Peninsula in the news
Friday, October 21
The Woy Woy speed camera on Ocean Beach Rd has collected $352,176 with 2703 fines in the last year, ranking it 49th in the State.
The other Woy Woy speed camera on Blackwall Rd collected 2261 fines, totalling $276,529, ranking it as 54th.
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The possible amalgamation of the Umina Beach Bowling Club with Merrylands RSL club has been criticised because it could take profits from the Peninsula.
Peninsula Chamber of Commerce president Mr Matthew Wales has put his support behind the proposed sale and lease back by MC Hotel Holdings Pty Ltd, the company of Patonga Seafoods proprietor Mr Robert Osborne.
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NSW Governor Marie Bashir presented Umina residents Robert Langford and Judith Dudley with a Humane Society silver medal and certificate of merit at a ceremony at Government House, for their role in saving Woy Woy resident Phillip Ellis from a burning car after an accident near their homes on January 24 last year.
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Thursday, October 27
Woy Woy's Stan Twindley will be competing in his fifth Gosford to Lord Howe Island yacht race when the gun sounds in Broken Bay for the start of this year's classic.
Twindley will be on Bill Koppe's Boden 44 Class yacht, which won handicap honours in the race and also the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in 2002.
Sun Weekly
Ettalong Memorial and Halekulani Bowling Clubs have been included in a new competition to embrace 11 clubs in the Port Stephens, Newcastle, Hunter and Central Coast regions.
Local representative Mr John Roberts of Ettalong said the concept involved singles, pairs, and triples rubbers played on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays starting at 5pm.
Sun Weekly
Friday, October 28
Hardys Bay residents were pleased this week after the State Government agreed to a plan to build a boat sewerage pump station on a private marina instead of a public wharf.
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The staff of Woy Woy Hospital recently won the continuity of care aware in the Baxter 2005 NSW Health Awards.
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CityRail officials are investigating a claim a TAFE student was trapped outside a train door for 40 minutes as the train travelled from Asquith to Woy Woy.
Pearl Beach resident Reuben Doolah told a Sydney newspaper he thought he was going to die as it raced through the tunnels.
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