and 58 to go.
The duo is aiming to raise $60,000 for type 1 diabetes research by swimming
every one of the state’s 60 ocean baths.Mrs Hewitt said her and her husband regularly
swim at Newcastle Ocean Baths and they both wanted to do something to support their rela-tives and the 120,000 Australians living with type 1 diabetes, and so the idea of Pools for Prevention was born.
“We come in to [Newcastle Ocean Baths] and swim everyday and last year we were down here on a beautiful morning and we were watching the sun coming up and Phil said, ‘I wonder how many more ocean pools there are?’,” she said.
“Coincidentally there were 60 so we thought, why don’t we swim them all to celebrate our sixtieth birthdays and we can try and raise $60,000 for diabetes research.”
Their four-month mission will see them each swim a total of 60 kilometres in picturesque pools along the NSW coast, from Eden in the south to Yamba in the north.
They will complete their final swim on May 2 at the Bogey Hole.
Mrs Hewitt encouraged members of the public to get behind the campaign and join in on a swim.
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Merewether couple to swim all 60 of NSW’s ocean baths for diabetes research
Merewether’s Phil and Marie Hewitt will swim all 60 of the state’s ocean baths to raise money for diabetes research
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Monies raised will go towards funding type 1 diabetes research programs at Westmead Chil-dren’s Hospital.
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Foley up against it in the battle for NSW top jobNew NSW Labor leader, Luke Foley faces a monumental task in becoming the state’s next Premier at the election on March 28.
The reality is that the “score” in terms of seats won at the last election in 2011 was Liberal/National: 69, Labor: 20. Of course, the gap has closed a bit since then with Liberals, Tim Owen and Andrew Cornwell replaced by Labor’s Tim Crakanthorp and Jodie Harrison.
I’m sure many of you reacted by thinking “Luke who?” when Mr Foley was named to take over from John Robertson. I had seen and heard his name on only a few occasions in recent years in his role as a member of the NSW upper house.
I certainly had no idea what he looked like and was quickly onto Google to find out a bit more about the man.
I heard Mr Foley being interviewed on radio station 2HD last week the day after his appointment and he came across as a fairly genuine person.
I realise that all politicians ensure they present themselves to the media in the best possible fashion, but I was glad to hear that the party, under his leadership, would not oppose the Government simply for the sake of doing so.
In fact, he said he agreed with some of the ideas and policies that Premier Mike Baird had
put forward in the past. It will be interested to see how Mr Foley’s relative anonymity is perceived by the voting public.
On one hand, there will be the doubters who don’t know much about him and won’t place their trust in him.
But there is also the advantage of having a clean slate in terms of political drama.
There isn’t anything for the Liberals to latch onto apart from his relative lack of political experience, although he has been in the upper house for almost five years now.
I still think the Liberals will win the elec-tion. It may be a case of too much too soon for Labor, but they should certainly win more than 20 seats this time around.
Let’s hope the current dramas within the Newcastle Jets club can be sorted out quickly.
The departures of CEO, Robbie Middleby and chairman, Ray Baartz certainly caught most people by surprise.
To me, the season has had a strange feel to it. We keep waiting for the Jets to click into gear and develop some potent combinations and discover some attacking spark, but it’s just never seems to materialise.
Perhaps it’s better for local football fans to concentrate to concentrate on the Asian Cup for a while, until the Jets are sorted out.
I certainly had no idea what he looked like
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A burglar appears to have been caught on camera, allegedly robbing a Mount Hutton supermarket while decked out
in a fitted Lycra body stocking. Police attached to the Lake Macquarie
Local Area Command last week released CCTV images of the incident, which occurred last month, describing the man pictured as a “‘cat burglar’ look-alike”.
According to police, just before midnight on Monday, December 29, an armed man entered a supermarket on Wilsons Road at Mount Hutton and threatened two employees with a knife.
The Lycra-clad man then fled the scene a short time later, making off with a sum of cash.
No one was injured during the inci-dent.
The man has been described as possi-bly being of Caucasian appearance and was last seen wearing a black Lycra body stocking and black gloves with blue fingertips.
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U pper House MP Luke Foley has been endorsed as the new State Opposition Leader, less than three months out from
the March 28 election. Mr Foley was elected unopposed
at a Labor caucus meeting held last Monday, after leadership hopefuls Michael Daley and Steve Whan with-drew from the contest.
In his first speech as leader, Mr Foley said he wanted NSW to be “the great economic powerhouse of Australia”, adding that his key priorities would be to create jobs, invest in hospitals and education, and protect the environ-ment.
“The biggest challenge we face is to ensure that our schools and hospitals keep up with our growing population,” he said.
“I agree with the Premier that we need to invest in infrastructure, but not by cutting funding for schools, hospitals and TAFE.”
Visiting Newcastle last Thursday, Mr Foley also reaffirmed Labor’s commit-ment to retaining the heavy rail line into the CBD.
Liberal candidate for Newcastle Karen Howard criticised this position saying the Opposition did not want to see the city revitalised.
“Labor is in disarray on their position in Newcastle,” she said.
[Newcastle MP] Tim Crakanthorp has pledged to keep the heavy rail line and shows little interest in seeing Newcas-tle revitalised.
“While Labor remains dazed and confused, the Baird Liberal Govern-ment is continuing to deliver on prom-ises of improved connectivity between the CBD and the harbour.”
Mr Foley’s election follows the resig-nation of John Robertson last month amid revelations that he signed a letter on behalf of Sydney siege gunman Man Haron Monis in 2011.
Former Newcastle MP and Labor’s candidate for Strathfield, Jodi McKay has been named Shadow Planning Minister in the party’s reshuffled frontbench, despite not yet having won a seat in the parliament.
Mr Foley described Ms McKay as “incorruptible” and “the perfect person to run [the] state’s planning system”.
Linda Burney will stay on as Deputy Opposition Leader.
New Opposition Leader visits Newcastle as part of lead-in to March 28 election
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Foley maintains stance on rail
Newly elected NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley
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Y ear 12 students looking to pursue a career in teaching will need to apply themselves harder than ever in their final year, with
entry standards for education courses set to be bolstered from 2016.
From next year, school leavers entering teaching degrees in NSW will need to achieve at least three band-five results in their Higher School Certificate, including in English, in order to qualify to study.
Students will also have to complete liter-acy and numeracy tests before completing their final in-class professional place-ment and former teachers returning to the profession will have to complete a refresher course.
The changes come off the back of a study from Perth’s Edith Cowan University, which revealed that a large portion of secondary teaching undergraduates across the country were deficient in basic literacy.
Last year, the more than 640 students graduated from teaching degrees at the University of Newcastle, an institution where 96.5 per cent of graduates go on to get jobs as teachers, according to the university’s own data.
achieve a Band 5 in English but nailed their HSC maths test and wanted to be a secondary maths teacher - an area that’s currently facing a shortage of teachers,” he said.
“They will still be able to become a maths teacher but they may have to complete some extra courses to prove they’re uni ready and might be a good teacher and that could take them a little longer than the students who meet that Band 5 English requirement.”
While admitting the changes could have some impact on the overall number of students enrolling in teaching degrees at the University of Newcastle, Professor Fischetti said the university would keep up its commitment to providing alterna-tive pathways for people to commence study.
“Around 20 per cent of the student population who enrol in teaching courses each year already do so through alternate pathways,” he said.
“What we don’t want to be doing is excluding people who are going to be a stellar teacher.
“Those people might just have the potential to be the next great teacher and we don’t want to lose them.”
For more information on the planned changes visit www.nswteachers.nsw.edu.au.
School leavers faced with higher entry standards to qualify for education degrees
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Professor John Fischetti, head of the School of Education at the university, said he was supportive of the changes announced by NSW Minister for Educa-
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C ommuters fear the new school year could bring chaos to Newcastle’s already belea-guered public transport system.
Last week, Hamilton Station reopened as the city’s interim transport terminus, paving the way for early works to begin on the new Wickham interchange.
Shuttle buses have been ferrying passengers between Hamilton and Newcastle stations every 10 minutes during peak periods, an arrangement that has received mixed reviews from commuters.
When the Post spoke to passengers at the station during last Wednesday’s afternoon peak, many raised concerns about the impact the return of students could have on their journey.
Vicki Ryan, who regularly travels from the Central Coast to Wickham for work, said the current transport arrangements had added a combined 40 minutes to her daily commute.
“I give myself a ten minute buffer to make my train but I’m worried that when school starts back and there’s more traffic on the roads I’ll miss it,” she said.
Another Central Coast resident, Rick
Passengers fear influx of school and university students may cause delays
TRANSPORT
Back to school could spell chaos
Save Our Rail president Joan Dawson hands information about the rail truncation to commuters outside Hamilton Station
Walton, feared that as school returned and more people were catching trains, services could be delayed.
All of the commuters the Post spoke to had been delayed by the interim changes.
Michael Holt, from Maitland, said commuters were just expected to cop
the inconvenience.“It takes longer to get to where you need
to go now,” he said. “But the Government is going to do
what it wants in the end.” A spokesperson for Transport NSW
said staff would be on hand as students
returned to school and university to provide assistance until customers get used to the new arrangements.
A shuttle bus service will continue to operate between Hamilton and Newcas-tle until the Wickham Transport Inter-change is competed late next year.
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V isitors to the Maitland Regional Art Gallery (MRAG) this summer might see some famil-iar faces on the walls.
On Friday the Archibald Prize 2014 Regional Tour will roll into town, exhib-iting all 54 finalists from what is arguably one of the country’s most well-known art prizes.
Among the 54 will be portraits of Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett, AFL footballer and 2014 Australian of the Year Adam Goodes, and musician Nick Cave.
“The Archibald Prize is very accessible for people,” gallery curator, Kim Blunt said.
“People can be very opinionated which is very appreciated.”
This is the second time MRAG will have hosted the regional tour, an exhibition three years in the planning.
Ms Blunt said that working so far ahead without knowing the size of an exhibi-tion made it difficult to fit everything in.
“This is the largest touring show of the Archibald,” she said.
“Some galleries can’t show it all but we will be.”
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MRAG’s Kim Blunt and Kate Bugeja display Tim Storier’s portrait of fictional character Sir Les Patterson
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Man bashed to death in CardiffA man has been charged with murder after
an assault in a backyard at Cardiff on Friday.About 5pm a man was visiting his elderly
mother at her house in Main Road, Cardiff when an argument occurred between the 57-year-old and a 50-year-old neighbour.
The 50-year-old man entered the backyard and allegedly assaulted the 57-year-old, punching and kicking him to his face and body, before returning to his house. A friend took the 57-year-old to Maitland Hospital where he died. Police were called and a crime scene was established.
At 10.20pm a 50-year-old man was arrested at his home in Cardiff and taken to Charlestown Police Station. He was charged with murder and appeared in Newcastle Local Court on Saturday.
disqualified from driving until 2029.The driver was taken to Toronto Police
Station where he was charged with police pursuit not stop drive recklessly (Skye’s Law), drive whilst disqualified, possess prohibited drug, shoplifting, and resist arrest.He was bail refused and appeared at Toronto Local Court on Friday.
Police assaulted in NewcastleA 29-year-old man has been charged after
an incident in which two police officers were allegedly assaulted on Saturday morning in Newcastle. About 3.50am, police were speaking with the occupants of a vehicle in King Street on an unrelated matter. A witness approached the two police officers and pointed towards a man who was allegedly standing outside a nearby fast-food outlet, exposing himself and swearing at passers-by. The constables spoke with the man and asked him to stop swearing several times. The man ignored the requests and the officers gave him a move-along direction. Police will allege the man also ignored the direction and was placed under arrest. The man resisted and ran from police. When police caught up with the man he allegedly threw multiple punches at the male officer but was taken to the ground. The male constable was then allegedly kicked by the man and the female officer also assaulted. The man was brought under control and conveyed to Newcastle Police Station where he was charged with assault police (x2), resist police and offensive language. The man was granted conditional bail to appear before Newcastle Local Court next month.
Pursuit ends with charges laidA man has been charged following a police
pursuit in Teralba last Thursday.About 8.30pm police from Lake Macquarie
Local Area Command attempted to stop a white Toyota Hilux on Anzac Parade, Teralba, that was seen allegedly driving erratically.
The driver, a 34-year-old Tighes Hill man, allegedly failed to stop and a pursuit was commenced. The vehicle was pursued into Creek Reserve Road, Boolaroo, a dead-end street, where it stopped and the driver was arrested after allegedly resisting. During a search of the vehicle police found and seized a number of items allegedly stolen from a store in Glendale earlier in the evening as wellas cannabis.
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Happy New Year, Newcastle! After a fantastic family-friendly celebration at Honeysuckle for New Year’s Eve, we have arrived in 2015. While the fireworks may be over and the Christmas decorations put away, keep the festive spirit by taking the family out for a moonlight walk to see some bright new additions to Civic Park.
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People scale lighting - This project aims to engage building and shop owners with the installation of specialised lighting, bringing light closer to where pedestrians actually need it rather than being solely focused on the needs of vehicles.
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2015 is another exciting year for our City. Work is set to progress on the Lake Macquarie Transport Interchange, a major regional infrastructure project with potential to unlock significant growth for the Lower Hunter and improve accessibility, while the roll out of the National Broadband Network to most areas of Lake Macquarie is due to be completed by mid-year.
Both infrastructure projects come on top of Council providing good quality daily services that our 200,000 residents expect and rely on.
Engaging our community in planning is also one of the core functions of Council. This year we will continue our work with residents and stakeholders to identify potential climate change adaptation options for Belmont South and Marks Point as well as develop streetscape master plans for Swansea and Mount Hutton in close consultation with these communities.
Meeting the diverse needs of our community is an ongoing challenge, and in 2015, we will begin to roll out the priorities and actions to meet the needs of these two key demograph-ics as identified in our Ageing Population and Youth strate-gies.
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Next week, as part of our local Australia Day celebra-tions, we will recognise those who have made outstanding contributions to our City. The Lake Macquarie Australia Day Awards are an opportunity to hear and share stories of efforts made by individuals and groups for the benefit of others. All of the nominees are of a high standard, and it is very humbling to learn about and hear of the inspired, dedicated and selfless work of our community members.
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Belinda, Elle and James Player wowed in the family section with their sea turtle, while Ella Duncan showed individual skill sculpting her way to victory in the open team section.
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T he first game in a full round of Twenty 20 games to take place over the next two weeks was played at No 1 Sportsground on
Friday evening when University defeated Belmont.
Batting first, Belmont struggled for the most part eventually making 7 for 101 at the end of their 20 overs.
James Maloney took 4 for 20 for the Sea Dragons.
Despite starting shakily to be 3 for 29, Jesse Major scored 32 not out featuring in two partnerships with Matt Gawthrop and Daniel Odd to see University home with more than two overs to spare.
There is more T20 action this week at the No 1 Sportsground on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings from 5pm.
In the full round of one-day games on Saturday, Newcastle City provided the upset of the season defeating Merewether by one wicket in a thrilling finish at No 1 Sportsground.
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There was plenty of action at No 1 Sportsground between University and Belmont Photo: Paul Allan
Maloney the star as University defeat Belmont in first round of competition
joined Englishman Mat Hunn with the score at 118.
But Gallen with 36 and Hunn with 45 saw the Sabres home for an unlikely victory.
Another last-wicket quest for victory just fell short at Lynn Oval where Wallsend managed to defend 147 against Stockton.
Benn West and Bryan Warren put on 38
runs for the last wicket but when victory appeared likely West was bowled it left the Seagulls three runs short.
Liam Taylor took 5 wickets for the Tigers.Wests prevailed in a bottom of the ladder
clash against Waratah in an even contest.Scott Mackenzie continued his good
form for the Tahs with another half century in their 212.
Aaron Wivell with 90 and Lorne Burns with 66 scored quickly as Wests passed the total with 14 overs and four wickets to spare.
Skipper Josh Trappel with 45 not out was the only batsman to come to terms with the conditions in a low scoring win for Hamilton Wickham against University.
Trappel made 45 not out as Hamwicks lost five wickets chasing University’s small total of 90.
Cardiff Boolaroo’s season hit a new low when all out for 49 against Belmont.
Belmont took less than seven overs to secure victory.
For all the news, results and fixtures, head to the Newcastle District Cricket Association’s website:
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The Newcastle District Representative Team commences its 2015 programme with a Quadrangular Series against the Australian Capital Territory, Central Coast and Illawarra next Saturday and Sunday at Canberra North Bowling Club. The format for the series is four rinks of Open, 1 rink of Seniors (Over 60’s) and one rink of Under 25’s.
Newcastle selectors have announced a strong side with New Zealand inter-national Richard Girvan (Nelson Bay) skipping the rink of Warren Shipley (Beresfield), Andrew Smith (Lambton) and Martin Ball (Kotara).
New South Wales representative Terry Antram will skipper the all Soldiers Point rink of David King, Lee Such and Jason Pietraszek. Jason Stokes (Raymond Terrace) will be in charge of Michael Abel (Raymond Terrace), Bill Ahoy (Kahibah) & current Newcastle Bowler of the Year Lennon Scott (Raymond Terrace).
The fourth Open rink will comprise Trevor Aitchison (Mayfield West), Brad Menzies (Valentine), Daniel Hill (Soldiers Point) and skipper Matt Sargeant (Warn-ers Bay).
The Seniors rink will be skippered by NSW State Seniors representative
Michael Beesley (Beresfield), with Grant Boyce (Beresfield) as lead, second John Collins (Soldiers Point) and third Mick Brown (Beresfield). Joel Roche (Belmont) will skipper the Under 25 rink of Adrian Solomons (Raymond Terrace), Haydn Bojkowski (Raymond Terrace) and Matthew Dow (Kahibah). Newcastle will be attempting to regain the trophy won by Central Coast last year.
The 2015 District Championship programme will commence on Saturday, January 31 with the playing of the First and Second Rounds of the District Fours Championship.
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A ny inept buffoon will tell you that 15 doesn’t go into seven, but for Mollie Gray it's an equation that has her storming into calculation for an
appearance at the 2016 Olympic Games.After making her Wallaroo debut last year in
the 15-a-side format, Gray has earned further recognition for her tireless work ethic and apti-tude, receiving a contract to join the Australian Women’s Sevens rugby union program.
All contracted Sevens players are enlisted as fulltime paid professional athletes and play in a multitude of tournaments throughout the year, as opposed to the longer format whereby the playing group comes together every three years to partake in the World Cup.
With merely 20 contracts awarded annually and the enticement of representing her coun-try at the Rio Olympics and Commonwealth Games (2018), Gray is brimming with excite-ment at the opportunity.
The Farley resident is well-versed when it comes to competing at such imposing tourna-ments, having worn the green and gold at the 2014 World Cup in France.
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Farley's Mollie Gray has been rewarded with an Australian Women's Sevens contract
Local rugby star ready to take on the world after extensive rehabilitation program
It was during this tournament that the loose-forward sustained a grade three medial cruci-ate ligament injury.
“I’m over the moon about it, I think its awesome,” Gray said.
“Sevens was the big focus and I rehabbed so hard and put in so much time and I was just 100 percent dedicated to it, because getting the Sevens contract was what I wanted and what I had been looking at for a while now.”
LUKE HISLOP Her unrelenting training ethic and applica-
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“The gym work I’ve been doing over the last four to five months has being insane, hard and horrible, but I’ve loved every second of it, I haven’t missed a day, I’m up at the crack of dawn and I just love it, it's a lot of fun.
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The frequent-flyer points will certainly be accrued during the next few months as the team contests the IRB Women’s Sevens World Series.
Now in its third year, the series enacts as part of the Olympic qualification process, with the top four countries earning automatic qualifica-tion for Rio.
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Australian Dance & Talent Centre (ADTC) is a purpose-built performing arts facility operat-
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In 2014, this locally-owned business made its mark globally when principal Jade Hillard and dance teacher Steve Chandler were appointed as choreogra-phers for the Opening Ceremony of the International Children’s Games.
A number of ADTC students were selected to perform in this Opening Ceremony, which was streamed around the world via the internet. Miss Hillard
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While ADTC staff take pride in the success of their outstanding students, the proudest moments are when watching young students take their first steps in dance and music. “Noth-ing brings a bigger smile to my face than seeing a three-year-old sing and dance on stage for the first time,” Miss Hillard said.
For more information about ADTC, go to www.australiandance.com.au or visit the facility on one of their open days: January 17th from 10am-2pm and January 22nd 4:30pm-7pm.
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Physical Funk is a well-established dance school in Newcastle about to begin its 17th year in business.
Despite being around for over a decade, Physical Funk is ringing in the new year with many new and exciting classes.
On top of their signature JFH (jazz, funk, hip hop) style, the dance school offers technique, contemporary, RAD ballet, ballet and bop for the juniors, acrobatics, competition teams, private and movement coaching as well as yoga.
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Choreographers of the International Children’s Games
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